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April 29, 2006
IE sign-on hassles?
Is anyone else having difficulty getting to the "new entry" screen using Internet Explorer? I and others who blog at my site have been constantly redirected back to the sign-on screen once they [successfully] sign in and then click "new entry."
However, using Netscape did not present any problems! Weird.
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April 25, 2006
Is it worth it to...
...ban the IPs of spammers?
I rarely ever get comment/TB spam (guess I'm not that popular... *sniff*) but I got hit with a half a dozen comments from some seemingly normal sounding names where the links send you to arubadev.com or altposters1.com or something like that...
I just copied and pasted the IP addys and banned them... is this practice even worth it?
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It's probably not worth it, Kyer. Pixy has a really good spam-trackback-IP-eating critter named Snark that automatically kills trackback spammers' IP's much more effectively than we ever could manually.
Most comment spammers are using rotating proxies and have literally thousands of IP addresses available, so you're badly outgunned on that front. (And definitely don't add IP addresses to the Blacklist as they are totally useless there and should not be added.)
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 26, 2006 02:42 AM
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Yep. It's very effective for trackbacks, where we can get hundreds of thousands of trackbacks from a single server, but not worthwhile at all for comments (from what I've seen). And as Paul said, for trackbacks it's taken care of automatically, so you don't need to do anything.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 26, 2006 06:06 AM
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I just banned every IP logged for trackback spam from submitting comments, so we'll see if that helps at all.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 26, 2006 06:13 AM
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BANDWIDTH LIMIT?
When I try to access my site (Bad Example), I get a 509 error - Bandwidth exceeded.
"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later."
There's a bandwidth limitation?
Even stranger, my traffic hasn't been abnormal, so I *really* don't understand this.
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There is a bandwidth limit, Harv, it's a requirement of cPanel. You can actually see your allotment on your main cPanel page, and can also monitor how much of it is being used.
Pixy sets a fairly arbitrary amount, but on the chance that you go over, as in this case, he can allot more. I'm sure he'll pop in here soon to let you know he's "topped you up".
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 25, 2006 04:58 AM
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Hi Harvey! Topped up is what you are.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 25, 2006 01:16 PM
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April 24, 2006
Zog? What do we have here?
There is this film from 1989 that I can't find a copy of as it is no longer in production. Yea yea, you can get South Korean "dvd imports" on E-Bay but that's another bag of gummy worms there.
Anyhow, someone had a torrent file of the movie but I have no clue what any of these files mean and how to uh... turn on.. the ... movie?
Below the fold is a screen shot of what the files are. I am not familiar with any of these file extensions. Does anyone else know how to um.. push "Play"?
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Kyer, these are DVD video files, so you'll need DVD player software installed - like PowerDVD or WinDVD for example.
It looks like you have such software installed, judging by the icons displayed. To get the file to play, you can either start the player software, then point it to the folder that contains the files, or you can right click on the Video_TS file and tell it to Open With your DVD player software. (You might even find there's a Play command available when you right click.)
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 24, 2006 10:06 PM
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April 23, 2006
Trackback Spam/Porn
Is their any way other than catching in on "the Five Most Recent" pings to catch and eliminate trackback spam and/or porn?
When one of these TB's go to an older post, how can we figure out which post to be able to go and eliminate it?
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FWIW, I find that an effective way to eliminate trackback spam is not to show trackbacks on the older posts or inline with comments. In other words, TBs only show on the front page. Then they can spam older entries to their little hearts' content, but no one will see it. They learn.
Posted by: Jennifer @ at April 23, 2006 10:36 PM
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when the TB gets emailed to you it should have the post title somewhere in that notification. You can then go into MT and search your blog for that title. When the edit post screen comes up, you can delete the spam TB or comment and then resave the post and it's gone.
Posted by: caltechgirl @ at April 24, 2006 06:32 PM
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April 21, 2006
Blacklist follies
Umm, people, can we please not add normal words to the blacklist?
