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Vudu has sent out emails to all affected users urging them to reset their passwords. They have also released a press release which is provided below.
On March 24, 2013, there was a break in at the VUDU office and a number of items were stolen, including hard drives. These hard drives contained customer data including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, account activity, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords, but NO full credit card numbers. We are proactively retiring and resetting all passwords and notifying all customers. As another level of protection for customers we are also providing AllClear ID identity protection services. We reported the theft to law enforcement immediately, and are cooperating fully with their investigation.
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by Chris Petit ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 30, 2001
A dreary, disjointed tale about a lovesick cop and other obsessive types, from the author of The Psalm Killer (1997).
Youselli is a New York City police officer, apparently so underemployed that he's got scads of time to moonlight on behalf of McMahon, a once top-of-the-charts rock star now on a slow downward slide. From handling security at parties, Youselli has graduated to more complex chores when those upsetting letters start arriving: strange letters, intimate and erotic letters, scary letters signed, simply, Leah. Not for a minute, however, does McMahon believe that Leah wrote them. Leah, you see, has been dead for 20 years—a death that he himself witnessed. Find out the who and why behind this assault on his peace of mind, McMahon charges Youselli. Soon enough, however, as the epistolary flow continues unabated, the cop finds himself less detached about the case than a good detective ought to be. The letters reach out to him, something about them resonates in his cynical, hard-edged psyche. Leah becomes the stuff of his fantasies, more compelling to him than she ever was to McMahon. Meanwhile, Youselli's real life is in a state of severe dysfunction. His emotionally disturbed ex-wife may be stalking him, and he's enmeshed, at age 36, in two affairs with women decades older than he is. Nothing truly matters to Youselli, though, except the hunt for Leah. She was supposed to have died as the result of an accident, but did anyone actually see her corpse? Even a question as straightforward as that produces nothing but ambiguous answers. Youselli, driven, persists until he unexpectedly stumbles on the clues that unravel the mystery. By then, however, he wishes he hadn't.Once again, Petit displays flashes of talent but remains a writer in search of a story.
Pub Date: March 30, 2001
Page Count: 272
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Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it's been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department's earlier practice (The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner's analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Heavner isn't exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. But the hints of other crimes Tempe's identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.'s splenetic outbursts. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. government project to research biological agents that could control human behavior, the hinky spiritual retreat Sparkling Waters, the dark web site DeepUnder, and the disappearances of at least four schoolchildren, two of whom have also turned up dead. And why on earth was Vodyanov carrying Tempe's own contact information? The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in "Drugs. Fraud. Breaking and entering. Arson. Kidnapping. How does attempted murder sound?"Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine's survival.
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Lady detective Bridie Devine searches for a missing child and finds much more than she bargained for.
Bridie Devine is no stranger to the seedy underworld of Victorian London. An accomplished detective with medical training, she sometimes helps the police by examining bodies to determine the cause of death. Bridie recently failed to find a lost child, and when she's approached about another missing child, the daughter of Sir Edmund Berwick, she isn't enthusiastic about taking on the case. But Christabel Berwick is no ordinary child. Sir Edmund has hidden Christabel away her whole life and wants Bridie to believe this is an ordinary kidnapping. Bridie does a little digging and learns that Christabel isn't his daughter so much as his prized specimen. Sir Edmund believes Christabel is a "merrow," a darker and less romanticized version of a mermaid. Bridie is skeptical, but there are reports of Christabel's sharp teeth, color-changing eyes, and ability to drown people on dry land. Given that Bridie's new companion is a ghost who refuses to tell her why he's haunting her, Bridie might want to open her mind a bit. There's a lot going on in this singular novel, and none of it pretty. Bridie's London is soaked with mud and blood, and her past is nightmarish at best. Kidd (Mr. Flood's Last Resort, 2018, etc.) is an expert at setting a supernatural mood perfect for ghosts and merrows, but her human villains make them seem mundane by comparison. With so much detail and so many clever, Dickensian characters, readers might petition Kidd to give Bridie her own series.Creepy, violent, and propulsive; a standout gothic mystery.
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Page Count: 384
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Bookends of the Christian Life
- Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington Authors
- 2009 21 Apr
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from The Bookends of the Christian Life by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington (Crossway).
I am not ashamed of the gospel . . . for in it the righteousness of God is revealed. – Romans 1:16-17
What is the righteousness of Christ, and why do we need it as the first bookend? The word righteous in the Bible basically means perfect obedience; a righteous person is one who always does what is right. This statement assumes there's an external, objective standard of right and wrong. That standard is the universal moral will of God as given to us throughout the Bible. It's the law of God written on every human heart. It's the standard by which each person will ultimately be judged.1
Our problem is that we're not righteous. As the apostle Paul put it so bluntly, "None is righteous, no, not one … No one does good, not even one" (Romans 3:10-12). That's strong language. We may quickly protest that we're not so bad. After all, we don't steal, murder, or engage in sexual immorality. We usually obey our civil laws and treat each other decently. So how can Paul say we're not righteous?
We respond this way because we fail to realize how impossibly high God's standard actually is. When asked, "Which is the great commandment in the Law?" Jesus responded, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 22:36-40). None of us has even come close to fulfilling either of these two commandments. Yet Paul wrote, "For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, 'Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them'" (Galatians 3:10). "All" is absolute. It means exactly what it says; not most, but all.
If we applied this same standard in the academic world, scoring 99 percent on a final exam would mean failing the course. A term paper with a single misspelled word would earn an F. No school has a standard of grading this rigorous; if it did, no one would graduate. In fact, professors often grade "on a curve," meaning all grades are relative to the best score in the class, even if that score isn't perfect. We're so accustomed to this approach we tend to think God also grades on a curve. We look at the scandalous sins of society around us, and because we don't engage in them, we assume God is pleased with us. After all, we're better than "they" are.
But God doesn't grade on a curve. The effect of Galatians 3:10 is to put us all under God's curse. And while it's one thing to fail a course at the university, it's altogether something else to be eternally damned under the curse of God. The good news of the gospel, of course, is that those who have trusted in Jesus Christ as their Savior will not experience that curse. As Paul wrote just a few sentences later, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us" (Galatians 3:13). Let this truth sink deeply into your heart and mind: apart from the saving work of Christ, every one of us still deserves God's curse every day of our lives. We may not commit "scandalous" sins. But what about our pride, our selfishness, our impatience with others, our critical spirit, and all sorts of other sins we tolerate on a daily basis? Even on our best days, we still haven't loved God or our neighbor as we should. So we have to agree with Paul. None of us is righteous, not even one.
We know we need a Savior, so we trust in Christ to redeem us from the curse of God's law. But though we believe we're saved as far as our eternal destiny is concerned, we may not be sure about our day-to-day standing with God. Many of us embrace a vague but very real notion that God's approval has to be earned by our conduct. We know we're saved by grace, but we believe God blesses us according to our level of personal obedience. Consequently, our confidence that we abide in God's favor ebbs and flows according to how we gauge our performance. And since we each sin every single day, this approach is ultimately discouraging and even devastating. This is exactly why we need the first bookend. The righteousness of Christ changes all this.
Jesus Christ the Righteous One
What exactly is the righteousness of Christ? And how will it give us a sense of assurance in our day-to-day relationship with God? To begin answering those questions, let's go to one of our favorite verses of Scripture:
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
The first thing we need to consider in this verse is the sinlessness—the perfect obedience—of Jesus as a man living among us for thirty-three years. The Scriptures consistently testify to this. All four of the major writers of the New Testament letters attest to the sinless, perfect obedience of Jesus throughout his life on earth. In addition to Paul's words that Jesus "knew no sin," we have the testimony of Peter, John, and the writer of Hebrews: "He committed no sin" (1 Peter 2:22); "In him there is no sin" (1 John 3:5); Jesus was in every respect "tempted as we are, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15).
