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A man accused of stealing jewelry and in some cases, trying to pawn it, is not new to the judicial system.
A man accused of stealing jewelry and in some cases, trying to pawn it, is not new to the judicial system.
Gregory Dustin Hamilton, 30, whose address on warrants is listed as 2762 Olympia Road, was charged with stealing jewelry tucked away in private homes.
Police took him into custody at Meadowbrook Drive in Trent Woods.
Earlier this month, Hamilton was charged with first degree burglary and assault and battery. He was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
In December 2011, he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possessing an open container, breaking or entering of building, and driving while impaired.
The latest charges filed Friday by New Bern police include two counts each of breaking and entering of a residence, larceny after breaking and entering, possession of stolen property and obtaining property by false pretense.
Though other burglaries have been reported, police believe they have linked him to two:
n On Dec. 5, he allegedly broke into a home on River Road and allegedly stole a stud set, cuff links, bracelet and earrings, with a total value of $6,387.
n On Sept. 8, he allegedly broke into a home at the 2400 block of Turtle Bay Drive and stole jewelry including a gold solitaire, a white gold solitaire, a round emerald ring, and a ruby ring with diamond. The jewelry was valued at $3,950.
Police said that on Dec. 14, Hamilton received $250 from Mitchell Jewelers when he pawned stolen jewelry, and on Dec. 5, he attempted to pawn stolen jewelry at Town Pawn in New Bern.
New Bern police, Trent Woods police and Craven County sheriff�s investigators are combining efforts on the case.
The agencies meet with District Attorney Scott Thomas on Monday afternoon to determine the next steps in the investigation. Thomas said the meeting took two hours and that more arrests are likely.
Hamilton made his first appearance in Craven County District Court on Monday when, at Thomas� request, Hamilton�s bail was increased from $100,000 to $500,000.
Hamilton�s next court date is Dec. 31.
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Eric Holder is in a mess of his own making.
More than two weeks ago, the attorney general testified to the House Judiciary Committee in categorical terms: "With regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I have ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy."
Then The Post published the text of an affidavit Holder had authorized in an espionage case saying there was "probable cause" to believe journalist James Rosen was a "co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor" because of a leak he received. The affidavit cited "the reporter's own potential criminal liability in this matter."
Now House Republicans are talking about perjury, and it would seem that they have, well, probable cause.
As a legal matter, this isn't a worry for Holder. His Justice Department isn't going to prosecute him for perjury, just as it didn't prosecute him when lawmakers held him in contempt of Congress: L'etat, c'est lui. But the controversy left Holder with a serious credibility problem at a time when many Republicans want him out and Democrats are not eager to defend the Obama administration's intrusions into the First Amendment with its obsessive leak investigations.
Holder managed to make the situation even worse this week when he arranged to have a series of meetings with news organizations but then decreed that the sessions would be off the record.
What exactly Holder is up to is anybody's guess. He has given only one interview during this debacle, telling Daniel Klaidman of the Daily Beast that "our laws and guidelines need to be updated" for leak investigations. His aides told Klaidman that Holder had "a creeping sense of personal remorse" about the leak probes, which on his watch are unprecedented in number and unreasonably sweeping.
But is his "remorse" real and his vow to fix the problem genuine? Or is he just saying soothing words until the controversy recedes? It wasn't encouraging that Holder's longtime friend Reid Weingarten told the New York Times that he had heard no such expressions of remorse from him.
I've defended Holder in the past, such as when Republicans maligned him during their "Fast and Furious" investigation into gunrunning. If the attorney general is serious about making changes, I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. So, on Thursday, I requested an interview with Holder; the request was denied.
I asked a Holder adviser whether Holder would commit to any of the changes to Justice Department guidelines for prosecutors that First Amendment advocates say — and even some administration officials admit — are necessary. (For example, the guidelines, last updated in 1982, don't cover e-mail.) The adviser said that the attorney general, who promises to produce new guidelines by July 12, was not yet ready to endorse any changes.
I asked if Holder, or the administration, would explicitly endorse the "shield" legislation proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) protecting journalists in certain leak prosecutions; Holder had endorsed the same legislation in a letter to the Senate in 2009, and the White House recently encouraged Schumer to reintroduce it. I eventually got a statement not from Holder but from Matt Lehrich, an assistant press secretary in the White House, saying "the administration strongly supports" the Schumer bill.
I hope that's true, and I'm encouraged by claims that Holder plans to lobby lawmakers for the shield law, but the record so far isn't encouraging. The Schumer proposal was itself watered down in 2009 at the administration's insistence, and even that relatively weak bill died in Congress after the White House declined to push for it. A stronger bill offered by liberal Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and tea party Rep. Ted Poe (R-Tex.) isn't supported by the administration and has little chance of passage.
The issue wouldn't have been revived at all if not for the Obama administration's upending of the system, which relied on prosecutors' self-restraint. That arrangement broke down when prosecutors tested the limits of the nonbinding and outdated guidelines as they pursued more leak cases than had all previous administrations combined.
Prosecutors, no longer restraining themselves, now need courts to restrain them. The shield law would do that by requiring prosecutors to go to a federal judge before they suspend certain press freedoms. "This is too important to be left to internal guidelines," says Kurt Wimmer, a lawyer representing the newspaper industry. "This isn't about what you serve in the cafeteria. This is the First Amendment."
It's not too late for Holder to make a serious push for a shield law. As a bonus, he might also restore his credibility.
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Anytime you see something vaguely bird-like in a bakery this time of year, I guess you have to assume it's supposed to be a turkey. These guys found by Shelley L., however, are plopped somewhere along the line between a bat and a melting chicken:
Now, I must admit: at first glance I thought they were kind of cute. Then I realized that the 4 guys in the middle are smoking cigarettes - now what kind of an example is that? Plus, they're all being goosed by what must be uncommonly sharp candy corns: hellooo! cruelty to batty bird creatures! Not cool, man. Not cool.
Here are some other cupcake creations riding that cute/wtf? line:
Ok, yes, they're round and have googly eyes, and therefore I must love them. However, what the heck are they made of? Is that really solid icing? Please, Michele L., tell me that's not solid icing! What'd they do, ice the things with an ice cream scoop?


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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Officials from the U.S., Mexico and Central American nations began a two-day meeting in Nicaragua on Thursday at which they are expected to discuss the possibility of treating Central American migrants fleeing violence in their homelands as refugees.
Migration and interior department representatives who met at a hotel in Managua declined to discuss the meeting's first day.
The agenda focuses on updating a 30-year-old declaration regarding the obligations that nations have to aid refugees.
Officials with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees have said they hope a regional agreement on designating Central Americans migrants as refugees begins to be discussed at the meeting. Such a resolution would lack legal weight, but the agency says it believes "the U.S. and Mexico should recognize that this is a refugee situation."
Central America's northern triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras has become one of the most violent regions on Earth in recent years, with swaths of all three countries under the control of drug traffickers and street gangs who rob, rape and extort ordinary citizens with impunity.
Even though any agreement would not be legally binding on the countries that signed it, advocates say it would help create international consensus to help the migrants. Those actions could include emergency aid and social services for internally displaced people inside Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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VirtualBox is a virtual pc emulator like vmware. It has many of the features vmware has, as well as some of its own. It is in constant development and new features are implemented all the time. eg. version 2.2 introduced OpenGL 3D acceleration support for Linux and Solaris guests. It has a nice GUI interface (Qt and/or SDL) or command line tools for managing virtual machines. Headless operation is also supported. Running iTunes under VirtualBox is the only way (currently) to sync iPod Touch/iPhone firmware 3.0+.
