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The players reviewed here all expect to find the default hardware mountpoint at /dev/dvd. Though they all also allow a user-specified location, I suggest making things easier by making /dev/dvd. Typically the drive itself actually is /dev/cdrom, so you may need to create a link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd. Simply issue the following command (again as root) to make the link:
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If you have multiple CD/DVD-type drives, you need to specify the correct device number for /dev/cdrom; for example, mine is /dev/cdrom1 because my CD-RW drive sits at /dev/cdrom.
I tested the players with a variety of DVDs, all legitimately manufactured and purchased. My local library lends DVDs, many of which are in less-than-optimal condition, and they played fine on the test system, with the single exception of an incredibly bad duplication of Bruce Lee's Chinese Connection. I even was able to watch a truly awful DVD of dubious origin, a remarkable event given that our standalone DVD player wouldn't even recognize the disc in its drive. I'm happy to report that in all tests the options for subtitling, language selection, chapter jumps and skins worked.
So your kernel is configured, the DVD drive is installed and connected, and you're ready to watch Shrek for the 40th time. All you need now is a player application, and happily Linux has some excellent DVD player software. The profiles below focus on four of the most popular players: MPlayer, Ogle, VideoLAN Client and xine. See the Freshmeat listings for other available players and DVD amenities.
I've already used a standalone DVD player, so I expect to find most of its features in whatever software player I select. In the players reviewed here, I looked for support for these minimum features: standard transport controls (start, stop, pause, fast-forward and rewind), scene selection, subtitling and audio preferences and DVD menus. In addition to the amenities found on the standalone hardware player, I expect a software DVD player to switch from windowed to full-screen view easily and to offer random seek/relocate, keyboard control of all transport functions and skin support.
Most of my expectations were satisfied by the players I reviewed. See Table 1 for an overview of versions, features, licensing and CPU stress. All of them performed with excellent results, with no clear winner in the "Best Of" category. My advice is to try them all, then use the one(s) that seem best to you. In terms of weight, Ogle is the lightest (it's a DVD-only player) while the others all come in with about the same metric tonnage. Although I briefly described building the programs, the reader should check the player Web sites for available RPMs and other prepackaged binaries.
Table 1. Comparison Table of Linux DVD Players [*Indicates whether a GUI is an optional or default feature of the build process. **The figures shown represent average low-to-peak-CPU usage reported by gkrellm during play of the Blade Runner DVD. System load included XMMS, five active workspaces (under the Blackbox window manager) and an active DSL network connection running either Netscape or Opera.]
Player | Version Tested | Subtitles | Menu Support | Random Seek | Keyboard Control | GUI* | CPU Usage** | License |
MPlayer | 0.90 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Optional | 40%–50% | GPL |
Ogle | 0.9.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Optional | 20%–40% | GPL |
VideoLAN Client | 0.5.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Default | 20%–30% | GPL |
xine | 1-beta12 (lib) 0.9.21 (ui) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Default | 20%–40% | GPL |
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Things have changed
While this was a great article back when it was written, things have changed very much sense then. Installing DVD playback software is now much easier, and with a growing number of Distributions (Ubuntu for example) everything is pre-optimized for video and DVD playback. All the user needs to do is launch into the terminal and type the following (for Ubuntu)
$ sudo su
$ apt-get install libdvdread4 (this command is not required for 10.04 as 10 comes pre-loaded with libdvdread4. With mine it did anyways, not sure if thats the norm though.)
$ /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh (Installs libdvdcss2)
$ apt-get install vlc (Because the default video player in Ubuntu is a b**ch to get working with libdvdcss2... says you don't have it when you do).
And done. Watch DVDs to your hearts content.
Right you are. Infinitely
Right you are. Infinitely easier than "back in the day". Oh well, at least there's some historical curiosity to the article. Thanks for the comment, Jason, I appreciate the read.
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i m a new user of fedora 8
i dont know that how softwares are instlled in linux and how we can use software that are inbuild . and how java,sql,c,c++ programs run in linux. plz give me any solvable solution
NEWBIE step-by-step compile tutorial.
Howdy...I'm trying to spend more and more time on the Linux "side" of my dual-boot PC but don't have enough mileage yet using the Terminal and the command-line to perform functions such as the ones demanded to get a DVD player up and running (i.e., Xine, Mplayer, etc).
Can anyone point me at a newbie-geared tutorial on how to compile sources? Can it be done from within KDE or must be using comands from the console?
I'm using OpenSuse 10.1.
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It works!
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I just can't understand the hardware requirements for DVD playback. What is the claims about >1GHz processor etc?
I had RedHat9 with vanilla 2.4.20-8 kernel, 450MHz Celeron, 320MB of RAM, Matrox Millennium G550 videocard, TerraTec DMX XFire 1024(Only stereo playback), Eizo 17" TFT and Plextor PX-116A DVD-drive.
First I didn't do any "optimization" for DVD playback, just hit xine and movies are running very smoothly at full-screen (1280x1024x32bit). DVD-drive was also working with 16bit I/O and DMA disabled. CPU load is approx. 60%.
