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Fweeb, the download should work. I just tried making the package, and the download and checksum pass. Perhaps Dassault Systems was messing around with their website? I've noticed in the past that they've changed the download out without publishing it as a new release.
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Package Details: draftsight 2017SP02-1
|Git Clone URL:
|https://aur.archlinux.org/draftsight.git (read-only)
|Package Base:
|Freeware CAD software for DWG/DXF files.
|Upstream URL:
|Last Packager:
|First Submitted:
|2015-08-10 00:05
|Last Updated:
|2017-05-09 18:15
Dependencies (21)
- alsa-lib (alsa-lib-noassertion)
- desktop-file-utils
- fontconfig (fontconfig-git, fontconfig-infinality, fontconfig-infinality-ultimate, fontconfig-ubuntu)
- gcc-libs (gcc-libs-git, gcc-libs-multilib-git, gcc-libs-multilib-x32, gcc-libs-multilib)
- glib2 (glib2-git, glib2-patched-thumbnailer, glib2-quiet, glib2-sched-policy)
- gtk2 (gtk2-aqd, gtk2-patched-filechooser-icon-view, gtk2-patched-gdkwin-nullcheck, gtk2-ubuntu)
- libcups (libcups-ipp14)
- libgl (amdgpu-pro-libgl, catalyst-firepro, catalyst-libgl, catalyst-test, catalyst-total, catalyst-total-hd234k, catalyst-total-pxp, glshim-git, libglvnd-git, libhybris-ext-libgl-git, libhybris-libgl-git, mesa-hybris-libgl, mesa-libgl-noglvnd, nvidia-346xx-libgl, nvidia-libgl-352, nvidia-libgl-beta, nvidia-libgl-full-beta, nvidia-libgl-full-beta-all, nvidia-libgl-llb, nvidia-libgl-vulkan-developer-beta, nvidia-tesla-libgl, libglvnd, nvidia-304xx-utils, nvidia-340xx-utils)
- libice
- libmariadbclient (libmysqlclient, libmysqlclient55, libmysqlclient56)
- libmng
- libpng12
- libsm
- libx11 (libx11-nokeyboardgrab)
- libxext
- libxrender
- libxslt
- postgresql-libs (agensgraph-git, postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.4, postgresql-9.5, postgresql-beta-libs, postgresql-git, postgresql-lts-libs, postgresql-src-libs, postgresql-testing)
- qt5-base (qt5-base-dev-git, qt5-base-git, qt5-base-nosystemd)
- qt5-x11extras (qt5-x11extras-git)
- zlib (libz, zlib-asm, zlib-static)
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jstamant commented on 2017-04-03 12:41
Fweeb commented on 2017-04-03 11:33
The checksum failed for me on the draftsight download link. Seems that something has gone wonky with their redirect (it's downloading the redirect page instead of the RPM file and checking sums against that). When I changed the download link to dl-ak.solidworks.com/nonsecure/draftsight/2017SP01/draftSight.rpm everything seems to have worked.
xoan commented on 2017-03-31 08:45
@ParanoidNemo, gstreamer0.10-base is probably not needed.
ParanoidNemo commented on 2017-03-31 08:29
Here the correct PKGBUILD for the latest version:
# Maintainer: Justin R. St-Amant <jstamant24 at gmail dot com>
pkgdesc="Freeware CAD software for your DWG/DXF files."
mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/bin
echo "#!/bin/sh" > \
echo "env vblank_mode=0 /${_pkgprefix}/Linux/DraftSight" >> \
chmod 755 $pkgdir/usr/bin/draftsight
mkdir -p $pkgdir/$_pkgprefix
cd $srcdir/$_pkgprefix
install -Dm644 Eula/english/eula.htm $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/draftsight/LICENSE
for size in "16x16" "32x32" "48x48" "64x64" "128x128"
install -Dm644 Resources/pixmaps/$size/program.png $pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/$size/apps/draftsight.png
install -Dm644 Resources/pixmaps/$size/file-dwg.png $pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/$size/mimetypes/file-dwg.png
install -Dm644 Resources/pixmaps/$size/file-dxf.png $pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/$size/mimetypes/file-dxf.png
install -Dm644 Resources/pixmaps/$size/file-dwt.png $pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/$size/mimetypes/file-dwt.png
install -Dm644 Resources/dassault-systemes_draftsight-dwg.xml $pkgdir/usr/share/mime/application/dassault-systemes_draftsight-dwg.xml
install -Dm644 Resources/dassault-systemes_draftsight-dxf.xml $pkgdir/usr/share/mime/application/dassault-systemes_draftsight-dxf.xml
install -Dm644 Resources/dassault-systemes_draftsight-dwt.xml $pkgdir/usr/share/mime/application/dassault-systemes_draftsight-dwt.xml
install -Dm644 $srcdir/draftsight.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/draftsight.desktop
#Install Draftsight's program files
cp -pr $srcdir/$_pkgprefix/* $pkgdir/$_pkgprefix/
In any case if a PKGBUILD doesn't pass the validity check just run
makepkg -g and change the md5sum inside the PKGBUILD :)
yoyito commented on 2017-03-07 22:27
great job Crispy24, However it is outdated :( It is not working
"it didnt pass validity check"
aleksa9275 commented on 2017-02-10 14:53
You could also install manually gstreamer0.10 and its dependancies, that worked fine for me.
blackisle commented on 2017-02-08 15:22
I can confirm it's working fine after removing gstreamer0.10 from the dependency!
jstamant commented on 2017-02-08 13:39
Try removing the gstreamer0.10 dependency.
I just tried this locally, and it installs and runs fine on my system. The only reason I have this dependency listed is because it shows up when I run namcap on the package. I will look into this further.
blackisle commented on 2017-02-08 10:13
Any way round the current broken gstreamer0.10 AUR dependency?
ingleandrobarros commented on 2017-02-06 22:38
Thanks @xoan and @kikislater, now Draftsight run perfectly!
kikislater commented on 2017-02-05 07:37
I got the same with 8go left on my device. Move your temporary aur folder present in /tmp to your home, build with makepkg and installed with pacman -U solve the problem !
xoan commented on 2017-02-04 23:48
@ingleandrobarros, in your output is your answer: you are running out of space.
ingleandrobarros commented on 2017-02-04 23:39
Bro, don't compile. check that:
/usr/lib/yaourt/util.sh: line 227: PKGBUILD: command not found
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 219: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 74: echo: write error: No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 76: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 77: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 78: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 79: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 80: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 81: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 82: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 83: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 84: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/lib/yaourt/pkgbuild.sh: line 85: echo: write error: No space left on device
==> ERROR: is not available for the 'x86_64' architecture.
==> ERROR: pkgrel is not allowed to be empty.
==> ERROR: pkgver is not allowed to be empty.
==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...
xoan commented on 2017-01-25 09:56
Dependency `gstreamer0.10-base` is no longer available in AUR.
jstamant commented on 2017-01-10 13:08
Package update:
Updated dependecies.
jstamant commented on 2017-01-04 03:38
sagittarius, I will check/confirm the Qt5 dependencies of this package.
sagittarius commented on 2017-01-03 23:20
First thanks to the packager.
Is there a missing lib ?
I get:
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb.
