Feb 22 2010

Burger King Coffee

I just wanted to quickly note that Burger King coffee is horrible. It always tastes burnt. I don’t know if it’s the coffee maker, or if they’re still using that frozen concentrated coffee crap. But it sucks, I don’t understand how people put up with it.



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Feb 20 2010

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala – VNC resolution limited without monitor

Update 04/23/2010 – I’m not finding a solution to this issue. Sorry. I’ve lost interest.

I recently setup Ubuntu 9.10 on a desktop system, so I could use it as a file server. I’m was able to enable the remote desktop feature for it, which is basically a VNC server.

The issue is that once I disconnected a monitor from the computer and set it up next to my router (plugged directly in), and restarted it, VNC would only work with a maximum resolution of 640×480.

In a forum someone pointed out that this configuration added to /etc/X11/xorg.conf would save the day:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "VNC Device"
        Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "VNC Screen"
        Device "VNC Device"
        Monitor "VNC Monitor"
        SubSection "Display"
        Modes "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "VNC Monitor"
        HorizSync 30-70
        VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection

I just restarted after my ‘sudo service gdm restart’ command didn’t seem to work. I think this might have something to do with a special Nvidia driver I’m using. Hm…

And I thought this most recent article was giving me the holy grail.

Eh. I’m going to bed now. It’s 3:29 AM. I’ll slay this dragon later perhaps.



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Feb 10 2010

PHP Not Parsing on Debian / Ubuntu server with Apache2

My friend Marshall was recently having issues getting PHP5 installed and working on his Ubuntu server, which is a Debian based distribution.

We updated all the packages involved…Apache2, php5, libapache2-mod-php5, made sure the module was installed, restarted Apache2, etc. Nothing worked.

It turns out that the default php5.conf configuration for Debian / Ubuntu’s packages are using an incorrect syntax. Edit /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf to reflect:

<FilesMatch \.php$>
  SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

…instead of…

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Special thanks to this Apache wiki article for pointing this out:

http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DebianPHP

I’m just posting this solution here for all the other nerds having the same issue that aren’t finding this article in Google.

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