The Cotillion, a group of Conservative Women Bloggers, made it's debut this week and there are a few Munuvian Women in the group.

Go throw a little lovin' at'em. It's been an exciting week, what with being mentioned by CNN, Free Republic, Townhall, Wizbang, and the Bad Boy of Munu, Ace, not to mention several smaller sites.

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Ok, so the vibe out in the blogosphere is that tecnorati tags are the new shiznit.

I'm over at Tecnorati now trying to figure out how to install and then use them, but frankly, it's leaving my head spinning. Any munuers using them? If so, how do you go about it?

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I am totally flustered by the multiplicity of hosting services, and since I am more concerted with avoiding a bad decision than making the best possible decision, I threw up my hands and went over to take a look at Server Matrix. Is there any reason why I can't just take their low end offer? Now, I go to the options, and am thrown back into confusion:

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1 Ok, to answer in order of asking:

1)No reason at all. They don't seem to offer them raided so there is no benefit

2)No reason not to and a great many reasons to insist on 2003. Better application pooling and security, inherent .NET support and it being generally better at serving pages than IIS 5

3)It certainly helps. Makes it dead easy to setup new sites, emails, ftp accounts etc. Personally I use C-Panel but I'm on a nix server.

4) you use MySQL which is open source (free-ish) what they are offering is MS-SQL which is the very expensive database from Microsoft. If you have MySQL stuff at the moment then there is no real reason to migrate it all to MS and they should install MySQL for you if you smile nicely

5) YES!!!!

6) see http://www.servermatrix..com/managed_services.html for more info

Hope that helps.

By the way - what kind of prices are you getting from these guys?

Posted by: Rob @ at May 31, 2005 11:16 AM

2 Thanks a lot, Rob, that's a big help. Sorry about question (4) - I misread it (what's one little letter?). The hardware firewall is a big deal though, it costs almost as much as the whole computer ($69 vs. $119)! Isn't there a software solution?

Am I right about how one interacts with the server, and my ability to install a debugger and any other "normal" software? If not, I need to figure out a lot of things...

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 31, 2005 11:57 AM

3 This may not be in line with what you're looking for, but do you need that much control? I mean, if you're just looking for someone to host web pages for you, all you really need is a way to get your pages to the site, right? At most, perhaps a way to install things for the web?

If so, most of the questions you've asked don't really matter. I've had web sites hosted since about 1990, and there's some computers I don't even know what software they use to host it (just because it doesn't really matter to me in some cases). I don't know what size hard drives they have, and I don't care.

On the other hand, if you're making custom internet applications or something, just ignore me and move along.

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 31, 2005 05:36 PM

4 It's a web-based development environment written in Java, running under Apache Tomcat, and using mySQL on the back end. I've been developing it on my PC, and I want to make the move to the Internet. It is meant to be the "PC of the Internet". What's that? As soon as I get it working I'll let you all in on it.

My problem is that I've never actually developed an Internet application before...

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 31, 2005 05:59 PM

5 If that's the case, I'd just look for a host that supports mqSql that runs Apache. I don't think any other details would matter at this point. If you're developing the java code, all you'd need to do is ftp the java code to the server.

You wouldn't need any other fancy add-ons, unless you want to do fancy stuff with mySql, I'd think. My personal favorite for do-it-yourself web sites is Hurricane Electric (he.net). I've had accounts with them for 10 years now (holy crap, has it been that long?) and I think their servers have been down twice in that time -- both times for less than an hour.

Oh, and if you sign up for an account, list bdrag as a VAR -- gets me a couple dollars kickback.

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 31, 2005 06:28 PM

6 Ogre: No problem on the kickback!

But please explain to me more about how it works. How do I get their Apache to call my code, and how do I interface with their mySQL? How do I debug my code, and how do I keep from crashing things for everyone else, or manage mySQL? It's certainly true that I don't need much bandwidth at this point, though, since it's just me using it.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 31, 2005 06:47 PM

7 "Their Apache call my code?"

That's an interesting statement. It sounds like you're integrating an application into Apache? If you're writing a java application, is it running in a java intepreter, or is it actually integrated with Apache? Most java I've seen is client-server and the java portion runs on the client machine, just making calls to a server.

