Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Thinly dispersed […]
Author: hoakley
Sparse files are now common among databases, disk images, and virtual machines. How they work in APFS, how they’re created, and how they can explode.
From detailed realism in a Barbizon style around 1880, his paintings steadily filled with rich light, through Impressionism the 1890s.
Consider the fidelity of backup copies, the speed of a backup method, and the risk of losing the contents of that backup. And test backups by restoring samples from them.
Paintings of the quais of Paris from Bonington in 1819, through Impressionism to the Divisionism of Signac and Maximilien Luce.
Swift 6 is the first major version for 5 years, and features structured concurrency that will change software for macOS over the coming years.
More common themes: mist and mountains, castles and ruins, and the Dresden skyline.
Auto-update in SilentKnight 2.7 and 2.8, and in Skint 1.05 and 10.6, is broken. This is because of not one but two Catch-22s.
From Hannibal crossing the Alps with his war elephants, through the temptation of St Anthony, to the circus and an imaginary India.
Classic TM backed up HFS+ to HFS+; current TM backs up APFS to APFS. But what if you want to back up a mixture of APFS and HFS+ volumes?
The Eclectic Light Company 