Evidently "cam" is not allowed anymore, which kind of negates words like "camera" and "Rancho Cucamonga" and "campaign"
Thanks!
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And the winner is....... Harvey!!!
Okay folks: If someone goofs and blacklists a normal word, you can not only fix it yourself, you can find out who the goof was! Just go to http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/mt-blacklist.cgi (you'll need to be logged in to Movable Type first), and search for the word in question. If you click on info, it will show you who dunnit. Click on remove to remove it.
Warning: The page is huge, and takes quite some time to load. You might want to open the Info in a new window so that you don't have to wait for it to reload afterwards.
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Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 21, 2006 11:45 PM
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Well gee, everyone knows that Harvey hates Cameron Diaz...
Posted by: Ogre @ at April 22, 2006 07:38 PM
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DNS Setup
My domain (rishon-rishon.com) suddenly stopped working. I checked the DNS in its registration, and for some reason it was
mica.mu.nu
ns.liquidweb.com
I don't know why - I set it up over 2 years ago and haven't touched it since. In any case, I changed it to
ns.mu.nu
ns2.mu.nu
and it's now been 24 hours and it's still not working. Is this right? Is there something that I have to do at the mu.nu end? Anyone know what's going on/how I can fix it?
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That's exactly right, and I just tried it and it's working for me.
A very useful utility is the Squishywishywoo DNS checker at squish.net. It reports that rishon-rishon.com is set up just fine. It should certainly be working after 24 hours, and it's working for me, and it's set up correctly, so I'm a bit confuzzled.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 21, 2006 11:34 PM
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Thanks, Pixy. It is working fine for me now. Guess it just took some time. But where did those old DNS values come from?
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at April 22, 2006 05:06 PM
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Could this be a problem? Here are the results I got at the Squish link:
Results
16.7% of queries will end in failure at 69.72.215.218 (ns1.mu.nu) - failed to resolve ns.mu.nu due to 69.72.215.218 - query timed out
16.7% of queries will end in failure at 69.72.215.226 (ns2.mu.nu) - failed to resolve ns.mu.nu due to 69.72.215.226 - query timed out
50.0% of queries will end in failure at 69.72.215.226 (ns2.mu.nu) - query timed out
16.7% of queries will be returned by 69.72.215.218 (ns.mu.nu)
rishon-rishon.com. 14400 IN A 69.72.215.227
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at April 22, 2006 05:11 PM
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I'd run into this problem a while back. It seems some ISP's Domain Name Servers don't see / recognize / point to the right place for the mu.nu domain.
I ended up using the DNS Server from a secondary ISP at work to access mu.nu sites.
There's an ISP in the northern US that was having problems for a while, but I haven't heard anything about it lately.
Posted by: phin @ at April 25, 2006 01:01 PM
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Closing dot com
In a week or 10 days, I'll be closing gmroper.com at my old host http://livingdot.com but I paid them for establishing the dot com name. So, I think that means I own gmroper.com right? at any rate, what I would like to do is make it so that if any body clicks on a http://gmroper.com link it will point to http://gmroper.mu.nu OR perhaps, keep it so that http://gmroper.com is active on this mu.nu server. What can I do to make this happen?
Thanks by the way to Pixie, PaulT and Phin for all the help with getting me moved. You guys are absolutely the greatest.
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Yup, the name belongs to you. Living Dot is simply the registrar.
You can email the people at living dot and ask them to point the name to your new address.
Hey, RWD knew the answer to a computer question! I believe that is one of the signs of the End Times.
Posted by: RightWingDuck @ at April 21, 2006 03:17 PM
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I said Phil, I meant PaulT, PLEASE forgive me Paul... would you believe brain burp?
Posted by: GM Rope @ at April 22, 2006 03:10 AM
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GM,
If the domain expires this year you may want to renew it through a service like GoDaddy or Network Solutions (costs around $8 - $10 / year).
