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Month: August 2024

What changed in macOS Sonoma? End of term report

How has the System changed in numbers since Mojave? Why has the number of kernel extensions risen since their deprecation? Why so many Private Frameworks?

August 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 149 The horse in later narrative

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The horse in chivalry, carrying Mazeppa or Haidamak insurgent, in the circus, racing riderless through Rome, and in Vernet’s studio.

August 14, 2024 General, Life, Painting

macOS updates are shrinking, but what happened to RSRs?

How large were Sonoma’s updates? How many were unscheduled patches? Why were there no RSRs? What does Sequoia hold in store?

August 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 148 The horse in myth and legend

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Apollo’s chariot, that of Pluto and Achilles, the Trojan Horse, Lady Godiva’s, and the mount of Saint George when he slays the dragon.

August 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

OS X Server 2.2 in August 2012

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An extended tutorial-review of Mountain Lion Server, OS X Server 2.2, written in 2012-13, with copious screenshots.

August 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 32 Medea’s murder by proxy

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Medea tricks the daughters of King Pelias into trying to rejuvenate their father, and they end up killing him. She splits up with Jason, then murders their two sons.

August 12, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 268

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 268. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Notice […]

August 12, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

What’s the time Mr. APFS? With a new version of Precize

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Update adds two new datestamp fields, and gives decimal seconds in times. Use this app to explore how macOS sets those on files, as shown.

August 12, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Bonington’s brilliant decade of landscape paintings: 2

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After some history paintings, he travelled to Venice, where many of his finest paintings were made. Then he fell ill with TB and died when he was only 25.

August 11, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: What is happening with XProtect updates?

While other Macs had happily updated XProtect’s data in the normal way, my Sequoia beta system told me it was out of date, and refused to find an updater. Then I recalled an old tweet.

August 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

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