Comenity saturation point

A question I'd like to put out there for the board. I've enjoyed the nice Comenity store card CLI's as much as anyone and appreciate them. I try to do them in moderation although Barney's has gone a little crazy for all of us! I also have some new Comenity Signature Visas and a new Comenity Capital Mastercard. In the past, posters have mentioned that Synchrony has maximums and saturation points with the amount of credit they give out. I'm wondering if the same can be true of Comenity in months to come. Right now it seems limitless to many people. But personally, I'd rather save the CLI's for the Comenity Signature Visas and Mastercard if taking larger CLI's on the Comenity store cards meant less chance of CLI's on the major cc's or smaller VISA and MC CLI's due to taking it on the store cards. This may or may not happen going forward, but since pretty much every bank has a saturation point, wanted to put it out thre for discussion. This issue is a little separate from using common sense when requesting CLI's, which it helps for us all to do. That's not really the issue (although a good point). It's more of a planful or strategic requesting of CLI's and for those of us who have Comenity Visa and MC, something to consider. No bank is limitless in what it gives out. Thanks.

One can only hope.

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DB2, Log File has reached its saturation point" DIA8309C Log file was full,

Hello Experts,
I have successfully installed a ECC 6.0 System-ABAP + JAVA (DB2 v9.5 windows server 2008-x64 bit).
Kernel: 700 , Patch: 185 ; SP level : rel 700 , level 17.
However now i suddenly cannot connect to database and SAP is down.
C:\Users\dsqadm.DUCATI>r3trans -d
This is r3trans version 6.14 (release 700 - 16.10.08 - 16:26:00).
unicode enabled version
2EETW169 no connect possible: "DBMS = DB6                              --- DB2DB
DFT = 'DSQ'"
r3trans finished (0012).
db2diag.log:-
ADM1823E The active log is full and is held by application handle "51886". Terminate this application by COMMIT, ROLLBACK or FORCE APPLICATION.
"Log File has reached its saturation point" DIA8309C Log file was full.
"Backup pending. Database has been made recoverable. Backup now required." DIA8168C Backup pending for database .
Also, regarding DB2 licensing,i have a query:
db2licm -l gives the following:
C:\Users\db2dsq.DUCATI>db2licm -l
Product name:                     "DB2 Enterprise Server Edition"
License type:                     "CPU Option"
Expiry date:                      "Permanent"
Product identifier:               "db2ese"
Version information:              "9.5"
Enforcement policy:               "Soft Stop"
Features:
DB2 Database Partitioning:        "Licensed"
DB2 Performance Optimization ESE: "Licensed"
DB2 Storage Optimization:         "Licensed"
DB2 Advanced Access Control:      "Not licensed"
DB2 Geodetic Data Management:     "Not licensed"
IBM Homogeneous Replication ESE: "Not licensed"
Product name:                     "DB2 Connect Server"
License type:                     "Trial"
Expiry date:                      "10/19/2009"
Product identifier:               "db2consv"
Version information:              "9.5"
I have applied both sap and DB2 license. Is everything ok regarding licensing of DB v9.5 for using with SAP?
I am new to DB2 database and looking for expert guidance regarding the above mentioned issues.
Thanks,
Rakesh

C:\Users\db2dsq.DUCATI>db2 get dbm cfg
          Database Manager Configuration
     Node type = Enterprise Server Edition with local and remote clients
Database manager configuration release level            = 0x0c00
Maximum total of files open               (MAXTOTFILOP) = 16000
CPU speed (millisec/instruction)             (CPUSPEED) = 4,723442e-007
Communications bandwidth (MB/sec)      (COMM_BANDWIDTH) = 1,000000e+002
Max number of concurrently active databases     (NUMDB) = 8
Federated Database System Support           (FEDERATED) = NO
Transaction processor monitor name        (TP_MON_NAME) =
Default charge-back account           (DFT_ACCOUNT_STR) =
Default database monitor switches
   Buffer pool                         (DFT_MON_BUFPOOL) = ON
   Lock                                   (DFT_MON_LOCK) = ON
   Sort                                   (DFT_MON_SORT) = ON
   Statement                              (DFT_MON_STMT) = ON
   Table                                 (DFT_MON_TABLE) = ON
   Timestamp                         (DFT_MON_TIMESTAMP) = ON
   Unit of work                            (DFT_MON_UOW) = ON
Monitor health of instance and databases   (HEALTH_MON) = OFF

Exchange Saturation?

Hi, We are currently running Exchange 2003 and are moving to Exchange 2010. We have hit the issue of the older IOS causing Exchange to run out of resources due to TCP/IP connections being held open and we are trying to resolve that by updating all the I-Phones IOS to the latest version. My actual question is really is there a way of calculating a saturation point of the number of i-Phones connecting to an exchange envrionment? IIRC the later IOS request data from exchange every 3 minutes instead of the old version which was 30 seconds. However there must be a point where there are so many i-phones requesting data that the servers then begin to not respond so the TCP/IP connection issue arises again. If I`m wrong on any information please pelase do not flame me, I`m not that experienced with i-Phones and the company gave us no time to test the interaction with exchange before implmenting them. Many thanks, James

Une chose terrible est que le forum apple soit principalement alimenté par des anglophones. Pas de réposne donc à ce jour malgé 139 visites ! Mais que fait le staf d'aplle France ? Existe-il une veille technologique de la part de l'équipe d'Apple France sur ces forums ouverts ? Je ne crois pas.... Au tarif des machines il serait bon qu'une équipe prenne la main !

