In a case-sensitive system like Linux, I prefer naming my directories with all lowercase and underscores. This is kind of difficult when the default user directories are all uppercase (Documents, Pictures, etc.). Here’s a quick tutorial on how to change…

For a long time my favorite Terminal program has been Guake. It is “a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment.” It is always available and hidden when not in use. Simply press a button and it pops out from top…

Last week, while going through and changing passwords because of Heartbleed, I started to think about security and what of mine could be affected. First thing that came to mind was the server running in my room, which hosts a website and…

This week has been a lot about making jewelry and a little about coding. Even still, I’ve found some great links for learning Python that I’d like to share. Robot Game – This is a really fun way to practice…

There is a wonderful command on UNIX systems to return the width of the current terminal. Enter  tput cols and see for yourself! Tput can actually provide a lot of different info by querying the terminfo database. Really all I’ve needed though is…