mu.nu - "My Tamagotchi!" she said. "It has to poop."

October 19, 2005

Don't You People Have Homes To Go To?!

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This is the bandwidth utilisation graph for the munuserver.

That big spike is me running the offsite backups.

But see where the traffic suddenly jumps and stays high for hours on end? That's one person with a Roadrunner account, a Perl script, and too much free time, just causing trouble for the sake of it.

Welcome to my reject list, moron.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:28 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Spam Fighting Help!!

I've spent most of this evening deleting porn spam from my blog. Didn't come from just one IP, but it all promoted the same site, and most of the IPs were registered through the same company in the Netherlands.

I am Blacklist ignorant -- so much so that I don't even know how to get into it. What do I need to do to get rid of the porn spam?

Posted by: Warren Kelly at 12:42 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 18, 2005

Commenting Problem

I and many of my readers have been unable to comment. We keep getting an error message:

"Build error in template 'Comment Preview Template': Error in tag: Can't find included template module 'Remember Me' "

This has happened before, but beginning yesterday it has become the norm.

Help.

Posted by: Stacy at 04:39 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Did Blacklist go Tango Uniform?

Pixy, Blacklist seems to have fallen over. I don't seem to be able to get it to actually do anything when I try to get it to search.

Even if I just ask it to list the last n posts, it returns a response saying no comments/pings were found to match the criteria. It insists it can't find anything by simple text string either.

Did somebody hit Fluffy with a bad can of Alpo?

Paul

Posted by: PaulT at 04:25 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Referrer Spam

Referrer spam has recently become a huge problem for blogs. Not only does it clog up your referrer lists, but it puts a significant load on the server and has increased our bandwidth usage by something like 50%.

Later today I'll be installing referrer filters right across mu.nu. I've been filtering Ambient Irony for the past few days without any problems. Now, it might happen that someone might not be able to follow a link from an oddly named web site to your blog. If you hear of this happening, it's the filters. Let me know what the linking site is, and I can adjust the filters to fix that.

You (and your readers) will always be able to access your blogs from a bookmark or by typing the URL straight into the browser; this only affects links from other sites.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:42 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 17, 2005

RSS Feed

Someone just asked me what's my RSS feed, and that's actually a good question.

How do I find this out?

I don't do RSS. It makes my head hurt.

Thanks!
-H

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 07:38 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Flash and Moveable Type?

Did a quick google for flash and MT with no luck and I am to lazy to keep digging. I am hoping that someone else has already checked this out. Is it possible? Can it be done?

The reason I ask is for a countdown clock. The ones I have found in java are kinda lame, but I think I can scam a really good one that is in flash.

If no one has any idea, I will have to get off my lazy bumm and do more googling!!!

Posted by: ProcheinAmy at 03:03 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 16, 2005

Porn Spam

Coming from IP 67.19.98.106

Ban it now, 'cause it moves fast!

Posted by: Warren Kelly at 10:40 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 15, 2005

Many thanks, everyone!

I just wanted to pop in and share my appreciation for the enthusiastic welcome you folks gave me over at Ellis Island. It would have been plenty good enough that Pixy is just even doing this for people, but on top of that y'all made me feel quite welcome.

Thanks again, everyone! Now, all I have to do is figure out how to use Movable Type...

- Obi-Wan
Forward Biased

Posted by: Obi-Wan at 11:48 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 14, 2005

Spam, sausage, bacon and spam

So, in an effort to avoid blogging I've been despamming Munuviana. I finally got that pesky keno trackback that's been bugging me---yay! I also seached the last 50,000 comments and found dozens of spam comments to delete. I tried to seach the last 99,999 comments, but it timed out....

Anyone know how many comments we have in all of munu? Just curious, really...

UPDATE: Found 5 more running 60k.....
Another Update: found 5 more at 70k!
Oops!!! accidently deleted one of Pixy's comments. Guess I got carried away...Sorry, oh Great and Powerful Lord of Munu! Anyway, I timed out again at 80,000 comments, so I guess I'm done anyway. But it was fun while it lasted!

Posted by: Susie at 05:53 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Mail System Updated

I've updated the email system on the munuserver to a new version. It seems to have worked, with the possible exception of some incorrectly encoded binary attachments (which were probably viruses anyway).

