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[Updated: changed the command slightly and added stuff about directories]
For my own reference, this is one way to change every file in the current directory (and below) to 644 permissions:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644
And to change all directories in the current directory (and below) to 755 permissions:
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755
And to delete all files in the current directory (and below) older than (say) 5 days:
find . -mtime +5 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
And to delete all empty directories in the current directory (and below):
find . -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir
We bought these Espia office chairs in white. We had no chance to try them out before hand, but took a chance on them anyway. And it turned out okay! They look pretty good I think, and they are quite comfortable. Maybe not quite Aeron level adjustable, but they're only $250. It's really hard to find anything that cheap so I'm giving these my thumbs up.
Motorola to bet on Android. If you've ever used a Razr I think you'll agree that farming out the UI and system software doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Here's a great guide to CSS design for people who aren't, and don't want to be, web designers. Very well done. Wow.
Brain works best at age 39. Oh no! Only a few months left!
Of course, as one slashdot comment points out:
... they base their result on a sample of 72 persons within an age range from 23 to 80.Still it's funny because I was talking about something similar last night. Must finish my project soon...
Science at its best.
Jobs made an unusual appearance on Apple's quarterly earnings report conference call yesterday. Here's part of what he said about the phenomenal iPhone sales numbers:
I would like to now highlight two remarkable milestones resulting from iPhone’s outstanding performance last quarter. The first is that Apple beat RIM. In their most recent quarter, Research in Motion, or RIM, reported selling 6.1 million BlackBerry devices. Compared to our most recent quarter sales of 6.9 million iPhones, Apple outsold RIM last quarter and this is a milestone for us. RIM is a good company that makes good products and so it is surprising that after only 15 months in the market, we could outsell them in any quarter.Although they've made a few decisions I personally disagree with (about openness to 3rd party developers mainly,) it's hard to argue with the success. When Jobs initially said the goal was to sell 10 million iPhones this year a lot of people thought he was insane. But they sold 6.9 million just last quarter alone. Pretty impressive.
But even more remarkable is this — measured by revenues, Apple has become the world’s third-largest mobile phone supplier. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s true — as measured in revenues, not units, Apple has become the third largest mobile phone supplier. Let’s look at the ranking — Nokia is clearly number one at 12.7 billion; Samsung number two at 5.9 billion; Apple is number three at 4.6 billion; Sony Ericsson, number four at 4.2; LG, number five at 3.4 billion; Motorola, number six at 3.2; and RIM number seven at 2.1. Pretty amazing.
New Apple notebooks due out later today. For sure the Pro, and maybe the regular MacBook too. I really need to upgrade, although my super old 867 Mhz Titanium PowerBook continues to work flawlessly despite the incredible amount of use it has seen. Just an amazing product. But software continues to require more and more power, and this means it has gotten - relatively - slower and slower over time.
One interesting note on the new machines - Displayport connectors. You out there Mark? Any advantages here?
Video of a talk Brian Cox gave at TED on the Large Hadron Collider. Fairly understandable given the subject matter.
Funny (because it's true) article about problems with CSS. I agree with all 10 points, but this afterthought really hits home for me:
Oh and while I'm complaining, can someone make an HTML form file upload capability that doesn't look like it escaped from a Borland Turbo Jaquard Loom application circa 1645?