When you go to their sites you'll see an option to Transfer a Domain.
If you have any questions scream.
Posted by: phin @ at April 25, 2006 01:05 PM
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April 20, 2006
Who did it?
What nimrod black-listed the word "mother?"
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That would be Vinnie.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 20, 2006 10:40 PM
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Yeah, the other day I had a comment containing the word chemo-therapy and it pulled it up. It took me a while to figure out that the blacklist would also pull partial words and combine them. Frustrating, but funny.
Posted by: GM Roper @ at April 21, 2006 02:15 AM
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"My son just learned his first half word!" The proud father exclaimed.
"Half word? What do you mean, half word?"
"He said 'mother'!"
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at April 21, 2006 06:27 AM
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Yeah, one of my commenters pointed that out last week. It's kind of hard to bitch about being pregnant when people can't use that word...ya dig?
Posted by: Tiffany @ at April 21, 2006 03:58 PM
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Some mother flower.
Posted by: Mark @ at April 21, 2006 04:46 PM
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Yeah, that would be the Vinnie with the mother who has Alzheimer's, and somehow attracted a troll who dropped all sorts of comments like "brain-dead mother," "brain-fucked mother" and "lol at your mother's shitty brain."
That would also include Merri at Merri Musings, Vinnie's wife, who got the same comments with "-in law" attached.
So I put "mother" in the Blacklist.
With what I had to deal with before switching to WordPress, don't even expect me to apologize.
Posted by: Vinnie @ at April 29, 2006 12:43 AM
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Vinnie, no need to apologize. I had no idea...
Damn the trolls, and that one sounded like a real wanker.
Posted by: GroovyVic @ at April 29, 2006 03:21 AM
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Blogrolling and 'bots
My blog is a member of another group and the group's list is on a "Blogrolling" -- blogrolling.com -- list which notes when each blog is updated (with a "NEW" sign next the blog's name).
However, after successfully noting when my blog was updated for a couple weeks, it appears something on the MuNu server is now preventing the Blogrolling 'bot from "scanning" my site to note that it's been updated.
Any ideas?
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we've had these issues because there are so many of us and they generally will only take one post every half hour or so, if I remember right. However, if it's important to you, you can do a manual update ping once every 5 minutes for blogrolling.com here.
Posted by: caltechgirl @ at April 20, 2006 04:36 PM
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Thanks so much!
Posted by: Rhodey @ at April 20, 2006 04:46 PM
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Clearly we have an issue
Umm, I seem to own everyone's categories now. See this post for what I mean....
Oh, and according to MT I only have the categories I set up....
BTW, evidently you can only see this problem on the main page....
Details in the extended
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Um?
Either the problem's gone away by itself, or I'm blind, because I can't see it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 20, 2006 02:58 AM
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you have to load the index page because the individual entry doesn't list the categories... It's currently the 3rd entry down the page.
Posted by: caltechgirl @ at April 20, 2006 03:09 AM
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well, never mind. I saved the post again, and it went away...
Posted by: caltechgirl @ at April 20, 2006 03:34 AM
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Odd.
I ran a database repair, so maybe there was an index glitch.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 20, 2006 07:37 AM
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April 19, 2006
It's that time again
Ok, so this is weird. I have my page set to Pacific Time, and yet lately it's posting an hour behind. For example, it is 1:18 right now,and the item I posted a few minutes ago says it went up at "12:08 PM". I noticed this for the first time yesterday, and I've never had this issue before.
I verified that it is in fact set to Pacific time (GMT-8)
Any ideas?
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Same here. MuNu must still be on Standard Time.
Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at April 19, 2006 11:48 PM
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The servers run on GMT and don't adjust for daylight saving. The problem is that we are using a shared install of Movable Type, which takes its time settings from the server, and MT doesn't know about daylight saving at all. So you have to switch it manually if you want it to switch.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 20, 2006 02:57 AM
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Frustrating!
