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Month: January 2018

A Hard Reality: the paintings of Christian Krohg, 4 – sailors and models

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After a period writing for his living, Krohg painted two series: one about sailing and the sea, the other about the artist’s model.

January 31, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Further improvements in xattred 1.0b3, the extended attribute editor

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The File menu has been tidied, and xattred can now save the one xattr selected or all of them to a text file.

January 31, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Loving Beauty: Gustav Klimt, 5, textures and patterns

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As he emerged from his Golden Phase, his paintings used less gold leaf, his relationship with Egon Schiele developed, and he separated from the Secession.

January 30, 2018 General, Life, Painting

How big is that file? How Finder and Terminal file sizes can mislead

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Do you trust the file size given in Finder’s Get Info dialog? Perhaps you shouldn’t, as it only consider part of the file, its data fork.

January 30, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

xattr: com.apple.icloud.itemName, iCloud Drive placeholder filename

A tag containing the filename of a file still held remotely in iCloud, attached to a stub. Only in iCloud files.

January 30, 2018 xattr

How iCloud marks the place of documents stored remotely

Scripts and apps which could look at folders in iCloud should watch for stub files. Here’s how they work, and why they can mislead.

January 30, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 72 – Scylla transformed

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Glaucus’ attempt to get Circe to put a spell on Scylla, to make her love him, backfires. Wonderful paintings by Waterhouse, van der Neer, Henry Fuseli, and others.

January 29, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

xattr: com.apple.cscachefs, iCloud Drive app tag

Its purpose is unknown, but it is automatically attached to contents of apps downloaded from iCloud Drive, if to a different system from the uploader.

January 29, 2018 xattr

iCloud Drive has user modes, and tags transferred apps

How the two user modes differ, what iCloud Drive does to files transferred between two different clients, and an apparently unique tag it applies to apps which pass through.

January 29, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Coast: Utonulá, the drowned woman

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From Millais’ Ophelia, through the terrible toll of suicides in the rivers of major cities. Featuring Delaroche, GF Watts, Winslow Homer, and more.

January 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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