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December 10, 2005
December 09, 2005
Need Audio Geek Advice
I'm checking out digital audio players as a gift for my brother (maybe I'll steal it from him if I like it enough) - he has to ride the bus because he keeps wrecking all his cars and my trucks.
I'm wondering what any of you would recommend. I have tons o music on my laptop in various formats, so I need something with some capacity, playing different formats, preferrably with rechargable battery thingy.
Thanks in advance for any advice you might have!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at
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I gotta go with the iPod on this one. You can get the 30GB for $299 and give him video on the bus as well.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at December 09, 2005 08:46 PM
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my friend just got an iRiver. He loves it. He did some serious looking and considering before he bought it, too.
Posted by: caltechgirl @ at December 09, 2005 09:25 PM
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I looked at both recommendations and soem other stuff... I ended up going with Stephen's iPod sugestion... it has lots of accessories and the only downside is that it won't play WMA files without converting them to MP3...
Thanks!
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 19, 2005 12:22 AM
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A Moving Story
I'm moving house tomorrow, so I'll have limited net access for the next couple of weeks. (As in, only one of my three broadband connections at home will be working.)
I should be able to redirect the backups to the office, as we have a new high-capacity link there.
I'll be checking in regularly and receiving my email, but it may take a little longer than usual to respond. Particularly since I expect to be
dead immediately after the move.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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I thought you just moved this past summer??
Posted by: kyer @ at December 09, 2005 01:38 PM
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I wish you luck, especially as I know moving there is just as hectic and pathetic as moving here.
Posted by: caltechgirl @ at December 09, 2005 07:12 PM
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Lift with your legs... better yet, pay someone else to do it for you!
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 09, 2005 08:13 PM
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Kyer - yes, I did.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 09, 2005 10:58 PM
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I thought Pixy lived in a satellite high above the Earth!?
Posted by: Nick Queen @ at December 10, 2005 02:41 AM
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The satellite is in for service right now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 10, 2005 03:18 AM
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P.S. Moved! That was less hideously painful than I'd expected.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 10, 2005 03:18 AM
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December 08, 2005
December 07, 2005
Show/Hide Thingy
Did
you ever wonder how to make a Show/Hide thingy? Press "Show" below
to see one answer.
<div style="display:
none;" id="YourIdShow">
<p>
(<a
href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('YourIdHide').style.display
= 'block'; document.getElementById('YourIdShow').style.display =
'none'; return false;">Show</a> )
</p>
</div>
<div
style="display: block;" id="YourIdHide">
<p>Put
your text here.</p>
<p>
(<a
href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('YourIdShow').style.display
= 'block';document.getElementById('YourIdHide').style.display = 'none';
return false;">Hide</a> )
</p>
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(Hide)
Posted by: David Boxenhorn at
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Thanks David.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 07, 2005 09:30 PM
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I forgot to say: Replace "YourId" with an ID unique to the page. Something with <$MTEntryID$> will do fine, if you have more than one post on the page.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 07, 2005 10:12 PM
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Also, I had to add spaces in the script before ")" because it was giving me smiley faces.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 07, 2005 10:14 PM
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Yeah, it does that.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 07, 2005 11:39 PM
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Now, the interesting thing is that you can do it inside a post. Fun!
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 08, 2005 06:12 AM
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It also works better than the method being used for opening/closing comments, at least in my browser (Firefox). When I close comments it moves the whole page up, instead of closing "in place", which I find really annoying.
I don't see any reason why this method can't be used for comments too.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 08, 2005 08:03 AM
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Outstanding!
I don't like the page behavior either, but have gotten used to it by now.
I'll link this post under Useful Thingys in the sidebar.
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 08, 2005 12:31 PM
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Pixy: This method is inside a post!
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 08, 2005 12:35 PM
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David: Yep.
Madfish Willie: Yep. I did notice that.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 08, 2005 12:49 PM
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Pixy... sorry, my reading and comprehension skills are deteriorating... I thought your comment said now to see "if" it works in a post... D'oh!
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 08, 2005 05:53 PM
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David: FYI This method does not was 'as is' in the pLog blogging software.
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 09, 2005 02:01 PM
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That's odd. I don't see any reason for it not to work. I'll give it a try sometime next week when I'm less dead.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 10, 2005 12:19 PM
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December 06, 2005
Aieee!!!
I am getting hammered by comment spam.
Pixy, is there a way to shut off comments on old posts in a batch?
If not, I'll just keep Blacklisting every day. That's easier than shutting off comments in 400+ posts on an individual basis.
