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Repairing Home folder permissions: a mystery

Once, you could run diskutil to ‘fix’ broken permissions in your Home folder, then it was replaced by repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Apple no longer documents this, but it’s still there. Should you use it?

November 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 12 Long hair and the spirit

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The stories of Samson, whose prodigious strength depended on not having his hair cut, and Mary Magdalene, who dried Christ’s feet with her hair.

November 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Lightweight virtualisation in Ventura

How lightweight virtualisation of macOS and Linux has improved in Ventura, and what hasn’t changed.

November 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

Painted Stories in Britain 12: William Dyce

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A painter of superbly composed and crafted religious and other narrative, a key figure in art education, who enjoyed the support of Queen Victoria.

November 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Cryptex: how a custom iPhone is changing macOS updates

Expected in Ventura 13.1 is a new lightweight system for applying security patches. This article explains how it uses cryptexes, already being used in macOS 13.

November 16, 2022 Macs, Technology

Sunrise on Impressionism: 17 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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With Claude Monet and others, one of the originators of Impressionist landscape painting. Successful portraitist and figurative painter too.

November 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

What to do when your Mac has a kernel panic

Why you should keep a copy of the Panic Log. How to check that your Mac isn’t the cause. And above all, don’t panic.

November 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 25: The Taming of the Shrew

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Popular comedy about a man who marries and shrew and sets about trying to tame her. Frequently painted.

November 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 177

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 177. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First […]

November 14, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

How does Ventura update faster? Inside the macOS update process

Three phases of updating, download, preparation and installation, are now fully integrated. They also involve updating Cryptexes, as revealed in the log.

November 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

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