Tyler Vann-Campbell's Weblog

In case you haven’t heard the news, thanks to the fabulous and speedy work of Eric Pierce, my Bloxsom site is back up.

I think I’m going to stick with this though, so I don’t have to spend all my time crafting my entries with a bunch of HTML formatting.

For those of you wondering, Gnome 2.12 is due out September 7′th. It comes bearing a ton of new features, some tighter Nautilus/Gstreamer integration and a new software package called evince that lets you preview PDF files from file browsers.

Hal and D-BUS are coming along as well, and even more “it just works” stylings of [...]

Reading through the Gaim source code today, I spotted this gem in the util.c file, thought I’d share it with the world.

/*

* This function is long and beautiful, like my–um, yeah. Anyway,

* it includes lots of error checking so as we don’t overwrite

* people’s settings if there is a problem writing the [...]

After putting another hour and change on the new Trek, I’ve spent some time tinkering with Beagle and F-Spot. I think that even if you completely ignore the turnaround that Novell has given to SLES, the Novell Linux Desktop is shaping up to be a pretty nice package of software.

If only their stock agreed [...]

For those who weren’t readers of the previous incarnation of this blog, I’ll bring you up to speed. I’ve been doing it for about three years using various different CMS applications. During the recent server migration, I’ve found myself unable to get cgiwrap working again, thus my blog is high, dry, and inaccessible.

First [...]