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
For info:
yaourt -a xcb|grep installed
1 extra/cairo 1.14.8-1 [installed]
2 extra/libxcb 1.12-1 [installed]
3 extra/libxkbcommon-x11 0.7.0-1 [installed]
4 extra/xcb-proto 1.12-2 [installed]
5 extra/xcb-util 0.4.0-1 [installed]
6 extra/xcb-util-cursor 0.1.3-1 [installed]
7 extra/xcb-util-image 0.4.0-1 [installed]
8 extra/xcb-util-keysyms 0.4.0-1 [installed]
9 extra/xcb-util-renderutil 0.3.9-1 [installed]
10 extra/xcb-util-wm 0.4.1-1 [installed]
19 community/xcb-util-xrm 1.2-1 [installed]
20 multilib/lib32-libxcb 1.12-2 [installed]
22 multilib/lib32-xcb-util 0.4.0-1 [installed]
yaourt -Qo /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so
/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so appartient à qt5-base 5.7.1-1
export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 && draftsight
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqlinuxfb.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqlinuxfb.so, metadata=
"IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
"MetaData": {
"Keys": [
"className": "QLinuxFbIntegrationPlugin",
"debug": false,
"version": 328961
Got keys from plugin meta data ("linuxfb")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqminimal.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqminimal.so, metadata=
"IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
"MetaData": {
"Keys": [
"className": "QMinimalIntegrationPlugin",
"debug": false,
"version": 328961
Got keys from plugin meta data ("minimal")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqoffscreen.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqoffscreen.so, metadata=
"IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
"MetaData": {
"Keys": [
"className": "QOffscreenIntegrationPlugin",
"debug": false,
"version": 328961
Got keys from plugin meta data ("offscreen")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqxcb.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqxcb.so, metadata=
"IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
"MetaData": {
"Keys": [
"className": "QXcbIntegrationPlugin",
"debug": false,
"version": 328961
Got keys from plugin meta data ("xcb")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/platforms" ...
loaded library "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqxcb.so"
QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/PlugIns/QtPlugIns/platforms/libqxcb.so: (/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/../Libraries/libQt5DBus.so.5: version `Qt_5' not found (required by /usr/lib/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5))"
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb.
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
/usr/bin/draftsight : ligne 2 : 12566 Abandon (core dumped)env vblank_mode=0 /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/DraftSight
jstamant commented on 2016-12-30 21:06
ElAngelo, the checksum passed for me when I tried building the package from a clean slate. Make sure pacman is completely downloading a fresh source, and not building the package from cached a version.
ElAngelo commented on 2016-12-30 07:28
upstream packaged changed once again, checksum does no longer validate.
pang0116 commented on 2016-12-27 15:32
I think I solve the "no space" problem by changing "tmp" folder of yaourt
In my case, I make a tmp folder in my home folder and make sure there has enough space.
> mkdir ~/tmp
> yaourt --tmp ~/tmp -S draftsight
Then, the installation will be no problem for me.
Remember to clean up tmp folder after your installation.
joolsr1 commented on 2016-12-06 12:12
Referring to the issue mentioned from luiscuadrado123, I had same error. I believe that its related to space in the /tmp folder/partition. Draftsight is a really big install so clearing this folder first or enlarging it if needs be may be required
luiscuadrado123 commented on 2016-12-04 02:38
i have a problem upgrading this software since a few days...
after downloading since 500mb (this is alot of mb).. when initiating package ().. alot of error appears saying that i "there is no space in device"
but i realy have space in my Manjaro Instalation partition (44.6gb free)
what could be the problem?? maybe the temp folder is in another partition? or is restringed in space?
kikislater commented on 2016-11-30 05:23
There is no software like this because there is no really open source library about it. Each time there is one like opendwgalliance, autodesk put them to lawyer and project fail. But there is a new library at this time, libopencad from https://github.com/sandyre/libopencad which I hope will be a success project. If there is library, it could be done at this time a good software ... draftsight is the same software as ares commander
jstamant commented on 2016-11-30 05:13
Blackisle, I'm afraid this is the closest software I can find to AutoCAD. And thank god it's free, and available on Linux. I love AutoCAD's modal input too much to use any other CAD application. I don't think you'll find any other CAD software on Linux that provides this many features and this much functionality, at the moment. Too bad it's not an open-source project :/
blackisle commented on 2016-11-30 04:21
magic, cheers Crispy24 :) Have you come across a better 2D CAD application for linux? Draftsight is about as close to AutoCAD LT as I've found. Thanks again for packaging this!
jstamant commented on 2016-11-30 00:59
Package updated:
Updated version number and package checksums.
Cacharpas commented on 2016-11-29 16:26
Failed on installation.
One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Cacharpas commented on 2016-11-29 16:26
Failed on installation.
One or more files did not pass the validity check!
jstamant commented on 2016-08-07 14:51
Package updated:
Updated package checksums. Upstream released SP2.
yorc commented on 2016-07-21 17:02
"Failed due to bad checksum on the source. Should be 6197ffca0511482786b1a493df980267"
You are right. And now it's fixed. Thank you!!!
barton commented on 2016-07-09 19:41
Failed due to bad checksum on the source. Should be 6197ffca0511482786b1a493df980267.
jstamant commented on 2016-06-08 23:43
Package updated:
Implemented user suggestions.
rpodgorny commented on 2016-06-07 19:11
please add a proper shebang (#!/bin/sh) line for the lauch script for non-posix shells. thank you...
my output (from fish):
radek@kostik ~/t/draftsight> draftsight /tmp/63-13-01\ Asterix\ DWG\ PRO\ INVESTORA\ -2\ \ 04-2016.dwg
Failed to execute process '/usr/bin/draftsight'. Reason:
exec: Exec format error
The file '/usr/bin/draftsight' is marked as an executable but could not be run by the operating system.
radek@kostik ~/t/draftsight [125]> file /usr/bin/draftsight
/usr/bin/draftsight: ASCII text
radek@kostik ~/t/draftsight> cat /usr/bin/draftsight
env vblank_mode=0 /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/DraftSight
vantu5z commented on 2016-04-24 04:46
May you change "draftsight.desktop" little:
1. add " %U" to end of "Exec" line. (for "open with" functionality in nautilus)
2. set "Icon=draftsight". (for use theme icon if it exist)
jstamant commented on 2016-04-18 22:21
Added libpng12 as a dependancy. Thanks for the heads-up, guys.
lumen_fq commented on 2016-04-18 20:33
this dependency is missing: libpng12.so.0
mawe commented on 2016-04-12 19:41
Yes, this dependency is missing:
/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/DraftSight: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
greyltc commented on 2016-04-11 13:18
Please add 'libpng12' to the depends list.
jstamant commented on 2016-04-09 16:33
Package checksums updated. Thank you aTom42 for the concise report.
aTom42 commented on 2016-04-09 10:09
Draftsight has been updated upstream with SP1 so AUR package doesn't build anymore (wrong package checksum). Please, update PKGBUILD.
I could build the package successfully by changing the md5sum in PKGBUILD with the new one : 1bc8b2d4c69314f0d612a6c8e09d5acb.
Aaron_chen commented on 2016-03-28 10:49
The mouse lag issue is gone.Very, Very Nice! Thanks!
surfhai commented on 2016-01-06 23:53
The mouse lag issue is less annoying in v2015sp3 when I disable sync to VBlank in the nvidia driver.
emulti commented on 2015-11-20 19:23
I can confirm the same behaviour as hybroid (2015-11-10) below, but with Intel graphics.
It is possible to avoid the mouse slowdown by starting Draftsight when mouse unplugged. When plugged back into USB, mouse motion is OK but mouse wheel doesn't zoom, however Touchpad zoom still works.
The Mouse wheel is still functional with double-click (zooms to drawing extents), however. Looks like Draftsight initialises differently according to input device, but does not correctly handle hotplugged devices.
Mouse lag issues have been reported on the 'Community' forum for months, but it seems nobody from Dassault has ever read or acted on them.
hybroid commented on 2015-11-10 09:40
When mouse unplugged before start app:
mouse wheel don't work in drawing area (for zoom), but touchpad scroll work fine.
When mouse plugged before start app:
mouse wheel works, but cursor motion is very slow.
