Until I work out what the hell is going on with the server.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:09 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hi gang.

I've just created some new munu forums. The old forums consisted of Renata's World, which was private, and Munuvian Underground, which was never very successful because it basically duplicated the blogs.

This time around I've created two new sections, Yartz Counsel for discussion of books, movies, TV, computer games and stuff like that, and the University of Woolloomooloo for deeper and more insightful topics like philosophy, mathematics, and beer.

Pop on over if it sounds interesting, but do note that there is a not-a-bug in Internet Explorer that may lead to you getting logged out at inconvenient moments. As far as I know, every other browser in the world works properly.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:54 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I guess I'll have to go find someone to start a pillow fight with so things are so bare in that forum huh?

Posted by: Michele @ at August 23, 2005 04:35 PM

2 That would help, yes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 25, 2005 07:13 AM

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Is it possible in MT2.64 to pull up a listing of all comments, similar to the "Edit Entries" function? If so, I haven't been able to figure it out yet and am worried I am missing something obvious. Thanks.

Posted by: JohnL at 04:49 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Any idea why I am suddenly getting the following error message on trackback pings?

Ping 'http://www.searchlightcrusade.com/posts/1123603252.trackbacks.shtml' failed: HTTP error: 405 Method Not Allowed

Posted by: EricC at 06:10 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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Posted by: Nick Queen at 03:35 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

That's right folks, it's time to start getting ready for the third annual

The rules are simple:

1. If you have a favorite hockey team, place their logo somewhere on your front page.
2. Every time your team plays someone else's team in the Jamboree, the loser must place the winner's logo on their front page for 24 hours.
3. You don't have to actually be a Munuvian to play.
4. Trash talkin' is encouraged.

That's it!

So start deciding on your favorite team. We're gonna be gearing up real soon now.

(cross posted at Rocket Jones)

Posted by: Ted at 03:21 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm trying to use use the "rotating banners" fix to make certain images throughout my entire site rotate.

I already implemented Madfish Willie's technique (http://munuviana.mu.nu/archives/033561.php) to make the Tick/Calvin avatars on the top left column of my site randomize.

Now, I want to make certain logos (of the same size setting) on my right side bar randomize.

I thought it would be as simple as inserting the image source urls into another module titled "RotateLogoHead2" and then insert it under RotateLogoHead1 in the HEAD section, and then simply replicate RotateLogoBody and create a RotateLogoBody2, place it, and BAM! I'd have images rotating in two separate places whenever you visit.

But it didn't work.

Any ideas? It seemed so simple...

Posted by: Kyer at 05:53 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I know there's a way to do this -- I read it in the manual, but now I can't find it.

Simply -- I want to have my monthly archives in ascending order -- starting witht he first of the month and going to the end, rather than the reverse. What part of the template do I need to change to do that?

Posted by: Warren Kelly at 05:53 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The league is almost full (and surely quite overflowing with hot air and empty threats), but the only thing missing is you. First come, first served. To enter just do the following:

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Posted by: Nick Queen at 04:56 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Okay, so here is my issue - I'm getting this message when I try to rebuild any index template from my blog "Writing to '/home/daniel/www/index.php.new' failed: Opening local file '/home/daniel/www/index.php.new' failed: Permission denied"

The archives rebuild fine. Just the index templates (and all the index templates - xml, rdf, atom, my index, etc.) give me that message. Oh, and if I'm trying to rebuild index.xml, it says the permission is denied to index.xml.new instead...

Any thoughts?

Huh. Just kidding. Actually, it isn't all the index templates. It's just my main blog template and all my RSS templates... what's up with that?

Posted by: Daniel at 06:35 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Recommendations on RSS aggregators and readers and whatnot? What works, what's powerful, what's useless, what's buggy, etc.

I see several exist, but I figured I'd go to the experts rather than just trust strange information I read on the internet.

Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta at 03:17 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Want a PDA template that will enable comments for PDA users? There's at least one Munuvian who wanted that, so I got it working. Come by my HowTo entry on Eric's Grumbles to find the template and instructions on how to use it.

You can check out the PDA template in action too.

Posted by: EricC at 02:05 AM | Comments (53) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Okay, I have a little SQL query that will close all trackbacks on all entries (on one blog or all of them) older than a given date.

What should that date be? I've just done my blog for anything older than last month, which seems reasonable.

Update: Done the same for Munuviana.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:42 AM | Comments (33) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I update information on my sidebars weekly. Is there anyway to only change the information in one place versus going through 4 templates to change the information?

