Examining the detail of how he applied patches of paint over a period of almost fifty years reveals how his pointillism changed.
Month: July 2022
Three types of Disk Image, encrypted or not, tested when freshly made or used and remounted. So many variations, but only one type of Disk Image can be trusted for writing.
Two movements concerned with depiction of clothing and fabrics: Costumbrism in Spain, with local customs, and wild fashion in French frou-frou.
How a standard developed for virtualisation on Linux has become central to lightweight virtualisation in macOS Monterey and Ventura.
Grisaille – grey underpainting used to set the tone for a finished work – is like underwear, waiting for richly coloured clothes to go on top. Not in these paintings, though.
A Mac Studio Max has an SSD delivering up to 7.4 GB/s, and a CPU up to 50% faster than a 16-core Xeon. Why does it write an encrypted disk image at the speed of a slow hard disk?
Twelve years earlier, the real Duke of Milan was abandoned with his young daughter in a small boat. When he is able to bring his usurper to face his revenge, this is what happens.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 158. Here are my solutions to them. 1: It […]
Lightweight virtualisation has come to Apple silicon Macs. How well does it work, though? Are there any significant limitations?
Paintings from the second half of the 19th century, from Aivazovsky, Delacroix, Winslow Homer and others, as a prelude to The Tempest.
The Eclectic Light Company 