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July 04, 2006

Captchas

Are they reasonably legible? Anyone here who's colourblind?









Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:32 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

July 03, 2006

Same CPanel Problems

Not to pick a nit, but I've not managed to get around the CPanel error I've been having. Even after trying something that Mr. Miyagi might recommend (log out, log in) I'm still getting the problem in the file manager, which prevents me from uploading anything. After logging into CPanel and clicking on File Manager, I get this instead of a directory listing:

[a fatal error or timeout occurred while processing this directive]

It's also not remembering prior logins and the contact e-mail address. All of this is, of course, quite over my head, so any help is appreciated.

Posted by: Country Pundit at 04:50 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

That Was Quick

We're getting spammed through the Minx comments. It has only a trivial spam-prevention mechanism right now, and it looks like they've gotten around it.

Time to take it to level two, I guess. Before we go live, or anything like that...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:55 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

July 02, 2006

entrys on the blitz

When I bring up the Munuviana blog, i'm not seeing any entries after june 30th Anything I should know about?

Posted by: GM Roper at 06:37 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

June 30, 2006

Awstats Round 2

Well Awstats seemed to work for me yesterday afternoon for a short while, but is back down again. I keep getting this screen shot:

Error: Couldn't open config file "awstats.everydaystranger.mu.nu.conf" nor "awstats.conf" after searching in path ".,/home/helen/tmp/awstats/,/etc/opt/awstats,/etc/awstats,/etc,/usr/local/etc/awstats": No such file or directory

- Did you use the correct URL ?
Example: http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl?config=mysite
Example: http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=mysite
- Did you create your config file 'awstats.everydaystranger.mu.nu.conf' ?
If not, you can run "./../../tools/awstats_configure.pl" from command line, or create it manually.

Check config file, permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' directory).


Have I done broke it, or is Awstats done broke regardless of me?

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 03:43 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

June 29, 2006

OK seriously, I can't post on Jawa

Well, I can post. It's just that it never shows up on the blog. I get the message indicating that changes have been saved, and I looked to make sure the post status was "publish." The list of recent entries includes my post.

But it never actually shows up on the Jawa Report.

Do I need to take a pill, and if so which color?

Posted by: Demosophist at 09:03 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

JAWA!

Rusty is back in business!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:48 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Bleh

I've turned the blacklist back on. We were getting overrun.

The next person to break it will be shot.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:44 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Fighting the filthy spammers one blog at a time

As SR Noted in the post below there's a thingy (highly technical computer term) that can be added to your Templates to help fight spam.

Add the following line:

<MTCloseComments old="7" inactive="3">

Just before the </MTEntryIfCommentsOpen> line will close any posts that are seven days old and have been inactive for more than three days. For more information see this post.

Posted by: phin at 03:15 AM | Comments (29) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Spam Removal Not There

Pixy - I'm getting spammed to shit and the tagline that usually appears that allows us to remove spam comments is not on any of them.

Any suggestions????

Posted by: Old Cloots at 03:02 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

June 28, 2006

Alright Then

MT Blacklist was screwed up yet again.

I've turned it off.

That means you will get more spam. Possibly lots more spam. But only for a couple of days. Then the new comments system will be in, and it will go back and zap the old spam for you automatically.

Sorry about this, but if people won't pay attention when they're using Blacklist it just screws things up for everyone.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:16 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Posting problems

Wow, I just seem to be running through the problems lately. Today I tried to publish a post and got this message when it tried to rebuild:

Writing to '/home/oorgo/www/archives/183794.php.new' failed: Opening local file '/home/oorgo/www/archives/183794.php.new' failed: Permission denied

Posted by: Oorgo at 04:33 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

CPanel

Is it only me, or is Awstats broken?

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 10:03 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Feature Set Makes Pixy's Head Hurt

Minx June Update

Okay, brief rundown on the state of play for Minx:

It's up and running here.

You can make it work for your blog (or any munu blog) just by changing the blog= number. You can find your blog number by looking at the address bar when you're logged into Movable Type; it should say something like: http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&blog_id=14

For example, here's Ace of Spades in Minx. Note that for anything other than Munuviana, Minx is running off the default template set, which isn't as pretty or as well-tested. I'll be pushing some of the Munuviana template features back into the default set over the next few days.

You can view your blog as a forum - though that's only set up for Munuviana right now. All that is, is a different page template; the form= option selects the alternate template.

The Minx user interface is also entirely template-driven. If you don't like it, you can overrride everything.

Minx recognises Movable Type users, MT login cookies, and MT comment cookies. Well, there might be a glitch with the MT comment cookies, but that will get sorted out, and they mostly work.

Posts and comments entered in MT show up immediately in Minx. Comments entered in Minx don't show up until something triggers a rebuild in MT. I have a database table set up to record Minx activity so that MT will know when to rebuild, but it's not live yet.

Comments in Minx have very simple spam protection, and don't use MT Blacklist at all. I'll be applying the same sort of automatic statistical filtering as I have with Snark, which nailed something like 99.5% of spam with almost no false positives before it died during the DOS attack. What will happen is that comments will be accepted with just a simple IP/name filter, and then the statistical filter will come along once a minute and zap anything that turns out to have been spam.

