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Month: August 2017

Coast: Storms, 2 Bierstadt to Bellows

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Rough weather seen on the canvases of Bierstadt, Monet, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, and other fine artists.

August 17, 2017 General, Life, Painting

xattred: a tool for setting the quarantine xattr

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This tool for Sierra now inspects and displays extended attributes, and will write a quarantine xattr to force a full Gatekeeper check on an app, as if downloaded.

August 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.0b7 (fc1): building an infinitely customizable log browser

This new version improves control behaviours in the preferences sheet. Is it ready for final release now?

August 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Coast: Storms, 1 Magnasco to Aivazovsky

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Includes brilliant paintings of coastal storms by Vernet, Constable, JWM Turner, and Courbet.

August 16, 2017 General, Life, Painting

What’s a UUID?

They’re almost everywhere now: UUIDs and GUIDs identify disk volumes, printers, even the processes running on your Mac. Here’s an explanation.

August 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Degas’ Circle: Mary Cassatt, 3 Prints perfected

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She mastered drypoint, aquatint, and monotype processes, combining them to produce superb prints – as well as wonderful pastel paintings.

August 15, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Quarantined: more about the quarantine extended attribute

If you want someone else to be able to run your script app, you’ll need to sign it and get it past Gatekeeper’s checks. Here are more details about the role of xattrs in those, and how to run a full check without downloading your app.

August 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 38 Cephalus and Procris

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One of Ovid’s best stories of a tragic end to a blissful marriage, with superb paintings by Veronese, Poussin, Rubens, and others.

August 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Show me your metadata: extended attributes in macOS Sierra

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They’re responsible for determining Gatekeeper’s checks, contain Finder information, and much more. With a new free tool too.

August 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Danseuses: 2 The social message

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Lurking in the shadows were well-dressed, affluent men, wearing top hats, white ties and gloves. They weren’t just there to chat.

August 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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