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Month: June 2017

Carl Larsson’s Ideal Home: 2 Sweden 1886-1898

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His watercolours changed, losing their painterliness and defocus. They came to depict an idyllic, outdoor family life – an aspiration for so many in northern Europe.

June 19, 2017 General, Painting

How to discover which files should be readable and which writable: PermissionScanner 1.0b1

Repairing permissions on your Home folder is a blunt tool which could cause more problems. This tool looks through for potential problems, letting you fix them one file at a time.

June 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Who was Orion, and why did almost no one paint his story?

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Wherever you are on earth, you should be able to see the constellation of Orion, when clouds permit. What was his story? Only one painting helps.

June 18, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The mystery of repairing permissions

Why we can’t repair system permissions, and some pitfalls and promise in the new technique of repairing permissions on the Home folder.

June 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Arachne and her web: spiders in paintings and prints

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When did spiders and their webs first start appearing as motifs in paintings and prints? Who was the inspiration for Spider-Man?

June 17, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Should you repair permissions on your Home folder, and how?

Apple has started recommending users to repair permissions – not generally, but in the Home folder. Here’s my experience, and a tool to make this easier.

June 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 27 – Arachne and Minerva

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Rich in wordplay, this story is almost unique to Ovid. It was oddly prescient of his own later banishment too.

June 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Exploring Sierra 10.12.5 sleep and wake in the log, 2 DAS and CTS

Sleep interrupts the scheduling and dispatch of background tasks. Here’s how it looks in the dispatching systems.

June 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

USB 3 devices can cause problems with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Radio-frequency interference from USB 3 peripherals can cause problems with Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi.

June 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Figures in a Landscape: 6 Constable’s gestures

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His sketches and studies are wonderfully painterly, but was he painting what he saw, or what he envisaged?

June 15, 2017 General, Painting

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