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May 24, 2006

New TB Spam

New trackback spam: I have been hit with about a dozen TB's that all look similar to this one http://7949.u2mme6.info/ the http followed by four numbers then a dot

Can the filters be modified to include this type of spam?

Posted by: GM Roper at 01:16 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 22, 2006

3-column help requested

Argh. I've read the MuNu posts about building a 3-column blog. I've gone here, here, here, here, and here, among others. And I'm still at a loss. Visitors to my site(both of you- thanks) have probably noticed some bizzare structures as I attempt to work my way through this, which provides some entertainment in its own right. Still, I'd like to actually figure this out. Anyone think that they've got an answer? For the record, I'm trying to avoid the table driven concept to prevent me from having to redo this effort in the future. A pure CSS solution would be helpful. I do not care if it's center-floating, or 3- column floating. Fixed width would probably be a poor choice, though.

THanks in advance. I'm gonna fix my blog back to a functional 2-column setup for the nonce.

Posted by: Physics Geek at 05:09 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Test Test

Poke poke...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:04 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 21, 2006

Comment Spam Filter Wonky

Pixy...
Just got some e-mail from Steven DenBeste. He's been trying to comment over at The Pond, and the filter has been killing his comments toot sweet.

He's tried many things, as this e-mail mentions:
"It objected to "Wou", "Woo", and "Doe" when I tried to use the words
"would", "wood", and "does" as the first words of comments I tried to post.
I think it probably would object to everything in those positions."

He also tried such things as "gronk", "A", "Aaa", "Testing", and the pernicious word "Hello."

Help?

Posted by: Wonderduck at 07:56 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Pinging Weblogs.com

What would you have to set up in order for it to work on your weblog?

Posted by: Matthew at 07:17 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

And then you could move the hotel a little to the left...

Darling Pixy,

I would email you, but you know I can never remember whether you are a dot-com or a dot-net.

Anyway... despite the fact that I have my Time Zone correctly set to Eastern (UTC-5) time, my posts are publishing with the Central Time Zone times. This is really only a minor annoyance, unless I some day need an alibi.

If you can find a minute between slaying spammers and trying to have a real life, could you look into this? There's no hurry.

Love,

Susie

Posted by: Susie at 01:06 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 20, 2006

My blog seems to be gone..

Everytime go to my url it sends me back to the main mu.nu site.

Posted by: Matthew at 08:31 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

After a frustrating hour or so...

My blog is finally up and running.

The instructions were rather scary at first, but importing turned into a cinch after calming down a bit.

I will say it does look neater in the template already provided than it does on blogger -- the font is even bigger right now.

I think I'll enjoy being here.

Posted by: Matthew at 07:32 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 17, 2006

Shutting down the dot com site

I'll be terminating the http://gmroper.com site with the current provider this weekend, I would like to have anyone that clicks on someone elses link to the dot com site point to the mu.nu site. What do I use for NS1 and NS2 (did I even get that part right?)

I own the registration... should I contact another registrar and just have them take over the registration of http://gmroper.com and point it to mu.nu?

Anxiously awaiting an answer... I am

Yr most obediant servant....

GM

Posted by: GM Roper at 03:37 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 12, 2006

Web Browsers

Does anyone know of an HTML 'trick' that I can use to get my blog to look normal when using Internet Explorer 6? When my blog is viewed in IE6, everything is centered.

It looks great using Firefox, but not everyone uses it.

Posted by: Mad Mikey at 02:57 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Send Your Prayers

To Munuvian Demosophist, who lost his brother-in-law.

Posted by: Vinnie at 01:16 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Sorry About That

Yuri fell over yet again.

This time I do have a record of what was happening at the time, and the answer is, a hell of a lot. The server was out of swap space, and processing several hundred simultaneous requests.

That could be an attack, or a hardware problem, or a software failure. I can, however, eliminate certain kinds of attacks, hardware problems, and software failures, so it's a step forward.

I can move everyone over to Kei, and I might do so this weekend if I don't make any progress on fixing the problem. Kei by herself is more powerful than the previous munuserver, so it should cope okay.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:10 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 11, 2006

Rebel Without A Clue

Some ijit on SBC DSL downloaded 187,971 copies of Ace's home page in ten days.

