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Month: February 2024

High: Contents and locations

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Contents with links for each article in the series, with lists of mountains and locations covered.

February 9, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How to deal with XProtect Remediator (XPR) problems

No scans? Malware detected and remediated? Or just an odd report that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere? How to deal with each of them.

February 9, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update for Sonoma to version 14.3.1

Apple has just released an update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3.1. This “fixes bugs”, the most […]

February 8, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

An unsettling eye: Félix Vallotton’s domestic interiors

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Ten domestic interiors, places we take for granted, but Vallotton makes them thoroughly unsettling, with oddities and open narratives.

February 8, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A layered approach to preserving documents

Preserve documents according to how much time or money would be needed to replace them. For work in progress, macOS versioning can be a great help.

February 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 111 Lyre B

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Played by warriors including Paris of Troy and Achilles, also by Saint Cecilia, angels, and a siren. And with only one string left, in Watts’ allegory of Hope.

February 7, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Why is my Mac working so hard after startup? What’s CGPDFService?

When you start your Mac up, the fans blow full on, and you see CGPDFServices taking lots of CPU %. Is this malware? No, but it’s new in Sonoma.

February 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 110 Lyre A

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In classical times, they were strummed like a guitar rather than plucked. Apollo, Orpheus and lyric poets from Raphael, Rubens, Waterhouse and others.

February 6, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Summary of macOS VM performance on Apple silicon Macs

Virtualisation of macOS on Apple silicon does deliver performance that’s impressively close to that of the host. Here are the figures to demonstrate it.

February 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 125, […]

February 5, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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