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"so err.... whats with all your tattoos?" i asked Frank i was slightly interested to know. "i never wanted a proper job so i got my scorpion just to piss off my parents" he laughed. the film had finished about ten minutes ago and now we were just sat talking. "look Kerry, James told me youve had it tough back home but im not gonna make you do anything you dont wanna do" i looked up at his brown eyes i felt bad that i didnt have the guts to tell him myself. "Frank im not proud of what ive done but if its not a big deal for you, its not a big deal for me" his hands were gripping on to mine and i read the tattoos on his fingers. at that moment i didnt really care about anything, not about my family, about my reputation, my friends just Frank. i kissed him my arms around his neck as i moved onto his lap, he had his hands on my back as my lip ring scratched his lip. our breathing was getting heavy i knew where this was going.
the beds were directly behind the sofa so we had flopped down on them within seconds he was on top of me. i took off my top and took his off for him he had a few tattoos on his chest aswell. as he started to un do his belt i stared at his tattoos and started to run my finger along some of them, he fell back down on me my skirt now on the floor. i was starting to moan which made me kind of embarrassed we werent even naked yet, i kept biting my lip or it was Franks. i felt him slide down his boxers and then mine, he started to stroke my face and i was starting to get more nervous and embarrassed my breathing was getting deeper and louder "its okay you know" he whispered i knew it was okay it wasnt my first but he was the first i actually liked and it made it better. "are you ready?" he asked it was almost soothing "yes" i breathed and i wrapped my legs around his. i moaned but and it kept getting louder, i see what people meant when they said wait for that special someone this was better than anyone before.
i woke up in Franks tshirt in his bed, i could feel his arm around me and i felt safe from everything. i turned over to see Franks eyes wide open staring at me, he moved my hair out of my face and tucked it behind my ear. "morning glory!" i smiled, he smiled back and then kissed my nose, then my lips "so did i live up to your expectations?" he whispered i didnt understand why he was whispering until i looked around the room, the guys were back and poor Ray was on the sofa. "you exceeded expectations" i giggled. we lay for about an hour just cuddling or what he called spooning but either way it was nice. when the rest of the guys started to show some life i got in the shower and started to get ready, just when i was about to go home when my phone rang it was Josh. "hey s'happeening?" i asked i think i must of sounded happy because i was smiling a lot. "Kerez Anna where on earth are you?" shit it was John!


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I'm fourteen years old and I've hated my nose for years. My parents have finally agreed to get a consultation and in two weeks we'll be driving down to Victoria BC for a consultation with a very good doctor. I can't stop thinking about what he might say, and I can't imagine why no might be the answer. I know fourteen is a very young age for rhinoplasty but it has been done before, and I'm mentally very mature. Based on my research, I believe your facial structure is at a safe age to have rhinoplasty performed on it two years after your first period, and I had mine three years ago. My height hasn't changed in nearly two years now. What I'm asking is if anyone has any ideas why I might not be able to get this procedure done, since I'm nearly positive I'm physically and mentally eligible for it.
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It will be up to the doctor to decide if he or she thinks you're ready. Try to stay positive! And you might want to go on consultations with 2 or 3 rhinoplasty specialists while you're in Victoria so you can get an idea of different approaches a surgeon might take with you. Here's what some doctors say about choosing your rhinoplasty surgeon.
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Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS)
Prior to any complication my mother Tapasi biswas went for RTIICS
[Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Science ],
Mukundapur, Calcutta for thorough heart checkup with a package of Rs.
3200/- by cash payment. Subsequent to this my mother suddenly felt
heart complications and was admitted to nearest Nursing home (Panacea
Nursing Home, Barrackpore ) from where next day she was shifted to
RTIICS , Kolkatta. For a good treatment at the advice of Dr. Sunil
Lilah over the phone . Later on we came to know that he was out of
Station since 30th Oct to 1st Nov. Angiographic test done on 2 nd Nov
, when after thorough discussion with Dr. Lilah we agreed for
Angioplasty with a Total package of Rs. 1.70 Lac, the maximum limit,
which he assured us and told us no question of cash payment .
This was considered Dr. Lilah was out of station , So I had paid
additional bed charge for 3 days costing Rs. 7800/- in CCU and
angiography done was delayed for 3 days .
Another point is Rs. 1.70 Lac will be include of all bed charges since
admission to discharge , but in bill they have raised to 1 lac 76
thousands as a corporate patient charge and additional Rs. 5342/-
(where again Rs. 3000/- Bed charge and Rs. 100/- Admission Fees)
charged by Cash. So total bill was :-
Rs. 1,76,000/- Corporate Bill
Rs. 5340/- Cash Bill
1. Angiographic test Package Rs. 11,300/-,which was in package , So
why they charged this days Bed Charge.
2. If doctor is out of station, so why Consultation Fees charged for
Rs. 1200/- ?
3. Cash payment of Non Surgical item was Rs. 5342/- , So why here
Admission Fees 100/- and Difference in Bed Charge Rs 3000/- Repeatedly
charged again, why they include this amount in Cash bill not in
Corporate Bill ?
4. Diagnostic bill, Pharmacy Bill, Shown in Corporate bill are totally
Suspicious .Diagnostic already done in the earlier TMT Test Package by
cash Payment Rs. 3200/-
As I am very much satisfied with the treatment of Dr. Sunil Lilah and
his great effort and his Co-operation with us, but as I believe that
there is big a gap between Doctor and the Administration of RTIICS.
