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Month: January 2019

What has changed in the Mojave 10.14.3 update?

The pace of change and fixing of bugs has slowed, with the smallest increment in APFS version since it was first released in Sierra. Here are the details.

January 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data – additional to system updates

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 160, […]

January 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave 10.14.3 and Security Updates for High Sierra and Sierra released

Apple has released macOS Mojave version 10.14.3, together with Security Update 2018-001 for High Sierra and Sierra. The […]

January 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Carl Larsson: 2 Success and rejection

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A succession of highly successful books, but around 1914 what he intended to be his masterpiece went terribly wrong.

January 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Missing types of files: the bug in UTIs

An old bug in UTIs can cause problems for apps, and may even crash them. The issue is that macOS can’t always tell what type of object certain ‘files’ are.

January 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Online Cézanne catalogue raisonné now completed

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Contains meticulous detail on all his oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and sketchbooks, and is free for non-commercial use.

January 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 3 Auerbach’s Tavern and lust

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Drinking in one of the oldest bars in Leipzig gets the pair into trouble, so they move on to get a witch to rejuvenate Faust. He then lusts after Gretchen.

January 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Refreshing Aliases isn’t so simple: a cautionary tale with Alifix

So resolving an Alias doesn’t always update data in the Alias file, even though it returns the correct path when possible. This is becoming a mess.

January 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

The devil you know – in paintings 2

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More Western paintings of devils, from William Blake to Cézanne and Gustave Moreau. Devils become much more human, and dangerous.

January 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Breaking the link

Links – hard links, symlinks, and Finder Aliases – are the most complex and confusing of simple concepts in computing. Do they get any better after research?

January 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

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