I didn't notice much difference w/ 32bit I/O and DMA enabled.
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My wife would love this,
My wife would love this, right now she's going to have twins in July and she is pretty big, it would be nice if she could lay on the bed and watch some dvd's in our bedroom, great. thank you!
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Being new to Linux, I have been searching for a printed source of info on many things that have been vexing me. I found a source in your magazine ( the first one I have seen) which is the article on DVD players. I downloaded and compiled XINE, and after many tries I have finally got it to work. Somewhat. I still cannot get it to play many of my DVDs. I either get an error message, it locks up, or crashes. I have found that documentation for XINE, as well as many Linux programs, assumes that the user is a programmer. I would appreciate any help I could get on setting up XINE properly! I must say, I do not plan on ever going back to Windows and the daily, or more often, crashes that I suffered. Thank You for the article.
Michae Driver
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Hi Michael: You should write directly to the people at xine and describe your troubles to them. Perhaps you should join the mail-list or search its archive, you might find some users have had the same particular problems. When sending a report be sure to detail whatever error messages or reports occur after xine crashes, the developers will need that info. To make a good report you should indicate the version you have; be aware that xine comes in two pieces, the UI (user interface) and the player engine, so hopefully you can let the developers know what versions of the pieces you have. Btw, I use xine daily, I've had no problems with any discs or files except for some recent WMV files. I'm even able to play DVDs with regional codes from other countries, something our standalone player won't do. I truly hope you're able to get it working better, it's a wonderful program.
Dave Phillips
Re: DVD Players
Great article! I was able to get the packages for xine, install them, and start watching my DVD's in under 30 minutes. I'm using SuSE 9.0 on an P-III/933Mhz, and it works flawlessly.
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Yeah, south florida is crazy for bass...About not skimming I am pretty close to that.
Yeah, south florida is crazy for bass...About not skimming I am pretty close to that.
I still can't find a good lake around here for bass.
Here is a sailfish I caught yesterday:
ive never seen bass as big and fat as the ones you guys catch in florida. holy shit
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haha everytime i've fished in ponds near hotels i've stayed at, i've caught mutant sized fish. i remember i was staying at some place up in myrtle beach and i was catching these monster frying pan sized bluegill off of a beetlespin, they just kept coming .
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adam, they may have. but if you want to catch mutant bluegill. they do just the trick.
i'm ed.
i just found a lake with florida-like bass. little brothers friend has pictures of bass in there and they are fat as hell. im gonna give it a shot soon. ill get pics if it goes well
hahaha ill keep that in mind
hey south floridians; is it true that someone imported peacock bass there and now they are obviously going to take over the state?
hoyl shit, peacock bass our huge according to google images
Sight fished for smallmouth today, shit that was fun. Placed an Adams on the noses of a few bass and they couldn't resist hitting it... 6 feet from where I was standing.
I can never catch peacock bass, they chase my bait up until I pull it out of the water then back down.
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looked up a little om the florida situation of peacock bass and got this
"In 1984, Florida officials deliberately introduced butterfly peacock bass and speckled peacock bass to the southern region of that state.[1] There they prey on other non-native and invasive species such as the oscar, Midas cichlid, and the spotted tilapia. Also, their introduction now provides additional sport fishing opportunities for local anglers along with the common snook, largemouth bass and bluegill. While the butterfly peacock bass has flourished there, the speckled peacock bass has not. Therefore, it is now illegal to kill or possess speckled peacock bass in Florida.
Because of their tropical origins, peacock bass cannot tolerate low water temperatures. This has prevented them from becoming abundant outside of Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward counties within the state of Florida." from wikipedia
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your target was 6 feet away? What size is your flyrod,or better yet how long is your tippet??
Sight/fly fishing is definitely tops in the sport, no matter what size fish, its just so damn fun.
good find colter, I was curious about that. I thought for sure they would wipe out the other sportfish as well but I guess not. Im pretty sure I just located some in a river by where im staying in brazil, now i just have to locate something to catch them with...
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oh no way man, haha thats sick that you found some close by. go slay some and get some pictures that would be cool to see, it would be sick to get some good top water stuff like a fatty jitterbug or something and do work
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It was 6-10 feet from the shore, close enough so that I could poke them with my pole if I wanted to standing on the edge. 9 foot rod, 4-5 foot leader and another 2-3 feet of tippet. I backed up to cast to them they were that close, otherwise I would have had to just literally put the fly down on their nose.
This guy was a real fighter.
yellow snow, you use the spongebob fishing pole right or maybe the rocket fishing rod
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that's monster peacock bait up there.
most A typical
its whatever you want it to be
heck yes, or one of those huge prop baits they use for them. I feel like peacocks are the kind of fish that you could use a live bat or a monkey or something..
oh haha gotcha
Like mentioned above they stocked them back in the 80's.
They make up a complete fishery on their own down in S. Fla. There are guides that guide just for peacocks. They fight extremely hard, similar to a smallmouth. They also love the summer and hot weather. They will slam top waters in at like noon in the middle of the summer.
