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Apple added Easter holidays to the default “U.S. calendar” on various versions of iOS and MacOS. As of 24 February 2018, the calendar app listed Good Friday and Easter Sunday, as well as the Jewish holiday of Passover |
Time Machine can work with APFS volumes, but the shape looks like this:
The archive becomes useless, because APFS doesn’t support hard links. These are a special kind of alias. A soft link is a pointer to a destination file that looks to the operating system like a pointer. A hard link looks to the operating system like an actual file, even though it’s just a pointer. This allows a single copy of a file to be in a filesystem, but have many pointers that reference it, and they can be manipulated and copied as if they exist in multiple places.
- Time Machine can archive files from both HFS+ and APFS volumes.
- Time Machine volumes must be HFS+.
- You can use Disk Utility to upgrade a Time Machine HFS+ volume to APFS without a warning. You’d think Disk Utility would detect the Time Machine backup and stop you, but it doesn’t.
- Once upgraded to APFS, the Time Machine backup archive is mostly useless, even though files aren’t destroyed.
(Macworld)
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Apple Inc., seeking to bolster its wearables business, is working on upgrades to its wireless AirPods headphones, according to people familiar with the matter. Like with its mobile devices — the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch — Apple intends to frequently update the AirPods with new hardware features. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is working on a new version for release as soon as this year with an upgraded wireless chip, the people said. A subsequent model for as early as next year is planned to be water resistant, they added, asking not to be identified discussing private product plans. The model coming as early as this year will let people summon Apple’s Siri digital assistant without physically tapping the headphones by saying “Hey Siri.” The function will work similarly to how a user activates Siri on an iPhone or a HomePod speaker hands-free. The headphones, internally known as B288, will include an upgraded Apple-designed wireless chip for managing Bluetooth connections. The first AirPods include a chip known as the W1, and Apple released the W2 with the Apple Watch last year. |
Howard McCurdy is being remembered as a man who never backed down from anything.
The civil rights activist was the second black member of Parliament in Canada — the first for the New Democratic Party — and the first tenured black professor in Canadian history. McCurdy died Tuesday at the age of 85.
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McCurdy was also a scientist and civil rights activist. He also formed the Guardian Club to fight racial discrimination in Windsor and co-founded and chaired the National Black Coalition of Canada.
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He was named to the Order of Ontario and designated a member of the Order of Canada in 2012.
(CBC)
Update (Feb. 11, 3:30 p.m.) Five people — including a child — were assessed for injuries and dozens have been displaced after a building exploded, rocking the streets of Mississauga Sunday morning.
Emergency crews rushed to a strip plaza connected to a residential building in the Dundas St. West and Hurontario St. area just before 7:30 a.m. The building that exploded is located right next to Thomas L. Kennedy Secondary School.
Firefighters continued to fight the blaze into Sunday afternoon and clouds of thick smoke hid the full extent of the damage.
Mississauga’s fire chief Tim Beckett told media on scene that half the plaza had collapsed and there was structural damage to apartment buildings nearby. Police initially said that the strip plaza contained only commercial businesses that had been affected by the blast, but they soon discovered that an apartment building was attached in the back of the plaza.
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Beckett said Mississauga’s fire marshal is waiting to get to the centre of the fire.
“We have a live natural gas line that is burning and we’re working with Enbridge now to get that gas line shut down. The investigation itself won’t start until some time tomorrow so it’s going to be quite some time.”
Fire services say that a search and rescue team is at the site of the explosion but, because they still can’t safely access the building, they can’t yet say whether anyone else has been injured.
Neighbours described an “earthquake” early this morning, and across the street, panes of glass were blown out of the windows of a clinic, and a health food store.
“Someone was saying a car jumped,” one man said as he surveyed the scene, emergency lights flashing amid the opaque clouds of grey smoke.
John Mahoney, best known for playing Martin Crane on 11 seasons of “Frasier,” died in Chicago on Sunday while in hospice care, his manager, Paul Martino, confirmed. He was 77.
Mahoney played the father of Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce’s characters during the show’s run on NBC from 1993 to 2004. He won a SAG Award and received two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for his portrayal.
From 2011 to 2014, he had a recurring role on “Hot in Cleveland” as Roy, the love interest of Betty White’s character, Elka.
Mahoney worked in film for more than 35 years, appearing in classics like “The American President” and “Say Anything,” along with voicing animated characters in the “Antz” and “Atlantis” films. He also had guest spots in a number of popular TV shows including “Cheers” and “3rd Rock from the Sun.”
Born Blackpool, England, the actor started his career in theater and continued to return to the stage, appearing in “Prelude to a Kiss” on Broadway and “The Outgoing Tide” and “The Birthday Party” in Chicago after “Frasier” ended.
He came to the U.S. at age 19 and taught English at Western Illinois University before entering into the entertainment industry in 1977.
Mahoney never married and didn’t have any children.
(Variety)