I'm using xf86-video-ati. Any ideas?
jm370 commented on 2015-11-02 16:34
Funny, but using both vblank_mode=0 and unplugging mouse before starting ds (like ElAngelo wrote) makes draftsight with radeon driver even faster!
jstamant commented on 2015-10-31 02:17
@greyltc Thanks a lot for the feedback. I did notice that pacman recognized the version as a downgrade, so I might approach the AUR mailing list about how to fix this. The only solution I can think of is to implement the epoch variable in my PKGBUILD, but the wiki doesn't recommend it.
It looks like the vblank_mode=0 covers xf86-video-ati, nouveau, and whatever else was mentioned previously. I'm really glad we have that working. I'm keeping notes on any incompatabilities going forward.
greyltc commented on 2015-10-31 01:48
Cool! Glad the it's working for you!
I'm not really sure how/if a non-numeric pkgver works, but this change didn't trigger an update for me. It looks like pacman actually regards your version change as a downgrade.
Quick note: I've tested this .desktop file for disabling vsync on two systems, one with a radeon/xf86-video-ati stack and one with a propriety nvidia stack. It only seems to work on the ATI system. Although __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 seems to work for my nvidia system from the command line, I can't seem to get it to work in the .desktop file for some reason...
jstamant commented on 2015-10-31 00:43
Package update: a desktop entry file has been provided. I also improved the PKGBUILD, and changed the package version.
@greyltc, I thought the vblank_mode=0 was an intel-specific Xorg setting, but when you suggested adding it in the desktop entry, I tested it, and it works wonderfully! This makes the package much more useable! Thanks everyone!
greyltc commented on 2015-10-30 19:10
Could you please put the contents here:
Into a file to be installed here:
maz-1 commented on 2015-10-26 09:18
export vblank_mode=0 ; /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/DraftSight
vblank_mode=0 "/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/DraftSight"
Both works
ElAngelo commented on 2015-10-22 06:46
@maz-1 I'm really curious where you put that option. I also have an R7 and i'm using the open-source driver. I've set vblank_mode=0 in my .drirc and i've tried starting Draftsight with vblank_mode=0 on the console and both of them don't work for me. I'm still facing massive input lag on my mouse. The only thing that seems to work for me is pull out the mouse usb plug, start draftsight and then reconnect the mouse. I have no idea why that would work but it totally does. Just a tad annoying that this is fairly hard on a laptop...
maz-1 commented on 2015-10-13 14:06
I am facing the mouse lag problem with amd radeon r7 and open-source radeon driver.
I can confirm that vblank_mode=0 solves my problem.
jstamant commented on 2015-10-08 11:49
@yorc It's probably not working because vantu5z's problem is with the Intel driver, not the Nvidia driver. i.e. XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK won't do anything.
If your driver comes with a GUI control panel, start by looking at that.
Otherwise, you need to do the equivalent in your 20-nvidia-ck.conf file.
Try using nvidia-xconfig (http://man.cx/nvidia-xconfig), or try using the options set in my Gist (https://gist.github.com/jstamant/a517614151347e966e42).
Let me know what works for you. I'm going to write a blog post on how to fix this. Hopefully it'll rank higher when people are looking for a fix on search engines.
EDIT: clarification, fixed a link
yorc commented on 2015-10-08 08:53
Thank's to vantu5z and Crispy24,
I have the Quadro K620 with the propietary nvidia-ck driver.
I tried with the option XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK to 0 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf and run option "vblank_mode=0 '/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/DraftSight'", but I got nothing.
Only when I open draftsight in black it's working, but when I open any file .dwg the problem is back.
Any ideas?
vantu5z commented on 2015-09-30 06:58
Crispy24, thanks.
I can't make to work option XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK in xorg.conf (it don't apply's) or I do something not right.
Try to use "xvattr -a XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK -v 0", it switch option, but than not helped with mouse lag.
And I found run option "vblank_mode=0 '/opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/DraftSight'" this work for me for Intel driver.
jstamant commented on 2015-09-29 17:37
@vantu5z If your problem is anything similar to the mouse lag using Nvidia/Nouveau driver, you have to disable sync to vblank and/or disallow page flipping.
Referring to the intel man pages (http://linux.die.net/man/4/intel); try setting XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK to 0 in your xorg.conf
Here's the Xorg configuration snippet I used to fix this. Hopefully you just need to reconfigure to taste.
EDIT: fixed a link
vantu5z commented on 2015-09-29 13:53
Anybody know how to fix mouse lag with intel and catalyst driver?
ElAngelo commented on 2015-09-10 14:11
checksum no longer matches.
jstamant commented on 2015-08-31 15:28
@qwerty141735 does installing gstreamer0.10-base solve your "Failed to load modules[...]" problem? I'll be adding gstreamer0.10-base to depends in the next package release.
qwerty1417235 commented on 2015-08-30 06:26
@Crispy24 installing gstreamer0.10-base instead of gstreamer0.10 and gstreamer0.10-plugins is ok. You should add it to depends.
jstamant commented on 2015-08-29 01:22
@lesto I updated the package sums. There should be no problem validating the source, now.
@pawelj84 I added gstreamer to deps right before updating the package...I then ran namcap on the *.pkg.tar.xz. It shows gstreamer is not needed, and that gstreamer0.10-base needs to be included. Is there any particular reason to include gstreamer0.10/gstreamer0.10-plugins instead of gstreamer0.10-base?
pawelj84 commented on 2015-08-27 15:30
Please add gstreamer0.10 and gstreamer0.10-plugins. It seems that lack of those packages cause error "Failed to load modules..."
jstamant commented on 2015-08-26 15:27
@lesto I'm guessing upstream updated their package, and I haven't updated the md5sums field since. If this is the case, then I'll update the PKGBUILD as soon as possible. What I need though, is a mirror for this package. Looking into this.
If makepkg or your AUR helper successfully downloads the source, you can skip the validity check by setting the md5sums field to md5sums=('SKIP')
lesto commented on 2015-08-26 13:04
i get
download-linux-fedora ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
qwerty1417235 commented on 2015-08-26 05:57
@Crispy24 I run it with $ /opt/dassault-systemes/DraftSight/Linux/DraftSight
The error message is appearing in messagebox. The program can't start, there's only a picture and a messagebox. Here's the screenshot http://postimg.org/image/4eyag3dur/ . In the terminal there's an error "static QPlatformTheme* QKdeTheme::createKdeTheme(): Unable to determine KDEHOME" .
jstamant commented on 2015-08-26 01:02
@qwerty1417235 I'm going to need more details to figure out what this problem is. What command do you use to run draftsight? Where is the error message appearing? In the terminal, or in the program itself? Is there any more text accompanying the error message?
More context merits more help.
qwerty1417235 commented on 2015-08-25 18:20
I have an error when running draftsight. "Failed to load modules. The application will close.
Please reinstall the application."
jstamant commented on 2015-08-22 16:17
I'm using the Nouveau driver, and here's how I managed to fix the mouse lag, since there isn't a GUI control panel unlike with the Nvidia driver. Done through an Xorg .conf file.
Add the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia card"
Driver "nouveau"
Option "GLXVBlank" "off"
#Option "PageFlip" "off"
This worked for me, but @star_rain mentioned that you may have to disable page flipping. Just uncomment the line above.
I referred to the manual pages nouveau(4), xorg.conf(5); and also to the Wiki pages for Nouveau and Xorg.
star_rain commented on 2015-08-22 02:45
uncheck Sync to VBlank,Allow Flipping.....http://i.imgur.com/5L2nXZe.png
witts_end commented on 2015-08-21 16:42
Ditto re the unbearable cursor lag. The older versions of DS seemed to work fine. Anybody out there know of a site where an old version along with Arch PKGBUILD can be found?
jstamant commented on 2015-08-20 12:29
Yeah, I have unbearable mouse lag, too. As I understand, it's a bug in Draftsight SP3. Some Ubuntu user managed to fix it through his Nvidia settings.