They are an awesome fish. I think the state record is 11 lbs or so.
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Use something fast, small and shiny, David. Like a #5 rapala or a small inline spinner. Then pretty much reel as fast as you can and jerk the rod to make it move erratic. They will follow but rarely hold soft plastics so it is hard to hook them on them. Need something with trebles.
I love orange #5 and #7 original floating rapalas and clear torpedos.
Or if you want no challenge just use small shiners.
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Matfield joins Bulls as consultant
5 Dec 2011
The Bulls have signed former Springbok lock Victor Matfield as a lineout consultant for the 2012 Super Rugby season.
The Bulls have confirmed that Matfield will work alongside the coaching staff, focusing on lineouts and general forward play.
'Victor has been the backbone of the Bulls for many seasons and to have his continued presence in the team, although unfortunately not as a player anymore, is a real bonus for us,' said Bulls director of rugby Heyneke Meyer.
'He is generally rated as the finest lineout analyst in the game and we are proud and honoured to have him around.'
Matfield will also work as an analyst for Supersport next year.
'I am very keen to get stuck in [on television] and will give it a full go, but it is no secret that I want to become involved in coaching too. This will afford me the opportunity to do both, something that I am very pleased about,' Matfield said.
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6 Dec 2011, 11:31 am@grant10(grant10)-150: heaslip plays 8, stephen ferris plays 6 and sean o'brien plays 7
6 Dec 2011, 11:34 am@Transformation(Transformation)-151: sorry…my bad…it is that O brien that so mpressed me
6 Dec 2011, 11:47 amWelcome back Big Vic. Knew it would not be long before he is back in the system.
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Don't be such a lazy bast*rd. Go Google it yourself. -
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Just hope he sticks to lineout coaching. If, as he intimitated to John Robbie, the senior players coached the Boks, I wouldn't trust him with anything more important after the Boks record in the last 2 years. -
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i am no troll.
I tell it as i see it, like you i suppose, but not with the chip.
Its funny how you cant answer my question though. -
6 Dec 2011, 13:30 pmI salute you Victor, a lineout expert without peer in ANY generation. You are a true rugby genius, the likes of which will not be seen in my lifetime again. On top of that you are humble and a gentlemen. How you never got IRB player of the year is a complete mystery seeing as you decimated all opposition with the regularity and ease of which only a sublime and dedicated talent is capable. You and Mark Andrews (a hybrid of you and Bakkies combined) would have formed a lock combination sent from the rugby gods! You and Bakkies were pretty close too!Thank you for the memories and I look forward to reading your recently launched book.
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There are broadly two categories of industries. Explained simply, one makes the final product the way we see them on the shelves and one supplies the raw material or intermediate product to make the final products. The manufacturing industry depends on the intermediary industry. The manufacturing industry is at the forefront, normally facing the brunt for any environmental pollution while the intermediary industry remains obscure from the public gaze.
That is exactly why the third rating of the Green Rating Project (GRP) is significant. This time, GRP focuses on the caustic-chlorine industry of India — a key contributor to the country's economy as well as pollution. What makes it worse is the fact that the caustic-chlorine industry has no control over the end use of the products it manufactures.
Prior to rating the caustic and chlorine sector, GRP had rated the pulp and paper sector where pollution peaked during production while for the automobile sector, pollution was maximum during the stage of product usage. The rating of the caustic-chlorine sector is unique because the issues of concern here relate to: The output at the end of the production process – chlorine and caustic soda – that are used extensively by industries to make products like pesticides and organo-chlorine that are highly detrimental to the environment. The utilisation, storage and transportation of the products. For example, storage of large amount of chlorine is similar to a time bomb, which if explodes, will kill all living organism within its sphere of influence.
Deadly mercury pollution and contamination arising due to emissions of mercury into air, water and land. The fact that an industrial disaster that occurred 50 years ago continues to haunt the sector and has laid the basis for a totally new environmental framework indicates the potential environmental danger associated with the sector. We are referring to the infamous Minamata tragedy where mercury was dumped into the sea by a Japanese chemical company leading to its toxic contamination (see box: Liquid death). Another issue that has considerably impacted the environmental trends of the Indian caustic-chlorine industry has been the influence of the global market on the Indian market. A situation has been created for the Indian industry, where on one hand, it has to deal with chlorine, that is neither storage nor disposal friendly and on the other hand, it has to face a glut of caustic soda in the market, because of dumping of caustic soda by China and the countries of the Gulf region.
