Ink, soot suspended in water, making the transition from drawings into paintings. The secret of shellac. Casein, originally from sour milk, as a binder in some vast murals.| The Eclectic Light Company
A call for help: can you help complete this table of all the CPU core frequencies of M-series chips? M3 Ultra and M5 values are requested, please.| The Eclectic Light Company
The horrific story of a count locked away to starve to death, who turned to cannibalism. How that came to be used falsely in Lavater's physiognomy.| The Eclectic Light Company
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 331. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]| The Eclectic Light Company
First we repaired disk permissions, until SIP made that impossible. Then we reset user permissions until Apple withdrew that advice. Next we ran repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Should you still use that?| The Eclectic Light Company
After the Paris Commune, Pissarro returned to discover most of his life's work had been destroyed, but he and Sisley continued to paint in Louveciennes and its surrounds.| The Eclectic Light Company
In macOS Mojave, Apple changed the way that Spotlight indexes the contents of plain text files. That introduced a bug that prevents indexing of any of the contents of files starting with certain characters. For many Macs, that bug won't ever be fixed.| The Eclectic Light Company
In the summer of 1869, Renoir was living at his parents' house in Louveciennes, and Monet was living near Bougival. Together they painted the works that set out the manifesto of Impressionism.| The Eclectic Light Company
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A red […]| The Eclectic Light Company
For the last 10 years, macOS has relied on Uniform Type Identifiers to recognise different types of files, for opening in apps, QuickLook, Spotlight and in other features.| The Eclectic Light Company
Ten years ago, a firmware worm that could have inserted malware into Mac boot flash storage was demonstrated, and shortly afterwards many Macs were found to be running outdated firmware. We’v…| The Eclectic Light Company
Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5319. As usual, it doesn’t release information about what security issues this update might add or change. This v…| The Eclectic Light Company
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.| The Eclectic Light Company
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 translocat…| The Eclectic Light Company
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 …| The Eclectic Light Company
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.| The Eclectic Light Company
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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 …| The Eclectic Light Company
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 328. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Click for a solution Angels Schwabe’s painting shows a chain of angels emerging from a bel…| The Eclectic Light Company
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From Switcher and MultiFinder, with Process Manager and Thread Manager in Classic Mac OS, to Pthreads, NSThreads, and Grand Central Dispatch.| The Eclectic Light Company
From Illustrator in 1987, Mac-only until 1989, through Photoshop in 1990, Mac-only until 1992, to InDesign, Dreamweaver and the dreaded Flash.| The Eclectic Light Company
Used by two of XProtect’s malware detection features, Yara rules are valuable way to check whether files satisfy a logical condition, and more.| The Eclectic Light Company
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A meta-search for Apple’s patents on search, and turning the incessant log chatter of RunningBoard to our advantage in following uninstrumented apps.| The Eclectic Light Company
Viable – create and run macOS virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs Takes an IPSW image, available from Apple or downloaded in the app, and creates a virtual machine from it. Runs those virt…| The Eclectic Light Company
Spundle – create, resize and compact sparse bundles Updated. Simple utility to create sparse bundles of any maximum size, choose from six different file systems, and custom band sizes. Also r…| The Eclectic Light Company
This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have been successfully updated to run macOS 12.7.6. Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current firmware versions which should…| The Eclectic Light Company
This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have been successfully updated to run macOS 11.7.10. Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current firmware versions which shoul…| The Eclectic Light Company
macOS 10.15 Catalina brings EFI firmware updates for all supported models, and subsequent updates have changed those for most models too. This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have…| The Eclectic Light Company
Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current EFI firmware versions which should be installed on each model of Mac. Until 30 October 2018, it provided usable version numbers in System…| The Eclectic Light Company
How to check it, what the current version is, what to do about any problems. All your questions answered – even on ethernet firmware now.| The Eclectic Light Company
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.| The Eclectic Light Company
