[kdewebdev-site] Web Site Development project vision statement

[Eric Laffoon]

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On Monday 01 March 2004 8:13 am, Bill Chmura wrote:
> My bad, it was pending moderation...
>
> Transylvania eh?  Duh, I know there is no such thing as Dracula... Everyone
> here knows that Frankenstein is from transylvania!

Actually there was a very bloodthirsty nobleman from the area in the 1400s. 
His name slips my mind, but though he didn't have fangs and drink blood he is 
still credited with inspiring the novel. 
>
> Iron Maiden is probably my all time favorite band... in my youth I had
> something like 30 iron maiden posters in my room... Eddie!!!  Anyway, there
> is an all female coverband named "the iron maidens"... Musically they are
> probably not the best, but hey - a bunch of hot chicks singing maiden...
> who could complain!

Well if you want to talk greatest rock bands of all time that would be Led 
Zeppelin. Revolutionary rocker would be Hendrix. Virtuoso group is Yes.

However just about any band full of hot chicks is worth watching. ;-)
>
> On Monday 01 March 2004 04:41 am, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > 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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