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British landscape painting before Turner: the 18th century

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Gainsborough, Richard Wilson, Alexander Cozens, Thomas Jones, George Morland – establishing landscape painting in the 18th century.

April 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 95

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

April 17, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Mints version 1.3 improves log handling and addresses time formatting

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With extensive refactoring in the code to display logs extracts, this update should be faster and require less memory on all supported versions of macOS.

April 17, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 3 Successful work

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Two major works in his later years: ‘Work’, showing a crowded street in Victorian London, and 12 large murals for Manchester Town Hall.

April 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Overnight, Apple has pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How abysmal SMB performance can choke networked backups

How can it take over 5 hours to back up 79 GB of files to a network share? That’s an average transfer rate of 4 MB/s, probably slower than your Internet connection.

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: Using a network share

Provided it doesn’t have to back up large folders containing many small files, Time Machine backing up to APFS on a network share works well.

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam John Crome: Revolt in the provinces 1

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Wonderfully painterly oil sketches made in front of the motif anticipated the changes which weren’t seen again in landscape painting until 20-50 years later.

April 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine to APFS: First full backup

The first full backup is performed as a manual backup, and largely occurs in file-by-file copying from source to the backup store. It is more efficient than to HFS+, but differences could be less than 10%.

April 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 5: A Burial

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In which Don Quixote and Sancho Panza attend the burial of a local shepherd who died of unrequited love for a young shepherdess.

April 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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