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Last Week on My Mac: Hardware legacies

Content Caching server originated in 2005, as a feature in Mac OS X Server, which sold Xserves. Time Machine came in 2007, to support Time Capsules. Those legacies are so different, though.

June 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Selfies: self-portraits to cherish 1

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Unusual self-portraits by Sofonisba Anguissola, Rembrandt, Artemisia Gentileschi, Courbet, GΓ©rΓ΄me and others.

June 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 104

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

June 19, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: version and build numbers

Where to see them, how they’re constructed, Apple’s rules, how they are created, and how even Apple doesn’t use them according to its own rules.

June 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: 1 Introduction

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A new series in which painters pit their work against juries of Salons and exhibitions, who then reject paintings which history judges quite differently.

June 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Is there still something amiss in the M1 firmware?

Erase your M1’s internal storage in Recovery, reinstall macOS and you could see an error in which it failed ‘to personalize the software update’. That’s not easy to fix, as explained here.

June 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Still Life History 6: Impressionists

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Still life paintings by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Pierre-August Renoir show how Impressionism retained some traditional techniques.

June 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Tango for Two Macs: cached system and App Store updates

Details of how the Content Caching server handles a cache macOS security data update, and both client and server handle an App Store update.

June 17, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Audubon’s birds 2

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He continued to add to his unique collection of paintings of birds after The Birds of America was published, and painted animals too.

June 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Code in ARM Assembly: Registers explained

Types of register explained, and which are available to pass arguments of different types. Call by value and call by reference distinguished.

June 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

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