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Paintings of the Four Elements: 2 after 1600

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After 1600, series of four paintings fell from favour, and artists, particularly the Brueghel family, combined all into single images.

February 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 87

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 87. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Unique […]

February 22, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Why your M1 may not have Fallback Recovery yet

Created when you update macOS, its Fallback Recovery OS is made from the previous Recovery OS. Here’s how to check whether it’s available on your M1 Mac.

February 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Check whether your Mac’s sudo is vulnerable with Mints 1.1

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Now checks whether the sudo vulnerability has been patched, and improves Spotlight search testing too.

February 22, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

In Memoriam: George Dunlop Leslie, one of the St John’s Wood Clique

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He specialised in ‘light genre’ paintings, not-to-serious domestic scenes, painted in fine detail, and was praised by Ruskin.

February 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Swallowing a fly

It started with wanting to benchmark SSDs, passed through robust linear regression, and is now diving deep into linear programming and matrices.

February 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the Four Elements: 1 to 1600

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In the century from 1560, many artists painted allegories of the four elements of the classical world: earth, air, water and fire. Here are some fine examples.

February 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 87

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Unique among […]

February 20, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

M1 Macs have another hidden boot mode

Apple has revealed the hidden Fallback Recovery OS mode available on M1 Macs. How to enter and use it, and why it’s another big plus.

February 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Rebirth: 1 Was there art before the Renaissance?

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First in a new series looking at Renaissance painting from Italy, centred on Florence, shows some of the masterpieces of the ‘gap’ before the Gothic.

February 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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