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Maintaining the System: how software update has changed

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From the Mac OS Installer app for 9.1 in 2001, through updates in the App Store, to Software Update settings, with Content Caching servers on the way.

August 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

High: introduction to a new series on painting mountains

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Burke’s sublime became attractive to some in the late 18th century. They took to the mountains, to record high peaks and narrow gorges in paintings. First of a new series.

August 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How could someone steal your keychain’s secrets?

How is an attacker most likely to get their hands on the secrets stored in your Mac’s keychains, and what can you do to protect them?

August 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 70 Ladder

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Jacob’s Ladder, the Crucifixion, scaling the walls of Charlemagne’s Paris, picking fruit, or just crossing a dry stone wall.

August 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Updates for Viable and Vimy, macOS virtualisers on Apple silicon

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Bug fixes in custom MAC addresses, general tidy-up of code, and added docs detailing how to enhance VMs using ARD/VNC.

August 24, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Ukrainian Painters: The Modern

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Able to develop distinctive movements, many of these artists trained in Ukraine under Ukrainian artists, and were part of the development of modernist painting.

August 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ignoring ownership and 501 orphans

Rather than migrating some files to a new Mac, they were copied to an external drive. But some of them couldn’t be opened because of ‘permissions’. Here’s why and how to fix it.

August 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Trojan Epics: 0 Summary and contents

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Summary of each episode in this 26-part series covering the Epic Cycle of Troy, from Zeus deciding to reduce the weight of people on the earth, to the death of Odysseus.

August 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Enhance your macOS VMs with Apple Remote Desktop

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Do you want your VM to fully support an ISO keyboard? To drag and drop files with the host? Copy and paste too? Here’s the solution, crazy though it might seem.

August 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 16 Seasons

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A series of four paintings commissioned by an industrialist lead the way for the painters of the next generation.

August 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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