- 1 Editions
- 2 Installation
- 3 Configuration
- 3.1 Keyboard and mouse between the host and the guest
- 3.2 Getting network in the guest machine to work
- 3.3 Getting USB to work in the guest machine
- 3.4 Installing Guest Additions
- 3.5 Sharing folders between the host and the guest
- 3.6 Getting audio to work in the guest machine
- 3.7 Setting up the RAM and Video Memory for the virtual PC
- 3.8 Setting up CD-ROM for the Virtual PC
- 3.9 Enabling OpenGL acceleration in Arch Linux guests
- 3.10 Enabling D3D acceleration in Windows guests
- 4 Start VirtualBox
- 5 Virtualized OS Setup
- 6 Maintenance
- 7 Migrating From Another VM
- 8 Tips and Tricks
- 9 Running Arch Linux as a guest
- 10 External Links
VirtualBox is available in two editions: VirtualBox (OSE) and VirtualBox (Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL))
VirtualBox (OSE)
VirtualBox (OSE) is the open source version of VirtualBox, which can be found in the community repository. It lacks some features such as USB device support and the built-in RDP server.
VirtualBox (PUEL)
VirtualBox PUEL is a binary-only version (free for personal use). There are several available from the AUR, but the most popular PKGBUILD was written by thotypous and is currently maintained by cryptocrack. You can download it from the AUR at this link or directly from the VirtualBox website. The PUEL edition offers the following advantages:
- Remote Display Protocol (RDP) Server - a complete RDP server on top of the virtual hardware, allowing users to connect to a virtual machine remotely using any RDP compatible client
- USB support - a virtual USB controller which allows USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices to be passed through to virtual machines
- USB over RDP - a combination of the RDP server and USB support, allowing users to make USB devices available to virtual machines running remotely
- iSCSI initiator - a builtin iSCSI initiator making it possible to use iSCSI targets as virtual disks without the guest requiring support for iSCSI
Install VirtualBox (OSE)
VirtualBox (OSE) is available from the community repository:
# pacman -S virtualbox-ose
Once installed, a desktop entry can be located in Applications → System Tools → VirtualBox OSE
Now, add the desired username to the vboxusers group:
# gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers
To build vboxdrv module, run as root:
# /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup
Lastly, edit Template:Filename as root and add vboxdrv to the MODULES array in order to load the VirtualBox drivers at startup. For example:
MODULES=(loop vboxdrv fuse ...)
To load the module manually, run the following in a terminal as root:
# modprobe vboxdrv
Install VirtualBox PUEL (virtualbox_bin)
VirtualBox PUEL is available from the AUR: virtualbox_bin.
Download the tarball from the above page. As a normal user, unpack, change directory, and Template:Codeline:
$ tar -xzf virtualbox_bin.tar.gz $ cd virtualbox_bin $ makepkg
This will create a .pkg.tar.gz file in the virtualbox_bin directory. Then, as root:
# pacman -U PACKAGE-NAME.pkg.tar.gz
This will compile the vboxdrv kernel modules and install VirtualBox in Template:Filename, and add the vboxusers group.
Now, add the desired username to the vboxusers group:
# gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers
Lastly, edit Template:Filename as root and add vboxdrv to the MODULES array in order to load the VirtualBox drivers at startup. For example:
MODULES=(loop vboxdrv fuse ...)
To load the module manually, run the following in a terminal as root:
# modprobe vboxdrv
Install required QT libraries
Currently, VirtualBox relies on QT4 for its graphical interface. If you require a GUI, ensure you have QT4 installed:
# pacman -S qt
After having installed VirtualBox on your system and added yourself to the vboxusers group, you can start configuring your system in order to make all the features of VirtualBox available. Create a new virtual machine using the wizard provided by the GUI and then click settings in order to edit the virtual machine settings.
Keyboard and mouse between the host and the guest
- To capture the keyboard and mouse, click the mouse inside the Virtual Machine display.
- To uncapture, press the right Ctrl key, alone.
To get seamless mouse integration between host and guest, you need to install the Virtualbox additions into the guest.
Also, mouse pointer integration does not work out of the box. To fix it, make sure you have the following sections in your Template:Filename:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "vboxmouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
When generating your Template:Filename with Template:Codeline, you will end up with an InputDevice section that uses the Template:Codeline driver. After installing the Guest Additions, you should replace Template:Codeline with Template:Codeline and then restart X or reboot your VM.
Getting network in the guest machine to work
First, get network working in the guest machine. Click the network tab. The not attached option means you will have "Network cable unplugged" or similar error in the guest computer.
Using NAT network
This is the simplest way to get network. Select NAT network and it should be ready to use. Then, the guest operating system can be automatically configured by using DHCP.
The NAT IP address on the first card is 10.0.2.0, 10.0.3.0 on the second and so on.
Also in VirtualBox 2.2.0+ NAT network DHCP clients will not configure your nameserver (DNS server for windows guests) you will have to manually configure the nameserver(DNS server)
Using host interface networking (the VirtualBox way)
Since VirtuaBox 2.1.0 it has a native support for host interface networking. Just add vboxnetflt to your MODULES section in Template:Filename and choose Host Interface Networking (or Bridged adapter in 2.2) in the virtual machine configuration.
Note: DHCP broadcasting does not seem to work properly under this way. Set up your guest networking with static IP assignment.
Using host interface networking (the Arch way)
You are going to just edit these files and reboot:
Edit: Template:Filename
bridge_br0="eth0 vbox0" # Put any interfaces you need. BRIDGE_INTERFACES=(br0)
First add the bridge module to your MODULES line
MODULES=( <your other modules> bridge)
Then, in your NETWORKING section, make the following changes:
eth0="eth0 up" br0="dhcp" # Maybe you have some static configuration; change to fit INTERFACES=(eth0 br0)
Note by gpan:
First add the vboxdrv (and vboxnetflt in case of 2.1.0 version) module to your MODULES line:
MODULES=( <your other modules> vboxdrv vboxnetflt )
Note by vit:
In my case it did not work untill adding vboxnetadp to modules.
Next, you should edit your Template:Filename and type:
KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0660"
Save it and exit.
Then open terminal and type:
# pacman -S bridge-utils uml_utilities
Create a new bridge with this command:
# brctl addbr br0
(You can set up more interfaces if you want. Sky is the limit!):
vbox0 your_user br0 # Be sure that your user is in the vboxusers group.
Using host interface networking (generic)
This way is a bit harder, but it allows you to see the VirtualMachine as a "real" computer on your local network. You need to get bridge-utils
# pacman -S bridge-utils uml_utilities
Note by Sp1d3rmxn:
- You also need to have the TUN module loaded... in Template:Filename add Template:Codeline (without the quotes) to your MODULES section. For testing this out right now without rebooting you can load the module from the command line by Template:Codeline.
- Then you MUST set these permissions otherwise you will never get VBox to init the interface. The command is Template:Codeline (without the quotes).
- Now proceed with the rest as it is written below.
