Happy New Year Munuvians!

Posted by: Vinnie at 12:39 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Kyer asked about setting up a stylesheet switcher, so here it is below the fold...

I don't remember from where the code was gleaned so I don't know whom to credit... Rob did some adjustments to make it work better, a hearty thank-you to him... one caveat - it only works right for 9 or less stylesheets.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 05:18 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Umm, Pixy? Are you mad at me?

I've checked a handful of other MuNu sites. I'm the only one. :-(

Posted by: Jennifer at 01:14 AM | Comments (23) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 annika's is giving the same message

Posted by: Ted @ at December 31, 2005 03:55 AM

2 So it's the cool people, then. ;-)

Posted by: Jennifer @ at December 31, 2005 04:18 AM

3 I'm powerless to assist. The only blogs I can work on are the ones I set up. :-(

Posted by: Jim @ at December 31, 2005 04:35 AM

4 That's so weird, I was just mucking around in the CPanel and it showed me as using 75% of my allowed bandwidth for the month.

Just for an FYI, what is the bandwidth limit for each blog?

Posted by: Vinnie @ at December 31, 2005 05:22 AM

5 Folks, don't panic, this is just an annoying "feature" in cPanel, the site management tool on the server. It requires that some value be entered for maximum bandwidth at each site - it can't be left blank. It looks like you managed to get to Pixy's arbitrary default.

As soon as he sees the situation, he'll be able to reset you. As a matter of fact, as the calendar rolls over, cPanel may reset you itself.

Annoying sure, but emminently fixable.

Jen, some ritual offering of M&M's might be in order though, just to cover your bases.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at December 31, 2005 07:24 AM

6 Based on my site meter I've probably got tons of extra bandwidth if anyone needs some!

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at December 31, 2005 01:57 PM

7 i just noticed it. Heeelllp!

Posted by: annika @ at December 31, 2005 06:12 PM

8 Who's panicking? Just waiting for the fix/new month. No big whoop.

Posted by: Jennifer @ at December 31, 2005 06:17 PM

9 I'm sure the boring blogs don't have the problem. Does cPanel support the infinity symbol?

Posted by: Ontario Emperor @ at December 31, 2005 10:31 PM

10 Sorry!!!

All fixed now. I've doubled the bandwidth allocation for you and Annika.

Lawren had just gone over her limit too, and Munuviana was right on the edge.

On the old server, this feature didn't work - it never cut anyone off. On the new server, it works great, and this was our first full month, so... Ouchie time.

The bandwidth allocation is 5GB or 10GB per month for new moos, and I adjust it over time for the popular blogs. Except when I forget...

It's really just to make sure nothing goes berserk. You're allowed to upload videos, for example, but if you get linked by Slashdot and suddenly 100,000 people want to download the file, it will stop them before they suck the server dry.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 31, 2005 11:26 PM

11 Vinnie, I've doubled your allowance too. And a few other munus.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 31, 2005 11:33 PM

12 Wow, thanks Pixy. I was just curious.

You might want to keep an eye on Merri when she gets settled in. Her adoration of all things Rachael Ray nets her big traffic.

Posted by: Vinnie @ at January 01, 2006 12:38 AM

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How does one go about making their site "skinnable"? I've seen it done with background colors and banners and such... I *think* I just might make a version where the background is white, text is black etc. and the other skin is just the inverse.

anybody have any links or primers?

Posted by: Kyer at 04:32 AM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Here is my recipe for perfect chocolate chip cookies. Follow it exactly, and no substitutions.

Combine softened butter, vanilla sugar, and eggs until nice and creamy. Add flour, salt, baking soda, and chocolate chips.

use a table spoon and place on baking sheet, bake in 375 oven for 11 minutes or until slightly brown on top.

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 08:12 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hi Everybody! I love MuNuviana. And, I love Movable Type -- so much better than Blahger.

But I have a bit of a technical problem: trackbacks don't seem to be working on my blog. I've tried pinging it using Haloscan and from XRLQ's which runs on Word Press (where I'm guestsblogging this week -- ahem).

What's the deal with the trackbacks? Maybe I've messed up the code, or maybe I have to turn them on in the MT Config someplace. Does anyone have any ideas?

Posted by: Cardinal Martini at 10:23 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The newest podcast is available. A little longer than the others it weighs in at 4.4MB. If I start becoming long winded I promise to explore ways to make the files smaller.

Exploring the Inner Grinch

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 06:52 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I've been lax in introducing our debutantes so some of these are already well past their deflowering but they're all worthy of a visit and a welcome. Go and say "Hi"!

