Geek Tales

Stories of a semi-technical nature, or stuff that isn't so interesting to the general audience

Hash your passwords

Plain-text passwords
Once of the easiest ways *not* 
to leak out somebody's password is to not store it. 
This is a common practice where only a value that can validate your password is stored. This value, often called a "hash" cannot be reversed in order to learn the original password.

Komodo Edit FTW: Javascript, Perl, and much more!

For quite awhile now, I've been trying to track down a decent editor for Perl code was multi-platform or would at least run in Linux.
After having looked around quite a bit, my co-worker tweaked me to the FOSS "Komodo Edit" package.

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