- As said by Sp1d3rmxn, set these permissions, but, instead of using the command, set them in Template:Filename, which will apply them on boot:
KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0660" KERNEL=="tun", OWNER="root", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0660"
1. Create a new bridge with this command:
# brctl addbr br0
2. If you are not using DHCP, run ifconfig and note down the network configuration of your existing network interface (e.g. eth0), which will need to be copied to the bridge.
3. Switch your physical network adapter to "promiscuous" mode so that it will accept Ethernet frames for MAC addresses other than its own (replace Template:Codeline with your network interface):
# ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc
4. Add your network adapter to the bridge:
# brctl addif br0 eth0
5. Transfer the network configuration previously used with your physical ethernet adapter to the new bridge. If you are using DHCP, this should work:
# dhclient br0
Note by Sp1d3rmxn:
- Use Template:Codeline instead of the above
Otherwise, run Template:Codeline and use the values that you noted down previously.
6. To create a permanent host interface called vbox0 (all host interfaces created in this way must be called vbox followed by a number) and add it to the network bridge created above, use the following command:
VBoxAddIF vbox0 vboxuser br0
Replace Template:Codeline with the name of the user who is supposed to be able to use the new interface.
Alternatively, you can setup VirtualBox networking through your Template:Filename to enable a bridged connection.
Using host interface networking with a wireless device
Bridging as described above will not work with a wireless device. Using parprouted however it can be accomplished.
- Install parprouted and iproute
- Template:Codeline
- Make sure IP fowarding is enabled: Template:Codeline, and/or edit Template:Filename.
- Template:Codeline, to create the tap device
- Template:Codeline, needs to be a manually set IP on the same network your wireless device is.
- Template:Codeline
Getting USB to work in the guest machine
(Only available in the PUEL edition)
First in order to make USB available for use to the virtual machine you must add this line to your Template:Filename:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=108,busmode=0775,devgid=108,devmode=0664 0 0
Then tell mount to reread Template:Filename:
# mount -a
Template:Codeline is is the id of the group which should be allowed to access USB-devices. Change it to the id of your vboxusers group. You can get the id by running:
$ grep vboxusers /etc/group
Restart Virtualbox and click the USB tab in the settings of the virtual machine and select which devices are available to your pc on boot. If you wish your virtual machine to use device that you have just plugged in (assuming the virtual machine has booted already), go to the VirtualMachine screen go to Devices → USB Devices and select the device you wish to plug in the virtual PC.
Note by bjimba:
Recent versions of VirtualBox, as noted above, do not require usbfs, however you will need the HAL daemon running if you do not use usbfs. See the HAL wiki page for details.
Installing Guest Additions
The Guest Additions make the shared folders feature available, as well as better video (3D available in version 2.1+) and mouse drivers. You will have mouse integration, thus no need to release the mouse after using it in the guest and one can also enable a bidirectional clipboard.
After you booted the virtual machine, go to menu Devices → Install Guest Additions... Once you have clicked it, VirtualBox loads an ISO into the current CD-ROM, so you will not see anything happen yet ;).
You will require gcc and make if you do not already have them so install them typing the following as root:
# pacman -S gcc make
If you are running arch in VirtualBox install the kernel headers
# pacman -S kernel26-headers
Then do the following as root:
# mount /media/cdrom
for i686 systems (32 bit):
# sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
for x86-64 systems (64 bit):
# sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run
It will build and install the kernel modules, install the Xorg drivers and create init scripts. It will most probably print out errors about init scripts and run levels and what not. Ignore them. You will find Template:Filename in /etc/rc.d which will load them on demand. To have the Guest Additions loaded at boot time, just add those to the DAEMONS array in Template:Filename eg.:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa rc.vboxadd)
Another option is to install one of these packages:
# pacman -S virtualbox-additions
# pacman -S virtualbox-ose-additions
You will then have an ISO to mount as a loop device. Remember to load the loop kernel module before:
# modprobe loop # mount /usr/lib/virtualbox/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso /media/cdrom -o loop
Then execute Template:Filename as before. Before adding Template:Filename to DAEMONS check Template:Filename for commands to load the vboxadd daemons put by the installation script.
Using full resolution of the host system in the guest
Set the resolution of your guest in the grub boot script Template:Filename, i.e. add the correct vga code to the kernel command line. For a resolution of 1280x1024, this would e.g. look like
# kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/7bdc5dee-8fb0-4260-bc43-60ac6e4e4a54 ro vga=795
Add the resolution to Template:Filename, e.g.
# Section "Screen" # ... # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 24 # Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" # EndSubSection # ... # EndSection
Windows Guests
After installing Windows (XP etc.) on your virtual machine, simply select Devices → Install Guest Additions...
This will mount the iso image and windows should then automatically launch the guest additions installer. Follow the instructions to the end.
Sharing folders between the host and the guest
In the settings of the virtual machine go to shared folders tab and add the folders you want to share.
- NOTE: You need to install Guest Additions in order to use this feature.
In a Linux host, Devices → Install Guest Additions Yes (when asked to download the CD image) Mount (when asked to register and mount)
In a Linux host, create one folder for sharing files.
In a Windows guest, starting with VirtualBox 1.5.0, shared folders are browseable and are therefore visible in Windows Explorer. Open Windows Explorer and look for it under My Networking Places → Entire Network → VirtualBox Shared Folders.
Alternatively, on the Windows command line, you can also use the following:
net use x: \\VBOXSVR\sharename
While Template:Codeline is a fixed name, replace Template:Codeline with the drive letter that you want to use for the share, and sharename with the share name specified with VBoxManage.
In a Windows guest, to improve loading and saving files (e.g. MS Office) by VirtualBox Shared Folders edit c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts as below:
127.0.0.1 localhost vboxsvr
In a Linux guest, use the following command:
# mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint
Replace Template:Codeline with the share name specified with VBoxManage, and mountpoint with the path where you want the share to be mounted (e.g. /mnt/share). The usual mount rules apply, that is, create this directory first if it does not exist yet.
Beyond the standard options supplied by the mount command, the following are available:
to set the character set used for I/O operations (utf8 by default) and
to specify the character set used for the shared folder name (utf8 by default).
Getting audio to work in the guest machine
In the machine settings, go to the audio tab and select the correct driver according to your sound system (ALSA, OSS or PulseAudio).
Setting up the RAM and Video Memory for the virtual PC
You can change the default values by going to Settings → General.
Setting up CD-ROM for the Virtual PC
You can change the default values by going to Settings → CD/DVD-ROM.
Check mount CD/DVD drive and select one of the following options.
Note: If no CD-ROM drive is detected, make sure the HAL daemon is running. To start it, run the following command as root:
# /etc/rc.d/hal start
Enabling OpenGL acceleration in Arch Linux guests
Due to a bug in the VirtualBox guest addition setup scripts (as of VBox 3.1.2), simply ticking the "3D acceleration" checkbox in the virtual machine settings and installing the guest additions won't enable 3D acceleration for OpenGL applications under X for Arch Linux guests (and possibly others). In order to still get OpenGL acceleration, a bit of manual intervention is necessary after installing the guest additions. As root, run:
ln -s /usr/lib/VBoxOGL.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri /usr/lib/dri
Also make sure the user starting X in the guest is in the video group.
