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Month: October 2025

Gustave Doré’s paintings: After the war

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The first portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, scenes of the Franco-Prussian War, two huge religious paintings, and two superb views of the Scottish Highlands. Doré as you’ve not seen him before.

October 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

When time is out of joint, the log falls over

When the clocks went back, looking in the log for entries at 01:49:02 brought a very great surprise: in one Mac, nearly 4 million entries in a single second.

October 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Gustave Doré’s paintings: Before the war

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Known today only for his prolific illustrations of major European narratives and the Bible, he was also an accomplished and well-received painter in oils.

October 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Updated CPU core frequencies for all current Apple silicon Macs

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How operating frequencies of CPU cores used by the latest base M5 chip compare with those from previous families in the M series, and what that means. Complete with updated tables for all current chips.

October 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Jacob van Ruisdael’s trees

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Active in Haarlem and Amsterdam during and after Poussin’s later years, his depiction of trees is outstanding, and his old oaks are lifelike.

October 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Disentangling timestamps with Dropera 2

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Study how the four key timestamps of a file change when you create, edit, preview the file, using Dropera.

October 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Soot and milk

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Ink, soot suspended in water, making the transition from drawings into paintings. The secret of shellac. Casein, originally from sour milk, as a binder in some vast murals.

October 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Updating CPU frequencies for Apple silicon Macs

A call for help: can you help complete this table of all the CPU core frequencies of M-series chips? M3 Ultra and M5 values are requested, please.

October 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 14 Count Ugolino

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The horrific story of a count locked away to starve to death, who turned to cannibalism. How that came to be used falsely in Lavater’s physiognomy.

October 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 331

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 331. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]

October 27, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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