Category Archives: Computers

Be it a discussion of software or hardware; it will be under here.

Upgrade Begins!

I've been running Kubuntu 6.06 LTS as my main OS on my home PC since it was released. Along the way, I've upgraded to KDE 3.5.5 and Amarok 1.4.3 and installed a variety of packages from unofficial sources. When I Edgy 6.10 was first released I looked into upgrading, but held off. [...]

Linux CLI Tip

Sometimes when you're staring the bash prompt, you want to be able to see if a specific program is currently running. There are a couple of ways to do this; generally I run:
ps -ef | grep ProgramName
However I once saw a tip for doing something similar with top but I lost the link and [...]

Goodbye Dave

Mr. Munroe swings and hits my funny bone once again. Dang I love reading xkcd. *grin*

WordPress Plugins: PHPInfo and PluginsUsedPlugin

I've been working on some stuff behind the scenes here at CoffeeBear.net with the intention of eventually upgrading the site's backend and developing a new theme for the site. In the process of doing all this behind the scenes works, I've been trying out new plugins and wanted a quick way to check my [...]

Miranda IM

At my office we are required to be on an IM client for the entire work day. This is partly due to the company having multiple offices and partly due to some people working from home. In any case I did not much care for the client they had installed for me (Trillian [...]

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