Firefox 13 Final is Ready

Mozilla has finished working on Firefox 13 and marked it as Final, even though they haven't announced it officially and give some time to mirror site to fetch the latest version from their FTP server and also to Linux vendors to build a customized package for their own distribution.

If you can't wait that long, you can just go to their FTP Server and download the suited version according to your platform. Please note that you will have to download the whole package instead of downloading a delta. If you have used a binary version of Firefox previously, i would suggest to wait and use the Automatic Updates mechanism built in into Firefox. This way, you won't have to download the whole build, but only the delta, which is smaller in terms of size.

If you are curious about what's new on this release, check the Release Notes

Touch : The Gyre

Unlike the previous episodes, The Touch wasn't airing last week, so this week, they are releasing two episodes at once and for the first time, they will have the same title: The Gyre. This is the continuation of Martin Bohm's effort to seek more information regarding his son's ability to predict things with sequences of numbers and also to protect him from the same organization that did the same thing to another girl, Amelia and probably the one who killed Arthur Teller.

This is the only western TV Series i watched currently. Any other good western TV Series i should watch?

Welcome June

It's June already and time ticks so fast so that most of us didn't realize that we are already going through almost half of this year and we only have six months left before we will come to 2013.

When we are busy with our job, sometimes we didn't even realize how fast time goes by. It seems that 24 hours a day is never enough.

Bandwidth Cap

I think my server got a huge traffic today, so i decided to even decrease the limit of connection available to public users on working hours so that the bandwidth is more utilized for the students that might be using the server.

Thanks to mod_bw, it's easy to configure such thing and even better, with some help of BASH and Crontab, i can even make it more flexible because once it's set up, they can work on themselves without having me to set up every day.

iPad 2.4 Untethered Jailbroken

Absinthe 2.0.4 has been released to include untethered jailbreak for iPad 2,4 which was the last iDevices that can be untethered jailbroken (except for Apple TV). Please visit Absinthe Jailbreak to get the new link for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

I wonder why they skipped 2.0.3 ? Was it because it's for iPad 2,4 ? Who knows....

SiriPort Activated

Finally i have been able to activate SiriPort on my iPad 1 after some trial and error for 1 day. SiriPort is a porting of the famous Siri that was only available for iPhone 4S to other iDevices, including iPad. It was created by the Russian hacker.

Here's the short tutorial that i performed to install SiriPort :

• Make sure you have iOS 5.1.1 and untethered jailbreak using the latest absinthe tool 2.0.2
• Open up Cydia and add a new repo: http://repo.siriport.ru/
•  You can search for SiriPort in Search tab and install it. 
• If it failed, you can download the deb file manually and install it using iFile
• Reboot your device
• Open up Safari browser and visit http://siriport.ru/1.crt
• Install the certificate
• Reboot your device
• Enable Location Services and Use Siri (or enable it on Settings > General > Siri)
• Activate Siri by holding the HOME button for 2 seconds until the microphone icon showed up and say "Hi Siri". This process might not be successfull at first attempt due to heavy load on Apple Servers probably, so keep trying doing this until she replied back. I got mine activated after trying for one day.
• Enjoy Siri :)

Knastik 2012

Tomorrow will be busy day as Knastik 2012 will be held and this year, it will be an international conference. We postponed Knastik 2011 until this year and it's upgraded into an international event.

There will be 3 keynote speakers for tomorrow, Gilbert Ooi from HELP Malaysia, Anne LAURENT from Univ. Montpellier, France, and Richardus Eko Indrajit from APTIKOM. The main theme for this year is "Business Intelligence : Extending Your Business".

Absinthe 2.0.2 Released

Just one day after Absinthe was released, Apple pushed a firmware update for iPhone 4S with a spesific build number 9B208. Right now, Absinthe are updated to 2.0.2 to include fixes to provide support for the new firmware as well.

