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Inside the Unified Log 6: Difficult times Apparently based on Mach absolute time, log entry times are converted to wallclock times. This exposes them to the vagaries of time zones, seasonal adjustments, and periodic wallclock adjustments. Here's how all that works, and can confuse.

17.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Commemorating the centenary of Christian Krohg’s death Trained in Germany because there was no academy in Norway, he soon developed themes of poverty, social injustice, and Norway's independence. A major influence on Edvard Munch.

16.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Check if an app is stuck in translocation Why is that app slow to launch, unable to update itself, generally behaving erratically, and often crashes? Could it be stuck in app translocation? Here's how to tell, and how to fix it.

16.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5319. As usual, it doesn’t […]

15.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Dutch Golden Age: Ordinary people Washerwoman below stairs, a kitchen maid, haggling in the market, selling fish door-to-door, pouring milk, farming families, and drinking.

15.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Check your Mac is secure How to check secure boot, SIP, Gatekeeper/XProtect, its SSV, FileVault, macOS and its firmware, and XProtect Remediator scans.

15.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Medium and Message: Surface texture Tiny jewels fashioned from blobs of white paint, Rembrandt's textured paint layers. Turner's scratchings, and van Gogh's textured Wheat Field with Cypresses, seen in fine detail.

14.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inside the Unified Log 5: Navigation How to combine the time of interest with waypoints to reduce 100,000 log entries to just a handful, and discover what you're looking for in the log.

14.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 12 Fraud and inciting division First a centaur killed by Hercules, then souls being tormented by reptiles, those with fraudulent lives burning in hell, and dismembered parts of those who inflamed dissent.

13.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 329 I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 329. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Two […]

13.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is Tahoe quicker to launch apps first time? Whether a quarantined and notarized app undergoes translocation, Tahoe doesn't run XProtect checks to determine if it's malicious. And how to tell when an app is running from translocation.

13.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Impressionism In 1865, Bazille, Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Cézanne started painting outdoors in front of the motif in the forest, and so Impressionism began.

12.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe’s elephant All of us rely on tone (brightness, lightness) to interpret what we see. Visual artists have gone to great lengths in tonal modelling, but macOS Tahoe offers only bleached-out white or blacked-out black.

12.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Barbizon After some early visits, young landscape painters started to visit the forest in 1829, and became the Barbizon School.

11.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Saturday Mac riddles 329 Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Two credentials […]

11.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Explainer: How is XProtect’s data updated? Until Sequoia, it was simply downloaded and installed as any other software update. Since then it has changed frequently and its behaviour can now confuse.

11.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reading Visual Art: 230 Wolf Lycaon transformed into a wolf, the origin of later werewolves, the she-wolf who fed Romulus and Remus, a shepherd defending his flock, the wolf of Agubbio, the fable of the wolf and the lamb, and others.

10.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to migrate macOS virtual machines If your virtualiser allows you to run 2 macOS VMs at the same time, and to give them different MAC addresses, it's easy to migrate from one to the other as explained here.

10.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christian Krohg painting social reality 4: 1898-1924 Series showing the sailing of smaller vessels, and ship, then a further series of a model getting dressed and leaving the studio, and one last painting.

09.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What to do when your Mac can’t get to the login window If you're lucky, it should restart into Recovery Assistant. Otherwise advice on how to manage a boot loop or freeze, and how to disable 3rd party kernel extensions.

09.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS Apple has released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5318. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

08.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Dutch Golden Age: Nocturnes Unusual paintings to add novelty to a collection, with maritimes, river views, cloudscapes, Amsterdam burning, and a couple of distinctive 'negatives'.

08.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Resolve a file’s path from its inode number First Aid in Disk Utility, or fsck_apfs in Terminal, have given warnings or errors with id numbers. How do you work out which file or folder that refers to?

08.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Medium and Message: Knives, fingers and long brushes Painting using a palette knife, by Courbet, Renoir and Anna Althea Hills. fingerpainting by Leonardi, and ling brushes in the hands of Whistler and Sorolla.

07.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What to do when APFS has problems First Aid in Disk Utility, or running fsck_apfs in Terminal, return warnings or errors on one of your Mac's volumes. Here's what to do next.

07.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 11 Bribery, hypocrisy, theft Barrators, who traded in public office and bribed courts, hypocrites whose clothes are weighted with lead, and thieves who are stuck in a pit of snakes.

06.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 328 I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 328. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Click […]

06.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inside the Unified Log 4: Log entries The four types of log entry, all the fields they can contain, and those they are likely to include, shown in the order and colour scheme used in LogUI. Censorship and how to disable it, with a signed profile to do so.

06.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Journey of Life 2 More paintings from Louis Janmot's epic Poem of the Soul, Walter Crane's concise Bridge of Life, and a selection from Edvard Munch's second Frieze of Life, exhibited in 1902.

05.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Last Week on My Mac: Has macOS virtualisation ground to a halt? macOS VMs can have iCloud, iCloud Drive, Messages, FaceTime, FileVault and many shared folders, but still can't sign into Apple service like the App Store. But you can resize their VMs.

05.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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