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File Integrity 10 : Effects of length of corruption on images and ECC recovery

What difference does it make when a file has a block of 512 bytes corrupted instead of just a single byte? Results from image formats and recovery using ECC.

April 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Looking for a long read and fine art? Eight classic books with paintings

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From Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Goethe’s Faust, here are eight classic works of literature accompanied by superb paintings and illustrations. All free.

April 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Orlando Furioso: Plot summary and best paintings 2

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Orlando discovers that Angelica has already married, and goes mad. Paintings by Delacroix, Böcklin, frescoes and Doré’s prints.

April 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Using Finder Item Groups

Have you tried arranging items in the Finder using Groups? Detailed insights into what this does, and how it works with apps.

April 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

Orlando Furioso: Plot summary and best paintings 1

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Summary of the plot in the first half of Ariosto’s epic, with links to detailed accounts, and paintings by Delacroix, Rubens, Böcklin, Ingres and others.

April 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

File Integrity 9 : How error-correcting codes work

How can you squeeze recovery data into smaller storage space than you’d need for a second copy of a file? Using codes, explained here.

April 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

Wedding Paintings 3: Others

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Some personal, even intimate wedding paintings, from Rubens, Hans Gude, William Frith, and two Naturalists. And they all lived happily ever after.

April 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Accessing this blog – news feeds and pages

Details of how to get different news feeds from each part of this blog, and how to find information from its over 5,000 articles.

April 27, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 44

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 44. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Display […]

April 27, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Sparse bundles: what they are and how to work around their bugs

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An efficient means of storage with many uses, but riddled with bugs and shortcomings. Explains how to compact and resize them, and more.

April 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

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