You'd interface with their sql the same way you do now -- only with a remote database call instead of a local one. I'm not sure I have a complete picture of what you're doing with this quite yet.

As for debugging, you'd just write your code, then upload it, then run the program that would call the code remotely. If it's client-server, it could really only crash the client machine and not everyone.

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 31, 2005 07:02 PM

8 My Java code runs on the server. Right now I have Apache Tomcat running on my PC, when I start it up it loads an XML file that tells it which Java class corresponds to which URL. That's the entrypoint to my system, which is all written in Java. I also have mySQL running on my PC, the Java calls mySQL through JDBC. I am using Borland's JBuilder for debugging. When I debug, I actually run Tomcat in the debugger (it is written in Java) and put a break in my own code. I'm willing to consider any other way of working as long as it doesn't cost too much, or take to much time for me to figure out.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 31, 2005 07:13 PM

9 Ah, I see now. Yes, since you're having Apache respond differently to different URLs, I imagine you're going to need a server to yourself, not a shared web server.

Have you considered just hosting it on your own machine right where it is? Presuming you have a decent ISP connection, you can get a static IP that routes to your machine and then anyone can access your computer through the internet (presuming you have all sorts of fun security in place).

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 31, 2005 08:04 PM

10 I have considered hosting it myself, but my ISP connection is not that good (I could probably get a better one if I pay for it), and my only computer is a laptop, that I sometimes need to take places (like to do demos) so I think it is actually cost effective to host it remotely. Also, I need to learn this stuff sometime...

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 31, 2005 08:18 PM

11 Thingy.


I'd love to help, but I don't have much experience using Windows as a server, and none at all with managing it remotely.

That said, Servermatrix is a pretty good company.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at June 02, 2005 01:46 AM

12 Thanks, Pixy.

The only reason why I don't want to port to Linux is that I have no experience with it. Should I? I'm sure I can do it fairly easily - the Java should port "as is" and mySQL and Tomcat are more native in Linux. The only question is the debugger - do you know if there are any good free Java debuggers for Linux? The effort would be worth it if more people could help me.

My really basic question, though, is: Can I do anything with a remote computer that I can do with my desktop - i.e. is there some software that lets me see the display over the internet? If so, then presumably I can just do "what I'm doing now".

The other question that I have left is whether I can get out of having to use the (really expensive) hardware firewall.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at June 02, 2005 07:01 AM

13 David:

The 'view your server desktop over the web' software is called Remote Desktop and it's built into Windows XP and Server 2003 (in Windows 2000 Advanced Server, it was called Terminal Services in Remote Administration Mode). You do have to turn it on, and forward the ports it uses(TCP port 3389) through whatever software and/or hardware firewall you use. You need to know the IP address of the server machine to connect.

If you're not using XP on your end, you can download the RDP client for Windows from Microsoft, or install UltraVNC (an open-source alternative which I've found fastest), or any of several other versions of VNC (Virtual Network Computing). If using VNC, you'll need to install it on both ends, as it won't interface with Windows Remote desktop.

If the data you are sending back & forth across the remote connection is extremely sensitive, you may need to go to some additional lengths to encrypt it, but for your purposes, it doesn't sound like that'll be necessary, as there's fairly robust encryption out-of-the-box.

Here's a chapter from Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Insider Solutions that covers the essentials pretty well.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at June 03, 2005 07:15 AM

14 Thanks a lot, Paul. That was a big help.

Now, if anyone can tell me if I can get out of the hardware firewall (or not)....

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at June 03, 2005 09:19 AM

15 Well you can...but I'm not sure you'd want to.

There are a large number of automated processes running all the time on the internet, just probing for insecure sites to take over. If you have no protection, you will be compromised, usually in less than 15 minutes.

You could probably make do with a software firewall, but I'm not sure a hosting company would let you -- their equipment is what would be at risk.

Posted by: Ogre @ at June 03, 2005 12:30 PM

16 but I'm not sure a hosting company would let you -- their equipment is what would be at risk

In fact, the hardware firewall is a $69/month option. This is quite a lot considering that that the server itself is only $119/month. Doesn't Windows have a built-in firewall?

