Archive of the day July 1, 2008

Change the permissions of a directory recursively

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Public tip here a very, very few words to a person who asked me how we can recursively change the permissions of the entire contents of a directory in a correct and - most importantly - painless. Given that we want to assign permissions to files and directories 644 755 - as always should be done - just move to that directory and run the following commands:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755

Others do not need ...

From now on Windows XP is no longer for sale

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For those who do my own work is not yet clear whether it is time to rejoice, despair, or stand idly by in the hope that the strong pressure coming from the bottom to do in some way to step back to headquarters in Redmond. It is now officially off the market Windows XP, at least in its stand-alone version.

This event has two main consequences on the work of a consultant: more gains arising from forced migration to the "new" operating system and a huge increase in the volume of information to be faced with misfortune. Frankly, I have a feeling that the budget will be significantly disadvantageous, we'll see.

For the moment all my experience with Vista turned out to be strongly negative. Often my clients have been asking the same downgrade due to frequent blocks, first incompatibility - Windows XP - and associated costs were not significant due to the updating of professional software.

We see, then. In any case, the questionable attitude of Microsoft, which has beautifully decided to ignore the demands of millions of customers who would like to maintain a status quo achieved only after years of updates and service packs

I am sure that some of them will leave you convinced to try Linux at last ....