One of the most powerful indications of the sinlessness of Jesus came from his own mouth. To a group of hostile Jews to whom he'd just said, "You are of your father the devil," Jesus dared to ask the question, "Which one of you convicts me of sin?" (John 8:44-46). He could ask this question because he knew the answer—he was sinless. Jesus could confidently say of the Father, "I always do the things that are pleasing to him" (John 8:29). Every moment of his life, from birth to death, Jesus perfectly obeyed the law of God, the same law that is applicable to all of us.
Christ's obedience was tested by temptation (Matthew 4:11; Hebrews 4:15), and the intensity of his temptation was greater than any we'll ever experience or even imagine. When we succumb to temptation, the pressure is relieved for awhile; but unlike us, Jesus never gave in.
As astounding as that is, it wasn't the epitome of Christ's obedience. The pinnacle of his obedience came when "he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross" (Philippians 2:8). The obedient death of Christ is the very apex of the righteousness of Christ.
Let's not miss the implications of this. At the cross, Jesus paid the penalty we should have paid, by enduring the wrath of God we should have endured. And this required him to do something unprecedented. It required him to provide the ultimate level of obedience—one that we'll never be asked to emulate. It required him to give up his relationship with the Father so that we could have one instead. The very thought of being torn away from the Father caused him to sweat great drops of blood (Luke 22:44). And at the crescendo of his obedience, he screamed, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34). The physical pain he endured was nothing compared to the agony of being separated from the Father. In all of history, Jesus is the only human being who was truly righteous in every way; and he was righteous in ways that are truly beyond our comprehension.
Our Sin Transferred to Christ
The second truth to note in 2 Corinthians 5:21 is that "for our sake he made him to be sin." This is Paul's way of saying God caused Jesus to bear our sin. Peter wrote something similar: "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree" (1 Peter 2:24). So did the prophet Isaiah: "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:6). Paul is telling us that God the Father took our sin and charged it to God the Son in such a way that Christ was made to be sin for our sake.
Now we can see what Paul meant in Galatians 3:13 when he said, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us." He became a curse for us because he'd become sin for us. And by those words for us, Paul indicates that Christ did this in our place and as our substitute.
Imagine there's a moral ledger recording every event of your entire life—all your thoughts, words, actions, even your motives. You might think of it as a mixture of good and bad deeds, with hopefully more good than bad. The Scriptures, however, tell us that even our righteous deeds are unclean in the sight of God (Isaiah 64:6). So Jesus has a perfectly righteous moral ledger, and we have a completely sinful one. However, God took our sins and charged them to Christ, leaving us with a clean sheet.
The biblical word for this is forgiveness. In and of itself, forgiveness is a monumental blessing. Paul echoed David on this when he wrote, "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin" (Romans 4:7-8; Psalms 32:1-2). But how did God do this and yet remain perfectly holy and just?
He did it by causing the sinless Son to bear our sins, including everything that goes with them: our guilt, our condemnation, our punishment. That's what it took for God to wipe our moral ledger sheet perfectly clean and at the same time preserve his holiness and justice—the price had to be paid on our behalf; so the sentence was executed on our Substitute.
Christ's Righteousness Credited to Us
But it wasn't enough for us to have a clean, but empty, ledger sheet. God also credits us with the perfect righteousness of Christ "so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." This happens the same way Jesus was made to be sin—by transfer. Just as God charged our sin to Christ, so he credits the perfect obedience of Jesus to all who trust in him. In what is often called the Great Exchange, God exchanges our sin for Christ's righteousness. As a result, all who have trusted in Christ as Savior stand before God not with a clean-but-empty ledger, but one filled with the very righteousness of Christ!
The theological term for what we've just described is one of Paul's favorite words, justification. The word justified in Paul's usage means to be counted righteous by God. Even though in ourselves we're completely unrighteous, God counts us as righteous because he has appointed Christ to be our representative and substitute. Therefore when Christ lived a perfect life, in God's sight we lived a perfect life. When Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins, we died on the cross. All that Christ did in his sinless life and his sin-bearing death, he did as our representative, so that we receive the credit for it. It's in this representative union2 with Christ that he presents us before the Father, "holy and blameless and above reproach" (Colossians 1:22).
There's an old play on the word justified: "just-as-if-I'd never sinned." But here's another way of saying it: "just-as-if-I'd always obeyed." Both are true. The first refers to the transfer of our moral debt to Christ so we're left with a "clean" ledger, just as if we'd never sinned. The second tells us our ledger is now filled with the perfect righteousness of Christ, so it's just as if we'd always obeyed. That's why we can come confidently into the very presence of God (Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19) even though we're still sinners—saved sinners to be sure, but still practicing sinners every day in thought, word, deed, and motive.
The perfect righteousness of Christ, which is credited to us, is the first bookend of the Christian life. The news of this righteousness is the gospel. Christ's righteousness is given to us by God when we genuinely trust in Christ as our Savior. From that moment on, from God's point of view, the first bookend is permanently in place. We're justified; we're credited with his righteousness. Or to say it differently, we're clothed with his righteousness (Isaiah 61:10) so that as God looks at us in union with Christ, he always sees us to be as righteous as Christ himself.
And that changes everything.
The Present Reality of Our Justification
From our point of view, however, we sometimes handle our books as though the bookend of Christ's righteousness is not in place on our bookshelf. We do this when we depend on our own performance, whether good or bad in our estimate, as the basis of God's approval or disapproval.
And when we take this approach, our assurance that we stand before God as justified sinners inevitably fades.
How can we experience the righteousness of Christ as it was meant to apply to our daily lives? In Galatians 2:15-21, Paul provided much insight on this, beginning with this sentence:
We know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we . . . have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. (Galatians 2:16)
In this single sentence Paul uses the word justified three times. The repetition emphasizes that we're justified not by our personal obedience to the law but by faith in Christ.
In this context, faith involves both a renunciation and a reliance. First, we must renounce any trust in our own performance as the basis of our acceptance before God. We trust in our own performance when we believe we've earned God's acceptance by our good works. But we also trust in our own performance when we believe we've lost God's acceptance by our bad works—by our sin. So we must renounce any consideration of either our bad works or our good works as the means of relating to God.
Second, we must place our reliance entirely on the perfect obedience and sin-bearing death of Christ as the sole basis of our standing before God—on our best days as well as our worst.
Just a few sentences later Paul wrote, "The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). In the context of Galatians 2:15–21, it's clear Paul is still talking about justification, yet he's using the present tense. He writes of the life he lives now in the flesh. This raises an apparent problem. We know justification is a past event—the moment we genuinely trusted in Christ we were justified, declared righteous by God. That's why Paul wrote, "We have been justified [past tense] by faith" (Romans 5:1). So if justification was a point-in-time past event for Paul, why in Galatians 2:20 does he speak in the present tense: "The life I now live [today] . . . I live by faith in the Son of God"?
The answer to this question is important. It tells us how to experience the application of the first bookend to our daily lives. For Paul, justification was not only a past event; it was also a daily, present reality. So every day of his life, by faith in Christ, Paul realized he stood righteous in the sight of God—he was counted righteous and accepted by God as righteous—because of the perfectly obedient life and death Christ provided for him. He stood solely on the rock-solid righteousness of Christ alone, which is our first bookend.