So this is my Kind request that please review all the bill with
breakup from RTIICS of my Mother Tapasi Biswas before proceed any
payment. I am also sending you the scan copy of all the Corporate as
well as Cash bill which RTIICS have charged from me.
Sanjit Biswas
Card No-5003003624
Patient :- Tapasi Biswas.
Corporate Name :- Dimension India Networks Pvt Ltd.
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Hundreds of Los Angeles' 11,000 billboards are going digital — lighting up neighborhoods with flashing LED ads selling Coke, sitcoms and designer clothing. Some are, however, complaining about light pollution. Now the City Council is considering the billboards' environmental impact. Listen to full piece here.
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Menthe, D. Writing on the Wall: The Impending Demise of Modern Sign Regulation Under the First Amendment and State Constitutions. George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal v. 18 no. 1 (Fall 2007) p. 1-50
Burnett, D., student author Judging the Aesthetics of Billboards. The Journal of Law & Politics v. 23 no. 2 (Spring 2007) p. 171-231
Calo, M. R., Scylla or Charybdis: Navigating the Jurisprudence of Visual Clutter. Michigan Law Review v. 103 no. 7 (June 2005) p. 1877-98
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Barack Obama's smashing triumph is a victory for the idea that Not Being a Republican is a grand and glorious thing.
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Additional excerpt from piece: Think about it: the most left-wing presidential candidate since George McGovern ran on tax cuts! Yes, he was against the war, but he did not campaign on taking U.S. foreign policy in a dramatic new direction
Yes we can!!! I have heard this somewhere before but I can't remember where.
It was not Oprah that convinced me to get a Kindle
but the $50 off I got by using her discount code didn't hurt. (Use OPRAHWINFREY code at checkout for $50 off, good until Nov 1) My Kindle arrived in the mail today. I have used it for a couple hours and here are my initial impressions.
The e-ink screen is easy to read. Equal to reading a page out of a book in my opinion. There is the added plus that any book can be made into a large print book by changing the font size. With ebooks I also select a larger size font. I figure that since I can make things even easier on my eyes why not do it.
The Kindle has the ability to go on the Internet. I checked out LISNEWS and was able to read the site fine. You can follow the links out to other sites but not every site works great on the Kindle. Just like looking at the web on a PDA there are certain limitations to how well things display on a smaller screen. Sites that are formatted for PDAs display well on the Kindle. In fact they are better than on a PDA because the Kindle screen is significantly bigger than a PDA screen. -- Read More
The author of The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril was on the Daily Show today.
The book Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family (Touchstone Books) is being released October 13.
60 Minutes did a piece
on the book.
Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to try to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation by the Alaska Legislature has concluded. The inquiry found, however, that she was within her right to dismiss her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, who was the trooper's boss.
Full article in the NYT.
Debt could ultimately unseat the United States as the world's superpower.
Article here.
One group of researchers thinks headline-grabbing scientific reports are the most likely to turn out to be wrong
See: http://nonstopbooks.blogspot.com/2008/10/publish-and-be-wrong.html
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Book review in the Washington Post:
The Oracle of Omaha (Full Book Review)
Excerpt: "Manual labor is for the birds," Warren Buffett decided somewhere around the 8th grade. At this precocious age the Nebraska native had also already discovered his extraordinary facility with facts and figures, the very attribute that would transform a socially awkward misfit into "the Oracle of Omaha," the most successful investor of modern times, the world's richest man and most generous philanthropist. This quintessentially American tale about the ultimate self-made man -- and in some ways the least changed -- unfolds for the first time with Buffett's full cooperation in Alice Schroeder's gargantuan authorized biography, The Snowball. -- Read More
Palin is in Omaha giving a speech as I write this. I did not attend the speech but I did go over to see the circus outside the civic center. There were several thousand people in line to see the speech. Across the street there were around a dozen Obama supporters with signs. I thought they would have a more robust showing but in the big picture there was not much point to being there at all. Anybody in line at a Palin event is unlikely to be swayed by someone across the street with a sign. One sign read "Welcome to Obamaha". Another read "I wear lipstick but I will never vote for you". I was hoping someone was going to have a "Golly gee I am not voting for you" or "Gosh darn I a voting for Obama" sign.
Here are some of the pictures:
People in line
Obama supporters
Obama supporter close-up
Other side of building. The line went around the building.
I was hoping that McCain would pick Ms. South Carolina as his running mate.
On "Weekend America", a public radio program, there was a story called, "Everyday Sidewalk Poetry" that is about a city run project to put poetry in sidewalks when new concrete is poured.
You can listen to the story here.
Near the end of the piece there was a mention about a kid that liked the poetry is his neighborhood.
Daijon thinks the sidewalk poems bring a lot to his neighborhood. He likes how some of them share wisdom or lay out a path to follow. He even protected one as it was drying. "When it was wet cement my friend almost stepped on this, and I said 'Don't step on that 'cause that is beautiful work that people worked on a lot,'" he explains.
This made me smile. The world has plenty of hope in it when there are kids like Daijon.
On the radio program "The Story" there was an interview with Max Hardberger.
Pirates are demanding $20 million ransom for a ship they've seized off the coast of Somalia. They say they're prepared to fight to the death. Max Hardberger has direct experience of high seas piracy. His job is to take back ships that have been pirated, many of them worth millions of dollars, and return them to their rightful owners.
