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April 18, 2005

Emailing code?

Does anyone know that code to insert on a template where you can click on it and it just generates a new email message? I think it'll help against the Spamster.

I want that on mine but am a technophobe.

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 02:39 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 17, 2005

Anti-Spam Weapon

I am sure the great and powerful and wise Pixy Misa is already on top of this but just in case it somehow escaped his attention, I thought I'd better mention it. After all he is only human (we think) and it is my duty to do what little I can to help.

Anyway, I found this at a site called Synthstuff. It's a handy little thing called Spamlookup. It's a MT plugin that helps block spam. It apparently does a good job.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 01:03 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 15, 2005

Thingy

Just updated PHP on the server. This requires doing a complete rebuild of the web server, adn that ha a nasty habit of resetting everyone's access permissions.

If you run into any problems, like not being able to rebuild your blog, give me a yell and I'll get it fixed right away.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:11 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 14, 2005

trackback marauders

Anyone know how to get rid of trackback luncheon meat and how to stop it from happening?

Posted by: Tiger at 10:08 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

New MuNu Blogroll?

It was inevitable, really. I liked my blogroll in MuNuvian citizenship order...but now it's in alphabetical order and I can't find SHIT!

Nothing really important; just venting. Guess it's time for me to start marching to the beat of the same drummer.

Fixed! Yay Pixy!

Posted by: Victor at 08:24 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

MuNu Central

I've added an entry for the munu home page to the automatic blogroll thingy. Just so you know, it shows up as "MuNu Central".

Now I'm going to watch and see how that affects its Ecosystem rank.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:54 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Carnival of the Munuvians, Mk II

A while back, I floated the idea of a weekly or fortnightly or somethingly Carnival of the Munuvians, highlighting the best munu has to offer. A number of people sent entries to me, and I sort of sat on them...

Well, I still think it's a good idea, so I'm going to give it another go, only this time with extra anchovies! I've set up a new blog: Carnival of the Munuvians. (I realise that it doesn't look very festive, but that will change.) And I'm setting up software to feed posts from the Carnival blog straight onto the front page of mu.nu. You can see the software at work with Automated Ambience, which is a mirror of my blog as a phpBB forum.

What I'm looking for is a team of editors to manage the Carnival. There will be two types of entries: Features, which feature a single outstanding post and can be entered at any time, and the Carnival itself, which will appear on a semi-regular schedule.

All you will need to do is enter posts in the blog; all the copying and stuff will happen automagically. Let me know if you're interested!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:07 AM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 13, 2005

Pull Down Menu Master Template Updated

The master template post for the Mu.Nu pulldown menu has been updated to update itself automatically. As our quest for world domination accelerates I gave up on trying to keep up with manual updates.

The post - located down on the right under Useful Thingies has all of the instructions you need to set up the list. Do this after you have followed Pixy Misa's PHP instructions.

Many people have asked in the past about how to format they type in the menu, and my standard response is “I have no idea.” This does nothing to change that!!! I offer it as is and hope some you can get some value from it. If you ever figure out how to format the type - let us all know!

And Welcome to all of the Newcomers. It's great to have you here.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:45 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 12, 2005

Mu.nu traffic

Equal with Instapundit?

Interesting...

Posted by: Daniel at 09:18 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 10, 2005

The New New Munu Blogroll

Hi all. A little while back I set up a new, automatically maintained blogroll system for Munu, but I never really explained how it works.

The blogroll is maintained by a blog called Blogroll. For each new Munu I create a post that simply lists the name and domain name of their blog. View a series of extremely intricate templates (some as much as three lines long!) it then magically creates various styles of blogroll for people to use.

To use these blogrolls, you must first set up your blog to be creating php. This isn't hard, and here is how you do it:

Go into the Weblog Config page for your blog, and click on Preferences at the top.

Scroll down to the Archiving section, and for the entry labeled File extension for archive files, put in php.

Now go into Templates, and select your Main Index template. The file will be set to index.html; change it to index.php.

Now rebuild your blog, and you're done!

Once you've done this, you can use the PHP include command to include blogrolls (and indeed just about anything). Like this:

<?php include "http://blogroll.mu.nu/mli.i"; ?>
There are a few different styles available for the blogroll:
mu.i is a simple listing of the Munu blogs sorted by the date they joined
nu.i is the same listing in alphbetical order
mli.i is an HTML list, in date order. Depending on your stylesheet, this might put little dots next to each entry, as seen at Ellis Island
nli.i is the same HTML list in alphabetical order
pulldown.i is a listing of entries for the pulldown box style of blogroll. You can see a pulldown box blogroll at Hold the Mayo, but Stephen doesn't seem to be using the automatic list yet.
We can easily create any number of alternate styles. The combinatorial explosion holds no fears for us! Just let me know what you'd like, and if it's not too completely impossible, I'll get it set up.

Hmm. I just had a thought. With a bit of tweakering, I should be able to get it to maintain the old Javascript blogrolls too. Hang on a tick... Done. The mu.js and nu.js Javascript files should now get updated automagically too.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:28 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 09, 2005

Find the Munuvians!

Sometimes I like to use my long commute as an excuse to get silly!


