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Month: February 2023

Reading visual art: 38 Fables in the 19th century

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Examples of painted fables from the 19th century, from Landseer, Millet, Moreau, Klimt, Morisot, Hodler, and Pierre Bonnard.

February 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How to get the Trash working properly

You’re running bit short of disk space, so put tens of GB of old files into the Trash, then empty it. Why doesn’t the amount of free space increase?

February 24, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 37 Fables to 1800

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Without a title and the story in a fable, paintings can be hard to identify, and even harder to read. Examples from 1500-1751.

February 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Secure Boot and disaster recovery for Apple silicon Macs

Apple silicon Macs are better-equipped to prevent and deal with disaster. Restoring in DFU mode is extremely unusual, and more powerful than anything you can do with an Intel Mac.

February 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect

Apple has just pushed a surprise update to XProtect (not Remediator) security software, bringing it to version 2166. […]

February 22, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Ukrainian Painters: Oleksandr Murashko

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In twenty years, he established himself as a leading figurative painter and portraitist, then was murdered. Now his remaining paintings are under threat.

February 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

It pays to be a winner: How a fast SSD can slow others down

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What happens when you connect two fast SSDs to your Mac and they both write or read at the same time? How do they perform when connected through a hub? And how does it pay to be a winner?

February 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Trojan Epics: Introduction to a new painting series

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Series telling the whole Epic Cycle from Zeus’s decision to reduce the mortal population, to the death of Odysseus.

February 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Thunderbolt 4 hubs can slow down fast SSDs

You pay hundreds of $$ for a high-speed Thunderbolt SSD, then connect it to a hub. Will it still deliver the same performance? Maybe not when writing.

February 21, 2023 Macs, Technology

Not Like That: Fading into the past

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The colours you see in paintings today may have faded badly from their originals. Examples of madder lake, smalt and indigo.

February 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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