Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 97. This should supersede both versions 95 and 96, depending on… | Continue reading
When run on Intel Macs without a T2 chip in Ventura 13.3.1, LockRattler may crash because of a bug in macOS. This update fixes it. | Continue reading
A prolific landscape painter who taught key members of the avant garde. He was also a founding supporter of Kyiv Zoo. | Continue reading
Intended to be lightweight, timely and quick to install, the first RSR has now been provided for Ventura. Did you know you can also uninstall it easily? | Continue reading
Apple has just released the first of its new Rapid Security Responses (RSRs) for macOS 13.3.1 Ventura. This is indicated as macOS Rapid Security Response 13.3.1 (a), and is just just over 300 MB to… | Continue reading
First, Achilles kills Penthesileia, an Amazon, whose great beauty fills him with remorse. Then come Memnon, who proves Achilles’ undoing by Paris’s arrow. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 201. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Show in the atelier that vanished for 18 years until 2022. Click for a solution Macintosh Studio… | Continue reading
These now analyse log reports from XProtect Remediator more robustly, and are more discerning in ranking them, so clearer to use. | Continue reading
In 1869 he sailed on board 'Panther' on an expedition to Greenland and the Arctic. Among his subsequent commissioned paintings was one for Queen Victoria. | Continue reading
An update users didn’t know about might have installed a security tool they don’t know about, whose reports they can’t see. | Continue reading
In the 1850s and 60s he was a successful marine artist, working in whaling ports such as Fairhaven, before moving to Boston. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Show in the atelier that vanished for 18 years until 2022. 2: Exhibition for movies until str… | Continue reading
Follow along as we connect to the Internet 21 years ago in Mac OS X 10.2, using a Bluetooth dongle and a mobile phone, at 28.8 Kbps. | Continue reading
Explaining shade, attached and cast shadows seen in paintings. While the first two have been generally painted faithfully, cast shadows are more complicated. | Continue reading
Similarities and differences, how to make each in the Finder and Terminal, how much space they use, and how they work in APFS. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 96. Apple doesn’t release information about what security… | Continue reading
One of the charges leading to Joan of Arc being burned at the stake was that she cross-dressed in male military clothing. | Continue reading
After studying thousand of log entries in less than 2 seconds, this is how macOS updates its values for purgeable and available space. But who uses them? | Continue reading
The curious myth of the swashbuckling hero Hercules dressed in women's clothing and forced to serve Queen Omphale. | Continue reading
Free that space before macOS has to purge it for you. Using housekeeping, moving Documents and media libraries, but not relocating Home folders. | Continue reading
Trained in Kyiv, Kraków, and with Matisse in Paris, he is best known for his virtuoso Impressionist oil sketches. | Continue reading
hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1. | Continue reading
The river runs red with the blood of Trojans before Achilles gets his chance to fight Hector, and kills him. Then he dishonours the Trojan's body. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 200. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The first, for the rest of us, but needed to gain weight quickly. Click for a solution Macintosh… | Continue reading
Deleting two large files from a volume triggered the updating of figures for purgeable and available space within 9 seconds. Yet 6 minutes later, the Finder didn’t show those updated figures. | Continue reading
John Crome, a quiet innovator and founder of the Norwich School, Frederick Sandys, Thomas Girtin and others in Norfolk and Lincoln. | Continue reading
One volume has 60 GB of purgeable space, giving 295 GB available; the other has only 15 GB purgeable, so 250 GB available. How can they be in the same container? | Continue reading
From Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, via the wooded countryside of Gainsborough and Constable, to the coast of Philip Wilson Steer. | Continue reading
Almost four years ago, on 29 June 2019, I posted my first Saturday Mac Riddles. To mark their 200th edition, here are this weekend’s four special riddles to entertain you through family time,… | Continue reading
Save space on your storage and backups by removing all copies. But does it work if they’re APFS clone files? And does that housekeeping utility detect clones for you? | Continue reading
Key factors making oil paint most suitable include its slow drying, wide range of viscosity, and robust paint layer. But it has its rules too. | Continue reading
A simple task: deauthorise an M1 Mac mini to hand on, then use EACAS to wipe it ready for its next user. But deauthorisation wouldn’t work. | Continue reading
Depicted as a physical place full of demons, torment and eternal suffering, and a deterrent to all those who commit sins on earth. | Continue reading
Where are all those purgeable files? Two updated utilities to help you find them: Precize and Sparsity, which will crawl folders checking which files are purgeable, sparse or clones. | Continue reading
Christian visions of Heaven or Paradise are usually less of a location than an array of figures. Examples from 1475-1916. | Continue reading
Performed by CacheDelete, it first looks at a wide range of macOS caches, and only at the end purges snapshots, to free up space when it runs short. | Continue reading
Although born in Russia, he moved to Kyiv in 1877, and for 30 years was a key figure in art education there, teaching several of the important painters from the early 20th century. | Continue reading
Fixes a crashing bug in the Disk Check feature. | Continue reading
How well do USB 3.1 Gen 2 SSDs mix with Thunderbolt 3 SSDs when connected to the same Thunderbolt 4 hub? | Continue reading
With Greek defeat imminent, Patroclus dons Achilles’ armour and puts the Trojans to rout. He chases them to the city’s gate, where he’s killed by Hector. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 199. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Folder for arched roof locks your data securely. Click for a solution FileVault Folder (file) fo… | Continue reading
Good space management doesn't bring new emoji, but it makes a big difference when the Finder doesn't give completely inaccurate figures for Available space. A practical demonstration of its gross errors. | Continue reading
The modified myth of Pandora remained popular well into the 20th century, when it must have seemed even more appropriate with war and pandemic. | Continue reading
Can we trust the figures the Finder provides for used and available space on a volume? What does it count as purgeable? | Continue reading
The original Greek myth was almost unknown in paintings until the mid-19th century, then, slightly changed, it became one of the most popular myths in paintings. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Folder for arched roof locks your data securely. 2: Links for unlocking and a store for passw… | Continue reading
When the Finder works out how much space is available on disk, what does it count as being “purgeable”? The answer may surprise you. | Continue reading
The hard road to realism: development and propagation of knowledge, how to apply it in paintings, and its benefit on visual art. | Continue reading