2.1 Industrial relevance of the caustic-chlorine industry The chemical industry in India is possibly the best example to study the process of industrialisation. The basic inorganic and organic chemicals produced in the chemical industry provide the building blocks for several downstream industries. Caustic soda and chlorine - one of the most important inorganic chemicals - are used by almost all industries for one thing or the other. The importance of the sector can be gauged by the fact that caustic-chlorine industry is among the twenty largest chemical industries in the world. Products made from caustic soda and chlorine are used everyday by people and they have become an integral part of our lifestyle (see table 2.1). In India, caustic soda is the principal product of the industry and chlorine is treated as a by product of the industry, though the global caustic-chlorine industry is driven by chlorine. For an Indian caustic-chlorine industry to be financially viable, caustic soda has to realise more than 65 per cent of the cost, as chlorine prices are low. But, in the past few years, chlorine has started getting importance as a principal intermediate material in the manufacture of PVC. In India, caustic soda is primarily used in the manufacture of pulp and paper, detergents, viscose, aluminium, petroleum refining, metal cleaning etc. Paper and pulp sector followed by humanmade viscose fibres and alumina accounts for the major chunk of caustic consumption (see graph 2.1). Global consumption pattern of caustic soda differs from that of India. Globally, chemicals account for 40 per cent of the total consumption followed by paper and pulp with 18 per cent, alumina with 8 per cent, soap and detergents with 7 per cent and humanmade fibres with 7 per cent. The rest 20 per cent is distributed among other uses (see graph 2.2). In the US, the largest user of caustic soda is the organic chemical industry (30 per cent), and the inorganic chemical industry (20 per cent). The pulp and paper industry uses about 20 per cent of the US caustic soda production for pulping wood chips, and other process. In Europe, the chemical industry is the major consumer of caustic soda followed by the paper industry. Other users are aluminium industry. Similar to caustic soda consumption pattern, pulp and paper sector is one of the major consumer of chlorine in India. However, it is in HCl production that maximum amount of chlorine is consumed in India (see graph: 2.3). In recent times, the use of chlorine in PVC manufacturing has also increased and currently about 11 per cent of the chlorine is consumed by PVC sector. In recent years India has also started to export substantial quantity of chlorine based products.
Globally, the majority of chlorine production is used in the manufacturing of organic chemicals including vinyl chloride monomer, ethylene dichloride, glycerine, glycols, chlorinated solvents, and chlorinated methanes. Vinyl chloride, which is used in the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and many other organic chemicals, accounts for one-third of the total chlorine production (see graph 2.4). The other major consumers are pulp and paper industry, other inorganic chemicals, disinfection treatment of water and the production of hypochlorites. Globally, more than two-thirds of all chlorine is consumed in the same manufacturing plant in the production of other chemical intermediates, though in India two-thirds of all chlorine is sold.
Globally, the caustic-chlorine industry is driven by the demand-supply of chlorine and not caustic soda. Across the world, demand for chlorine is higher than that of caustic soda, which is considered a by-product. The world production of caustic soda is estimated to be around 45 million tonnes per year. The global production of chlorine is in tune of 40 million tonnes. The global installed capacity of caustic soda in 2001 was about 54.4 million tonnes while for chlorine, it was about 48 million tonnes. It is estimated that 65 per cent of the world's caustic-chlorine industry is concentrated in three regions; North America, Western Europe and Japan. Out of this, the share of US is about 30 per cent, the EU accounts for about 25 per cent and Japan's share is about 10 per cent. The US is the largest consumer and is also a net importer of caustic soda, whereas China and Saudi Arabia are the net exporters. The forecast for the global demand for both chlorine and caustic predicts an increase although this would mainly be in Latin America and Asia. Between 1997-2002, the global capacity of the caustic-chlorine industry is likely to increase by around 6.6 million tonnes per year, largely driven by strong growth projections of PVC in developing countries. Globally, the economic impact of chlorine is very large. It affects nearly every industry in one way or the other. For instance, PVC is used in automobile interiors, construction and nearly every business uses chlorine-bleached paper. According to one estimate, globally the chlorine industry accounts for nearly $71 billion in sales. The chlorine sector provides a $2.9 billion trade surplus for US and affects an estimated 40 per cent of the total gross domestic product in US.
The US is self sufficient in caustic production. Europe is approximately in balance in chlorine and has traditionally been the world's second largest exporter of caustic soda; currently it is a net importer. Australia and South-East Asia are the main importing areas. New capacity in the Middle East and South-East Asia may upset these traditional trade patterns. While globally, the chlorine growth may average 2-3 per cent per year over the next 10 years, it is forecast to be less than 1 per cent per year in Europe and 3-4 per cent per year in India. 2.2 The Indian caustic-chlorine sector - the economic challenge 2.2.1 Influence of global politics on Indian industry
The market conditions are such that caustic soda is in demand in India while chlorine is not; while globally the industry requires more chlorine than caustic soda. Though Indian companies have excess chlorine, they cannot export it simply because of the major hazards associated with transportation of chlorine. Chlorine also finds a place in the list of toxic and hazardous substances banned for transnational transportation under the Basel Convention on hazardous wastes. As a result, India is faced with a double edged sword – on one hand, it has a growing chlorine stock that it cannot dispose off and on the other hand, the dumping of caustic soda is forcing the sector to compete with low international prices. This is unviable for the sector as its production costs are high. As mentioned earlier, the Indian caustic-chlorine industry is highly influenced by the global manufacturing and market conditions. The reasons that make it difficult for the industry to break the existing shackles and face the onslaught of foreign dumping are the following: Sector still dependent on imported technology In addition, there is a high import duty on getting membranes. Though the import duty for new membrane cell plants was as high as 25 per cent in 1997-1998, it has been brought down to 15 per cent in 1999-2000. However, spares for repair including replacement of worn out membranes still attracts 30 per cent import duty. These factors have made the conversion to membrane technology an unviable option and hence most of the companies who have converted to membrane are not doing well financially. Differential power tariffs Lowering of custom duty on imports of caustic soda led to glut in Indian market The sector had made several representations to the government for levying anti dumping taxes on these countries. As a result, government introduced an anti-dumping duty on imports for caustic soda. The anti-dumping duty levied on manufacturers from Japan is US$ 319.4 per tonne of caustic soda while it is US$ 309.4 for French exporters and US$ 266.9 per tonne of caustic soda for Saudi Arabia.
