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Month: June 2015

The Samuel Johnson Code

Before the Boston Tea Party, the few precious official copies of Johnson’s dictionary in the American lands were destroyed in commando-style raids, leading to the War of Independence.

June 15, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Nailing down the Desktop

Is it possible to prevent the individual Mac users on our network from changing the desktop background on their Macs?

June 15, 2015 Macs, Technology

Beyond the French Impressionists: 16 Britain, Turner, Steer

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Compared with most other European countries, Impressionism largely passed British painters by.

June 15, 2015 Painting

Is this important?

Despite the importance of importance in everyday life, as far as I can tell no computer operating system has the slightest sense of importance.

June 15, 2015 Macs, Technology

Going viral: observing events

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There seems no doubt that intensely viral events occur. Characterising their early stages remains very difficult, requiring sensitive analysis on a huge data stream.

June 14, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Optimising additional memory

I installed additional memory in my iMac. Should I have arranged the modules differently to obtain maximum benefit?

June 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Knowledge to rely on?

On 18 January 2012, (English) Wikipedia shut us out in protest at proposed US legislation. I was deeply upset, and wrote this in response.

June 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Painting: St Martin’s Down, watercolour on paper, plein air

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I parked myself right in front of Appuldurcombe House, and looked in the opposite direction, where St Martin’s Down rises above our village.

June 13, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Q&A: FireWire draining power

When I connect an old FireWire drive to my FireWire-USB adaptor, my MacBook Air complains it is drawing too much power. How can I use this disk?

June 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

Psychopathia Internetualis

The majority of website defacements are performed because the perpetrator just wanted to be the best defacer, for fun, or as a challenge.

June 13, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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