Max has worked all over the Caribbean and Latin America - sometimes employing voodoo priests to help him, and at other times using blow torches by moonlight to cut anchor chains. As he tells Dick Gordon, Max enjoys out-pirating the pirates - even when it means occasionally stepping over the legal line himself.
Here is the MP3 that contains the entire interview. (Best thing to do is to right click on link and select "save link as")
One of Max's books: Freighter Captain
From Max's website:
June 2, 2008 — The Broadway Books Imprint of Random House Acquires Max Hardberger's Memoirs
With the working title of "The Good Pirate", Max Hardberger's latest book will take readers on a journey through the hellhole ports of the world -- Read More
Blog entry at the NYT:
Snip! Nearly One-Fifth of Homes Have No Landline
By the end of the year one in five American households may well not have a home phone line. That's the conclusion of a new report by Nielsen, which says that already 17 percent of homes rely entirely on cellphones.
This trend has of course been brewing for a while, but the tough economy is pushing more people to snip the cord.
Indeed, the effect of the growing number of people without home phones is starting to ripple through various corners of society. Of course, the phone companies need to confront a declining base of income to support their century old web of copper wires. And the trend is causing trouble for political pollsters, aluminum-siding salesmen and the other banes of the dinner hour.
Full blog entry here.
I have a patron that gave me a description of a publication but does not know the name. Wanted to run this by you guys and see if anyone had any ideas.
Patron said that he has seen in the past a publication that gathers together editorials from around the world on current event. So for this week it would have a page about the Olympics and then display a list of quotes from editorials around the world about the Olympics. There would then probably also be a page about the war in Georgia and pages on other major events of the week.
Anyone familiar with this resource?
If I can't find the reseource I can use some full-text news databases that I have access to to basically create that type of publication on the fly but if I can find out what publication he was referring to I would like to know.
Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List
In June, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, in conjunction with the president of the American Foreign Service Association, announced the creation of a "Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List," and there's not a Grisham novel anywhere in sight.
See here.
I was with a friend and he is using his laptop. He then pulls out this little box that is half to a fourth the size of a paperback book and he hooks it to his computer with a USB cable. I ask him what it is. He says that it is a 250gb hard drive. In addition to the small size the cool feature was that it did not need to be plugged into anything but the USB drive for power. I also have a 250gb external hard drive but it is the size of a hardback book and requires a power adapter as well as a USB connection. The drive my friend had was almost small enough to slip into a pocket. After I saw the drive he had I was thinking why carry around a 2,4, or 8gb thumb drive when you can have 250gb at your disposal.
Here is a picture of the drive beside some car keys to show scale.
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About a year into our marriage, my wife and I decided we were ready for the adventure of having a child. Despite our best efforts, it wasn't happening. We didn't know why. One night as we were watching television, my wife turned to me and said, "I think you're the problem."
She had no medical background; she was going by a woman's intuition. To set her mind at ease, I paid a visit to my doctor.
My previous doctor had retired. I met the new one as she walked into the exam room. She looked to be in her early 30s, with dark hair and bright red lipstick.
She said she would refer me to a fertility clinic. In the meantime, she suggested my wife and I have sex three times a week. I asked if she could put that in writing.
A month later I went to the fertility clinic. My wife and I were married in our late 30s – hence our urgency. As a bachelor, I never imagined marriage would lead me to a room in a medical office that contained a plastic specimen cup, a sink, a chair, a TV and the DVD "Young and Horny."
Despite the less than optimal surroundings, I managed to complete my task. It then dawned on me that there wasn't a secret drawer where I could discreetly leave my sample. Instead I had to exit the room, cup in hand, and walk down the hall, passing several employees, until I got to the last desk where a ponytailed woman was working.
She smiled and thanked me. I did my best to pretend I hadn't just masturbated and placed a cup of semen on her desk.
The next day my wife brightened after discovering she was pregnant. Which meant she had been pregnant when I was in that stupid room with the pornography. If I had waited just one day, I wouldn't have had to drive to an office building and humiliate myself. But I was happy. I was going to be a father.
We heard the baby's heartbeat during our first appointment with the obstetrician. I asked the doctor for the baby's due date. She took out her phone and used an app to calculate it. "Oct. 10th," she announced.
From that moment on, Oct. 10 became a date that loomed large.
One night, when the baby was particularly active, my wife placed my hand on her stomach. I waited and waited. Nothing happened. I said, "This is kind of like whale watching."
In retrospect, that was a dumb thing to say.
You need a birth plan
I didn't know what I was doing. This was a new experience for me – for my wife, too. We had dinner with our friends Ann and Marc, who had three kids and plenty of insight. Marc was upset when he found out I did not have a birth plan.
"You have to have a birth plan," he insisted. "You need to know where to park, whether or not she's going to get an epidural, if there's going to be a shaman in the room."
I hadn't thought of these things because early on, my wife decided she did not want me in the delivery room. There is a park on the grounds of the hospital. I decided I would sit on a bench in the park and maybe have a snack. At some point I would receive a text: "Come meet your baby! :-)."
On Aug. 10, however, my wife woke me up around 10:30 p.m. "Something is happening." Her water had broken.
I jumped out of bed and thought, "I need to get a birth plan." First step in my plan: Put pants on. There was just one obstacle we needed to get past: my in-laws. They were sleeping on an air mattress in the living room.
I asked my wife, "What do you want to do about the people in the other room?"