What the hell....I got hit with comment spam today for Custom Car Seats. I've deleted it and banned them, and rebuilt twice. Their comment doesn't show up on my main menu page but no matter how many times I refresh or close and then open the page it's still there!
What's up?
UPDATED-never mind. A complete rebuild again has removed it. Weird. I hate custom car seats, may they burn in hell.
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April 18, 2006
.com is .gone
Ok, last night when I went to www.itsallaboutde.com, posts from Oct 2005 til now were missing.
Today, when I go to the .com address, I got nothing.
the .mu.nu address works fine. (http://itsallaboutde.mu.nu).
Any ideas?
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Whoops!
Let me take a little look.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 18, 2006 03:41 PM
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Okay, the problem is that you are pointing to the wrong DNS servers. You should be using ns.mu.nu and ns2.mu.nu. You need to update this at your registry.
In the meantime I'll tweak things so that it will work again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 18, 2006 03:44 PM
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Okay, it's fixed now, but the usual problem with DNS changes applies - it may take up to four hours for it to be fixed for everyone. (This is because your ISP keeps a copy of every DNS lookup, so once you try www.itsallaboutde.com, it won't check it again for four hours.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 18, 2006 03:49 PM
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... I was having the same problem too... but the .com thing is working now... but it appears that the mail server for my domain is down now... is this part of the same problem?...
Posted by: Eric @ at April 18, 2006 04:36 PM
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... ok... I'm a dumbass... I fixed it myself... sorry for the bother, Pixy....
Posted by: Eric @ at April 18, 2006 07:08 PM
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Thanks Pixy!
Ok, now I'm a little confused and only mildly retarded...
I do still need to change the DNS servers at my registry?
Posted by: DeAnna @ at April 18, 2006 07:20 PM
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 18, 2006 11:43 PM
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Done.
Thanks Pixy...I really appreciate your help.
Posted by: DeAnna @ at April 19, 2006 04:24 AM
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I'm also having a problem (rishon-rishon.com).
My DNS servers are:
mica.mu.nu
ns.liquidweb.com
I'll go change them now. But what happened? I set the DNS servers over 2 years ago and they've been working till now. Did they change themselves?
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at April 20, 2006 09:01 AM
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Are ns.mu.nu and ns2.mu.nu right for everyone (namely, me)?
Do I have to do something on the munu side? I only updated the DNS entries in my registry.
I'm asking because it's been ~18 hours and it's still not working (I know, theoretically it can take 3 days). Just axing!
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at April 20, 2006 10:55 PM
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Oops! Sorry David, I missed your comments here.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 22, 2006 12:30 AM
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Some Lost HTML
Boohoo!!! I mysteriously lost some of my HTML! I'm not sure how I did it. How can I get it back? (ASSuming I CAN get it back!) Help!
Gratefully yours,
Mark
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Uhh... Mark, you're going to have to be a whole lot more specific if anybody's going to have a chance of helping you.
HTML is the actual code that determines what displays on your page. Do you mean that part of your template is missing (ie the pieces that appear on every page)? Or do you mean that actual post content is missing?
What exactly are you expecting to see that isn't showing, and exactly what pages are missing it?
paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 18, 2006 03:46 AM
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I thought "HTML" always referred to actual code.
A part of my main template is no longer there. Because part of that template is not there, certain links will not appear on my main page. I am wondering if it is possible to retrieve that information.
Post content is not affected.
Posted by: Mark @ at April 18, 2006 03:57 AM
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I can dig your template out of the backups. When was the last time you know for sure it was working (so I can get the right backup file)?
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 18, 2006 05:53 AM
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I thought "HTML" always referred to actual code.Mark, you're absolutely right, but I needed to make sure we were talking about the same thing - many poeple use the term to refer to anything that's on a webpage, and that gets confusing if we're not talking about the same thing.