The fact that it's an (expensive) option leads me to believe that not choosing it is viable. Or is it just a marketing ploy to make things look less expensive that they are?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at June 03, 2005 12:53 PM

17 David:

If you do decide to work with a software firewall, I really don't think you want to rely on the one built into Windows.

It's basically a 'better than nothing' solution for home users, but not adequate for a server. I'm guessing the hardware firewall their referring to is an actual second server running an ISA firewall, or something equivalent.

If you're going to use software, you'll probably want an actual server firewall, like the ones made by Tiny or Kerio (not cheap!)

Given that it doesn't sound like you're going to have mission critical or highly sensitive data on your server (or are you?) you might want to just talk to the hosts, explain the use you'll making of the server, and ask them the parameters for when they recommend the hardware device.

Obviously, if it's an optional component, there must be other users who are operating without it? Maybe they could give you some referrals so you could talk to other users of their service?

Just a few thoughts, anyway. Note that I'm not currently running any webservers, so Rob and Ogre's opinions should carry a lot more weight!

Wonder what Pixy does about a firewall for MuNu's server at Server Matrix?

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at June 05, 2005 09:13 PM

18 Thanks for the advice, Paul.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at June 05, 2005 10:14 PM

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I know there's been talk of the cialis/socialist problem with Blacklist, but I've just found another.

The word "hi" is banned, meaning "China" has become a questionable word. Oh powers that rule the Blacklist, a little help on hi?

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1 It's been pulled Simon.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at May 30, 2005 03:51 AM

2 I think the problem is that when you despam the blacklist automatically proposes banned expressions. You shouldn't automatically accept them! Usually they're highly redundant, and may contain silly suggestions (like "hi"). I usually delete everything except the domain part of the URL - or choose some equally identifying, and otherwise unlikely, phrase.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 30, 2005 07:37 AM

3 Yep. Be careful out there, folks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 30, 2005 09:35 AM

4 I banned a real pain the the posterior spammer the other day. First time I've done it. I pulled the trigger rather quickly and without aiming. If I did this - Sorry.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at May 30, 2005 12:53 PM

5 No problem. Everyone has access to the blacklist, so you can always undo it if you make a booboo.

Speaking of spam: modafinil!

Just testing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 30, 2005 03:06 PM

6 Someone had banned "india".....sigh.

Posted by: Susie @ at May 30, 2005 03:18 PM

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Pixy, did you get my email of the 25th? Sorry to bring this up here, but I just want to make sure you got it, and didn't think it was spam or anything. (Now that I think of it, it did have a kind of spamish title: Hosting Advice.)

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at 08:30 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Since I'm running a political blog, the fact that "socialist" is being spammed out because it contains "cialis" is annoying. How can we dump on socialists if we can't name them?

Also, any opinion on WordPress MU yet?

Posted by: Steve Janke at 07:46 PM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I've been running WP 1.1 but just upgraded to 1.5 through Fantastico... Wow! Totally different, but seems just as easy and powerful... or it will be easy when I've learned where everything goes.

If you have any questions feel free to email me; I know squat about the new version, but a passable working knowledge of the old stuff.

Posted by: pam @ at May 26, 2005 10:03 PM

2 Who can't say socialist in the comments?

Posted by: Jim @ at May 27, 2005 12:52 AM

3 Seriously though, this is a common complaint. With our new and improved spaminator it might be time to unblock "cialis".

Posted by: Jim @ at May 27, 2005 12:53 AM

4 WordPress MU isn't ready for prime time, unfortunately.

I should be able to come up with a solution for the socialist problem.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 27, 2005 01:04 AM

5 Wow!

I knew Pixy was amazing, and seemingly indefatigable, and capable of almost anything, but solving the social ist problem, that would be truly amazing.

Europe will never be the same.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at May 27, 2005 02:20 AM

6 Why can't you just call them dirty rotten stinking lousy Godless commie bastards?

Posted by: Victor @ at May 27, 2005 02:51 AM

7

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 27, 2005 03:05 AM

8 Well, I could call them dirty rotten stinking lousy godless commie bastards who eat their children without salt and pepper, but social ist is so much easier and quicker to type.

