Hi there - You've reached the homepage of Filipp Lepalaan. I have been involved with Macs professionally since since 2001. In the summer of 2006 I also became a Certified Apple Trainer of Final Cut Pro. Currently I am working as a systems engineer at Humac and finishing my bachelor's thesis at EVTEK, titled "Peer-to-peer content delivery networks".
I'm one of the founding members of the Estonian Macintosh User Group, and an assistant webmaster at afp548.com. I've also worked for macfreelancer.com and done some video projects on growingontrees.com. Currently I spend most of my free time working on my bachelor thesis and various other web and desktop application projects.
I'm always interested in challanging Mac OS X and UNIX system administration, engineering and software development projects in the motion picture/post production/broadcast environments. You can download my resume here. Available also in Finnish.
My hobbies include photography and music.
This weblog is primarily a learning tool for myself. There's so much interesting stuff going on in the Mac world that it helps to write things down just to keep track of them. Writing also clarifies one's own understanding of thee subject. You'll also find an assortment of projects that I've recently been working on or some more interesting problems I've solved.
The topics here cover mostly OS X, OS X Server, UNIX stuff and web and shell scripting as well as general ideas about the IT world and digital media.
Some background
I first got into Macs in ~1996 when I was finally able to buy a used LC475 running System 7.5. The one reason that drew me to Macs back then was how different they were from any other computer at that time and that they actually had a Desktop. You could feel that it was one well thought-out system, nothing like the DOS-boxes of the mid-90's where every program looked and felt completely different.
I think the two other major reasons I've stuck with Macs is that they're elegant and as an engineer, I can learn alot from the platform. I also like the users. Many of them have a very different kind of relationship with their computer than on the major platform. The fact that Mac users are more interested in their computers and the software they use, also makes the Mac a cool development platform.