The sector is now pushing for stopping all imports by making it mandatory for Indian companies like NALCO to use domestic products. 2.2.2 The future of the Indian caustic-chlorine industry Overall, with caustic soda being excess in the major producing countries, the Indian market is likely to be flooded with cheap caustic soda imports making it difficult for the Indian companies to compete with global players on price. In addition, the existing excess capacity in the Indian industry further floods the market with caustic soda. This, coupled with increased cost of production due to increase in power cost, will affect the performance of existing players adversely in coming future. Paper and pulp, man-made fibres, soaps and alumina are the major user sectors of caustic soda. Together they account for more than 80 per cent of the domestic demand. The paper and pulp sector has been growing at the rate of around 6 per cent per annum in volume terms. The soap industry is expected to grow at the rate of around 9-10 per cent per annum. The demand for caustic soda will grow from this industry. Caustic soda is used in the conversion of bauxite into alumina, though the demand from this sector is sluggish. The demand from humanmade fibre industry has slowed down as the sector itself is growing at a pace of 6 per cent per annum. Therefore, the overall demand for caustic soda is expected to grow at a rate of 6-7 per cent per annum in the future. The domestic industry can also grow at this rate only if it is able to compete with the cheap imports. Survival is going to be hard even for the most efficient companies. According to financial accounting definition, the responsibility of a company ends at the physical boundary of the company. If one uses this definition, then the environmental challenges facing the caustic-chlorine industry is rather manageable. It just has to get rid of the mercury cell technology. However, if one considers the definition of boundary as per environmental accounting, wherein the boundary is defined as the environmental impact of the company's processes and products right from sourcing of raw material to the final disposal of the product, the environmental challenges that caustic-chlorine industry faces, is as big as it can ever get for a industrial sector (see table 2.4). In this case, the caustic-chlorine industry will have to take responsibility for the environmental impact of not only the production plant, but also the final products made from the products it produces (mainly caustic soda and chlorine). 2.3.1 Range of issues involved in the caustic-chlorine industry Environmental impact from the production plant of caustic-chlorine industry; and, Environmental performance of production plant
The vulnerability and dangers of mercury losses during the production process and leakage of chlorine during process and from storage is a constant nightmare to both the industry and environmentalists.
However, two environmental disasters, Minamata in Japan and the oleum gas leak in Delhi alone (see box: Forewarned but not forearmed) have pushed industry to clean up its act at the production plant.
Today, the level of environment management that one sees in the Indian caustic-chlorine industry is nothing less than the global best. The sector has slowly moved away from the toxic mercury cell process and more than 70 per cent of the sector uses the best available membrane cell technology at their production plant. (see box: Moving towards cleaner technology) Compared to Europe and the US, where more companies are using the polluting mercury cell and diaphragm cell technology respectively, the effort of the Indian caustic-chlorine sector in moving towards membrane cell technology is truly commendable. Even at the production plant, the performance of Indian caustic-chlorine sector is more or less comparable to the global best performance (except in mercury emission). The energy consumed by Indian caustic-chlorine industry is probably the least in the world and their consumption efficiency too rivals the global best performance. In addition, to make sure that their eco-friendliness is recognised, they have obtained internationally acknowledged certifications for their environment, health and safety performance. Out of all industrial sectors of India, the percentage of total companies having ISO 14001 for environment and ISO 18001 for health and safety is probably the maximum in the Indian caustic-chlorine industry. However, the biggest challenge that the sector faces is the reduction in mercury pollution. Currently, Indian companies consume as much as 50 times more mercury than a European mill and this is the difference that Indian companies have to eliminate. Environmental performance of the products Central to the case against chlorine is the contention that chlorinated substances are, as a group, health and environmental hazards. Many chlorinated compounds do show up on lists of toxic substances developed by various government agencies. Chlorinated organic compounds, or 'organochlorines,' are toxic, bioaccumulative and the cause of problems such as cancer, immune suppression, birth defects, fertility problems and endocrine disruption. Dioxin - a chlorinated substance - is currently being studied by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as being the culprit in a variety of health and environmental problems. Other chlorinated compounds, such as CFCs are ozone depleters and are already being phased out. The good technical properties of chlorine have actually given it a bad reputation: chlorine has strong binding properties and is a building block in several chemicals that do not break down easily, like PCB and CFC. In the past few years, numerous groups from industry, government and NGOs have formed to explore the health and environmental issues associated with chlorine use. Some have issued calls to phase out chlorinated compounds, while others have called for further study. The chlorine controversy is only likely to snowball with increase in scientific research on the issues. Hopefully, the decisions affecting chlorine will be based on rational science and risk assessment, resulting in a better quality of life. |


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Introduction to Internationalization Programming
In the old days when only a few people used computers, they were, for the most part, English speakers. Today, computers are widely available, and differences in languages, traditions and cultures need to be reflected in the world of programming. This article introduces the GNU gettext system.
