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Author: hoakley

A History of Rome in Paintings: 11 The Road to Civil War

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Success on the battlefield – driving Macedonians from Greece, destroying Carthage in the third Punic War, and routing Germanic tribes – and the slide into civil war.

October 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

SilentKnight version 1.11 now supports individual updates

New feature: an updater window which allows you to download and install individual named updates, rather than having to install all that are available.

October 21, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Landscapes for All Reasons: Paintings of Aelbert Cuyp 3

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Some of his finest landscapes painted during the late 1650s. Then in 1658, he married, and within two years stopped painting completely.

October 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

There’s more to files than data: Structure and data forks

Looking in more detail at newer tricks used by APFS on the data of files: sparse files, which can squeeze vast empty files almost to nothing; file clones; and compression, opening up in Big Sur.

October 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

Precize version 1.11 can now help identify sparse files

Now shows the space taken on disk, which makes it easy to identify sparse files.

October 20, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

October 19, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

God of the Week: Apollo

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Son of Zeus and Leto, he has broad responsibilities from archery to prophecy. Popular in paintings, examples from Raphael, Moreau, and others masters.

October 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 69

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 69. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Elsewhere […]

October 19, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Background activity scheduling with CTS in Catalina

CTS now schedules many important services, including syncing Calendar, Contacts, Messages, running weekly firmware checks with eficheck, and more.

October 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

The Prodigal’s Return in paintings 2

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Paintings from the late 19th century, including the best of John Collier’s ‘problem pictures’, and whole series from James Tissot. Was he seeking his own redemption?

October 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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