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# Chapter 16. About the author

Realname: Peter Semiletov, nick: Roxton (reversed XOR and NOT operators); was born in Kiev (USSR), at 1977. Currently I work as a journalist writing mostly about Free Software/Open Source and digital sound/video processing. Apart from my daily job, I write novels and stories, make music using virtual synths and live guitar. Also I'm a drummer in the punk/folk band Kakayato (it can be translated like as "someone"),and singer/guitarist in avantgarde band Kostniy Mozg. I am a vegetarian (due to ethical reason) and an atheist. My home site is here

My preferences are (in the chaotic order):

- Literature: Russian realism classics (Sholohov, Shedrin, Tynyanov, Shookshin, Andreev etc.)

- Music: The Pixies, Can, Nirvana, Scorn, Guano Apes, Tuxedomoon, Modest Musorgsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Bach, Brahms, Napalm Death, Fall, Juno Reactor and many more.

- Food: fry potato and cola

- Movies: Soviet films (Parajanov, Bondarchuk, Kalatosov, Danelia, Row, Shookshin, Chuhray, Ptooshko, Gabriadze, Michaeljan), old horror zombie movies, movies by Lynch, Kubrick, McGigan, Gilliam, Kurosava, Kitano, Imoe, Farelly brothers, Coscarelly, Costner, Coen bros., Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, etc.

- OS distro: Mandriva

- Mail client: Claws mail

- Spreadsheet: Gnumeric

- Desktop: KDE

- Media players: Amarok, Audacious

- IDE: KDevelop

- Games: Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Quest For Glory, Oblivion, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Blood, Prehistorik 2, old games for NES (Famicom) and SEGA Genesis/Megadrive; games for Spectrum.

- Browsers: Firefox

- File managers: mc, Konqueror

- Guitar: Stratocaster clone (made in Taiwan)

- Picks: Fender .73 mm M

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