twi.gs

What a headache. After a couple of hours of googleing, it looks like this is the way you should install PIL on OS X:

Download libjpeg: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
At the time of this writing the libjpeg homepage is down.

Next compile it:

tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess .
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
sudo make install
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a


Edit: If sudo make install fails, mkdir the directories that make is trying to install the files into. There are a couple of man directories and a bin directory.

Now download PIL: http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz

and compile it

tar xvzf Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
cd Imaging-1.1.6
sudo python setup.py install


Whew… what a mess.

So, I got an email last week from GoDaddy saying this:

Several months ago you received notice to update the contact information for your domain name(s). According to our records, you have not completed that update. It’s important that you do so immediately.

Under ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) rules and the terms of your registration agreement, PROVIDING FALSE CONTACT INFORMATION CAN BE GROUNDS FOR DOMAIN NAME CANCELLATION (to review the ICANN policy, visit: http://www.icann.org/whois/wdrp-registrant-faq.htm).

Well, I always get emails saying something like that so, I ignored it, in hindsight, probably much like I ignored the first one they sent me. This lead to a 2nd email from GoDaddy the following day:

The item(s) listed below have expired or are at risk of expiring:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Product Name Next Attempt Date
———— —————–
.GS Domain Name Renewal – 1 Year CANCELLED
TWI.GS

A tad perplexed about my domain expiring, I called GoDaddy up. The person on the phone explained to me that twi.gs (which had an expiration date of 04/24/2008) has expired, and GoDaddy doesn’t support the .gs TLD anymore so I can’t renew it online. He put me on hold for a couple of minutes came back, and said that they can renew it over the phone with me, so I went ahead and did that. From now on, I always have to renew twi.gs over the phone.

I reckon the ICANN wanted to steal it from me because I do have fake info in there (because domains by proxy doesn’t like gs either apparently), but GoDaddy doesn’t care. They just want their 40 bucks.

While I was thinking about it, I also renewed phonese.cx. This always puts me back 50AUD. Last year, 50AUD was 35USD. This year it went up… 50AUD = 45USD. *sigh* Stupid Dollar.

But in a related story, apparently buying things from the Christmas Islands sends up red flags at the credit card company because as I sat down to eat easter dinner, the credit card company called to ask me to verify my purchases up until that point. I told them that I did indeed buy $35 worth of groceries from Harmon’s. This appeased the man on the other end of the line and I went back to delicious potatoes.

P.S. I renewed sonmai.org too.

It’s starting to get warmer and I’m staring to think about buying some tires for my wheels. I’ll have to follow Kampf’s suggestion and czech the NASIOC forums to see if I can get any sweet deals.

Also, we decided to start up a waste cloud again. Using a program with no active development for at least a year (more for the windows client) resembles to work, but by no means well. wxWaste seems to be a good idea (read hack), but it didn’t compile on OS X. I added a single line to fix the problem. The git repository with the change is here.

I hope, after I finish phonese3, to start working on, at the very least, displaying all the options in the preferences window in wxWaste. Right now you just have to read one of the source files to find the options and edit Default.prX. It’s very annoying.