"Just go," she implored.
We arrived at the hospital in record time.
A nurse examined my wife and explained that the baby wanted to show up early, but they would be able to delay birth for about a month. My wife would have to stay at the hospital. A cot was wheeled in for me.
A change in plans
Despite my wife's being administered medicine to delay our child's arrival, her contractions began an hour later. My cot was wheeled out and a pit crew raced in, including two nurses carrying an empty dessert tray. The on-call doctor took one look at my wife and said to me: "The baby is coming. Do you have any questions?"
I was supposed to be in the park. I asked my wife if she wanted me to leave the room. She grabbed my hand so hard I was certain she had crushed the bones in it. There was moaning and breathing and squeezing and pushing. Then there was our baby, smaller than a teddy bear, crying.
Our baby was put on the dessert tray and taken to the neonatal intensive care unit. It's a place where professional guardian angels care for premature babies 24 hours a day.
That morning I called my in-laws and told them there had been a change of plans. As I awaited their arrival, I saw a group of pregnant women with their husbands taking a tour. They were giddy and chatty, as if on a field trip. I couldn't help but think, "What a bunch of amateurs."
After five weeks in the hospital, we finally brought our daughter home, healthy and happy. I was officially a father. And being a father, as I am happily learning, involves a lot more than sitting on a park bench and having a snack.
Carlos Kotkin of Los Angeles is the author of the dating memoir "Please God Let It Be Herpes: A Heartfelt Quest for Love and Companionship."
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I cannot believe this got so many notes. But this is the continuation.
Mary, you're my online dating hero!
OH PLEASE fucking tell me you were honest about sending his mom the convo
because i need a christmas present that good
knowing a guy is going to have to deal with his mom knowing he perpetuates rape culture
and be accountable for his actions
I'm going to do this to every guy who does this to me. And they're so easy to track down on FB too.
i would have taken the money and sent the caps anyway
If she was really offended she should have stopped chatting with him. This girl isn't a hero. She is just a girl pissed off at men. Sure, he crossed lines, but she could have stopped talking to him without trying to cause stress within his family.
1. I was not offended. His sexual advances made me uncomfortable, but I was not offended by them.
2. I wasn't trying to be a hero, I don't like that people are viewing me as a hero, but what can I do?
3. I am not a girl, I am a woman. A grown ass woman who has zero problem being held accountable for her actions.
4. I am not pissed off at men. I love men, men are awesome. I've dated tons of them. This particular man, not so awesome.
5. What if he'd caused me more stress than he did? What if he'd triggered me? Why is it that he's the only person whose wellbeing matters to you?
Didn't anyone ever tell you what happens when you assume?
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Have a back up job running at 189 kilobytes / min :(
It's backing up files from a server to a hard disk that's connected to the backup server.
Backup server NIC is running at 1Gbps ( Which is strange because it has two NIC's teamed so should be running at 2Gbps). Would it help if I added more NIC's to the team? Or do I need to increase the bandwidth on the servers it's backing up as well?


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Science claims the universe is expanding
What evidence does science have, that explains such, said the spider to the fly. :-)
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Jim RyanApr 16 2013: I know right, the media makes these claims and the scientists never have to answer for their claims, by people that can think for themselves and confront them with the hard questions. Its the same with lawyers, the courts protect them from their own copy and paste existence, while they call thinkers fools for wanting to represent themselves, with the judges not allowing whatever they don't want.
If people are honest with themselves, they will see that schools never teach the kids or college grads to think for themselves.
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Several years ago, the admissions director of an Ivy League university was asked for one or two high school activities that would give an applicant an advantage in being accepted to his institution, if they [sic] were on the waiting list. Without hesitating, he put cross-country at the top of the list. Cross-country runners, he said, have a special type of discipline and are willing to work very hard physically and mentally without receiving recognition. This combination of characteristics produced successful graduates who could handle the pressure-packed university culture.
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My 90s heroine Claire Danes was recently spotted walking her adorable dog WeeGee in Soho, NYC with a Prada Saffiano Cuir Open Promenade Bag and a diaper bag of unknown origin. Her hat seems totally appropriate for the utterly dreary weather we experienced in NYC this weekend; unfortunately it didn't help disguise her from the paps at all. Claire is a long-time Prada loyalist, she's been wearing/carrying Prada for as long as I've been reading glossy fashion mags. You can pick up Claire's luxe leather tote for $2,390 at Neiman Marcus.
Claire is, of course, extremely well known for her "ugly cry faces," i.e. superb acting skills, but this face she's making here seems to be here default "Oh no, paparazzi!" face – shock, mixed with slight horror, and an obvious dose of sudden self-consciousness. Such powers of expression! Sadly, as much as I loved every cry face she ever made in the 1990s, I have not yet seen a single episode of Homeland. I can only stomach so many hour-long dramas at a time.


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The wet market offers visitors a variety of grocery items to purchase - from fresh fruits, vegetables, fish to local delicacies and snacks such as keropok.
These turtles are critically endangered. Everytime you want to buy these eggs, remember Puteri Rantau Abang. If there is no demand, then there would be no supply, it is as simple as that.
Traditional products and souvenirs like batik, brassware, brocade and songket are sold mainly on the second floor. Remember to bargain with the sellers and you will have a delightful experience shopping in local fares at reasonable prices.