While Pixy's digging in the backups, it's worth mentioning that it's possible to add code to your template which can interfere with existing code (unclosed tags, for example) and will make it look like other code has disappeared.
Have you made any changes to your template recently? Exactly what part of the template is now missing? Have you confirmed that the code is actually gone from the template, or just that its output is missing from the page?
(Sorry if this sounds simplistic, I have no idea of your level of expertise.)
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 18, 2006 06:13 AM
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Pixy: I am pretty sure it was working fine on Sunday afternoon.
Paul: I don't recall adding or removing anything. A portion of my links and other goodies do not appear on the main page. The code itself is also missing.
Posted by: Mark @ at April 18, 2006 02:08 PM
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Yikes... looks like a PixyBackup is definitely your best be then.
P.
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 18, 2006 04:39 PM
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I did plan ahead for this. Atleast I tried. I saved my HTML on a floppy, which I cannot find. Even if I could, my new comp does not have a floppy for some reason. I tried installing a floppy drive on the new comp, but it doesn't have a bracket inside to support it, so I guess I'd have to buy one, which I have not done yet.
Turn in next week for more "Days of Our HTML."
Posted by: Mark @ at April 18, 2006 04:50 PM
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Paul, thanks for your help!
Posted by: Mark @ at April 18, 2006 05:07 PM
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Pixy thank you for your help!
Posted by: Mark @ at April 19, 2006 02:03 AM
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Okay, I'll unpack the backup from Sunday morning and retrieve the little lost template.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 19, 2006 07:41 AM
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Thanks Pixy.
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April 17, 2006
Upload Problem
I wanted to upload a short video (it's currently an .avi file) but can't seem to do it.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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It might be too big to upload using Movable Type. You can use FTP, with your CPanel username and password.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 17, 2006 02:18 PM
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 17, 2006 02:21 PM
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Oh, there it is. Probably just Fluffy at work again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 17, 2006 02:22 PM
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I wanted to upload a short video (it's currently an .avi file) but can't seem to do it.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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April 15, 2006
help needed
My password into cpanel accidently got erased and like a fool I didn't get it written down. Going to Cpanel help, i had them send me an email to reset unfortunately, I can't get to horde except through cpanel. I've tried my "usual" passwords (I only have about 5 that I use fairly consistently) and none of them work to get into the horde email program. Any ideas. Can someone reset the passwords for cpanel from the server?
A Clutz I am!
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Do not fear...Our all solving ever wonderous Pixy will be here.... soon & when he does he'll make the problem go away.
or you can email him directly
Posted by: michele @ at April 16, 2006 02:38 AM
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I reset your password and emailed the new one to gmroper at gmroper dot com. If you can't get email there, email me from an address where I can send it.
Posted by: Jim @ at April 16, 2006 04:25 AM
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Problem solved, thanks everyone for your help. I promise to not be such a clutz in the future. ;-)
Posted by: GM @ at April 16, 2006 10:02 AM
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So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
Well folks, I wanted to let everyone here know about a major change in my life that will have me leaving the blogosphere as an active blogger. MuNuviana has been a great place. There's not a better blogging community on the 'Net. Thanks for a great time.
I will still be reading you and "I expect your names to shine"!
If you want to know more about why I'm leaving, I wrote
a piece on Eric's Grumbles that explains it.
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April 13, 2006
FTP
If I use Cute FTP (and figure it out of course) can I use that to upload my archives from gmroper.com to gmroper.mu.nu and from MT 3.2 to MT 2.xx?
Baffeled I am!
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Not a chance, unfortunately. The archives have to be generated by and into the MT database in order to be functional. Just copying them doesn't do that.
What you need to do is export your posts from your "old" Movable Type install, and then import them into the MuNu version. The export essentially just creates a text file that is formatted in a particular way that MT understands when it parses the file and sorts the content into the appropriate fields for the new blog.
