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Month: December 2019

Stick a fork in it, and other flashbacks

Classic resource forks passed into Mac OS X, but were deprecated by Apple in 10.8. Now in Catalina they can stop working: is this a new security measure?

December 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1919: Narrative

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By Pierre Bonnard, Lovis Corinth, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, John Collier, Joseph Stella, and others. Truly eclectic.

December 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 24

How many did you solve this week?

December 9, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Can you still use AFP sharing?

Can you still share files using the AFP protocol, or must you contend with SMB and its bugs? And what about shared storage for Time Machine backups?

December 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Missing Mud of Winter 2

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Mud as painted in the Danish countryside, and in Norway. But the last word goes to war: both in the Franco-Prussian and First World Wars.

December 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The arithmetic of backing up

In the market for replacement backup storage? It’s a gamble, and you probably won’t know whether you made the right choice for the next year or more.

December 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Missing Mud of Winter 1

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Mud was a common problem in the streets of cities, and on all the roads, tracks and paths of the country. Why isn’t it seen more in paintings before 1850?

December 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 24

Three easy riddles this week, with the solutions posted here on Monday morning.

December 7, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Apple invents a new procedure to fix MacBook Pro 13-inch 2019 models

Apple recommends an unusual procedure to fix this, which might also work with other models suffering sudden shutdowns.

December 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why Géricault’s shipwreck changed the course of art 2

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The painting’s reception, and how it changed 19th century painting, with Courbet, Lhermitte, Naturalists, and Tom Lea III.

December 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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