Martin Geisler Online

I’ve just received three free certificates from Brainbench, an online provider of certification in a number of different categories. The three certificates look quite nice — they’re printed on nice thick paper and two of them has a “golden” star with the word “Master” on them :-)

I took a test in PHP, one in Linux Administration (Red Hat) and one in Internet Concepts. You can see my score here. The tests are quite long, and some of the questions are very difficult. When I took the PHP-test, I was asked all sorts of silly questions about functions you use with other databases than MySQL. It would have been nice if I could have indicated, that I only use MySQL.

Gimpster.com is now one year old — I know this because I’ve just received the bill for the next six months :-)

After I’ve made PHP Weather and my PHP Tutorial, I’ve received tons of positive feedback — thanks a lot. Those two projects together with the other things I have here at Gimpster.com have also made it possible for me to serve almost 100,000 pages the first year. Amazing!

Last Monday I finished by big Danish paper on Mersenne primes, or Mersenne primtal as it’s called in Danish.

I made it to my school only ten minutes before the deadline, because it took over an hour to print the darn thing! I had underestimated the printing, because when I printed it during the week, I only printed the important pages, and skipped the title page, the table of contents, the appendix etc. But with all those pages the report is 36 pages long, and since I have to print at “Best” quality on my Deskjet 970Cxi it took a loong time to print… But I made it — with time to spare :-)

I’ve put the paper up in the Danish section of my site, so that you can take a look. You’ll find several different formats to choose from, so everybody should have a chance. But if your browser can’t display the image above, in PNG format, then don’t bother trying the HTML versions. Due to patent problems, all the images are in PNG format.

Since I’m writing my big assignment on Mersenne primes this week, I’m likely to be offline for some time. If I have to attend my Inbox every 30 minutes, I’ll never get any work done, so I’ll probably kill my fetchmail daemon after the system is started.

Yesterday was my birthday — I turned 19. I got some nice presents, like a new chair for my computer and a fancy wall-mountable CD-holder. I also got some money, which I’ve spend on a new quiet power-supply and a CPU cooler. When I bought my Athlon, I also had to buy a new power-supply, a 300W. But that was just a “normal” (read: noisy) one. These new quiet components, have reduced the noise-level significantly around my computer.