And to think I thought that importing my old TypePad posts was important!
TO THE DEVIL WITH YOU, FOUL SPAMANISTAS!
Posted by: Vinnie at
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Vinnie, do you know how to clean all your spam at one time, instead of having to do it one at a time through the notification emails?
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at December 06, 2005 06:27 AM
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Nope, I don't go beyond my email, for fear of screwing up everyone else's comments
Posted by: Vinnie @ at December 06, 2005 06:32 AM
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You can close comments on old posts by putting this in one of your templates:
<MTCloseComments old="60">
Replace the "60" with the number of posts you want to keep open. This will be executed whenever a page which uses that template gets rebuilt.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 06, 2005 08:54 AM
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Vinnie: you can use the Blacklist without the final step, which is the one that has the possibility of fouling things up if used incorrectly.
Whan you get hit with multiple spams, go to http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/mt-blacklist.cgi after you are signed in to your MuNu admin page (where you write posts).
Click on the DeSpam link at the top of the page, then use the radio buttons and drop-down list to tell Blacklist that you want to see the X most recent trackbacks on your blog. (You can also list comments the same way instead, depending on which you got hit with.)
Normally, this is used to find comments containing a particular spam word or regexp, but selecting the 3rd button will give you a listing of all comments, with info about the commenter, Ip address, URL etc., along with a checkbox to select if you want to easily delete specific trackbacks/comments.
You'll want to search the last 2000 or so entries when you do this, because the Blacklist must search through ALL MuNu trackbacks/comments to find yours. Once you have the list, you just remove the checkboxes from the real trackbacks/comments and tell Blacklist to remove the rest by clicking the delete button at the bottom of the page.
If you get way too many real comments when you ask it to search the last 2000, (a pain to unclick all the checkboxes) just do another search asking it to check fewer recent comments. Leave a check in the box which asks if you want to rebuild the entries after deleting the junk.
Once Blacklist is done deleting and rebuilding, you'll get a page listing the domains Blacklist wants to add to the blocked list. This is the point where you should just close out the page and go on your way, unless you're certain you know what you're doing in the Blacklist. (Hint, the majority of the folks adding to the Blacklist are doing so incorrectly.)
If done this way, you can just delete the spam notification emails. This is much fater than following the links in each email to despam, if you've received a bunch at once.
If you have questions about this procedure, just post back!
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at December 06, 2005 04:07 PM
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Thanks Paul. You answered my question, too!
Posted by: caltechgirl @ at December 06, 2005 05:16 PM
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What's the Munuviania about?
Posted by: tesco @ at December 06, 2005 10:10 PM
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David: Where in the template? And is that the number of posts or the number of days?
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 06, 2005 11:35 PM
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Madfish:
You can put it pretty much anywhere in the body of the main index template - it doesn't generate any output so location isn't really important, but for efficiency reasons, don't put it inside a container tag.
Old = # of days
(Umm.. Pixy... it's sticking in my mind that at some point recently you posted that this comment closing plugin wasn't actually working, but that you'd done it manually in mySQL for everything over a certain age - 60 days? Can you remind me? I can't find the reference.)
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at December 07, 2005 01:33 AM
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This is but one of many reasons why I love mu.nu
Thanks so much for the help!!
Posted by: Vinnie @ at December 07, 2005 02:45 AM
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Paul - yes, that's right. I had to hack the Movable Type source code. Closing comments doesn't seem to do anything at all.
I'll bump up the definition of "old" by a few thousand posts, and we'll see if that helps.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 07, 2005 05:52 AM
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I've updated it. We had approximately 60 days of posts open; I've reduced it to about 30.
Let's see if that helps.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 07, 2005 06:20 AM
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Oh yeah - I did do a SQL routine to automatically close old posts.
Didn't work.
Hence the hacked-up MT code.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 07, 2005 06:21 AM
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Thanks for the reminder Pixy. I'm glad to know my memory wasn't totally borked.
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at December 07, 2005 07:48 AM
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yes, that's right. I had to hack the Movable Type source code. Closing comments doesn't seem to do anything at all.
That's really strange - it worked for me!
If I remember correctly, it didn't work right when I put it in the main template, so I put it in the individual post template.
I thought it was just closing trackbacks that didn't work...
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 07, 2005 05:23 PM
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The 2005 Weblog Awards
Fellow MuNuvians,
First, I have to ask forgiveness for not having found more time to work on learning Movable Type and setting up my new MuNu blog here. As excited as I was over the whole thing, and after the enthusiastic welcome you gave me, I've been woefully slow to get started. Fear not, though, for my enthusiasm hath waned not—I've just been VERY busy (as if we all haven't been, though).
