Andrew Kwasik's corner of the web...
 

Hello and welcome to my little corner of the web! My name is Andrew Kwasik and this is where you can find out information about me...

I'm currently attending the University of Toronto, studying in Computer Science towards a BSc degree.

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  • Operating System design
  • Assembly Language
  • Minix (and the microkernel concept)
  • Mono/.NET cross-platform development


  • unnamed - a PHP based news script (with MySQL and/or a file database to store news items)
  • unnamed - Mozilla Firefox extension (more details to come)


Past Projects

Video Editing (Abandoned)

I had some fun messing around with video editing using Adobe Premiere. I managed to push out 3 videos publicly. I used japanese animes and video game trailers to create my videos because I found they allowed the most freedom (versus having to record my own video or find a real-life movie that matched a song). The first video I made is based on Dragonball Z (a popular anime in the US in the late 90s?) of which I'm not too proud of (but hey, you have to start somewhere). The second video was made using Devil May Cry 2 video trailers (a PlayStation 2 game) of which had some improvements but because of limited footage, there's a lot of it that didn't turn out well. But my most proud acheivement in video editing is my Bleach video (a popular on-going anime that was recently licensed for distribution in the US). Although I still made some mistakes with it (I had too much fun with fade in/out), I think its a large improvement on the previous two and it's definetely my best work. Although you'll see why I don't plan on pursuing this as a career :-)

Please see my blogging site: www.kwazico.com for more details and downloads

AF-Renamer (Abandoned)

This was my first useful win32 application. It gave the user the ability to mass rename a bunch of files while setting certain criteria and naming patterns. Gave me some good experience with the Windows API and the C language, but unfortunately its been abandoned for a few years now.




(As of Dec 5, 2009)

Since I can't remember most of the hardware I put in my machine, I'll keep to generic specs

Desktop

  • Intel Core 2 Quad CPU (Q6600, 2.4Ghz)
  • 4GB of memory (I believe DDR2 667mhz)
  • 74gb Raptor drive for the Operating Systems
  • Total of 1.7tb of Storage space (3 hard drives; 1 NTFS-formatted, 2 ext3-formatted)
  • Current OS: Ubuntu 9.10 (primary), Windows 7 Pro (secondary)

Asus eeePC 1000 (for school)

  • 10" LCD/frame
  • Intel Atom CPU (800mhz-1.6ghz) [stock]
  • 2GB of memory [upgraded]
  • 8GB soldered-on SSD, 32gb card-based SSD [stock]
  • See Asus's website for more specs
  • Current OS: Eeebuntu 3.0

Fujitsu T4220 (Tablet PC)

  • Intel Centrino Duo
  • 2GB of memory [upgraded]
  • See Fujitsu's website for more specs
  • Current OS: Windows 7 RC
Other hardware include an Apple Powerbook G4 (w/ a broken LCD), and an Apple iPhone 3G S







The best way to reach me would be by the following email: my email address... (note that you'll have to type it as it's an image to avoid spambots)

Alternatively, you can use the contact form on my blog site: kwazico.com

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