Popsicle Stick Jokes
Ex-Donkey Blog
Prochein Amy
The Lady Is A Tramp
Outnumbered, Outgunned
Sompopo's Revenge
Geek Empire
Southpark Republicans
Tilesey
Portia Rediscovered
Everyman Chronicles
Forward Biased
Sacramento Republicrat
Blogmeister USA
Squid Blog
A Spinster's Tale
California Buckeye
Cheapshot
Hatemongers' Quarterly
Fidgety Knitting
Fiddle Dee Dee

Two More!
Vince Aut Morire
Cardinal Martini

Posted by: Jim at 04:36 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 ummm.... CardMart takes me to mu.nu

Posted by: caltechgirl @ at December 24, 2005 06:14 PM

2 Oops. My bad. That one isn't fully set up yet. I shall remove the link for now.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 24, 2005 06:27 PM

3 I suspect I need to read my email.

Thank you Jim for all your hard work.

And Merry Christmas to all munus, new and old, past and present!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 24, 2005 11:58 PM

4 "CardMart" should work now.

If anything's broken on the DNS side, you end up at the portal, which is better than what it used to do (send you to whichever site came first alphabetically).

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 25, 2005 09:06 AM

5 You hate me.

*sob*

hee hee hee.

JUST KIDDIN'S YA!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Ramahanakwanzmas to all, and to all a politically correct something or other!

Posted by: Vinnie @ at December 25, 2005 09:17 AM

6 Jim... could you take a look at SAPSA.mu.nu

My mom can't post anything new for some reason... getting an error message I've never seen before, so I think it may be in the set up.

Thanks for your help!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 25, 2005 05:25 PM

7 Ping Pixy for that one. I only have access to the ones I've set up.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 25, 2005 08:32 PM

8 Hi everyone! Jim and Pixy have got my domain all squared away. I'm excited about moving over to Munuviana. I should have the blog set up at my new address, http://cardinalmartini.mu.nu, by sometime this week.

For now my archives and everything else are still at http://cardinalmartini.blogspot.com

And, this week, I finagled myself a guestblogging gig at http://www.xrlq.com so come on over and say hello =)

Posted by: Cardinal Martini @ at December 25, 2005 10:17 PM

9 YAY! A hardy hielow to all the new cow puppies!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 26, 2005 04:20 AM

10 MW, I'll take a look. Could be a permissions problem.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 27, 2005 01:10 AM

11 Thanks for the shout out, old bean!

Posted by: GroovyVic @ at December 27, 2005 01:48 PM

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Seasons Greetings from YellowDog!

Happy Holidays from PipEye!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 03:45 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Could the blogroll gurus add my pLog blog to the MuNu blogrolls... whenever you do the next updates... pretty please? I know it's not much of a blog - kind of stupid actually - but it would help to be the #1 Google Search...

Popsicle Stick Jokes

http://my.mu.nu/index.php?blogId=18

Thank you in advance...

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 02:29 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Sorry - This post was intended for Hold the Mayo. So I moved it there.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 09:46 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Wrong blog?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 22, 2005 09:55 PM

2 Yup.

Asleep at the switch again!

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Performancing for Firefox is here!
Of course you're probably wondering just what is Performancing for Firefox.

Well the good folks over at Performancing.com have written a blog editor for Firefox. So if you're using Firefox Version 1.5 or better, instead of writing your posts in Wordpress, Movable Type or Blogger you can use the Performacing Editor.

What makes this even better is you can setup your blog and post directly from the editor, like I did with this post. So you don't even have to log in to write or publish posts ever again.

To setup Performancing so it will automatically list your blogs you will need to walk through the following steps after you have installed the Plugin from the link above.

1) Press F8 key to open the Performancing editor.
2) Click the About Button.
3) Click the Launch Wizard Button.
4) Select your Blogging Platform from the list.
5) Change the Server API Folder to:

http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/mt-xmlrpc.cgi - If you're running Movable Type 2.64
http://mu.nu/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi - If you're running Movable Type 3.15
http://yourblog.mu.nu//xmlrpc.php - If you're running Wordpress (just be sure to replace the yourblog with your address).

6) Enter Your Username and Password.
7) Verify that the proper blogs have been pulled up and hit next!

From there you'll just select the blog you want to post too.

If you aren't running any other plugins / extensions for Firefox, I whole heartedly recommend you run Performancing for Firefox.

Posted by: phin at 05:29 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

A new Podcast is up at Hold the Mayo.

Who's Spying On Us?

On an unrelated side note, I think fluffy is still eating my comment and track-back emails. Is this happening to anyone else or is it just me?

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:20 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Come one, come all: We, the crack young staff of "The Hatemonger's Quarterly," have finally moved to our new e-digs at MuNu (http://hatemongers.mu.nu). We cordially invite you to peruse n' enjoy, though not necessarily in that order.

Posted by: Chip at 04:50 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Thank yo so much, SO MUCH for all the help! I'm getting the hang of it, and quickly too. So, here's to good friends, tonight is kinda special!

Posted by: Groovyvic at 01:51 AM | Comments (33) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Argh.

