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 :-)

My printer didn’t arrive yesterday, so I’ll have to wait until Monday.

I don’t really have that much time this weekend anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. Today I’ll pickup my Grandma from Mols — it’s a 115 kilometer (72 miles) drive, both ways. She is coming to Aalborg because of Kristoffers (my littlebrother) confirmation. The rest of the family is also coming by train from Funen.

Today I’ve received a mail from www.itbutikken.dk that said that they’ve sent my printer! If I’m really lucky, it’ll arrive today — but if it doesn’t, it should arrive on Monday.

www.itbutikken.dk has a really great Track & Trace-system where you can get up-to-the-minute information about your order. The page is update when they confirm the order, when they send the items etc…

So it seams that I get a chance to print at least one of my physics reports using the printer, assuming that I can get it to work properly :-)

Yes I know — I should update this page more often. But I’ve just been busy lately… So let me just give you an update on what I’ve been up to:

Making Physics reports

Because we’re a little behind schedule in physics, we’ve had to make a report every week for the last six weeks. That’s simply too much… But now I’ve finally managed to write most of them — one more and I’m all done!

The problem is, that we’re experimenting with the same stuff that we did last year: we’ve made two reports about how radioactive elements behave… It pretty boring stuff, and because there’s so many questions, you can’t really just finish it quickly.

Sort-project

I’ve been fooling around with a lot of pointers lately — we’re writing a program that implements several different algorithms for sorting a linked list. It a project we’re making in our computer-science class, by “we” I mean: Cookie, Ole and Tais.

I’ve written something that resembles a Quicksort, but so far it can only be called a semi-slow-Quicksort :-) It’s slower that a Mergesort Ole has written, but at least it’s quicker that a Treesort I’ve made…

Hopefully we’ll be able to optimize it a bit before the project it finished.

Waiting for my EPL-5800PS

First I was told by www.itbutikken.dk that my printer would arrive on April the 25th. But it didn’t show up — now they say that it’ll be here on May the 10th. I really hope that they’re correct this time.

It’s a shame that it won’t make it before I’ve finished all my physics reports — I’m can’t wait to print my beautiful reports written in LaTeX with a 1200 DPI printer :-)

I’ll try to make another update soon — but my first written exam is on May the 10th, so don’t expect too much activity up to that “event”.

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve made a CVS-release of PHP Weather. This means that you can try out the latest code, even if you don’t have a machine with CVS installed.

I’ve been quite busy lately, and since my exams starts next month, I’ll have lots of things to do… But luckily, people are beginning to join the project at SourceForge and I hope we’ll be able to make a nice little webpage at http://phpweather.sourceforge.net.