Accessing this blog – news feeds and pages
Several people have asked me recently how they can get more specific news feeds for this blog, and can access other information here more readily. With over 5,000 articles available, and more than 70...
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Wedding Paintings 3: Others
In the first article in this series, I looked at three famous and disastrous weddings from classical mythology; the second looked at others drawn from literary sources; this third and final article...
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File Integrity 9 : How error-correcting codes work
If we want to protect important documents from being corrupted or lost, it’s no good just knowing whether any particular copy of a file has been corrupted. You need some means of recovering or...
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Orlando Furioso: Plot summary and best paintings 1
In this and the next article, I summarise the multiple interwoven plots of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, which starts its story at the end of Orlando in Love, by Matteo Maria Boiardo. Links are to the...
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Using Finder Item Groups
If you have many items in a folder, navigating them in the Finder can get time-consuming. Recent versions of macOS have added an option to organise the contents of Finder’s windows not just as...
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Orlando Furioso: Plot summary and best paintings 2
At the end of the first of these two plot summaries of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Marfisa and the others had escaped from the land ruled by women to Marseilles, leaving Astolfo wondering where they’d...
View ArticleLooking for a long read and fine art? Eight classic books with paintings
How can you read a painting which refers to myth or literary narrative without being familiar with the story or book? Over the last four years or so I have collected thousands of images of paintings...
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File Integrity 10 : Effects of length of corruption on images and ECC recovery
Although I never intended my tests of the effects of file corruption to be models of any particular type or mechanism, many of you have wondered what differences there are between its single-byte...
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Goddesses of the Week: The Fates
Among the most important of the children of Nyx, the goddess of the night, are three daughters, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, known collectively as the Moirai in Greek, or the Fatae (Fates) or Parcae...
View ArticleApple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT
Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to 2120, dated 30 April 2020, and to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.59, also...
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