My mum and I usually went to the market a week before eid to buy grocery. Do not wait until the last moment or you will suffer. A day before raya, this market must be avoided at any cost! It will be impossible to buy anything as people from all over Terengganu will come to shop. It will be so packed that you can't even breathe in there!
This market is definitely an iconic building in Terengganu. Your visit to this state will be incomplete without a trip to this market by the river.


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Not much to say. Basically, this script will run on the Kindle, and along with the "md" binary I wrote last time, it will generate the headers to the correct size and add the tar.gz update package in.
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Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 2 – Update encryption
So, on the topic of Kindle (I swear, it's becoming an obsession). I am currently in the process of porting the Kindle 3.1 software to Kindle 2 and DX. I will make a series of posts describing my process while describing how various parts of the Kindle operating system works. Now I've tested 3.1 on my Kindle 2 and it works perfectly fine. All features work (audio, TTS, book reading), and the new features also work without major slowdowns (new PDF reader, new browser, etc).
Where's part one you ask? Well, part one was getting the 3.1 OS to work on the Kindle 2, the rest is making an easy installer. That is a long story that involves custom partition tables, manually creating tar files (checksums are a pain), remote debugging, and more. It's a lot of stuff and most aren't very useful because nobody should have to repeat the process, which is why I'm creating a easy to use installer. If I have time one day, I may write it down for documentation purposes.
First of all, I will write down the game plan. What I plan to do is create an installer with the least amount of steps for the user. I'm hoping for a two part or three part installer. (Can't be one part because you need a copy of the OS, and distributing it is most likely frowned upon by Amazon). How the installer should work is:
- User copies a image-creator package on a jail-broken Kindle 2. This package will backup the original OS, and generate a new ext3 image with some required files from the Kindle 2 (drivers and such). It will also update the kernel to support recovery packages.
- User keeps backup in a safe place and copies the image-creator package and the image generated from the K2 on a jail-broken Kindle 3 and runs the package. The image-creator will scan the filesystem making sure all files exist are are unmodified, then copies the files to the ext3 image. It will then take the ext3 image and generate a Kindle 2 recovery package with the 3.1 OS.
- User copies the recovery package generated from the Kindle 3 and copies it to the Kindle 2 and restarts. The Kindle will write the ext3 image to the root partition.
Update Encryption
Now, Igor Skochinsky wrote a nice post a couple of years ago on the Kindle update encryption algorithm. Basically, to encrypt an update, you take each byte of the file and shift the bits four to the left and OR it with the same bits shifted four to the right. Then you AND the result by 0xFF and XOR it by 0x7A. (Sounds like some computer dance move). Well, Igor also wrote a nice Python script that does the encrypting and decrypting, but I didn't want to port Python to Kindle, so I decided to modify Amazon's update decryption script "dm" and reverse it to make a encryption script "md". I opened up IDA Pro and looked for the encryption. Here it is nicely commented by me into psudocode:
BL getchar // get byte to modify
EOR R3, R0, #0x7A // R3 = R0 ^ 0x7A
CMN R0, #1 // if !(R0 == 1), we are at the end of the file …
AND R0, R0, #0xF // R0 = R0 & 0xF
BNE loc_8470 // … then jump to end of program
MOV R0, #0 // clear R0 register
ADD SP, SP, #4 // don't care
LDMFD SP!, {PC} // don't care
It was a simple matter of reversing the instructions and registers, but like I said before, IDA Pro does not allow changing instructions directly, so I had to mess around with the machine code in the hex editor until I made the instructions I want. Here's the modified function nicely commented by me in human.
BL getchar // get byte to modify
CMN R0, #1 // if byte is 0×01, then …
MOV R3, R0,LSR#4 // set R0 to R0 right shift 4
AND R3, R3, #0xF // set R4 to R4 logical AND 0xF
ORR R3, R3, R0,LSL#4 // set R3 to R3 logical OR ( R0 left shift 4 )
EOR R0, R3, #0x7A // set R0 to R3 logical exclusive OR 0x7A
BNE loc_8470 // … exit program
MOV R0, #0 // clear register R0
ADD SP, SP, #4 // don't care
LDMFD SP!, {PC} // don't care
If you want to try it out, here's the bspatch from "dm" to "md". MD5 of dm is 6725ac822654b97355facd138f86d438 and after patching, md should be 3b650bcf4021b41d70796d93e1aad658. You can copy md to your Kindle's /usr/sbin and test it out:
echo 'hello world' | md > hello.bin # "md" encrypt 'hello world' and output to hello.bin
cat hello.bin | dm # "dm" decrypt hello.bin and it should output 'hello world'
Now that we can create update packages from the Kindle, I can start working on the Kindle 2 image-creator script.
Recovering a formatted or corrupt Kindle 2
One day, while playing around with a Kindle 2, I accidentally deleted the /lib folder. Oops. Now, no command beyond "ls" and "rm" work. If this was a computer, I could have simply inserted a installation DVD and copied the files over, but this was an eBook reader, and I was in for a world of pain. This was a month ago, and I've finally recovered the Kindle. I'm posting what I did online to save anyone else who's in the same boat a ton of time. This tutorial is only designed for the Kindle 2, but it MAY work for the DX. It will NOT work for the Kindle 3, but directions should be similar.
If you've think you "bricked" your Kindle, don't panic yet. There could be a easy solution. Chances are, if you can see the startup progress bar loading, the solution should be easier (although I can't tell you exactly what your problem is). I would follow Amazon's troubleshooting directions first. Only proceed if you are absolutely sure nothing else can be done.