MeeGo on the n900?

With Intel and Nokia working together on a new Mobile OS, where does this put Maemo updates for the n900 in the future? It will start to come out in Q2 2010, so will it work on the n900 as it stands?
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Slowly ramped down? I think you're under estimating Nokias ability to drop a current device like a hot potato!! It'll disappear over night!!
From the looks of things Meego is a fairly different beast to Maemo.. I expect some serious differences.. the package system is RPM (which I detest with a passion) as opposed to Maemo5's "deb" format.. so not only will the contents of packages be incompatible, you wouldn't be able to install them anyhow!
Of all the little side projects I have bubbling away (I'm doing some funky Maemo5 development on the train to and from work at the moment) I'm already anticipating dropping Maemo5 for Meego/whatever when the SDK is out.. I doubt we're going to see another Maemo5 handset, so honestly, what's the point of developing for it!!
The N900 is funky toy, and packages will be available for some time yet.. but it's not going to reach a saturation point.. not many developers will be "oooh.. should we support Maemo5 and Maemo6" when the next device comes out, especially when they might already be asking "should we support android, iphone, winmo 7 and maybe even S60/Symbian^3?" two Maemo platforms is just not healthy for anyone..
You could try selling it, but who'd buy something that might be end of life in 3 months.. or you could spend the time enjoying it and its quirkyness until the Nnextdevice appears and upgrade to that!
That's what I'll be doing (why do I keep giving Nokia money?!)
Who knows, maybe another manufacturer might make a Meego device that trumps the next Nokia device.. If Meego isn't Nokia only, other people might be making bigger better shiner devices (ones whose USB ports aren't held in place with luck)
Granted you might loose all the fabulous PC software Nokia provide by jumping ship... wait.. wait a minute.. none of their PC software works with the N900 anyway!!!
Still, it'll be interesting to see what happens!! I knew the N900 was a stepping stone so I'm really not fussed.. but at the same time, I can appreciate others might be seriously upset..
I bought an N97 with its pittyful internal flash storage.. less than 6 months later, the N97mini came out with double the capacity making the N97, for the first time, usable!! was a irritated.. very.. was I surprised.. not at all.. c'mon, it's NOKIA!!! It's what they do!!
Maybe intel will drag them kicking and screaming into some sort of order!! That'd be neat!

RE: Macbook Stuttering, Audio Distortion

FYI
As discussed in Macbook Stuttering, Audio Distortion,
The solution to this problem is as follows:
The fix is to blow out nearly four years of dust (in my case), using the instructions given here (for replacing a fan...)
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-MacBook-Core-2-Duo-Fan/522/1
You don't need to remove the fan, but go as far as removing the keyboard, and then you can simply use an air-duster to remove every bit of dust you can find.
If your macbook's heatsink (as in my case) was cleaned by a professional in Apple Store, and you still keep having problems with youtube, ichat, skype and have stuttering, audio and video distortion and your 2+ghz intel macbook behaves as if it's an early iMac G3 - you have to do all steps described at ifixit.com.
When I have taken out my macbook's fan (the heatsink was perfectly sterile) I have found a 5mm thick layer of compressed dust blocking 97% of the air exit.
Removing the blockage has helped and my macbook is operating like it's new.
PS: It's sad that people at Apple Store do not do their job properly.

Your processor is momentarily saturated. It's not really a 'defect' that is covered under warranty.
Flash is a widely-known resource hog. It's one of the reasons that Steve Jobs has 'banished' Flash from iPhones and the new iPad, and uses H.264 format video.
Have you also noticed that the fan becomes loud when this is happening? Almost any time the fan starts running at high speed, it's because your processor is working hard and needs additional cooling.
If you look at Activity Monitor when the stuttering occurs, you probably have a combined CPU utilization of the top two or three processes running of more than 100%.
It's also quite possible that the Free memory 'green slice' of the of the System Memory pie chart is quite tiny.
Work-Arounds
1. Run fewer processes/programs. Close and Quit every application that doesn't need to be running while you're watching Flash.
2. Try another browser. Some are better than others at running Flash. I use Safari primarily, but Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera are also available.
3. Add RAM memory, especially if you still have just 1Gb RAM memory installed. Upgrading to 2Gb or 4Gb (MacBook 2,1 actually only recognizes and utilizes up to 3Gb) will help somewhat. It doesn't cure the processor saturation, but it does give the programs running more 'breathing room' until it reaches the saturation point.
4. ClickToFlash gives you options for how Flash is handled. Free download here --> http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/
5. H.264 format videos may be less processor intensive.
6. Buy a new Mac with a faster processor and more RAM. Even a 2.26Ghz MacBook Pro does much better than the 2007 2.16, because it uses a low power microprocessor, has 2Gb RAM standard, has a more advanced video chipset, and an unibody aluminum case to help dissipate heat.

