I'm currently quite busy working on my master thesis. If any of you wonder the subject of it is "A P2P-based survivable system for file distribution" and it's about designing network that could handle DDoS type of attack, while still letting owner to update shared data. It's based on BitTorrent protocol, inspired by Blue Security story and I came with the subject myself, so it's definitely not a boring kind of work. Actually it's quite opposite - I find it really fascinating, but unfortunately my procrastination is still killing me. So, although I'm not writing 24 hours a day, it's constantly sitting in my head no matter where I am and what I do.

Because I'm, as previously mentioned, busy man these days I don't have much time to deal with RTL8187SE drivers, my homepage and everything else. So don't expect any updates at least until June and please, don't bother me. I'm also thinking about dropping support for Hardy, because I've replaced it on my dual OS (Kubuntu and Kubuntu) with Jaunty (9.04) and I believe that 8.10 and 9.04 works much better (except Intel graphics on 9.04) on netbooks than 8.04. How many of you still use Hardy? Please let me know.

That's all for now. I think I will go wash some dishes, cook a diner and maybe do some shopping, before I get my stuff done;).

Couple of days ago I wrote another letter to Realtek (some bugreports) and ask them for updated drivers. Luckily for us they they sent me another, working (sub)release. I'm using those drivers right now and they seems to work fine, except for one nasty bug that pollutes system logs with "Error 2 opening /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state" message. Below you can find link to sources I got from Realtek, simple patch that disable this annoying error message and to deb package, which includes previously mentioned patch, built against recent intrepid kernel (2.6.27-12-generic). For now, due the lack of time, this is only supported kernel. But if you need package for another kernel just let me know and I will see what I can do. But be aware - I support only official Ubuntu x86 kernels! Anyway, here are the files:

Today, I'm proud to present new incarnation of my homepage. Although it looks the same it's internals have gone through some heavy lifting.

First of all, from now on I'm using classical tool (PHP) instead of old and weird monster (but don't be afraid, it was quite little monster) I've created (something like my variation about BASH Hypertext Preprocesor). But don't be alarm, there was still enough place in HTML to put some of my strange, and possibly shocking, idea inside:).

Second, but as much or even more important change is moving from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Strict. It's irreversible, because I love elegance and XHTML Strict and HTML Transitional looks like Kate (KDE4 text editor) and Notepad from Windows. The second suddenly stops to be enough after you've seen/used the firs one;). BTW: This was real case. It's hard to believe, but I've actually wrote my first site ever (not this one) purely in Notepad:).

One of the things you won't like is the fact that links from older version doesn't work any more. Sorry, I couldn't do anything about that, since my free hosting server doesn't let me use none of "RewriteRule" or "Redirect" option of HTTP server. So, please, update your bookmarks/links on your pages.

And now feel free to explore site and report bugs. And tomorrow come back for new drivers release from Realtek!