We must learn to live like the apostle Paul, looking every day outside ourselves to Christ and seeing ourselves standing before God clothed in his perfect righteousness. Every day we must re-acknowledge the fact that there's nothing we can do to make ourselves either more acceptable to God or less acceptable. Regardless of how much we grow in our Christian lives, we're accepted for Christ's sake or not accepted at all. It's this reliance on Christ alone, apart from any consideration of our good or bad deeds, that enables us to experience the daily reality of the first bookend, in which the believer finds peace and joy and comfort and gratitude.
Before battery-powered watches were invented, wristwatches had to be wound every day. A watch's stem was used not only to adjust the hands but also to wind up the mainspring. The gradual unwinding of the mainspring throughout the day drove the mechanism of the watch to keep time. The gospel of justification by faith in Christ is the mainspring of the Christian life. And like the mainspring in old watches, it must be wound every day. Because we have a natural tendency to look within ourselves for the basis of God's approval or disapproval, we must make a conscious daily effort to look outside ourselves to the righteousness of Christ, then to stand in the present reality of our justification. Only then will we experience the stability that the first bookend is meant to provide.
But if it's true God's acceptance of me and his blessing on my life is based entirely on the righteousness of Christ, what difference does it make how I live? Why should I make any effort? Why should I put myself through the pain of dealing with sin and seeking to grow in Christlike character if it doesn't affect my standing with God? We'll answer these questions in the next chapter.
The Bookends of the Christian Life
Copyright © 2009 by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington
Published by Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) With Brian Urlacher nursing a hamstring injury, the Chicago Bears have signed Dom DeCicco to a two-year contract, adding depth at linebacker.
The team announced the move Tuesday.
Urlacher's status for this week's game at Minnesota and beyond is in question after he was injured on the final drive of Sunday's overtime loss to Seattle. Coach Lovie Smith indicated Monday that he has a pulled hamstring.
The Chicago Tribune, citing sources, reported Tuesday that he is expected to miss three games and possibly the rest of the regular season. The team declined comment.
Nick Roach would likely move to middle linebacker with Geno Hayes taking his spot at strong side linebacker without Urlacher.
DeCicco appeared in all 16 games for the Bears last season. Chicago also waived/injured linebacker Patrick Trahan.


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Wade and Adrienne Loggins of Barnesville announce the birth of their daughter Addison Adair Loggins on Dec. 23, 2010, at Fayette Piedmont Hospital in Fayetteville.
She weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and was 181/2 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Bruce and Linda Akins of Barnesville.
Paternal grandparents are Frank and Linda Loggins of Griffin. Paternal great-grandmother is Louise Loggins of Brooks.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Little Gifts
In the course of this week I've been given little gifts: Unexpected free time to make bread. A dozen eggs- fresh from the farm. Cut flowers from the garden of a friend... Smallish offerings I didn't know I needed, but in the receiving encouragement reigns. Never underestimate the power of a little gift. xo
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LOVE little gifts like that. Things like these make my day!! <3
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Yes. This.
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For Massachusetts bride, nice day for a white wedding
LOWELL, Mass. -- The very white wedding was still a go.
Kathryn Jussaume, 30, of Lowell, and Jason Destroismaison, 32, of Tyngsboro, have been planning their wedding for seven months now. They picked a heck of date.
The-still-bubbling bride said she woke up Saturday morning and couldn't see her mailbox. Snow was drifted so high it looked like there was an extra car in her driveway, but there wasn't.
"I started to get a little bit nervous," Jussaume said Saturday afternoon. "But Jason was cool as a cucumber."
By 1:30 p.m., the couple had checked with all their vendors and the wedding is still a go, but not without a few hitches.
The bride said her snowblower broke Saturday morning, so she started to shovel on her wedding day.
She said she waved down a passing plow and told the driver it was wedding day.
"He said, 'It's your wedding day? Move over,'" Jussaume said. "It was so nice. He plowed us out."
The wedding was set for Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., at 3 p.m.
"Jason, my husband-to-be, said as long as you're there, I'm there, and if the priest is there we'll be just fine," Jussaume said. "We've had so many people who were so wonderful today."
It should have been quite a memorable ceremony as long as the bride was visible in a white dress on such a white day.


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The car:
2013 Nissan GT-R
The power:
545 horsepower and 463 pound-feet of torque coming from a twin-turbocharged, 3.8-liter V-6 engine mated to a six-speed, dual-clutch transmission with magnesium paddle shifters.
The speed:
0-60 in a startling three seconds. Some tests have shown that number as low as 2.7 seconds.
The bragging rights:
If being one of the world's fastest production cars to do 0-60 isn't enough, maybe try world's cheapest supercar.
The price:
The base 2013 GT-R is $97,820. Add the four-stage Super Silver paint you see here and it's $100,820.
The details:
Since the 530 horsepower on the 2012 GT-R was obviously a woefully inadequate number intended for cotton-headed ninny muggins, Nissan figured 545 had a nice ring to it for 2013. This is achieved via engine modifications like improved intake efficiency, a larger intake duct for the turbos' intercooler and better exhaust efficiency. Nissan says other changes include more refined transmission shifts and a retuned suspension.
As with previous GT-R's, the personality on this one is tunable, via a trio of buttons on the dashboard. One controls the Bilstein shocks with Normal, Comfort and "R" modes (consider the "R" mode your ticket to, well, tickets. It's the more progressive setting for each system, and allows drivers to better push the performance envelope). Another button handles the transmission shift mapping with Normal and "R" modes; and a third dials up the stability control with Normal, "R" and Off.
Power is routed to all four wheels, though the rear-biased system can automatically vary the amount of torque channeled to the rear wheels from 100% down to 50, depending on your driving situation.
Stopping duties are handled by massive Brembo brakes; up front they have six piston calipers grabbing 15.35-inch cross-drilled rotors and in the back, four-piston calipers grab 15-inch rotors. These brakes are wrapped with 20-inch forged aluminum wheels.
All this brings the curb weight of the 2013 GT-R to the same 3,829 pounds as the 2012 model.
The drive:
Raw. Despite retuning the suspension, there's almost no noticeable difference in compliance between the 2012 and the 2013 versions. It's still stiffer than Dom Draper's NyQuil even in "Comfort" mode, which gets a bit tedious in daily driving. But at least the seats help as they're nicely bolstered and padded.
Around town, much of the driving experience is loud and visceral with plenty of sound coming into the cabin. Whether it's the wind noise leaking through the frameless doors, the transmission rattling about in low gear or at idle, or the sound of errant pebbles being flicked into the wheel wells, it all serves as a constant reminder that this car is not here to coddle you.
The one element that is relatively subdued is the engine itself. It never really roars, but when you start pushing it, the engine sounds like a blender trying to puree Gilbert Godfrey. Any expected internal combustion noise is dominated by the sounds of forced induction, turbine wail and air being sucked and pumped into the right places. That's not to say it doesn't sound cool, but it's a 21st-century cool better enjoyed by a crowd raised on pixelated racecars in their living room than fans of naturally aspirated power.
The GT-R's speed-sensitive rack-and-pinion steering is outstanding and provides excellent communication to the driver. Where the driver's feel for the road can get lost is transitioning through and coming out of turns; this is largely because there's just so much darn mass moving about that something's going to get lost somewhere.
As you might expect, spirited driving with the traction control in Normal mode reveals some light feathering of the brakes. Putting the system into "R" mode is necessary for less inhibited flogging, but even then you can hit the traction control limits, which reign you in subtly. Turn everything off, and it is possible to get the rear end loose but you have to want it to happen.
