This is a javascript calculator that will estimate if taking a bus will cost less than what you pay in gasoline. Surprisingly, for short commutes, commuting by car is cheaper than getting a bus pass. (Calculator is on the full article.)

This is just a note to be found by search engines.

I had a weird problem with a configuration of phpmyadmin on top of lighttpd on top of Gentoo Linux.

The symptom was that phpmyadmin said "cookies must be enabled". Cookies were enabled in my browser.

A test of the setcookie() function in PHP (and the header() function as well) seemed to indicate that no header lines were being sent.

Turns out that this is related to the versions of PHP being installed.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml

My problem was that I wasn't compiling the CGI version of PHP. I probably had the CLI version installed.

To force the CGI version, add 'cgi' to your USE. (This is in /etc/make.config.)

Rebuild it (emerge php) and wait.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/179196/Historical-statistics-support-a-hypothesis-linking-tuberculosis-and-air-pollution-caused-by-coal

OMFG. This is wrong. It seemed the "in" thing for audio geeks, circa 2001, was to start using XLR connectors to wire together their stereos... to get balanced signals. Or "balanced", because those heavy duty cords and connectors are supposed to deliver mono audio signals.

Welcome to the new site. It's just a meta-blog, where you can sign up and get your own blog. Blog entries get manually promoted to the front page by the moderator(s). (To sign up, click on the register link, above.)

The site uses the Drupal content management software.

The theme of the site is pretty much the same it's been for the past several years: tech tips, links to left/liberal political articles, some art, and random info.

I hope to add a few plug-ins to allow for easier file uploads, anonymous posts, and a calendar. Also, I will try to copy selected articles from the old archives into this system. So far, I'm impressed with Drupal, and think it's worth it to copy stuff over.

This site has been managed by different CMSs: Frontier, miscellaneous Perl scripts, PHP scripts, a hacked up WikiWiki, and now, Drupal. So far, Drupal's been the most impressive, and the first to inspire me to repurpose old content into new formats.