Enabling D3D acceleration in Windows guests
Recent versions of Virtualbox have support for accelerating OpenGL inside guests. This can be enabled with a simple checkbox in the machine's settings, right below where video ram is set, and installing the Virtualbox guest additions. However, most Windows games use Direct3D (part of DirectX), not OpenGL, and are thus not helped by this method. However, it is possible to gain accelerated Direct3D in your Windows guests by borrowing the d3d libraries from Wine, which translate d3d calls into OpenGL, which is then accelerated.
After enabling OpenGL acceleration as described above, go to http://www.nongnu.org/wined3d/ in your Windows guest and grab the "Latest version (Installer):". Reboot the guest into safe mode (press F8 before the Windows screen appears but after the Virtualbox screen disappears), and install wined3d, accepting the defaults during the install. (You may check the box for DirectX 10 support if you like, dont touch anything else.) Reboot back to normal mode and you should have accelerated Direct3D.
Start VirtualBox
To start Virtualbox, run the following command in a terminal:
$ VirtualBox
Or in KDE menu, select: <System><Sun Virtualbox>
Virtualized OS Setup
Virtualbox needs to be setup to virtualize another operating system.
Test a LiveCD/DVD
Click the 'New' button to create a new virtual environment. Name it appropriately and select Operating System type and version. Select base memory size (note: most operating systems will need at least 512MB to function properly). Create a new hard disk image (a hard disk image is a file that will contain the operating system's filesystem and files).
When the new image has been created, click 'Settings', then CD/DVD-ROM, check 'Mount CD/DVD Drive' then select an ISO image.
Rebuild the vboxdrv Module
Note that any time your kernel version changes (due to upgrade, recompile, etc.) you must also rebuild the VirtualBox kernel. Depending of your version :
On version 3.1.2 and possibly later /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv does not exist.
Install kernel26-headers. This is difference than the kernel-headers package
Navigate over to "/etc/rc.d" and run the "vboxdrv" script with the following: "./vboxdrv setup" without quotes This will build the Virtualbox kernel
On virtualbox_bin from AUR or on versions 2.1 to 3.1.1, run the following command:
# vbox_build_module
This binary will be located in one of the following locations: /sbin, /bin, or /usr/bin.
On versions before 2.1, update the kernel module by running the following command:
# /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv setup
After rebuilding the module, do not forget to load it with
# modprobe vboxdrv
vboxdrv and vboxnetflt should be in the MODULES=() section of your /etc/rc.conf
Compact a Disk Image
See How to compact a VirtualBox virtual disk image (VDI)
Windows Xp and Nokia phones
To get working Windows XP and Nokia phones with Pc Suite mode, Virtualbox needs two simple steps:
1. Add a rule to udev with Template:Filename:
LABEL="usb_serial_start" ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", \ GROUP="usbfs", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout" LABEL="usb_serial_end"
2. Create the group usbfs and add its user to it
$ sudo groupadd usbfs $ sudo usermod -a -G usbfs $USER
After a logout, connect a Nokia phone with PC Suite mode and start Windows XP to test new rule.
Migrating From Another VM
qemu-img program can be used to convert images from one format to another, or add compression or encryption to an image.
# pacman -S qemu
Converting from QEMU images
To convert a QEMU image for use with VirtualBox, first convert it to raw format, then use VirtualBox's conversion utility to convert and compact it in its native format.
$ qemu-img convert -O raw test.qcow2 test.raw $ VBoxManage modifyvdi /full/path/to/test.vdi compact
Converting from VMware images
$ VBoxManage clonehd source.vmdk target.vdi --format VDI
This may not be needed anymore with recent virtualbox versions (to be confirmed)
Tips and Tricks
Sending a CTRL+ALT+F1 to the Guest
If your guest O/S is a Linux distro, and you want to open a new tty text shell or exit X via typing Template:Keypress+Template:Keypress+Template:Keypress, you can easily send this command to the guest O/S simply by hitting your 'Host Key' (usually the Template:Keypress in the Right side of your keyboard) + Template:Keypress or Template:Keypress, etc.
Speeding up HDD Access for the Guest
Enabling the SATA(AHCI) controller within Virtualbox can speed up Host disk operations. This is available though Settings>Hard Disks in current versions of Virtual Box.
Starting VMs at System Boot on Headless Servers
Add this line to /etc/rc.local
exec /bin/su PREFERRED_USER -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c \"VBoxHeadless -startvm {UUID}\" >/dev/null 2>&1" &
Where PREFERRED_USER is the user profile that contains the VM definitions and .vdi files. This will start the VM with a RDP server running on port 3389. To determine the available VMs for a user:
su PREFERRED_USER -c "VBoxManage list vms"
To suspend the VM:
su PREFERRED_USER -c "VBoxManage controlvm {UUID} savestate"
Accessing Server on VM from Host
To access apache on a VM from the Host machine ONLY, simply execute the following lines on the Host:
$ VBoxManage setextradata GuestName "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/Apache/HostPort" 8888 $ VBoxManage setextradata GuestName "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/Apache/GuestPort" 80 $ VBoxManage setextradata GuestName "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/Apache/Protocol" TCP
Where 8888 is the port the host should listen on and 80 is the port the VM will send Apache's signal on. To use a port lower than 1024 on the host machine changes need to be made to the firewall on the host machine. This can also be set up to work with SSH, etc.. by changing "Apache" to whatever service and using different ports.
Note: "pcnet" refers to the network card of the VM. If you use an Intel card in your VM settings change "pcnet" to "e1000"
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It might also be necessary to allow connections from the outside to the server in your VM. E.g. if the guest OS is Arch, you may want to add the line
httpd: ALL
to your /etc/hosts.allow file.
Daemon Tools
While VirtualBox can mount ISO images without a problem, there are some image formats which cannot reliably be converted to ISO. For instance, ccd2iso ignores .ccd and .sub files, which can give disk images with broken files. cdemu, fuseiso, and MagicISO will do the same. In this case there is no choice but to use Daemon Tools inside VirtualBox.
Recent Daemon Tools versions won't install, so use this old one: [2]
Running Arch Linux as a guest
To install guest additions with support for Xorg follow these steps:
- install entire xorg group: (is everything actually required?)
# pacman -S xorg
- install dependencies needed to build the guest additions:
# pacman -S kernel26-headers gcc make
- mount and install VirtualBox guest additions
- create /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following contents:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "vboxmouse" Option "Device" "/dev/vboxguest" Option "CorePointer" "yes" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "vboxvideo" EndSection
- add hal to DAEMONS in rc.conf (not needed if you use X.org Server >= 1.8)
- add /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all & to the top of ~/.xinitrc (even if ~/.xinitrc does not exist)


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Airplane parts manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE:SPR) lost a CEO today -- and gained a new one.
Exiting the CEO's chair is Jeff Turner, who has served as Spirit's chief executive officer since its very creation eight years ago. (Turner will remain on the Board of Directors). Taking his place is Larry A. Lawson, just poached from his former job as head of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE:LMT) aeronautics business, where he also ran the company's F-35 fighter jet program.
Lawson joins Spirit at what may be a propitious time. The company recently reported better-than-expected sales and earnings. Meanwhile, a potentially damaging strike at key customer Boeing has been averted -- twice! -- as both halves of the Boeing (NYSE:BA) workforce represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace have agreed to renew their contract with the company.
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turn-off rain sensing wiper in Murano-09
Does any one know, how to turn off rain-sensing wiper in Nissan murano 09.
I had a car wash done recently, and one of my left arm wiper got bent. it cost 45$ to replace the wiper arm.