Posted by: Eric @ at May 28, 2005 04:35 AM

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Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 28, 2005 05:12 AM

10 cheapcialis.com:

Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: cialis.com

Okay, let's see how we go with that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 28, 2005 05:15 AM

11 Dirty rotten stinking lousy Godless commie bastard socialists.

Yay!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at May 29, 2005 06:29 PM

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Hi.

::waves::

I'm only a few weeks old y tengo unas pocas preguntas para mis Munuvianos. (Sorry, I sometimes break into random Spanglish). I have a few questions for anyone who might feel apt to answer.

• 1. Can we import old Blogger (Blogspot) entries/archives etc. yet?
• 2. Why is it that sometimes after I click "save" or "rebuild" after I finish composing a post, that it kicks me back to the log-in screen? (this only happens every so often).
• 3. Kyer wants a 3-columned template, but everywhere Kyer goes and finds one (yes, even Elise's site), it fails to function properly when Kyer tries to implement the CSS. Any help on implementing a groovy 3-column template?
• 4. I frequently have an issue with pinging trackbacks....whenever I go back to edit/update a post where I had previously sent a trackback ping, it often re-sends ANOTHER trackback ping, thus creating multiple trackbacks on someone else's site. One time I accidentally created 7 trackbacks on a friend's site! (A very annoying occurrence!!!) What am I doing wrong?
• 5. Are we going to upgrade to a newer version of MT someday?
• 6. Is Kyer exceeding a MuNuby's question quota?

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I have a question for the extreme technically skilled people around here. I am using an external javascript that someone else has created -- I cannot change this script in any way. However, that script generates code for the site that I want to change -- I want to convert <BR> tags to spaces or something else. I don't think this is possible, but I figured I'd ask.

I can make the <BR> tags disappear completely without a problem -- but then all the items appear mashed together and I would like spaces between them.

Anyone have any clues?

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I really appreciate the work Ciao! My Bella! did, but I am a purple person at heart. My site is undergoing revisions. BUT I can't seem to alter the banner. How do I put a new banner in? Do I need to ask Ciao to unlink me?

Once I have done that this is what I want to do. Same banner without the green border; just the sunset and the tree and the sky. I will then change my colors again if need be to match the purple you see in the sky. I would love to make the edges a bit fuzzzy too. Advice?

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Hopefully, in the next few weeks I'll have reached the stage in my product development where I'll want to put it on line (for development purposes only, for now!). Can anyone recommend to me a hosting service, or give me some advice as to how I choose one? Or, put another way, where is Munuviana hosted, and why shouldn't I use it?

I won't need much bandwidth at first, since it'll be just li'l ol' me using it, but hopefully the thing will catch on like wildfire and I'll want to ramp up quick.

(BTW one of the applications I hope to demonstrate is a primitive blogging system - not for serious use, but to inspire others to use my product to write one!)

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at 09:59 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Well, munu is hosted at Server Matrix, but they only do whole servers, not individual web sites.

If you email me some details of what you need, I should be able to recommend something - or it might be possible to run it right here.

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I know that the Bartender has answered this before, but I cannot find the answer in the blog thingies on the side. It concerns formatting blockquotes so that they appear in a shaded box. Currently, I'm using the following code embedded directly into my post. All greater than and less than signs have been changed to square brackets:

[blockquote][p style="BORDER-RIGHT: #800000 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 15px; BORDER-TOP: #800000 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 15px; BACKGROUND: #d3d3d3; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; MARGIN: 15px; BORDER-LEFT: #800000 1px solid; COLOR: #000067; PADDING-TOP: 15px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #800000 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"]

enter text here

[/p] [/blockquote]

It probably has to do with updating the CSS, but the MT website wasn't helpful in that regard. Come to think of it, neither was Google. Probably a badly formed query on my part.

Posted by: Physics Geek at 07:39 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Okay. I'm beginning to puzzle out how to do certain things with my blog, and yes I am still a neophyte at this!

I have two pull-down menus now (that actually work! -- thanks in no small part to comments and tips here on Munuviana) and I want to change the font-size on them -- especially the MuNu one because it takes up so much horizontal real estate.

What can I do to change the font characteristics (size, color, style, etc.) of those pull-down menus?

