His final two years, painting the rural poor in France, and street children in London, in increasingly documentary form. Then his final works before an untimely death.
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How SilentKnight came about, and how it knows – most of the time – which version of XProtect and other security data your Mac should be using.
Has Apple inadvertently released the full installer for macOS Sequoia 15.7.5? It’s only available as a full installer, not an update, but it’s real.
Biography and paintings of the lead Naturalist, from his 2 failed attempts to win the Prix de Rome, switching to depicting the rural poor, and growing success at the Salon.
Overnight, Apple released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5332. As usual, it doesn’t release information […]
What to do when you know there’s an update available, but Software Update pretends that it can’t find it. With details of undocumented options for softwareupdate command and more.
Apple has released an update to macOS Tahoe bringing it to version 26.3.1. This adds support for its […]
If you are testing beta-releases of macOS 26.4 Tahoe on Apple silicon Macs, please use this new build of SilentKnight, version 2.12 build 61, as it shouldn’t crash.
An overview of reflections in landscape paintings by van Eyck, Dürer, Cuyp, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Canaletto, and Claude-Joseph Vernet in 1771.
Software update was completely redesigned for Big Sur, using finite state machines to enable reliable, flexible and robust updates to be applied to macOS. These are documented in log entries made during an update.
The Eclectic Light Company 