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Saturday Mac riddles 195

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Don’t let your […]

March 18, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

loginwindow does more than log you in

Not only is loginwindow there in its full glory at the start of the user phase of startup, but it’s there until the bitter end.

March 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 44 What’s wrong in that painting? 2

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More paintings with strange incongruities, this time from Arnold Böcklin’s Sirens to the Surrealism of Paul Nash.

March 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Log Literacy: Hunting bugs with Ulbow’s Chart View

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I was having problems in the Twitter app, with it stealing 100% CPU and upsetting WindowServer. Here’s how I discovered what the problem was.

March 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]

March 16, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 43 What’s wrong in that painting? 1

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A collection of paintings with strange incongruities that can make them impossible to read, from Masaccio to Gérôme.

March 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

What is macOS Ventura doing tracking provenance?

How the new tracking extended attribute is attached to apps, how it’s recorded in a security database, and how it’s checked. But for what purpose?

March 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Rufin Sudkovsky

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In five years of prolific painting, he concentrated on the Black Sea coast near Odesa, in all its moods. Could he have been a successor to Ivan Aivazovsky?

March 15, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ownership of Apple silicon Macs matters: how it can stop external bootable disks

To boot from an external disk, Apple silicon Macs need them to have an Owner. Here’s how to investigate ownership, and how it works.

March 15, 2023 Macs, Technology

Not Like That: Abandoned

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Unfinished paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Bonington, Bazille, Bastien-Lepage, Moreau and others.

March 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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