Actually, I'm assuming that changing to a smaller/different font would make the pull-down menus smaller. If that isn't true, then how would I actually make the menus smaller?

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1 Dave,

Many have asked. I'm not sure anyone has found the answer.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at May 21, 2005 02:44 PM

2 Put the php code in a div where class=side, like this:

<div class="side">
<?php include "http://blogroll.mu.nu/pulldown.i"; ?>
</div>

That should make it the same font as your blogroll.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 21, 2005 09:26 PM

3 Hi Dave! If you're the same Dave that emailed me recently, I sent you a few emails. If not - oopsie.

You can modify the font in the say that David (the above David) suggested, but don't forget to change the font of the "side" attribute in your stylesheet.

If that doesn't work, you can jimmy it up a bit in your main index. Let me know if you need to do so, and we'll chat;-)

Posted by: sadie @ at May 22, 2005 12:11 AM

4 David & Sadie,

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Your advice solved my problem, and also taught me something more about the care & feeding of a blogsite!

I appreciate both of your inputs very, very much!

(And Sadie: you and I emailed a bit the first week in May. You solved a problem with my blog then, too . . . somehow you keep rescuing me . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at May 22, 2005 06:03 AM

5 Aackk! Last night it worked. The fony was fine, the pulldown menu was behaving nicely. But this morning, the blasted thing is back to the way it was before I added the code!

What is going on? Help?

Posted by: Dave @ at May 22, 2005 03:01 PM

6 "fony"="font" in my previous post . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at May 22, 2005 03:01 PM

7 Speaking of Pull-Down MuNu blogrolls........

How come mine hasn't automatically updated to included our newest addition to the family? I thought it specifically said something along the lines of "now fixed to auto-update" at the top of the "pull down blog roll" code on this page?

Posted by: kyer @ at May 23, 2005 02:34 AM

8 Evidently I'm suffering from a severe case of cluelessness. I figured out the problem.

Please disregard my previous two comments.

Or, as Roseanna Roseanna Danna would say, . . . "Nevermind . . ."

Posted by: Dave @ at May 23, 2005 02:45 AM

9 Indeed. Never forget to feed the blog, but try not to do so after midnight;-)

As if I'm one to talk....

Posted by: sadie @ at May 23, 2005 08:09 AM

10 Hmmm...and if that has no effect at all? (Other ideas, things to look for?)

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 24, 2005 02:33 PM

11 When I fixed my pull-down menu problem using tips provided by David and Sadie (above), I was using my wife's laptop.

The next morning when I posted my panicked comment about the problem coming back, I was on my desktop computer.

I found that my browser settings were the cause of my grief (I was using larger fonts in both the IE 6 browser, and the XP OS desktop settings).

Now you know the source of my shame . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at May 24, 2005 05:03 PM

12 Interesting. I'm looking at your blog in IE6, Dave, and I see no difference in the size of the text in the drop-down list. Changing the text size settings appears to have no effect at all.

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 24, 2005 05:23 PM

13 I don't understand . . . The text size and font style both changed when I made those changes to my templates. I had to tweak IE6 on my desktop before it (my desktop's browser) recognized the changes, though.

I'll have to look at it with different browsers, though, to see if it is displaying consistently across browser applications . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at May 24, 2005 07:44 PM

14 Or maybe you were looking at a cached page?

Posted by: Susie @ at May 24, 2005 11:30 PM

15 As far as I can remember when trying to resolve this issue for myself some time ago... Firefox and other standards-compliant browsers will apply your div formatting to the elements of the pulldown menu just fine, but IE completely barfed - essentially ignoring the formatting within the list.

When I get home, I'll see if I can find my notes, but I was never able to resolve it, even with lots of others helping tackle it.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at May 25, 2005 12:51 AM

16 Looking in IE and Netscape 8, that does indeed to appear to be the case -- Netscape sizes the drop-down while IE leaves it one size.

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 25, 2005 02:15 PM

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I think the blacklist is maxed out.

*Referring to my use of that particular title, not the problem.

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1 I've done a fairly heavy cleanup in the Blacklist of everything through to the end of the 'Q's, and cherry-picked the obvious redundancies from the rest of the list.

