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Log literacy: an essential skill for advanced users
It’s increasingly clear that most advanced Mac users, consultants, system administrators, and developers lack one essential skill: being able to read the log, log literacy. In the last couple of weeks,...
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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 before cocoa...
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Paintings of Swiss Lakes: Geneva
Think of Switzerland and you see mountains and lakes, alpine meadows and snow-capped peaks. This weekend we’ll stay low and look at a small selection of paintings of some of the best-known Swiss lakes....
View ArticleLast Week on My Mac: Knowing your limitations
The first phase of many a doctoral research project is spent discovering the limitations of the techniques to be used. It’s an exciting time: I recall using Lego Technic constructions to move...
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Paintings of Swiss Lakes: Lucerne and Thun
In the first of these two articles showing a selection of paintings of major lakes in Switzerland, I left with Ferdinand Hodler’s evolving views of Lake Geneva, also known as Lake Léman. In the final...
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Scheduled activities: 2 Running the activity
In the previous article, I explained how Duet Activity Scheduler (DAS) schedules background activities for Centralized Task Scheduling (CTS) to run the activity. This article looks at how CTS works,...
View ArticleSolutions to Saturday Mac riddles 188
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 evolution...
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Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 33: Titus Andronicus
The fortunes of William Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, Titus Andronicus, have changed with the times. As his most violent and bloody play, it was enormously popular at the time, then fell from favour...
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Log literacy: Reducing log entries shown
The second reason for many not using the log, after the limited tools bundled in macOS, is the sheer volume of entries. Pick any arbitrary period of ten seconds or longer at any time your Mac’s awake,...
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Ukrainian painters: Arkhyp Kuindzhi
Greeks have lived on the Black Sea coast since classical times, and some from north-eastern Anatolia, a region known as Pontus, migrated to southern Ukraine, where they’re referred to as Pontic Greeks...
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