So what's the deal w/AAC protected/unprotected files ?

I'm a long time user, and so I have been buying from iTunes store for years. I have been checking into my music files, and I see that many, probably more than 2GB, are "AAC protected" files in the info section.....
I was just given a Sony mp3 walkman player as a gift. It will play UN-protected files only. I'm wondering if I have workarounds/options, or will I just have to go on using my iPod which doesn't have the 8GB capacity of my new gift?
Also, is it possible to convert iTunes music videos into a format that will work. The player says it supports the H-264 codec (unprotected, I'm assuming)
BTW: this IS in fact a question about what to do with my iTunes library so that I won't lose my music. You know, I backed up data files on my old iBook hard drive and now some of them don't want to be put back on my new HD?
I just want them all to be Unprotected files when I get done.
Any help appreciated,
Garth.

What you paid for was a track with DRM. DRM-encumbered files are useless outside of iTunes, so getting a useful track for just 30 cents might be a pretty good deal.
Dear ed2345,
Thanks for the input, but I really disagree with you there. Not the part about the 30 cents, but the first sentence where you put me straight w/" What you paid for......etc." Yes, it is a fact, and I know that now, obviously. I think that the original version of iTunes should have been advertised as; "Buy music from our iTunes store that can be played ONLY on our mp3 players"......but it wasn't, and never is, marketed as such, is it? I know that I don't have any special education in computers, being self-taught, and I know that I paid for that music in good faith. Did you ever once see an AD that said, "But this only plays on iPod!". No, they said, "you can play them on your iPod", but neglected to mention that it can't be played on any other. They aren't the only ones guilty of this kind of bunk, I know. Maybe one day we'll live in a world where this kind of half-info. advertising will be against the law. Heck , even the news only gives half of the story any more, and people should stand up and demand the details, because you know the old saying is actually true, "The Devil is in the details!"
As for the tunes, I paid for them in good faith, and they should be mine. Why else would anyone pay the same price when they could've had the whole CD at an actual store. I think that they reached a saturation point where people got aggravated and wise, and the jig was up, so they removed it, but not before letting the market get< " as Jimmy Stuart says.
Not to be a jerk or anything, but I'm just in no mood for a lot of corporate cheerleader talk. I'm not buying the extra 30cents on principle. I'll just chuck em first!

G3 PISMO QUESTIONS

Hello everyone,
I purchased a G3 Pismo for $50 dollars of of E-BAY "untested" and it didn't have a power adapter, so I used the adapter from the wallstreet. It wouldn't start, so I unplugged the PRAM battery underneath the keyboard and BONGGGG it fired right up. My questions are. Much to my delight, there was an internal airport card installed as well as a battery that holds a 3+ hour charge!!!!!
1.Is using the Wallstreet adapter safe?
2.The battery says it was made in 2000, it doesn't look like the cells inside were replaced, the computer itself seems to not been turned on since 2002. I'm assuming thats when the PRAM battery died, HOW IS A 9 YEAROLD BATTERY ABLE TO HOLD A FULL CHARGE? AND WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MAINTAIN IT FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE?
3.Youtube videos, no go right? I only got 256 megs of ram running os x 10.2.8, what would be the benefits of upgrading this machine to tiger and more ram? I only am going to use it for downloading, web surfing and networking, playing movies and music. Would 1 GB of ram or a processor upgrade allow me to play streaming video?
4.Is it bad to run this computer without a PRAM battery, what does it really do besides hold the date and time?
LOVE THIS COMPUTER, FEEL LIKE I GOT A BIG STEAL WITH AIRPORT,FULL BATTERY AND DVD DRIVE FOR ONLY $50.

Thanks for the replies guys!
KMac,
You pretty much confirmed what I suspected, that it is the graphics card. How is there no way to upgrade this? I'll make a freakin chip to stick in the thing if I have to, this is ridiculous and a major limitation
rarely do notebooks ever have sockets with chips that can be replaced. this is why they have gotten lighter, thinner & much faster over the years. almost nobody else does either.
if not the only limitation on these old books besides the processor speed(which can be upgraded). Streaming video isn't THAT important to me and I'll just download the videos in their entirity, but why isn't there a solution or some kind of upgrade to this problem.
That machine will not play the content back without dropping frames, period. even if downloaded because it takes a lot to decode the underlaying h.264. it will never play any of the modern streaming video sites or content from itunes, no matter how many upgrades you throw at it. sorry...
And why aren't there any other processor upgrades for this machine, they seem very hard to find. I really like this machine, I think it is one of the best laptops ever made in my opinion.
That machine sold for less than a year, feb 2000 to jan 2001.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbookg3/stats/powerbook_g3_500fw.html
there was upgrades, for a time. these parts can only stay in production for so long before the mass market moves on & it's not viable to keep the lines open. There is either a saturation point, or simply people didn't want to buy the upgrades anymore. For the cost of some of the PPC upgrades, you can almost pay for or have a big chunk of cask towards a new(er) system. a single 2.0 Ghz upgrade for my G4 sawtooth is $399. a new Mini with a dual 2.0 ghz with modern RAM & graphics is $599
I read you can even put a blu-ray drive in this thing, and you CANT put blu-ray drives in a mac book pro???IS THIS TRUE?
No - what would a pismo be able to do with a blu-ray drive? It won't be able to play back movies, even if it could, as there isn't any software.
& the system couldn't feed it enough data fast enough to even burn a disc.
You got a $50 laptop! It's a 9 year old spare machine to tinker with. It's not going to be a substitute for a modern Mac.

