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Last Week on My Mac: No normal user

Why does almost every Mac user use their system in an admin role? Shouldn’t macOS encourage us to be ‘normal’ users?

April 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Painting the Impossible: Touch

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Coming in several modalities, touch is taken for granted, and least used in the arts. Paintings of and about touch are spectacular and ingenious, but there is ample scope for more.

April 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Was that a crash, freeze, panic, or spinning beachball? A diagnostic guide

Can you tell the difference? What is the significance of each, and do you know what to do about them? An introductory guide.

April 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Mother of the Muses: Mnemosyne

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She gets but a single line in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and has been painted only rarely, and then usually in a supporting role.

April 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Encoding conversion without tears

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Factoring the code better to separate reading and writing the underlying data, and converting that for display.

April 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra’s log is now locked away from normal users

In an undocumented change, 10.12.4 prevents any access to reading Sierra’s log when in normal user mode – it requires admin mode.

April 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Easter in Paintings: From Gethsemane to the Tomb

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A selection of paintings by Memling, Bosch, Blake, Tissot, Corinth, and others to mark Easter.

April 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 5 1914-1928

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As interest in his art was declining, he painted some of his finest narrative and mythological narratives. An original and talented artist who deserves to be better-known.

April 13, 2017 General, Painting

Introducing Rosettavert: first beta-release of a text encoding conversion tool

Do you want to convert files using non-Unicode text to modern format? Or between the 144 different encodings supported by iconv? Here’s a tool to make that easy.

April 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Kernel panics, and how to know when they occur

From 10.8 onwards, you will not see the classic grey display, but your Mac will spontaneously restart or shut down. Here are the details, and what to do next.

April 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

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