If you use munu for your email and run into any problems, leave a comment here.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:03 AM | Comments (31) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 12, 2005

MuNu blog in running for Best Canadian Blog

A MuNU blog, yours truly, is in the running for the Best Canadian Blog!

Angry in the Great White North

But despite a weeklong lead, I've slipped to second place, only a couple of votes behind a surging Bound by Gravity (not a Munuvianan!). If you would like to see a MuNu blog win this inaugural award, I invite you to visit my blog, and place your vote using menu on the left side panel.

Thank you for your support. Cheers!

Posted by: Steve Janke at 09:26 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

It sounds unlikely to me, but....

A question for any of the Munuvian Computer Literati--is there such a thing as a "cookie grabber"? i.e. a website that can read your cookies for a different website and use them against you? It sounds like an Urban Legend to me, but I haven't been able to track down any confirmation or disputing info.

So, say that I went shopping at JCPenney.com. (Assume for this exercise that I were silly enough to be using IE). Could they "grab" the cookies that, say, Amazon.com sets, and somehow magically deduce my password and order the complete works of Conway Twitty boxed set using my identity?

Thanks for putting up with me!

Posted by: Susie at 02:26 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 11, 2005

Problems on "Ellis Island"

The comments function seems to be going kerflooey. It only creates a "blank" form and after you leave a new comment, it doesn't show up despite the number indicator changing. Haloscan problems maybe?

Posted by: Gary at 01:58 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hullo

Hello, fellow Munuvians!

(all together now, just like we learned in our 12 step programs, "Hi Vinnie!")

Pixy? Might I trouble you for a login and password to Cpanel?

You see, the Pulitzer Committee simply will not consider me unless my entire body of work is displayed, and my export file is simply to big to upload into MT itself.

Don't make me get the mice....

Posted by: Vinnie at 12:27 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 10, 2005

Questions about CU

I am working on a post for a Texas PreGame Summary. This Saturday we play Colorado. I am unable to find the following information on their athletic website and my husband has no idea either. Can anyone help?

Who is Colorado's main rival?

Do they have any players receiving National Recognition for their skills? If not, who is their top player?

Do they have any unique traditions, besides Raphie?

Any help would be appreciated!

Posted by: ProcheinAmy at 11:32 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Happy Thanksgiving from Canada

Oct. 9 - I just want to wish all Munus a Happy Thanksgiving, Canadian style. (I know it's way early for Americans and cause for bemusement by Australians who are approaching summer .. but hey! Things may be upside down and a trifle early here in the Great White North but good wishes are never too soon or too late, right?)

I am grateful, for one thing, that the ever vigilant Pixy and Fluffy stopped the source of the spam that attacked us while we in the Great White North were in the midst of the holiday weekend.

Most of all I'm grateful (and now I'm really serious) for all you Munu foks whom I have come to think of as my family. I suck at leaving comments, but I do read Munu blogs and it really helps me cheer and laugh and, yes, keep going.

Bless you all, and here's toasting to winter and/or spring and, most of all, we must raise a toast ...

To the future! Because there is one. (And never, ever, doubt that.)

Posted by: Debbye at 04:59 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 09, 2005

Formatting Problem

So I just checked my blog and all of a sudden all of my apostrophes have turned into question marks.

So: grandmother's becomes: grandmother?s and any conversation looks like

??Hello!??

It was fine yesterday, does anyone know what's up?

-H.

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 10:21 AM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 08, 2005

Breaking the Laws of Physics

I awoke this morning to a breakfast of scrambled eggs and SPAM, except I didn't have any eggs just SPAM. It wasn't all that bad just six or seven trackback SPAMs but I noticed something interesting.

My general spam policy is that any time I have to go into a post and remove any form of SPAM, I close the comments and turn off trackbacks while I'm there. SPAM me once, shame on you. Spam me twice Shame on me. As I was going through today's SPAM I noticed that all of the effected posts already had trackbacks turned off!

Is this some magic trick of Fluffy's? Or have spammers found a way to trackback to posts where trackbacks have been turned off? If they have, we have a serious problem.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:36 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 07, 2005

We knew him when

Pixy the millionaire?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at 01:15 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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