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Month: June 2021

Rethinking recovery and re-installing macOS

How useful is the traditional panacea of re-installing macOS in Big Sur? And is it worth maintaining an external recovery disk to deal with problems?

June 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 15: Slaying the giant

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The Priest continues reading The Tale of Inappropriate Curiosity. Towards the end, he’s interrupted when Don Quixote dreams he kills a giant. The story is completed once order returns to the inn.

June 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 104

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 104. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Leave, […]

June 21, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Code in ARM Assembly: Working with pointers

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Using different addressing modes and offset specifications to load and store in memory. Includes a summary of ARM64 Operand Architecture.

June 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Selfies: self-portraits to cherish 2

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Two by Edvard Munch, and by Lovis Corinth, Gabriel von Max with one of his monkeys, Egon Schiele with his family, the elderly Christian Krohg, and more.

June 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Hardware legacies

Content Caching server originated in 2005, as a feature in Mac OS X Server, which sold Xserves. Time Machine came in 2007, to support Time Capsules. Those legacies are so different, though.

June 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Selfies: self-portraits to cherish 1

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Unusual self-portraits by Sofonisba Anguissola, Rembrandt, Artemisia Gentileschi, Courbet, Gérôme and others.

June 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 104

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Leave, cease and […]

June 19, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: version and build numbers

Where to see them, how they’re constructed, Apple’s rules, how they are created, and how even Apple doesn’t use them according to its own rules.

June 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: 1 Introduction

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A new series in which painters pit their work against juries of Salons and exhibitions, who then reject paintings which history judges quite differently.

June 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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