FCP 6 Export Timecode Errors?

Going on two days trying to edit a "simple" 60 second video and I've reached the saturation point.
I've searched the forum, but was unable to come across anything related to what I'm seeing. Hopefully, someone will have encountered it before.
I'm starting with a screen-capture movie that I made with iShowU. I've tried capturing in "Apple Intermediate Codec" and "HDV720p" (I also tried "Apple Animation," but that gave me a "General Error" when I tried bringing it into FCP).
I bring the captured movie into FCP and start cutting it up (the project settings are "Apple Intermediate 720p") into a sequence.
Everything plays fine in the timeline, all the edits are exactly where they should be.
However, when I export as a QuickTime, I get a file that almost completely ignores my edit in/out points. Sometimes (I've tried about a hundred [no exaggeration] different approaches with no luck) the edits start out fine, then become wrong, sometimes they're wrong from the first cut.
It's like the timecode is drifting, somehow, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to get around it.
It's getting so I can almost notice when it's going to happen in the viewer. I'll set an in/out point and be unable to narrow it down to exactly where I want it to be. When I drag the clip into the timeline, I can then adjust it correctly, but, of course, once I export, it ends up being wrong anyway.
HELP!! This is driving me nuts. I've tried reconnecting media, recompressing, different codecs (the "HDV720 works the best, getting mostly through the project before messing up")...everything I can think of, but I still can't get it to work.
Surely I'm just being a thickheaded and missing something obvious.

Thanks for bringing this up Keith...I did a capture this morning with iShowU...edited a bunch, and ran into the same error. MADDENING.
Thank you Jerry for knowing the answer.
See..."search is your friend." I searched the forum for my question and BOOM, there it was.
Shane

A Tip for Fans of the Old Canon Printer Set-Up "Vivid" Setting

I'm absolutely thrilled that I've been able to replace my old Pixma ip6600D dye-ink printer with a new Pro-10. However, I was dismayed that the new printer settings do not have a simple "Vivid" check box like the older printer.
Without it, color-managed prints come out "naturally saturated" on any of the wonderful ICC-profiled papers I've tried even when I want them artificially popping with saturation. Here's an analogy for us old guys: despite the monitor displaying Velvia-like saturation, the print comes out with relatively subdued Kodachrome-like saturation.
BTW, this difference shows up in the excellent "Print Preview" function. Is any of this a failing of the Pro-10 or for that matter any other pigment-ink printer? Nope! It's simply the way pigment inks perform versus dye inks.
So, lacking a "Vivid" check box, what's the fix? On another forum a member suggested going back into the image editor and pumping the color saturation way up by 30 points! (BTW, when you do this, you'll want to save the modified file with new file name to protect the original)
I tried it. What I saw on the screen scared me! I couldn't believe the garish image would print well. Yet, it did beautifully. In fact, depending on your photo editing software, you might even want to go as high as 40 color saturation points to get the saturation "pop" you're looking for.
If you, too, have been missing the "Vivid" check box, give this fix a try. I think you'll be glad you did.
(Pssst! Hey, Canon software guys . . . Really! Where's the "Vivid" function? Put it back in, please!)

Hello and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Reading your post, it sounds like you have done the correct printer queue setup. But since the 3380 is printing mostly blank sheets with the Canon PPD or Generic PostScript selected, this would be an indication that the printer does not have the PostScript license installed.
So, one suggestion would be to use an alternate driver, such as the UFR2. Most iR copiers support the UFR2 language as standard, while PCL and PS can be options.
You can download the UK English version of the latest UFR2 driver that will support your iRC3380 via this link.
http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0100212608.html
The UK English driver can be used in the US region (I wasn't sure where you are located). The LTR and LGL sizes are still supported. I think the primary difference is the naming of the Canon devices.
Anyway, with this driver installed, you can add the printer queue again, just the same as you have done previously, but this time in the Print Using menu you need to select "Canon iR C Series UFR II (UK)".
See if this works for you and reply if needed.
Pahu

AP Selection

I have several AP's throughout my facility. I am having a problem where a computer does not connect to the closest AP and therefore has slow performance. As far as I know the computers are set to to connect to whichever AP has the best signal strength but this is not happening. Any ideas?
EDIT: Most of the time the computers are connecting correctly. But every once in a while I'll have a laptop that does not connect to the closest AP.

salterinc wrote:As far as I know the computers are set to to connect to whichever AP has the best signal strength but this is not happening. Any ideas?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this isn't necessarily true. Wireless NIC manufacturers have their own set of algorithms. Whether or not they follow common sense, i. e. associate/authenticate with the strongest signal, is something open to debate and discussions.
A number of significant reasons can cause the a client to associate/authenticate or "go" to the wrong AP. Among them:
1. Quirks in the wireless NIC;
2. Channel congestion (when a number of APs talk at the same channel and in close proximity of each other);
3. Client saturation point (when too many clients have joined one AP);
4. I can't think of the rest. It's early in the morning and I'm NOT a morning person.

