May 2007

So this weekend a bunch of TLUGers got together in Myoden for a BBQ. It was great fun as always. There was plenty of food and drink and FUN. Most important the 2 people I came with Eric and Satomi had a good time too. I think most would have a hard time understanding my geeky passion from time to time but here I was in good company. Funniest thing is, except for some trash talking during the competitions the shop talk was generally low. I spoke with more people about the state of the union in TLUG or about our kids and the things we struggle with in Japan. Or "That time that Josh....." Some of the highlights; The music was a total hit ... man Billy Squire ZZ Top just needed a little Kid Rock in there and it would have been UN F'ing BELIEVABLE! The events were awesome I would like to see if we can make them a staple. HD　Tossing was a blast. The Americans in the crowd brought home the win for both teams. Go USA! Keyboard smashing was fun but putting them back together was infuriating. My strategy was simple and straight forward. Smash it with my fist. By my 3rd shot 90% of the keys were missing. I should have stopped there and peeled the remaining ones away.... but no smash smash smash. My hand swelled up a little bit afterwards and now the hand scanner at work doesn't know who I am and wont let me in anymore... :( I was pretty shocked that I lost that one. I thought just the pure brutality of my attack would do it but a woman with strong set of nails and a even stronger desire to get out of the kill zone won. The food was simply AWESOME! Beef, pork some lamb and veggies. Some one made curry and brought it along, there was rolls with little Penguins on them and possibly the best salsa I have ever had. Fun was had by all and thanks to Keith and Mauro for putting on the whole thing. It was one of the best parties I have been to in a long time. Thanks, E./

So when I went home allot of people were there. My friends Don, Cory, Kevin and Jason thanks guys for the beers and your time. My relatives for putting coming a lot of long distances to say hi. For staying up and drinking with me listening to all of my B.S. Finally Thanks Mary for being so cool when we hung out in FL and helping me with Eric. Dad for taking care of everything. Really even my plane ticket that was huge. Thanks Lastly Patrick for putting up with me. I think lots of dumb things. Patrick is the only person I say them ALL to. NEXT POST.... HAPPY SHINNY THINGS!!!! I promise....

I use drupal for my blog/website the reason being is it has a unending selection of add ons and api's. Finally one day I decided to add some stuff on..... I wanted a easier way to add images. I went to add in the module and all was well. But things were not so well... as soon as I tried to add a imagine. The image was added but the thumbnail was not. Hmmm lets check and see whats going on. #ldd /usr/apache2/modules/libphp5.so libpng12.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0 libz.so => /usr/local/lib/libz.so libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62 libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2 libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 libsocket.so.1 => /lib/libsocket.so.1 libxml2.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2 libiconv.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2 libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 libmp.so.2 => /lib/libmp.so.2 libmd.so.1 => /lib/libmd.so.1 libscf.so.1 => /lib/libscf.so.1 libpthread.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1 libuutil.so.1 => /lib/libuutil.so.1 Hmm that looks ok you see the libjpeg in there. Then I looked at my initial configuration of PHP. ./configure --prefix=/usr/php --with-apxs2=/usr/apache2/bin/apxs --with-openssl --with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql --with-gettext --enable-mbstring --with-gd --with-zlib-dir=/usr/include/zlib.h --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/ Thats where everything should be I think.... I do a couple of recompiles with some other options when I checked my test php. Under GD NO JPG Support enabled HUH? I have all of the packages. I compiled with it GD and JPEG. WTF! #pkginfo | grep jpeg application SMCjpeg jpeg GNOME2 SUNWjpg jpeg - The Independent JPEG Groups JPEG software GNOME2 SUNWjpg-devel jpeg - The Independent JPEG Groups JPEG software - development files GNOME2 SUNWjpg-devel-share jpeg - The Independent JPEG Groups JPEG software - development files - /usr/share Hmm everything looks ok. I checked out sunfreeware.com and the GD package says it needs this stuff. GD Graphics Library - An ANSI C library for the dynamic creation of images. GD creates PNG and JPEG images, among other formats - installs in /usr/local. The gd package requires the following library files - libXpm.so.4.11 from xpm, libfreetype.so.6 from freetype, libfontconfig.so.1 from fonctconfig, libgcc_s.so.1 from libgcc-3.3 or from gcc-3.3.2, libiconv.so.2 from libiconv, libpng12.so.0 from libpng, libz.so from zlib, libexpat.so.0 from expat, and libjpeg.so.62 from the jpeg package. Well I got all that stuff its in there (I wont bore you with the details). But then I realize/am informed that PHP is compiled with its own GD.... So I started re-compiling finally after a couple of make and make distclean's and with a little help from a friend I got it right. How about this: './configure' '--with-apxs2=/usr/apache2/bin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/apache2' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' YEP that did But what I didn't see was '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' as apposed to --with-zlib-dir=/usr/include/zlib.h --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/ Which was apparently the key to my GD compilation...