Biometrics Software is not Working with PGP Desktop

That's the title of a Symantec KB article. It's true.  I got the biometrics software from Broadcom, which is supplied by Dell for their fingerprint reader on Latitude E6230.  Following the instructions here after a system rebuild due to a bad BSOD, I was able to get the biometrics set up and working (seemingly), or so I thought.  Then it broke down.  What happened was, when a fingerprint was scanned correctly, the fingerprint icon just disappeared from the login screen without letting me in.  It's almost hilarious.  So, having a full-disk encryption for now prevents me from using fingerprint as authentication. 

What's worth mentioning is that, before I had the fingerprint setup working, then had full-disk encryption retrofitted in, the fingerprint setup stayed working.  This time around encryption is in first, and they could no longer work together.

Recovering Force.com workspaces: Eclipse vs Sublime Text

My PC's OS had to be reinstalled recently, so I had to get my IDE in order before starting to work again on Force.com.  Eclipse has always been pretty easy - both my binary and workspaces were covered by Box Sync, so it took almost no effort.  Once everything was sync'd back, I could simply run Eclipse and point it to the right workspace.

MavensMate on Sublime wasn't nearly as easy.  First I had to reinstall Sublime (3) + MavensMate (4.0.5), which wasn't too bad.  After that I edited MM's setting to use the correct workspace, which got all my projects back.  However, none of them actually worked anymore.  The context menus were just gone.  Not wanting to spend time on figuring out what's wrong, I just went ahead recreate the projects.  No a huge deal, but kinda annoying.