Martin Geisler Online

I’ve just downgraded my machine to a Matrox G400 instead of a Asus V7700. Strange, but true :-)

This morning my fathers Windows 2000 went crazy. The graphics was garbled, so we tried switching graphics-cards. He got my V7700 and I got his G400. So, now his machine works again, and so does Linux-installation (a very slick Redhat 7.1 Deluxe Workstation).

I really didn’t play all that much Quake after all, so I figured that I didn’t needed all the power of the V7700. But there’s another advantage of having a G400: the image is now much sharper. I run my monitor @ 1600×1200, so it’s important that the card is able to produce a sharp picture, even at that resolution. The V7700 gave me a slightly blurred image, but the G400 is just sharp.

Another nice “feature” of the G400 is the lack of a fan on the card. The V7700 had a fan that made an irritating noise. Now that’s gone too.

At first I thought about buying a G450, but it seams that it also got one of those fans… And with my 21″ monitor, I don’t really need the Dualhead-features of the G450. I once had a G400 with Dualhead, and although it was mighty cool, I think that I can live without it. (For now :-)

Yesterday I spend an hour outside reading about Danish literature… So I’m getting a tan — or perhaps we should call it a tint instead, as I’m mostly pink at the moment :-)

I’ve just been told which exams I’ll have this year — the final year in the gymnasium. Here’s the schedule:

Now, is this good or bad? I can already tell, that it’s going to be hard. We’ve had all four classes for three years so I have to read-up on a lot of things. History is considered to be one of the largest classes, together with Danish, because we’ve read so many pages in the three years.

But, we’ll see how it goes — judging from my grades, it can’t go that bad :-)

It’s really getting warm here in Denmark — we’ve had temperatures above 20°C (70°F) today, so I’ve switched to shorts instead of jeans.

Yesterdays physics-exam went well. I was able to answer all the questions, and when I talked with the others afterward, it sounded like I’ve made the same answers as the rest. So unless we’re all mistaken, I think I scored pretty good. It takes at least a month before we’ll get the answers.

My new printer works beautifully! After I had recompiled my kernel with support for the parallel-port, it just worked. I started by writing echo 'Hello World! > /dev/lp0 — and it worked!

That’s very good I thought, lets see how it handles PostScript… So I tossed one of my physics reports at it. No problem — out came beautiful LaTeX with equations, graphs etc.

So it certainly works. Now I have to setup Cups, so that I have a spooler. I should also be able to share the printer, so that the rest of the family can benefit from the printer :-)