Martin Geisler Online

I’ve made my Eterms transparent, so they show the background through. But the background that the Eterms show is the one set by enlightenment, and that’s not visible thanks to efm that covers the desktop.

So, what is there to do? Simple, you just set the background in enlightenment to the same as the one in efm — problem solved.

First you’ll need the theme for Eterm, put this in your $HOME/.Eterm/themes/Eterm. Now your Eterms should start up transparent.

The MySQL-database is up and running again. This means that my Danish history-project “Kongemagtens betydning i vikingetiden“ works again. It depended on the database, where I kept the information about the images. The old database was wiped out when I swiched to the new server — it’s now restored from my local copy.

I’ve now made the source-code of all my pages available. Just click on the link at the bottom of the pages. That will take you to a page where you can see the source — fully color-coded thanks to PHP!

I’ve made the source public, because I feel that the best way to learn something new, like PHP, is to see what others have done. So now you can have a look at how I’ve done things and hopefully learn something. On the other hand, if you happen to be a real PHP-guru, then don’t hesitate to point out where I’ve made mistakes, and how I’ve should have done something. I’m still learning.

The stats-pages are becoming somewhat outdated. On the new server I can’t just download the log-file, it’s rotated everyday to generate some statistics that only I can see. That’s not exactly what I wanted, but because the administrator of the server is on holiday I can’t get an answer before in the middle of next week.

I’ve just picked up Diablo II in the middle of the night! They started the sale at 00:01 — and there were people waiting. It’s my little brother, Kristoffer, who bought the game, but I’ll properly also play it a little :-)

Kristoffer is currently working on the install — he took a full install of 1550 MiB(!) There’s three CD’s: one for the installation, one for the game and one for the cinematics. With a full installation all the necessary files are copied to the computer. What a luck, that we have just bought a 20,5 GB disk :-)

Now I’ll go and see how it goes — I plan to give you a full report on the gameplay later!