P C D T Y T S U R A J O H N N Y O M
H I A N I C M R U E S N E P R O N A
Y R V P A M O R K I R S T E N L I C
S E E L E H C I M I E R U E H S L K
G I B S D R T O T O A L E X I A K L
E K O S K A A A L A U R A M L R N I
E O X E M I S C N L G S O N Y A I N
K O E R Y H T I H R I N E L K H R E
C M N T R O K E M E L N E I A E F R
O A H S W T E I S Y L A S S F N O W
R D O I O P Y T N X X A T I L L A A
E F R M L T E D N G L I N D A R Y L
L I N E E V N E E U Q N P N E R O E
G S U S I E S B L U E A N G E L R M
A H I E L L I B E J U I I K K O O U
L W M E A V E Y H L K T C A T W D R
S I T H T E R E S A D I E C N A O G
J L A C E T T E X O R A I R N N N I
A L O C I L B U P E R V S I R A A R
T I T R I C A L E Y R R E H C Y O L
T E A I C C I D U O B L R Y A N O J

Not everyone is in it, sorry. But, there are 76 Munuvians hiding in the puzzle. (There are also a few non-Munu names sprinkled about. Have fun!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 10:08 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

New Munu Review, Part 2

Another slew of new neighbors, and not a crotchety old man or 3AM loud music partier in the bunch. Well, maybe one or two of the partiers but at least they listen to decent music.

Go say hi to:

Kitty Says
Pole Dancing In the Dark
American Warmonger
Beekeeper
Grumbles
Alex In Wonderland
Weasel Manor

(Well, go say hi to Ethne at Pole Dancing, Eric at Grumbles and Alex in Wonderland. The other's haven't parked the U-Haul yet.)

Posted by: Jim at 03:43 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Fluffy Strikes Back

I just happened to be watching the processes running on the server when we got hit by a trackback spam flood. Ten seconds later, Fluffy the Spam Watchdog woke up and killed it. Works as designed.

Yay!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:06 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 07, 2005

Spring Cleaning

The Blacklist was overfull again. I managed to wipe several hundred entries by forbidding character codes like "& 110;" and eliminating all of the lines that had used those. Spammers are using these more and more frequently to circumvent alphabet filters and the Blacklist was loaded with them.

Posted by: Jim at 04:28 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

For Comments

I know the big deal is now trackbacks, but this would help those that don't want to have their comments closed. What if we inserted something like email services do, where if you want to leave a comment you have to type the word that you see in a little random jpg, and it would just be a short series of random letters or a random word.

Posted by: Mookie at 11:31 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 06, 2005

Turning off pings

I know a while back we found a MT way to turn off comments after a certain number of days.

Is there a similar way to turnoff trackbacks after "X" days? Trackback spam is killing me.

Posted by: Simon at 10:18 AM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 05, 2005

The New Mu Review

We've got a load of new neighbors. Everybody go say hi to:

Rhymes With Right
Possumblog
Something for the Weekend
Seven Inches of Sense
Stolen Beauty
View from the Pew
A Swift Kick and A Bandaid
Professor Chaos
Cal Tech Girl's World

Some are already cranking out content, some not quite yet.

Hey, who's doing the updates for the Munu blogrolls?

Posted by: Jim at 02:28 PM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

March 31, 2005

Ellis Island is open for business

The great and mighty Pixy Misa has set me up with the tools necessary to help get new Munuvians started up. I've gone through the Ellis Island queue line to enlist the help of each immigrant's sponsor in verifying that they still want to be Munuvians (some of the nominations are pretty old) and in getting the basic info needed to set up the new blogs.

I encourage all Munuvians to keep an eye on Ellis Island. If there are no negative votes after a week (or so) the nominee will become a Munu as soon as Pixy puts in his "Yay". If you've got a concern over a prospective neighbor you need to speak up. Likewise, if you approve of a nominee blog your vote of support is very...um...supportive. Ellis Island is our vetting process and it will only work well with participation from the Mucommunity.

I'd also encourage all Munuvians to nominate worthy blogs. We need to attract the cream of the crop* in order to finish taking over the world. When you do nominate somebody please get a few bits of basic info and include it in the nomination post.

  • Firstly, check with the person and make sure that they want to move their blog to Munuviana. Do this before nominating them.

  • Secondly, specify a contact email address.

  • Thirdly, the new user account and blogname will be set up with whatever is listed in the nomination. If they want something different please specify. If it's a multi-person blog make sure to list all of the participants.

  • Lastly, if they have their own url that will be used for the blog let me know what it is.

* Okay, what the hell does this saying actually mean? What sort of "crop" gives cream? Are we harvesting cows here? I should probably ask Jen.

Posted by: Jim at 03:10 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The Nuclear Option

Is anyone here familiar with Nucleus? It supports multiple blogs and authors, has a nice set of plugins, and it's free. (Free as in open source as well as free as in no money.) It's the first open-source blogging package I've seen that supports multiple blogs well.

I'm going to give it a whirl for a few days; it's available under Fantastico so it's just a couple of mouses away. We'll see how it goes.

Hopefully better than Expression Engine, which is a cow for running multiple blogs.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:48 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

March 30, 2005

Trackback Spam

I'm being deluged with trackback spam. The IP Deny Manager doesn' t block it (IP: 210.117.67.217). Is there anything I can do besides delete them one by one?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at 03:14 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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