Hello guys, using this tool, we can actually edit the voices in our Garmin GPS Devices.

Voice Editor v0.8 (Freeware)
Requirements: Garmin GPS capable of running .vpm voice files; Windows PC
Overview: this program will let you split a .vpm file into many .wav files, allowing for a later replacement of such files with your own .wavs, finally rejoining them into a new .vpm which you can upload to your device.
Tested WORKS: under Garmin Mobile XT, latest version (V5.00.60w). Should run with any Garmin Nuvi series, and devices capable of running .vpm files.

Important note: you may run into problems when choosing the recording settings. For instance, it is recommended that you choose this format: WAV (Microsoft 4 bit IMA ADPCM, quality: 89 kbps, 22050 Hz, mono, 16 bit), but in my experience, also PCM quality worked, with 352kbps, 22050hz, mono, 16bit).

Hi guys, I'm currently mangling with nokia stuffs. Just wanted to share these useful tools. One of it is this Nokia Firmware editor. I've used this to hack my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

With this tool you can extract, and repack ROFS2 and UDA files.

1. Download and extract tool.
2. Open tool.
3. Click "Open" button and select rofs2 or uda file
4. Click "Extract" button
5. Files will be extracted to:
     a. for rofs2 file "rofs2" folder
     b. for uda file "fat16" folder
6. Edit your files (don't close NokiaEditor):
     a. for rofs2 open "rofs2" folder and edit files
     b. for uda open "fat16.img" in "fat16" folder and edit it with magiciso or winimage
7. After you edit these files click "Repack" button
8. Repacked files are in program folder:
     a. REB-RM************.rofs2.*** for rofs2 file
     b. REB-RM***********.uda.*** for uda file
9. Rename files (delete "REB-" at the beginning of file name) :
     a. REB-RM************.rofs2.*** to RM************.rofs2.*** for rofs2 file
     b. REB-RM***********.uda.*** to RM***********.uda.*** for uda file
10. Flash you phone with new files. (use JAF / Phoenix / Nokia Care Suite)
11. DONE.

NAVIFIRM is the ultimate all-purpose tool for downloading Nokia firmware images, obtaining lists of product codes, and finding the right product code for your phone. NAVIFIRM download this straight from Nokia's servers so you don't have to wait for people to post data packages and lists of product codes.

NAVIFIRM is useful for just about anyone:

End users: Find product codes to use with NSS/NSU
Journalists: Be the first to know when new firmware hits NSU
Developers: Download ROM images for extracting files
Care Suite/Phoenix/box users: Download ROM images to flashAdditional NSU servers can be added by editing Main.cs in the source code.

To use NAVIFIRM, just start navifirm.exe and drill down from left to right. To download files, check the boxes of the files you want (or click the All button), then click "Download from FiRe". Find a directory to put the files in, then click OK. Care Suite and Phoenix should be able to pick up the firmware files if you put them in C:Program FilesCommon FilesNokiaDataPackage (if you use Vista w/ UAC, you'll have to right-click navifirm.exe and select Run as Administrator). Note that calibration and most other non-firmware files ordinarily included in data packages cannot be downloaded via this tool. To generate a product code list suitable for forum posts, etc., select a product and release, then click the Export PC List button. From there, you can copy and paste the list of product codes or save it as a file.

This software is released with no warranty whatsoever, express or implied. If you screw up your phone trying to flash something downloaded with this tool, it definitely isn't my fault. As bricking a phone is easy, proceed with great caution. You have been warned.

navifirm-0.1.zip - The windows binary
navifirm-0.1-src.tar.gz - the source code
LICENSE - GNU GPL V3

"Far Away"

This time, This place
Misused, Mistakes
Too long, Too late
Who was I to make you wait
Just one chance
Just one breath
Just in case there's just one left
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

[CHORUS]
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
I keep dreaming you'll be with me
and you'll never go
Stop breathing if
I don't see you anymore

On my knees, I'll ask
Last chance for one last dance
'Cause with you, I'd withstand
All of hell to hold your hand
I'd give it all
I'd give for us
Give anything but I won't give up
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

[CHORUS]

So far away
Been far away for far too long
So far away
Been far away for far too long
But you know, you know, you know

I wanted
I wanted you to stay
'Cause I needed
I need to hear you say
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I forgive you
For being away for far too long
So keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go

miss the memories....

Merely the sound of your voice
Made me believe that
that you were her
Just like the river disturbs
...my inner peace
Once I believed I could find
Just a trace of her beloved soul
Once I believed she was all
Then she smothered my beliefs

I was setting up samba to allow my shares available for windows users. However, i got frustated when if failed to start. I was wondering what could cause it since from previous 12.2 slack it was ok.

The error:
bash-3.1# /etc/rc.d/rc.samba start
Starting Samba:  /usr/sbin/smbd -D
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba: line 11: 24728 Aborted                 (core dumped) /usr/sbin/smbd -D
                               /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba: line 11: 24729 Aborted                 (core dumped) /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

I started checking the logs in /var/log/samba/* and tried to dismantle through the errors.