I had a car wash done recently, and one of my left arm wiper got bent. it cost 45$ to replace the wiper arm.
jduerbusch Posts: 9Easy, just read the manual or watch the DVD.
But since I could not even figure out how to tune the wipers on last Friday night in my first rain, I better tell you that all you have to do is move the wiper handle up one notch.
Center is off
One notch down is intermitted, and rain sensing
One more notch down is slow
One more notch down is fast.
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crammer Posts: 5How about disabling the auto wipers (and making it time-based intermittent again) ? the wiper sensor is nearly useless on freezing slushy winter days!
I do like it in the summer though, so ideally it should be reversible. I haven't found anything on other forums. Any ideas?
2009 Murano SL w/luxury package
-awesome car (except for a few human-factor engineering details)0
kellyd7 Posts: 8I actually went to the dealer and asked them to turn it off for me because I couldn't figure it out and they said it CANNOT BE TURNED OFF! Can you believe that?! I'm still determined to figure it out or find someone who can. I guess the sensor is on the outside of the car, near the windshield. I hate the rain sensor wipers--they go super fast when there's a simple mist and go super slow when there's a downpour, but I'm stuck in traffic and crawling along at 5 mph. SO DANGEROUS!0
I hate those rain-sensing wipers. Nissan should find a way to disable them via the control panel - as you can with other features like the speed-sensitive volume control. The rain-sensing feature basically renders the intermittent wipers useless.
Nissan: Listen up! Your customers are telling you something. ">0
maximafan Posts: 592There's got to be a way to turn them off, especially if you're getting the car washed at an automatic full service car wash.
I have the rain-sensing wipers on my '07 RX350, and I love them!
They're one of my favorite features on my car. I just move the stalk up one notch. There's the word "auto" printed on my windshield wiper stalk. Also, you can set the sensitivity of the rain-sensing function to high, low or medium. Granted, it's sometimes difficult to determine if I'm in auto or rains-sense mode(and this happens only after the car has been to the car wash and the attendants seem to know to turn off my wipers anyway) so when I'm unsure,
I move the stalk down one more notch, which turns the wipers on at regular speed.
I'd like to hear others' input on the rains-sensing wipers pertaining to the Murano though. Mine work great. On my car, they also increase in speed when the driving speed increases. The only time I have to adjust anything is when there's a light mist-type of rain, and sometimes too much sprinkles get on the windshield and I'll bump down a notch on the stalk to go to regular speed. But, otherwise, they work great.0
THX for the input. Perhaps the main problem is that the wipers are speed sensitive. Rain-sensing is one thing, but I dont need my wipers moving as quickly during a mist - as they would in a downpour. Under those conditions, the faster I drive the mist seems to evaporate and I do not need the wipers to speed up. Anyway, something tells me this will be perfected in the future -- on all car models. THX again.0
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Gonzalo Aguado: Spain's dramatic triumph
For me the best moment of the tournament was certainly Spain's equaliser 34 seconds from the end of the final against Russia. At 1-0 down the five-time champions looked set for their first defeat in a competitive match, other than on penalties, since 2005. And then came the goal by Sergio Lozano, which forced extra time, and the rest was according to the script: a 3-1 win, and a sixth title.
Francesco Corda: Stefano Mammarella, best in the world
Futsalplanet.com elected him the best goalkeeper in the world in 2011 after helping ASD Città di Montesilvano C/5 to the UEFA Futsal Cup. At UEFA Futsal EURO 2012, Mammarella gave the umpteenth justification of this choice. If Ivo Jukić's saves set Croatian fans on fire, those of Italy's No1 dragged Roberto Menichelli's squad to third place ahead of the hosts.
He capped that in the play-off with a late clinching goal of his own. He had been the key man in all the other games, a brilliant save from a deflected İsmail Çelen shot against Turkey, the one to deny Paulinho in the quarter-final with Portugal and keeping Spain to just one in the semi-final loss. After Gianfranco 'Ciccio' Angelini and Alexandre Feller, the Azzurri goal is still in good hands.
Wayne Harrison: Ivo Jukić's performance against Ukraine
The noise which accompanied Croatia's quarter-final shoot-out victory against Ukraine and Jukić's role in it was truly unforgettable. The Croatia captain and goalkeeper helped his team reach the knockout stage for the first time with some vital saves in the group phase; in the last eight he lifted his fame to new heights by stopping three of Ukraine's four penalties. That it happened in the city where he plays his club futsal, for MNK Split, made it all the more sweet. A two-page spread on his heroics in sports daily sportske novosti will forever be a nice reminder of a special night at Spaladium Arena.
Elvir Islamović: The Croatian crowds
Futsal is far from the most popular sport in Croatia, so we did not know what to expect from demanding but always fanatical home fans. But from the first day the headline news was "the atmosphere". Not only was it spectacular but also record-breaking as three of Croatia's first four games eclipsed the tournament-best crowd, 14,300 coming to Arena Zagreb for the semi-final with Italy.
But it was not just the home team − the fact that at every other match at EURO there were at least a few thousand fans looking for quality futsal impressed me even more. So, yes, futsal is not the most popular sport in Croatia, but Croatia is a sporting country and people can recognise quality. And this was top quality.
Dmitri Mamykin: Sergei Abramov's bicycle kick against Turkey
It is rare that a player tries an overhead kick in football and even more so in futsal. However, that did not stop Russia forward Abramov from executing such an acrobatic manoeuvre in the finalists' 5-0 Group C victory against Turkey.
A long ball was destined to go nowhere, but to the astonishment of the crowd at Spaladium Arena the 21-year-old MFK Sinara Ekaterinburg striker produced an effort Marco van Basten would be proud of. Mahmut Akbaş spoiled the fun by making a save, so Abramov had another go in the next match against Italy. He finally opened his goalscoring account at the finals versus Croatia in the last four, albeit by more conventional means − a close-range a tap-in.
Paul Saffer: Only 16 goals in it
I'm going to cheat and pick two very different thrillers. The first was Serbia's 9-8 group elimination of Azerbaijan, who scored the fastest-ever EURO goal on eight seconds through Felipe but lost the highest-scoring match in the tournament's history despite leading four times. That was exhausting but just as gripping was Spain's 1-0 semi-final win against Italy, not gained through negative tactics but flawless defending and by pressing their opponents throughout. It was proof the new generation could be as dominant as the old.
Nuno Tavares: Arnaldo Pereira's special day
Portugal eventually bowed out in the quarter-finals following a 3-1 defeat by Italy, but before that Arnaldo had time to celebrate his 150th cap for his country in remarkable fashion. The captain recovered from a long-term injury in time to be present at the finals in Croatia and celebrated his century-and-a-half for Portugal with one of the goals of the tournament, his thunderous right-foot strike putting his team on track for a 2-1 win against Serbia and the top of Group D. Disappointment was just around the corner for Arnaldo and his team-mates but the time was to celebrate.