That's 30 gigabytes of bandwidth.

Not sure why. He (I'm sure it's a he) may have been trying to find an open mail relay he could spam people with. Well, we don't got one of those. Sorry.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:44 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 09, 2006

Splattages

Sorry about the recent outages. Yuri (one of the two main munu servers, and the one that runs most of the blogs) has locked up twice for no obvious reason.

As to unobvious reasons, I'm looking into several possibilities, but the two main suspects are an intermittent hardware fault and and some sort of DoS attack. Or, possibly, there's something misconfigured in the software that I need to find and fix.

The problem I have right now is that the system log files aren't showing me anything definite. I've added new logging routines that are taking snapshots of the server state at ten-second intervals. That chews up some CPU and disk space, but it's a lot better than scratching my head and rebooting the server twice a week.

I'll post more as soon as I know something.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:01 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 08, 2006

I've Got No Clue, I Guess

I'm attempting to set up my blog, but can't even get it to display the name or the theme. I captured the html of Munuviana to see if I could apply that to my "Main Index," but nothing I do to it seems to make a difference. I was going to post the actual code that I've modified from some generic setup but don't know how to preserve the text from being interpreted. I imagine that I can specify anything that's in the form <$somethingorother$>, but it's not clear to me exactly what I ought to do. What, for instance, do I place in <$MTBlogDescription$>? Just some description of my blog? I tried replacing the text inside and rebuilding, but it didn't actually do anything. No change on the blog. Is there a tutorial somewhere about exactly how to configure things? What's with all this generic <$YouCanPutAnythingYouLikeInHere$> nonsense? Can I just replace all of that with anything that's relevant to my blog? Oh yeah, my blog is Demosophia. No header yet, because I haven't a clue how to configure it.

I'd post the html, but don't know how to do it while preserving the text.

Posted by: Demosophist at 04:02 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 05, 2006

What is it that...

...makes my blog stretch to the sides, and this cat's blog to be contained in a box?

It's like, weird science even.

Posted by: Kyer at 03:49 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 04, 2006

New Year's Resolution

I have a web design/resolution question.

I am working on a personal project and I want to be sure that everyone gets to see everything as nicely as I do. Basically I want to make sure the banner on what is basically a weblog doesn't get cut off.

It looks really good on my 17" PowerBook at 1440x900. On my G4 Cube it's fine on the 15" display at 1024x768. If I set the resolution to 800x600 part of the banner is cut off.

Do I need to worry about that low a resolution? I expect that most of the people viewing the site will be on Macs and most Mac monitors are probably at 1024x768.

Is 800x600 common to the PC world? I could check it on my wife's Compaq laptop but I have to wait until my son gets tired of Cartoon Network games. I figured it would be faster asking here!

P.S. Any feedback on the site (particularly typos and other stupid errors) would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: Aside from a few missing images, the site is basically complete.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 08:24 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 03, 2006

Technical question not at all related to blogging

I'm trying to install the latest version of PHP onto a clean machine to run with Apache and MySQL. I've done it before (successfully) with a previous version, on another machine, but this time I'm running into problems. Googling shows that I'm not alone in the trouble.

That's background, now, a simple question:

On Apache, would PHP be listed as a service? MySQL is, so is Apache itself, but PHP isn't on the list (that I can determine).

Thanks,
(starting to cast about for arcane reasons...)

Posted by: Ted at 10:56 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

cPanel wacky

Whenever I login to a cPanel (I've tried three different MuNu blogs), a weird line appears in the upper left-hand corner like so:

Ignoring bad line in /var/cpanel/cpanel.config: ""

It's not aesthetically bothersome, but it won't allow the File Manager app to load properly. Help?

Posted by: Sadie at 07:18 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 30, 2006

old entries

Hi guys. Another question: Does MuNu automatically shut down the ability to make comments on posts older than a certain period of time? Some readers e-mailed us and informed us that when they tried to leave a comment on an some older posts, they got a "Comments are not allowed for this entry" notice. I tested it out myself and it's true.

And no, we have not shut down comments on older posts ourselves.

Posted by: Rhodey at 02:09 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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