The entire site has been revamped with XHTML and CSS (giving me the opportunity to learn this as well). I have also tried to reorganize some of the content on the site, but to my knowledge all information is still somewhere on the site. The new structure seems more appropriate and easier to expand.
This is the tiny corner of the World Wide Web dedicated to the thoughts and insanities of Mikkel Holm Olsen (also known as Spaceman Spiff in some circles). If you want to know a little more about who I am, you can take a peek at my personal page.
As these pages will reveal, some of my major interests and hobbies are concerned with computers and electronics. Although there is a lot of ongoing development in these areas, and I struggle to keep updated on as many parts as possible, I also have a sweet spot for vintage computers and electronics. Concerning vintage computers, I am particularly interested in old video games and coin-op arcade machines. More information about these topics is available on my nostalgia page, including a lot of documentation about my MAME-cabinet SpiffMAME.
Being involved with computers since the age of 9, I started out as many others, mainly using computers, whether it was for doing papers for school, or playing games. I became interested in programming, starting with simple BASIC-programs, mostly typed off different books, and perhaps enhanced or extended in some way. When I switched to the PC platform (in the cozy dark ages of DOS), I did most of my programming in Borland Pascal, although I also had some ventures into the amazing land of Borland Turbo Assembler.
Moving into Ostenfeld Kollegiet (after I started at DTU), I became involved with the network there, and joined the net-group. This (as well as some courses at DTU) introduced me to Linux, and after about half a year of "checking out" this fascinating world, I finally switched and started using Linux as my primary operating system in 1998. The main thing holding me back until then was that my e-mail client was running under Windows, but with the mailbox converted to Linux, I had everything I needed under Linux. My first experience with the C-programming language was developing a device-driver for controlling a HD44780-compatible LCD connected to the parallel port of a Linux box, but since then I have become quite familiar with C-development, both on Linux and on embedded systems based on Atmel micro controllers.
On my Linux-page you can find some information about my experiences running Linux, both on servers and desktop systems. In the spirit of supporting the OpenSource community, I try to release most of the things I develop under the terms of the GPL. I also try to share various articles I write on the topic of configuring various software under Linux. All this is on my Linux-page.
Another interest, which there has not yet been time to document on this page is role playing, in particular Shadowrun. This is a really great way of spending some time, and having fun with people you like. The only downside is you have to have the time for it, which is not that easily accomplished.
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