How to resolve an inode number to a path and filename, and how to go the other way from a file to an inode number. How you can tell which files are on System and Data volumes.
Month: August 2026
Some innovative sketches and studies, with a series of major commissions including his huge landscape of Gordale Scar that wouldn’t fit.
Anything can happen, but so long as you have a recent backup you should be able fix the problems and get back up and running again. Here’s how.
Seurat intended to use optical mixing of many tiny dots of colour, often contrasting, in Divisionism. How this worked out in his major paintings.
Trimming ensures an SSD can write data as fast as it can read it. Although most SSDs should be Trimmed when they’re mounted, if you’re unsure, here’s simple test to tell whether any SSD does Trim correctly.
Among the greatest challenges in painting, cast shadows aren’t always correct. Examples from Masolino, Canaletto, Prendergast, Ravilious, Cézanne and Seurat.
With yet another macOS security update to 26.6.2 due shortly, why do the download sizes of these updates vary so widely?
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to […]
Difficult to cultivate, as it can’t self-pollinate and doesn’t breed ‘true’, it has still become a major food crop around the world. From blossom to market in paintings.
How can you run apps and executable code that hasn’t been notarised? Can you also run those with broken signatures, or none at all? And do the controls actually disable Gatekeeper or XProtect?
The Eclectic Light Company 