Music, Cars, Computers

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She's a beauty. That's my awesome '92 Acura Vigor in the background. UPDATE: As of March 29, 2005, the Acura Vigor is no longer. The timing belt slipped and bungled up the engine. So much for the fun car, now I have reliability: 2005 Corolla!

The following is outdated, yet possibly still useful information.

Cars
Lately I've been having a lot of problems with my other car, the 1993 Taurus. It was accelerating very poorly, almost like a transmission failure. The difference was that when I would push the pedal to the metal, the car would slow down.

I've found a lot of help online and figured I could contribute. Two problems I recently fixed were the throttle position sensor (TPS) and the vehicle speed sensor (VSS). The throttle position sensor is located on top of the engine behind the distributor cap. It can be easily replaced and only costs about 20 bucks. However, the vehicle speed sensor location is very inaccessible. I had to climb on top of the engine and reach around the back next to hot and sharp metal. It costs about 25 bucks and I recommend having someone else do it. Interestingly enough, there is a retainer clip that keeps the cable to the speedometer in place. This clip has to be in place on the VSS before plugging in the cable.

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This alone did not solve the problem entirely, when I finally gave in and brought it to a garage, they replaced the Air Flow Meter, also called the Air Mass Meter. This solved the problem completely. Visit Neocarz.com for more information about cars.

Computers

Here is an opensource information tip to be indexed by Google, hopefully:

If you are wondering why MySQL is telling you: "Can't create database 'database_name' errno: 28", don't worry. Its not a big deal, you've just run out of disk space. Just delete some files and you should be all set.

If you've setup the Gentoo howto on a vmail system using postfix like I did and are getting log messages like this:

Mar 30 16:49:39 clark saslauthd[15988]: pam_mysql: error: sqllog set but logmsgcolumn not set
Mar 30 16:49:39 clark saslauthd[15988]: pam_mysql: error: sqllog set but logusercolumn not set
Mar 30 16:49:39 clark saslauthd[15988]: pam_mysql: error: sqllog set but loghostcolumn not set
Mar 30 16:49:39 clark saslauthd[15988]: pam_mysql: error: sqllog set but logtimecolumn not set

Check out the Neohapsis thread that I found with the info on how to fix the sqllog set but logmsgcolumn not set error, and add "sqllog=0" to your /etc/pam.d/smtp configuration, like this:

auth     optional       pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=mailsql user=mailsql \
  passwd=$password table=users usercolumn=email passwdcolumn=clear sqllog=0 crypt=0
account  required       pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=mailsql user=mailsql \
  passwd=$password table=users usercolumn=email passwdcolumn=clear sqllog=0 crypt=0

I like the ming swf library and PHP. Install it fresh out CVS with wise words from strk:

 You need to run ./autogen.sh from a CVS snapshot.
 Newest autotools usage is reduced to only require autoconf
 (no automake, no autoheader, no libtoolize).
 
 If it doesn"t work out-of-the-box let me know.
 
 out-of-the-box would be:
 
 # ./autogen.sh : for a fresh CVS checkout
 
 # make 
 # make install
 
 --strk;