But I also wanted to post a brief "bleg" concerning this year's
Weblog Awards.
Forward Biased was fortunate enough to be a finalist in an obscure little Ecosystem-based category, the
Best of the Top 1751 - 2500 Blogs, and to the extent that you guys can find a few minutes to do so, I'd sure appreciate a few votes now and then! You can vote once every 24 hours in each category, so vote early and often, as they say!
I also noticed that
trying to grok is a finalist in the
Best of the Top 3501 - 5000 Blogs category. I wish her, and any other Munuvians who made the finalist cut, the best of luck.
In fact, if you guys would please post any other Munuvian finalists, we could all cast some better-informed votes.
Thanks so much, folks!
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December 05, 2005
Looking for a Few Good Nerds
For
the last few years I have been
working on
a new architecture for the Internet, which you can read about here:
Problem:
How
can we deliver applications
as services, over
the Internet, and get PC-like functionality, where each user can
mix-and-match applications as if they are on a PC?
(Note:
The question does not refer to pure user-interface
issues that are addressed by AJAX!)
Solution:
Domicel
is a virtual personal Internet
domain. It gives the
end user the look-and-feel of working on a PC –
without the PC! Applications are provided as on-line services, in an
object-oriented paradigm. The aggregate of a user's objects (think:
icons) from all applications, hosted anywhere in the world,
is
their Domicel
– there is no one place in which a Domicel's
objects
reside, no bottlenecks, and no central point of failure.
Or,
to put it another way, it does for applications what the World Wide Web
does for documents.
It's still very
primitive - I think of it as being the Internet version of the Altair,
"the spark that led to the personal computer revolution". At this
point, I would like to get a few good nerds interested. If I can
get it going, I think it will be very big.
You can
see the current state of the art here.
Notice the links in the upper right-hand corner.
PS:
Pixy, I would like to start a "Domicel Q & A" blog. Can I do it
on mu.nu?
Posted by: David Boxenhorn at
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David - no problemo! Email me and I'll get it set up.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 05, 2005 02:44 PM
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 06, 2005 09:56 AM
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I'm a nerd! I'm a nerd!
Hmmm...
Looks interesting, but I'm not sure I get it...
Posted by: Ogre @ at December 08, 2005 12:29 AM
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Ogre: There's a discussion going on here that should help you get it.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at December 08, 2005 07:08 AM
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Attack On The Blacklist?
I've been getting hit with a bunch of comment spam the last couple of days. Some of them even got their notification past the hotmail junk filter. Oddly, the hrefs in them in them had no URLs. Untill just now. It's clearly from the same source (itsok wouldn't be there otherwise). Scarily, the URLS were for Techweb, Wired, and Bloglines. Careless deleting would blog worthy sites. I don't know if they were there to shield Allafrikuh (mispelt to disarm) or to do damage, but some discression must be exercised.
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December 04, 2005
I Noticed I Got Some Comments
I found some comments on my site - some of them were spam which sucks - some of them were real. They all came in yesterday but I didn't receive email notification. The option for notification is checked in the preferences. I don't get so many comments that I can stand to miss any.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at
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Erm.
Anyone else having this problem? It's working fine for me, but I'm on the other server.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 05, 2005 12:23 AM
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I had several all come through at once this morning, but they were only an hour or so late.
Posted by: Simon @ at December 05, 2005 03:26 AM
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I've gotten nailed with a few scattered spa* comments, and although I was notified via e-mail w/o delay at Gmail, one of our other contribs, who gets his mail via AOL, reported big delays and some of the notifications showing up his spa* folder.
Posted by: Rhodey @ at December 05, 2005 09:52 PM
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Actually, I just noticed I got comments over the weekend, but never saw them because I don't visit my site that often (but who does?). I just thought everyone was ignoring me.
Posted by: Jennifer @ at December 05, 2005 11:51 PM
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December 03, 2005
Stupid Trackback Spam
So, for the last day, or so, I've been getting hit with an occassional (I'm sure the system is stopping much more) trackback spam that has emply links in it, like so:
<a href="">
Naturally, this makes it harder to block them by blacklisting their URL. And they are, also naturally, using multiple IP addresses. I've been reluctant to add a blank href to the blacklist, not sure what it might break.
Any ideas?
Posted by: EricC at
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Bastiches.
Adding a blank href to MT Blacklist may cause problems. Snark, however, has no such problems.
I've popped that text in the Snark global blacklist, and we'll see how it goes.
