A controversial story of a moneylender getting revenge when a borrower defaults, and demanding a pound of flesh.
Month: November 2022
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 178. Here are my solutions to them. 1: One […]
To understand what might go wrong when trying to boot an Apple silicon Mac from an external disk, start with LocalPolicy: what it is, and how it works.
The heavily embroidered story of Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa was turned into a narrative poem by Lord Byron, and inspired paintings by Géricault, Delacroix, Vernet, and others.
Why can some with Apple silicon Macs create and boot from external disks, while others seem doomed to failure?
Weren’t Cossacks Russian? Well, some were, but they may also have founded Ukraine following the Great Revolt of 1648. Here’s the evidence in paintings.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: One on each […]
How to get prompt security data updates, RSRs, macOS updates, App Store updates, and those for third-party apps distributed independently.
From Venus covering herself with her hair, to combing through the hair for nits and lice. Artists include Botticelli, Rossetti and Degas.
Once, you could run diskutil to ‘fix’ broken permissions in your Home folder, then it was replaced by repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Apple no longer documents this, but it’s still there. Should you use it?
The Eclectic Light Company 