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Month: May 2017

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 18 – Athamas and Ino

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Juno takes a day-trip to Hades in her bid to unleash one of the Furies on this unfortunate couple. A wonderful Brueghel which is as good as Bosch at his best.

May 3, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

New and existing bugs in the unified log in Sierra 10.12.4-6

Significant bugs or undesirable features limiting log, Console, and os_log as of 10.12.4.

May 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Running background activities

Getting GCD to schedule and dispatch a packaged external task, like a backup, is actually straightforward. Here’s how.

May 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Chinese Narrative Painting: The Nymph of the Luo River

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A handscroll, copied from an original painted before 400 CE, tells a complex story in detail a millennium before the European Renaissance.

May 2, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Keeping Background Tasks in the Background: DispatchRider

An experimental tool to let you schedule background tasks of your own, which are managed by Grand Central Dispatch. First alpha release.

May 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Porcelain may be even ruder than was thought

When Marco Polo brought the first porcelain to Europe, just how did it get its name? From Roman nursery slang, perhaps.

May 2, 2017 General, Language, Life

More new malware: OSX.Dok.B or OSX.Bella, but we’re already protected

Apple’s recent updates to XProtect and MRT covered not only OSX/Dok, the new Trojan discovered by Ofer Caspi […]

May 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

More bugs in Sierra’s log system, and a new release of Blowhole

Sierra 10.12.4 introduced undocumented changes in the log system which may break apps which write to the logs. Here is Blowhole fixed for that change.

May 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Love, myth, and exile: the life of Ovid in paintings

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Who was Ovid, and how did he come to write so much on mythology? Illustrated with some fine paintings of his life by Poussin, Delacroix, and Turner.

May 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Watching Grand Central Dispatch at Work

The aim is to be able to run commands at regular intervals using GCD rather than launchd. Here are details of the code and resulting log entries, casting light on how GCD works.

May 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

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