Sugar industries

Hai pp gurus
Any one pls explain me about sugar industries sap pp -pi implementation.
Advance Thanks

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> Any one pls explain me about sugar industries sap pp -pi implementation.
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> Advance Thanks
General Process of Sugar Manufacturing -
Raw Materials
Sugar is a broad term applied to a large number of carbohydrates present in many plants and characterized by a more or less sweet taste. The primary sugar, glucose, is a product of photosynthesis and occurs in all green plants. In most plants, the sugars occur as a mixture that cannot readily be separated into the components. In the sap of some plants, the sugar mixtures are condensed into syrup. Juices of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) and sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) are rich in pure sucrose, although beet sugar is generally much less sweet than cane sugar. These two sugar crops are the main sources of commercial sucrose.
The sugarcane is a thick, tall, perennial grass that flourishes in tropical or subtropical regions. Sugar synthesized in the leaves is used as a source of energy for growth or is sent to the stalks for storage. It is the sweet sap in the stalks that is the source of sugar as we know it. The reed accumulates sugar to about 15 percent of its weight. Sugarcane yields about 2,600,000 tons of sugar per year.
The sugar beet is a beetroot variety with the highest sugar content, for which it is specifically cultivated. While typically white both inside and out, some beet varieties have black or yellow skins. About 3,700,000 tons of sugar are manufactured from sugar beet.
Other sugar crops include sweet sorghum, sugar maple, honey, and corn sugar. The types of sugar used today are white sugar (fully refined sugar), composed of clear, colorless or crystal fragments; or brown sugar, which is less fully refined and contains a greater amount of treacle residue, from which it obtains its color.
The Manufacturing
Process
Planting and harvesting
     1 Sugarcane requires an average temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit (23.9 degrees
In the United States, harvesting of both cane and sugar beet is done primarily by machine, although in some states it is also done by hand. The harvested cane stalks and beets are loaded mechanically into trucks or railroad cars and taken to mills for processing into raw sugar. Once there, they are cleaned, washed, milled to extract juice, filtered, and purified. The result is a clear, sugar-filled juice.
Celsius) and uniform rainfall of about 80 inches (203 centimeters) per year. Therefore, it is grown in tropical or subtropical areas.
Sugarcane takes about seven months to mature in a tropical area and about 12-22 months in a subtropical area. At this time, fields of sugarcane are tested for sucrose, and the most mature fields are harvested first. In Florida, Hawaii, and Texas, standing cane is fired to burn off the dry leaves. In Louisiana, the six- to ten-feet (1.8- to 3-meter) tall cane stalks are cut down and laid on the ground before burning.
     2 In the United States, harvesting (of both cane and sugar beet) is done primarily by machine, although in some states it is also done by hand. The harvested cane stalks are loaded mechanically into trucks or railroad cars and taken to mills for processing into raw sugar.
Preparation and processing
     3 After the cane arrives at the mill yards, it is mechanically unloaded, and excessive soil and rocks are removed. The cane is cleaned by flooding the carrier with warm water (in the case of sparse rock and trash clutter) or by spreading the cane on agitating conveyors that pass through strong jets of water and combing drums (to remove larger amounts of rocks, trash, and leaves, etc.). At this point, the cane is clean and ready to be milled.
When the beets are delivered at the refinery, they are first washed and then cut into strips. Next, they are put into diffusion cells with
After being purifed, the clear juice undergoes vacuum evaporation to remove most of the water. In this process, four vacuum-boiling cells are arranged in series so that each succeeding cell has a higher vacuum. The vapors from one body can thus boil the juice in the next one, a method called multiple-effect evaporation. Next, the syrupy solution is vacuum-crystallized to form sugar crystals. The remaining liquid is removed using centrifugaling and drying, and the sugar is packaged.
water at about 175 degrees Fahrenheit (79.4 degrees Celsius) and sprayed with hot water countercurrently to remove the sucrose.
Juice extraction pressing
     4 Two or three heavily grooved crusher rollers break the cane and extract a large part of the juice, or swing-hammer type shredders (1,200 RPM) shred the cane without extracting the juice. Revolving knives cutting the stalks into chips are supplementary to the crushers. (In most countries, the shredder precedes the crusher.) A combination of two, or even all three, methods may be used. The pressing process involves crushing the stalks between the heavy and grooved metal rollers to separate the fiber (bagasse) from the juice that contains the sugar.
     5 As the cane is crushed, hot water (or a combination of hot water and recovered impure juice) is sprayed onto the crushed cane countercurrently as it leaves each mill for diluting. The extracted juice, called vesou, contains 95 percent or more of the sucrose present. The mass is then diffused, a process that involves finely cutting or shredding the stalks. Next, the sugar is separated from the cut stalks by dissolving it in hot water or hot juice.
Purification of juiceclarification
and evaporation
     6 The juice from the mills, a dark green color, is acid and turbid. The clarification (or defecation) process is designed to remove both soluble and insoluble impurities (such as sand, soil, and ground rock) that have not been removed by preliminary screening. The process employs lime and heat as the clarifying agents. Milk of lime (about one pound per ton of cane) neutralizes the natural acidity of the juice, forming insoluble lime salts. Heating the lime juice to boiling coagulates the albumin and some of the fats, waxes, and gums, and the precipitate formed entraps suspended solids as well as the minute particles.
