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Author: hoakley

Paintings from Ukraine 1

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A sketchy history from Soshenko and Shevchenko in the early 19th century, to Kuznetsov and Pokhitonov at the end, with 3 famous expatriates.

February 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 296

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No amateur […]

February 22, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of scripting the Mac

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Includes HyperTalk, UserTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, shell scripts, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts, from 1987 to the present.

February 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 5 On strike

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From 1880 workers’ strikes brought violence and strife to industrial regions throughout Europe, in the struggle for rights and justice. Shown here in contemporary paintings.

February 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How external bootable disks work with Apple silicon Macs

Working with external bootable disks: how to create and add them, ownership and LocalPolicy, how that can be changed, and what happens with errors and failure.

February 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Carpets

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Although of ancient origin, it took 7 centuries for Europeans to use them to cover the floor. They can be exotic in chinoiserie, luxuriant, worn and threadbare, or vibrant.

February 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Permissions, privacy and security: who’s in control?

Permissions, ACLs, TCC’s privacy controls, SIP and app sandboxes. What they are, and how you can control them to access and maintain your files.

February 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 192 Curtains as a device

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Curtains around 4-poster beds, revealing hidden opinions, framing a cameo landscape, showing time and place, and in a trompe l’oeil still life.

February 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How to deal with a kernel panic

Your Mac unexpectedly restarts, and a little after logging in you see a Panic Alert. Before sending that to Apple, save a copy and follow this guidance, including how to read a panic log.

February 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 191 Curtains of concealment and revelation

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Curtains in Raphael’s remarkable trompe l’oeil, concealing a nude, opened by the peeping tom, revealing a lost lover, and as separator between players and spectators.

February 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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