### Personal
Hello, this is the page of [Joachim Nilsson](http://gnufans.org/joachim/). I'm a computer geek, dad (soon x2) with a lot of diverse interests. This wiki page displays some of them.
I am employed as an embedded systems and GNU/Linux consultant for the Swedish company Aktiebolaget �ngpannef�reningen in the city of [V�ster�s](http://www.vasteras.se). Roughly, "The Incorporated Steamboiling Association". As you might have guessed it is a very old consultant firm, stemming from 1896. Today we cover almost all engineering disciplines. See more on
Currently I have almost no time at all for any of my pet projects. Work and family is more than enough and may be so for the forseeable future.
### Hardcore stuff
I'm a bit involved in the GNU operating system, the Hurd. Having done some contractual work earlier on both the VxWorks Wind kernel, Linux and eCos I got interested in micro kernels. Being a free software enthusiast I am now focusing my energy on GNU.
One of my goals is to get my SMP machine at home booting the Hurd. This is now impossible due to the unsupported external Promise ATA-100 controller, or my on-board ATA-66 controller for that matter. I may try to hack some basic ATA-33 support for GNU Mach 1.3, but not anytime soon.
### HTML & friends
I am the local [TWiki](http://twiki.org) admin guy. When I volonteered to run the Hurd wiki web on I decided to create a suitable skin for it. The result is the TWiki:Plugins/GnuSkin. See it in action on the [[Hurd/WebHome]] web.
More interesting things at [[JoachimNilssonTodo]]
**_Personal Preferences (details in %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiVariables)_**
* Horizontal size of text edit box:
* Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 100
* Vertical size of text edit box:
* Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 32
* Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your %TWIKIWEB%.WikiName)
* Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = [[Main/JoachimNilsson]]
* Revisions to show when using "View Diffs" in the GNUskin.
* Set GNUSKINPLUGIN\_NUMREVISIONS = 2
**_Related topics_**
* %TWIKIWEB%.%WIKIPREFSTOPIC% has site-level preferences of %WIKITOOLNAME%.
* %WEBPREFSTOPIC% has preferences of the %WIKITOOLNAME%.%WEB% web.
* %WIKIUSERSTOPIC% has a list of other TWiki users.
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