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Last Week on My Mac: SSD it

The plan was simple: replace my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system with a shiny new SSD RAID system, for Time Machine backups. What could go wrong?

February 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

The story of painted narrative 1

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Easily told in words, stories are harder to paint. Here are five main methods used, explained and shown in examples from the masters.

February 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 33

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. Because this is the […]

February 8, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine 12: Backups that never complete

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Here’s what happens when a Time Machine backup, normally the first, slows to the point where it’s just never going to finish.

February 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

Willard Metcalf, American Impressionist 2

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With his fresh light style, he painted the country around Old Lyme, the Cornish art colony, and up into Vermont.

February 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Making your own logarchive from a backup

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Logs are normally backed up by Time Machine, but Apple provides no tool which can access those backed up logs. Here’s how to do it.

February 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

How long does your Mac keep its log for?

The more frequently your Mac writes entries to its log, the shorter will its log record be: anything from a couple of days to almost a month.

February 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

Willard Metcalf, American Impressionist 1

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Barely known in Europe, he studied in France for 5 years, then from 1888 was a major landscape painter in the US, one of The Ten.

February 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Orphaned snapshots: a growing problem?

If a Time Machine snapshot can’t be thinned, nothing warns you of the problem, and without Terminal or the log you can’t even find out.

February 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

February 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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