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Last Week on My Mac: Better beta-testing

Are you testing or going to test Monterey beta? Advice on kernel panics, the M1 missing boot disk problem, updates and escape routes.

July 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Crème de la Crème: Winners of the Prix de Rome for painting 1

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Founded around 1666, the Prix de Rome was an annual contest for narrative painting. First prize was study at the French Academy in Rome.

July 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 106

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Stock market collapse, […]

July 3, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: xART and nonces

A strange volume named xART or xarts, secure memory management, and long random numbers: how they fit together to protect against replay attacks.

July 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: Whistler’s White Girl

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What could a jury possibly find bad or objectionable about Whistler’s finest painting? And after that mistake, how could a second jury get it so wrong too?

July 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

When you can’t send mail: fixing SMTP problems

Failure to send outgoing mail to an SMTP server is an occasional problem which can be tricky to solve. Here are some clues, and a magic solution.

July 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: 2 Royal cartoons

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A wedding and two major commissions: a series of large wall paintings on the Life of the Virgin, and his first 9 cartoons for tapestries, on the theme of hunting.

July 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Volume names are still a Unicode mess

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Don’t use Unicode normalised Form C names for volumes in Disk Utility, as they cause havoc, and prevent Spotlight from indexing volumes.

July 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Still Life History: 8 Vincent van Gogh

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Between 1884 and his death in 1890, he painted a great many still lifes, some of which are not only among his most famous, but the most popular in Western art.

June 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Making a good Recovery: So many tools

Terminal in Recovery on an M1 Mac has access to many valuable command tools, including USB-C diagnostics,options otherwise unavailable in csrutil, and more.

June 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

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