Otherwise this car grips like very few machines can and to match its point-and-shoot brutal purity you'd have to spend several times the GT-R's $100,000 asking price. With more electronics than an entire arcade working to keep you moving forward, ever forward as fast as possible, the car isn't so much forgiving as it is willing to just cover up your mistakes. It's a slightly surreal yet endlessly thrilling experience to suddenly worry much less about grip and traction than you are thinking about just keeping your right foot planted.
Meanwhile, shifts with the dual-clutch transmission come yesterday, and they're smooth and well-timed in full-auto mode. For the real twisty stuff, use the paddles for manual downshifts; the boost takes just long enough to kick in that you've already lost time if you don't have the car spooled up beforehand.
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The GT-R's styling adheres to the supercar principle of making no apologies for its sheer presence, which this car has in spades. The look avoids the working-class patina that binds modern Corvettes to their heritage, and also avoids the orthodontists' smugness of the Porsche 911. The GT-R's look is as raw as its drive; that 21st-century sound is paired with a 21-st century look heavy on creases, folds and angles. The brash statement made by the GTR's rear is capped off with quad tailpipes that look like they were ripped out of France's Organ of St. Sulpice.
Despite the unapologetic nature of the GT-R, it's hard to argue with the sheer value the car presents. Plenty of ink has been spent debating the merits of this car versus the aforementioned Corvette and Porsche. $100,000 can buy you a version of one of the three that will undoubtedly put a smile on your face. The difference lies in the widely varied way each car draws out said smile. Where the GT-R trumps the others is how it is the only one of the three that has nearly all of the capabilities and physicality of a high-end supercar. For better or worse.
The takeaway:
The most raw way to spend $100,000 short of buying a butcher shop.


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Aspirin is a bad bargain for healthy women trying to stave off heart attacks or strokes, although it's commonly used for that purpose, according to Dutch researchers.
In a new report, they say 50 women will need to take the medication for 10 years for just one to be helped -- and that's assuming they are at high risk to begin with.
"There are very few women who actually benefit," said Dr. Jannick Dorresteijn of University Medical Center Utrecht in The Netherlands. "If you don't want to treat 49 patients for nothing to benefit one, you shouldn't treat anyone with aspirin."
The new study adds to a long-standing controversy over aspirin, one of the world's most widely used drugs.
Doctors agree it's worth taking for people who've already had a heart attack or a stroke, but they are less certain when it comes to so-called primary prevention.
"We all appreciate that the average treatment effect is very small, but that some patients may benefit more than others," Dorresteijn told Reuters Health.
Today, leading medical groups like the American Heart Association recommend aspirin for people at increased risk for heart problems.
But the Dutch findings, published in the European Heart Journal, suggest many women would still be taking the drug needlessly.
Dorresteijn and his colleagues analyzed data on nearly 28,000 healthy women age 45 and above who had received either aspirin or dummy pills in an earlier US trial.
The women on aspirin generally took a low dose of 100 milligrams every other day.
Overall, aspirin cut the rate of heart attacks, strokes and death from heart disease from 2.4 per cent to 2.2 per cent.
"Nine out of 10 women experience less than a one-per cent risk reduction for cardiovascular disease in the next ten years, so that is a really small treatment effect," said Dorresteijn.
He added that aspirin comes with side effects, too. For instance, it can cause bleeding ulcers and make people more likely to bruise due to its blood-thinning effects.
And although it's cheap -- at only a few dollars per month of treatment -- putting lots of healthy people on the drug would be a big expenditure in the health care budget, Dorresteijn said.
After subtracting the serious side effects from the health gains, the Dutch team found doctors would have to be willing to treat a lot of women to get a net advantage.
"Women older than 65 years of age benefit more than average, but still for those women the benefit was so small that you would need to treat 49 for nothing to prevent one event," said Dorresteijn. "Of course it's disappointing, because you would like a medication to be effective."
Earlier this year, two large reviews of previous aspirin trials yielded similarly sobering results. One found a tiny reduction in heart attacks with aspirin and no effect on death rates or strokes. The other showed as many as 1,111 men and women would need to take aspirin daily for the duration of the trials to prevent just one death.
The government-backed US Preventive Services Task Force advises that men age 45 to 79 take aspirin to stave off heart attacks, as long as the benefit outweighs the risk of bleeding.
For women age 55 to 79, aspirin is recommended to prevent strokes, with the same caveat.
Dr. Michael LeFevre of the USPSTF said he wasn't surprised by the Dutch findings, but added that it muddied the potential benefit on stroke by including heart attacks in the analysis.
The number of women who would need to be treated with aspirin to prevent a stroke depends on their baseline risk. If you are willing to treat only 50 women to see a net benefit for one -- that is, taking into account serious bleeds -- a woman's baseline 10-year stroke risk would have to be as high as 19 per cent.
"So if that is our threshold, almost no women will qualify," LeFevre said in an email, noting that treating 1,000 such women in their 60s will prevent 32 strokes and cause 12 bleeding ulcers.
"The central message of this study is really that there are an awful lot of women who are taking aspirin for prevention who should not be taking aspirin," he added in a telephone interview with Reuters Health. "I think the task force would agree with that."
Dr. Franz Messerli, who heads the high blood pressure program at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, said there are much better ways to curb stroke risk than taking aspirin.
"First and foremost," he told Reuters Health, "make sure your blood pressure is perfectly well-controlled… because blood pressure is by far the most important risk factor for stroke."
That can be achieved by changing diet and exercise habits, or by blood pressure medications like diuretics, beta-blockers or calcium channel blockers.
People may also want to rein in their cholesterol levels, Messerli added, although cholesterol-lowering drugs themselves are controversial in primary prevention.
"The question of primary prevention has not been resolved," he said. "The good news is that that there are two ongoing randomized trials that hopefully will allow us to come to firm conclusions."


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LAS VEGAS, Nev. - LG unveiled a 55-inch TV that sports "ultrahigh-definition" resolution with more than 8 million pixels, kicking off what is likely to be a mini-obsession with the latest super-clear format at the annual International CES gadget show.
The model announced Monday is the smallest in a 2013 lineup that includes 65-inch and 84-inch versions. But the smaller size — and likely smaller price tag — begins the parade of TV makers that are seeking to bring ultrahigh definition to the masses.
Also known as "4K," ultrahigh-definition screens are 3,840 pixels wide and 2,160 pixels tall and have four times as many pixels as the current HD screens.
For a few years, there won't likely be a mainstream standard for getting native ultra-HD movies and TV shows to the screen either by disc or broadcast.
LG said these new TVs will have upscaling technology that takes images of lesser quality and renders them in high detail. The Korean electronics maker also said it has formed an ultra-HD content agreement with Korea's top broadcaster, KBS, and is seeking out deals with other global content providers. The company offered no specifics.
Along with the lineup of higher-resolution TVs, LG unveiled a new Magic Remote, which acts like a wand that is sensitive to motion and is used to navigate on-screen menus. LG said the new model responds better to natural speech.


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Submitted by David Grant on
First of all, USB will not work in VirtualBox if you are using the Open Source Edition (OSE) of VirtualBox. Get the full closed-source edition of VirtualBox from their website. There are many differences between the open-source edition and the closed-source version and one of them is USB.
I finally got USB working with Windows XP running as a guest inside VirtualBox running on a Ubuntu Hardy host. First find out what the group id of the vboxusers group is:
$ grep vbox /etc/group vboxusers:x:<gid>:david
Then, enable the deprecated
/proc/bus/usb inteface:
$ sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
Add the following line after
/proc is mounted, at the end of the do_start() function.