For example: If I want to add someone to my blogroll (even though I use blogrolling most of the time....it's just an example), I have to go to my Main Archive, Date Category, Individual Archive and Category Archive Templates to change it.

If anyone has any suggestions that work, I'll give ya a big fat virtual kiss...or buy ya a drink. I'd prefer the drink!

Posted by: Sissy at 03:48 AM | Comments (21) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I noticed today that several trackbacks I tried to send wouldn't go through. When I went to click on the activity log to see what was up, I got an error message "500" or something to that effect stating that there was an internal server error of some sort.

Were there any server problems recently?

UPDATE: It just happened again when I went to publish this post. Here was the error message:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@blog.mu.nu and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

UPDATE 2 (8/8 at 1500 EST): It seems trackbacks on all the Minuvian blogs are down. You get the following:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi/mt-tb.cgi on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Posted by: Rhodey at 03:02 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Blup.

Well, I can tell you why you can't see the activity log - it's too big. I'll clear it out, and then at least you'll be able to see what's happening. Maybe.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 07, 2005 04:55 AM

2 Okay, I've cleared the log file. Give it another try now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 07, 2005 04:58 AM

3 Err, that is, try another post. Or something.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 07, 2005 04:59 AM

4 Trackbacks at mu.nu get shut off automatically when we get hit by a spam flood. They come back after five minutes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 08, 2005 11:14 PM

5 Thanks, Pixy!!

Posted by: Rhodey @ at August 09, 2005 01:08 AM

6 Is the SpamFlood (tm) continuing? I've had similar problems on the two posts I've done this evening.

Posted by: Wonderduck @ at August 09, 2005 04:07 AM

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On Friday night I had a 2 column site with a left sidebar. Feeling heady over getting an 85 on a computer geek quiz I went in to do some tweaking by:
- creating a pda version of my site + adding a PDA link on my sidebar
creating a category archive for my posts
adding categories & syndication section on my sidebar

I was careful to back up the index template but as things started to go wrong I overwrote my back up accidentally. Boy did I feel stupid! I've managed to put things somewhat back together, but I'm still having one persistent issue: my 2 columns are no more. My sidebar now appears immediately below my entries.

So far I've done the following: gone back to the MT manual, looked at websites and sample MT templates so I can view the source code for some inkling of what may be wrong (even though I'm not familiar w/CSS or Java). So far nothing that I see comes close to what I have because I originally used an old style template.

I would appreciate any suggestions and/or guidance you send my way. Thanks!

Posted by: Michele at 02:13 AM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I do have backups, though it's a little fiddly to pick out just one template.

What you have right now is the "bottombar" problem. There are solutions, but I don't remember what they are. I'll take another look when I get home from work if none of our other geeks have solved it by then.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 08, 2005 04:45 AM

2 Michele:

In your main index template, just before the section where the the content of your sidebar starts, you'll see these lines:

<div id="sidebar">

<div id="links">

<a href="http://moblog.co.uk/blogs.php?show=1673"><___ alt="we are not afraid.jpg" src="http://lettersfromnyc.mu.nu/archives/we are not afraid.jpg" width="200" height="188" border="0"/></a>
<br>
<br>
<!--dictionary lookup box by TheFreeDictionary.com-->

...and so on with your sidebar content.

The fisrt line, that refers to the div for "sidebar", shouldn't be there, as that div isn't defined in your stylesheet. Try deleting the line
<div id="sidebar">
then save the template and rebuild your Indexes Only and see what happens.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at August 08, 2005 07:15 AM

3 Thanks, I really do appreciate your help and input. I did try deleting that line of code L&D pointed too then saved the index template rebuilt and then refreshed my site... still nothing.

This is the reason I switched from computer science to English Lit in college. I don't do well with needles in haystacks as it requires enourmous amounts of patience and knowing tags cold.

Once I find a template Exactly like mine I'll have do line by line analysis. Unless ... you know where I can get a template like mine and i'll start creating from scratch.

Thanks for your help though!

Posted by: Michele @ at August 08, 2005 02:34 PM

4 I think you need to close another div (put in another </div> after the </MTEntries>

That section is in two nested divs, and if you only close one, I think you'll get pretty much what you've got.

Worth a try, anyway.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 08, 2005 03:20 PM

5 That first smiley isn't supposed to be there!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 08, 2005 03:21 PM

6 Well, thanks for the extra smile anyway.

Tried your suggestion and still no sidebar. Mercury is in retrograde throught the 15th, so maybe some of this will work till then? Just kidding.

