The Site With the Lamp: January 2006 Archives

Fixing the Wiki

January 19, 2006

The Wiki on this site has been broken for a long long time. The pages are being displayed but they are not editable. What use is a wiki that cannot be edited by readers? The root cause of the problem...

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xsl:sort select bug?

January 12, 2006

After pulling at hair for nearly two hours, i have reached the conclusion that there is a bug in the mozilla XSLT engine (and in the opera engine as well (Maybe they are both the same). The bottom line is...

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lense repairman

January 10, 2006

The lense that was broken has been remade. I took my Sigma 300mm which was broken at the mount point for repairs last week and today, went to pick it up. The lense/camera repairman is a real expert at the...

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Apache 2.2 and HTTP PUT

January 5, 2006

When installing and using Apache 2.2 ran into a two issues. The first had to do with installing php 5.1.1 that wasn't resolved but I switched to 4.4.1 the next had to do with a permission problem which was easily...

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New year starts with a broken lens

January 2, 2006

My new year starts off with a broken Sigma lens. This venerable old 300mm was attached all this time to an even older FM 10. The FM 10 was a present from my father during the time I was at...

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