From the start of the Eighty Years’ War with Habsburg Spain, through the Union of Utrecht, foundation of the East India Company, tulip mania, and abundant Rembrandts.
Author: hoakley
First decide what you want to ‘clean’: the Data or System volume, or firmware? Then consider the methods of choice to perform that. Explained for Intel and Apple silicon Macs.
Take a flat metal plate and paint on it using gouache or oils, then impress it onto a sheet of paper, and apply soft pastel to bring out the colour. That’s a painted monotype print.
You’re sometimes advised to shut your Mac down, wait a while, and start it up again, instead of restarting it. Are they different, and if so when should you use them?
After the Bible and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the most popular literary source for paintings before 1900, yet hardly anyone knows this epic today. The introduction to a new series.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 344. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Iron, copper, […]
Distinguish between panics, freezes, app crashes, and unresponsive apps, as they have different causes, are investigated differently, and have different solutions.
Invented by Paracelsus, to have an afterlife they must marry a human. But that man must remain faithful to them, or they will die from Ondine’s Curse.
When something has gone wrong, if you don’t know what to look for in the log, nor when it happened, the log is hostile. It also leaves important entries without the user being aware of them. Here are ideas of how those could be improved.
River gods from Rubens, Poussin, Coypel and Boucher, with Naiads from Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse, Henrietta Rae and others.
The Eclectic Light Company 