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Month: April 2021

Time Machine to APFS: Using a network share

Provided it doesn’t have to back up large folders containing many small files, Time Machine backing up to APFS on a network share works well.

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam John Crome: Revolt in the provinces 1

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Wonderfully painterly oil sketches made in front of the motif anticipated the changes which weren’t seen again in landscape painting until 20-50 years later.

April 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine to APFS: First full backup

The first full backup is performed as a manual backup, and largely occurs in file-by-file copying from source to the backup store. It is more efficient than to HFS+, but differences could be less than 10%.

April 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 5: A Burial

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In which Don Quixote and Sancho Panza attend the burial of a local shepherd who died of unrequited love for a young shepherdess.

April 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Ulbow version 1.7 addresses date changes in Big Sur

Addresses problems with time formatting, so you should now be able to use Ulbow with a Buddhist calendar, 12-hour clock, set to summer time in Mongolia.

April 14, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Optimising performance with EtreCheckPro and Ulbow

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Using EtreCheckPro to identify periods of high CPU, then exploring those in the log using Ulbow. A short and simple workthrough.

April 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 2 The hard road to success

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After painting his masterpiece ‘The Last of England’, he returned to landscapes made with great attention to detail, in front of the motif. And they sold.

April 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

T2M2 version 1.18 addresses date changes in Big Sur

Should now be fully compatible with all locales, calendars, and with both 12- and 24-hour clocks.

April 13, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Are external boot disks a thing of the past?

Before Apple added T2 chips to Intel Macs, external boot disks were valuable for many users. How has that fared since?

April 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam William Strang: Painter of the times

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After considerable success with prints, he turned to painting highly contemporary works. Despite critical success, he’s now been forgotten.

April 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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