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Confused Irish Newspaper Editorial Argues That Search Engines Need To Pay Newspapers
from the time-to-drop-the-irish-examiner deptAs a few folks sent in, recently the Irish Examiner newspaper had an editorial arguing that copyright law needs to be expanded because, of course, newspapers are suffering. Though, as you look at the details, whoever wrote the article appears to be quite confused:
The scale of the piracy is astounding. In 2010, while every media company in the country shed jobs and cut costs to the bone, a single search engine operating in Ireland offered around 150,000 newspaper articles that cost publishers an estimated €46.5m to generate. Last year that site offered more than 350,000 articles at a cost equivalent to more than €110m. And all without paying one cent to those who created those articles.First of all, they seem to be claiming that search engines that index content, show a snippet and link people to the original content are "piracy." That's crazy talk. Furthermore, while they don't name the "search engine" they claim that it "offered" these articles. Of course, if it really posted all the articles itself, then there is no need to change copyright laws -- the company could already sue them for infringement. However, assuming that they're really talking about Google or just about any other search engine, what they really mean is that the search engines aggregated the content and linked people back to the original. The "cost" to produce those articles is irrelevant to the overall discussion. Yes, it costs money, but it's the job of a business model to bring in even more money. If the business geniuses who run your paper are too clueless to figure out how to monetize the traffic from Google, then perhaps you deserve to go out of business.
This free-for-all has put Ireland's 8,600 creative enterprises, the 116,000 jobs involved — some 7.5% of GDP and 6.5% of total employment — under a darkening cloud. Multinational corporations, ironically styling themselves champions of free information having stolen it themselves, pretend that they see nothing wrong with hijacking the work of others. They do this to create entities that exist primarily, in a news context, to deliver rather than generate content. To rub salt into the wound these entities are determined to secure advertising revenue on the back of that snatched news content. This is the very revenue that made the gathering of the news possible in the first place.
In the end, as we've seen elsewhere, this isn't about "piracy" at all. This is about newspapers who don't know how to adapt, and are staffed by completely technologically illiterate folks, who simply see that Google is making money while they're struggling and assume (totally incorrectly) that Google needs to pay them for sending them traffic.
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It wasn't the best celebration show WWE has ever presented, but it did provide a perfect dichotomy of it's most popular Superstar.
The last segment of RAW's 20th Anniversary show on Monday night explained perfectly the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as he is today in WWE. To be clearer, it showed what is good and not so good.
Let's start with the Rock Concert, Part 1 - He sang a song about Paul Heyman's droopy breasts (to the tune of "Heartbreak Hotel"), then berated Vickie in a cover of Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight." This is The Rock I can personally do without, but many in the WWE Universe (the sold out Toyota Center in Houston included) enjoyed. Any criticism I had about The Rock in the past applies in this part of the concert.
In Part 2, The Rock put the guitar and music stand aside and got serious. He called out CM Punk, put over the importance of the WWE championship and Punk's reign, mocked Heyman again, and further sold the title match at the Royal Rumble. CM Punk then made his way down the ramp and both men brawled to end the show.
I liked the brawl - because The Rock and John Cena barely touched before their WrestleMania encounter, certainly nothing like this, it differentiated the rivalries. It was also simple and effective - the Challenger says he will beat the Champion, Champion disagrees, they get physical, people want to see what happens.
This is The Rock I want to see more of.
- Eve lost the Divas championship to Kaitlyn then quit WWE on WWE Active via the WWE app. The match was actually pretty good, much better than Divas matches seen anywhere but on NXT lately.
- John Cena beat Dolph Ziggler in a cage match, another decent match with good false finishes. Once again, though, I'm waiting for what's next for Dolph; it's now two losses in a row against John Cena after beating him at TLC, which fans have already forgotten about.
- Alberto Del Rio is wearing some new "baby face" gear, which suits him. I don't mind him as World Heavyweight Champion, but maybe now is the time for Dolph to cash in, given Smackdown has a good guy as champion.
- Wade Barrett beat Randy Orton. Either Orton will take time off or become a villain. After all, it doesn't matter how many times you lost before a major character change, the slate is wiped clean!
- Team Hell No swept Team Rhodes Scholars in singles matches. I wouldn't mind Sandow and Rhodes as tag-team champions.
- CM Punk beat Brodus Clay in a match that was set up simply from Punk's pipe bomb last week, which included a note about Clay. Clay tapped out to the Anaconda Vice.
- 3MB actually won something, a 3-on-1 handicap over the top rope Battle Royal against Sheamus.
- The Shield looked stagnant tonight, looking to attack soon to be WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley, with Ryback, Sheamus and Randy Orton making the save
- The Miz I think did something unprecedented as a host of a WWE talk show. 1) he got his guest, Ric Flair, to sit in a chair on set and 2) He actually asked a question and his guest gave a logical answer. Novel concept!
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Louise "Weezer" Murphy has no intention of slowing down as a Cape Coral Rotarian.
While the 74-year-old may retire from her full-time job one day, she will not retire from the club.
"I will still go every week," Murphy said of the group meetings. "I will still contribute."
And she does contribute. Murphy has been on the board of directors - twice - has served as the sergeant at arms, chairs the Lighthouse Committee and coordinates the Festival of Arts Committee for the Rotary Club of Cape Coral, to name a few things. Since 2007, she has attended every meeting.
Lighthouse members take people with visual impairment for rides on their personal boats.
Murphy's unselfish giving of time, passion and enthusiasm recently earned her a special recognition.
She was named "Rotarian of the Year" at the installation of officers banquet July 13.
"She's been a member of our club forever. Any time there is a project, she's always involved," newly installed president Nancy Kratt said. "She just goes above and beyond when anything goes on."
"Everyone appreciates her efforts," she said.
The club's official photographer, Murphy was taking photographs at the banquet of the various award winners when the emcee introduced the Rotarian of the Year award and began to describe the recipient. Waiting for the winner's name to be called, Murphy was shocked when they told her to come forward.
"I almost started crying," she said. "I was very surprised."
Murphy could not recall the last time that the club recognized a Rotarian of the Year.
"I didn't think I was any more special than any other member," she said.
"I'm very very humbled by it," she said.
According to Kratt, the award has not been given away for the past few years.
"It's something that can be given out each year," she said. "We have not always done that."
"There was no one more deserving," Kratt added, of presenting it to Murphy.
Murphy first joined the Rotary Club of Cape Coral in 1999. At the time, she was the special events director for the Chamber of Commerce of Cape Coral. In 2004, Murphy switched over to the Rotary Club of Cape Coral Goldcoast because the afternoon meetings were more in line with her schedule.
In early 2006, she rejoined the downtown Cape group for the morning meeting schedule.
"I wanted to be part of the Art Festival," Murphy said. "I'd done special events for many years."
She cited the people and projects as reasons for her level of interest and involvement.
"Our club is very project orientated. The people I was involved with and the projects we did kept me wanting to come," Murphy said. "The quality of people that belong to Rotary - such giving people."
The projects range from the local level, to ones like giving away free dictionaries in the Bahamas.
"These intentional projects and local projects that we do are very rewarding," Murphy said.
"We are able to do a lot of things," she said.
Rotary plays a large part in Murphy's life.
"I have many many friends, but my Rotarians are so special to me," she said.
The motto of Rotary is "Service Above Self."
The Rotary Club of Cape Coral is one of three clubs that meet within the city. The downtown group meets at 8 a.m. every Wednesday for breakfast at the La Venezia Ballroom, at 4646 S.E. 10th Place.
For more information, visit the club's Web site online at: www.capecoralrotary.com.


