Full details of 27 subsystems in macOS that TCC gave access to CloudKit despite there being no Apple ID or iCloud account. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to bring macOS Ventura to version 13.2.1. This appears to be an urgent security update, as the three vulnerabilities it addresses include one in WebKit that Apple … | Continue reading
In quest of the Chimera from classical mythology in paintings of Michelangelo, Bosch, de Vos and others. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 190. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Windows controller on macOS isn’t as bad as it seems for props and lighting setup. Click f… | Continue reading
Each log entry has a messageType field, enabling you to obtain and show just more significant entries, and to find errors and faults almost instantly. | Continue reading
Hippolyta murdered for her girdle, Penthesilea killed by Achilles at Troy, Hippolyta abandoned by Theseus for Phaedra, and Thalestris impregnated by Alexander the Great. | Continue reading
Never work with children, animals or TCC. Its interface sprawls over two sections in System Settings, and its command tool can only wipe out its settings, forcing you to start from scratch. | Continue reading
They fought the Greeks in one of the three major wars of ancient times, before that against Troy. Paintings by Rubens, Feuerbach, von Stuck and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Windows controller on macOS isn’t as bad as it seems for props and lighting setup. 2: M… | Continue reading
There’s a lot standing between your app and what it can edit and save: POSIX permissions, ACLs, SIP, TCC, and maybe the sandbox too. | Continue reading
In his attempts to emulate Rembrandt and Rubens, he experimented with thickened oil paint that has led to poor structural integrity, and severe damage to the paint layer. | Continue reading
Untangling what in Privacy & Security is controlled by TCC, what resetting it really does, why you should do that before selecting it database, and what TCC does for iCloud. | Continue reading
From the tribute to a dead colleague, and a record of an important exhibition, to the downright enigmatic embedded paintings of Velázquez, Courbet and others. | Continue reading
Privacy, controlled by TCC and the Privacy & Security settings, can go wrong. Without documentation or good tools, it can prove hard to fix. | Continue reading
Cameo views of landscapes were common practice during the Renaissance, and also had value in locating the primary view. | Continue reading
The macOS log is very different from those seen in Unix. This explains where and what log files are, how they get written, how much they store, and how quickly entries can be written. | Continue reading
Born in Izyum, he spent most of his life in Kharkiv after training in St Petersburg and touring Europe and Egypt. Barbizon and Impressionist landscapes. | Continue reading
A new Frequency view shows total log entries from different subsystems, helping you mute those that are clogging up your log. | Continue reading
Table of contents listing plays in the order they were written, with listings of major artists covered, and links to each article. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 189. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Closing at the pub, a spacecraft might be buried for you to restore from. Click for a solution T… | Continue reading
You’ve just installed an update to macOS security software, then it gives you a status of ‘Unknown’ caused by [] and stops working. What’s wrong? | Continue reading
By the start of the 20th century, he had abandoned Neo-Impressionist for Post-Impressionism, and continued painting well after the First World War. | Continue reading
Of the 16 security software updates in the last 8 months, only 3 have installed correctly. But isn’t the purpose of the Content Caching server to make updates quicker and easier? | Continue reading
He started as an Impressionist before joining the Neo-Impressionists. Specialising in industrial landscapes and nocturnes, here are paintings from the first half of his life. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Closing at the pub, a spacecraft might be buried for you to restore from. 2: Dazzling author … | Continue reading
They’re everywhere: whatever you do, something somewhere will cache it. Later that can cause puzzling problems, but makes our Macs faster as a result. | Continue reading
Paintings that don’t look like they were intended to be, from Leonardo’s Last Supper, to Manet’s cut-up Execution of Emperor Maximilian. | Continue reading
All about time and landmarks you can look for in the log, after booting, on shutdown, when waking from sleep, and using activities to locate mouse clicks. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 89. Version 88 doesn’t appear to have been released. Appl… | Continue reading
Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton. | Continue reading
While macOS uses DAS-CTS to schedule hundreds of background activities, third-parties normally use launchd. Comes with a full diagram explaining DAS-CTS. | Continue reading
Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image | Continue reading
Backing up with Time Machine to a NAS or other network storage is different. Here’s an account of how it creates and handles sparse bundle storage in Ventura 13.2. | Continue reading
Born in Mariupol when it was a hub for oxcart transport, he painted unusual light, the River Dnipro, and the coast of Crimea. | Continue reading
How to use Ulbow to find just the log entries you need, using filters and predicates. Bring order to chaos. | Continue reading
A violent and bloody revenge tragedy, very popular at the time, brings what may be the only contemporary sketch of one of Shakespeare’s plays. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 188. Here are my solutions to them. 1: His evolution was owned by the Larrakia for the core of ten. Click for a solution Darwin His evo… | Continue reading
How running a background task takes a tiny fraction of second, although the task itself takes seconds or minutes, and why it’s run on E cores. | Continue reading
Lake Lucerne by Turner and Alexandre Calame, and a symmetric and rhythmic view of Lake Thun by Ferdinand Hodler. | Continue reading
Know yourself, including your methods and their limitations; nothing to excess, and certainty brings insanity: the maxims for those who study macOS. | Continue reading
From Turner, through Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and the last paintings of Gustave Courbet in exile, to Ferdinand Hodler. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: His evolution was owned by the Larrakia for the core of ten. 2: A single movement in blue bef… | Continue reading
The only place you’re likely to find that crucial piece of information about outgoing connections, bugs or problems is the log. How to get started. | Continue reading
The fictional Marcus Sextus, Napoleon pardoning the rebels of Cairo, and Narcissus where he shouldn’t be: disinformation in history painting. | Continue reading
A thorough look at Live Text, and why it might need to connect to Apple’s servers. Could it be sending image identifiers or text extracted from your local images? | Continue reading
After his training, he returned to the city of Odesa to paint and teach others, and became a key figure in the city’s arts into the 20th century. | Continue reading
Do fast Thunderbolt SSDs slow down when connected via a Thunderbolt hub? How fast are they when reading at the same time? Does connecting a display affect them? | Continue reading
Perception changed with photography, and we came to interpret blur, lines and other devices as indicating motion. | Continue reading