Articles like this recent LifeHacker post point out that the recent flash of big-business password leaks not only indicates smarter hackers, but also more ammunition for the hackers since getting their hands on those passwords gives them valuable intell about what patterns most people follow in making their passwords. In other words, the XKCD methods aren’t good enough anymore. To stay more secure, you’ve got to think about two things: password generation, and password storage.

Particularly when coding and you need to make links to files or libraries, or if you use sym links to streamline your file system, it can be very useful to find the Fully Qualified Path (sometimes referred to as FQP) of a file. This command does the trick: readlink -f ./MyFile.txt

KDE is a particular desktop for Linux, and by far my favorite. One of the sorest grievances I have in other desktops, like Ubuntu’s Unity or Gnome, is the absence of such effective workspace management, like the fully customizable workspace grid. In the picture you see my social media/phone interface in one workspace, my general project list and schedule in the next, another workspace dedicated to the artificial intelligence debugging I’m working on with code, debugger, and accessory programs; my active browser for help lookup in another; and the program manual for said project in yet another work space.

Every programmer knows that each fix usually brings more problems than it corrects, especially if the project is poorly designed. Thanks to the Computer Science department at BYU for this one.