#for hardy: domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=<gid>,devmode=664 #for intrepid: domount usbfs "" /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=<gid>,devmode=664
<gid> with the
<gid> you found in the first step. Make sure to reboot. This didn't work for me until I rebooted. There you have it. You shouldn't have to edit
/etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh or
/etc/fstab as some other internet sources have suggested.
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Jan Glascher replied on Permalink
USB + Virtualbox problems persist
Hi David,
I hope you don't mind me contacting you about some persisting problems
that I have with getting a USB device mounted under virtualbox (running XP
as the guest OS). The host system is Ubuntu Hardy running on a Thinkpad
I followed the instructions on your blog and edited
/etc/init.dmountkernfs.sh and created a USB filter for the device under the
Settings/USB in Virtualbox (pressing the USB button with the "+" and then
simply "OK"). However, when I boot XP in Virtualbox the entry for the
device in Devices/USB is still grayed out and I cannot connect to the
It also does not make a differences whether the device is mount under
Linux or not (which is does just fine). Furthermore, there is also no
difference whether or not the UBS device is plugged in at the time of the
XP boot in Virtualbox.
I also tried editing /etc/init.d/mountdevusbfs.sh and /etc/fstab as other
posts have suggested, but the problem remains. I cannot mount any USB
devices in Virtualbox.
Do you have any further suggestions of what I could try to get the device
Thanks a lot for taking the time.
Best wishes,
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David Grant replied on Permalink
Try to put only the additional line in mountkernfs.sh and re-comment the line in mountdevusbfs.sh and comment out usbfs stuff in fstab. Run 'mount' without command-line arguments and see what is mounted. You should only have have usbfs mounted once. I had some problems because I had usbfs mounted twice.
BTW, this is what I get when I run "mount | grep usb"
$ mount |grep usb procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
I have nothing in fstab that is usb related, I have not changed mountdevusbfs.sh. I added the following to to mountkernfs.sh
domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=1002,devmode=664
When I run "groups" as my regular user (david) that I use to run Virtualbox, I get "vboxusers" showing up in the list
When I run "
cat /etc/group|grep vboxusers" I get:
Make sure to do a reboot. Let me know if this still doesn't work. Once we find the solution I'd like to add it to my post to make the information more complete. What version of Virtualbox and Ubuntu are you using?
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Scott replied on Permalink
Check your installed version of VirtualBox
I installed VirtualBox through the Synaptic Package Manager. I was having problems with getting the USB support enabled for my Windows XP guest OS. Come to find out the version installed by Ubuntu was the OSE version, so it doesn't have USB support. I backed up my guest files and uninstalled the OSE version and downloaded and installed the .deb file from VirtualBox's site. Didn't need the backup since the newly installed version updated the files to work with the new version. Now I have USB support. Just something to check before pulling your hair out about USB not working.
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Jeffre replied on Permalink
VirtualBox USB Challenge
I have made all the edits you recommended above. All my settings appear to be OK, but I still cannot access my USB devices in my XP Virtual Machine. They appear on the device list but are "grayed out". I did notice that when I ran "cat /etc/group|grep vboxusers" I get:
vboxusers:x:1001: (my username (jeffrey) does not appear after the second colon.
I am using VirtualBox 2.1.0
Ubuntu 8.10
Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
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David Grant replied on Permalink
You're not in the group then
If your username is not after the vboxusers group name, then you are not in the group. Use the Ubuntu user admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) to add yourself to the group.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
This worked for me - ubuntu
This worked for me - ubuntu 9.04 with windows 7 guest, was greyed out until i checked the vboxusers group and added myself to it. Thanks for the help guys.
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sampyboy replied on Permalink
Webcam works!
I have a Dell Vostro 1700 notebook with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3) as guest OS in Oracle Virtualbox 3.2.10. Initially webcam option under USB Devices was greyed out. On typing "grep vboxusers /etc/group" in a terminal did not reveal my username. Just by adding my username to vboxusers group, webcam became usable inside virtual box. Thanks guys for the trick!
To add my username, I just followed:
(System->Administration->Users and Groups->Manage Groups->vboxusers->Properties and checking my username). After adding, you must restart the computer and restart the guest OS. If you see LED of webcam glowing for a second while booting of guest OS, you are through! By the way, before doing all the above, please make sure you have installed latest version of guest additions for your Virtualbox!!
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It Works!!
I cleaned out all of the garbage that the other links said to do and had only the mountkernfs command and it works fine. Crank up XP and it recognizes the flashdrive. Works for me ...
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Jan Glascher replied on Permalink
USB + Virtualbox problems persist (follow-up)
thanks a lot for your quick response.
I tried all your suggestions, but I still cannot mount my USB flash drive
I am using Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) and Virtualbox 1.6.6
I commented the lines in /etc/init.d/mountdevusbfs.sh and /etc/fstab that
was sugested by the other posts.
I did reboot before trying all of the below.
output of:
$ mount | grep usb
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
output of:
$ cat /etc/group | grep vbox
(glaescher is my username)
I did already add the next line to /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=122,devmode=644
just before the comment starting with:
# Mount spufs, if Cell Broadband processor is detected
Here is the output of "VBoxManage list usbhost"
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.6
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Host USB Devices:
UUID: 3c7dc59a-6834-428b-8e8f-6d466be2d06a
VendorId: 0x0483 (0483)
ProductId: 0x2016 (2016)
Revision: 0.1 (0001)
Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics
Product: Biometric Coprocessor
Address: /proc/bus/usb/001/003
Current State: Unavailable
UUID: 7249b281-e1e3-4d16-5caa-cb8e4fe1aa36
VendorId: 0x13fe (13FE)
ProductId: 0x1f00 (1F00)
Revision: 1.16 (0116)
Product: Patriot Memory
SerialNumber: 078501AA0001
Address: /proc/bus/usb/007/003
Current State: Unavailable
So it does recognize the Flash Drive (Patriot Memory, no comments on the name, please. It's embarrassing, but a huge and fast drive).
I also tried to set a global USB filter using the command:
VBoxManage usbfilter add 0 -target global -name "Patriot Memory [0110]" -action hold -active yes -vendorid 13FE -productid 1F00 -product "Patriot Memory" -remote no -serialnumber 078501AA0001
but the command produces and syntax error:
"Syntax error: Mandatory options not supplied"
However, I did include all the mandatory options that are listed under VBoxManage --help
As for the local usbfilters, I ran "VBoxManage showvminfo "Windows XP SP3" and got:
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.6
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Name: Windows XP SP3
Guest OS: Windows XP
UUID: ed4b8461-36f3-417f-46bc-bdd156126fe7
Config file: /home/glaescher/.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows XP SP3/Windows XP SP3.xml
Memory size: 512MB
VRAM size: 16MB
Boot menu mode: message and menu
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: off
PAE: off
Time offset: 0 ms
Hardw. virt.ext: off
State: powered off (since 2008-09-12T06:29:44.090000000)
Monitor count: 1
Floppy: empty
SATA: disabled
Primary master: /home/glaescher/.VirtualBox/VDI/Windows XP SP2.vdi (UUID: 34c3e23a-d42c-42d3-518b-b2bb80e4d1e6)
DVD: Host drive /dev/scd0
NIC 1: MAC: 080027A63E0B, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 1000 Mbps
NIC 2: disabled
NIC 3: disabled
NIC 4: disabled
UART 1: disabled
UART 2: disabled
Audio: disabled (Driver: Unknown, Controller: Unknown)
Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional
VRDP: disabled
USB: enabled
USB Device Filters:
Index: 0
Active: yes
Name: Patriot Memory [0110]
VendorId: 13FE
ProductId: 1F00
Revision: 0110
Product: Patriot Memory
Remote: no
Serial Number: 078501AA0001
Index: 1
Active: yes
Name: COWON SYSTEM, Inc. COWON A3 [0316]
VendorId: 0E21
ProductId: 1020
Revision: 0316
Manufacturer: COWON SYSTEM, Inc.
