[kdewebdev-site] Web Site Development project vision statement

[Andras Mantia]

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Hi,

 I don't even have an idea who is on this list, but I think they all know me 
(at least partially). So, let's share with you some of my "secrets". As you 
already know I'm a programmer, some may say hacker, but I don't call myself 
this way, although I did some hackish things in my life (not on the internet, 
just at home, like finding the password lock in an old game and disabling it 
by using a debugger without having any source code or writing virus removal 
tools for some viruses). I have interest in many things, aside of programming 
I like to climb in the mountains, listen to music, take pictures with my film 
based camera, and I even like reading books (mostly science fiction, but not 
only). I'm not a big movie fan (I usually go to the movie theater once or 
twice a year), but I like to watch movies. 
 I live and was born in Romania, Eastern Europe, more exactly if you look at 
the map of Europe and see the Carpathian mountains, they take a turn in the 
middle of the country, I'm there in that turn, just in the middle of Romania, 
to the western and northern sides of the mountains. This is the area called 
Transylvania, but don't associate with Dracula and vampires, as that one is 
more like marketing. We don't drink blood here. ;-)
 I am part of the Hungarian minority present here, so my mother tongue is 
Hungarian. Of course I can speak in Romanian, English and I even learned 
Russian in the school for 4 years, but I know almost nothing in it, I just 
can read the Russian letters, but do not understand what is written there. As 
I spent 1.5 years in Finland, I have a very little Finnish knowledge, but 
this is getting less and less as time passes and the only thing I have to 
read in Finnish are bank statements and letters from the Finnish 
tax-office. ;-)
 My musical taste is large, but in some areas: rock and metal music. From the 
(generally) silent rock bands like Foreigner, Bon Jovi, through classic hard 
rock bands (Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rainbow), heavy metal (Iron Maiden, 
Helloween) and progressive rock/metal (Dream Theater, Savatage - heh, you 
might even know the Trans Siberian Orchestra and their Christmas Eve as AFAIK 
it was a big success in the US some years ago and they basicly Savatage in 
another form) to some almost extrem music I can listen to everything. I 
usually like music with clean voice, good melodies (both vocal and 
instrumental melodies) and they should generate some emotions in you. In some 
cases the voice can be more extreme, but in this case the music must be very 
good to compensate the lack of melodic voice. One example is a Finnish band 
called Amorphis, on their Elegy album I hardly can notice the note so clean 
voice, as the music is so melodic. Prior albums are not good for me, later 
ones are with completely clean voice, so that album was a transitional one, 
but a very good one. ;-)
I have about 600 cassette tapes and 220 CDs. Outside of rock music, I like 
Mozart very much, but Grieg, Bethowen is also good. I also don't have any 
problems with many pop artists, and I can even enjoy some of them (ABBA is 
the best of them, if I don't look at their video clips). I usually don't like 
and ignore the modern metal(?, sorry Bill ;-)) musics from the US and some 
other genres. But I don't have problems with those who listen to them, that 
music is just doesn't say to me anything. So I really don't want to hurt 
anyone's feelings, and I can accept as well that some don't like the music I 
listen to (my wife is also not a big rock/metal fan, but well, she can live 
with me). Ah, and some of you already know that I have long hair, and it 
turned out that it's even longer than Eric's ponytail. :-)
 Regarding movies, just like in case of books, generally I like science 
fiction. I think Alien and Aliens was a good SF movie, but the recent 
favorite is the Lord Of The Rings. I read the book well before the movie came 
out and at the first sight I didn't like the movie (and I still have problems 
with some parts of it), but it turned to be the most often watched movie here 
at home. My wife also likes it. :-) But as an example, I cannot say that 
Harry Potter was a very good one. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't something I 
thought it's a must to see again.
 Other non-science fiction or fantasy movies I liked the Devil's Advocate, 
Leon, The Amazing life of Amelie Poulan (a French movie), Emir Kusturcia's 
movies (e.g. Underground) and many others I can't remember right now.
 I forgot to tell: I also like driving the car and enjoy motorsports. Prior to 
having a driver's license I played many hours with games like Need For 
Speed. ;-)

> * A Cool thing you've done with technology

This is hard to say as my professional life was quite short. I helped Ericsson 
to have a 3G phone network and now I'm helping the world to have a good free 
web development environment. :-) Prior to it I wrote a game on a ZX Spectrum 
which was fun to play and write (it was in BASIC) and I wrote a program to 
keep track of my musical collection and I still use it, as I didn't found 
anything better for me, yet. It was last time updated somewhere around 1998, 
it has a  DOS and Windows that I can use through wine. Never had time to port 
to Linux. 
 For Bill: I downloaded mythtv but it was so huge, that I just compiled but 
never tried out. 

So that'd be.

Andras

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