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Characters in Painted Stories: 11 The moment of change

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Do Booker’s Seven Basic Plots reduce to a series of events leading to a change in fortune (reversal, peripeteia), and establishing the outcome?

December 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Is backing up to networked storage improving?

Backing up using Time Machine over Gigabit Ethernet to another Mac providing shared backup storage in Monterey 12.1 delivered good performance of 35-43 MB/s.

December 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1921: 3 Landscapes and the future

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Landscapes from Lovis Corinth, Pierre Bonnard, Georg Janny, Anita Rée, Charles Demuth, and the last word from Piet Mondrian.

December 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 130

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 130. Here are my solutions to them. 1: They […]

December 20, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How to get an old version of macOS, OS X and Xcode

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You might want an old macOS or OS X installer to build a Virtual Machine, or for an old Mac. Here’s how to get them, and old versions of Xcode.

December 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painted Deserts 2

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When the Salons were flooding with fleshly dreams of harems, landscape artists were depicting the desert with its camels and caravans.

December 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: shrinking macOS updates

The macOS 12.1 update is the smallest x.1 update since High Sierra 10.13.1 in October 2017, over four years ago. How come it has bucked the trend in Big Sur?

December 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painted Deserts 1

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Before the 19th century, most paintings of deserts were imaginary. Then artists started to paint them at first hand. Paintings up to 1864.

December 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 130

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: They come flooding […]

December 18, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Vectors, Accelerate and poor performance on M1 Macs

Some apps and other code doesn’t appear to run faster on M1 chips, and some even runs more slowly. Could this be a result of it not using the best acceleration for vectors and matrices?

December 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

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