The Site With the Lamp: July 2007 Archives

The Bigma

July 25, 2007

For a long time, I have been looking to get hold of a Sigma 50-500 Telephoto lens. Finally after a long waiting period I got hold of one last Friday. I immediately went with it to Sigiriya. You can look...

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Blogshares and Friday the Thirteenth.

July 19, 2007

My statement the other day about the members of the Renegades Corporation at Blogshares probably isn't accurate. I mentioned that everyone except for one player resorted to PRDs (a big no no when it comes to fair play). I was...

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Thunderbird 2.

July 18, 2007

Having belatedly updated to Firefox 2 , it was time to update to Thundirbird 2 as well. Unfortunately there isn't an official RPM for Fredora 6 (I have put of updating to Fedora 7). So I had to uninstall the...

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Friday the Thirteenth at Blogshares.

July 15, 2007

Friday the Thirteen turned out to be a real nightmare for members of the Untouchables corporation on Blogshares. There was a massively co-ordinated attack on the corporations assets organized by Renegade Players Inc. The Untouchables were severly handicapped because...

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Firefox update.

July 14, 2007

I belatedly updated to Firefox 2.0.0.4 and lost all my saved passwords without a pause. The password file (signon2.txt (curious; it should be signon.txt)), the key3.db file and the cert8.db file were all there but the password were not being...

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The Bigma.

July 11, 2007

My sister has good news for me. She has managed to get hold of a Sigma 50-500 mm lens my Nikon inspite of the shortage. It's back ordered at many camera shops and wasn't available anywhere in New York. She...

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Old Bigma Vs New Bigma.

July 10, 2007

So what's the difference between the new Bigma (or rather the current Sigma 50-500 mm lens) and the old? No one seems to know for sure. The guy at Phototechnica did tell me that the new one focuses better. He...

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The Bigma.

July 5, 2007

The only thing that I asked my sister to get for me from the US is a Bigma. Unfortunately the Bigma , or to use it's proper name the Sigma 50-500 mm telephoto lens seems to be out of stock...

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Fedora 7 anyone?

July 3, 2007

Fedora 7 is here. Are you ready for it? I am not! why not? my old desktop needs replacing. The casing has seen quite a few hard drive changes, a couple of mother board stews and one toasted CPU. if...

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