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A volcanic weekend of paintings 2 Vesuvius

An early painting of an eruption in 1631, later works by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, Albert Bierstadt, Charles Caryl Coleman and others.

Last Week on My Mac: Due cause

Causation is important when dealing with Mac problems, but tougher than when looking at cholera or even cyclosporiasis. macOS provides little help, though, because of its complexity and opacity.

A volcanic weekend of paintings 1 Fuji to Hekla

Mount Fuji by Hokusai, Naotake, Hiroshige, and pioneer botanical painter Marianne North. Childe Hassam's Mounts Adams and St Helens, Church's Cotopaxi, and others.

Saturday Mac riddles 373

Here are this weekend s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: King Harald [ ]

Identify files in APFS using inode numbers

How to resolve an inode number to a path and filename, and how to go the other way from a file to an inode number. How you can tell which files are on System and Data volumes.

A cold countryside: James Ward 2

Some innovative sketches and studies, with a series of major commissions including his huge landscape of Gordale Scar that wouldn't fit.

What to do when a macOS update goes wrong

Anything can happen, but so long as you have a recent backup you should be able fix the problems and get back up and running again. Here's how.

Brushstrokes: Divisionism

Seurat intended to use optical mixing of many tiny dots of colour, often contrasting, in Divisionism. How this worked out in his major paintings.

Why and how to check your SSDs Trim correctly

Trimming ensures an SSD can write data as fast as it can read it. Although most SSDs should be Trimmed when they're mounted, if you're unsure, here's simple test to tell whether any SSD does Trim correctly.

In the shadow: Not quite

Among the greatest challenges in painting, cast shadows aren't always correct. Examples from Masolino, Canaletto, Prendergast, Ravilious, Cézanne and Seurat.