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Entries from April 2007

VPN Client for Vista using Parallels

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

A recent client needed me to run some Windows-only software from their network.

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Tags: Tips · Macintosh · Downloads

Lighttpd 1.5 prerelease doesn’t like Django

April 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Whew. I spent quite a bit more time debugging this problem than it really should have taken. Django just wasn’t playing nice with the latest Lighttpd pre-release.
Long story short
Don’t use the prerelease, use the most recent 1.4.x stable. Save yourself hours of cursing and trace-debugging.
Analysis
Lighttpd had the following problems:

No request PATH_INFO. […]

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Tags: Django · Open Source · Python