Before about 1870, no one questioned that cast shadows should appear grey, without any change in colour. The Impressionists disagreed.
Every computer system needs a backup strategy to cope with different scales and types of disaster. How to work out what needs to be preserved, and how to do about reducing the risk of data loss.
Walnuts providing food, fine wood, and a drying oil used as an alternative to linseed; almonds that may have a high cyanide content, but are still eaten. Paintings from Piero to Bonnard.
Two command tools, lsregister and lsappinfo, are often recommended for dealing with LaunchServices problems. This summarises what they can and cannot do.
Odysseus is warned about the Sirens, who lure ships’ crews to their deaths. After negotiating their threat, they sail past Scylla and Charybdis, but all his crew are lost in shipwreck, and he ends up with Calypso for 7 years.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 371. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brown beverage […]
A macOS update has just been announced, but your Mac can’t seem to find it. Here’s what to try next, so you can bring your Mac up to date. Includes details of log entries during a normal check.
A giant roc’s egg, a Punch and Judy show, a train of camels, emigrants leaving the Scottish highlands, a massive canon, and a firing squad.
Few Macs survived the past week without an update, and for more recent models that meant two updates. Have we gone forward, and if so, where have we got to?
Some of the strange things seen on the beach, from racing sandyachts in 1608, to mermaids and mermen three centuries later.
The Eclectic Light Company 