Martin Geisler Online

If you’re using Debian and want to use the great (but somewhat slow) Mozilla, then make sure that you include this line in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./

There you’ll find the latest debs of Mozilla. I’ve searched for such debs for a long time, as the debs in the mainstream Debian repository wasn’t updated beyond M18. I’m now using 0.8 which is faster and better that M18. The new version fixes a lot of annoying bugs, like not being able to handle anchor-tags and SSL. The latter meant that I had to install Netscape 4.76 to be able to log in to SourceForge and manage PHP Weather. Now I can just use Mozilla.

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 decided to move PHP Weather to SourceForge. You can find it here. This should give us a lot of nice features. One of the best features is the CVS repository. By using CVS, you can ensure that you’re always up-to-date with the latest development — you no longer has to wait until I release a new tarball.

I’ve set up two maillinglists: PHPWeather-devel and PHPWeather-checkins, which you should use instead of the old list here at gimpster.com. The first list is for discussions and questions. When something is committed to CVS a mail is sent to the second list. Go to this page to subscribe.

People who would like to have write-access to the CVS repository should send their SourceForge usernames to me, together with an explanation.

I’ll update phpweather.sourceforge.net just as soon as I get the time.

The newest beta of PHP Weather is out, take a look here. It fixes some small problems with some missing strings.