Here's what you'll need
- TTL to RS232 or USB connector. I used this one. For that, use the jumper on pin 1 and 2 on the side (with the three pins, pin 1 is towards the USB port). Connect Kindle Tx -> Tx, Rx -> Rx, GND -> GND, VDD -> VDD
- Windows with HyperTerminal (I tried Kermit on Linux, but it couldn't send files. HyperTerminal is the only program I've tested that works sending files to the Kindle)
- Linux or Unix-based computer with "dd" and "ssh"
- My custom recovery kernel which allows jailbreak signed recovery packages and exporting MMC0 without a password. If you want to know how I've made it in technical details, see the appendix.
Here's what we'll be doing:
- Attaching the recovery port
- Flashing the custom patched recovery kernel
- Obtaining a backup of Kindle system files
- Restoring your Kindle
Attaching the recovery port
First open up the Kindle 2 to reveal the PCB board. You should remove both the metal casing and the white plastic with all the screws. On the top, to the left of the headphone jack, you should see four pads labeled J4. Either solder (recommended) or tape (make sure it isn't lose!) four wires to these pads. The order of these ports (left to right, where left is towards the volume switch) are: VDD, Rx, Tx, GND. Connect these lines to your TTL adapter and connect the adapter to your computer.
Flashing the custom patched recovery kernel
Open up HyperTerminal, and connect to your adapter. Make sure to click "Configure" and fill in the settings. The settings are: BPS: 115200, Data bits: 8, Parity: none, Stop bits: 1, Flow control: none. Then, restart your Kindle either by removing & reconnecting the battery, holding the sleep switch for 30 seconds, or tapping the reset switch on the PCB. Press Enter when text pops up in HyperTerminal. You only have one second, so be quick. In uBook, type in "run prg_kernel_serial" (make sure to type fast or uBoot will timeout). Then right click on the text, and choose "Send File". Under protocol, choose Ymodem-G and for the file, select my custom kernel. Wait a few minutes for it to upload and install, then type in "bootm 0xa0060000″ to boot the kernel. The Kindle has two kernels that it alternates on each boot, so if you want to use my recovery kernel, you need to either flash the other kernel also or type in "bootm 0xa0060000″ into uboot on startup. Hold down Enter either on your computer or on the Kindle to enter the recovery menu. The recovery menu times out in 10 seconds, so you need to be quick. First type "I" to recreate all the partitions, then type "3″ to export the MMC. Again, these can be typed from either your keyboard in HyperTerminal, or the Kindle keypad. If you do not have access to HyperTerminal because you are in Linux restoring, you can get back here by holding Enter on the Kindle keypad and pressing 3 on the recovery menu.
Obtaining a backup of Kindle system files
Let's put your broken Kindle aside. You need a working copy of Kindle's system files. I cannot provide this for legal reasons, but if you obtain another Kindle 2 (preferably the same model and version as your broken one, but others MAY work [not Kindle 3 though... yet]), jailbreak it and install the usbNetwork hack for SSH access. Make sure that Kindle has at least 500MB of free space on the FAT partition to store the backup image. Once you SSH'd into the working Kindle (there are tons of tutorials around on this), issue the following command:
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p1 of=/mnt/us/rootfs.img bs=1024
Note that this will only make a copy of the OS files. All personal information, passwords, books, etc are not copied. You can tell your friend that. This may take five to fifteen minutes to run, but when the command returns with the blocks written, you can disable usbNetwork and enable USB storage again. Copy the rootfs.img file over to your recovery computer and prepare to restore.
Restoring your Kindle
Back to your broken Kindle. You need to reformat the root and copy over the backup files. I moved the Kindle over to a Linux computer because it is easier. You can also use OSX or maybe even cygwin, but I haven't tested. In shell, type in the following commands:
sudo su # Become root, so you don't need to sudo everything
fdisk -l # Look for your Kindle's identifier, it should be something like /dev/sdc, it should be a 2GB drive with 4 partitions. I will use /dev/sdX to represent this drive
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdX2 # Make a ext3 partition for /var/local
dd if=/path/to/rootfs.img of=/dev/sdX1 bs=1MiB # This will take a long time to finish
Note that an alternative method is to gzip rootfs.img and place it into a recovery package created using kindle_update_tool.py, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
So, what is in the magical Kindle recovery kernel? It's actually just a regular Kindle kernel recompiled with a modified initramfs with a patched recovery script. Using the regular kernel, you'll run into two difficulties when trying to recover. First, if you press 3 to export MMC0, you'll get a password prompt. Good luck brute forcing it. Second, if you build a custom recovery package using kindle_update_tool.py m –k2 –sign –fb, it will not work because of signature checks. What I did was patch the two checks.
First, I extracted the recovery-utils file by gunzipping uImage (with the extra stuff stripped out), and gunzipped initramfs.cpio from that. Then I extracted initramfs.cpio and found recovery-utils under /bin.
Next, the easy part is patching the updater package signature checks. What I did is extract the updater RSA public key file from the Kindle, found under /etc/uks and used OpenSSL to extract the public key from it (n and e). Then I opened recovery-utils with a hex editor, searched for the public key, and replaced it with the jailbreak key (found in kindle_update_tool.py).