The idea of using the same program but changing its properties according to the cultural traditions of different peoples is called internationalization. However, because programmers like to make words shorter, instead of typing 20 characters they type only four: i18n. I18n means programming designed to handle many languages.
Once you've written an i18n program, you may want to add a new language. This is not an i18n problem. In general, you need a person who will translate messages from the program for a specific nation. This problem is called localization, or i10n. I10n refers to the implementation of a specific language for an internationalized software, or in other words, the creation of localized objects according to the specific region's rules.
Although each organization and company that designs and distributes software tries to implement this in its own way, in general, the i18n idea is simple. Software should be created with two parts in mind: common and nation-dependent. This second part is known as localized objects.
Hopefully, standards will make life more comfortable. The basic concept of locale was introduced by the ISO (International Standard Organization) with the C standard in 1990, which was expanded in 1995. POSIX also has rules for i18n, so the term POSIX locale is used together with National Language Support (NLS). Formally, NLS is not a part of POSIX but has some functions that help when using the POSIX locale. X11 has its own i18n implementation, but the common way for programmers is to move the X11 i18n/i10n "up a level" into the POSIX/NLS locale. [Other software has its own i18n and i10n. See "Bridging the Digital Divide in South Africa" for one way to handle it].
What should we take into account when speaking of locale? Of course, the name of the language, but that is not enough. Everybody knows there are differences between American and British English, so we also have to know where the particular language is used, or in other words, the territory, taking into account individual traditions and cultural rules.
Every language has its own system of writing, and sometimes even several. Languages have alphabets, or character repertoires, but computers deal with digits. So, a character should be associated with a digit. This kind of association is called a coded character set (CCS). There are plenty of them, and each has its own name, such as ASCII, ISO-8859-1, KOI8-U. Instead of CCS, the term charset is often used. There is no special standard for the name of a charset, so ISO-8859-1, ISO8859-1 and iso8859-1 all refer to the same thing. There are some definitions from IANA, the organization that also is responsible for the registration of charsets (see Resources). As you probably know, the X11 system has its own system for charset naming, and their document "Logical Font Description Conversion" (described in Jim Flower's article, see Resources) provides a good name and alias charset creating system.
Charsets are important. Some countries have several different charsets for the same language! In the Ukraine, for instance, the same text may be displayed nicely in koi8-u but may be absolutely unreadable if a terminal uses the Ukrainian charsets iso8859-5, cp1251 or Unicode. In those cases, we would have to convert the text from one charset into another.
In order to take all of this into account, the POSIX locale defines some things that all together are called locale categories. They are shown in Table 1. Knowing them is important; C functions work differently with different locales! Categories are reflected in shell as environment variables with the same name. An example of using LC_ALL is shown in Listing 1.
Listing 1. Example of Using LC_ALL
The syntax to build a locale name looks like this:
where language is represented by two lowercase letters, such as en for English and fr for French; territory is represented by two uppercase letters, such as GB for United Kingdom and FR for France, and in these two cases, euro would be the modifier. So, you can change your locale by setting the corresponding environment variables. See Listing 1, where we use the programs date, cat and our example program, counter. Note, we use only language and territory; we cannot change the charset for the terminal with this command. Now imagine that the program messages are written in one charset but are output in another. POSIX does not have functions to determine the current charset, but XPG has nl_langinfo(). In some distributions, the man page for this function may be missing (Debian does not have it, but SuSE and Red Hat do). In any case, you can obtain additional information from /usr/include/langinfo.h. To determine the current charset, use the following code:
#include <locale.h> #include <langinfo.h> ... setlocale(LC_ALL,""); printf ("Current charset = %s\n", nl_langinfo(CODESET));To convert from one coding into another for the correct output, you can use the conv() function. For more details, consult "Introduction to i18n" (see Resources).
In order to provide output information, a message catalog for that locale was created. This means that all software messages are kept separately from a program that may have (and must have) its own catalog. NLS provides a set of utilities for creating and supporting such catalogs, as well as functions for extracting information according to three keys: 1) program name, 2) current categories of locale and 3) pointer to a particular message to be output.
There are two general realisations of the NLS mechanism:
X/Open Portability Guide XPG3/XPG4/XPG5 with the functions catopen(), catgets() and catclose() and the gencat utility.