Posted by: Michele @ at August 08, 2005 04:03 PM

7 Sorry I wasn't much help. Michele.

At least I can point you to the copies of the original templates and stylesheet for your blog design.

The templates are at
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/default_templates_26

The CSS Stylesheet is at
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/default_styles_26

The name of your style is "Trendy".

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at August 08, 2005 04:41 PM

8 It looks like the <div class="content"> was changed from <div id="content">.

One of two routes that can be taken:
1) The index template can be changed back to <div id="content">

2) The Style-sheet can be changed from #content to .content.

Be sure to only do one of them.

Posted by: phin @ at August 08, 2005 07:11 PM

9 I'm not sure what you're going for, exactly, but here goes some help (likely worth what you paid for it):

At first glance, it does appear there is an extra </div> now where you have 3 of them in a row.

However, I got it to work by simply adding a few items in the style sheet. I added a couple options in the style sheet so that these options looked this way:

#links {
background:#333;
color:#CCC;
margin-top:35px;
top: 180px;
position: absolute;
width: 200px;
overflow:hidden;
}

.blog {
padding-left:15px;
padding-top:15px;
padding-right:15px; position: absolute;
margin-left: 200px;
}

(I have no idea how this is going to post in the comment section, but if it works, you should be able to copy and paste these lines into your style sheet and at least have a good start, including moving the column to the left, at least).

Posted by: Ogre @ at August 08, 2005 09:57 PM

10 Mercury retrograde? No wonder things feel so difficult lately.

Posted by: Mark Munu Astrologer @ at August 09, 2005 10:39 AM

11 Thanks to all the suggestions, order has been restored to my cyberworld

Posted by: michele @ at August 10, 2005 01:55 AM

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Does anyone have an RSS template that is text only? If so, would you mind sharing? I want to provide an RSS template that displays the site and one that just displays the text of the entry. Thanks, Eric

Posted by: EricC at 05:05 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Coming soon: Blogger Football League 2005! Last year's competitors are invited to return, and this year we will have a chance for 2 expansion teams! Leave a comment for details or get in line for a spot!

Posted by: Nick Queen at 06:50 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

For those of you who looked at my CSS based three column template in the past and had difficulty with it, I've released Eric's Templates, version 1.1. This version looks fairly similar, but has some improvements:

• The Internet Exploder Explorer bug that afflicted it is now fixed. Please don't ever ask me to invest so much effort in fixing a "problem" again! It wasn't my template's fault, it was the fault of the IE bug features.
• The bug code that caused a javascript to not function correctly on several pages is fixed
• Several minor MT tag bugs are fixed

You could, if you implemented ver 1.0, implement this version by simply dropping in the style sheet and rebuilding it. The only thing is you may have to change your banner if it is more than 500 pixels wide, since the banner space is not as large as it used to be.

New features are planned for version 1.2, including completely script based left and right columns. Once I implement that feature you will be able to add links and such without having to do any template rebuilds. I've already got that partially working on my own blog, but it needs a bit more work to be ready for prime time, along with some implementation doco. If you want to use that feature now, drop me an email and you can beta test it.

Posted by: EricC at 02:38 AM | Comments (24) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yay!

Thanks Eric!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 06, 2005 03:12 AM

2 It was actually a lot of fun to do. Except, of course, figuring out how to code around IE's complete lack of compliance with browser standards. I plan to keep improving it and making it better, so stay tuned. I'm also thinking it may be time to change the colors, just to throw folks off a little bit. ;-)

Posted by: Eric @ at August 06, 2005 08:26 AM

3 I wonder if IE7 will be an improvement.

There is one standard that IE implements perfectly, but no other brower does. This standard specifies that a second-level domain name has to be at least three characters to be a valid host name. So mu.nu - to pick an example at random - isn't considered a valid host name and IE won't store cookies for it.

I hate IE.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 06, 2005 08:31 AM

4 Nice.

I like that your middle column loads before the sides. That's good design (I did the same thing with my template, to toot my own horn ;-).

Posted by: John Lanius @ at August 07, 2005 05:59 AM

5 Pixy, if the MS boys can figure out that complying with standards helps gain customer loyalty IE7 might be better. Otherwise, doubtful.

John, thanks for the kudos. I got the idea to load the center column first from you, actually!

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Gir's mother passed away last night.

I think it would be nice to send a note out.

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 07:39 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Thanks.

Posted by: Gir @ at August 04, 2005 09:14 PM

2 Thanks for the heads up, Tom.

Gir, all of munu is here for you. Anything we can do, just let us know.

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3 What Pixy said.

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