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Author: hoakley

Canals of Venice: 1825-1870

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Paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington, Edward Lear, JMW Turner, and John Ferguson Weir, during the revival of interest in Venice.

October 6, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: the Finder is growing less consistent

The Finder uses a small grammar, which ensures its consistency. iCloud Drive is already an exception with evicted files, and pinning is highly inconsistent, and not designed for humans.

October 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

In memoriam Joachim Patinir, who died 500 years ago

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One of the first serious landscape painters in Europe, contemporary and friend of Dürer, and originator of the World View, a precursor to the panorama.

October 5, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 276

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

October 5, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of defragging

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As Mac hard disks grew larger, fragmentation of file data, file system metadata and free space slowed the disk down. Here’s how we used to solve that.

October 5, 2024 Macs, Technology

Emily Carr’s paintings: Sculptural form 1931-1936

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Sculptural form first in the totems of First Nations peoples, then deep in the forest of British Columbia, and seascapes of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

October 4, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Apple has released Sequoia 15.0.1 and Safari updates

Overnight European time, Apple released a small but urgent update to macOS Sequoia, bringing it to version 15.0.1. […]

October 4, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Is there more XProtection in Sequoia?

In Sequoia, XProtect’s data is now updated in a different way. Does this change its capabilities, though? A quick dip into YARA files has the answer.

October 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: 7 Meat, milk, fleece and dung

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Sheep were the best mobile source of dung, and used to fertilise the soil used to raise crops such as staple cereals, wheat and rye. They also provided fleeces to generate the wool trade.

October 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Understand and check Time Machine backups to APFS

From dispatch of a new automatic backup, through computing which items need to be backed up, cleaning up snapshots and old backups, to success at the end.

October 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

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