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Inside the Unified Log 6: Difficult times

Apparently based on Mach absolute time, log entry times are converted to wallclock times. This exposes them to the vagaries of time zones, seasonal adjustments, and periodic wallclock adjustments. Here’s how all that works, and can confuse.

October 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of Christian Krohg’s death

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Trained in Germany because there was no academy in Norway, he soon developed themes of poverty, social injustice, and Norway’s independence. A major influence on Edvard Munch.

October 16, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Check if an app is stuck in translocation

Why is that app slow to launch, unable to update itself, generally behaving erratically, and often crashes? Could it be stuck in app translocation? Here’s how to tell, and how to fix it.

October 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5319. As usual, it doesn’t […]

October 15, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Dutch Golden Age: Ordinary people

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Washerwoman below stairs, a kitchen maid, haggling in the market, selling fish door-to-door, pouring milk, farming families, and drinking.

October 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Check your Mac is secure

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How to check secure boot, SIP, Gatekeeper/XProtect, its SSV, FileVault, macOS and its firmware, and XProtect Remediator scans.

October 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Surface texture

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Tiny jewels fashioned from blobs of white paint, Rembrandt’s textured paint layers. Turner’s scratchings, and van Gogh’s textured Wheat Field with Cypresses, seen in fine detail.

October 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Inside the Unified Log 5: Navigation

How to combine the time of interest with waypoints to reduce 100,000 log entries to just a handful, and discover what you’re looking for in the log.

October 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 12 Fraud and inciting division

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First a centaur killed by Hercules, then souls being tormented by reptiles, those with fraudulent lives burning in hell, and dismembered parts of those who inflamed dissent.

October 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 329

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 329. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Two […]

October 13, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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