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Month: July 2021

How the Other Half Live: paintings of stately homes 2

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Chillon Castle, Lake Geneva, Éragny Manor, a mansion in New York City, Kelmscott Manor (home of William Morris), Florence Griswold’s home in Old Lyme, CT, and more.

July 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: A tendency to panic

Close to the top of my shortlist of new features in the next Apple Silicon Macs is that kernel panics become a thing of the past.

July 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

How the Other Half Live: paintings of stately homes 1

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Palaces of Albert VII, Rubens’ own Het Steen, an imposing Swiss castle, Wivenhoe Park in hiding, and an Australian pastoral station.

July 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 107

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Unenclosed, frank, or […]

July 10, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: checksums, CRCs, hashes and cryptography

What are checksums, CRCs and hashes? What is required for a hash to be cryptographic, and how any of these affect your Mac? Some answers and explanations.

July 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: Eakins’ unsightly medical history

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Rejected from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition as ‘unsightly’, The Gross Clinic was hidden in an Army hospital. In 2006, it was almost sold for $68 million.

July 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Finder’s metadata puzzles

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Useful metadata shown in two places, and available as columns in List views. But some things don’t match up, and information changes in front of your eyes.

July 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: 3 Enter the Maja

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Goya’s series of cartoons for tapestries between 1776 and 1779 introduce the Maja and Majo, which were to appear in many of his later paintings.

July 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Code in ARM Assembly: Moving data around

Explaining the LDR family of instructions for loading registers, MOV for moving one register to another, STR for storing to memory, and SXTx/UXTx for filling a register with smaller data types.

July 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Still Life History: 9 Into the twentieth century

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From eccentric trompes l’oeil through a laid-up meal table to the domestics of Pierre Bonnard, still life painting was very much alive in the early 20th century.

July 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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