Martin Geisler Online

I think I’ve found the perfect printer for Linux. It’s the Epson EPL-5800PS, which have all the features I want:

• Adobe® PostScript®3™. This is the most important feature. I wanted to be able to print to it directly — and not through Ghostscript or some other filter. I use LaTeX for all my writing and it’s easy to convert the DVI-files produced by LaTeX into Postscript files.

• True 1200 DPI output. As laser printers get better and better, I had decided that I wanted to go for 1200 DPI, if that was possible for a reasonable price. And indeed it was :-)

• Lots of RAM — 144 MiB! All the other printer I’ve seen have between 8 and 16 MiB of RAM. You can get 32 MiB if you want to pay about 3,500$, but that’s ridiculous! 256 MiB PC133 RAM costs about 100$ today, so why does it have to be so expensive when you have to use it in a printer?

  This printer have 144 MiB of RAM (!) and it only costs about 700$. I don’t know how that’s possible, but it sure looks like a good deal.

  I don’t really know how much RAM I’ll need. I figure that 32 MiB ought to be enough, since that’s what the other expensive printers got. So 144 MiB should be more than enough, right?

If some of you have any experience with this printer, or have a good tip abot another good printer, then please let me know ASAP! If I don’t find any bad info about it, I’ll probably order it very soon! It looks like I’ll have to wait a couple of weeks before I can get it though :-(

Today’s my mothers birthday — Happy Birthday Mom :-) This means that we’ll be dining out tonight at a nice Greek restaurant — great stuff!

On a more computer-related note, my little-brother has become his own computer. It’s his present for his confirmation, but since it’s already arrived, we thought that we might as well build it. It’s a 1000 MHz AMD Athlon with a Asus V7700 and 256 MB of RAM.

This means that we now have 4 workstations, a server, a laptop and a P133 that my father uses to for testing purposes. We have a total of 3.883 GHz and 1.216 GB RAM and well over 100 GB of harddisk space. Pretty nifty IMHO ;-)

I’ve just finished 13 handwritten pages of math — that’s the amount of work we have to make every week in preparation of our exams. I usually like doing these math assignments, but my handwriting is rather poor, so my hands start to ache after the first few pages :-)

Oh well — I just wanted to share it with someone…

I’ve been sick the last few days… It all started the night between Saturday and Sunday. I woke up every hour that night, and had to rush to the bathroom… (I’ll leave the rest of the details out :-)

Sunday was also awful, Monday was much better — I could actually eat something without it being “rejected” right away. I’m really tired today, Tuesday, but apart from that I’m fine ;-)

(And to make things even worse, then the weather has turned bad, too. It’s cold and it rains — basically just different shades of gray.)