An odd thing happened...
My friend who occasionally comments on my blog, received some email asking her at "http://itsallaboutde.mu.nu" to exhange links with their viagra site.

Is this the new fad in spamming, to spam our commenters?
Has anyone else had something like this happen?

Posted by: De at 10:45 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm getting a lot of comments rejected for questionable content. Somehow, MT has decided that anything with the letter "d" in it is bad. Examples:

d: b
dist
d. h

It took me maybe ten minutes to edit a comment on my own site to the point that it was considered okay.

I don't suppose anyone's been overzealous with the blacklist lately . . .?

Posted by: Attila at 10:43 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I happened to notice some spam comments here at Munuviana, so I deleted 'em. But there's also a spam ping listed on the menu page that I can't seem to get Blacklist to find (it's atlantc keno). Paul? Jim? Pixy? Can anybody zap it?

Posted by: Susie at 06:16 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 sUSIE:

Not sure what you mean by menu page, but if you've treid to delete it and it can't be found, that usually means Pixy or someone else has already nuked it.

Can you give us a link to what psot it's on, if you're still seeing it?

P.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at October 04, 2005 03:24 AM

2 I see it. Now I'll shoot it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 04, 2005 09:44 AM

3 Or maybe not. It's three weeks old, so it would take a bit of wading for me to get out to where I can shoot it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 04, 2005 09:45 AM

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This is what Fluffy does all day, and why trackbacks sometimes don't work:

Killed 14 trackbacks at Sat Oct 1 20:18:07 CDT 2005
Re-enabled trackbacks at Sat Oct 1 20:19:07 CDT 2005
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:57 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Good Fluffy!!!! Here's a doggie treat!

Posted by: Susie @ at October 02, 2005 04:33 PM

2 How do we feed fluffy? And was that him on the carpet?

Posted by: Simon @ at October 04, 2005 01:31 PM

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Fellow Munuvians, I have recently learned that we (Air Force Security Forces) have lost one of our own. She is the first female Airman killed in Iraq. Please take a minute to visit the Slaughterhouse and read my post. If you are so compelled to do so, please post on your own site and provide trackback to the post at the Slaughterhouse, not here.

I am trying to gather words of encouragement and support for the friends and family that she has left behind.

Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to help.

SlagleRock Out!

Posted by: SlagleRock at 10:20 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I was just going through the logfiles, and I found that our trackback spam watchdog has blocked over 80,000 trackbacks... This week.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:43 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hi all, I don't post here often, but I check in now and then to see new issues.

I was wondering if there was a way to do a mass closing of comments after a certain date in MT?

Thanks, oh and btw Pixy you rock

Dave

Posted by: Oorgo at 12:35 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Fantastico seems to have disappeared - something to do with the new versions of Fantastico and CPanel not liking each other - so until I get a chance to intervene you won't be able to play in that particular sandbox.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:59 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Here's a question for all of the Munuvians who know more about how all of this works than I do. (And I wager that's a fairly high number.)

Is it possible, for purposes of a presentation, to run a blog locally on your own system so that it is not accessible over the internet? Is there a blogging package that can do this fairly easily and really really really cheaply?

And now for the real kick in the pants - is there one that will do all of this on a MAC?

My original plan was to just dummy the thing up in Keynote (Apple's alternative to PowerPoint) but if it could be more real, that would be more better.

UPDATE: I found a shareware program called iBlog (mac programmers are clever namers) it might sort of work but it doesn't have a comment feature.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:33 AM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Well, if you could always install Apache, MySQL, and PHP or Perl (if they're not installed already) and run Movable Type or Wordpress.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at September 29, 2005 02:29 AM

2 To run a full-featured blog locally on your own machine, you also have to essentially have a web-server installed, including a whole slew of plugin modules (perl etc.)and a database (mySQL etc.). It can certainly be done, but it's a helluva lot of work for just a demo.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at September 29, 2005 02:34 AM

3 Heh... yea, what Pixy said.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at September 29, 2005 02:35 AM

4 Given all of that I think that even if I could make that happen, I can probably still fake it in Illustrator in half the time I could do the HTML and CSS.

Thanks for talking me down.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at September 29, 2005 02:57 AM

5 I have Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Perl, Python, PHP, Pike, Ruby and Java installed on my notebook. It's fun!

Still working on installing all the applications...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at September 29, 2005 03:16 AM

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Over the last few days I have had close to 100 comment spam comments. i delete them and add the IP to my ban list. What else can I do?

Posted by: Oddybobo at 11:19 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I want to create an XML index for my blog. The problem is that since the contents of the posts (and comments) are to appear as values of XML elements, they have to be entity-encoded. In particular "<" has to appear as "&lt;" and ">" has to appear as "&gt;". Is there a way that I can get MT to do that?

Right now I am using a kluge which you can see here, in which I use "$|" for "<" and "|$" for ">", then I make the four substitutions by hand (<, >, $|, |$, go to &lt;, &gt;, <, >, respectively, and in that order).

If I can't make MT do what I want, can I write a PHP script that will do this transformation for me on the server (so the url will give me what I want)?

If so, how do I do it?

If not, got any other ideas?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at 02:18 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

So it turns out Dell thinks it's the motherboard... but I have a couple more questions and a few more details posted here.

Thanks to those of you who dropped by to help!

Posted by: caltechgirl at 05:57 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm having the same problem I had a month ago (here), only this time it's coupled with an inability to be able to look at my public_html folder in cPanel. Instead it tells me "Internal Error, can't find that folder". Last time a permissions reset solved it so I'm thinking it will again, but I'm curious why this happens...

Posted by: Daniel at 12:39 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Pop over to my blog for a summary of what happened to my hubby's laptop. It's far beyond my skill or diagnostic capability....

Any comments or suggestions on what the hell happened would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Posted by: caltechgirl at 08:30 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I know I can ban using IP's, but someone recently advised me that I can also ban using keywords. Is that possible with this version (2.64) of MT? Spam is overwhelming me, and banning IP's doesn't do it as they magically generate or hop around.

Posted by: Rae at 04:15 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Does anyone have a recommendation of a web programming guru? I don't need a web designer, but I do need someone who can help tidy up some bits and pieces at my site.

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Simon at 03:24 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hi all,

Just curious if we will ever get a chance to move it on up, to the big time. If so can I have a piece of that pie?

English: What is status on Movable Type 3 exodus?

Please kind Pixy! Happy B-day, btw, missed that!

Posted by: Nick Queen at 04:24 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I tried to post a comment on my own blog this AM and I got the following nastygram: "Comment could not be posted because of questionable content:a"

Ok, I'm paraphrasing the response, but since when is the letter A offensive? This isn't Nathaniel Hawthorne's Puritan New England and I'm not Hester Prynne.....

Also, there weren't any single "a"'s in the comment. I didn't use it as an article.

Posted by: caltechgirl at 07:20 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Since the automatic trackback disable didn't work, I tried to do it manually. But the "Allow Pings" checkbox is not checked!

What do I do now?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at 03:09 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I've decided that I want to be a, "Grown up" blogger and get my own domain name sorted (which tandc.mu.nu would feed into).

Any suggestions/recomendations on domain name providers, dos and don'ts etc?

Posted by: Tris at 08:40 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)