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Christian Krohg painting social reality 4: 1898-1924

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Series showing the sailing of smaller vessels, and ship, then a further series of a model getting dressed and leaving the studio, and one last painting.

October 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What to do when your Mac can’t get to the login window

If you’re lucky, it should restart into Recovery Assistant. Otherwise advice on how to manage a boot loop or freeze, and how to disable 3rd party kernel extensions.

October 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5318. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

October 8, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Dutch Golden Age: Nocturnes

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Unusual paintings to add novelty to a collection, with maritimes, river views, cloudscapes, Amsterdam burning, and a couple of distinctive ‘negatives’.

October 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Resolve a file’s path from its inode number

First Aid in Disk Utility, or fsck_apfs in Terminal, have given warnings or errors with id numbers. How do you work out which file or folder that refers to?

October 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Knives, fingers and long brushes

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Painting using a palette knife, by Courbet, Renoir and Anna Althea Hills. fingerpainting by Leonardi, and ling brushes in the hands of Whistler and Sorolla.

October 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What to do when APFS has problems

First Aid in Disk Utility, or running fsck_apfs in Terminal, return warnings or errors on one of your Mac’s volumes. Here’s what to do next.

October 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 11 Bribery, hypocrisy, theft

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Barrators, who traded in public office and bribed courts, hypocrites whose clothes are weighted with lead, and thieves who are stuck in a pit of snakes.

October 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 328

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 328. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Click […]

October 6, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Inside the Unified Log 4: Log entries

The four types of log entry, all the fields they can contain, and those they are likely to include, shown in the order and colour scheme used in LogUI. Censorship and how to disable it, with a signed profile to do so.

October 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

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