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Saturday Mac riddles 24

Three easy riddles this week, with the solutions posted here on Monday morning.

December 7, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Apple invents a new procedure to fix MacBook Pro 13-inch 2019 models

Apple recommends an unusual procedure to fix this, which might also work with other models suffering sudden shutdowns.

December 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why Géricault’s shipwreck changed the course of art 2

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The painting’s reception, and how it changed 19th century painting, with Courbet, Lhermitte, Naturalists, and Tom Lea III.

December 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Are you having weird problems with Catalina?

Are you worried about strange and serious problems occurring when you upgrade to Catalina? Here are strategies to prevent and deal with them.

December 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why Géricault’s shipwreck changed the course of art 1

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Considers modern history painting before this by West and David, the underlying story of the tragedy, and how Géricault came to paint what he did.

December 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine: 3 Analysing automatic backups

Looking at failure of automatic backups, cancelled backups, and errors occurring when backing up, using T2M2, from Sierra to Catalina.

December 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Orlando Furioso: Escaping another orc, and a cowardly imposter

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After an elaborate retelling of the story of Polyphemus and Odysseus, a champion knight is replaced by a cowardly imposter and suffers mockery and rebuke.

December 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine: 2 What it writes in the log

Detailed log excerpts showing normal backups in 10.12 to 10.15, with some of the more common errors encountered.

December 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of Auguste Renoir’s death

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He excelled across all genres, one of few painters of the time to do so. He was, and remains, one of the greatest European painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

December 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine: 1 How it works, or fails to

New series looking at how TM works, what its problems are, what tools to use to diagnose those, and how to fix it.

December 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

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