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Year: 2020

In Memoriam Luc-Olivier Merson, storyteller in paint

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Highly original visual stories, of the Soldier of Marathon, Saint Francis of Assisi and the Wolf of Agubbio, plus illustrations for ‘Notre Dame de Paris’.

November 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Still getting errors trying to upgrade to Big Sur?

This morning, Apple has reinstated Big Sur upgrades on its software update service. However, users may still encounter […]

November 13, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates over the last 12 hours or so, to the data files used by […]

November 13, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

How should vaccination against Covid-19 work?

Vaccination or immunisation? Is mRNA dangerous? How to store millions of doses at -70˚C? Why not children too? How many need to be vaccinated?

November 13, 2020 General, Life, Technology

Big Sur upgrades on pause

If you’re trying to download today’s upgrade to Big Sur, I’m afraid that Apple’s servers – Big Survers […]

November 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Sisters 1

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Paintings by Barbara Bodichon, Anna Howitt (Watts), Rosa Brett, Anna Blunden, Joanna Boyce (Wells), and Lizzie Siddal.

November 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The non-Universal binary: a cautionary tale

Identical code using system_profiler to look up the firmware version number worked in two apps but failed in a third. The solution was obscure.

November 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

T2M2 version 1.16 works better with Big Sur’s APFS backups

Extends support for the new feature in Big Sur to make Time Machine backups to APFS volumes.

November 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Mints version 1.0b10 now shows more about your Mac, including Apple Silicon models

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Gives extensive information about your Mac, whether Intel or Apple Silicon.

November 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

How unified memory blows the SoCs off the M1 Macs

In an M1 Mac, all its main components are tightly integrated and interdependent. To achieve performance with versatility, they come ready-built, not kits.

November 11, 2020 Macs, Technology

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