But I'm using Nouveau, and I sure don't know of any settings I can change, even after referring to the Wiki page.
jstamant commented on 2015-08-20 12:28
Yeah, I have unbearable mouse lag, too. As I understand, it's a bug in Draftsight SP3. Some Ubuntu user managed to fix it through his Nvidia settings. http://askubuntu.com/posts/625433/revisions
But I'm using Nouveau, and I sure don't know of any settings I can change, even after referring to the Wiki page.
greyltc commented on 2015-08-20 12:21
Is anyone else getting unbearable cursor lag with this?


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If you are a fan of the world's longest running soap, BBC Radio 4's The Archers, you'll know that one of the main farms featured is heading in new directions, to fresh pastures one might say.
Pasture perfect
David and Ruth Archer are swapping their intensive dairy system and their cows for a different pasture-based model.
This 'innovation' – or maybe a return to tradition - is being guided by the programme's agricultural story editor, Graham Harvey. Graham spoke at CPRE's autumn conference about why putting cattle back out to grass is one way we can return to a more sustainable form of farming. It's well worth giving up some time to watch his deeply informed and passionate explanation of pasture-based farming and to hear about the farmers making this work and making it pay.
I can barely do justice to Graham's case here but, if your time is short, here is a canter through some of the most important points he makes.
I referred to a return to tradition above because we used to farm sustainably in the UK: for 200 years and up to the 1950s we had a mixed farming system, which rotated arable cops and grass grazed by livestock. This was highly productive, kept the land fertile and, crucially for the 21st century, locked up carbon in the soil. This model was displaced when so-called 'conventional' farming came in: high inputs of agro-chemicals – fertilisers and pesticides – have enabled farmers to abandon mixed farming, replacing it with monocultures – the now familiar and seemingly endless fields of wheat and oil seed rape - where once there were meadows and livestock.
Though highly productive, this mode of farming brings with it serious problems. Decades of reliance on chemicals has destroyed soil biology. Continuous tilling is burning off carbon stored in soils and heavy machines are damaging soil structure. Topsoil is being eroded as some crops leave the land exposed to heavy rains. Graham shows maize grown for fodder on Exmoor as a stark example of long-term soil damage for short-term gain. But, not only is chemical-based farming ruining the richness of the land, it feeds grain to animals designed to eat grass, making them less healthy and producing less nutritious food.
More happily, examples are emerging around the world of ways of farming that do just the opposite. Graham introduces some of these farmers.
There is Joel Salatin in Virginia, USA, who practises regenerative agriculture modelled on nature: just as the great grazing herds of wildebeest and bison are followed by birds eating parasites and insects, his grazing cattle are followed by chickens that mop up insects, add further fertility to the soil and boost the food output.
Or Neil Dennis in Saskatchewan Province, Canada, who abandoned 'conventional' farming and discovered mob stocking – 'short duration, high intensity' grazing with animals moved on to fresh pasture each day – and holistic land management. On a farm that conventional methods couldn't make pay, he now profitably runs three times the livestock, uses no chemical fertilisers and his soils are locking up carbon: soil organic matter has risen from 2% to 13% over 15 years.
This story is mirrored by rancher Gabe Brown in North Dakota using herbal pastures and no tilling whose soils have gone from a couple of inches of topsoil to 20 in that many years.
Finally, there is Colin Seis in Australia, doing pasture cropping: planting robust wheat plants directly into perennial nitrogen-fixing plants early in the season so the land is never left bare. Not only is he getting very high yields of grain but the soils are locking up carbon – Graham claims 32 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year - and springing back to life with soil organisms many times richer and thriving.
Put together these farmers and their methods offer an uplifting message. Perhaps the most startling point Graham Harvey makes is how this form of farming could help solve climate change: if all the prairie land in North America west of the Mississippi reverted to carbon levels in the soil at the time it was grazed by vast herds of bison then the land would lock away all the 'heritage carbon emitted for the whole planet since we industrialised'.
It's a message the Government could well pay attention to, especially as it will launch its 25-year plan for food and farming this spring; sadly, I doubt these rich opportunities to restore our soils, to safely store millions of tonnes of atmospheric carbon and to produce more wholesome food will feature in this bout of strategic thinking.
But, whatever our politicians are up to, you have the chance to watch Graham Harvey make the case and make up your own mind. Or at least, try some meat and dairy produced from pasture-fed animals and check out a taste from the past as well as, we hope, from a more promising future.
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Dynamic Response of Coarse Granular Material to Wave Load
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The soil beneath vertical breakwaters is subjected to a combination of forces induced by the waves. The forces acting on the soil can be characterized as 1) static load due to submerged weight of the structure, 2) quasi-static forces induced by cyclic wave loading, and 3) wave impact from breaking waves. The stress conditions in the soil below a foundation exposed to these types of loading are very complex. The key to explain and quantify the soil response beneath a vertical breakwater is to understand the role of the volume changes and to be able to model these correctly. It is shown that the volume changes in soil subjected to static and dynamic loading are controlled by the characteristic line. Experiments have been performed to study the factors that influence the location of the characteristic line in drained and undrained tests for various types of sand and various types of loading. These factors include the relative density, the minor principal stress, the intermediate principal stress, the stress path, and the effects of nonhomogeneous and localized strains. The relation of the characteristic line to other features of static, cyclic and dynamic (rate dependent) soil behaviour are explained and illustrated with experimental data.


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Standard Article
Detection of Explosives using Pulsed Laser Fragmentation and MIR Spectroscopy
Infrared Spectroscopy
Published Online: 17 DEC 2012
DOI: 10.1002/9780470027318.a9261
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Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry
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Mordmueller, M., Willer, U. and Schade, W. 2012. Detection of Explosives using Pulsed Laser Fragmentation and MIR Spectroscopy. Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. .
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Within the past years, an increasing number of optical techniques for the detection of harmful substances has been investigated on account of the threat of terroristic attacks. Optical technologies have the capability to overcome the problems of extensive sample preparation and long measurement cycles that are known from widely used detection techniques such as mass spectrometry and gas chromatography. The threat of bombings has also produced interest in standoff techniques — in addition to checkpoint applications for screening of persons. Even in this field, optical technologies are well suited: to date, Raman spectroscopy and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) seem to be the most promising technologies, but other optical methods are permanently developed. Particularly detection in the midinfrared (MIR) spectral region, providing selective fingerprints of molecules in the range from 3 to 11 µm, has experienced a renaissance with development of new laser sources, detectors, and spectroscopic techniques. In this paper, some comparatively new techniques for the detection of explosives in the MIR spectral range, relying on quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) and photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS), are presented. Another emphasis is put on the indirect detection of explosives via characteristic decomposition products and their active generation with laser-induced photodissociation techniques.


