The personal homepage of Martin Adolfsson

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designer
/Anders 2004-01-25

Current work:

• Freelance Software Developer [movel.se].
  
• CTO at Anomalies AB

• CTO at Global Mouth AB.
• Software developer, Plus Four Six AB.
• Senior system developer, Mobilehits AB.
• Software developer, Melody Interactive Solutions AB.

Work-related links:

• LinkedIn: Martin Adolfsson

Contact: m a d [at] netilium.org. (Remove the spaces and replace [at] with @)

Listens to: Gothic/Dark Wave/Dark EBM/Neofolk/(Gothic|Black|Death)Metal/Synth etc.

Computers:

• UNIX in all its flavours. (Preferably Tru64 or Solaris)
  
• Dotfiles: .emacs, .procmailrc, .inputrc, .cvsrc
  
• Affiliated with: ISOC, DECUS Sverige, netilium, Mendosus
  
• Tech notes:
  • Deltaco MA-4 Pinout
  • Typesetting the CVS revision in LaTeX
  • Mail statistics for Postfix via SNMP
• Solaris packages:
  • Procmail (3.22) package for Solaris / SPARC
  • Netcat package for Solaris / SPARC
  • Rsync package for Solaris / SPARC
  • tcpdump package for Solaris / SPARC
• Small scripts:
  • Modulus-10 in Korn-shell script.
    
  • Modulus-10 in PostgreSQL plpgsql.
    
  • Apache access log referer search engine summarizer
  • Cyrus SASL 2.1.22 Patch: Support for crypt() passwords.
  • PostgreSQL Schema dump (Alphabetical)
• Local mirror of DIGITAL Techical Journal.
  
• Copy of Mark VII's excellent C64-stylee MP3s.
  
• Video Clip: Don't Copy That Floppy!.
  
• Music Video: Unkle - An Eye For An Eye. [11Mb, WMV format]
  
• Big list o' books you cannot live without:
  • The Art of Computer Programming.
  • Programming Pearls.
  • The Pragmatic Programmer.
  • The LaTeX Companion.
  • Understanding SNMP MIBs.
• My hardware stash.
• MA4624-RIPE, MA180-RIPE.

History:

• 1981 - Born in Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden.
• 1986 - Moved to the town of Fagersta, Sweden. (Pop. ~12,000)
• 2000 - Moved to Västerås, Sweden. (Pop. ~130,000)
• 2001 - Moved back to Stockholm. (Pop. ~762,000)
• 2006 - Bought a summer residence in Norberg, Sweden. (Pop. ~6000)

Favorite movie quotes:

• "We're not evil because of the evil we do, but we do evil because we are evil" - The Addiction.
• "Most people don't take snapshots of the little things... the used Band-Aid... the guy at the gas station... the wasp on the Jell-O... but these are the things that make up the true picture of our lives. People don't take pictures of these things." - Sy the Photo Guy; One Hour Photo
• "Oh come on. We have faced shadows, invasions, and attacks on this station and now we are going to give into lawyers. Argh." - Zack, B5: River of Souls
• "As an American, I have a lot of apologizing to do to you people. I am sorry for so much stuff. Okay, but you know that I'm not responsible; I'm not the one who put the Psycho-Moron-Cowboy in the Presidential Office. I didn't invent Ally McBeal." - Henry Rollins, Up for it
• "I liked LSD for a while until I went to Disneyland and started thinking about Mickey Mouse being a short middle-aged man in a costume who hates his life ." - Angelina Jolie (Well, not actually a movie quote but from an interview)

Quotes from various people:

• "Few days ago I had a problem; AdvFS domain gone crazy. The domain was panicking and so was I and kernel."
• "As it happens, I pulled the disk drive from the shelf, rapped it against my desk fairly hard, put it back in the shelf and booted the machine. The disk mounted fine." - Damon Goforth on the Tru64 Managers Mailinglist
• "This unit is guaranteed to not be as described, but is otherwise as-is." - eBay auction by spydermr2

Fun stuff from various technical specifications:

• "... That is, 6/8 time(8 is 2 to the 3rd power, so this is 06 03), 36 MIDI clocks per dotted-quarter (24 hex!), and eight notated 32nd-notes per MIDI quarter note." - The Complete MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification/Standard MIDI Files 1.0
• "If your URL should not be attainable thus, your SMS is lost usually, but into an appropriate waiting loop is written and with accessibility of your URL conveys." - Babelfish translation of a German SMSC specification.
• "There is no harm in applying the same sequence number to multiple scripts. In this case the order of execution is deterministic but unspecified." - /etc/init.d/README on Solaris boxes.