By the way:
Total 264917, Good 704, Bad 264167, % Spam 99.72
In less than a week.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 04, 2005 01:59 AM
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Sorry, I goofed. I was typing fast and not really thinking about it as I did. Had to get going to a Christmas party, which I just got back from (lots o' fun). It was comment spam, not trackback. I'm fairly sure the empty href will cause a problem with blacklist. The best way to stop it would be with a tool like the Bad Behavior plugin for WP, which looks at the client headers.
Posted by: Eric @ at December 04, 2005 08:49 AM
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P.S. Pixy, I got another 19 of these stupid things in the past 6 or 7 hours.
Posted by: Eric @ at December 04, 2005 08:50 AM
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Well poot. Snark doesn't do comment spam, at least not yet.
I may be able to do something. We could even try putting it in MT Blacklist and see what happens...
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 04, 2005 11:30 AM
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I didn't get any of the stupid things overnight. Did you add the blank href to Blacklist?
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Geekoid Question
I have a Palm Tungston E2, and I am wondering if there is any software that will run on a Palm and allow me to write a post on the Palm, and then upload it to my blog when I sync with my laptop?
Thanks!
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That would be cool - we should ask Ted he knows about PDA's
Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at December 03, 2005 08:23 PM
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It would be quite cool. I've done a bit of looking, but haven't found anything I really like for my Tungsten C. Kinda defeats the idea of having a wireless enabled PDA. Now, blogger and WordPress allowing posting by email. I wonder if there is an MT plugin that enables email posting?
Also, Michelle is a PDA geek user too. She might have an answer for us too. Heck, it's all Michelle's fault that I have a really cool PDA page on my blog, with commenting and everything.
Posted by: Eric @ at December 03, 2005 10:09 PM
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Ok, I am on to something. I may have a solution. I am going to work on it tonight and I will post my findings here later this evening or tomorrow.
Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat @ at December 04, 2005 01:03 AM
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I've got a PocketPC and have tried four different blogging apps. I've yet to find one that works well.
I think Kelley (from Suburban Blight) has used a Palm to blog in the past.
Posted by: Ted @ at December 04, 2005 06:47 PM
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I have actually sort of done it in the past with my Handspring Treo 90. I entered all the text with the little thumb keyboard and then synced it to my system and copied it into Ecto to verify the links and post. Not exactly wireless blogging via PDA (but then I don't have wireless anything in my PDA)
It was handy to be able to work on the text waiting in the car at one of the kids activities, without trying to use the laptop in the car.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at December 05, 2005 01:18 AM
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Looking For An Update!
Hello all,
Awhile back there was talk of moving to LifeType. I was wondering what the status is now, and if we are going to have a mass exodus coming up soon...
If this is common knowledge my apologies, I've been absorbed in homework!
Posted by: Nick Queen at
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Everything's on hold for a couple of weeks while I move house, then we'll see.
I've been making some progress with Minx, and I wanted to put up a demo of that as well to see what people thought. That should happen between Christmas and New Year.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 04, 2005 01:55 AM
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Mailman Issues
How come, in my mailman list, since we moved to our MuNu home, there are a couple of issues?
- List archives are no longer generated. Is this because the location does not have the correct permissions?
- I get moderator messages, but when I log in and go to the moderator section of Mailman admin, I see no actual issues to moderate.
Other than that, I love our new MuNu home!
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December 01, 2005
A little more to the left....
ok, so ever since I switched my blog to its lovely Christmas-y wintery theme, all of the posts are way over to the right (right of the banner graphic) when viewed in IE.
Any suggestions, I mean other than telling people to use Firefox?
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November 29, 2005
Snark Update
100,000 Served!
Pings
Since Startup: Total 100034, Good 285, Bad 99735, % Spam 99.70
Last Minute: Total 1, Good 0, Bad 1, % Spam 100.00
Filters: Whitelist 24, Blacklist 34187, Age 6561, Volume 33747, Format 2, All Rejects 74497
Processing Information
Blacklist Entries: 44 (plus 71 manual entries)
Session Uptime: 31 hours 51 minutes
Pings Received: 23453
Processing Time: 1.41 seconds
That's 99,735 spams you don't have to delete, because Snark is on the job.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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Posted by: Ted @ at November 29, 2005 11:33 AM
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Pixy Misa - Stamping out the vile scourge of spam and making blogging more funner again. All hail and praise with double chocolate.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at November 29, 2005 10:47 PM
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November 28, 2005
Deferred Posting
I tried using some deferred posting and it sort of is going haywire. It's posting, but it's not waiting for the designated time. I've got my time set to EST, but the auto-poster seems to be just posting almost anything from the current day that I set up as deferred. Is this a server time issue, or is it me?
