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Year: 2020

A History of Rome in Paintings: 20 The Capitoline Hill and Tarpeian Rock

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Key parts of the background of paintings of the story of the rape of the Sabine Women, this hill was originally a fortress, then the major temple to Jupiter.

December 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Booting an M1 Mac from an external disk: it is possible

If you’ve been unable to create a bootable external disk to use with your M1 Mac, this explains what you need and its limitations and quirks.

December 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Goddess of the Week: Hebe

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Goddess of youth, and cupbearer to the Olympian deities, she was a popular guise for portraits, and shown in a few mythological paintings.

December 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 78

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 78. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I’m […]

December 21, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

What stops your Mac running incompatible extensions?

In one of only 3 kernel extension on your Data volume is a list of blocked kernel extensions. What protection from old and broken KEXTs does it provide?

December 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

The Art in Painting: 3 Cameras

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Did Vermeer use a camera obscura? What went wrong with Impressionist oil sketches? When did Klimt paint from photographs? Does any of this really detract from the art in a painting?

December 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Begging from Apple

We don’t know when Apple decided to introduce Big Sur’s SSV, but even now it hasn’t told users it won’t be releasing standalone updates for 11.0.1 or 11.1.

December 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

The Art in Painting: 2 Classical Methods

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Sketches and studies are the richest evidence for the artistic in craft-dominated processes required to turn those into a painting.

December 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 78

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: I’m the […]

December 19, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Measuring performance of different SSDs using Stibium 1.0b3

A new version using Mach absolute time brings accuracy to a few microseconds, and a Help page. Tests progress well, and continue to make interesting comparisons.

December 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

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