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Reming Model 7 Advice
Hi guys, I just joined up.I am wondering if anybody has any suggestions I might try on a Model 7 SS/Synthetic 7MM-08 I bought a few months back.It is an Adult Model SS Barrel/Synthetic Stock.The Gun is excellent except for one detail. On the bottom of the Magazine plate there seems to be a mild amount of discoloration on the Stainless Steel Magazine Bottom or Plate.The part that a lot of people would carry the rifle by.I am thinking somebody has carried it and the sweat from the hand when walking/hunting may have discolored it a mild amount.It had a small amount of tarnish/rust trying to form on one of the flat plates that dangle down once the Magazine button is depressed.I used Brasso with only a soft cloth and it cleaned up excellent.On the bottom I was discussing would I have to have the discoloration buffed out or does anybody have any things they feel would work.I want the Rifle to be 100 % if the Costs is not a lot.I am considering POSSIBBLY selling the little Rifle.I had to hunt forever to find this little Rifle.So I would have to think VERY hard about it.It was bought in the Fall of 2007 new.I bought it off of GunBroker paying the Buy It Now price.The Brand ,Mass Weight, and Caliber along with the obviously non factory 2.5-2. 9 lb Trigger Pull are all things to consider.It also came with a Leupold Standard Base Mount.I have a Scope and set of High rings I have not opened yet.I let one friend of mine look at it and once he felt the Trigger he was amazed.He was a Sheriffs Deputy 8 years and is one of those 2 percentile individuals with an I.Q. of about 142.One of those type people "Gifted" by the good Lord who can do almost anything he wants.Anyway he told me the Trigger had definitely had work done on it.Best Rifle Trigger I have ever felt and I am no bog bragging type man just being honest.It does not have a bit of creep and is smooth as can be.I measured the trigger pull and was not suprised.I knew it was light.It measured 2.5 lbs-2.8 I used a expensive fish scale to check it.I do not have a Trigger pull psi checker per se.It is a 7MM-08 and it weighs 6 lbs.,two to three onces.That is weighing it the way it come with just the Leupold standard one piece base mount.Anyway I know I have written to much.I am out of here.Sincerely,:):)huntingden
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Hi guys, Sorry to bother but if it is not allowed to Post in the invisible mode please accept my apologies to moderators,administrators and everybody.If I goofed up I will NOT do it again.Sincerely,huntingden
Just polish with a Dremel to remove the discoloration. Then lightly oil it to prevent it from happening again. For a hunting rifle, I wouldn't even worry about it anyway on an stainless gun however.
Hello, This may sound and even be a dumb question but what is Dremel and where can I buy it.Thanks,huntingden
Not a dumb question at all. A dremel tool is like a small hand held grinder/sander/polisher that discount stores like wal-mart carry, and are very handy for working on guns or something like that. Most well stocked hardware stores usually carry them as well. the thing to do is use a polishing wheel so that you're not removing metal,just polishing it. They run from 35$ (fixed speed) to about 60$ for the variable speed model.
Try some Flitz metal polish. Very mild abrasive and leaves a protective film.
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Welcome aboard. I have the same rifle in .308 Win. and love it. I would recommend the lowest rings for your scope. With high scope rings your face is forced off the stock and when that happens, the recoil is going to bring that scope back into your face and hurt you. I had a 7mm Mag break my nose years ago and that was my wake-up call. Enjoy, Dogwalk
Those model 7s are one sweet deer rifle,I have one in a 308 cal. have been hunting with it for over 20 years. I would not trade that rifle for any other and would be the very last to go if I ever had to get rid of my guns. You would probably regret selling it if you did.
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About the Book
This book is the result of 2 creative minds on opposite sides of the globe.
The heartfelt words are the work of poet, Sharon Boyton from Australia, the beautiful photography is by Bronwyn Wood an expat Aussie now living in France.
In life's loves Sharon has covered topics from the joy of a new baby to the pain of a friends death, a sisters love and a brothers wedding, new found friendships as well as frivolous fantasies inspired by a photo or a game.
Love, laugh and cry with her on this journey of poetry from the heart.
Also included is a collection of poems by Sharon's mother, Sandy
Features & Details
- Category Poetry
Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
40 Pages
- Publish Date Apr 10, 2010
- Tags Bronwyn Wood, Sharon Boyton, family, poem, poetry, Australia, France, love, life, photography
About the Creator
Bronwyn is an Australian who has a passion for travel. She lives in a small village in SW France with her English husband Alan who she met in 1993 whilst travelling in Turkey.
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Sharon Boyton Hi Bron :) The book turned out wonderfully! Thanks... Mum also thanks you, she's thrilled about having some of her work included and is keen to buy a copy! Love you lots, Sharon xo0ox
Leah Bradshaw Howell What a nice book, and love the way the two authors met.
Bronwyn Wood Thankyou runningwild, I appreciate your input :)
julie harpum this is a lovely idea and the pictures and poems are very well brought together


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FOOLHARDY as it may seem to trust the good coffee judgment of an American, writer Mark Twain was nonetheless on the boil when he declared that "the best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty".
Of course, he made this remark before the Italians fully popularised the espresso machine in the early 20th century.
Now you'd say that while the Italians serve Europe's best coffee, it's the Austrians who deliver the best, most historic and atmospheric coffee houses.
The original Vienna cafes emerged after the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1693 when the Viennese discovered bags of strange beans left by the vanquished Turks. Many of those who subsequently frequented Vienna's grand cafes over the centuries, from Sigmund Freud to Vladimir Lenin, have done so as much to think, plot, conceive and converse as they have to take coffee.
Me? I'm in Vienna, as part of an APT cruise between Budapest and Amsterdam, and have just a single day in the Austrian capital with a plan to visit a quintet of the city's most historic coffee houses, including a mandatory homage to the home of the sachertorte, Austria's most famous cake.
8.30am: Cafe Sperl
My first stop is the venerable Cafe Sperl, a coffee house that has always been popular with artists, musicians, actors and singers, a group viewed with suspicion under the Third Reich occupation of Austria until after World War II.
It must be hard to break into the Viennese cafe scene, what with stayers like this one that drip history and tradition (though, heaven forbid, there are already nearly a dozen Starbucks in Vienna).
Founded in 1880, Cafe Sperl features all of its original fittings, including, it seems, the ageing, no-nonsense waitresses.
Cafe Sperl is as hushed as a municipal library and I seem to be the only tourist here at this hour.
My caffe latte is served in a glass with a handle and atop a rectangular silver platter complete with a small bowl of sugar, salt and pepper shakers and toothpicks (for my order of hard-boiled eggs).
The wood-panelled walls, the colour of chocolate sprinkled on cappuccino, heavy mustard-toned drapery and patched-up and painted-over chairs all project just the right amount of faded glory.
10.30am: Cafe Pruckel
The Austrians enjoy a rather wicked tradition known as "second breakfast", which effectively translates as an excuse to hang out at a cafe for an extended period at some stage mid-morning.
It's a worthy custom in which I'm more than happy to indulge, as I take my seat at my next stop, the art nouveau-style Cafe Pruckel on the Ringstrasse, which dates to 1857 when Emperor Franz Joseph I decided to replace Vienna's city walls with a modern boulevard.
Nearby is the capital's "first district" and across the road is Vienna's beautiful city park and its Museum of Applied Arts.
I elect to tolerate the haze from the tobacco in the smoking section, since the area reserved for the abstainers has the least atmosphere. I order a Viennese coffee, which comes with lavish whipped cream and serving of chocolate for sprinkling purposes.
Cafe Pruckel is a virtual Viennese coffee-house newcomer, having opened its doors in 1903, with the decor last fully updated in the 1950s, as evidenced by the weathered armchairs. On the menu are no fewer than 13 different types of coffee, including all of the Viennese "kaffee" specialities.
Not speaking or reading German, and there being no English menu on hand, I fear I've ordered the tourist coffee, accompanied by strudel, the house speciality, since I appear to be the only customer with a novelty cup with scenes of Vienna on it.
1pm: Cafe Landtmann
It's time for lunch (and time to swap kaffee for a cold Austrian beer). With just a day in Vienna I can't resist ordering the city's most famous dish, the golden wiener schnitzel, a speciality at the 130-year-old Cafe Landtmann.
The cafe was once a favoured haunt of Sigmund Freud, the Austrian who invented psychoanalysis, but it was shot up by invading Russian soldiers in 1945, forcing its closure.
It soon reopened and has been a continuous Viennese coffee-house fixture with an enviable location near the city's splendid Parliament Buildings.
There's the obligatory, spectacular range of homemade seasonal cakes and pastries on display in a large glass cabinet in the middle of the cafe.
