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Month: March 2021

Saturday Mac riddles 92

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Pass me […]

March 27, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How sparse files can explode backups

How to bring a Time Machine backup to its knees: get it to back up a sparse file to an HFS+ disk. It’ll take forever and run you out of free space.

March 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Rebirth: How patrons shaped the Renaissance

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It was the patrons who funded, enabled, and occasionally directed the movement towards realism and secular subjects, and developed the genres.

March 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Essential reading for M1 Mac users

If you’re considering getting an M1 Mac, or already have one, this new book is an essential guide and reference.

March 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

How big should the memory and SSD be in your next M1 Mac?

With Intel Macs, we’ve often bought as little RAM and storage as is essential, and enhanced or upgraded using third-party products. Does this work with Apple Silicon models?

March 26, 2021 General

Painting Within Tent: The Prince in Brazil

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In two early expeditions to the Americas, he gathered great amounts of information about flora and fauna, and the ethnography of indigenous peoples.

March 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine to APFS: Maintenance and repair

Given their very different structure, backups on APFS disks shouldn’t require routine maintenance. Checking and repair is performed using Disk Utility.

March 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote: 2 Those books are to be burnt

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In which Don Quixote thinks he stopped a youth being beaten, gets a beating himself, and ends up back in his bed while his priest sets about burning his library.

March 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The trouble with snapshots: how can you copy them?

Until Big Sur started backing up to snapshots on APFS, there was little interest in being able to copy snapshots. Now we realise that we can’t.

March 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

The Last History Painter: In memoriam Jean-Paul Laurens 2

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More extraordinary tales from French and European history told in his paintings.

March 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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