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By By Frank Lombardi | October 1, 2011
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Since the mid-1990s, the number of helicopters providing emergency medical service in the United States has grown nearly 300 percent to approximately 840. Coupled with the industry's rapid growth, the HEMS accident rate has almost doubled over that time. The main causes have centered on controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), inadvertent operation into instrument meteorological conditions, and pilot spatial disorientation/lack of situational awareness during night operations.
In 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration established a task force to review and guide government and industry efforts to reduce HEMS accidents. It has hosted numerous safety meetings, outlined best practices in advisory circulars, orders and notices, and even revised HEMS operating specifications in 2008. Despite these efforts, 2008 became the deadliest year on record for the HEMS industry, with eight out of 13 total accidents having fatalities—a total of 29 deaths—prompting the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to put HEMS safety on the top of its "Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements" in October 2008.
Realizing that voluntary compliance with suggested best practices alone is not enough to ensure safe flight operations within an industry, in 2009 the FAA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) project to address the continuing safety concerns of HEMS flights. NTSB has already examined most of these concerns over the past 11 years, resulting in the issuance of more than 30 safety recommendations. The latest changes FAA offered would address in whole or in part many of these NTSB recommendations.
In essence, the FAA proposal will consider issues such as:
• Helicopter terrain awareness and warning systems (HTAWS) for air ambulance helicopters;
• Radar altimeters for all part 135 helicopters;
• Operational control center for helicopter air ambulance operators with 10-plus aircraft;
• Part 135 weather minima for all legs of a helicopter air ambulance flight;
• Implementation of a risk management program;
• Flight data monitoring devices, i.e. Cockpit Voice Recorder / Digital Flight Data Recorder on helicopter air ambulance aircraft;
• Requiring pilots in commercial operations to demonstrate, annually, recovery from inadvertent flight into IMC;
• Change terminology to "helicopter air ambulance" in lieu of "helicopter EMS" to remove the reference to "emergency" regarding the air transportation flight; and
• Facilitating more IFR operations by permitting helicopter air ambulance operators to continue IFR approaches into hospitals or airports using weather reports from nearby stations rather than requiring weather reports specifically from the destination location.
The comment period for the proposed changes ended in January 2011. All comments are publicly available on the FAA website along with FAA replies, listed under the docket heading of FAA-2010-0982. Many comments convey the current confusion by some as to the proposal's applicability and general interpretation.
Most of the 840 helicopters performing EMS work are operated by civilian entities for hire, and therefore are bound to the rules outlined in 14 CFR Part 135 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. Any of the above proposals, which may become law, would apply to them as well. However, according to the NTSB, there are 40 public operators—many police and fire agencies—currently providing air medical transportation using helicopters in the United States, funded by their respective federal, state or local municipality. Public aircraft are exempt from many FAA regulations applicable to civil aircraft.
So what's the difference between a civil and public operator conducting air medical transportation? Despite all that can be researched on the topic, the best answer to date is, "It depends." This can present a problem. For one, it creates gray areas that act like leaks in the safety dam. Alternately, if the impending rules require changes to ground and flight operations, aircraft configurations, and pilot requirements, this can result in high-dollar expenses passed on to the operator. These expenses may prove to be too costly for some operations to continue. Therefore, it behooves operators to know the extent of the term "public use," and whether or not it will apply to their operation.
FAA Order 8900.1, Volume 3, Chapter 14 defines public operations, and is the reference material for FAA safety inspectors when determining whether or not a flight can be deemed public use. Additionally, Advisory Circular (AC) 00-1.1 assists operators of government-owned aircraft in determining whether their operations are public under the definition. According to Order 8900.1, the status of an aircraft as a "public aircraft" or "civil aircraft" depends on its use in government service and the type of operation that the aircraft is conducting at the time. A few points as they relate to air ambulance operations are worth mentioning here.
Taken, in part, from Order 8900.1, "medical evacuation" as a general matter is not considered a government function unless: 1) The nature of the operation requires the use of an aircraft with special configurations, which may not be eligible for a standard airworthiness certificate, 2) The victim cannot be accessed by ground transportation, 3) Insufficient number of properly certified and equipped civil aircraft operating under the appropriate rule, are available to complete the mission, or 4) Other, similar non-routine factors are present.
Although the wording of this particular section may seem clear, it is clouded by what is contained in AC 00-1.1, which states in part that although the term "medical evacuation" is not considered synonymous with "search and rescue," it may be an included governmental function, depending on the particular circumstances of the operation.
Several high-profile accidents in the public use sector have brought into question FAA's own interpretation of the term "public use," not only in the HEMS role, but in all government flight operations when it comes to oversight. Any aircraft certificated by the FAA is subject to the agency's normal surveillance activities regardless of whether the aircraft is operating as a public or a civil aircraft, and it would seem that the FAA down to the FSDO level still cannot agree as to how to best surveil public operators. As recently as January of 2011 during an HAI forum, the FAA has acknowledged the need for clarity in the guidelines.
When it comes to HEMS safety, NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt commented, "There's no magic bullet. Individually, each of the FAA's proposed changes may seem ineffective. But as a whole, safety will be improved."
Sumwalt was involved in both the 2009 NTSB public hearing examining HEMS operations as well as the accident investigation of the 2008 crash of a Maryland State Police (MSP) helicopter during an EMS flight. He went on to explain that, "among the nine safety recommendations issued from that accident was one to the FAA, to seek legislative authority to regulate HEMS operations conducted using government-owned aircraft."
This is where public operators, even those who feel confident that their operation falls within the public use guidelines, must take heed. As pressure mounts for legislation toward increased FAA oversight of government aircraft operations, the possibility of exemption from any mandates becomes slimmer. Many public agencies have begun taking stock of their programs, aircraft and crews, and are being proactive in the trend towards increased safety, prior to any ruling which may send a shockwave throughout their organization.
"We try to stay ahead of the curve," said Sgt. Mark Smith, of the Fairfax County Police Aviation Unit in Virginia. "Today a lot of agencies have a problem with finance to get the latest equipment. That's not only the police, but 'for-profit' agencies as well. You operate in these bad budget times; you're stretching every dollar you can. If you need a piece of equipment that is going to help safety, help us do our job better, then you have to educate the people in finance. At the end of the day, that's what will keep us safe."
NTSB has offered its ideas as to what will keep us safe as well. A 2009 public hearing resulted in five recommendations to public operators, in essence the safety board recommends:
• Improved scenario-based pilot training (A-09-97);
• Implementation a safety management system (A-09-98);
• Installation of flight data recording devices (A-09-99);
• Use of night vision imaging systems (NVIS) (A-09-100); and
• Use of autopilots in HEMS aircraft (A-09-101).
Piggybacked on these, come recommendations to public operators as a result of the MSP accident:
• Implementation of flight risk evaluation programs (A-09-131);
• Use of formalized dispatch and flight following which include weather (A-09-132); and
• Installation of terrain awareness and warning systems (TAWS) on aircraft (A-09-133).
Whether or not any of the above suggestions get implemented in any form of FAA mandate is still to be seen. For now, many public agencies already operate with some or all of the above recommendations by their own choice, some even operating to Part 135 standards. They have voiced their opinions during the FAA's open comment period, some as unified groups, deftly explaining why they agree or disagree with each of the FAA's proposals, and highlighting what makes them uniquely different from civilian operations.