The sugar beet solution, on the other hand, is purified by precipitating calcium carbonate, calcium sulfite, or both in it repeatedly. Impurities become entangled in the growing crystals of precipitate and are removed by continuous filtration.
     7 The muds separate from the clear juice through sedimentation. The non-sugar impurities are removed by continuous filtration. The final clarified juice contains about 85 percent water and has the same composition as the raw extracted juice except for the removed impurities.
     8 To concentrate this clarified juice, about two-thirds of the water is removed through vacuum evaporation. Generally, four vacuum-boiling cells or bodies are arranged in series so that each succeeding body has a higher vacuum (and therefore boils at a lower temperature). The vapors from one body can thus boil the juice in the next onethe steam introduced into the first cell does what is called multiple-effect evaporation. The vapor from the last cell goes to a condenser. The syrup leaves the last body continuously with about 65 percent solids and 35 percent water.
The sugar beet sucrose solution, at this point, is also nearly colorless, and it likewise undergoes multiple-effect vacuum evaporation. The syrup is seeded, cooled, and put in a centrifuge machine. The finished beet crystals are washed with water and dried.
Crystallization
     9 Crystallization is the next step in the manufacture of sugar. Crystallization takes place in a single-stage vacuum pan. The syrup is evaporated until saturated with sugar. As soon as the saturation point has been exceeded, small grains of sugar are added to the pan, or "strike." These small grains, called seed, serve as nuclei for the formation of sugar crystals. (Seed grain is formed by adding 56 ounces [1,600 grams] of white sugar into the bowl of a slurry machine and mixing with 3.3 parts of a liquid mixture: 70 percent methylated spirit and 30 percent glycerine. The machine runs at 200 RPM for 15 hours.) Additional syrup is added to the strike and evaporated so that the original crystals that were formed are allowed to grow in size.
The growth of the crystals continues until the pan is full. When sucrose concentration reaches the desired level, the dense mixture of syrup and sugar crystals, called massecuite, is discharged into large containers known as crystallizers. Crystallization continues in the crystallizers as the massecuite is slowly stirred and cooled.
     10 Massecuite from the mixers is allowed to flow into centrifugals, where the thick syrup, or molasses, is separated from the raw sugar by centrifugal force.
Centrifugaling
     11 The high-speed centrifugal action used to separate the massecuite into raw sugar crystals and molasses is done in revolving machines called centrifugals. A centrifugal machine has a cylindrical basket suspended on a spindle, with perforated sides lined with wire cloth, inside which are metal sheets containing 400 to 600 perforations per square inch. The basket revolves at speeds from 1,000 to 1,800 RPM. The raw sugar is retained in the centrifuge basket because the perforated lining retains the sugar crystals. The mother liquor, or molasses, passes through the lining (due to the centrifugal force exerted). The final molasses (blackstrap molasses) containing sucrose, reducing sugars, organic nonsugars, ash, and water, is sent to large storage tanks.
Once the sugar is centrifuged, it is "cut down" and sent to a granulator for drying. In some countries, sugarcane is processed in small factories without the use of centrifuges, and a dark-brown product (noncentrifugal sugar) is produced. Centrifugal sugar is produced in more than 60 countries while noncentrifugal sugar in about twenty countries.
Drying and packaging
     12 Damp sugar crystals are dried by being tumbled through heated air in a granulator. The dry sugar crystals are then sorted by size through vibrating screens and placed into storage bins. Sugar is then sent to be packed in the familiar packaging we see in grocery stores, in bulk packaging, or in liquid form for industrial use.
Byproducts
The bagasse produced after extracting the juice from sugar cane is used as fuel to generate steam in factories. Increasingly large amounts of bagasse are being made into paper, insulating board, and hardboard, as well as furfural, a chemical intermediate for the synthesis of furan and tetrahydrofuran.
The beet tops and extracted slices as well the molasses are used as feed for cattle. It has been shown that more feed for cattle and other such animals can be produced per acre-year from beets than from any other crop widely grown in the United States. The beet strips are also treated chemically to facilitate the extraction of commercial pectin.
The end product derived from sugar refining is blackstrap molasses. It is used in cattle feed as well as in the production of industrial alcohol, yeast, organic chemicals, and rum.
Quality Control
Mill sanitation is an important factor in quality control measures. Bacteriologists have shown that a small amount of sour bagasse can infect the whole stream of warm juice flowing over it. Modern mills have self-cleaning troughs with a slope designed in such a way that bagasse does not hold up but flows out with the juice stream. Strict measures are taken for insect and pest controls.
Because cane spoils relatively quickly, great steps have been taken to automate the methods of transportation and get the cane to the mills as quickly as possible. Maintaining the high quality of the end-product means storing brown and yellow refined sugars (which contain two percent to five percent moisture) in a cool and relatively moist atmosphere, so that they continue to retain their moisture and do not become hard.
Most granulated sugars comply with standards established by the National Food Processors Association and the pharmaceutical industry
Srini

