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Last Week on My Mac: Tuning for performance

Tuning your Mac for performance can be a good investment of time. Beware of general benchmarks, though, and develop your own objective measurements. Then identify the rate-limiting step methodically, so you can address that.

December 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the Coast of California 1

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From Albert Bierstadt’s visit to the Farallon Islands in 1872, to George Bellows in 1917, with paintings from Mannheim, Granville Redmond and others in between.

December 7, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 285

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: This Scot […]

December 7, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac servers

A/UX was released for the Mac II in 1988, then in 1993 Apple changed course with a series of servers, before Mac OS X Server in 1999 and its first Xserves in 2002.

December 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Félix Vallotton’s disturbing domestics

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In each of his interiors from the late 1870s to the early 20th century, there’s something not quite right, starting with a painting hanging at an odd angle.

December 6, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The Finder column width bug is over 11 years old

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I first recall being caught by it in Mavericks 11 years ago. It has even changed the way I use Finder windows. It survived Covid and Apple silicon, and lives on in macOS Sequoia.

December 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: Drains and engines

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Rural depopulation as labour moved to work in city factories, dominance of larger suppliers in food markets, draining waterlogged land, and the development of the tractor.

December 5, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Inside M4 chips: CPU core management

A first attempt to describe how macOS decides for a thread which type of core, which cluster, which core, what frequency, and how mobile it should be.

December 5, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 179 Knitting, poverty

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Knitting shepherdesses, peasant girls, smallholders, a goose girl, fisher girls, by Millet, Breton, LA Ring, Winslow Homer and others.

December 4, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How is Thunderbolt 5 doing so far?

TB5 promises twice the data transfer rate of TB3, and three times that when supporting external displays. How close is it to achieving those?

December 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

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