From his fine realism of 1858, through sinuous trees above Bordighera, to his first series of poplars near his home in Giverny and on the River Epte. | Continue reading
How to put your Mac into Safe mode, what Apple claims it does, and what evidence there is of its benefits. Includes an assessment of free space it may create. | Continue reading
Version 1.4 can crash when trying to display a Chart view for Signpost or HighVolume log files with less than 6 processes. This update fixes that. | Continue reading
Capturing a boar and taking it back to the king, who promptly hid in a bronze jar. Cleaning the Augean Stables in a single day. Killing poisonous birds with his arrows. Capturing the Cretan Bull. Stealing horses that liked to eat people. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 376. Here are my solutions to them. 1: London to […] | Continue reading
What happens when a Mac runs out of free space in the container of its boot volume group? This shows what you can expect to see, and what happens in the log. | Continue reading
Paintings by John Martin, Gustave Courbet, Jules LeFebvre, Georges Lacombe, Gérôme, Edward Poynter, Georg Janny and others. | Continue reading
You're running out of free space, so check in Storage settings to see where it has all gone. System Data has reached 50 GB, but what is that, and what should you do to reduce it? | Continue reading
Paintings by Bosch, Giorgione, Velázquez, Jordaens, Benjamin West, Joseph Wright, Ingres, Ecksersberg, Ary Scheffer and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: London to […] | Continue reading
The Finder's Get Info figures allow for sparse files when giving size 'on disk', but don't take into account shared data in clone files. This can prove misleading, as shown here with VMs. | Continue reading
The tale of Nastagio Degli Onesti told in 4 panels by Botticelli, and the 6 paintings making up William Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode. | Continue reading
Its bar chart and three point plots have been improved with new controls. The best if not only way to explore old log activity. | Continue reading
A ship in the Golden Horn of Istanbul, a panoramic market on the waterfront, scenes from Damascus and Turkey, and the ever-present seller of green watermelons. | Continue reading
How do you locate part of a document that you removed or changed greatly, and copy that content into the version you're currently editing? What to do when it's too much for Undo. | Continue reading
Initially his Pointillist views used fine dots and contrasting colours. Over time he explored limited palettes, increasing size of marks, and smooth transitions. | Continue reading
Apple has overnight released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5358, for all versions […] | Continue reading
Caching to disk improves performance, but cached data are optional and may to purged when additional free space is needed. This explains how that's performed by the deleted service. | Continue reading
Influenced by Corot, late in his career he painted several views of an avenue of poplars in the village of Moret-cur-Loing, forming an unusual series shown here. | Continue reading
Major improvements in its plots make this new utility even better for tracking changes in used space, and so forecasting how long backup storage will take to fill. | Continue reading
1. Kill the Nemean Lion, by stunning it with his club then strangling it with his bare hands. 2. Kill the Lernean Hydra, by cutting off its heads and searing the wounds, then removing its remaining immortal head. 3. Capture the Ceryneian Hind. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 375. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sigrid shortened […] | Continue reading
If you updated to Sequoia 15.7.9 or Sonoma 14.8.9 before 17 August, their mBoot firmware should be 18000.161.9. If you updated later, it should be 18000.161.10 instead. This explains why. | Continue reading
Kabkabs worn by Turkish ladies in the Hammam, from-frou high heels with pointed toes, red shoes unsuited to the mountains, shiny black patent leather shoes, and kinky black boots. | Continue reading
Mac prices have risen because supply of their high-speed memory, NAND chips for SSDs, and their SoCs has been outstripped by demand for data centres. When will this improve? | Continue reading
Sandals worn by gods, notably Mercury, and kings, who hide them under a rock, Toman combat assault sandals, ballet slippers, and wooden working clogs. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Sigrid shortened […] | Continue reading
Some examples of what are often dismissed as 'cosmetic' bugs resulting from macOS upgrades, including lasting QuickLook rendering problems, and upside down mirror writing. | Continue reading
Introduction from Roman times through the late Middle Ages into the Renaissance. The main types of visual narrative, why they were so important, and how sophisticated they became. | Continue reading
Due for public release on or by 22 September, it should be accompanied by Tahoe 26.7 and Sequoia 15.8, and hopefully syncing of firmware versions. | Continue reading
From the late 1850s he travelled extensively in Persia, Armenia, Turkey, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, painting detailed realist views of markets and more. | Continue reading
Further tests on two volumes with over 90 GB purgeable space. One took almost 30 minuted to become available, the other never got there at all. The log reveals who was responsible. | Continue reading
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5357, now for all […] | Continue reading
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5357. However, this week’s […] | Continue reading
From early explorations in a chestnut tree and a still life in 1887, in the summer of 1889 his brushstrokes organised into distinctive swirls and whorls. Those are examined in detail. | Continue reading
Problems syncing files with iCloud Drive? Don't just turn it off and back on again. Use Cirrus instead to upload a test file, and check whether syncing that works. Full details. | Continue reading
Taught by Corot, he became an almost compulsive painter of trees and a central figure among the French Impressionists. He later became Pointillist, peaking in 1891, but ceased painting outdoors in his final years. | Continue reading
iCloud services have changed greatly since their introduction in October 2011. Here's a thorough run-down on iCloud today, from dataless files to FileProvider. | Continue reading
The son of Zeus when he raped Alcmene, Hera delayed his birth to trap Heracles into being forced to undertake his 12 labours, then tried to kill the infant by putting serpents into his cradle. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 374. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Five flavours, […] | Continue reading
Snapshots made by Time Machine and tmutil should be purgeable, although sometimes they won't purge, and aren't shown reliably as purgeable space. An exploration of bugs and missing documentation. | Continue reading
From yachting in Cowes, moving east along the Channel coast to end at the extreme eastern tip of Kent, with paintings from William Dyce, Walter Sickert, Paul Nash, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith and others. | Continue reading
If you leave your Mac running overnight, but not sleeping, what does it do? Does it perform maintenance tasks that it would otherwise have to do during the day? | Continue reading
A journey along the Channel coast from Land's End in the far west, reaching the Isle of Wight, with Clarkson Stanfield, Thomas Girtin, John Brett, Paul Nash, JMW Turner and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Five flavours, […] | Continue reading
Nine days of measurements of used space on a Time Machine backup storage drive. What does DeltaFree predict for its lifetime? How does used space change in containers in the internal SSD? | Continue reading
His major painting of Wellington's triumph fails and cost him dearly. Equestrian and dog portraits pay the bills, and his painterly oil sketches remain innovative. | Continue reading
All APFS volumes in a single partition/container share its free space. How can that be measured? How much could be purged, and how do special file types affect it? | Continue reading