There is an import/export button in the side menu of your "old" blog's main MT administration page. After clicking on that, the export information is at the bottom of the following page. When you tell it to export, it is going to give you a window with all your posts in it in plain text form, including comments. You're going to copy the entire contents of that window (CTRL+A to select, then CTRL+C to copy on Windows), then paste it into a plain text file (NOT Word!). Use Notepad if on Windows - just right-click on your desktop and select New -> Text Document. When you've pasted in the content, save it as import.txt
Once you have the export process finished, you'll need to upload the resulting import.txt file to MuNu. You can find the instructions in this post. (Just ignore the stuff about exporting from blogspot archives, you've already got your export file from the above procedure.)
Once you've finished the import, you'll need to rebuild your blog to see the results.
Going from MT blog to MT blog, there shouldn't be much cleanup needed afterward.
If you need more specifics, or would like a hand with the process, just let me know.
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 13, 2006 05:10 AM
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April 12, 2006
A Few More Setup Issues
I've encountered a couple of problems setting up the blog that I hope you can help me with:
The first concerns the process of importing my old posts from typepad. I uploaded the archive file to the right location, and a lot of posts and comments were successfully imported, but at one point the import failed with the following message:
Saving entry ('')... failed
Saving entry failed: Column 'entry_author_id' cannot be null
I'm not sure whether this was a failure to read the file correctly or whether there was actually a null entry, but looking within the archive I can't find one. What would happen if I just started the import all over again? It got about 90% of the way through, so can I just edit the archive in such a way that it starts with the next post that would have been imported? If I start at the beginning will I end up with duplicate posts, or will they overwrite?
The second issue concerns the fact that although "parking" demosophia.com at demosophia.mu.nu redirects demosophia.com to the new blog it apparently doesn't redirect www.demosophia.com. And I can't add the "www" flavor to the list of parked domains because I get a message that it's already on the list. In other words CPanel doesn't recognize a difference between www.demosophia.com and demosophia.com although the name servers apparently do. What should I do?
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You won't want to just try re-importing the whole file, as the second import won't overwrite the existing posts; you will get doubles of everything up to the failure. (Blech)
You can certainly edit the import archive file, (it's just a txt file) to delete everything that imported successfully, then try again with what's left. In particular, look at the first posts after the failure and compare them to the successful ones before you edit. It sounds like, for some reason, at least one of the posts doesn't have an author entry id, which is what's messing up the import at that point. You'll be able to figure out which element in the post is the auth ID and can see if it's there (in which case retry with the edited import file) or if not there, you acan dd it in the correct format and then try from there.
It may take some experimentation, but just don't do a complete re-import, or you'll have a lot a deleting to do!
Hopefully Pixy can help you with the "www" propagation issue.
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 12, 2006 04:03 PM
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www.demosophia.com works for me (brings up the same page as demosophia.mu.nu). What do you get? It's certainly supposed to work that way; CPanel sets things up so that you get the same site with or without the www.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 12, 2006 04:29 PM
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I've checked demosophia.com, www.demosophia.com & demosophia.mu.nu and they're all on the same page.
I did a whois and the name servers are setup properly (both pointing to the Moo Knew DNS Servers). So there shouldn't be anything left to do.
If you're still getting the old blogsplat page the changes probably haven't reached your ISP's DNS Server. If the changes have taken place in a day or two call, they may be having problems.
Posted by: phin @ at April 12, 2006 04:38 PM
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Appaently the www subdomain wasn't working on my computer because some of my "private data" sent me to the old site. Once I cleared the private data www worked. Also, I have been able to import the rest of my posts from the old site. I'm not sure what caused the error that stopped the previous import, but it was probably electronic. The data itself seemed OK. I just deleted up to the point of the failure and started again. Thanks for all your help, guys!
Now I've got to make the plain jane blog a little more attractive, import my blogroll, etc.
Posted by: Demosophist @ at April 13, 2006 04:01 PM
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