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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 121

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 121. Here are my solutions to them. 1: New […]

October 18, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Improving the performance of Time Machine backups to network storage

A full Time Machine backup over SMB analysed in detail. This reveals that some of the measures reported in the log are likely to be inaccurate and misleading, and gives suggestions for improving performance.

October 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Autumn Views 2

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Paintings of autumn from the early 20th century, by Jakub Schikaneder to Grant Wood.

October 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Passwords and patchwork quilts

When Apple is like a community making a patchwork quilt: hope that everyone knows they’re crocheting 4-inch squares, and no one takes a sudden fancy to circles or triangles.

October 17, 2021 Macs, Technology

Autumn Views 1

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Paintings conveying the atmosphere of autumn, from Joos de Momper in the early 17th century, to Hawkins in about 1890,

October 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 121

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: New business could […]

October 16, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: file types

Many think that a file’s type is determined by its extension. Although partly true, that’s indirect: it’s the UTI which sets the type, as explained here.

October 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 12 George Clausen

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From 1880, he painted in Naturalist style, then switched to Impressionism in the early 1890s. He finally embraced post-Impressionism in the 1920s.

October 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

MacSysAdmins presentation on Time Machine: slides

Complete slides analysing the history of Time Machine from first release to backing up to APFS in Big Sur, with detailed diagrams.

October 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: A life in paintings

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An overview of his major paintings from La Gloria in 1772 to experimental miniatures on ivory flakes in 1825.

October 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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