SUN XView with functions gettext() and textdomain(). The GNU Project has its own fully compatible release called GNU gettext.
Usually programs, as well as system libraries, use one (or even two) NLS systems.
Although XPG5 is included in the UNIX specification version 2, and all versions of UNIX systems support it, with Linux, GNU gettext is the most popular solution.
The POSIX locale has the following components:
Locale API, i.e., subroutines like setlocale(), isalpha(), etc.
Shell environment variables to manage locale categories.
The locale utility to get information about the current locale; see man locale for more details.
Objects of localization. The default directory for their location is /usr/share/locale/.
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Wow, linux internationalization support sucks.
There's so little documentation, and no standard system support.
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Trying to come up with a solution for interior soundproofing. I can use batts that are soundproof-rated, or drywall, specifically Quiet-Rock. Anyone used Quiet-Rock? Any cost analysis batts vs. drywall? | |||
Jcampagna: My understanding of Quite Rock or Quiet Zone drywall is that it's just ordinary drywall with a thin sheet of lead metal inside it. That lead is intended to simply make the drywall heavier. You can accomplish exactly the same result by using two layers of drywall instead of one. Increasing the mass of a wall is highly effective in increasing that walls ability to stop noise. If you're talking about "batts" as batts of insulation installed in the stud spaces of an ordinary stud wall, then you're following a misconception that batts of insulation in the stud spaces help deaden sound. Sound passes through a wall by causing the wall to move in response to the changing air pressure caused by the sound wave. The movement of the wall, in turn, creates a new sound wave on the opposite side of the wall. Since the insulation in the stud spaces play no part in that process, it really doesn't matter if you have insulation in the stud spaces or not. You'd be much better off building two parallel walls and putting two layers of drywall on one side of each wall. Also, stick the two layers of drywall on each wall together with some thing called Green Glue. Green Glue is a glue that never actually dries solid. It remains a viscous liquid so that it has to distort in shape whenever one sheet of drywall moves relative to the other. The result is that it absorbs energy, thereby reducing the movement of the drywall. Google the following character strings: noise transmission through building components Quirt Green Glue With the first one, you will get a research paper published by a guy named Quirt who was working for the Canadian National Research Council at the time. The result of his findings was that the two most effective methods of reducing noise transmission through buildings was by either physically uncoupling walls from their supporting structures or by increasing the mass of walls significantly (by, for example, replacing drywall walls with brick walls). The second character string will give you the company that makes a product you can apply between two sheets of drywall that will absorb energy when the two sheets move with respect to each other. Also, keep in mind that our hearing isn't linear. We hear quiet sounds much better than we hear loud sounds. So, even if you reduce the sound pressure level by 90 percent, the "apparant" reduction will be closer to 50% because we hear that quieter noise much better than we hear louder noises.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Nestor, | ||||
Also, go to the Windows, Walls and Doors forum and read my post in the thread entitled "Bedroom Door, Sound". | ||||
If you just Google sound proofing there's lots of better info and design ideas there. joecaption | ||||
Joe, it looks very unprofessional for the supposed experts in here to be disrespecting each other's responses to questions. If you have better advice to offer, then share it with the poster. To say: "Go look it up on the internet" is as good as no answer at all. I'm sure the OP would be aware that he/she can do that, but is wanting to avoid having to spend the time learning enough about the topic to decide on a solution themselves. | ||||
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Nestor is a very helpful contributor to these boards, but there are some misconceptions in his post. I have learned that he knows much more than me when it comes to DIY and home improvement. However, I am a professional acoustical consultant, so I win the experience prize in this discussion. It's true that increasing the mass of a wall is the best way to improve its ability to stop noise. No argument there. I believe only older versions (or the first version) of QuietRock had metal in the material. This material required saw-cutting (i.e. it could not be scored and snapped like regular drywall). This caused a significant backlash in the construction industry. As a result, modern versions of QuietRock come with viscoelastic polymers as an internal layer. QuietRock with this construction can be scored and snapped. The viscoelastic polymers do not add significant mass to the gypsum board; instead, they act as a constrained layer damper and reduce the board's ability to vibrate sympathetically when presented with incident sound. Completely disagree. First, if you look at acoustical laboratory test reports of walls that are built identically with the exception of batts or no batts, the difference in the STC (sound transmission class) rating is about 3-4 dB on average. Lightweight wall construction (i.e. gypsum on studs) isolates sound better when batts are used in stud cavities - that's a scientific fact. That's not to say that STC is the only metric upon which you should be evaluating your wall's sound-isolating performance, but it is a single-number rating that is a good place to start. Nestor's description of how sound gets through a wall is only partially accurate. Incident sound sets the gypsum layer on one side of the wall in motion, which in turn sets the studs in motion, which is turn sets the gypsum layer on the other side in motion. But this only describes what happens when the sound is in line with a stud. For the remaining 14.5 inches out of every 16 (i.e. the stud cavity), sound either travels through an empty void (if there are no batts) or through insulation of some sort (if there are batts). The sound in the stud cavity will reflect multiple times off of the internal (stud) sides of the gypsum board. Having insulation in the cavities allows this sound to be absorbed, so each reflection is markedly reduced in sound amplitude, not just minimally. I'm not sure where you've gotten that information, but it simply isn't true. No disrespect intended to anyone in this thread, but the internet is full of misconceptions about "sound proofing" (this thread really isn't that bad...). There's really no such thing as sound-proof construction, anyway; all sound isolation is a matter of degree, and there will always be a sound source loud enough that it can't be isolated to inaudibility if the source is placed on one side of the wall and the listener is placed on the other side.This message has been edited. Last edited by: JKeefe, | ||||
