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Month: May 2023

Reading visual art: 58 Sickles

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A symbol of the harvest with Ceres, a weapon for Bacchantes, the sign of the Divine Reaper Saturn, used by Iris to cut locks of hair, and for cutting the cereal crop.

May 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ghosts in the machine: .DS_Store files

Introduced in the Finder in Mac OS X, these hidden and invisible files have been quietly causing havoc with backups, revision control systems, and more.

May 31, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Viktor Zarubin

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Among 15 works shown here are two of Sviatohirsk Monastery, destroyed by Bolsheviks after October Revolution of 1917, and shelled into ruins in 2022.

May 30, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Apple’s big test of data integrity

Since November 2020, every T2 and Apple silicon Mac that has booted Big Sur or later in Full Security mode has check the integrity of its 9 GB SSV.

May 30, 2023 Macs, Technology

Trojan Epics: 14 Odysseus and Polyphemus

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Queen Penelope and their son Telemachus were awaiting the return of Odysseus, whose ships ended up off the island of the Cyclops.

May 29, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 205

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 205. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Fifteen […]

May 29, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Dealing with a kernel panic

How to capture the panic log, immediate actions likely to help make a diagnosis, and how to read the panic log.

May 29, 2023 Macs, Technology

Folk Tales in Paintings: Lady Godiva and Wanda

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The curious story of the countess who rode naked through the city of Coventry to win its people a cut in taxes, and Wanda of Kraków.

May 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Should we be worried about data integrity?

From its outset, APFS hasn’t tested the integrity of file data stored on it. Would this be a good idea, or should macOS switch to the ZFS file system instead?

May 28, 2023 Macs, Technology

Folk Tales in Paintings: Robin Hood and other merry men

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Robin Hood, who robbed the bad to help the poor, and his colleagues William Tell, Oleksa Dovbush and Holger Danske.

May 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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