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This is my personal website. The views expressed here are my personal views, not those of the Atlantis open source development Crew. This site, which is coded by hand and frames free, contains valid HTML and thus should be viewable with any browser, including Lynx. Some parts are written in Perl. This website doesn't relay on any non-valid standards which may require proprietary plugins, like Flash. This website is coded with the KISS principle in mind. If you experience any problems using this site, please let me know. Links to Norwegian sites are marked with "(Norwegian)". A light version of this website is also available, written in WML for WAP-browsers. You may want to take a look at the introduction to this site.

UNIX turns 40 years old this year. Happy birthday! Read more... Besides, I've been using UNIX-like systems since 1999 (mostly Slackware Linux). That's 10 years. :)


Ars longa, vita brevis. -- "Art is long, life is short."

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Who

This is a picture of me. Photography taken by myself.

Name: Stian Skjæveland
Year of birth: 1984
Location: My apartment, Klepp, Norway.
Occupation: Healthcare.
Marital status: Single.
Religion: Lutheran christian. Here's my church (Norwegian).
E-mail: 'stian at atlantiscrew period net', and 'stianskj at gmail period com'.
MSN-address: 'stianskjaeveland at hotmail period com'.
Phone number: I have to say, like Larry Wall: I hate my telephone. Please don't ask for my phone number.
Guestbook: You may sign my guestbook here.
Pictures: Me, my family, other.
Other information: View biography, A note about religion and philosophy, I'm a Five (Observer, Thinker, Investigator) with a Four Wing - My personality type according to the Enneagram, The thinker - My personality type according to The Personality Page. From the 1st of July 2009 I desided to loose weight, read more about it here (Norwegian).

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Projects

Projects that I'm a part of: Other/personal projects/stuff/pages located on this site (that should be updated regularly): Back to site map.

Interests

My profile page at Last.fm

I like to write/read fiction (poems, short stories and novels, mostly related to crime/horror/fantasy/drama) and facts (e.g. psychology, philosophy, religion, art, culture, politics, local history and mythology).

I'm into Japanese martial arts as well. I was training Judo for several years, now I am training Shotokan Karate-do in the dojo of Lura Karateklubb (Norwegian). I'm a 8. kyu (Hachikyu). View a picture of me in my gi (40KB).

I like music: rock/metal (e.g. Behexen, Black Sabbath, Carpathian Forest, Darkthrone, Deathspell Omega, Emperor, Katharsis, Koldbrann, Led Zeppelin, Mgla, Pink Floyd, Tool, Tsjuder and Xasthur). I like some electronica (e.g. Drexciya, Kraftwerk, Mortiis and Underworld). I even like some modern pop music (e.g. Avril Lavigne, Coldplay and Kent).

I like movies: giallo, crime, horror, thriller, sci-fi and drama (e.g. A Blade in the Dark, Alien, The Beyond, Brokeback Mountain, Cruel Intentions, Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, The Omen, Profondo Rosso, The Silence of the Lambs and Suspiria). My favorite TV-series is The X-Files, The 4400, Roswell and Band of Brothers.

I like beer (mostly british stout) and whisk(e)y (mostly scottish and irish). I especially prefer scottish single malt whisky from the following regions: Highland, Islay and Speyside. Occationaly I drink cognac, gin, mead, sherry, vodka and wine as well, although I tend to prefer beer and whisk(e)y. I'm trying to drink responsibly (with various degree of success).

I like numerous pipe-tobaccos, but I tend to prefer Amphora and MacBaren. Usually I don't smoke cigarettes, but I like the taste of Lucky Strike and Camel. Note however that I don't use illegal substances.

Other activities that I find enjoyable includes walking in the forest, swimming in fresh water (not in the ocean), playing chess (I own four different chess-boards), shooting (I own an airgun (132m/s) and an MP-40 machine gun in softgun-format), and probably a lot more.

The following are mentioned because of my fascination/obsession: Animals with silly walks (e.g. penguins, crabs and turtles), watching people arguing - or watching people in love with each other, a dry sense of humor, people with comb overs, paintings/pictures/drawings of desolated and/or abandoded places/people, numbers (e.g. the binary and hexadecimal numeral systems), colors (e.g. black and green) and shapes (e.g. pentagrams, hexagrams and octagrams).

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Friends

From real life: Kjetil B., Ioana and Kjetil N., Marit Mathilde (Norwegian), Olav and Karianne, Stian, Thomas, and Tommy (Norwegian).

From IRC: DALnet: Arhuanion, coronel, jaskorpe, jbg, Niladuial and ksw.

Other IRC-networks: donty, Magnus, PirateRaff, Sandman, techie, and many many more.

Want your name/nickname/homepage to be added/updated/removed on this page? - send me an e-mail.

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Computer stuff

I have a screenshot (168KB) of my desktop (from my main computer; "xasthur"), and an Ogg Vorbis-file (28KB) of me prounoncing the word "Linux" in Norwegian.

The glider: an Appropriate Hacker Emblem.

I'm on the DALnet, Freenode and EFnet IRC-networks (occasionally I'm on others as well). My nickname is stunix.

Here's my Irssi-theme. See the screenshot above for details.

My main computer currently is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2,2GHz.

I'm a registered Linux user, my ID is #338091.

Here's the decryption key used for (most) HD-DVD movies: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Here's information about decryption keys for blu-ray.

(Please don't ask me questions about the decryption keys, I have never used them myself.)

Here's my Geek Code (and here's the explanation):

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GP/CM/MU/CS/L/SS d- s:+ a- C+++(++)>++++ UL+++ P++++ L+++ E-(--) W+(++)
N* !o K- w-- O- M+ V-(--) PS+ PE-() Y+ PGP+>++ t 5(-) X++(+) R-(*) tv@
b++(+)>++++ DI+++ D+(----) G-(++) e+>++$ h+$()>++$ r-(--) !y
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
  
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Fun stuff

Online comics: Ctrl+Alt+Del | Dilbert | Hackles | InkTank | Kernel Panic | Little Gamers | Todays Cartoon | UserFriendly

Other: Hello World. | The truth about learning VI | The Church of the SubGenius | Humor in Linux kernel code | Humorix | Linux is NOT Windows | Whisky Or Whiskey? | Talk Like A Pirate Day | CAPS LOCK DAY | Weebl & Bob (Requires Adobe FlashPlayer)

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Serious stuff

Vote for Venstre at the 2009 election! 64 bit Linux Flash/Shockwave players petition to Macromedia, Inc. (The beta version works fine!) | Amnesty: Be irrepressible | Amnesty: Death Penalty violates the right to life | Stopping Microsoft Windows Vista adoption by promoting free software | The Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign | Boycott AACS (HD-DVD and Blu-ray) | Boycot SCO | Marijuana Law Reform | Fight Back Against Spammers | Fight for coders' rights | Fight for webloger's rights | Freedom to Tinker | Groklaw - Digging for Truth | Join the FSF campaign to eliminate DRM | OOXML is defective by design | The Open Rights Group | Open Source Initiative | Piratgruppen Norge (Norwegian) | Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe | Put an End to Word Attachments | Right to Create | Save the internet: Fighting for internet freedom | Support file-sharing | Support the World march for peace and nonviolence, Oct 2009 - Jan 2010 | I vote for Venstre - The Liberal Party of Norway | I'm a member of Young Liberals of Norway (Norwegian)

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This page was last modified Thursday, 02-Jul-2009 15:35:15 CEST (ChangeLog).
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Stian Skjæveland.
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