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Month: October 2021

Backing up to network storage in Big Sur and beyond

Tackles decisions and problems, including whether to use APFS in the backup sparsebundle, AFP or SMB, and configuration.

October 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Autumn Leaves 2

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More leaf-peeping, from Tina Blau and Monet’s poplars on the River Epte, to Paul Nash’s eerie Wittenham Clumps under the moon’s last phase.

October 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Marking time

Why did Apple release three public betas in a week – macOS 12.0, 11.6.1 and Catalina Security Update 2021-007?

October 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Autumn Leaves 1

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Come leaf-peeping with painters from Samuel Palmer in the Weald of Kent, to Julian Alden Weir’s autumn rain.

October 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 120

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

October 9, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: caching

They contain recently browsed web pages, ARM code translated from Intel executables, security data, font information, and much more. And they can cause problems.

October 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Characters in Painted Stories: 2 Perseus and Theseus

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How well do paintings of the stories of Perseus and Theseus fit Booker’s Seven Basic Plots? As he gives these as examples of Overcoming the Monster, do his stages work?

October 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Brolly 1.1 now does its own testing of secure connections

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Now checks which versions of TLS a server supports, and gives details of its full headers with caching disabled.

October 8, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Francisco Goya: Last paintings

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In the last four years of his life, he concentrated on drawing and printmaking. These paintings were Goya’s farewell.

October 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Upgrading to Big Sur or Monterey: migrating Time Machine backups

Can you migrate your old backups from HFS+ to APFS format? What can slow your backups down? Can you still use AFP, and what about restoring the system?

October 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

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