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Month: July 2018

Pierre Bonnard: Fruit and French Windows, 1927-1930

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The Bonnard’s spent much of their time on the Mediterranean coast, in their villa in Le Cannet. But Pierre found himself isolated, and snuck off for 6 months in Carcachon.

July 31, 2018 General, Life, Painting

One small change which might break a lot of older apps

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While we’re worrying about 32-bit apps, something else is changing which is likely to stop many more apps from working properly. In the near future.

July 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 149, […]

July 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 7b Quintus Fabius Maximus

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He developed innovative guerrilla warfare in the long Punic Wars against Hannibal. Also the mystery of a stolen Rembrandt.

July 30, 2018 General, Life, Painting

xattred 1.0b8 can now compare the xattrs of two files

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This new version adds a simple tool to discover any differences in extended attributes between two files.

July 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Recovering from failed T2 firmware updates and related problems

Failed EFI firmware updates should be self-healing in recent models, but what do you do if your T2 Mac messes up a firmware update? Full details revealed.

July 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Franco-Prussian War: Aftermath

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After the huge death toll of the war, including 2 major painters, a week in Paris in May resulted in a further 7,000 deaths, and the destruction of public buildings. Hardly a painter in France wasn’t affected.

July 29, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The mystery of the Supplemental Update

It contains EFI firmware updates for other models, some already out of date, and a complete set of kernel extensions, again. Why?

July 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Franco-Prussian War: Destruction of Paris

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Paris was under siege from September 1870 to the end of January 1871. Painters commanded its defenders, and showed its distress.

July 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

How to check that a file really is a faithful copy

Comparing the data in two files is easy, but what about its extended attributes? There hasn’t been a simple tool to do that, until now.

July 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

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