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Month: June 2017

LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons: Closing the vulnerability

OS X and macOS make it very easy for malware to make itself persistent. It’s time for High Sierra to improve protection of the user.

June 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 29 – Lycians turned into frogs

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A lighter and formerly very popular story brings to light some masterly paintings, including a superb work by Jan Brueghel the Elder.

June 23, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

What is ‘copy on write’, and how is it good?

One of the major ‘new’ features in the new file system coming in High Sierra. But how does it help the Mac user?

June 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Figures in a Landscape: 7 Among skyscrapers

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How Colin Campbell Cooper and George Bellows used figures in their paintings of New York City in the early twentieth century.

June 22, 2017 General, Painting

Mobile Time Machine and its transformation in High Sierra

On laptops, Time Machine’s ‘local snapshots’ have been of limited use. In High Sierra, this all changes, and for laptop users should be a strong reason for upgrading.

June 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Totems and trees: Emily Carr’s paintings, 1931-1936

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She started with sculptured solids which then broke into swirling fluids. Then she patterned and structured using brushstrokes. More marvellous paintings.

June 21, 2017 General, Painting

Apple has pushed a silent update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed a silent update to the Gatekeeper configuration data for Sierra and El Capitan. This […]

June 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

Fixing problems with preference files

Having problems with preference files? Here’s a step by step guide to solving them, including a new version of PermissionScanner.

June 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 28 – Niobe and the slaughter of her children

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Niobe had seven sons and seven daughters, which must have made her better than Latona, who only had 2 children. Snag was, there were Apollo and Diana.

June 20, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

More fun scripting in Swift with Xcode: files and deep traversal

A classic scripting task: iterate through a folder and its entire contents, testing to see if each file is readable or writable. It’s straightforward in Swift too.

June 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

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