Faulty Synaptics Touchpad Driver on Split x2 13-m121sa Causing Freezing and Mouse Unresponsiveness

Edit: I found a solution, scroll further down. I have been having problems with my new Split x2 similar to those already explained in the forums by other users. The symptoms are as follows:
1. Unusual hanging or freezing of the mouse pointer on the screen and temperamental use of gestures (two finger scrolling, zooming, etc.)
2. Slowing down of computer generally; acting sluggish and freezing during only light use and/or after screen being closed.
The symptoms seems to change depending on the length of time the computer has been switched on, and are affected by disconnecting/reconnecting the screen from the dock.
Being quite good with these things I decided to investigate and have uncovered the following:
The root cause of both of these problems is the Synaptics Touchpad driver. While the newest version (17.0.10.9) available from the HP website seems to solve any unusual freezing of the pointer it has a significant memory leak. In other words, as you move the pointer around the touchpad uses up the computer's memory. This is normal, but the problem is that the driver for the touchpad does not give the memory back; it cannot be reallocated. This means after a couple of hours of using the computer (or having the screen closed) the memory reaches saturation point and the computer grinds to a halt. If you are having the same problem have a look for yourself: Open task manager and look at the performance tab. Under the Memory heading you will see a value for 'Non-paged pool'. With the computer idle this number shouldn't increase, but move the mouse around and you will see it gradually go up without returning. I have confirmed this to be the Synaptics driver by using the Windows tool poolmon.exe - the culprits are Irp and SynT. Regarding solutions, I have tried many - but there is no absolute fix.
You can uninstall the Synaptics Touchpad driver and the problem will go away - no more freezing or high memory usage. But without the driver the computer reverts to using the standard Windows driver - therefore there is no multitouch gestures like scrolling or zooming.
I have tried installing the generic Synaptics driver available from their website, and the computer won't allow it. Regardless of this, I forced the driver install but the generic driver does not work with this Touchpad anyway (Error code 10). I have tried the latest version (17.0.19) and an older one (16.2.21) with no success. Even earlier versions (e.g. 15.x.x) refuse to run on the grounds of incompatibility. HP Support suggest a system 'refresh' back to factory setting, but apart from the huge inconvenience of time and losing files - I know this won't work either. Apparently a clean install has worked for one user - but for this you need a Windows install disc or USB which I do not have - and I'm sceptical that it would work anyway.
So now I'm using the standard Windows touchpad driver without being able to scroll, zoom or use the swipe-in gestures of Windows 8.1.
If a HP representative is reading this, I would strongly suggest that this problem be escalated. A simple update from Synaptics could solve this problem which is causing people's computers to freeze up and wasting your support staff's time.
TL;DR: HP's Touchpad driver is faulty and causes a memory leak. Synaptics own generic drivers do not work. And Windows standard drivers are unsatisfactory.

SOLVED!
Through my own research I have found a solution. While the official newest driver listed under this model is 17.0.10.9 there is in fact a newer version which does not have this problem: version 17.0.10.16!
I am still disappointed that HP didn't suggest this solution themselves, considering this driver was published back in November 2013! HP if you're reading this: please allocate this driver to this model in your support pages. Anyway, the solution is as follows:
1. Open the Device Manager (Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Device Manager)2. Under 'Mice and other pointing devices' open 'Synaptics HID TouchPad'3. In the 'Driver' tab click on 'Uninstall'4. The pointer will disappear - reboot the computer5. Download the new driver from here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?cc=uk&lc=en&softwareitem=ob-127354-1(if this link goes down try searching online for 'synaptics driver 17.0.10.16')6. Open and install the driver I hope this helps. HP, please send my consulation fee via PayPal(!)

Oracle 9iAS Interconnect Message Limits

What is the message saturation point for Oracle 9iAS Interconnect? In other words, is there a known upper limit for the number of messages per second/minute/hour/day or whatever that you can safely push through Oracle 9iAS Interconnect? In the absense of hard data, has anybody out there reached a point beyond which it does not make sense to push more messages through the system?

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Please, help me learn J2EE...point me out to better tutorials or something!

