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 .tbss mismatches? what on earth is that? Well I just tried to compile qmailanalog and ran into this error:
 
 

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Qmailanalog and .tbss mismatches

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 <a href="http://refocus-it.sourceforge.net/">RefocusIT</a> is a gimp plugin that allows you to make corrections to images effected by camera shake or focus errors. A Mac OS X specific download isn't avaialble so I tried compiling from the sources. That turns out to be a long and tedious process.
 
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 <pre>checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... nochecking for perl... /usr/bin/perlconfigure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool</pre>
 
 
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 The first complaint is about a missing XML::Parser module. In order to install that you have to first install expat and the best way to install expat is using Fink. Installating Fink is a breeze because a dmg is available. Then using the fink commander to installer expat isn't difficult either. From then on you have to return to the commad line something that OS X users hate to do. But I am not an OS X user.
 perl -MCPAN -e shell prompts you for a series of configuration options, I just used the defaults for all of then. Unfortunately that will made the system unusable because a mirror list was not made. To make matters worse, LWP , lynx and wget are all missing on my macbook. That makes it impossible for the CPAN installer to download files. Let's go back to fink and install wget
 There is more than one way skin a cat. I came up against this link which mentioned two of them: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061101085045782
 The painless way is to install the module using fink. Once you pass that hurdle, the next error is about pckconfig.
 
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 <pre>*** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is*** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable*** to the full path to pkg-config.*** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config.configure: error: Library requirements (gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.</pre>
 
 
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 that too can be installed with fink but don't think you are out of the woods yet.
 
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 <pre>checking for gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0... Package gimp-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gimp-2.0.pc'to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variableNo package 'gimp-2.0' foundconfigure: error: Library requirements (gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.</pre>
 
 
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 It's tough but the gimp-2.0.pc file is not present on my macbook even though gimp itself is installed. Gimp 2x is not available if you use fink.
 I manually created the .pc files and now, the error is:
 
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 <pre>checking for gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0... Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variablePackage 'glib-2.0', required by 'GIMP', not found</pre>
 
 
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 to overcome that you need to install, glib2 and glib2-devel, then you get another complaint.
 
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 <pre>checking for gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0... Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variablePackage 'gtk+-2.0', required by 'GIMP UI', not found</pre>
 
 
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 gtk2 and gtk2-devel have quite a few dependencies. On my macbook it resulted in a total of nine packages being installed. In spite of that the compilation continues to resut in errors.
 
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 <pre>checking for gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0... Package pangoxft was not found in the pkg-config search path.Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pangoxft.pc'to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variablePackage 'pangoxft', required by 'GDK', not found</pre>
 
 
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 The final complaint produced by the configure step is about missing atk. That too was installed. And now for make.
 
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 Fix that by adding #include to the main-gimp.c file, that of course leads to another error further download the line.
 
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 This is way too much trouble. For some reason the linker is not looking for the libraries in the /sw/lib path, even though the -L option as used in the Makefile clearly says that the linker should look for those libraries there. Now it's finally time to give up

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Gimp Iterative Refocus Plugin for OS X

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 The CRT on my desktop died. I am now working exclusively on my <a href="1098.html">macbook</a>, well not really. I am working on my old desktop using vnc.
 In fact the monitor itself didn't die but it's control panel did. Or hang on a sceond, it's a ghost! That's right. The monitor setting's dialog keeps popping up on it's own. It even changes some of it's settings on it's own. It will refuse to respond when you press any of the contorl panel keys.
 Have you read Christine by Stephen King?
 

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Dead Monitor.

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 Just started a new blog at <a href="http://photos.raditha.com/">photos.raditha.com</a>, the link says it all. it's for photos that I have shot at various times. Of course I am not a pro photographer, I am a geek. So I have the geek camera (D70s) and most of the photos that will appear on that site are photos taken with that camera.
 The blog is powered by <a href="https://wordpress.org">wordpress</a>, I started out with wordpress 2.07 but the very next day 2.10 was released. Upgrading a wordpress blog is redicolously easy. Others should learn from them.
 

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Photo Blog.

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 Getting more tired of OS X. It's man pages are unreadable. If you type 'man foobar' at the terminal you can't use the page up / page down keys to scroll through the man page. Terminal chooses to scroll itself instead!
 Three button mice
 The middle mouse button has been made obsolete by apple, sure you can use it to scroll, but the middle mouse button can be used for copy paste as well. It's ridiculous that the terminal on OS X allows middle button paste but other applications do not.
 Slow!
 The macbook is very fast when you start it up, it will run pretty past for a day or two but then there is a detoriation of performance, it sometimes takes more than a couple of seconds to switch between different applications. Now core 2 duo is supposed to really speed up this sort of thing, unfortunately that does not happen. The macbook behave very windows like. Compare that against my Desktop, which is fedora core 6. The amount of time that a linux computer has been running without a reboot has absolutely no effect on it's speed. Sadly the same cannot be said about Mac OS X.
 rt.jar
 rt.jar? where the hell is rt.jar? they call it classes.jar
 Expose.
 F8 is supposed to be the key for step over. and F7 is supposed to be the key for step into. Most IDEs obey that. Unfortunately F8 has been taken over by Expose and F7 by the 'fn' key.
 Fortunately, Expose keys can be changed.
 CD burning.
 After burning CDs and DVDs with OS X disk utility, I have come to appreciate k3b. Maybe there is a way to stop finder/disk utility from closing the cd/dvd but they forget to tell you about it.
 Printers, Scanners, Webcams.
 Most of them are unsupported on Mac OS X. Sure they are unsupported on Linux too, but I don't pay anything to use linux. I paid for OS X so I expect something better.
 

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More Mac Gripes.

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 Now that <a href="1097.html">my Macbook</a> is more than a month old and the novelty has worn of there are quite a few things which I find less than attractive.
 
 FileMerge.
 I used to hate kompare but now I really appreciate it after having to work with FileMerge. FileMerge just sucks.
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 There are some linux applications that you just can't live without, GIMP is one of them. Fortunately there is a port for OS X. Unfortunately X11 for OS X behaves differently from other X11 installations and X11 applications behave differently from aqua stuff. It's almost impossible to figure out when to use that half eaten apple button and when to use the control key.
 The fn key.
 Because notebooks have a smaller number of keys, they are equipped with an fn key. On most PC notebooks the fn key is off by default. On the macbook the fn key is on by default, and if there is a way to switch it off I haven't found it yet. Then again you cannot switch it off, because then the left,right, up and down keys would become, home, end, page up and page down.
 No vnc. 
 There doesn't appear to be a vnc viewer installed by default. Fortunatley there are plenty of free downloads.
 TextEdit.
 Just sucks. Fortunately I came across TextWrangler.
 Finder.
 Words fail me. Even explorer is better than this piece of junk.
 

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OS X - Jaded.

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 Whoah! it's been more than a month since I made my last blog post. That's way too long. What's the reason? the holidays and the backlog of work that followed. But that's nothing compared to the neglect on the rest of the site. The last new addition to the rest of the site was in August 2005.
 That was put right at the start of the year. I have been dabbling with Java Advanced Imaging a bit and that gave me an opportunity to write up a new guide that explains how a <a href="../../java/image.1">three color histogram can be plotted from image data using JAI classes</a>.
 That was followed up just a little while ago with a new addition, which again involves JAI. It's about implementing an <a href="../../java/image/undo.php">undo/redo system for image editors</a>.
 

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