Martin Geisler Online

We finally got ourselves a DVD-player today. So now we can watch DVDs on the TV. After I got my 21″ monitor, it has been nice to watch DVDs on the computer, but when you play the sound through a real set of speakers, and sit in a comftable couch, the whole experience just gets better.

Now I only need some more DVDs… :-)

I case you didn’t notice, gimpster.com had a kind of anniversary today. As you can see on my statistics-pages, my domain has had over 100,000 requests in total! This is the total number of requests — so when you entered this page you made about 8 requests to the server, one for each image on the page, and one for the page it self.

If you only count page-requests, then I’ve had about 25,000 of those.

You can now get access the current weather from any where in the world with WAP! Just point your WAP-browser on your mobile phone to [http:/www.gimpster.com/wap/](#).

I’ve adjusted the pretty_print_metar() function, so it can be used in WAP-pages. This means that it only shows the most important informations without all the text. The small displays on mobile phones limit the amount of information you can present at any given time, so it has to be compact.

Please be aware, that this is my very first attempt at WAP, and that the page therefore isn’t finished. But please send me your suggestions — the many good ideas you’ve already send me regarding PHP Weather, has improved it tremendously.

At the ANP netparty last weekend, I saw a GeForce 256 in action. And it was easy to see how powerful it is. On a Pentium III 800 MHz it ran games at 1600×1200 with maximum detail levels!

So I decided that I need a GeForce in preparation for the next party. Since the GeForce2 Ultra has yet to arrive in Denmark (and considering that it will be quite expensive), I choose a V7700 Deluxe from Asus.

Another exciting thing about these GeForce cards, it that NVIDIA is making Linux drivers! This means that I’ll be able to get accelerated OpenGL, which will be used intensively in upcoming versions of Enlightenment. As you can see on my screenshots-page, I can only make 15-20 FPS even with my new Athlon. On the Enlightenment-maillinglist there have been reports of frame rates of 100 FPS. So it will be exciting to see how my system compare to that.

Tonight we’re having a netparty at Aalborghus. People are shooting each other to pieces in games like Half-Life Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament.

I’ve been showing off Linux with Enlightenment and EFM — after I upgraded my computer, things look more beautiful than ever. 900 MHz makes life sweet :-)