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Month: August 2021

Impressionist painting in Britain: 6 John Lavery

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From around 1884 until after the First World War, he painted a series of Impressionist landscapes. Was he one of the British Impressionists?

August 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Dual-booting macOS: Disk structure and Recovery

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Installing two different versions of macOS within a single container brings flexibility as they share free space, a little economy maybe, and complexity – explained here.

August 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: Ferdinand Hodler’s Night

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Three times Hodler was the centre of controversy: ‘The Night’ was rejected then removed from display; two large and wonderful murals were also savaged by the critics and the emperor.

August 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to create a bootable external disk in macOS 11 or 12

Complete step-by-step instructions for installing a new copy of macOS to an external disk, making it bootable. For Intel and M1 Macs of all flavours.

August 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: 10 The story of Friar Pedro

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The period up to 1808, in which Goya painted many portraits of the rich and famous, and those who could hardly pay, and the story of a friar and a bandit.

August 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

What’s ugliest about M1 Macs and needs improvement

Memory, support for multiple external displays, bootable external disks, macOS updates, kernel panics, more ports, and more choice of macOS to install are on my list.

August 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Still Life History: Fish

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An unusual but apparently addictive theme for still life paintings: fish, from Chardin’s ray to the performative art of William Merritt Chase.

August 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

What’s in an M1 chip, and what does it do differently?

Summary and links for the latest information about what’s in the current M1 chip, from differences in caches between cores, to the Matrix Coprocessor and Fabric limitations.

August 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has just pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

August 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Don Quixote: Book 1 summary and contents 1

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Contents, summary and a selection of paintings for the first half of the first book, from Don Quixote being dubbed a knight, to his rescue from the mountains.

August 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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