Martin Geisler Online

I’ve been moving stuff from my old website at gimpster.com here to mgeisler.net. All the pages and posts from the old WordPress installation has been moved, as have the stuff available under /images, /downloads, and /danish.

In a little while I’ll change gimpster.com so that it redirects people to mgeisler.net automatically. I’ll probably use a page asking people to update their links first, and then later start sending out 301 Moved Permanently headers.

This is too funny: Everything you need to get your release out.

I’ve been looking for a hosting provider that would give me PHP5 at a decent price. NETsite have already upgraded to PHP5, but they’re somewhat expensive, demanding 111 DKK (about 15€) a month. There are plenty of other Danish hosting providers that will give me much more space for far less money.

Finding someone who can provide PHP5 is rather difficult. Neither FastTech, Webdomain, freepaq, NeedHost, nor Dkx can provide a PHP5 solution… At Powerhosting I could buy my own server and then get PHP5 on it, but it would be more expensive than staying with NETsite.

At ComSupport Gruppen they are waiting for official Debian of PHP5 — but those packages have been stalled for over six months now… It’s a bit unclear why Debian hasn’t got any PHP5 packages by now, especially since Piotr Roszatycki uploaded them a couple of months ago. But apparently they weren’t acceptable to the ftpmasters. But instead of working on getting the packages acceptable things just stopped :-( I think that’s rather sad… Debian is about to release Sarge, and having PHP5 in it would be a nice plus, especially if it would mean that people would upgrade to it.

As many of you will know, then I have been moving things around at my site — one of the big changes is that I no longer run a WikiWikiWeb here. So if you came to this page following a link to some page named /wiki/... then I’m sorry, those pages are no more.

The most important of the old pages (such as the one for [PHP Shell][] and my old news) have been moved to new locations, and redirections has been implemented for those pages.

Perhaps you could leave a comment below explaining what you wanted to see coming here? And also, please go back to the page you came from and fix the broken link. Thanks!

Today I tried to print some of the slides and papers that I need to read for the courses at the ETH. Compared to the printing at DAIMI I find printing here at the ETH very slow.

The rule seems to be that you submit your print job to the printer via the VPP system (a nifty abbriviation standing for both “Versatile Printers and Plotters” and “Verteilte Printer und Plotter”) and then you wait… and wait… and then perhaps half an hour later you will be able to pickup the result of your waiting: your document printed on slightly gray recycled paper.

I don’t really mind the paper that much — we don’t pay for it, so it’s okay that it’s not pure white — but the amount of time one has to wait is a bit too much. Maybe it’s just because of bad memory, but when I think back to how it was at DAIMI, then I believe things went faster there.

Another slightly annoying thing about this VPP system is, that I haven’t yet figured out how to print from the Linux and Solaris systems they have installed here at the ETH. At DAIMI it was as easy as lpr -P stibitz-115 file.ps but as far as I’ve understood the VPP system then it isn’t that easy. But at least I can print from Windows in the mean time…

Oh! — my two print jobs have finished: 22 minutes for the first and 27 minuttes for the second job.