used to be a recording engineer (yeah, voice radio, so shoot me) and read the literature generally availiable. I am not a certified acoustic engineer. however... short of pouring sand in the wall cavities (which requires concrete walls) and pouring 3 foot concrete structures (as one wack did to build a subwoofer in their store), the keys are isolation, decoupling, and attention to detail. isolation: break the material barrier between the sound source and the quiet zone. making 2x4 walls with a 2x6 cavity between them, with no part of wall A touching wall B, and then filling the cavities with a dampening insulation like rockwool batts is a fine start. acoustic drywall provides some through-material isolation because of its higher density, aka weight, to sound. IIRC they have tried making acoustic drywall with air bubbles in the gypsum, not special. decoupling: sort of overlaps with isolation, but there are materials such as perforated wave-formed steel panels, soundproof/fireproof acoustic foam, and multipane windows with each glass pane mounted at a different angle in rubber that provide additional isolation from a sound source. most of these are not specific to all frequencies, but have tone (octave) ranges in which they are quite effective. classic RCA live testing in front of an audience with an orchestra to determine whether full-range sound or distorted sound was done in the 30s to determine why audiences hated some electronic products. the modifications were made by rotating in groups of perforated steel panels which selectively dropped out octave ranges of sound. attention to detail: the ONE stud common to both walls is going to become like a speaker. the gap in batt insulation is going to be an echo chamber. sloppy work can negate everything you've tried.This message has been edited. Last edited by: swschrad, sig: if this is a new economy, how come they still want my old-fashioned money? | ||||
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Mothersdecent wrote:I understand but my point is the games were still released despite having numerous problems and the developers knowing about them.
The release of this statement seems more like an excuse than anything else.
And I remember people complaining and whining about release dates being pushed back. Someone felt the pressure and someone made the call to just release the thing already in order to cease that round of fan whining despite the problems with the game.
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I had an elephant gray Dupioni silk suit on order with Thomas Mahon until a while ago when I was told that they could not find the cloth. I was surprised because Scabal carried it for years but, lo and behold, when I went to check its availability it had disappeared from their catalog.
As I have written in the past, Dupioni is of interest because it is a midweight 10 ounce/300 gram suiting with a great deal of texture from the slubs and other irregularities that occur when two silkworms do their stuff in near proximity (if you will stop looking at Ms. Bacall in the photo for a moment you will see them in Mr. Peck's suit). That feature makes the stuff highly desireable in my texture first and pattern second world, but of course that is of little use when one cannot find it.
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I spoke today with Corey Burke - Corey is the one that is actually listed as the executor of Chucks estate. He is struggling to deal with some of this as he is stationed in Kuwait right now until January. There are a couple competeling parties as Chucks brother who has had nothing to do with him for many years has jumped in and wants to handle things as well - It is going to be a little bit of a mess I assume. I am hopeful that when all the dust settles the Rolls can go somewhere fitting - For all the help it did it deserves the off road hall of fame. It would never be the same for another to drive it.
There is speculation that it may already be missing based on the facebook comments that Chuck was waiting for a ride from someone the other day that never showed up. But that is just speculation. Maybe just not runing or out of gas or something
Here is my wish - SCORE 44 is honored for the years of service that he gave to SCORE at the Laughlin Desert Challenge (if it happens......) in January. This was Chucks favorite race and one that he did not miss for the last 15 years. Even one year when he didnt have the Rolls, he made it there and towed cars with a front end loader all weekend long (the rainest Laughlin race ever) The rolls would be there and take one lap around the course with Corey (his co driver for last 4 year) driving it. It would then get parked for people to tell stories about. I spoke to Paul Fish yesterday for a while about Chuck. SCORE I feel would be receptive to any plans to give Chuck some recognition.
I have lost many friends to Suicide. As im sure Jrod can atest, Public Safety has the highest suicide rate in the country. I lose typically 5 friends a year. I am suffereing from the loss of Chuck after having himm cry uncontrollable on the phone 2 weeks ago when I kept his power on for him. If I had been able to help more would it have changed thngs? If I would have followed up and talked to him last week would he be here today. I will never know and unfortunately I will just ask myself those questions again and again for years to come. Over 50 people that were work "friends" in the last 15 years have left the world early. Many by their own hands unfortunately.
Im tired of when my phone rings from someone I rarely talk to, it is another notification in the tree.....
Maybe it is just time to stop answering the phone.