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Scheduling and dispatch of backups and other background activities

Automatic Time Machine backups aren’t scheduled to run at precise times, but when it’s convenient. This explains how, and what to do if goes wrong.

November 28, 2023 Macs, Technology

Arthur: 12 Division and treachery

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When the queen is abducted, Lancelot rescues her, only to see her prepared to be burned at the stake. Arthur and Lancelot go to war against one another, and Arthur against Mordred, the usurper.

November 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 231

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 231. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From […]

November 27, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Evaluating M3 Pro CPU cores: 1 General performance

Using assembly language test loops to understand the differences between M1 Pro and M3 Pro CPU cores casts new light on their differences.

November 27, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Honfleur: Seurat to Vallotton

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The forgotten French Impressionist Félix Cals, Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, and two former Nabis, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard also painted this coastal town.

November 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Leaking like a sieve

How to get an app to leak memory, what a leak does, how to mitigate against a leak, and how an engineer should fix it.

November 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Honfleur: Corot to Monet

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Richard Parkes Bonington, Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind all painted this small town opposite Le Havre.

November 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 231

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: From a nutshell […]

November 25, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

A short history of Recovery in macOS

From blessing Classic Mac OS, through SUM and the first Recovery partition in Mac OS X Lion, right up to 1 True Recovery on Apple silicon Macs.

November 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

Celebrating 300 years since the birth of Gavin Hamilton, Scottish painter in Rome

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Born in Scotland, worked much of his career in Rome, he mentored Benjamin West, worked with Piranesi, and bought Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks.

November 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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