It doesn't seem to be posting things I've got deferred until a later day, and it seems to not post something that's got a time set about 6 hours in the future...
Actually, the more I think about it, it does seem to be 5 hours or so off -- I've got code that gets the current date and last night when it was after 8pm my time, the date had advanced to the next day...
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Ogre:
My understanding is the server has been set back to GMT - which is 5 hours ahead of EST. That might well explain it. I'd assume tht Trickle posting must be based on the sever's time zone, as it's a server-centric process, not a per-blog one.
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at November 28, 2005 03:52 PM
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Hmmm...
What I'm trying to figure out, then, is what the setting on my blog does where I've set it to EST? I guess that just affects the display time on my blog.
So I could make it work by setting all my times for the deferred posts off by 5 hours...but then all the times posted on the blog would be off by 5...
I could make all my settings GMT and then when I display the times for posts, subtract 5 hours...
Thanks, L&D!
Posted by: Ogre @ at November 28, 2005 03:57 PM
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You have to have deferred posting (Trickle) enabled on your blog by Pixy first.
Then select primary category, save the post, change the date thingy at the bottom, select [additional categories] button -- one must be 'deferred' -- save post again.
If that doesn't get you working, you'll have to get Pixy to answer...
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 28, 2005 11:49 PM
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Madfish:
His deferred posting is working fine, it's just the actual time that the deferred posts appear that's not what he expects - they're appearing 5 hours ahead of the time stamp he's assigning, which is exactly the offset of his EST from GMT. Hence my suspicion that Trickle's clock is running on Server time, not from the individual blogs' time settings. (Trickle is a server process, not a per blog process.)
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at November 29, 2005 01:46 AM
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Exactly right, Paul. I was hoping Pixie would weigh in to see is this is a setting on my end -- trickle used to work (before the server upgrade), but was offset by 1 hour, not 5 or so.
Posted by: Ogre @ at November 29, 2005 02:45 AM
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Paul is exactly right.
The previous server was on Texas Time.
With the new server I set it up for Sydney time. Convenient for me, and since all the applications are timezone-aware, it won't actually affect anything.
Hahahahahaha...
So I set it to GMT, which was the most innocuous thing I could think of.
Problem is, while Movable Type kinda-sorta handles timezones, Trickle doesn't know anything about them. And unfortunately you can't get it to post at one time and display another.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 29, 2005 03:25 AM
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Oh I can't can I? I take that as a challenge. I'm thinking I can use a MT tag to get the post time, place it in a php variable, then subtract 5 hours and display it using php.
Sure, it's messy, but I bet it works...
Thanks for the confirmation, now that I'm sure I know what it's doing, I just have to make it do what I want.
Posted by: Ogre @ at November 29, 2005 03:30 AM
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Heh. Well, yes, you could do that.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 29, 2005 03:50 AM
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Sorry I blew up... I guess I forgot who I was talking to...
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 29, 2005 02:20 PM
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How do I make those stupid smily thingys???
Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 29, 2005 02:21 PM
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Call me a geek, but I did it.
My blog is now set on GMT, yet it displays all post times in EST. Trickle now posts when I want it to. All I have to remember when writing a post is to add 5 hours to the time.
Oh, and the smily thingys are here:
http://munuviana.mu.nu/archives/055053.php
Posted by: Ogre @ at November 29, 2005 03:05 PM
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Hey Ogre, you should write that up as a "thingy".
Posted by: Eric @ at December 03, 2005 10:13 PM
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You think there's others who are as completely geeky as me who would want to do that?
Posted by: Ogre @ at December 05, 2005 01:21 AM
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November 27, 2005
Super Technical Question
Ok, I've got a question for the technical people. I want to use the value from a php variable as a parameter value in an MT tag. For example, I want to set the categories attribute of a MTEntries tag from a php variable:
MTEntries lastn='2' category='$thiscat'
However, when I try that, I get an error when rebuilding that says No such category 'thiscat'
I've tried various different options here. If I make it look like this:
MTEntries lastn='2' category=\"$thiscat\"
it lets me compile, but it ignores the category (it selects all posts in the mtentries section.
So, any ideas how/if this can be done?
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It can't be done. The template processing runs first, then PHP.
Sorry.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 27, 2005 04:35 AM
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Damn. I was afraid of that. I can make it work with multiple calls to MTArchive, but blech. Thanks, anyway!
Posted by: Ogre @ at November 27, 2005 02:19 PM
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