We'll also have registration for commenters - this is nearly ready now. If you already have a munu Movable Type login, that will work for comments as well. If you're registered, you'll be able to edit your comments - though I may set a time limit on this to prevent abuse. You'll still be able to edit comments left on your blog, of course. Posts and comments that belong to you, on your blog or elsewhere on munu, will have a little edit link next to them. Click on the link, edit away, and you're done!

Format Format Format!

You can still enter HTML by hand if you want to, or the good old mix of HTML and blank lines. Minx handles that just fine.

You also have a fancy-pants WYSIWYG editor, though it needs to be smacked around the head until it stops using bloody <span> tags. The editor works in Firefox/Mozilla (except that it uses span tags), Internet Explorer, and Opera 9. Under Safari, Konqueror, older versions of Opera, and other browsers, you'll get the standard text box.

I'm also adding three (maybe more, but at least three) markup languages: BBCode, WikiText, and Textile. BBCode is up first, and will probably be in place today (though not complete). All of these do automatic filtering of your tags to make sure that the resulting HTML is valid. If you forget a closing tag in BBCode, for example, it will automatically fix it for you.

BBCode will also be supported for comments.

BBCode in posts can also be used to process simple template tags into the body of the post. I don't know exactly why you'd want to do that, but you can. You can do that with macros too (remember macros?) And you can mix HTML and BBCode (and macros), and you can use BBCode (and macros) in the WYSIWYG editor, though they won't be very WYSIWYG then.

Oops, gotta run, back later.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:09 AM | Comments (18) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Results Of A's J Customer Satisfaction Survey

In case anyone's interested about how the recent DOS attacks and spam attacks have affected one representative blog, I conducted an informal non-scientific survey over the weekend.

You can see the results here.

This is not intended as a criticism, I was just curious about how blog visitors perceived the various problems er challenges we've been hit with recently.

Posted by: annika at 01:14 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

June 27, 2006

A Lack of CPanel Cooperation

Eek! I'm trying to get into CPanel to use the file manager---a couple of shots to upload---and it seems a bit wonky. In detail:

1. It doesn't think I've set an e-mail address. OK, fine. Do that, and it still thinks I haven't set it.
2. Last login: Never? Nuh uh.
3. When I try to use the File Manager, it gives me this in a new browser window:

Unable to change directory to /kei/home/cpundit/.trash! You do not seem to have access permissions! (System Error: Permission denied)

All I can figure out is that something not-on-my-end isn't happy, and I can't figure out how to fix it, or the continuing problem I'm having with intra-Mu trackbacks to TexasBestGrok. Clicking on the TB link for JohnL's poll gives me this in the new window:
An error occurred: Fruitcake error: Unknown database 'mt_db'

The original tab changes to that as well.

Posted by: Country Pundit at 05:52 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Spammed!

I have been drowning in spam (not the only one, based on other posts here).

They all have this form:


IP Address: 193.188.77.2

Name:

Email Address: ykqkp51pac6h0@see.it

URL:



Comments:



<h1>allocating:salivate business grownup!disillusioned,contraption rail </h1>

Different IPs, gibberish email, and a random assortment of words that don't mean anything.

In fact, I can't understand the purpose of these comments at all. They don't seem to sell anything.

Anyhoo, I just got back from lunch, and well over 100 of these guys have attached themselves to old posts.

Any suggestsions? I'd like to know if there is a plug-in that can be added to MT that either automatically or manually (but easily) disables commenting on posts more than, say, two weeks old. That would certainly limit the spam dramatically.

Posted by: Steve Janke at 05:24 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Good News Everyone!

The Jawaserver has arrived (it's called Namo, in case anyone's interested), and I'm setting it up now.

It's kind of slow - it's a 1.7GHz P4 Celeron, and it runs at about half the speed of the 2.8GHz Pentium D's that power Kei and Yuri. And it's a single core, so Kei and Yuri (which are dual-core) are effectively four times as fast.

But it only has to host one blog, so it should be able to cope.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:25 AM | Comments (35) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

June 26, 2006

Many Many Thanks To David

Many thanks to David of Rishon Rishon, who gave up his precious time to help me out of my fix. As you can see, the blog is back looking the way it should.

I really appreciate this David...Thank you so very much...

Posted by: Rachel Ann at 01:59 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Fruitcake Error

Yeah, I'm a bit of a fruitcake but I don't think it was an error. I think my position in life is to amuse people with my idiocy. Only I kind of want to wipe the egg off my face and David B. has kindly offered to clean up my site.

But I can't get into my site except through performancing (thank you whoever suggested it) because I keep getting a FRUITCAKE error.

Damned blankety blanks who so mess with the system. Jawa you are doing something so right for them to bash you and everyone else like that. Keep it up.

Anyway. Help again, please...and sorry for so much problem causing.

Posted by: Rachel Ann at 06:29 AM | Comments (68) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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