Finally, the challenging part was to patch the password check from export MMC0. First I opened recovery-utils with IDA Pro. Then I located the check_pass function. I worked backwards from that and saw it was called from loc_94A8. Here's a snippet of the check along with my interpretation of what it does:
BL check_pass # Call the check_pass function
CMP R0, #0 # check_pass sets register R0 with the return value, we will check if R0 equals 0×0
BEQ loc_9604 # If the previous instruction is true, then password check has failed
LDR R0, =aDevMmcblk0 ; "/dev/mmcblk0″ # We did not jump out, so CMP R0, #0 is false
BL storage_export # Call this function
It's always easy to patch the least amount of instructions with the least amount of changes, so this is what I did. (Note that IDA Pro doesn't allow editing instructions directly, so I have to find the machine code in hex to know what to replace. Luckily, I have tons to instructions to look at and see what their corresponding machine codes are).
NOP # Instead of calling check_pass, I did MOV R0, R0 which is the same as NOP
CMN R0, R0 # Negative compare R0 with itself. Basically, always return false.
… rest is the same
Now, I saved the file and luckily, it was the same size. So I didn't have to recreate the initramfs.cpio, I just replaced the file inside with my hex editor (note that cpio files do not have checksum checks unlike tar files). I copied this to the kernel source folder and compiled the kernel. Lucky for you, I have already done all of this so you don't have to.
Kindle 3.X Updater
This is a script that allows you to install the latest Kindle software (3.X) on an older Kindle (Kindle 2 and DX). You need a jailbroken Kindle 3 to obtain the files legally (I will not distribute them) and the Kindle 2/DX must also be jailbroken. Detailed installation instructions are found in README.txt.
This allows the old Kindles to take advantages of new features such as the improved web browser, better PDF support, page numbers, and more.
There are currently two known bugs. Sometimes, the sound gets fuzzy, which makes the music player unusable. I would suggest using the MPlayer script for Kindle to play music. Another bug is that active contents do not work currently. I do not know the cause of this.
- 2011-05-29
Quickguide: Bypassing Lenovo S10 BIOS Whitelist
Lenovo loves to assert their dominance to you by whitelisting what WWAN (3G modem) card you can install in your laptop. There has been a way to bypass or remove the whitelist on most models, except the S10. Now I found a great guide here: http://www.sbbala.com/DellWWAN/Whitelist.htm that shows you how the remove the whitelist, but as many found out, it doesn't always work. The problem is that… well, I don't know what the problem is, but I'm guessing there's additional checks. I've been trying to find the format of the S10 whitelist, but I'm having no luck, so we'll do it the easy way. Brute force. Put your WWAN card into every whitelist entry. It'll have to work then, right?
Now this is a "quickguide" which means I won't spoon feed you. This is mostly because I don't have the time to write a full guide, but maybe if I ever find the format of the whitelist or find a way to disable it completely, I'll write an actual guide.
Basically, follow sbbala's guide up until "Save and now you can close the hex-editor." Instead of pulling out after replacing one entry, we're going to replace a couple of others in MISER00.ROM. Take the PID/VID (little-endian reversed) and replace the follow entries with it:
DB 0B 00 19 (this one was in the guide)
D1 12 01 10 (this one will appear twice, replace both)
D2 19 F1 FF (this one will appear twice, replace both)
Now, I'm sure there are more devices in the whitelist, but for safety reasons, the ones I choose are 1) WWAN cards (I don't want to accidentally remove the camera from the whitelist), and 2) in the Linux VID/PID list. If this doesn't work, then try looking and replacing some more values in the whitelist. Although I haven't completely reversed the whitelist format yet, I THINK it's something like this. 1 Byte: FA followed by 4 bytes VID (little-endian) followed by 4 bytes PID (little-endian) followed by X bytes of don't-know-what. The offset is different for every BIOS version, but it's always in MISER00.ROM and is before DB 0B 00 19 and a bit after a bunch of 00s.
Kindle 3.1 Jailbreak
I was bored one weekend and decided to jailbreak the new Kindle firmware. It was time consuming to find bugs, but not difficult. Unlike the iPhone, the Kindle doesn't really have security. They have a verified FS and signed updates and that's it, but I will still call my jailbreak an "exploit" just to piss you off. Previous Kindle 3 jailbreaks worked (AFAIK, I haven't really looked into it) by tricking the Kindle into running a custom script by redirecting a signed script using a syslink. This worked because the updater scans only "files" that do not end with ".sig" (signature files to validate the file). They fixed this now by scanning all non-directorys that do no end with ".sig". This is the first bug I've exploited. Part one is getting the files into the update, which I did by conventionally renaming them to ".sig" even though they're not signature files. Part two is harder, getting the unsigned script to run.
