- About Waxhead -

 "It's abnormal to be normal".


General info:
Ok here goes... It seems that I am living two lives. In one life I am Svein Engelsgjerd, farmer and a walking plauge that contaminate my enviroment. I have a social security number I play my taxes and I even carry out my garbage. The other life is lived in computers where I go by the alias Waxhead and are guilty of writing a few useful software tools that might be handy every now and then. None of these lives have a future I assume but I'm doing my best go get by :)

Ok so my real name is as I said Svein Engelsgjerd, I was born 15.Dec 1977 and I am living in the western regions of Norway. It's really not much more to say about that so I just stop this introduction right here.

Interests:
I have several interests, but some things is a bit more facinating than other things and that include computers, music, mechanics, astronomy and women in particular.
When it comes to astronomy I'm not the kind of guy who memorize every single location of stars and remember a lot of boring numbers but I find it amusing to watch the stars on a clear night and I also enjoy reading about how (they think) things work in outer space.
Back on earth I enjoy full moon nights the most. I like the eerie but at the same time calming feel you get when the moon casts it magical blue light over the landscape and the shadows plays a few tricks with your mind. It can be real relaxing to get away from it all and take a little walk in the moonshine.
I have always found stuff with moving parts very facinating. I have since I was a little kid always had a interest for opening stuff to figure out how it works and if it's broken I usualy figure out some (often bizarre) way to fix it. 
I have been interested in computers since i first saw a program called 'datastart' on NRK in Norway. I can't remember how old I was then but that was what ignited my interest for computers. Some years later I got my first computer; the legendary Commodore 64 with amazing 38911 basic bytes free ;-). Those days computer programs was writen to be efficent. Surely todays programmers have a lot to learn from the old scool. Anyway things evolved and I got my Amiga 500 who was almost a religion for most of it's users (including me). It's definitively the computer I have had most fun with and probably the computer that was exposed to most hacks and upgrades ;-) The Amiga was way ahead of it's time in respect to operatingsystem and hardware - sadly to few realized the potential in the operatingsystem and it was often labeled as a gamesmachine even tough it was not. Later in 2000 i did (finaly) upgrade to a standard PC clone. Since I've done much programming on the Amiga (Amos, E and some assembler) I was eager to do some programming on the Win32 platform and I started with C as the language of choise. It's hard to learn ... or perhaps I should say get used to; but once you got the hang of it you never want to switch to something else. Well I've always learned most things by myself with the help of some documentation and some (strange) people out there :-)
I use the LccWin32 development system by Q software solutions who IMHO must be the most kick ass compiler package available!.
Since I've been a Amiga enthusiast I started making music using the legendary ProTracker and have now moved on to ModPlug (OpenMPT). I usualy make music that sounds quite diffrent than most other pieces of music out there. As a musician I'm self-taught and plays the following instruments: Willow-flute (known as Seljefløyte in Norway), Mouth-harp (Munnharpe), Guitar (very poor) and keyboard (also very poor).
Also for as long as I can remember I've been a fan of old classic Donald Comics and cartoons (1940-1950 style timeline). I have quite a bunch of Donald comics that I have saved since I was a little kid. I have to say that I'm most impressed by the drawing style of Carl Barks, Al Taliaferro and ofcourse Keno Don Rosa. When it comes to cartoons I'm a huge fan of Goofy, Roadrunner, Tom&Jerry and last but not least Daffy Duck. When it comes to modern cartoons I think The Simpsons and Futurama is great fun.


Work:

In addition to running my own farm I started working for Elmag Instrument A/S in 1999. I mostly worked with assembling 21" CRT monitors until the product was discontinued. Elmag Instrument was accuired by Hatteland and renamed Hatteland Assembly. A while later we moved to a new production facillity where I worked for a long time with mostly preparing parts for the 23" display. After a while my main job consisted mainly of assembling a few models of the 23" displays.
I also worked a bit with receipt of goods at the warehouse (roughly 6 months). When I returned to display production I was after some brief time put on a special project where I worked with some special oil / fluid pressure alarm systems for offshore usage. At that time it was planned that this would be a own production line, but this never happened. Well I moved back to display production again for some time before I was put on yet another project called Autostore.
In march 2007 the display and assembly section was working at the time was accuired by Ferd. In Januar 2008 JHC who is responsible for the Autostore project wanted me to work directly for them instead and this is where I currently work.
For three years now I have worked mostly independent and last year there have been a bit of moving stuff around.
There is a lot I have to cope with including (but far from limited to) assembling, testing, repairs, a bit developement stuff and general production.
I'm a very independent person of nature and I also have a (bad?) habitt of beeing very direct with people regardless of their position. This can both be a strength and a weakness. After I moved from the display division to Autostore I also learned a important lesson about people. I realized that in particular one person I belived it would be a relief to "get rid off" (even tough this person means a lot to me) is actually the person I miss the most of all those I worked with. Just another proof that life is really strange sometimes! ;)
I also have a drivers licence for almost everything that run on wheels and I usualy get used to new vehicles very fast. I have also driven a lot of different cars, motorcycles, trucks, tractors and a few forklifts. My friends often describe me as a skilled (but insane) driver. ;)


Favorite music:

Favorite movies:
Favorite TV shows, comedy + misc:

Computer equipment:
Monitors:
- Panasoinc SL95 - 19" CRT
- Nec Multisynch E1100+ - 21" CRT
- Nec ??? - 15" CRT
- Viewsonic VP 230MB - 23" TFT
- Hitachi 21" CM813ET CRT

Miscellaneous equipment:
- Compaq R3000H UPS  (rebranded Powerware PW5119)
- Topcom 871BT ADSL modem/router
- Speedtouch 510i v4 ADSL modem/router
- Jensen 8port 100mbps switch
- 3Com 8port gigabit switch
- GeForceFX (PCI board)
- 19" 42U rack (unknown manufacturer)
- Epson stylus Photo 870
- Commodore MPS 1230 dot matrix printer
- Some bags of old hardware and a bunch of harddisks.

Projects:
Check out the music and software sections...