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Painting Don Quixote: Arise the knight

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Enormously popular across Europe, Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ led to some fine narrative paintings, but why so few even in the 19th century?

October 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 279

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The first […]

October 26, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac firmware

From the Macintosh ROM of Classic days, to Open Firmware in Power Macs, and on to (U)EFI with Intel, and ending up with LLB and iBoot in Apple silicon Macs.

October 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Interiors by design: The Dutch Golden Age

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Examples of interiors by Gerard ter Borch, who liked open-ended narrative, GabriΓ«l Metsu, Pieter de Hooch, and Jan Vermeer.

October 25, 2024 General, Life, Painting

macOS Sequoia 15.1 next week

Sequoia 15.1 is imminent, and comes with Writing Tools. Most other AI features wait for 15.2, now in beta, and expected in early December. Don’t underestimate Writing Tools, though.

October 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: 10 Cattle

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They drew carts and ploughs, in preference to horses where power rather than speed was needed. Also for milk, beef and their hides processed into leather.

October 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How Macs boot securely, or can’t

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How Intel Macs without a T2 chip boot, and how Secure Boot works in those with T2 or Apple silicon chips. How the latter can still enjoy Secure Boot when starting up from an external disk.

October 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 169 Wedding, personal

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Wedding paintings by Rubens, Watteau, Delacroix, Frith, and Naturalists from the time that photography was creating a new market.

October 23, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Is that authentication request genuine or fake?

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Authentication dialogs differ on Macs with Touch ID support, although they can still use a traditional format. Here are different versions of the dialog and explanations.

October 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 168 Wedding, narrative

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Pitched battles at the weddings of Hippodame and Pirithous, and Andromeda and Perseus. The Trojan War resulting from the wedding of Thetis and Peleus, and turning water into wine with Veronese.

October 22, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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