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Month: May 2017

Figures in a Landscape: 3 Seeing the Andes

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Two people looking at a cross in the middle of a vast canvas filled with lush plains, rising hills, and distant snow-capped peaks. How should we read them?

May 31, 2017 General, Painting

An Incomplete List of Sierra’s Dispatched Services

Time Machine backups are but one of 70-80 background services which are run by macOS dispatching systems. Here’s a list of some of the others.

May 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 22 – Perseus’ Wedding Feast

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Definitely a wedding to remember: how Perseus and Andromeda didn’t have a photographer but a sculptor to preserve their memories.

May 30, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Watching a Mac losing its grip: background services are vital

When scheduled backups become irregular or stop, this affects much more than just Time Machine. This is what happens, and why you must restart.

May 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Figures in a Landscape: 2 Figures, narrative, ground

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What are accessories or ‘staffage’, what narrative, and what intrinsic to the reading and style of a landscape?

May 29, 2017 General, Painting

T2M2 now timestamps its analyses in version 0.6b1

Each report on your Time Machine backups now comes with a detailed timestamp in this new version.

May 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2.2b1 can now open any new-style ‘unified’ log, from macOS, iOS, watchOS, or tvOS

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This version allows you to open, browse, and analyse any .logarchive bundle, from a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or more. Ideal for forensic analysis.

May 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

The Psychology of the Riddle: Oedipus and the Sphinx

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Hardly painted before 1800, there has since been a succession of brilliant paintings of this story. Its focus has changed, from the tension as Oedipus tries to answer the riddle, to the femme fatale.

May 28, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Making more sense of the log

Conventional log analysis gets precious little from Sierra’s unified log. Automated analysis has much greater potential. Will Apple head in this direction too?

May 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

The Riches of the Table, and the Futility of Life: Clara Peeters’ still lifes

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One of the finest still-life painters of any age, some of her work celebrated the sensual pleasures of food, others the futility of life.

May 27, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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