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Preserving the evidence: what to do when something serious goes wrong

Safeguard your Mac, take screenshots, capture the logs in a logarchive or with sysdiagnose, make a written record, then repair and recovery.

January 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the Death of Théodore Géricault: 3 Madness and Death

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Declining health, tuberculosis and riding accidents, but he still painted the Epsom Derby, Mazappa, and ten portraits of those with psychiatric illness.

January 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Are your text secrets safe in a PDF or image?

Does macOS use Live Text to extract and index recognisable text in images? Is that a good or bad thing if it did? What about PDFs?

January 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

High: Scottish Bens

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Most are savage in winter, and ascended from close to sea level. The highest of the 282 Scottish peaks over 3,000 feet is Ben Nevis.

January 25, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Avoiding unintended upgrades to macOS

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If you can’t upgrade it to Sonoma, how can you ensure your production Mac doesn’t get upgraded unintentionally?

January 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 107 A life in bed, sickness and death

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Sleeping Beauty, a morning nude, in sickness, and the deathbed. Killed in bed, two unusual depictions of the Virgin Mary in bed, and one of a bed floating on the River Seine.

January 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Serious bugs fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.3

Sparse bundle passwords, shared folders in macOS VMs, and security updates for VMs, are all important fixes. But none for the Finder.

January 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 106 A life in bed, love

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Huge divans, closed wooden cabinets, and iron bedsteads. In love, marriage, adultery, problem pictures, and the erotic.

January 23, 2024 General, Life, Painting

T2M2 should now work better with macOS 11-13 and daily backups

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You can disable its checks of scheduling, and it better analyses Speed in Big Sur, and backups in macOS 11-14.

January 23, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

What has changed in Sonoma 14.3?

The update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3 isn’t large, although it has some compelling security content […]

January 22, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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