However, I'm saving myself for the sachertorte at Cafe Sacher later in the afternoon.
Instead I order the delicious, and somewhat lighter, elderflower cake with chocolate layers sans kaffee, though, for, if truth be told, I'm starting to feel as full as the popular river cruise ship that delivered me to Vienna.
2.45pm: Cafe Central
Cafe Central, Vienna's most famous coffee house, dates to 1876. It is said to have been a venue for Lenin and Trotsky as they plotted revolution over kaffee and apple strudel.
Today it's packed not with revolutionaries but tourists, determined to tick off this stop on their must-see Vienna sights list.
Inside is a series of vaulted ceilings, reminiscent of a chapel rather than a cafe, though this is not a former place of worship. Rather it is the historic Palais Ferste, Vienna's erstwhile Bank and Stockmarket Building. Polished marble columns are set between closely packed marble-topped tables.
But as far as coffee and stamina is concerned I'm already starting to run out of steam, so I order a pick-me-up glass of Kir Royale and linger for a while, as indeed you're meant do in a classy Vienna cafe.
3.30pm: Cafe Sacher
The last stop on my Viennese cafe waltz is the home of the sachertorte the original recipe is more than 175 years old. The world's ultimate chocolate cake was invented by Franz Sacher, the founder of the adjoining hotel. Such is its fame that the place is packed, but the staff remain unfailingly courteous.
Inside it feels more like a petit salon than a cafe, with red flock wallpaper, red carpet and marble tabletops. I order sachertorte and read that as a result of a 1962 court case only the version here can be called "the original sachertorte".
Cafe Sacher's management claim that only a few staff members have seen the original recipe for the cake, with the recipe itself locked in a safe. You can take a souvenir cake fully packed and in a suitably elegant carton but, after a day like this one, I figure it will be prudent to skip dinner on the ship tonight.
The writer was a guest of APT and Sofitel Hotels.
Cruising there
Vienna is a stop on APT's 15-day, 14-night Magnificent Europe river cruise. Prices start at $6345 twin share and include all meals,touring, gratuities and port taxes and airport transfers. For bookings call 1300 229 804 or visit aptouring.com.au
Staying there
Accommodation in Vienna is aboard the ship. Luxury Sofitel hotels are recommended in Budapest and Amsterdam at the beginning or end of the cruise depending on the direction of the APT river journey you choose.
Originally published as Vienna's historic cafe society


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Creating periodic or cyclic mesh
I am using pro-star version 4.12. I have a simple combustor annulus sector where I want my sides to be cyclic. I have searched for an option in pro-surf to make those sides cyclic but to to avail. Can pro-surf create a cyclic mesh? or do I create the surface mesh in pro-surf and there is an option in pro-am where it will make the mesh cyclic? After I surface mesh this in pro-surf I will be going into pro-am where I will be putting an extrusion layer.
Prosurf is basically just a surface mesher with surface repair and grouping capabilities. The cylic symmetry is specified using Prostar boundary conditions. In the Locate Boundaries panel, make each side a separate cyclic boundary region. Then use the Cyclics tab to match them together.
You should end up with somethign like this:
I plan on running this in CFX, so there is no way to make the mesh itself truly periodic? From what you said it looks like it is matching each side kind of like a interface bc? Am I interpreting your comment corrrectly? Or does what you say actually rearrange the nodes so that they are truly periodic?
Assume your sector encompases 1/4 the annulus (a 45 degree sector). The method I outlined will "couple" the faces on either end of the 45 degree sector. In other words, what comes out the face at 0 degrees will go into the face at 45 degrees.
Do you want to copy/rotate the mesh to make a full 360 degree annulus? If so, inside prostar you use the cgen command with the vgen option with a cylindrical coordinate system set as the currently active csys. Sounds like this might be what you want. I don't remember for certain but you might then need to vmerge the nodes at the interfaces. A qhid plot will show you.
Pauli, when you say "couple" I am assuming you mean a boundary coupling, like an interface? and not a true node-to-node coupling based on a theta angle and axis rotation. Basically if I have a 30 degree sector I want all say 100 nodes on face x to match all 100 nodes on face y rotated 30 degrees. Basically, I just don't want to use a interface in CFX. I have done this in ICEM where you have the geometry present and you define your sector angle and axis and then ICEM automatically creates the periodic, but since the group I work for uses Star for its meshing I am trying to make this work. Thanks.
The procedure I outlined in my 12/10 post is the Prostar/STAR procedure for running a 30 degree sector axi-symmetric model with cyclic symmetery. So yes, this boundary coupling is essentialy an interface which imposes cyclic symmetry.
Sounds like your ICEM experience does this at the geometry level. In Prostar, building the coupling/interface happens at the mesh level. The cyclic matching can handle node-to-node "matched" meshes or interpolate between arbitrarily different meshes.
If you are going to run in CFX, you need to move the mesh from Prostar to the CFX pre-processor. Does this move include boundary condition specifications? If not, you will need to figure out the equivalent CFX commands/operations. I don't see how you can get around that one.
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An odd teaming of animal rights advocates and sports hunters have at least temporarily derailed Princeton Township's ambitious program to thin its deer population by using professional sharpshooters.
On Thursday, the state's Fish and Game Council, a majority of whose voting members represent hunting interests, narrowly voted to stop the five-year program after its second year because they were offended by some of the methods used by White Buffalo Inc., the professional hunters, and because they wanted Princeton to open its public lands to sports hunting instead.
''They were concerned that the town and the White Buffalo group were killing deer that hunters should be able to kill,'' the council chairman, W. Scott Ellis, said today. Mr. Ellis said he had been surprised by the 5-4 vote, with one member abstaining and Mr. Ellis, as chairman, not voting.
The 11-member Fish and Game Council is made up of six members nominated by the hunting groups, with the rest representing farmers and commercial fishermen. Their vote banned having the deer killed by sharpshooters, as well as a controversial method for capturing deer and slaughtering them, and the experimental use of contraceptive vaccines that act on the animals' immune system.
To the small but persistent group of animal rights advocates who have been trying and failing for years to stop the Princeton deer program, the decision by a panel weighted toward sport-hunting interests was still a victory for deer.Continue reading the main story
''We want to say to the state that they made the right decision,'' said Carl Mayer, a leader of the antihunting coalition.
Bruce Afran, a lawyer for the group, said, ''This great liberal bastion of the United States should not have associated with a program as barbaric as this.''
The township, which has already reduced its deer population by nearly half, to about 750, said it would likely modify its plan in time for it to be reconsidered at the council's February meeting, perhaps by offering some hunting on the township's open lands.
''We are extremely disappointed in the decision,'' said Deputy Mayor Bill Enslin. ''We've worked very closely with the Fish and Game Council in the development of our program over the past three years, and we've achieved success. We've reduced our deer-car collisions by over 50 percent, and our deer population was getting down to striking distance of our objective.''
The township wants to reach a deer population of about 350.
''We need to talk to a number of people and figure out exactly where we need to compromise,'' Mr. Enslin said. ''I guess our preliminary sense is that there are really two things going on. One is that the hunters were unhappy with us because we don't allow hunting in our public parks, and I think we need to look at that. The second part is the autoimmune contraception. That was a real surprise.''
Using rifles with silencers and nets at corn-baited ambush sites, White Buffalo's shooters have killed nearly 350 deer per winter season over the last two years. Protesters objected that the shooting was being done too close to houses. And they lambasted as inhumane the practice of netting deer and then stunning them for slaughter by driving a pneumatic bolt into their skulls. That system was used in places too close to housing for shooting to be allowed.
Bradley M. Campbell, the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, said today that he expected Princeton's program to win approval, although with modifications. He noted that Princeton was the only township to use the net-and-bolt approach, and appeared to defend the practice while acknowledging that it was morally troubling for some people.