So there's this rather (uncool) cat who keeps commenting every so often on my blog (and I've seen him on Vinnie's and a few others as well) called "grandpa stole bets" where he just pastes this long rambling incoherent comment and somehow ties Homer Simpson, Che Guevara and Jews into it all...

I've blocked the IP for this comment several times now, but it keeps happening.

He/she/it always uses the same email address though: "hister@nostradamous.com"

I'm not too swift with these anti-spam toys you darn kids are using these days, any i-clue what i can do?

Posted by: Kyer at 11:55 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hello out there! I'm new to the MuNu Universe, and a bit overwhelmed! There's a lot more to this than over at Blogger. Anyone I could pay to make the change for me???

Posted by: Groovyvic at 03:12 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Well, my side bar seems to be upfucked. Half the text is being cut off by posts. I had this problem once before, butb I don't remember what the solution wwas. Anyone got any ideas????

Thanks a heap!

http://knockinonthegoldendoor.mu.nu/

Posted by: Old Cloots at 12:26 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Mark:

As it so often the case in a site template, things are very interconnected, and one change can solve a problem, but create several others. I'm going to give you a specific edit to make to your blog, but first I'll try to explain what's happening. If you don't care to get in that deep, just skip to the end!

What's happening in your sidebar is that the <div> that creates the sidebar is being prematurely closed right after the first sidebar element. The rest of the items on the left side only look like they're in the right general area because text in html defaults to the left margin unless styled otherwise. Essentially, they're not even in the sidebar.

This explains why the sidebar text is so tight against the left border of your page, and runs across the page. Everything below the first image in the sidebar is actually unstyled text that is just trying to fill the page, starting from the left side.

Now, to fix it...

You need to go into your main index template, and find the section toward the bottom where you'll see this code:

<div id="links">

<div class="side"> <li><___
src="http://photos22.flickr.com/31690427_b3abd9840b_o.jpg"></li><p><b>
</div><p>

</div>
<div class="sidetitle">
E-mail:

</div>
<div class="side">
kotgd AT yahoo DOT com
<div class="side">
<a href=""></a><br />
</div>

<div align="center" class="calendar">

You need to delete the second </div> that occurs in that code.

Here's where the interconnected problems come in. I suspect that when you do that, you're going to find that your stylesheet is specifying too wide a column for your sidebar, given the rest of the dimensions of your blog. Rather than try to guess, or try to explain your options without you being able to see what I'm talking about, I'm going to suggest you make the above change, then we can look at the result, and I can help you decide if further adjustment is necessary.

If that's OK with you, just leave me a note here when you've made the edit to your index template.

Paul

By the way, you've got some seriously funky extraneous code in some weird places in your template. If you want to clean up the code that displays that first graphic in your sidebar, for example, the code that reads:

<div class="side"> <li><___
src="http://photos22.flickr.com/31690427_b3abd9840b_o.jpg"></li><p><b>
</div><p>

should actually read:

<div class="side"> <___
src="http://photos22.flickr.com/31690427_b3abd9840b_o.jpg">
</div>

There's no reason for a single element to be in a list tag (that's where that weird dot beside the graphic is from; it's actually a bullet) and the <p> and <b> tags are unclosed, and don't serve any purpose anyway.

Ain't html a bitch?!

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at December 15, 2005 04:30 AM

2 CSS must die! Bring back tables!

(Thanks, Paul, great explanation. )

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 15, 2005 06:42 AM

3 Paul - Thanks!!!!!

I'm not sure what happened, it was fine the other day and I didn't screw wih anything. I'll have to make the corrections when I get a sec.

I appreciate it, especially being a non-techy!

Posted by: Mark @ at December 15, 2005 12:46 PM

4 Paul - Actually, I just did it - You're a genius. I'll do the rest later. Now I know where I screwed up I added the e-mail addy recently.

Rank amateurs, I tell ya!!

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Help! Click here: domicel.mu.nu.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at 07:50 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Doh! I'll fix that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 14, 2005 09:49 PM

2 Sorry about that David - until I do a little more cleanup work I have to remember to manually tweak the DNS for each new account.

It's fixed now, but it could take up to four hours for the DNS to refresh for you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 15, 2005 12:44 AM

3 Thanks!

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 15, 2005 06:51 AM

4 One more thing (sorry): How come Domicel doesn't appear in the sidebar?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 15, 2005 02:01 PM

5 Um... because I didn't put it there...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 15, 2005 10:39 PM

6 I'm using <?php include "http://blogroll.mu.nu/nu.i"; ?> in my template, and not getting it.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 15, 2005 10:43 PM

7 It's there now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2005 05:24 AM

8 Thanks, you're the best!

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 16, 2005 06:44 AM

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Getting a funky error message trying to comment.

I originally pasted it here, but it went way off the page.

Just a heads up, Pixy.

Posted by: Vinnie at 05:40 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Fixed!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2005 06:18 AM

2 very nice site!
ill add a link ..

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