Using the correct term gets us half way to a diagnosis: kernel panics, freezes, app crashes and unresponsive apps are distinguished here. | Continue reading
After training in Moscow and St Petersburg, he taught in Kyiv. Gained international acclaim at the Venice Biennale in 1928, but starved to death in the famine of 1946-47. | Continue reading
Some Intel Macs without T2 chips have firmware updates with last week’s security updates. Here are the details. | Continue reading
Enabling CFNetwork diagnostic logging now requires SIP to be disabled in macOS 13.4. | Continue reading
The Greeks destroy Troy, then sail away until caught in gales. Sheltering off Thrace Achilles ghost demands human sacrifice. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 204. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Internet or integrated, there’s been no step 3 since it came in Bondi Blue. Click for a so… | Continue reading
Disk Utility version 22.6 in Ventura 13.4 finally tackles bugs running First Aid on APFS volumes. Has it finally solved them? | Continue reading
Paintings by Marie Spartali Stillman, Philip Wilson Steer, Paul Helleu, and William Dyce, and photography by Julia Margaret Cameron. | Continue reading
As of last Thursday, Twitter disconnected millions of blogs from auto-sharing their content free to its service. But there’s no good alternative yet. | Continue reading
Paintings by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, William Dyce, John Brett, Whistler, Berthe Morisot and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Internet or integrated, there’s been no step 3 since it came in Bondi Blue. 2: It start… | Continue reading
Since Apple introduced the SSV in Big Sur, macOS updates have been huge, haven’t they? Checking the numbers gives a different answer. | Continue reading
Overview of David’s Neoclassicism, his teacher Guérin, the influence of Constable and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, his friends, and rival Ingres. | Continue reading
Mints 1.14 fixes a crashing bug and improves xattr handling; Precize 1.14 improves xattr handling. | Continue reading
The update to macOS Ventura 13.4 is relatively small, and brings several improvements and fixes, including the following listed by Apple: a Sports feed in Apple News, with score and fixture cards, … | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS 13 Ventura to version 13.4 (build 22F66), and security updates to bring Monterey to 12.6.6 and Big Sur to 11.7.7. The Ventura update is around 2.7 … | Continue reading
Those of you who rely on Twitter to keep you in touch with new articles posted in this and all other WordPress blogs may have noticed a change today: those auto-posts have stopped. Apparently Twitt… | Continue reading
Although unusual in paintings, tortoises can have several different readings, from love to slow and faltering political reforms. | Continue reading
New version of this GUI utility for inspecting and editing extended attributes, for High Sierra and later. | Continue reading
Before photography, the only opportunity to see your face, painters took advantage of the Venus Effect to break optical rules and show faces that couldn’t have been seen in the mirror. | Continue reading
What to do when your Mac panics during booting, and enters a boot loop, or when it simply fails to get to the login window. | Continue reading
Trained at Kyiv Art School, he went to Berlin 1923, and on to Paris a couple of years later. Almost all his known paintings come from the last 6 years of his life. | Continue reading
How can you have two volumes in the same APFS container with identical names? How does macOS handle the conflicts? | Continue reading
The Greeks had three objectives: to extinguish the line of succession in the Trojan royal family; to raze the city to the ground; and to seize booty. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 203. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Unwelcome hanging around and round the colours go until you force quit. Click for a solution Spi… | Continue reading
Is that Mac completely dead due to a severe failure, or could it just be in DFU mode? They aren’t easy to distinguish on most Macs. | Continue reading
With PS Krøyer, Laurits Tuxen, and a British visitor to the artists’ colony at Skagen, Adrian Stokes. | Continue reading
New series aimed at troubleshooting Apple silicon Macs, with additions for recent Intel models. You’re invited to contribute your experience and knowledge please. | Continue reading
With the Danish and other Nordic Impressionists, Anna Ancher, her husband Michael, and Christian Krohg, in this artists’ colony. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Unwelcome hanging around and round the colours go until you force quit. 2: Surfing location t… | Continue reading
How to connect to the internet in Mac OS 8.6 in 2001, using a dial-up modem. | Continue reading
Two of his paintings secured support for Greek independence, another had to be hidden from public view because it glorified liberty, and he was a major influence over Impressionism. | Continue reading
Power-on self-test routines are widespread in electronics, and one of the oldest features in personal computers. Do Apple silicon Macs run them? | Continue reading
How to paint a landscape with faithful and coherent cast shadows, why most painters don’t do so, and a few get it wrong. | Continue reading
All about helpd and HelpViewer, how they index and maintain Help books. And what has gone wrong recently, including an odd difference between Intel and Apple silicon Macs. | Continue reading
In the Roman arena, with a runaway slave, sparing the life of Daniel, at the feet of St Jerome and St Rufina, and snoring gently on the rug. | Continue reading
Which extended attributes are attached to downloaded archives and apps? How do they fit in with provenance tracking? | Continue reading
He studied in Odesa, Munich and St Petersburg, then painted in Russia until he emigrated to Paris in 1925, and on to New York in 1933. | Continue reading
If you thought that App Translocation only happens to apps left in their original folders and not moved, and doesn’t happen after first run, this could come as a surprise. | Continue reading
Ajax goes mad, then falls on his sword. The Greeks are told they need their master-archer and Achilles’ son, but still have to come up with a way of entering the city of Troy. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 202. Here are my solutions to them. 1: For three years this SoC was a bridge to the arm. Click for a solution T2 chip For three years (… | Continue reading
Full listings of each version of macOS and update installed on that Mac, now includes RSRs. A mine of information. | Continue reading
Major macOS releases from Sierra to Ventura, with full details of each release and security update. Also updates to XProtect, MRT and Gatekeeper. | Continue reading
The model for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this couple committed suicide when each presumed they had brought the death of the other. | Continue reading
We should have expected Apple to remain silent about what the RSR does. But ruining its own clean and logical version numbering system was unexpected. | Continue reading
Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: For three years this SoC was a bridge to the arm. 2: This cat came with the first meeting poi… | Continue reading
With the sealed system and Cryptexes, macOS updates are less likely to cause problems. As RSRs are easy to uninstall, it's simple to test whether they're the cause. | Continue reading