Product: COWON A3
Remote: no
Serial Number: 3238204E6F76
Shared folders:
Name: 'winshare', Host path: '/home/glaescher/winshare' (machine mapping), writable
Name: 'ppgdata', Host path: '/projects/ppgdata' (machine mapping), writable
Name: 'latlearn', Host path: '/projects/latlearn' (machine mapping), writable
Name: 'home', Host path: '/home/glaescher' (machine mapping), writable
Statistics update: disabled
So the 2 USB filters specific to the VM are recognized.
Do you have any other ideas?
Thanks a lot,
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David Grant replied on Permalink
More info
I attached a couple screnshots. I have no filters. (see 2.png)
I see VBoxManage sees the shares. So are the devices greyed out in the VM, as opposed to mine? (see 1.png)
Other other thing I can suggest is to try to run it as root, or start going crazy with chmod 777 on the /proc/bus/usb folder or something.
I am using Version 1.6.2 of Virtualbox. That might be the problem, I had heard of some features breaking in newer versions of VirtualBox. It looks like it's still available: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds
Or, maybe you can try Version 2.0?
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Caraibes replied on Permalink
I also have the same
I also have the same problem, as my usb scanner is grayed out, my usb webcam too... My settings are exactly like what you recommend in your guide, I am running Hardy, with a virtualbox 2.0, and winxp inside... I can't seem to find a solution...
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Andrzej replied on Permalink
Hi Jan,
I had the same problem and found the solution in this document
I think, one thing that is missing in your configuration is an additional entry in the file /etc/udev/rules.d/40-basic-permissions.rules.
Don't forget to restart udev service after that and your virtual machine, in this order.
I hope this helps,
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David Grant replied on Permalink
I didn't need to add the group="vboxusers" to the 40-basic-permissions.rules file or the stuff in mountdevsubfs.sh. I just put:
domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=<gid>,devmode=664
as explained in the post. Thanks Andrzej, hpoefully if Jan tries your suggestion it will work.
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casey a replied on Permalink
still no good
i've tried all of this and still the device appears unavailable.
i'm trying to make a winblows xp guest see my pda so i can use activesync.
this is really frustrating... i'm a linux n00b and i have searched google and the ubuntu forums for hours.
and still not working.
any help would be awesome
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
I used the info on this blog
I used the info on this blog and am able to mount usb flash drive on the XP guest on a Ubuntu 8.04 host. Thanks David Grant.
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dex replied on Permalink
I follow the instruction also in the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#USB but I continue to have the USB devices grayed.
I'm tryng to solve this task to sync my IPOD with Itunes.
Still not working
For others,
in the help.ubuntu they said you need the PUEL version and not the OSE (that has not USB support).
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denwood replied on Permalink
T61 / Ubuntu / VirtualBox Fixed?
I, too, have a T61 and have tried all of the solutions offered here to no avail. Did you ever get it working?
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Worked when...
I changed this line
domount usbfs "" usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=,devmode=664
domount usbfs "" /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=,devmode=664
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David Grant replied on Permalink
Me too
That's right! I had to do that too, but I forgot to update this blog post. Thanks!
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Thanks! this worked flowless
Maybe you'll be able to help with enabling Wacom Tablets on Intrepid + Vbox, (http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=11423&start=0&postdays=0&po...)
I can't find any useful resource about this problem on Intrepid.
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I solved my Wacom problems 10 munutes after posting here...
All I had to do was chown the tablet module in /proc/bus/usb/
(see the link in the previous post)
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Børre Gaup replied on Permalink
Solved for Ubuntu Intrepid
I went through all the suggestions and advices above, but VirtualBox didn't recognise my USB drive.
Finally I opened the xml file belonging to my windows xp installation, $HOME/.VirtualBox/Machines/windows\ xp/windows\ xp.xml (I quit VirtualBox before I did this)
I changed the line that read:
<USBController enabled="false" enabledEhci="false"/>
<USBController enabled="true" enabledEhci="true"/>
and after that I was able to access my USB drive
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Ryan replied on Permalink
Great little hack, thanks David
I followed author's original instruction for 8.10, they worked great after reboot.
Thanks a bunch!
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Falk replied on Permalink
Thanks for the hints!
One additional comment:
I'm on Intrepid. I had to install Virtual Box version 2.0.6
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Jonathan Konrad replied on Permalink
I'm afraid I only get greyed out devices too
I am running Ubuntu 8.04
I have edited the mountkernfs.sh file as you suggested. Both
domout usbfs usbdevfs /proc/
and when that did not work
usbfs "" /proc/ ...
Before coming across you post, I had tried editing the mountdevsubfs.sh or /etc/fstab as some other internet sources have suggested. Each helpful hint brings be to greyed out USB devices. Better than no devices, yet I can not use my USB devices in my guest OS of WinXP SP3.
I have also created a group called usbuers, and every trick I can find on the web. Any more help would be great. Thank you.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
try this hack
chmod -R 777 /proc/bus/usb
it made it work for me, after trying many of the above fixes . Obviously it's a permissions issue at work. I am currently tracking own the root issue and will report with a cleaner fix later. This fix won't survive reboots, obviously.
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Stuart replied on Permalink
Excellent. After much stuffing about with the advice at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ , Linux permissions, etc, your simple one line change works for me...
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Jairo Almanza replied on Permalink
thank you this has been very useful tip
Greetings from Costa Rica
Pura Vida!!
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Kylea replied on Permalink
USB Virtualbox 2.1
Thanks David - Intrepid suggestions worked a treat!
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Gerard replied on Permalink
Thanks, David. For me, it
Thanks, David.
For me, it works on Ubuntu 8.10 (64b) even after I commented the lines I put before in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh and /etc/fstab as I was told by an other internet source.
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Chris replied on Permalink
Must undo what Ubuntu Community's website suggested.
First of all: Thanks so much for your guide! It worked!
I wanted to say that I had first tried the guide here for Ubuntu Intrepid: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#USB. that DID NOT WORK for me. I then followed your guide, and that didn't work either. What I had to do is go back and UNDO what the Ubuntu Community's guide suggested before your guide would work.
Again, many thanks.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
use only one method, this
use only one method, this one because it works better than the ubuntu guide's method. this is the method that got my iPod Touch working in my XP host. use only one method! :)
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Kaiser replied on Permalink
Thanks for the tutorial, I'm
Thanks for the tutorial,
I'm also on Ubuntu 8.10, followed the instructions and it didn't work until I found out that I wasn't part of the vboxusers group. After I joined I had to reboot and worked smoothly.
By the way, the USB device I wanted to get working is a Garmin ANT stick, for a GPS, which is a "very-proprietary" device using specially designed communication protocols, so if it works for this, everything can.
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Chris replied on Permalink
Thanks a bunch for this. Worked for me on Ubuntu Intrepid (on the apparently-notorious Thinkpad T61, no less) by doing just as you said. (I am in the vboxusers groups, and I didn't previous try anything else specific to making USB work.)
I'm a little worried about enabling something "deprecated", but it works so I'll take it.
