I'm about ready to unpack my stuff in my new blogsite, but can't figure out why I can't get DNS management to work. I gather that one has to use DNS management to preserve all the links to specific posts as one migrates from the old site. I've created two Cname records, one for www.demosophia.com and another for demosophia.com. I'm not sure what to do for the A record, since the blog doesn't appear to have a unique IP address. Can I just ignore the A record? If not do I have to use URL forwarding instead of DNS management?

At the moment I've disabled URL forwarding, but my domain name still points to some broken page in the Blogspot domain, which just shows a lonely "ok" in the upper lefthand corner. What am I doing wrong?

Posted by: Demosophist at 10:44 PM | Comments (26) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I just removed usnews.com from the blacklist. Is there anything we can do about these false positives? Have someone check additions to the blacklist? A whitelist? Something?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at 07:15 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Something weird happened to my template. Half of it is just disappeared. Is that me or did this happen to anyone else?

It only affects the sidebar, luckily. I went into the template to see what happened and it's like it got deleted below a certain point.

Posted by: annika at 05:43 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I didn't do it!!!!

Um.

Were you working on it when this happened, or did it just suddenly go flooie?

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2 I have the same problem. Luckily, Pixy to the rescue.

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So anyway, I was reading through a comments thread at Random Pensees and noticed the name "Christina". Not sure if I knew who that was, I put my cursor over the name to see the URL. It was a .mu.nu blog that I'd never heard of; Just *dot* Christina.

Turns out that it's the same Christina who used to the blog at Feisty Repartee. She's been blogging again since October, but she's not the .mu.nu blogroll. Eeep!

Hope there aren't any other undocumented Munuvians out there.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 04:50 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 There are, I'm afraid. Some of them on purpose, some of them by accident.

It's going to be a real pain getting the blogroll right again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 03, 2006 08:47 AM

2 ILLEGAL BLOGGERS! Pixy, we need a wall. And I will NOT support amnesty for these "undocumented bloggers" Ship them back!

Posted by: Nick @ at April 04, 2006 03:35 AM

3 That live comment thingy is cool! Freaked me out at first. I thought someone had already blogged my excat words.

Posted by: Nick @ at April 04, 2006 03:36 AM

4 TS,

What a horrible thought! Anyway, undocumented munuvians do the work that munuvians refuse to do.

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Hi everyone. Phin has been helping me transfer my blog (http://gmroper.com) to http://gmroper.mu.nu but he has a new family member and hasn't been able to help. Can anyone help me with the transfer? I can set up someone to get into my .com (mt 3.2) if there is someon that can help transfer the archives and current stuff. I'm paid up for April at the old site, but really am a dunce when it comes to knowing enough to make the transfer. If anyone can help, it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Posted by: GM Roper at 02:24 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Little note for the handful of people on MT3: I've updated the system to MT 3.2. This seems to be mostly transparent, but MT Blacklist has been disabled and replaced by the built-in Junk comment/trackback system. We'll see how that goes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:29 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hey Everybody,

I am no longer getting email notifications when I get a new comment or trackback. I looked in CP and cannot see anything wrong.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

SR

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat at 04:37 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

.. hey, everyone.... my email forwarding has suddenly stopped... and all of the mail to eric@straightwhiteguy.com or eric@straightwhiteguy.mu.nu is now being bounced... I have checked my xCpanel and everything looks fine... any ideas?....

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Eric

Posted by: Eric at 07:16 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hey gang, am I the only one who cannot seem to log into Cpanel lately?

I've been trying since late last night but to no avail?

I keep getting this message:

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.whatsakyer.mu.nu:2082.

Posted by: Kyer at 07:34 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at March 26, 2006 08:38 PM

2 Both addresses you mention are taking me directly to the cPanel login screen. (The reason for the :2082 is that's the port through which cPanel is accessed. The other address is essentially just a forwarder to that port.)

Are you still having problems? If so, you might want to try clearing Firefox's cache.
Tools | Options | Privacy | Cache tab.

