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Changing Paintings: 34 Minos and the Myrmidons

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After the people of Aegina are almost wiped out by a plague, Jupiter gives its king an army of hard workers who became the fearsome Myrmidons in the Trojan War.

August 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 270

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 270. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

August 26, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Links, aliases and the decline of paths

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Symlinks are popular but prove fragile when folders get renamed or moved. Hard links don’t support directories and can’t cross volumes. The alias works best overall, but isn’t supported in Terminal.

August 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the tercentenary of equine artist George Stubbs

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Probably the first specialist painter of horses in Europe, he depicted many racehorses of the rich and famous, and even painted the Queen’s Ass.

August 25, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Layered security and herd immunity

Security in macOS is designed and applied in multiple layers to remain effective even when one layer is bypassed, and herd protection determines types of attack.

August 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

Equestrian portraits in honour of George Stubbs

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Equestrian paintings of those who followed George Stubbs: Théodore Géricault, James Ward, Horace Vernet, Eugène Delacroix, and Edgar Degas.

August 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 270

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

August 24, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of the Finder Alias

Introduced in System 7 in 1991, long before symbolic and hard links became available in Mac OS X, they’ve been revised and extended to bookmarks since.

August 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

An A to Z of Landscapes: Contents

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All the articles in this series, from Aerial Perspective to Zeitgeist.

August 23, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Why launch constraints can crash apps

One cause of an app crashing as soon as it’s launched, these constraints prevent you from running bundled apps copied elsewhere, and can now be used by third-party apps.

August 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

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