When asked if the answer to improving overall HEMS safety lies in technology or rulemaking, Senior Pilot Thomas Short with the County of Los Angeles Fire Department Air Operations said, "I don't think technology or tighter regulation is the answer. I think it goes back to the pressures on these programs to perform, and the subtle pressures on the flight crews to make poor decisions. I believe there's no substitution for proper training of the pilots and the flight crews."
Indeed, the civilian operations have different forces and pressures to contend with, not the least of which is monetary. This is one of the biggest differences cited between public and civil operations. The pressures of flying for hire cannot be overlooked when examining human factors. Sumwalt added, "You've got humans making decisions, which will always be a source of error."
At this time, the FAA's Regulatory Agenda lists the final ruling as coming in May 2012. Although the formal comment period has ended, the possibility exists for a further notice of proposed rulemaking (FNPRM), if the comments from the initial NPRM drastically change the proposal to the point where further comment is required. However, some things remain certain. No matter what agency we fly for, we are all human, subject to the same mental, physical and biological limitations. What makes us supremely professional pilots is the humility to accept our limits in the pursuit of 100 percent safety.


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Federico Biancuzzi interviews Rachna Dhamija, co-author of the paper "Why Phishing Works" and creator of Dynamic Security Skins. They discuss the human factor, how easy it is to recreate a credible browser window made with images, some new anti-phishing features included in the upcoming version of some popular browsers, and the power of letting a user personalize his interface.
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Rachna Dhamija: I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University. I teach a computer science course on Privacy and Security Usability, which tackles one of the most challenging problems in computer security: the human factor. Before that I was a Ph.D. student at U.C. Berkeley, and before that I worked on electronic commerce privacy and security at CyberCash.
Recently you co-authored an experiment to understand how and why phishing works. What did you learn?
Rachna Dhamija: We wanted to understand why phishing attacks work. We conducted a usability study where we showed 22 participants 20 web sites and asked them to determine which ones were fraudulent, and why. We found that the best phishing website fooled 90% of participants.
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- The security indicators are trivial to spoof. Many users can't distinguish between an actual SSL indicator in the browser frame and a spoofed image of that indicator that appears in the content of a webpage. For example, if you display a popup window with no address bar, and then add an image of an address bar at the top with the correct URL and SSL indicators and an image of the status bar at the bottom with all the right indicators, most users will think it is legitimate. This attack fooled more than 80% of participants.
We also found that popup warnings are ineffective. When presented with a browser warning of a self-signed certificate, 15 out of 22 participants proceeded to click OK (to accept the certificate) without reading the warning. Finally, participants were vulnerable across the board -- in our study, neither education, age, sex, previous experience, nor hours of computer use showed a statistically significant correlation with vulnerability to phishing.
How does the detection rate of you test would compare to that of real users?
Rachna Dhamija: Our participant population was highly educated, consisting of staff and students at a university. The minimum level of education was a bachelor's degree. Our population was also more knowledgeable than average, because they were told that spoofed websites were in the test set. They were also more motivated than the average user would be, because their task in the study was to identify websites as legitimate or not. For these reasons, we would expect that the spoof detection rate in our study would be higher than it would be in real life. However, any spoofs that fooled our participants would also be likely to fool real users.
Were these spoofing methods using OS or browser dependent bugs (or "features")?
Rachna Dhamija: In our study, we didn't take advantage of any number of bugs or vulnerabilities that allow spoofing in browsers (such as the IDN spoofing vulnerability). We only used very simple attacks that are easy for attackers to craft today, even if we assume that users are using secure, up-to-date and fully patched browsers. If we took advantage of bugs and vulnerabilities, we expect that the spoofing rate might have been higher.
How much are default settings important for complex topics such as crypto configuration?
Rachna Dhamija: Choosing the appropriate default settings is a critical aspect of privacy and security design, whether it is for cookie policies or crypto configuration. Most users do not change the default settings. In our usability study, we used the default browser settings in Firefox, and we took advantage of some of those defaults in crafting attacks. For example, Firefox forces all popup windows to display only a small portion of the chrome (the status bar) by default. This allowed us to insert a false address bar and false status bar with security indicators, and the majority of participants in our study were fooled into thinking that this was a legitimate webpage, rather than a fraudulent pop-up. The next version of Firefox may force the address bar to also be displayed by default, which should help more users notice this type of spoofing attack.
We also tested the condition where a browser encounters a self-signed cert. Currently the default setting in most browsers is to pop-up a modal warning dialog with some options. We found that most users accepted the default option ("Accept this certificate for this session"), and they proceeded to visit the website. IE7 will introduce some new warning notice designs to address this problem. They plan to block known phishing pages by default (such as by showing an inline error web page instead - this page displays a warning and allows the user to click a link to proceed). For suspicious sites or sites with certificate errors, they will color the address bar yellow and drop down a warning from the address bar. Only time (and usability studies!) will show if users will also learn to ignore these warnings just as they have with pop-up warnings.
Are you currently working on other tests about how phishing works?
Rachna Dhamija: Currently, I'm working on other techniques to prevent phishing in conjunction with security skins. For example, in a security usability class I taught this semester at Harvard, we conducted a usability study that shows that simply showing a user's history information (for example, "you've been to this website many times" or "you've never submitted this form before") can significantly increase a user's ability to detect a spoofed website and reduce their vulnerability to phishing attacks. Another area I've been investigating are techniques to help users recover from errors and to identify when errors are real, or when they are simulated. Many attacks rely on users not being able to make this distinction.
You presented the project called Dynamic Security Skins (DSS) nearly one year ago. Do you think the main idea behind it is still valid after your tests?
Rachna Dhamija: I think that our usability study shows how easy it is to spoof security indicators, and how hard it is for users to distinguish legitimate security indicators from those that have been spoofed. Dynamic Security Skins is a proposal that starts from the assumption that any static security indicator can easily be copied by attacker. Instead, we propose that users create their own customized security indicators that are hard for an attacker to predict. Our usability study also shows that indicators placed in the periphery or outside of the user's focus of attention (such as the SSL lock icon in the status bar) may be ignored entirely by some users. DSS places the security indicator (a secret image) at the point of password entry, so the user can not ignore it.


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In order to avoid possible disruption to the Solar Rewards program for small-sized solar installations in Colorado, Xcel Energy, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), and the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association (COSEIA) jointly propose an increase in program capacity for 2013. Solar Rewards encourages the growth of solar energy and offers customers incentives to install solar panels electric systems on their homes and businesses. As part of a compliance plan approved by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in 2012, 9.6MW of generating capacity were available to Xcel Energy residential customers in Colorado in each of the two years, for systems of up to 10.0kW each, allowing for solar installations on approximately 2,000 homes.
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The company's Solar Rewards program is funded through a rider on all Xcel Energy customer bills, totaling 2% of each total monthly bill. Colorado voters approved a state Renewable Energy Standard (RES) in 2004, which included provisions for the support of customer-sited solar installations. The RES has since been amended twice by the Colorado General Assembly.
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Xcel Energy, SEIA, and COSEIA continue to work on details for the agreed upon proposal, which will be filed for expedited approval with the CPUC and after consultation with other interested parties. The parties to the agreement look forward to working with statewide stakeholders at the commission on this plan. Initially, however, the settlement would propose to allow additional solar generation capacity to be available to the market in 2013 and the beginning of 2014, with the declining Solar Rewards incentives previously approved by the CPUC, which also would have otherwise been available in 2014 and beyond.
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