[warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

I followed a tutorial on howto setup name based virtual hosts and this is where the problem started. The ‘NameVirtualHosts *:80′ directive may already be getting picked up in /etc/apache2/ports.conf so you don’t need to add it. Getting the <virtualhost *:80></virtualhost> right is enough in your sites-available, that should be all you have to do. Too many NameVirtualHosts directives is what was causing this error for me.

Notable features of Windows 7 are support for virtual machines and full system image backups. Add-ons I am also currently getting use of is the new Microsoft Security Essentials And Windows Live Movie Maker and Live Writer. Actually I am writing this wordpress article on Windows Live Writer.

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It means the fix will remain even if Drupal needs updated.

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The code is standard pear-twitter stuff, the cleverness is converting the twitter text url string to a real url.

    <?php
    // include class
    require_once(‘Services/Twitter.php’);
   
    try {
      // initialize service object
      $service = new Services_Twitter(‘user’, ‘password’);
     
      // get status updates posted by logged-in user and friends
      $response = $service->statuses->friends_timeline(); 
      if (count($response->status) > 0) {
        echo ‘<h2>Recent status updates</h2>’;
        foreach ($response->status as $status) {
            echo ‘<div><img src=”‘ . $status->user->profile_image_url . ‘” />’;
            $a=preg_replace(“/(http:\/\/|www|[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.|[a-zA-Z0-9\.-]+@)(([a-zA-Z0-9-][a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9-\.\/\_\?\%\#\&\=\;\~\!\(\)]+)/”,”<a
href=\”\\1\\2\”>\\1\\2</a>”,$status->text);

   echo $a . ‘<br/>’;
            echo ‘By: <em>’ . $status->user->screen_name . ‘</em> on ‘ . $status->created_at . ‘</div>’;
        }
      }
     
      // get recent posts on public timeline
    //  $response = $service->statuses->public_timeline(); 
    //  if (count($response->status) > 0) {
    //    echo ‘<h2>Recent public timeline updates</h2>’;
    //    foreach ($response->status as $status) {           
    //        echo ‘<div><img src=”‘ . $status->user->profile_image_url . ‘” />’;
    //        echo $status->text . ‘<br/>’;
    //        echo ‘By: <em>’ . $status->user->screen_name . ‘</em> on ‘ . $status->created_at . ‘</div>’;
    //    }
    //  }
           
      // perform logout
      $service->account->end_session();
    } catch (Exception $e) {
      die(‘ERROR: ‘ . $e->getMessage());
    }
    ?>

I guess they are trying to hook people in after the disaster that was Vista. Vista was to XP what Windows ME was to Windows 98, one step forward and four steps back!

I am enjoying Windows 7 RC however! All my hardware is running as should be and the system seems very snappy. I was worried that some of my older (but much loved software) would cause some problems but it hasn’t been the case. Dreamweaver 8 and Photoshop 7 are running well which is a big bonus. I guess we are all suckers for a shiny interface as well and Windows 7 has one, I like the transparent window look.

So if you are thinking of having a go backup your documents and have a go. It’s only free for a year but a year is a long time in tech, we mightn’t even have desktop computers in June 2010!

the quick version

• Setup a web server on one of your home computers
• Use Juice to keep your podcasts up to date (I’m not an iTunes fan)
• Make your music library accessible to the web server
• Configure your Blackberry browser to use wifi
  (I have two browsers, Opera and the Blackberry browser. I have one configured for wifi and the other as part of my data plan)
• Browse and play/download music and podcasts from your intranet server using it’s ip address from your wifi browser

the not so quick version

I have an old pc running Windows Server 2003 sharing my podcasts and music. I know not many people have a copy of windows server running at home but the following steps could be carried out on any operating system able to run the IIS or Apache web servers. If you aren’t familiar with running a web server your windows pc may already support IIS, if not Xampp is a good starting point. This is a good article for Ubuntu users on setting up a web server.

Once you have setup your webserver and have made sure your music library is visible through your new intranet site you can either simply enable directory browsing of your music folder or use some asp or php code to create a prettier interface. Currently IIS 6 doesn’t allow you to apply style to directory browsing. I use some asp code from ASP101 to style and allow recursive directory browsing of my music library.

Make sure you are in wifi mode on your Blackberry and browse to the ip address of your intranet server hosting your podcasts and music. Simply click on a link to one of your mp3 files and you will be prompted to open it or save it. If you open the file the Blackberry media player will start playing it. I tend to save podcasts as you have more control over fast forward etc.

And that’s it, one less wire to hookup and freedom to roam around your home listening to your podcasts!

The window’s virus did of course wipe my master boot record during install but it was quite a simple process to restore my existing grub boot manager. Windows 7 will add XP to it’s boot mananger but not Ubuntu (hardly surprising). So at the moment I have grub booting XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu and some other stuff.

I had hoped to setup grub to boot straight into Windows 7. It seems the Windows 7 boot loader has planted itself on my XP partition (the system’s first partition). This means I can’t boot directly into the Windows 7 partition which is something I will have to fix. If I had thought about it this should have seemed obvious as multi-booting details are held in the Window’s boot loader files…I guess any master boot record points to a bootable partition and uses it boot loader. 

In conclusion, I won’t be rushing out to buy Windows 7 Ultimate. It seemed to perform well on my system, much better than my experience with Vista, but will it be worth the likely £200 price tag? If it cost £80 I would probably buy it, that seems like a fair price to me. It won’t though, so I will be sticking with XP.

I had no joy following the instructions on the bb forums however all came good when I followed the forum instructions AND updated my bb directly from the BB website. Somehow this made the difference and now I can see all 8Gb!

This is when I discovered the ML110 G5 has a non standard pci slot which you just aren’t going to find a pci soundcard for…it does have several pci-e slots but soundcards to fit these will be expensive.

I have gone for an external usb soundcard solution, which I am still waiting on delivery. I got a good deal on a Trust 5.1 External Surround Sound Card SC-5500p from Dabs for £15. When I get it I’ll put up a post on how smoothly it runs on Ubuntu 8.10.