I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 153. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Chinese […]
Category Archive: Macs
Will Monterey 12.5 fix the memory leak in the Find feature in the Finder? That looks increasingly unlikely, and may influence your decision as to whether to upgrade.
Trying macOS betas, support for Catalina, is the M1 dead, and what does the ANE do all day? What should come from WWDC this year.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Chinese dog with […]
Explains how Huffman code works, how it’s used for compressed files, and how other techniques including LZ, LZW and LZFSE differ.
Storage has to be reliable, efficient and resilient. However, efficiency and resilience oppose one another. What’s the best solution? New file formats, CRC in the file system, or what?
How the E and P cores in an M1 Max chip cope with the heavy system workload after login, but still give the user the scope to run apps immediately.
With the right enclosure, a Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD delivers transfer speeds of around 2.8 GB/s. Does that make booting from it any faster, compared with an SSD at half the speed?
In some populations, as many as one in ten men has significant colour vision deficiency. What effect does that have on how they perceive paintings?
You might be lucky and solve it by inspiration. When that fails, fall back on a careful, thorough and systematic approach as explained here.
The Eclectic Light Company 