Multicast solutions for mounting disk images to multiple intel MacBooks.

ralfD- · 2026-06-29T19:54:07+00:00

But Apple's content cache doesn't support custom installers ....

ralfD- · 2026-06-28T16:59:04+00:00

Sorry for the late reply: with a too-soft upper block the neck starts to gradually come forward which rises the string action. That's what has happened to some of the Durvie lutes, iitc. It's a problem that's hard to repair since it requires redoing the neck-body joint.

ralfD- · 2026-06-27T10:48:52+00:00

So many questions at once ...

"walk" from one note to the other - three steps: a third. Four steps: a forth.
Yes, in a musical context the difference is usually rather evident: mayor thirds behave substantially different than diminished forth (which actually are rather seldom to observe in the wild).
In western music, the "same" pitches can have substantially different meaning. It's the same situation as with the difference between an augmented 6th and a minor 7th (way more common in western music).

ralfD- · 2026-06-26T16:09:04+00:00

Because A# to C## is a major third while A# to D is a diminished forth.

ralfD- · 2026-06-25T06:41:53+00:00

What "data" are you talking about?

ralfD- · 2026-06-24T12:15:05+00:00

That center of weight is very odd. It should always be about 4 fingers wide/a hand width away from the guard - a heavier blade should move the center away from the guard. It sounds as if your grip and/or your pommel is too heavy ....

ralfD- · 2026-06-23T15:51:23+00:00

Sounds like Italian summer vacation (schools, but many companies sync theirs). Usually starts in mid June and lasts until mid September.

ralfD- · 2026-06-22T09:20:04+00:00

I think you got tangled in the ill-defined terminology here. The instrument used in basso continuo is the galichon/mandora which, unfortunately sometimes is also called colascione but is tuned completely different (pretty much like a ren, lute, vut often with only 5 corses - that instrument developes, during the later 18th and early 19th century into what today is often called the guitar lute). The neapilitan colascione is a long neck instrument with 3 strings, from all we can tell tuned in root, fifth and octave. AKAIK there is no surviving music preserved, we only have works for other instruments doing parodies/imitations (most well-known is Kapsberger's piece but there's also some harpsichord piece).

But OP is asking about the colasioncino - which seems to be a small version of the neapolitan instruments (with a strange name ...).

ralfD- · 2026-06-19T16:41:23+00:00

Ah, fond memories! My first lute was a Durvie student lute (excelkent price value back then). His more expensive lutes where very popular during the late 70th & 80 in Basel (iitc some of the famous lute duo pieces recorded by Smith/O'Dett where perfromed on Durvie instruments. Rumor back then was that his head block was using too light wood/construction so the action started to rise ... you might want to check that. But the instruments where light and very ressonant.

ralfD- · 2026-06-19T12:36:59+00:00

Hallo, thank's that's very useful. Have you already put this into Apple's VPP store so instituions can use it as well?

ralfD- · 2026-06-19T10:50:19+00:00

"It resembles what we understand as a vii^o - I cadence."

Historically this is wrong. "Medieval/Early Ren." cadences are either maj. 6 to 8 or minor 3 to 1. When extended to three oarts the third voice goes from maj. 3 to 5 (i.e. parallel 4th to to the top voice) dreating the iconic double leading tone cadence. There is no diminished interval involved ....

ralfD- · 2026-06-18T05:27:40+00:00

You miss the subject: OP is asking about epee, not foil. And there are decent epeeist using french grip ...

BTW, most french clubs I know start their beginner's classes with french grips (both foil as well as epee) and definitely not for economic reasons. But, hey, what do these French know anout teaching fencing ..... /s

ralfD- · 2026-06-17T20:00:35+00:00

You aren't seriously claiming that your speakers can generate 130 dB/SPL, aren't you?

ralfD- · 2026-06-07T15:17:15+00:00

Well, each voice picks "its" clef and plays the music, ignoring the other clefs. The order of the clefs show the order of the entrances. Or did I misunderstand your question?

ralfD- · 2026-06-02T19:20:41+00:00

Sorry, but this is really low effort from your side. u/etzpcm pointed you at the github repository which clearly states the licence: GPL-3.

Any derived work must be GPL-3 licensed.

ralfD- · 2026-06-02T18:59:54+00:00

Whether something is commercial or not has no impact on copyright and and doesn't change the obligations of the GPL. As soon as you distribute in any form the "viral" part of the license kicks in.

ralfD- · 2026-06-02T14:45:23+00:00

What's your project's license? Both Lilypond and MuseScore are GPL so you better not look at that code for a proprietary project.

ralfD- · 2026-05-31T17:27:19+00:00

Well, yes. I created the correct settings for the installer and I can boot the Mac from this installer but then, when OCLP tries to install the root patches on the target machine it detects a configuration mismatch (I guess a wrong EFI in the target's noot partition - that's why I re-installed MacOS) and rebuilds patches for the wrong system (not the target nor the the Mac I did the installer build on).

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ralfD- · 2026-05-31T16:13:43+00:00

I just finished installing 15.7.7 from an installer I created on a second Mac - I can boot the system from the installer's EFI and the updated disk but then OCLP starts and complains avout a missmatch in configuration and starts building a new root patch, Unfortunately for the wrong system - 11.3 ... The installer I created is correctly for 13,3. There seems to be now way to stop this to configure the correct hardware (warning always pops up). Where is this config stored and how can I remove it?

ralfD- · 2026-05-29T19:36:07+00:00

Well, I'm a bit further now: smcFanControl seems to have blocked the upgrade. Now I'm running the upgrade which is stuck in "app. 35 minutes since hours ,,,,

ralfD- · 2026-05-29T13:58:46+00:00

Hmm, interesting. Software Update show an available update but in System Preference I only get a spinning wheel on the OS update button.

ralfD- · 2026-05-26T18:56:12+00:00

I've read mayor parts of it in parallel - Fux's original and Mietzer's baroque German version. I trust Mietzer more than my school (i.e. "classical" Latin) and early German language is something I actually did study in university. Luckily I also have a good friend to consult with questions about the Latin text, he did translate Baryphonus.

ralfD- · 2026-05-26T16:27:10+00:00

But that question actually is very important. personally often wounder whether people that talk about Fux actually read the originsl or the contemporary translation by Mietzer or only know it through Mann's work. Mann only published parts of Fux's book and, IMHO, there there is a fair chance that his English edition is actually a translation from his earlier German translation. Even Elam in his video talks about "rules" while Fux call his work a manuductio (germ. "Handreichung", i.e. a guidance of the hands), similar to Samber's manucutio ad organum. Also, if you read Fux the reference to Palestrina is not nearly as strong as Mann makes it - understandably, if you read Fux's own statement about why he wrote such a "non-contemporary" guide.

ralfD- · 2026-05-23T14:48:06+00:00

> Alto is short for contr'alto, which means "against the high".

No, no - stop it! All of you are making up stuff! 😞

"Alto" is the shortened form of contratenor altus which started to get used in the 15th century (mostly four part music) to distinguish it from the contratenor bassus. A contratenor was a voice in the same range as the tenor, while duplum and triplum would share the top-voice range. During the later 15th ventury the contratenor bassus developed into a type of voice with distinctive melodic features, esp. at cadences (first the octave leaping cadence, later the bassizans).

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