Should give us a bit of breathing room, although I only cleared about 200 spots.

I'll go through the rest of list on the weekend, unless somebody posts here that they've hit it sooner.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at May 20, 2005 05:54 AM

2 I've been doing the same.

This isn't a problem with MT Blacklist 2 (which works with MT 3); it only happens because the original Blacklist stores all the entries in one big lump.

I think there's a fix available; I'll look into it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 20, 2005 07:17 AM

3 Only thing is, I've patched Blacklist a bit, with a custom crapflood detector and the pong deflector. I'll need to reapply those.

Hmm. I've updated to the latest version, but I don't know it that will fix the problem. Let me try something...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 20, 2005 07:38 AM

4 The pong deflector is back in place.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 20, 2005 07:45 AM

5 Aha. I've found a solution for the problem, so now we should be able to grow the list to around, hmm, 64,000 entries. Of course, that will be abominably slow, but hey...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 20, 2005 08:20 AM

6 What's the soluition to the size issue Pixy? I know several others who are having the same problems.

P.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at May 20, 2005 10:45 PM

7 Add a line like this to the mysql config file:

set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16M

By default it's 1M. That's the maximum size of a SQL statement.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 21, 2005 02:23 AM

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Continue in the extended entry for the rest of this humor and the second truly tasteless funny.

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It doesn't look like it has updated since early yesterday . . .

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1 It is working, though I'm not sure if the automatic update happened or if I set it to only update every two days or something.

You can click on "update now" at the top of the Awstats page to tell it to update now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 19, 2005 10:45 PM

2 It is working fine now. Hmmm. It certainly didn't seem to work earlier today. And I tried clicking on that button, but it just acted like a refresh without any changes to the stats.

I'm sorry to be a bother, Pixy!

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For those of you who are interested: Yes, our backups do work.

(I had occasion to retrieve something for someone here, and the operation was a complete success.)

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I've been distracted from Minx-work for the past couple of weeks by that "life" stuff, but I just stumbled across this

I'm going to have to play with that. Really. I have no choice, do I?

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1 No, I suppose (m)U don't

Posted by: caltechgirl @ at May 18, 2005 02:04 AM

2 MU is for multi-user? Yes.

(Just between ye and mu.)

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 18, 2005 09:38 PM

3 I would wholeheartedly support the move to that... I miss some of the great plugins and constant community work of Wordpress. That is what my old blog runs on, and it was fun and easy to set up.

Of course Jen was threatening to leave if we went php though, wasn't she....

Posted by: Oorgo @ at May 19, 2005 12:12 AM

4 I've played around with it a bit, but I don't think it's the way to go.

Back to the minx-mines...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at May 23, 2005 01:57 AM

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Like a lot of folks, especially refugees from Blogspot, I've got Sitemeter up on my blog. But here on MuNu we've got that nifty AWStats. Should I yank Sitemeter? And if I do, do I lose the ability to allow others to see my stats. With Sitemer, you get that nice button with the current count of visitors. But with AWStats, all I see is the URL do the very cool looking stats page -- but it is still just a link on blog page. Is there an API call I can make to get some data out, like the number of visitors and such, that I can then put on the blog?

Still looking through the documentation -- maybe the answer is in there somewhere.

Posted by: Steve Janke at 04:17 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I know I am the new kid on the block...but I saw this and thought there may be some interest out there. Sitemeter has a post on how to set up their counter for MT for those who are interested. You can read it
here. I haven't tried it but might give it a shot.

Posted by: Guy S at 01:37 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hey guys!!

I have a quick question about using fonts in a post: how can I get my Stylesheet (if that's it) to utilize a font NOT already included??

Once in a blue moon, I like to insert something inside a blockquote that uses Courier or New Courier, specifically for bass guitar tab notation where the spacing of the characters is important.

I have tried the typical font = "Courier", but without knowing where to adjust my Stylesheet, it's just so much flotsam in the post.

Oh and since I'm whining - how can I adjust the font size and how?

(Once again, I am indebted to Pixy for allowing my smelly behind to be included in the ever-expanding Munu universe. Really.....thanks metric tons Pixy!!)

Posted by: Mad Mikey at 12:40 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)