''I recognize the serious concerns that animal protection advocates have raised as to whether the net and bolt element of the plan is humane,'' Mr. Campbell said. ''But you have to consider the issue in context. Allowing large numbers of deer to starve or be killed or wounded by cars will often result in far more suffering than the plan that was proposed.''
Mr. Enslin, the deputy mayor, said that the township had spent more than $250,000 defending its deer management program in court. He added that the town might sue to recover some of those costs on the ground that the advocates' suits were frivolous.
Mr. Afran, the lawyer, today accused the township of unnecessarily prolonging the litigation.Continue reading the main story


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Mining firms seek clarity on Zimbabwe platinum export tax
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The tax, if enforced, would slash their margins.
The government first proposed the duty in 2013 an effort to push mining companies to process the metal domestically. It then postponed its introduction until January 2017 to give the firms time to build the necessary smelting and refining plants.
But the government's finance bill, which was published on 9 January, proposes its introduction from 1 January 2015.
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With platinum prices already depressed, the tax would eat into the profits of companies with platinum assets in the country, which include Anglo American as well as Aquarius Platinum and Impala.
The impact on Aquarius's Mimosa mine in second quarter results would be to reduce cash margins from 182 dollars per ounce to 17 dollars per ounce, Liberum analysts said.
"We would imagine (the tax)… will be watered down in some way," they wrote in a note.
Zimbabwe holds the world's second-largest platinum reserves after South Africa. But mining sources have said the volumes mined there are not high enough to make construction of a multibillion-dollar refinery economically viable.
They are also sceptical that the infrastructure and the energy supply would be adequate to run such plants and point out that there is excess refining capacity in South Africa.
Even if such plants are built, there is a risk that they may be nationalised at some stage.
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To mark the 10th anniversary of the launch of the G. Ryan Show on 2FM, JACKIE HAYDEN talks to the mainman himself while various team members and seasoned observers select the best, worst and weirdest moments of the show that's grabbed the nation by its ears.
JACKIE HAYDEN: What's been the highlight of the first ten years of the programme?
GERRY RYAN: I'm not sure it was the highlight, but the most memorable moment for me was when the bastards who work with me put my wife Morah up to ringing in, pretending to be a listener called Nora. We had asked listeners to talk about their partners' most annoying habits, so this "Nora" complained about her husband not cleaning up after him, not putting out the bins and stuff like that. She didn't even put on an accent, and like a complete prat there I was agreeing with her!
What about the worst moments?
It's bad when things go really wrong, but sometimes you can make it part of the programme, so it's not a real problem. But I remember giving this long spiel of an introduction to a guy who was from some Beekeepers' Association, and who had this theory about using bees to cure certain illnesses. So I started off chatting to him, giving him a bit of a hard time, but when he eventually admitted that he actually knew very little about bees I started to give him a really hard time. I noticed he still seemed a bit perplexed. Then he explained to me that he was from the insurance industry. I'd got the wrong guy!
What do you think you'd be doing if you hadn't made the move from your night-time show?
I'd be unemployed, that's what I'd be doing! There's not much work these days for a 40-year-old DJ. I might have gone back to the law, but I think it's too late for that now . . .
Joe Duffy has been reported recently as being very critical of your style of broadcasting. Have you any advice for Joe?
Actually Joe denies saying anything like this at all. Apparently he was on some panel down the country and some guy in the audience who was a journalist asked him how would he feel about somebody who says "Ask me bollox" or something on the radio, and Joe seemed to agree that he'd take a dim view of it, but without actually thinking of it as a criticism of yours truly. So I think Joe might have been stitched up, actually. But when you think of it, that's the kind of language you're more likely to get from him than from me, anyway, isn't it?
What's your earliest memory of your show?
I remember getting some "advice" from 2FM boss Cathal McCabe that no item on the show should be longer than a pop record, that we should have short, snappy "picture postcard" conversations. But in the end we let the listeners design the show with their own suggestions of what they wanted to hear, and that's how it developed to what it is today.
What was your best ever freebie?
I got a Christmas present from a record company of a Palm Pilot, a desk-top computer the size of a pack of cards. But if you're talking about payola here, I have to admit that payola is at an abysmal level in Ireland. You get useless stuff like tins of Bovril, but nothing of real value. It's very sad.
Why do you think listeners will tell you very intimate things that they seem reluctant to tell their best friends, family, priests, teachers or whoever?
I think it's because of their familiarity with the programme and with me. We're in their living room or flat maybe every day, and that familiarity breeds a willingness to speak about important matters in very ordinary language to people they can trust. People feel comfortable talking to us.
What is your most disgusting personal habit?
My wife says it's picking wax out of my ear and smelling it, and who am I to disagree?
When did you stop masturbating?
I haven't stopped! I'm still at it, not every day, mind, because I don't have the time, and anyway I'm often too tired.
Do you pick your nose in private?
Yeah, but my wife constantly monitors that one.
Who was your most disappointing guest?
I'd have to say Phil Lynott. Bryan Ferry says you should never meet your heroes, and Phil was a big hero of mine, but when I interviewed him on the evening show he was very sick, probably from the heroin, and he was very rude. His wife was with him and she was visibly upset at his obvious disintegration. That was a great let-down.
Anybody else?
Well there've been lots of obnoxious fascists and nazis on the show over the years, as you well know, but I also remember finding Gilbert O'Sullivan a particularly unpleasant individual. He had a lot of stuff going on in his head, especially about the way he was ripped off by the music industry, but he saw it all as part of some world conspiracy aimed at him and nobody else.
What's been your most enjoyable junket?
Because I have to do a daily show, I don't get as many trips as people think, not like other djs and journalists who don't have a daily schedule. But I really enjoyed my visit to Disneyworld. Disney trips are always the most entertaining. Last year I was flown by BMG Records and Junkster and their manager Aidan Cosgrave to New York for an RCA/BMG Records convention. Because my badge had RTE on it, I think the Americans thought I was chairman of one of their own organisations and they treated me with tremendous respect! It was fascinating to see how they reacted.
What advice can you give someone in the media for getting the most out of their junkets?
Try to have your partner with you, that's always a neat trick. That immediately puts you in a higher category than the other guests who are on their own, and you get better treatment in hotels and restaurants. They assume you must be very important if your partner got invited with you. You've a much better chance of getting an upgrade as well. You should also appear to be as conservative as possible. That way you'll be singled out for better treatment. None of that rock band tantrum stuff, that doesn't work any more.
Have you ever been offered a bribe?
No, unfortunately, but I'd be happy to accept the money if it was offered. If Ben Dunne wants to line the crew up outside and give us lots of money, we'll say anything he wants us to say.
Do you use artificial stimulants to keep you going?
Yes. I drink too much coffee.
Nothing else?
Nothing else.
Have you ever presented the show while under the influence?
Certainly while still drunk from the night before, but I can't do it any more. It's the passing years. Once upon a time I used to boast about it. Even on air we used to do whiskey tastings and wine tastings, but it doesn't work on the Ryan show, so to answer your question, I suppose I might have, actually.
When you did a very extensive interview with Michelle Smith you appeared to give her an easy time in comparison to others who might have been embroiled in similar controversies. Why did you take that tack?
We gave that a lot of thought beforehand. You see, I'm unfamiliar with the technology of swimming, but I can spot a national hero straight off and we decided to treat her as one.
Is she still a national hero?
Yes, I think so, judging by the response from listeners when we talked about her most recent difficulties. But I can't help wondering if we'll ever know what went on.
As one of the most successful people ever in the Irish media, what challenges are left for you?
I'd still like to do a good tv programme. The radio thing just goes from strength to strength, while we're now at that boring stage of research trying to find out what the RTE viewing public wants to see G Ryan doing on television.
