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M1/M2 Macs and Apple silicon

For a systematic compilation of links to articles here about Apple silicon Macs, specifically its M1 and M2 […]

January 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Mac Troubleshooting Summary

A starting point for diagnosing and fixing your Mac problems, with links to key articles here.

April 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Weekend with Maximilien Luce’s ‘muscular’ paintings 1

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He started as an Impressionist before joining the Neo-Impressionists. Specialising in industrial landscapes and nocturnes, here are paintings from the first half of his life.

February 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 189

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Closing at the […]

February 4, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Caches, buffers and swap

They’re everywhere: whatever you do, something somewhere will cache it. Later that can cause puzzling problems, but makes our Macs faster as a result.

February 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

Not Like That: Introduction to a new series on paintings that have changed

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Paintings that don’t look like they were intended to be, from Leonardo’s Last Supper, to Manet’s cut-up Execution of Emperor Maximilian.

February 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Log Literacy: Navigation

All about time and landmarks you can look for in the log, after booting, on shutdown, when waking from sleep, and using activities to locate mouse clicks.

February 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]

February 2, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 32 Up to 23 scenes in one image

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Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton.

February 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Scheduled activities: 3 launchd or DAS?

While macOS uses DAS-CTS to schedule hundreds of background activities, third-parties normally use launchd. Comes with a full diagram explaining DAS-CTS.

February 2, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 31 Two or more scenes in one image

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Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image

February 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Backing up to network storage: checks and balances

Backing up with Time Machine to a NAS or other network storage is different. Here’s an account of how it creates and handles sparse bundle storage in Ventura 13.2.

February 1, 2023 Macs, Technology

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