How the Kindle updater works is that first it gets a list of all files (including files in subfolders, excluding signature files) in the update and checks it's signature with Amazon's public keys. If you modify any of the scripts from a previous update, the signature is broken and the Kindle won't run it. If you add your own scripts, you can't sign it because you don't have Amazon's keys, and finding them would take more then the lifespan of the universe. (SHA256 HMAC). They also use OpenSSL to check the signatures, so trying to buffer overflow or something is out of question (or is it? I haven't looked into it). Afterwards, when all files are matched with their signatures and checked, the updater reads a ".dat" file which contains a list of all scripts, their MD5 hash and size (to verify, I don't see the point since they were just signature checked. Maybe a sanity check?). It finds the ".dat" file using "find update*.dat | xargs" which means all the .dat file has to be is start with update and end with .dat. They don't care what is in between. Next, they read the file using "cat" and with each entry, verify the hash and loads the script. Well, conventionally, "cat" can read multiple files if more then one filename is given in the input. This means if the update*.dat file contains spaces, then "cat" will read every "filename" separated by a space. I took a signed .dat from one of Amazon's update. Renamed it "update loader.sig .dat" and placed my actual .dat (containing an entry to the script jailbreak.sig, a shell script renamed) in loader.sig. jailbreak.sig untars payload.sig, a renamed tgz file which contains the new keys we want to use to allow custom updates. Amazon's updater only signature checks "update loader.sig .dat" which is valid. Then cat tries to read the files "update", "loader.sig", and ".dat", one of which exists and the others silently fail. Loader.sig points to the script jailbreak.sig which the updater happily loads thinking it's already signature checked. Jailbreak.sig, calls tar to extract payload.sig and copies the new keys to /etc/uks and installs a init.d script to allow reverting to Amazon's keys for installing future updates. Now we own the system again!
A download to the jailbreak can be found here. Directions are provided in the readme file. Use it at your own risk (I'm not responsible if you somehow brick it) and note that it most likely will void your warranty. Make sure to uninstall all custom updates before you uninstall the jailbreak, as after uninstalling the jailbreak, you cannot run custom packages until you jailbreak again. Directions for switching between custom updates and Amazon updates can be found in the readme file.
Kindle Jailbreak
Special thanks to Serge A. Levin for updating my 3.2.1 jailbreak to remove the need for precise timing. It can now work as any other jailbreak. Just read and follow the directions in README.txt, or for your convenience:
1) Copy and paste the correct update for your device
k2 = Kindle 2 US
k2i = Kindle 2 International
dx = Kindle DX US
dxi = Kindle DX International
dxg = Kindle DX Graphite
k3 = Kindle 3 Wifi + 3G (US & Canada)
k3g = Kindle 3 Wifi + 3G (Elsewhere)
k3w = Kindle 3 Wifi
2) Go to the Settings page via Menu -> Settings
3) Select "Update Your Kindle"
This should in theory work with every Kindle version from 2.0 to 3.2.1. However, only Kindle 3 on 3.2.1 have been tested, so use at your own risk.
If this doesn't work for your older version Kindle (< 3.2.1), try the 0.4 version which supports all Kindle 3.1 and below.
- 2011-09-01
Creating a PSP FreeCheat Memory Patch
FreeCheat is a memory editor and cheat device (like Action Replay) for the PSP. It includes features like a live in-game memory viewer and searcher. One of the feature that intrigued me is the memory patcher. I had no idea what it does, but I assume it does what it says: patches the memory. Problem is: I've searched everywhere, but there seems to be no information on how to create a FreeCheat memory patch for the PSP (only .pat files for Monster Hunter). Well, it's not that hard. After some trial and error, I've found out how to create a FreeCheat .pat memory patch. Note that the following should only be attempted by a person with enough technical knowledge to understand it.
To create a memory patch, first you need to find out what you want to patch. I suggest using FreeCheat's own memory searcher to find the memory location. Another method if using FreeCheat to dump the memory to a file, and open it on your computer with a hex editor. Once you find something you want to replace, look at the address. On FreeCheat, this is the hex number on the bottom left of the memory viewer box. On your hex editor, it should be listed as "address" or "offset". This should be between 0×0000000 and 0x017FFFFF. Now take this number and add 0×08800000 (hex math please) to it.
You can now create a new file in your hex editor to be the patch. The first four bytes in the file is the memory offset (that you found) in big endian form. The problem is that the offset you found is a little endian number. You need to convert it to a big endian number. Most hex editors allows something like this. I use 0xED on OSX, so on there (make sure it's set to Edit->Number Mode->Little Endian!), I would type in 00000000, highlight it, and under "32 bit unsigned", I would paste in the offset I found and it would convert it automatically. Then in the rest of the hex document, fill in whatever you want to replace the memory with. Save this as a .pat file and copy it to your PSP at /FreeCheat/PATCH and on the PSP, open up FreeCheat, go to MEM Manager and Load MEM Patch.
Ajax Word Search Solver
I almost forgot about this.
This project was written purely out of my boredom in class. I wanted to learn 1) Javascript, 2) jQuery, 3) JSON, and 4) more Ajax, so I decided to write this simple word search solver. The "backend" (puzzle solving algorithm) is written in PHP not because I didn't know how to write it in Javascript (ok, maybe it's because of that), but because I wanted to try out JSON by allowing PHP to pass the puzzle solutions to Javascript. This word search solver has features such as: solving the puzzle live by highlighting the solution as you type, adding lists of words, removing words from list with delete key or double click, etc.
It's also very buggy, because as I stated, I wrote this in a few hours with zero knowledge of jQuery/Javascript.
Anyways, here's the site: http://yifan.lu/wss/ and the source: http://yifan.lu/p/wss
Word Search Solver
This is an ajax word search solver. The user inputs a word search puzzle. Then, the user can enter the word he/she is looking for, and live on the page, (if found), the word will be highlighted on the puzzle as the user is typing. The actual puzzle-solving algorithm is in PHP. I know this is inefficient, but I just wanted to try out JSON. Features include inputing one word at a time, inputing a word list, adding word with enter, removing word by highlighting the word in the select box and pressing the "delete" key or double clicking.
- 2011-02-02