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Month: November 2024

Paintings of New York City, 1886-1908

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William Merritt Chase’s leafy suburb of Brooklyn in the late 1880s, Robert Henri’s Ashcan view of busy streets in the snow, and the first of Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers.

November 30, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 284

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Unsolicited crypto, […]

November 30, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac memory and its management

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A problem from the first 128K Mac, virtual memory was available from 1987 but only with A/UX. It wasn’t really sorted out until Mac OS X, and now it’s all Unified anyway.

November 30, 2024 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Nordic flair

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Interior design by the wives of Carl Larsson (Sweden), LA Ring (Denmark), Nikolai Astrup (Norwegian) and others.

November 29, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Using and troubleshooting Spotlight in Sequoia: summary

How Spotlight works, Core and global Spotlight, importing failure, exclusions from indexing, re-indexing, excessive re-indexing, failure to find, iCloud Drive and network shares.

November 29, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: The Year

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Ploughing, sowing, weeding, calving and lambing, the hay harvest, sheep shearing, the grain harvest, fruit harvests, then back again to the start.

November 28, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How to browse your Mac’s log from months ago

macOS logs may only last a few days, or even hours, into the past. Here’s a quick and simple way of browsing the log from weeks, months or even years ago.

November 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 177 Peace, modern

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William Penn’s treaty, Peace and War just before the Franco-Prussian War, its Armistice in 1871, and finally paintings of the end of the First World War and the original Cenotaph in London.

November 27, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Inside M4 chips: Matrix processing and Power Modes

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A matrix multiplication test appears to be run on the AMX matrix co-processor, and behaves differently from in-core tests. And what Power modes really do.

November 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 176 Peace, mythical and ancient

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Allegories using classical deities, by Tintoretto and Rubens. Accounts of how the Sabine women brought peace to Rome, and peace treaties of Charlemagne and Barbarossa.

November 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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