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Chris replied on Permalink
I still cannot make it work
I still cannot make this work. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 host with XP guest on Virtualbox 2.1.4
the results of my '$ mount |grep usb' is
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
can anyone give me any suggestions?
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gravybowl replied on Permalink
Worked on Thinkpad T61
Worked flawlessly! Followed short and concise guide as-is, reboot and USB works in XP.
Again, like the other T61 owner, I didn't not try any other guides/techniques prior to this one. Running Ubuntu Intrepid 64bit and VirtualBox 2.1.4 (closed-source edition).
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Zardoz replied on Permalink
Works also under Ubuntu 9.04
Works also under Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) + Virtualbox 2.2.
But "somewhere after /proc" is not enough. The mentioned line should be placed at the end of the do_start () function. Otherwise it didn't work for me.
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Juan replied on Permalink
Worked like a champ on
Worked like a champ on Ubuntu 9.04 32bit. Just have to make sure that you add yourself or whatever user that you need to the vboxuser group. Thanks a lot for the guide!!!!!!
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sholyer replied on Permalink
Thanks David! This worked
Thanks David! This worked for me. (Hardy Host/Jaunty Guest)
I was pulling my hair out, because it didn't work at first. Although I did exactly what you wrote.
"mount | grep usb" showed one line exactly like yours, I couldn't find any problems.
I finally checked /etc/fstab and I found a line in there referring to usbfs. I didn't check it sooner, cause how could something be there I never added?
The thing is I DID add this line a year ago when I needed it to make USB work with my guests running under VMWare Server.
Took that old line out. Rebooted. Everything worked like a charm in VirtualBox.
So that's just a hint for anyone who's struggling with this config. Make sure the /etc/fstab isn't mounting something else for usbfs that you don't want!
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Stefanos replied on Permalink
Virtualbox usb
I am trying to make what you are saying and I can't
Can you please check if I made it corect?
#! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: mountkernfs # Required-Start: # Required-Stop: # Should-Start: glibc # Default-Start: S # Default-Stop: # Short-Description: Mount kernel virtual file systems. # Description: Mount initial set of virtual filesystems the kernel # provides and that are required by everything. ### END INIT INFO PATH=/lib/init:/sbin:/bin . /lib/init/vars.sh . /lib/lsb/init-functions . /lib/init/mount-functions.sh [ -f /etc/default/tmpfs ] && . /etc/default/tmpfs do_start () { # # Get some writable area available before the root is checked # and remounted. # RW_OPT= [ "${RW_SIZE:=$TMPFS_SIZE}" ] && RW_OPT=",size=$RW_SIZE" domount tmpfs "" /lib/init/rw tmpfs -omode=0755,nosuid$RW_OPT touch /lib/init/rw/.ramfs # Make pidfile omit directory for sendsigs mkdir /lib/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d/ # # Mount proc filesystem on /proc #for hardy: domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=124,devmode=664 #for intrepid: domount usbfs "" /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=124,devmode=664 # domount proc "" /proc proc -onodev,noexec,nosuid # # Mount sysfs on /sys # # Only mount sysfs if it is supported (kernel >= 2.6) if grep -E -qs "sysfs\$" /proc/filesystems then domount sysfs "" /sys sysfs -onodev,noexec,nosuid domount fusectl "" /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl fi # Mount /var/run and /var/lock as tmpfs if enabled if [ yes = "$RAMRUN" ] ; then RUN_OPT= [ "${RUN_SIZE:=$TMPFS_SIZE}" ] && RUN_OPT=",size=$RUN_SIZE" domount tmpfs "" /var/run varrun -omode=0755,nosuid$RUN_OPT touch /var/run/.ramfs fi if [ yes = "$RAMLOCK" ] ; then LOCK_OPT= [ "${LOCK_SIZE:=$TMPFS_SIZE}" ] && LOCK_OPT=",size=$LOCK_SIZE" domount tmpfs "" /var/lock varlock -omode=1777,nodev,noexec,nosuid$LOCK_OPT touch /var/lock/.ramfs fi # Mount spufs, if Cell Broadband processor is detected if [ -d /spu ] && grep -qs '^cpu.*Cell' /proc/cpuinfo; then domount spufs "" /spu spufs -ogid=spu fi # Propagate files from the initramfs to our new /var/run. for file in /dev/.initramfs/varrun/*; do [ -e "$file" ] || continue cp -a "$file" "/var/run/${x#/dev/.initramfs/varrun/}" done } case "$1" in "") echo "Warning: mountkernfs should be called with the 'start' argument." >&2 do_start ;; start) do_start ;; restart|reload|force-reload) echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2 exit 3 ;; stop) # No-op ;; *) echo "Usage: mountkernfs [start|stop]" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac<code>
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David Grant replied on Permalink
You have to put "domount
You have to put
"domount usbfs "" /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=124,devmode=664"
"domount proc "" /proc proc -onodev,noexec,nosuid"
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Mahyar replied on Permalink
In Jaunty, before you boot the guest, simply do this.
Open Settings>USB
Plug in your device, but ensure it's unmounted in the host
Enable USB controller
Add filter from device (and pick your device)
It worked for me without any mucking around with text files.
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David Grant replied on Permalink
Can anyone else confirm that this works on a freshly installed Jaunty system?
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JM replied on Permalink
ubs is working
For me it is working OK with my old 256 MB pendrive...
... but I am still working on how to install my laserjet printer via USB...
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
i am no able to implement your fixes
hi david
i have exactly the same problem. i am using suse 11.1 with the closed source version virtualbox 2.2.2. i am allready a member of the vboxusers group.
so i want to implement the next step of your description here. but wehn i am trying:
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
then i end with: "(gedit:5957): Gtk-WARNING : cannot open display:.
i am a windows crack which want to find his way into linux. but it is so hard, while understand one system and try to do so in a different one! i am quite new here and getting confused sometimes while trying to fix problems in linux.
please: can you send me a step by step manual how to fix this error?
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David Grant replied on Permalink
Try editing with a different
Try editing with a different editor. Try:
nano -w /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
kate /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
or use vim or emacs if you know how
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
i realy need help now
hi david
sorry that i am comming back. but i tryd every tipps an tricks on your side here. it took me about one day. but i still can not use my usb devices, such as a garmin device and my u3 usb stick..
this is what i have checked and tryed:
- i have installed the closed virtualbox version.
- i am a member of the vbox users.
- i installed the version 2.2.2 and after this the new one 2.2.4.
- remember after each smale change i allways rebooted my system!
- in virtualbox configruation of the wxp machine i added the required usb filters.
- when i startup the wxp machine, under device --> usb devices, i can see the filters but they are allways grayedout. in the taskbar of the wxp machine it shows me the information: no usb devices attached!
- when i attach a common usb stick to my workstation then suse will recogize it an i can use it under linux.
- when i start the: "/etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh" it was empty.
- i added: domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=,devmode=664
- then i added: domount proc /proc proc -onodev,noexec,nosuid
- the file contains now this two lines:
domount proc /proc proc -onodev,noexec,nosuid
domount usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=1000,devmode=664 (1000 is my gid)
- i first added the first line and checked it after a reboot.
in a feedback above there is something written about the: do_start () function. what exactly does this mean? since no such function is visable in my: "/etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh".
if nessesary how is the exact syntax of this?
- i changed the permissions: chmod 777 on the /proc/bus/usb
- interesting is that: mount |grep usb shows simly nothing!
- i removed all lines refering to: usbfs in: /etc/fstab
- the settings in: /home/matthias/.VirtualBox/Machines/wxp_client/wxp_client.xml is: "USBController enabled="true" enabledEhci="true".
any help is welcome.
thanks matthias
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David Grant replied on Permalink
"when i start the:
"when i start the: "/etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh" it was empty."
that's your problem. That file should have tons more stuff in it. It comes with the initscripts package, so you might want to try reinstalling that.
