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Month: September 2024

From quarantine to provenance: extended attributes

Extended attributes were added to Mac OS X 10.4, and soon supported the quarantine xattr. They have since flourished, and have valuable properties.

September 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 157 Hospitality in life

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Religious paintings of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, and charitable saints, before all changed in the 19th century..

September 11, 2024 General, Life, Painting

macOS Sequoia ships next week; here’s a SilentKnight update for it

SilenKnight 2.11 addresses issues with Sequoia, and is strongly recommended if you’re going to update from Monday 16 September onwards.

September 11, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 156 Hospitality in myth

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Myths of Perseus and Atlas, Philemon and Baucis, and the peasants of Lycia teach the ancient code of hospitality to strangers.

September 10, 2024 General, Life, Painting

What performance should you get from different types of storage?

How much faster should a Thunderbolt 3 SSD be for making Time Machine backups? How can you speed up backups to your NAS? Here are representative speeds from real testing.

September 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 36 Theseus and the Minotaur

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King Nisus’ daughter betrays her father and his kingdom to King Minos of Crete. Theseus kills the Minotaur kept in the labyrinth on Crete, then abducts Ariadne to Naxos, where he abandons her.

September 9, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 272

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 272. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Used […]

September 9, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Mastering Secure Boot on Apple silicon

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Explains the three different settings, including Permissive Security, why you might need to reduce security, and how to do so using Startup Security Utility.

September 9, 2024 Macs, Technology

Heroines 15: Sappho and the ferryman

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Did Sappho really throw herself from the Leucadian Cliff when she was jilted by Phaon the local ferryman, or was Ovid ridiculing the story?

September 8, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: M what?

If you don’t know your M2 from an M3, here’s a short summary of the timeline of their release, and their major differences, before we all get our heads around the coming M4 Macs.

September 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

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