Ah, Opera! My favourite browser has been recently update to version 11. There are lots of new beautiful features, like Presto 2.7 engine, improved HTML5 support, tab stacking, mouse gestures visualisation^[1], smart address field, Extensions and much more.
Opera 11 has been officially out for just two weeks, and there are already 300 Extensions (also known as "Add-ons" in Firefox and (surprise!) "Extensions" in Chrome) available!

So, the number of extensions is growing rapidly. But how can one benefit from an extension? Well, if you are a user-js geek, first, think of Opera extensions as of always up-to-date 3^d party user-js scripts. The provided browser communication API for managing windows, tabs, toolbars, icons etc. makes a complete picture. Yet, a user-js is just a script that can be initially triggered at various page loading stages. Every extension, for starters, has it's own process constantly running in background... But why discuss technical issues? I'm sure a geek can find a way to create an extension in 30 minutes. (Hopefully all geeks have followed that link :)

I believe, there is no need to explain, what YouTube is. The widely-used video hosting service already got it's fair share of Opera extensions. Would you like to find out what features these wonderful extensions are capable of?

Ubuntu 10.10 is coming out soon. As a little bit active community user, I'd like to add my part in testing the software. I always do, just because I appreciate the work done buy hundreds of thousands of people and that's the least I can do.

So, Ubuntu 10.10 Beta is out, an upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 took about two hours and whooo! It's working! I mean almost everything works. Would you like to find out how-to deal with e.g. Skype problems?

As a part of my work in Blancco, I encounter a very low-level code. By low-level I mean Assembler (AT&T syntax) for x86 processors family. A bit shame for computer scientist: I have NO experience in assembly. Thus, I spent a lot of time looking for good tutorials.
Are you interested in the results?

It's been a long time since I wrote my last post. Lots of things have happened: I've found a job! It's Blancco. So, I have much less time now for everything starting from my Master thesis, ending with sports and reading. One learns to spend the time when there is no time at all :)

Back in my "Windows" times, I was a fan of Foobar2000 music player. One of my favourite plug-ins was "Alarm", which could turn user's computer on during "suspend" state. So, I could switch my laptop to "sleep" mode, and be awaken in the morning by music from Foobar's playlist :)
Is it possible to reproduce a similar trick in Linux? It depends on your hardware. Let's give it a try!