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Posted by: Light & Dark @ at March 26, 2006 10:55 PM

3 Are you trying to log in from home or work? From work it could be proxy or firewall issues. From home, it should Just Work™.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 27, 2006 12:03 AM

4 What the deuce?

I can get in w/o a hitch in IE but even after I clear out all of my "privacy data" or whatever in FireFox, I still get the same message.

I want my moneys back.

Any other possibilities?

Posted by: kyer @ at March 27, 2006 12:54 AM

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Is there a way to have an individual RSS feed for each of the categories that we use? I'd like to highlight the book reviews that I do by putting a "Latest Reviews" thing on one sidebar that would show the headlines for my latest reviews.

Posted by: Warren Kelly at 07:02 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Sure. The RSS feed is just another template, so make a copy of it and specify the category you want. Or make it an alternate category archive template.

Or something like that.

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Are trackbacks working? It has been days since i've gotten trackbacks from anyone, even when I know there should be some coming.

Posted by: Greg at 03:41 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I was making some changes to my sidebar, saved them, rebuilt, all that, and now the text in my posts is invisible!! Help! What the heck did I do????

Anyone? Anyone?

Posted by: Groovyvic at 02:38 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Got something you want to share? Getting into podcasts or vlogging, or want to upload some music you've written? Or maybe you're ready to unleash your own Linux distro on an unsuspecting world?

But you held off because you didn't want to use up all your bandwidth and get Pixy mad with you?

Well, now there's a solution! filedump.mu.nu. It's an easy-to-use BitTorrent tracker, which means that for popular files it uses a thousand times less bandwidth on the munu servers. You don't even need a BitTorrent client to use it, but you can if you prefer. The software is called Broadcast Machine, and they want to be to vlogging what... Uh, what something else was to something else.

Currently there are no files there, but you can see a working installation on my blog.

If you'd like to use it, email me and I'll set you up with an account.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:22 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Oh, you just gotta love checking the email in the morning:

Note the 101 entries -- exactly 9 are actual emails, the rest are trackback spam from 10pm to 7:30am EST.

I'm not complaining, Pixy, just bitching, you know? I mean, I know it's not your fault (or is it...could Pixy BE the evil spammer? No, even Pixy isn't THAT evil...) I'm just about to give up on trackbacks entirely, except I really like them, dammit.

Posted by: Ogre at 12:52 PM | Comments (21) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Is there a solution for this? Other than turning off TB's? What about Haloscan for comment spam? I used that on Blog*Spot and never had spam, TB or Comment.

I too get hammered, not as much as Ogre. Then I delete them...

Any suggestions?

SR

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat @ at March 21, 2006 07:59 PM

2 I continued to get hammered most of the morning (EST). This afternoon it's let up a bit, but it's still trickling in. And usually, I LIKE getting hammered...

Posted by: Ogre @ at March 21, 2006 08:35 PM

3 You're being specifically targeted for something, because I'm down to 1 or 2 trackback spams a month now.

Posted by: Ted @ at March 21, 2006 09:18 PM

4 That's pretty darn weird. Thanks for that tip, though!

Posted by: Ogre @ at March 21, 2006 09:47 PM

5 I think Ted's right, because Snark is blocking 99% of incoming trackbacks. Forward some representative ones to me and I'll see if I can make Snark a bit smarter for you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 21, 2006 10:14 PM

6 Thanks, Pixy. I think many got blacklisted now since I spend a good portion of today getting them there.

Posted by: Ogre @ at March 21, 2006 10:20 PM

7 No worries.

The way Snark works is it performs a statistical analysis of all the trackbacks received by the munu blogs, and anyone who is sending too many trackbacks gets flagged as a spammer. Depending on the volume and the time frame, this means that further pings from them get blocked either temporarily or permanently. It tracks both domain names and the IP addresses of spammers, and it blocks 99% of trackbacks even before they get to the blacklist.

But - it only works when someone is spamming the whole of munu. If they spam just one blog, and it trickles in overnight, Snark never works out that it's spam.

