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Author: hoakley

Reading visual art: 6 Virgin of the Snake

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Why is the Virgin Mary standing on a snake with a part-eaten apple in its mouth? And which painting of her was banned from display in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome?

October 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

First call for Ventura

How is Ventura looking now? Is it fully baked yet, and ready for release? Includes links to articles to help you decide and prepare for next weeks’ macOS upgrade.

October 21, 2022 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 5 Evil serpents

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Snakes and serpents in myth, legend and religion are thoroughly sinister and bad, with one curious exception. A journey across centuries of images.

October 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Making the most of Apple silicon power: 5 User control

How you can use the taskpolicy command to confine all the threads of a process to the E cores, as a brake, but there’s no accelerator in macOS.

October 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Painted Stories in Britain 8: Shakespeare

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For 20 years, Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery tried to establish an English School of History Painting. Or was it just a ploy to make money from prints?

October 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Troubleshooting keychains

Solving repeated requests for passwords, telling the genuine from the bogus, how passwords can become mismatched, and more.

October 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Sunrise on Impressionism: 13 Eugène Boudin

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A prolific painter who was moderately successful in the Salon, a key influence on Impressionism, and Monet’s first mentor, yet is now almost forgotten.

October 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

When SIP status is unknown, SilentKnight and silnite can be foxed

Signing out of iCloud and signing back in fixed a problem with syncing, but it also turned SIP off in an ‘unknown’ way, something SilentKnight didn’t understand. Updates included for SilentKnight and silnite.

October 18, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 21: Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Thought to be his first play, it hasn’t been painted much, but those who have are notable, including William Holman Hunt’s masterpiece.

October 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 173

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 173. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Vigilant […]

October 17, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

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