You can still use the same method i used previously to perform an untethered jailbreak on your iDevices

FFmpeg Major Release 0.11

FFmpeg has released a new major release, 0.11 which brings a bunch of new features as well as bug fixes from git master branch. They include several security-related vulnerabilities,

CVE-2012-2772, CVE-2012-2774, CVE-2012-2775, CVE-2012-2776, CVE-2012-2777, CVE-2012-2779, CVE-2012-2782, CVE-2012-2783, CVE-2012-2784, CVE-2012-2785, CVE-2012-2786, CVE-2012-2787, CVE-2012-2788, CVE-2012-2789, CVE-2012-2790, CVE-2012-2791, CVE-2012-2792, CVE-2012-2793, CVE-2012-2794, CVE-2012-2795, CVE-2012-2796, CVE-2012-2797, CVE-2012-2798, CVE-2012-2799, CVE-2012-2800, CVE-2012-2801, CVE-2012-2802, CVE-2012-2803, CVE-2012-2804

- v408 Quicktime and Microsoft AYUV Uncompressed 4:4:4:4 encoder and decoder
- setfield filter
- CDXL demuxer and decoder
- Apple ProRes encoder
- ffprobe -count_packets and -count_frames options
- Sun Rasterfile Encoder
- ID3v2 attached pictures reading and writing
- WMA Lossless decoder
- bluray protocol
- blackdetect filter
- libutvideo encoder wrapper (--enable-libutvideo)
- swapuv filter
- bbox filter
- XBM encoder and decoder
- RealAudio Lossless decoder
- ZeroCodec decoder
- tile video filter
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes demuxer
- OpenEXR image decoder
- removelogo filter
- drop support for ffmpeg without libavfilter
- drawtext video filter: fontconfig support
- ffmpeg -benchmark_all option
- super2xsai filter ported from libmpcodecs
- add libavresample audio conversion library for compatibility
- MicroDVD decoder
- Avid Meridien (AVUI) encoder and decoder
- accept + prefix to -pix_fmt option to disable automatic conversions.
- audio filters support in libavfilter and avconv
- add fps filter
- audio split filter
- vorbis parser
- png parser
- audio mix filter

How i Perform Untethered Jailbreak on iOS 5.1.1

I posted yesterday that i would wait for a couple of days, but this morning, i just performed an untethered jailbreak to my iPad 1. I just can't wait for too long when the tools has been ready and updated and the method is SUPER EASY to do.

OK, here's how i do my untethered jailbreak. This works on my iPad, but i can't guarantee that it will work on your iDevices. Make sure you have make a backup of your data before proceeding.

• Download the latest Absinthe releases (2.0.1) for Windows, Linux, or Mac
• Pick the correct method for your devices
• iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3G
• iPad 1, 2, 3
• iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G
• On my case, it's iPad 1, so i pick the second link
•  Make a backup of your device
• Right click on your device name under the ‘Devices’ menu and click ‘Back Up’ on iTunes
• Remove all your data and settings. This will make the jailbreak process much faster.
• Settings – General – Reset – Erase all Content and Settings. 
• Don't worry about the data if you have performed the back up process earlier
• Extract Absinthe 2.0.1 and launch absinthe executable. This will close iTunes. That's fine.
• Wait until the jailbreak button becomes available and your iDevices firmware version has showed up. Make sure it's already in iOS 5.1.1.
• Click on the Jailbreak and let the magic process begins. No need to enter DFU mode again manually. Let the Absinthe do the work for you :)
• Once completed, you can restore the settings and apps again from iTunes using the backup earlier
• Right click on your device name under the ‘Devices’ menu in the left panel of iTunes and click ‘Restore from Back Up…’ then select the latest backup you created before
• Some "pirated" applications might not be able to be installed / synched at this point. Just sync the apps you purchased legally
• Open up Cydia and wait until it finishes preparing the filesystems and reboots your device
• Open up Cydia once again and let it download the repository packages
• On my case, i added two additional repository
• http://sinfuliphonerepo.com
• http://cydia.hackulo.us
• I installed iFile, OpenSSH, Installous, AppSync, and Hackulo Security (plus all the dependencies)
• Reboot your iDevices (optional, but i just wanted to make sure)
• Re-sync with iTunes and now, all of your apps (including the pirated one) can be synched perfectly

If you have upgraded to iOS 5.1.1 previously and have a tethered jailbreak, you can switch to untethered by using Rocky Racoon on Cydia.

I would like to remind you to purchase the applications legally in AppStore since applications that exists outside App Store is not tested by Apple and you are on your own when having problems with third party applications. It's also our way to give credit to the author of the apps.

Thanks to all jailbreakers who have provided this SUPER DUPER EASY tool to perform a jailbreak and tested it on almost all iDevices.

Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 is Out

Well, it's as expected, pod2g has released untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 on Friday in forms of Absinthe 2.0. All iDevices (except for Apple TV) are reported to be working, including the latest iPad (3rd Gen) and iPhone 4S. The tool are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Some people have reported that they are having some issue after jailbreaking and my guess is that it was caused due to heavy load on the server. According to the reports, there are 300.000.000 iDevices are waiting for this untethered jailbreak, meaning it would cause a massive load and it could trigger a failure on your devices. I think it's quite safe to wait for another day before performing the jailbreak itself.

Here are the links to perform on several iDevices:

• iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS
• iPad 1, 2, 3
• iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G

iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak is Near

There has been a lot of rumor about the issue about the upcoming untethered jailbreak for 5.1.1, but finally we have a new hope after the jailbreakers has confirmed that they have a working exploits and will release the full blown exploits for all iOS devices except for Apple TV. The new exploit will be implemented in Absinthe 2.0 and also a new version of redsn0w and probably many other tools out there.

Since these kind of news can be misused by other people by offering jailbreaker tools, the developer has warned that they haven't released an official release of Absinthe tool yet and don't get fooled by other people who offered a paid jailbreaker tool called Absinthe 0.5. They only want to take your money without giving you the real tool to work with.

For the latest and official news about Absinthe, please visit Absinthe Jailbreak

VirtualBox 4.1.16 Released

Oracle has managed to release a new version of VirtualBox, 4.1.16. As usual, this version comes with a lot of bug fixes and some new additions for better support of XOrg and new Linux Kernel (3.4).

Here's the ChangeLog:

• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)
• VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution only; bug #9941)
• VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP guests in rare cases
• 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash
• NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some circumstances (bug #10527)
• Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to 128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for Solaris and Windows hosts)
• EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)
• VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)
• Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some reason (bug #6189)
• Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible
• VBoxManage: fixed controlvm savestate if the VM is already paused
• Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3 (bug #10267)
• Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes
• Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages (bug #10418)
• Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #10581)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)
• Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better to miss some features than providing a blank screen)
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12

VMWare Workstation 8.0.3 and Linux Kernel 3.4 Patch

Linux Kernel 3.4 has been released by Linus Torvald yesterday and i have built the latest Linux Kernel on my machines and tested that VMWare Workstation 8.0.3 (and pressumably VMWare Player too) worked well with the latest Linux Kernel + patches.

First off, remove your old VMWare installation by removing all files under these directories:
/etc/vmware*
/usr/lib/vmware*

Next, start your VMWare installation using --ignore-errors parameter like this:
./VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.3-703057.i386.bundle --ignore-errors

After that, you download the patch that you can fetch on my SlackHacks repository. Give execute permission to the bash script and start it using
./patch-modules_3.4.0.sh

It will patch and recompile all VMWare modules and in the end, it should work again :)

If you encountered any errors, please read the whole post, starting from the top just to make sure you started with a clean installation of VMWare. Also, give detailed specs if you wanted to report any problems with this patch.

Credit goes to the author of this patch, not to me.

Linux Kernel 3.4 Released

After having 7 RC releases, finally Linus Torvalds is convinced with the development of Linux Kernel 3.4 and just pushed out Linux Kernel 3.4 and announce it on Linux Kernel Mailing List.

There was a last-minute changes from Peter Alvin about the GNU ld bug, but Linus took the patch anyway.

As always, please read Kernel Newbies entry for Linux Kernel 3.4 for human-readable ChangeLog. The major highlights on Linux Kernel 3.4 are:

1. Btrfs updates
   1. Btrfs: Repair and data recovery tools
   2. Btrfs: Metadata blocks bigger than 4KB
   3. Btrfs: Performance improvements
   4. Btrfs: Better error handling
2. GPU drivers
   1. GPU: Early support of Nvidia GeForce 600 'Kepler
   2. GPU: Support for RadeonHD 7xxx and Trinity APU series
   3. GPU: Support of Intel Medfield graphics
3. New X32 ABI: 64 bit mode with 32 bit pointers
4. x86 cpu driver autoprobing
5. Verifiable boot path with the device mapper "verity" target
6. Support a external read-only device as origin source of a thin provisioned LVM volume
7. perf: GTK2 report GUI, better assembly visualization, branch profiling, filtering of users and threads
8. 'Yama' security module
9. QNX6 filesystem