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I’ve known about Twitter for a long time now, but I haven’t used it too much because very few people I actually know are using it. I think the reason for that is that my friends and family just don’t get Twitter.

Well, there’s a site called Common Craft that has a video called Twitter in Plain English. It does a good job explaining what Twitter is, and why you might want to use it. I’m hoping that this video will entice my friends and family to start using Twitter.

If you’re interested in what I’m up to, you can find my Twitter profile here.

I recently had need to change the permissions of a large number of files and directories. The directories needed permissions of 755, and the files needed 644. Since there were several nested directories, this was going to be a real chore until I figured out you could use the find command to help.

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

The above command looks at all items in the current directory, and changes the permissions of each directory to 755. Use the following to change permissions of files instead of directories:

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

As I wrote in my last post, I got a new 20″ 2.4GHz iMac yesterday.

My old 20″ iMac was starting to get kernel panics, and after days of troubleshooting, I was able to rule out possible software issues. At one point I decided to format and reinstall OS X, and in the middle of that process I got a kernel panic. That’s when I decided to take it in for service (Terra Consultants Ltd. is a great company to deal with).

They ran some diagnostics on it for the day, and told me there were intermittent problems with the logic board. The retail cost of this part is $850, and it’s about $85 for labour to install it. Considering the cost of a new iMac would be about twice that, I couldn’t justify paying ~$1000 to fix a 2 year old Mac.

They had a new iMac in stock there, so I just bought that instead. Nice machine. For now I have both iMacs on my desk, and I connected the two with SynergyKM so that I could control them both with one keyboard and mouse. If I get a kernel panic, it won’t be a big deal now. I’ll probably continue on this way until it dies.

I just picked up a new 20″ iMac at lunch today. The logic board on my old one is causing kernel panics, and I’m told a replacement would be $850 + labour…not happening.

Anyway, I’ll post more detail later.