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bryan replied on Permalink
Still trying to get USB to work...
First off, thanks everyone for the great suggestions on getting USB working.
I am running Fedora 11 i386 and Sun VirtualBox 2.2.4 (VirtualBox-2.2.4_47978_fedora11-1.i586). I am trying to get USB to work in XP SP3. When look at the USB filters, it has no problem showing me all of my USB devices, but when I "Start" the XP host, and then mouse over the USB icon, it says that there are "no attached devices".
[bryan@fedora ~]$ grep vbox /etc/group
[bryan@fedora ~]$ mount |grep usb
[bryan@fedora ~]$
[bryan@fedora ~]$ cat /etc/group|grep vboxusers
I have performed the changes in mountkernfs.sh, I have also tried adding another group called "USB", I have also tried to CHMOD -R 777 the usb directory.
Any help is appreciated -- I am very frustrated.
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Since 1976, when Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman first surmised the possibilities for the potential uses for digital signatures,1 there has been ongoing discussion of building an online identity management structure. As use of the Internet has become more central to daily life and our financial and physical security has become intertwined with cyber security, the calls to authenticate and identify individual users have increased. However, we still have not seen a single set of answers to these issues that offer a path to an interoperable identity management system that will achieve the goals of authenticating users at different levels of risk, keeping the Internet as an innovative and growing hub for the world's interactions, and building trust among Internet users. Therefore, it is easy to be doubtful and even cynical that we can build an identity management infrastructure that is voluntary, privacy-protective, secure, and interoperable. Over the next few years, we have a rare opportunity to build such a system, and this opportunity may be our last.
NSTIC represents only one pillar in an overall approach to resilient and effective cyber security, but it is an essential component to overall success.
Many countries have put forward online identity management strategies tied to centralized databases and national ID cards, but another path was clearly laid out in an important 2004 article entitled "The Accountable Net." The authors, John Palfrey, David Johnson, and Susan Crawford, suggest the current threats on the Internet create an unsustainable situation where we risk losing the benefits of the Internet's decentralized structure. They urge us to find ways of building an Internet governance that makes peers accountable to one another as that risk is lower than the risk of empowering either an existing government or building a centralized global authority. Instead of fearing the change that will take place as the Internet becomes more accountable, those of us that love its current structure must embrace change, but also "keep the fundamental architecture and values of the Internet in mind as we do so."2
President Obama recognized these concerns in the release of the May 2009 Cyberspace Policy Review (CPR), which outlined the steps the public and private sector should take to overcome the risks associated with online transactions. These actions included improving identity solutions, services and privacy-enhancing technologies, and enhancing protection for individuals' online information. In response to the short-term actions laid out in the CPR, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) was created and was signed by the President earlier this year; see http://www.nist.gov/nstic for details.
As the President and his Cyber Security Coordinator have noted, NSTIC represents only one pillar in an overall approach to resilient and effective cyber security, but it is an essential component to overall success. It seeks to enhance online trust by focusing on establishing identity solutions that improve our ability to identify and authenticate the organizations, individuals, and underlying infrastructure (such as routers, servers, desktops, mobile devices, software, data) involved in online transactions. NSTIC is not only about credentials and authentication. It also seeks to limit the amount of identifying information that is collected and transmitted during the course of online transactions. This concept is clearly articulated in the NSTIC vision statement: "individuals and organizations utilize secure, efficient, easy-to-use, and interoperable identity solutions to access online services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice, and innovation."
In order to realize the vision, the strategy outlines a next generation of a trusted identity environment, the Identity Ecosystem, where individuals and organizations can operate with trust and confidence through abiding by standards and policies for identifying and authenticating their digital identities.
Four Guiding Principles establish the framework for participation in the Identity Ecosystem and form the foundation for the strategy:
In order to reach these goals, not only does the government need the help of the private sector, but also the private sector must lead its implementation. In January 2011, the U.S. Department of Commerce was named the head of a National Program Office for NSTIC. As a non-regulatory agency, Commerce's job as the lead on NSTIC is to promote voluntary private sector cooperation to facilitate the growth of this Identity Ecosystem in a peer governance model similar to that recommended in "The Accountable Net."2
To do so, the U.S. Department of Commerce will promote private-sector involvement and engagement, build consensus on legal and policy frameworks works necessary to achieve the vision, including ways to enhance privacy, free expression, and open markets; work with industry to identify where new standards or collaborative efforts may be needed; support interagency collaboration and coordinate interagency efforts associated with achieving programmatic goals; and promote important pilot programs and other implementations.
In the age of identity theft, any project regarding identity bears close watching no matter who is running it or how it is run.
There is no panacea or magic bullet to solve all cyber security issues, but leadership on an identity management infrastructure can build trust, can improve security and, if done properly, can enhance privacy, but it must be led by the same type of innovators that have made the Internet what it is today. There will be an opportunity for anyone interested to participate and, it is essential that those of us that care about the future of the Internet do so if we are to be successful.
I realize many will read this call to participate in NSTIC and think they have heard this concern before, but in this case, I urge everyone involved in related areas to think long and hard about the future of identity management, privacy, and the Internet. There are only a few possible future scenarios.
Presidential calls on IT issues, with pilot funds behind them, do not come every day.
First, we continue on our current path. In other words, we stumble along. The market may have some good ideas on authentication that address some important Internet values: they probably will be voluntary; they may or may not protect privacy; they may be open or may be completely proprietary. In the meantime, we can expect at least a few more decades of inefficiencies, lost opportunity costs, and heavy fraud losses.
Another vision would be that governments will not wait decades and will work together or separately to begin to require identity management solutions. Although these solutions are likely to be more privacy protective, they are also likely to be more prescriptive schemes that may raise costs and make it more difficult to deliver products and services consumers want to use.
Finally, there is the NSTIC, an organized attempt to address as many issues as possible before they arise taking the leadership of the private sector and teaming it with consumer protection input from the government. It also may succeed or fail. Success has clear benefits to those who would like to ensure important aspects of today's Internet and protect privacy. Failure will put us back into one of the other scenarios.
With these options, it is clear which path is better for innovation, better for privacy, and better for openness. Certainly, in the age of identity theft, any project regarding identity bears close watching no matter who is running it or how it is run and NSTIC is no different in that respect.
Presidential calls on IT issues, with pilot funds behind them, do not come every day. There may indeed be other opportunities to develop a similar means to address related security issues while maintaining the critical values of Internet openness and privacy, but that is not a wager I am willing to make. In short, we have a chance to make a difference now. I hope you will join me and work with the U.S. Commerce Department and private sector leaders to take advantage of what may just be the last best chance to get the governance for the future of online authentication right.
1. Diffie, W. and Hellman, M. New directions in cryptography. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IT-22, 6 (Nov. 1976), 644654.
2. Johnson, D. R., Crawford, S. P., and Palfrey, J. G. The accountable Net: Peer production of Internet governance. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School Virginia Journal of Law and Technology 9, 9 (2004); http://ssrn.com/abstract=529022 or DOI:10.2139/ssrn.529022.
a. See a discussion of modern Fair Information Practice Principles in the U. S. Department of Commerce Green Paper entitled "Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy: A Dynamic Policy Framework" at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/2010/IPTF_Privacy_GreenPaper_12162010.pdf
Figure. Multiple trust frameworks built on the foundation of the Identity Ecosystem Framework.
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