So it's not perfect, but it has blocked two million trackbacks in four months, which is something we can all be thankful for.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 22, 2006 12:23 AM

8 Ah. You should be getting a lot less spam now.

One of the options in Snark!™ is to block trackbacks to old posts, but the definition of "old" was itself somewhat old. I've updated it now, which should stop about 80% of the spam you're getting. MT Blacklist also helps, of course, but it's good to stop the spam as early as possible.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 22, 2006 05:16 AM

9 While I was messing around, I also fixed the problem with 2LDs like onex.be and pizdets.be, so it collapses those domains properly and blocks the whole thing, and retroactively collapsed the existing blacklist.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 22, 2006 05:32 AM

10 The problem being that it should take out the whole of .onex.be, but not .com.au. The rule I applied is if the top level domain is two letters, only block the second level domain if it is more than three letters. So .com.au or .co.uk are safe, but the weasels at onex.be and pizdets.be are toast.

Of course, the other filter rules (age, volume, IP address etc) usually zap them anyway, but all those throwaway domains were clogging up the blacklist and slowing things down.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 22, 2006 05:46 AM

11 Awesome, thanks for the help!

The two big ones that were hitting me were xxxxx (dot) proboards ### (.com) and pubxx.something.com. Once I figured out the format to blog xxx (dot) proboards### (.com), that picked up a lot of them -- but they were also spaced out a few minutes apart to get past the timing check on the spam blocker, those bastards.

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Yikes! I need to go on an "uploaded file diet" or something!

Pixy, would you be so kind as to bump me up? I promise not to be such a "bandwidth hog" in the future.

Posted by: Gary at 06:02 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Bumped.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 20, 2006 09:55 PM

2 Thanks! Hey, other than keeping the large photos to a minimum, any advice on how to conserve the bandwidth? I read a post a little ways down about having problems with having your graphics linked and google cached. How does that affect it?

Pardon the cyber-ignorance, here.

Posted by: Gary @ at March 20, 2006 11:31 PM

3 In CPanel you can prevent people hotlinking your images, which is a good idea.

Other than that, the best bet is not to have any readers.

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I got bored on Saturday night and decided to give Wordpress a try. Awhile back I tried it, and was not impressed. That was easily a few years ago. Now I am much more enthused about it. It seems cleaner and smoother, and the themes are better managed. Pixy, might WP be a solution to our woes if Minx doesn't pan out? Just a thought, but I for one am beginning to hate with a passion reminiscent of John Kerry the bloody spammers. Not only the comment spammers, but also the trackback ones. Blacklist seems to be faulty, and Wordpress seems to have some nice plugins to combat it.

In any case if anyone wants to see my small set-up check it out here:

http://weaver.nickqueen.com

I have it to where you need to register to visit the site since I am posting snippets of a book I'm working on there. Wordpress can have many levels of protection in that regard, down to having to register to post comments. Stop by and take a look!

PS

As for the Munu shirt, can I lobby for a big shirt, cause I'm a big guy, and I do mean in the 4x or so range. If you make it, I'll buy it and show my Munu love.

And nothing vilgar people, ie Madfish! I'd like to be able to wear this in public without being trampled by family, friends, or the decency police! ;-)

Posted by: Nick Queen at 05:48 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Why, when I attempt to rebuild the entire site, do I get stuck with Individual Archives 1-100 on the counter? Is my site rebuilding? Or is there something that is preventing that from happening? The same thing happens when I try to rebuild Individual Archives -- but not any other rebuild configuration.

Posted by: Greg at 12:19 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Pam at Blogmeister USA hasn't been able to log onto MuNu. Pixy, can you please check this out?

Posted by: Gary at 03:04 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

But, like, we could use a flag, too.

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Oh, man, watch the ACLU take a crap over THAT!

Posted by: Vinnie at 09:03 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I get a huge amount of google serches for some rather popular images that I have put up over the last year and a half. Is there any way to "block" the google search as they eat up a huge amount of my bandwidth....

any ideas besides quit blogging ;-)

Posted by: GM Roper at 06:33 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)