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Month: November 2018

Are we ready to drop 32-bit code yet?

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We are warned that a future release of macOS will not run old 32-bit software. Should we worry? How to find out the scale of your problem.

November 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: From Alexander the Great to Cato the Younger

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Stories of the lives of Alexander, Julius Caesar, Phocion, and Cato the Younger, with superb paintings by Gérôme, Poussin, and others. And some lessons for today.

November 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Who put that in my Full Disk Access list? ssh and Mojave’s privacy protection

How ssh is by default given full access to private data, and how removing it from the Privacy pane only enables that access.

November 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Fog: Pissarro to Ury

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With Monet’s grainstacks and fog on the River Thames, by the 20th century the effects of fog had become part of Western landscape painting.

November 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: ssh it

This article is being replaced with a completely fresh one which should be far more accurate.

November 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Fog: Turner to Homer

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Until about 1800, Western landscape painting sought to reveal rather than to hide. It was JMW Turner and Caspar David Friedrich who popularised the effect of fog.

November 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Updates to log access apps Consolation 3 and RouteMap

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Both are now notarized for added security, there is a small bug fixed in Consolation, and updated documentation.

November 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Naturalist Andersens: LA Ring 1895-1906

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A decade in which Ring’s life and work were transformed by marriage to his muse, Sigrid. Many of his best paintings are here.

November 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Two more apps notarized: RepairHomePermissions and Dystextia (Unicode obfuscator)

For your added security: the first to fix problems when your permissions go awry; the second to practise Unicode obfuscation.

November 9, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Versions in iCloud are still a mess, made worse by Handoff

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Until these bugs are fixed, versions in iCloud simply can’t be trusted. And mixing them with Handoff becomes even more confusing.

November 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

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