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Month: May 2025

What to expect of XProtects?

Classic XProtect, XProtect Remediator, and XProtect behavioural with Bastion rules – a rundown on developments over the last year and where they’re going next.

May 23, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Workshops

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An artist’s workshop with his assistant, several sculptors working with their models, watchmakers in Madrid, an assistant in a print shop, artisans, tinker and repairer.

May 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Is high resolution time available in the log?

It turns out that ‘nanosecond’ times introduced in LogUI are largely artefact. Is higher resolution timing really needed, and how can it be obtained?

May 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 212 Narrative modes B

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Multiplex narrative, from Ancient Rome soon after 11 BCE, through Masaccio, to Corot in 1836, followed by Lovis Corinth and Benton in 1947.

May 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

System time, clocks and their syncing in macOS

How to ensure your Mac’s clock and time is as accurate as possible, what can cause problems, and how it works using the timed daemon, as revealed in the log.

May 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

May 20, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 211 Narrative modes A

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Example paintings showing instantaneous, multi-image, multi-frame and polymythic narrative, from Poussin to Waterhouse.

May 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A Dance to the Music of Time in Intel and Apple silicon logs

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Although Macs can resolve time to nanoseconds, this isn’t apparent from tests writing log entries very rapidly. This explains what is probably happening.

May 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 71 Pythagoras and Numa

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Pythagoras links the myths in Ovid’s book in the constant changes seen in nature, and advocates vegetarianism. Then King Numa’s wife dictates to him the laws of Rome.

May 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 308

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 308. Here are my solutions to them. 1: One […]

May 19, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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