But some successful radio people don't automatically work well on tv, so maybe the public doesn't want G Ryan on the telly.
Well, the profile we have on 2FM is bang on for RTE tv, but it's impossible to transfer a radio programme directly onto tv. So maybe it's me, who knows?
How much longer do you think you can get away with it?
Forever! If you're vigilant and careful and keep your eye on the ball you can keep at it indefinitely, but you have to mind the baby.
Would you go as far as to tape a programme and listen to it critically at home?
Oh yeah. We have regular sessions, at least every three, four months. For example, we look seriously at the music content, which we're planning to increase, by the way. We look at the items that worked and those that didn't, and the associations the programme has, the charities we link up with, the commercial dynamics of this brand and that brand and the affect of those associations on the perception of the programme.
You don't appear to have any problem absorbing criticism.
Well, when you're G Ryan you have to be able to take it. I still can't hear the name "Gene Kerrigan" without wincing after some of the things he wrote about me. But he gave me the armour to take it from everybody else, so thanks, Gene.
Can you laugh at yourself?
Yes I can, you know that, but I also know that some people absolutely loathe me. In a recent poll I came third most hated person in Ireland and the fifth most loved! So it works both ways.
When did you last pay for a concert ticket?
Not for years. My friends own all the halls! It's unimaginable! I wouldn't know what a ticket costs!
What about records?
People don't believe this, but I still buy albums. You see, I don't think you fully appreciate an album unless you go out to a real record store and hand over the few quid for it. I still have to do that, browse through the shelves and hand over the dough. I think paying for a record gives you a whole different outlook on it than if you got it free.
What was the most recent album you paid for?
I bought a double-CD of two Frank Zappa reissues, Apostrophe and Overnight Sensation.
When did you last pay for a meal in a restaurant?
I always pay! I know I often mention restaurants on the show, but all that means is that I might get a better table, or get better service next time I go in. I might even get a free drink or a cigar, and I'll gladly accept them. But last week I went to the Eden restaurant in Temple Bar and I paid #90 and left a #20 tip.
What would you like us to put on your tombstone?
"He should be on now". It's a line from Aladdin Sane by David Bowie. It's about a character who's spent a lot of time waiting in the wings.
Is it true you only got your job in RTE because your brother Mike was working there?
If you were interviewing yourself, what question would you ask?
I'd ask, "Are you for real?"
And what would your answer be?
"Generally, yes." n
They formed a bond when they were part of the 2fm night team together back in the early days of the station. Since then they remained best friends, enjoying the ups and down of life in Ireland's second station and revelling in the good times. Here Dave Fanning pays tribute to his closest friend, GERRY RYAN.Read More
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Abutilons are a group of plants in the mallow family, related to hibiscus. They are a tropical to subtropical plant, hardy outdoors only in USDA zones nine to 11. A blossoming plant with flowers in a number of forms, ranging from hibiscus-like to the more characteristic bell-shaped, they are often called Flowering Maple for their bloom and the shape of their leaves. Commonly grown as houseplants, they are easily grown from seed in spring or by stem cuttings in spring and summer.
Things You'll Need
- Abutilon seeds
- Potting soil
- Planting cell/tray
- Water tray/rimmed cookie tin
- Bottom-heat source (optional)
- Water
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- Parent plant to supply cuttings
- Knife, utility knife or razor blade
- Potting sand
- Watering tray such as rimmed cookie tin
- Rooting hormone
- Transparent hood or plastic tent
- Bottom-heat source
Growing With Seed
Moisten potting soil lightly, until damp but not saturated.
Fill planting cells with potting soil.
Place one seed in each cell or tray section. Cover lightly with a thin layer of potting soil.
Place cells or trays on watering tray.
Place potted seeds with watering tray in a strong, indirect light such as light from a north window, or under a grow light.
If using a bottom-heat source such as a planter's heating pad, or a radiator, the desired temperature will be approximately 65 to 75 degrees F.
Mist cells, and water from below once a week.
Growing With Cuttings
Dampen potting sand and fill cells.
Remove three- to four-inch cuttings from the tips of growing branches, cutting at a slight angle just under a leaf node.
Remove the leaves at the lowest node without scraping away the base of the node. Root growth can begin from these nodes. Remove additional lower leaves, but leave top growth intact. Ideally as many as three nodes will be available on the lower stem.
Dip cutting in rooting hormone in accordance with product directions.
Make a hole in the potting soil with your finger. Insert the stem up to the highest exposed node on the stem. Press sand firmly around stem.
Maintaining Humidity
Place cells or planting trays on the watering tray. Mist cuttings and add water to one-quarter inch in the watering tray.
Place a clear hood or transparent tent over the cells and watering tray.
Place the entire unit on the bottom-heating source such as a planter's heating pad or a radiator in indirect light. Optimal temperatures are between 65 to 75 degrees F.
Check water twice a week, but expect to water only once.
Mist only if there are signs of dried, rather than wilted foliage: the hood or tent should suffice to maintain the high humidity needed for the cuttings.
Tips & Warnings
- It is not necessary to abrade or soak abutilon seeds prior to planting, but it can speed germination.
- Germination may take as much as four to five days.
- If possible, provide some ventilation to the hood or tenting over cuttings. High humidity is desired. Mold is not.
- Mold is one of the most likely problems with cuttings. Because the humidity must be high, mold also flourishes. One of the best options if you cannot provide some form of air circulation within your hood or tent is to remove the tent entirely for a few hours every day or so to allow things to dry out a bit. Keep a close eye on your cuttings, remove any with mold, and never let cuttings touch the hood or tent as that provides a place for water to accumulate and mold and rot to begin.
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What CRM applications can Spiceworks intergrate with. We have Microsoft Dynamics CRM
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Mar 26, 2010 at 1:49 UTC
Spiceworks runs an SQL database... Plus with email tricks, I would think you could do nearly anything..
Mar 26, 2010 at 2:02 UTC
Thank you. Was hoping for somthing that someone has already created. I can work on SQL scripts.
Mar 26, 2010 at 2:06 UTC
No CRM here, one can dream however.
I would ask what your vision is. Could you describe in a bit more detail what you're looking to accomplish?
Depending on what your CRM can do, I doubt it would be difficult to add spice integration.
Tickets Anywhere can be a very powerful tool. You could do a ton of Magic without any sql involvement.
Mar 26, 2010 at 2:15 UTC
Simple take the tickets once they are closed and move them to the CRM for Billing the Customer.
Mar 26, 2010 at 2:45 UTC
Most likely you'd need some function to join a ticket to a customer then. Does the CRM have some sort of work order system?
Is there a call center? This sounds like it is do-able, but I have lots of questions, and most likely not the skill set to code it.
Just some thoughts
CRM would need to have a customer pre-existing before spice could produce a ticket for them.
CRM would need some way of keeping track, so as to not double bill a spice ticket.
Can spiceworks have stored procedures? I dont know the answer to that. I would think that a stored procedure could fire on ticket close that would copy a record over to another table to be imported to the CRM.
... Need more brains on this...
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Strengthen the Soul's Shadow was a Shosuro Tejina spell which allowed the caster to draw the power of Nothing into a creature, but it was one other than the ninja, and only forced the weaknesses of such a power into the target. [1]
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The Mystic Waterfall was the place where Hoshi Masote honed his body into an amazing weapon, and the place where he found enlightenment. In 1168 Masote was visited by the Emperor Toturi III disguised as the Wanderer in his quest for enlightenment. [1]
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Yossi Banai was born in 1932 in Jerusalem, Palestine. He was an actor, known for The Patriots (1994), 999 Aliza: The Policeman (1967) and Ervinka (1967). He died on May 11, 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel. See full bio »
Born:in Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
Died:(age 74) in Tel Aviv, Israel