[2009/09/04 15:48:13,  0] smbd/server.c:main(1210)
  smbd version 3.2.13 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,  0] lib/messages_local.c:messaging_tdb_init(96)
  ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database: No such file or directory
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,  0] lib/messages.c:messaging_init(204)
  messaging_tdb_init failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1670)
  PANIC (pid 24728): Could not init smbd messaging context
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,  0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1774)
  BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames:
   #0 /usr/sbin/smbd(log_stack_trace+0x2d) [0xb7d29724]
   #1 /usr/sbin/smbd(smb_panic+0x80) [0xb7d29881]
   #2 /usr/sbin/smbd(smbd_messaging_context+0x64) [0xb7f6785f]
   #3 /usr/sbin/smbd(main+0x6ac) [0xb7f69651]
   #4 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb762d6a5]
   #5 /usr/sbin/smbd [0xb7b12921]
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,  0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(201)
  dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd
core dump? oh shit, not another bug... damn.. It made me disbelief as it was working fine before....

hmm... I did came through a lot of tutorial / references on this. It took quite some time to actually made it to work. I actually did numerous trial and errors to finally did it.

My hardware / software specs.

• IBM Thinkpad R61i (Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo)
• Intel 965 Chipset
• Slackware 13.0 (Kernel 2.6.29.6)
• GCC 4.3.3 and libs

Here is the task that I did to make it work. I'm using kde4, and i do not use the kde4 backend. Optionally you can download the kconfig4 / kconfig / gconf backend

• Get and install the latest compiz releases from http://releases.compiz.org/0.8.2/. I'm installing from the source and did not encounter any problems during this task. There might be some dependency issues here, depending or your system. Just take care of it and proceed the next step.

For all of the plugins main / extra / unsupported, i've specified --prefix to prevent bcop error.  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

Alternately you can just make a symlink to bcop.pc

ln -s /usr/local/share/pkgconfig/bcop.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/bcop.pc

After installing the plugins, install libcompizconfig.
I create symlinks to the libs.

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libcompizconfig.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libcompizconfig.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libemeraldengine.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libemeraldengine.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdecoration.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libdecoration.so.0

and created symlinks for the libcompizconfig-python

ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/compizconfig* /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/
ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ccm/ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/

and I also edited /etc/xorg.conf to use super key.
Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win"ccsm-0.8.2.tar.bz2
compiz-0.8.2.tar.bz2
compiz-bcop-0.8.2.tar.bz2
libcompizconfig-0.8.2.tar.bz2
compiz-plugins-main-0.8.2.tar.bz2
compiz-plugins-extra-0.8.2.tar.bz2
compiz-plugins-unsupported-0.8.2.tar.bz2
compizconfig-python-0.8.2.tar.bz2
simple-ccsm-0.8.2.tar.bz2
emerald-0.8.2.tar.bz2

• Create a compiz launcher script (i created this in /usr/bin/kde4compiz)

• Content of kde4compiz (I'm using emerald for the windows decoration)

        #!/bin/bash
        LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=True compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --indirect-rendering &
        wait
        sleep 1
        emerald --replace &
  

• chmod 644 /usr/bin/kde4compiz to make it executable 

• Create a compiz-kde-launcher script ( just link it )
  ln -s /usr/bin/kde4compiz /usr/local/bin/compiz-kde-launcher 

• In KDE4, Go to KMenu>System Settings>Default Applications>Window Manager
  select "use a different window manager" and choose "Compiz custom"
• 
  At this point, you might not see any window decoration. To enable it,
  Under ccsm>Effects>Window Decoration>Command, put compiz-kde-launcher
  
   

If these fails, you can checkout these sites
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compiz
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/down-and-dirty-compiz-howto.-600765/

 
Alternately you can use any of these methods to launch compiz from the console. Good luck compizing... hahaha

since its release a few days ago,  I upgraded my slackware from 12.2 to 13.0.

[ Official Announcement ]

Running on kernel 2.6.29.6, and was patched with Speakup to enable speech synthesizers.

Everything seems to be nice on my Thinkpad R61i.The X packages was reworked and i did zero config on X to make it work with my intel 965 chipset. The acpi component works as usual. Bundled with KDE 4.2.4, Firefox 3.5.2, Seamonkey 1.1.17, it should be more intuitive.

I've installed Compiz 0.8.2, and through a quite an adventurous voyage, I FINALLY get it to replace kwin.

refer to my compiz post

screenshots...

I've also updated my pentest tools based on Backtrack 4 pentest.lzm. Got a few glitches and some new dependencies which needs to be resolved. Upgraded aircrack-ng to 1.0 rc4. The new airmon-ng will create another interface for Monitor mode, based on your chipset, which in my case is mon0, Intel 3945ABG chipset. Seems the injection and other functions work as expected. For information on how to crack WEP, refer to my simple wep cracking post.

Xine, now seems to be more stable, while amarok still reside under my low level of expectation.

Wine seems also been undergoing major improvements, as most of my standalone exes manage to run as expected.

These are the list that I've tested and running fine,

• VMWare 6.5.3
• Crossover Pro 1.7.0
• WinRAR 3.9.0 (win32)

akhirnya.... site aku berjaya upgrade ke Version 2.

Banyak improvement dari version 1 plus security patches yg aku identify. aku dah enable openid utk users2 yg masuk site aku... so...upgrading still.... kalau ada korang jumpe bug, bgtau aku ok... thanks.