Martin Geisler Online

More exams are coming up. Tomorrow I have to sit and write a Danish essay. There has been put five hours aside for the task, but I doesn’t expect it take that long.

The only thing that could be a problem, would be if my computer crash in the middle of everything :-( I’m writing on my fathers notebook, a fine HP Omnibook 4150, but there is only installed Win98 SE and Word on it.

But, as this is just a Danish essay, I wont have to insert any of those nasty Equation Editor-objects. In my experience — and I have written many reports for both physics and chemistry in Word — those objects seem to crash Word every time you insert more that about 10 or so. It’s sad, but true.

Today I’m having my first exam this year. Todays test isn’t really an exam, it is just training for the real thing next year. The subject is mathematics, so I’ll properly do fine.

The only “real” exam this year is in German :-( I would have liked it better if it had been geography instead.

I’ve finally solved the problems with the database — I’ve stopped using it for the news. I had all kinds of problems when I tried to save text into the database, that contained a '. The database thought that it was the end of the string, so I had to escape all the 's.

But then I found out that my local server at home, and the server at Netsite differed. My server couldn’t handle the 's, while the other coped with them fine. So far I’ve been able to test my pages at home, and then upload them — if there were a difference, I would have to build extra tests into my scripts… Thats not a good thing :-)

But now the news lies in normal text-files, made by Emacs. That is another good thing about this new way of storing the news: I don’t have to sit and type them in, in Netscape.

I’ve ordered a new monitor from Philips. This 21″ monitor should be one of the best on the market, and I’m sure that it will be a big difference from my current 17″ setup.

Now, if I could just get my hand on a G200 graphicscard from Matrox… Then I could use Xinerama in XFree86 4.0 — from what I have heard, it sounds to like it is very cool.

I thinks that I’ve finally managed to get rid of some stupid errors that occured when trying to save some text into the database with special charecters like ' (single quote) in it.