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Explainer: caching

They contain recently browsed web pages, ARM code translated from Intel executables, security data, font information, and much more. And they can cause problems.

October 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Characters in Painted Stories: 2 Perseus and Theseus

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How well do paintings of the stories of Perseus and Theseus fit Booker’s Seven Basic Plots? As he gives these as examples of Overcoming the Monster, do his stages work?

October 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Brolly 1.1 now does its own testing of secure connections

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Now checks which versions of TLS a server supports, and gives details of its full headers with caching disabled.

October 8, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Francisco Goya: Last paintings

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In the last four years of his life, he concentrated on drawing and printmaking. These paintings were Goya’s farewell.

October 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Upgrading to Big Sur or Monterey: migrating Time Machine backups

Can you migrate your old backups from HFS+ to APFS format? What can slow your backups down? Can you still use AFP, and what about restoring the system?

October 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting the Merovingians: the bicentenary of Évariste Vital Luminais 1

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He started painting popular equestrian scenes and social realist works, but after the Franco-Prussian War turned increasingly to old French history.

October 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine presentation at MacSysAdmin

Links to my presentation, and to a selection of useful articles about Time Machine backups to APFS, and more.

October 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Taming the App Store: getting timely updates

How can you ensure the App Store offers you all the updates which it has available? Here’s a simple method which works around its limitations.

October 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Landscape Composition: 5 Real landscapes

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From the Flemish artist Paul Bril, to Claude Lorrain, and then through the French ports of Claude-Joseph Vernet to the oil sketches of Valenciennes.

October 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Brolly: a utility to help understand failed secure connections

A convenient utility to check secure connections under ATS using the nscurl command tool. For El Capitan to Monterey.

October 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

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