Hi,
Guys, I really need help in trying to learn what J2EE is.
I've got prior knowledge and experience on Java (I thought), but ever since I came across the terms J2EE, EJB, JNI, JSP, JDBC and all that crap, I now don't know what I actually learnt!
Please bear with me I beg of you! :)
1.0: What I've learnt.
===============================
So far, I've learnt (I think) the core/basics of the Java language, covering uhm...the basics up to GUIs, Arrays, IOStreams...yeah I think that's it.
I code using notepad and compile them using the SDK...which up to now I still don't know if it is an SE or EE edition. It's j2sdk1.4.0 the last time I checked. I didn't use any IDE.
I've done (school) projects like a Library System (involves loaning of books and charges etc etc), a Chalet Organizer (Loaning out chalets/rooms and charges etc etc) and an Appointment Organizer.
So what was that which I learnt? Am I right to say that that is only core Java and nothing else and is next to worthless in the working world?
2.0: Why I want to learn J2EE.
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Okay so why do I want to learn specifically J2EE? Well, most employment opportunities here require J2EE and EJB (and maybe some other alien terms) as prerequisites to being a "Java Programmer".
I really need the job as soon as possible (for family's sake) and the job market here is already saturated with webmasters..
3.0: What I have tried.
===============================
Believe me, I tried for like 2 months already to try learn this thing on my own.
I have followed almost exactly to the J2EE "Beginner's Tutorial" found on http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/ but no matter how far I read, I'm still just as clueless as I was when I was in my mother's womb about what J2EE is all about, even though I did the examples. I stopped somewhere in the middle of "Getting Started" because I realized I wasn't learning anything at all.
4.0: Help meeeeeee...
===============================
4.1:
Can anyone please help me set my head straight and either point me to a REAL beginner's tutorial on J2EE and what the heck it is, or help explain to me slowly what J2EE really is and how to learn it?
4.2:
What's the difference between J2EE and J2SE?!? I initially thought that J2SE was simply just a smaller download which didn't include some of the heavier stuff that the EE carried, but boy was I wrong when that same tutorial asked me to install BOTH of them!
4.3:
Is it right for me to think that EJB are just files which are precoded to facilitate programming? e.g.:(I could've written up my own Date class instead of using the standard Date class that everybody uses.)
4.4:
What the hell is Jakarta Ant? Is it a builder and not a compiler, and may allow me to run built programs just by double-clicking on an e.g. executable? Like C++? So that I don't have to go to command prompt and type "java myApp.class"? (OT, but I think it's ridiculous that Apache has this and not Sun!!)
4.5:
Is there a simpler, much much much simpler example of a J2EE tutorial besides the overly vague tutorial "The Duke's Bank Application"? I need more examples of smaller scale maaaan... Better yet, is there a tutorial around that covers the very very very basics of Java all the way up to J2EE, step by step and with ample explanations?
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Thanks all, I would really really appreciate any heads up you can provide me with.
Sincerely, Kai.

Lee and tsith - same fella -
Run Tomcat as a standalone critter - the install of the current ver (4.1.12?) on a Windows machine sets it up nicely, and you don't have to worry about web connectors and stuff. Just create a few JSPs and dump them somewhere under the ROOT directory of your webapps directory and you should be able to hit them via a URL like http://localhost:8080/test.jsp (assuming you have it running on port 8080). Once you get your fill of the JSP thing, make a serrvlet and look into creating WAR files - then copy your WAR file into webapps subdirectory of your Tomcat installation and play with that. When you've had enough Servlet fun, then look into JBoss and making EAR files and you'll have all sorts of fun with JNDI and JDBC and all those other acronyms.
Ant is just a build tool, not a compiler. Compiling simple java classes is no big deal, 'cause you just type javac MyClass.java or some such. But when you get into complicated build processes (like, compile these classes, making sure to include the J2EE jar and all the other jars I need, and create a WAR file, and deploy it to Tomcat) then Ant really helps.
If you want help documenting your classes, the javadoc tool is for you.
Lee

How to tell if you are saturating g5 bus

Hi,
I went ahead and hooked up an OWC Enterprise RE SSD 50 gb drive on the board controller. I am still hoping the Delock Sata2 adapter will work but I thought i would try it with out to compare, After instal I xbenched it, and got a combined score of 152.53. Although It seems as if I remember xbench getting some criticism for its accuracy I will post the report anyway. Does this show the sata1 bus being saturated by the SSD or is this not the correct way to test for it.

Ya, I was just B**ch7678. I just needed a big drive to park info on so i could re-initialize on of the 2 tb drives that went into the following RAID 1 numbers of my 2320.
Here are the numbers:
Results 114.36
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Physical RAM 12288 MB
Model PowerMac11,2
Processor PowerPC G5x4 @ 2.50 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 1024K @ 2.50 GHz
Bus Frequency 1 GHz
Drive Type HPT DISK 1_0
CPU Test 150.40
GCD Loop 114.56 6.04 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 167.56 3.98 Gflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 329.42 13.13 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 127.92 4.22 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 129.97 22.63 Mops/sec
Thread Test 214.66
Computation 259.53 5.26 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 183.02 7.87 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 159.90
System 167.87
Allocate 233.98 859.24 Kalloc/sec
Fill 238.67 11604.71 MB/sec
Copy 106.30 2195.67 MB/sec
Stream 152.64
Copy 150.05 3099.29 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 148.01 3057.84 MB/sec [G5]
Add 154.55 3292.18 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 158.38 3388.14 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 175.72
Line 137.63 9.16 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 171.84 51.30 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 157.76 12.86 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 149.77 3.78 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 424.90 26.58 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 103.90
Spinning Squares 103.90 131.81 frames/sec
User Interface Test 155.62
Elements 155.62 714.22 refresh/sec
Disk Test 45.64
Sequential 123.53
Uncached Write 122.19 75.02 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 175.98 99.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 69.20 20.25 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 246.06 123.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 27.99
Uncached Write 8.70 0.92 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 65.66 21.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 128.51 0.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 200.07 37.12 MB/sec [256K blocks]
So sorry, about the PC people poke as I have always(cough) gamed on a PC. Mac actually, after all, first went usb on imac g3's and dumped the floppy drive.

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