It may have more to do with this very slow and pathetic Pentium box and the very slow and even more pathetic 28.8K dial-up connection, but I am experincin' difficulties with graphics and .css files not even loadin' on all the Munuvian blogs I have checked, so far.

On an entirely different note, I found this little ditty on AtomFilm's site:

They say sex and violence sells. If we'd known that we wouldn't give it away for free.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 03:06 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Jen mentioned this the other day...is it happening again? I've a post with a few trackback pings, of which all went through except the ones to Munuvians. Is this some kind of perverse anti-pinging discrimination thing?

Pixy, I think you need to get the stick out again.

Update: I just did each ping manually using this and they all seemed to work. Strange...

Posted by: Simon at 08:57 AM | Comments (26) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The Munu Confederation has a reasonable patch of land, just south of Randomberg. Friends, I say we prepare to march our way to Comrade Attila. It might get a little cold, though. Bring the winter woolies and unleash the gerbils of hell!

Posted by: Simon at 12:23 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Okay, I'm logged into CPanel, and I figured out how to upload files with FTP. Now...how do I link to files so people can download them? There doesn't seem to be an option for that.

Posted by: CD at 11:06 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Okay, so everything is across onto the new server now, except for DNS. The old hosting company is planning to do some network upgrades this weekend, so this morning I transferred the DNS across to the new server as well, leaving the old one as a backup.

And just now, the old server, and indeed the old hosting company, disappeared from the net. Somewhere there is a very unhappy network engineer right now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:15 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Expression Engine is up and running! See the thrilling results at the Sandbox!

Yay!

I'll be installing a few more plugins - there aren't as many plugins for EE as MT, but there are some. I've already put Textile, Markdown and SmartyPants in there, so you have the same formatting options as with MT 3.

Anyway, give me a yip and I'll set you up with a login so you can play around.

Update: I'm starting to like Expression Engine, though it certainly has its own idiosyncracies, and one big stupid hole when it comes to setting up multiple blogs. (Though I can write a little script to deal with that.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:42 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Okay, let's say, hypothetically, that I just made a really cool documentary in my film production class, and I'd like to share it with my blog readers, but the smallest size I can compress it to in MPEG form is 9.6 MB. Is there any way I could upload it, or is that too much for the server to handle?

Posted by: CD at 09:09 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I have just created a survey on the War on Terror that I hope everyone will take. It is not limited to just US citizens, and I know now there are a few grammar issues, but I activated it before I noticed unfortuately. The survey can be found here:

UPDATE: OK, I added Canada and New Zealand, plus changed a few little things. I know, I'm crazy.

War on Terror Survey

This is a first try for me on making a survey so don't be harsh. If you have any questions or comments, or even CONSTRUCTIVE criticism just let me know. Email me at patriot@patriot-paradox.com or just leave a comment. Also the survey is completly anonymous.

Also I am trying to get the survey out there so I can get a good mix of respondents so feel free to post a link to it from your blog, and pass it along to liberal blogs especially.

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

Okay, I think I've finished installing plugins for MT 3.

Here's what we have:

Plugins we already had on MT 2

Blacklist
Macros
Textile

Notifier
Koala Rainbow (this looks really cool; can't wait to play with it)
Multiblog
Xsearch/Plus
Conversation Killer (an auto comment-closer)
Bits and Pieces (create your own template tags!)
Markdown & Smartypants
Enclosures (a tool for managing images, sound and video)
W3CValidator (validates your web pages automatically)
DropCap
Compare
DateTags (and MoreDateTags)
CheckLinks (warns you of broken links)
Collect (does... stuff)
Columnize (easy two-columning)
FilterCategories
FirstNWords
GetXML
Glue
LastModified
Loop
TextWrap
PhotoGallery
SimpleComments
AdminLinks
GlobalListings

One of the neat new features in MT3 is a listing of installed plugins, and most of them even have links to the documentation! Not that anyone will ever read it, but it's nice to know it's there.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:05 PM | Comments (18) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I don't even know what any of these things do but it doesn't stop me from wanting them all! Thanks, Pixy!

Does this mean that we are all moving to MT3?

Posted by: RP @ at November 09, 2004 05:23 PM

2 I'm clueless as well but terribly excited!

Posted by: Jim @ at November 09, 2004 06:24 PM

3 Yay! I have some reading to do to figure out a few of these. KoalaRainbow? FirstNWords? Oh my!

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at November 09, 2004 06:35 PM

4 RP, we'll be moving one blog at a time, I think. I'll move this weekend, and once that's done I'll have a better idea what's required.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 09, 2004 11:51 PM

5 What a sweet list... DropCaps, YAY!

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at November 10, 2004 12:08 AM

6 After having to go back and turn off all the comments on my old typepad site (which I have paid for thru January) the Conversation Killer sounds WONDERFUL!!! Thanks Pixy.

Posted by: Teresa @ at November 10, 2004 03:46 AM

7 But will any of these fershlugginer plugins make blogs remember my info?!!!

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Sorry.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 10, 2004 04:17 AM

8 Not one of those, but we have a couple of things to help us out there.

First up, TinyOrwell which is a replacement for TypeKey. See my post on MuNuKey.

Second up, I've installed MT3 under the mu.nu domain, rather than as a separate subdomain like blog.mu.nu. I think that this will allow cookies to work the way we want.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 10, 2004 04:52 AM

9 Just added SomeDays.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 10, 2004 04:59 AM

10 Oh, and I forgot to mention Outliner.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 10, 2004 05:16 AM

11 My excitement is only tempered by my ignorance.

Posted by: Simon @ at November 10, 2004 10:13 AM

12 My ignorance is not getting in the way of my excitement in the least! I mean, really, if I ever let it do that I'd probably never get excited about anything blog-related.

Thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: RP @ at November 10, 2004 01:02 PM

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Has now been abandoned for a little over a year. *Tear* I remember when I was on blog spot and I stole 90% of my template from his blog... How things have changed... indeed how they change. Anyway, I just thought that was a neat thing to mention... Does anyone know if he's still alive?

Posted by: Mookie at 02:08 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I'm sure he's still alive, he's a fighter. Heck, he beat the crap out of those Haitians that attacked him once.

Too bad that he still seems to not own a computer, though. We all offered to chip in and buy him one and he refused. Crud.

Hey, Collins! Yer a munu charter member! Post something!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 09, 2004 03:03 AM

2 If it's seriously an issue of having a computer, I can fix him up with a nice, really basic system that will be just dandy for blogging, email & word processing. It's a Frankenputer made of hardware salvaged from systems clients were throwing out. It's sitting here looking for just such a purpose as this.

It'd just be a matter of getting it to him. Anybody know how to let him know?

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at November 09, 2004 04:03 AM

3 Well, judging from THIS ANCIENT POST it looks like Bill Cimino knows how to reach him.

Hey, Bill. Wanna remind Collins of our standing offer to get him back on-line in the comfort of his own home?! (I'm sure his boss has at long last lost interest in checking in on his site by now.)

PaulT says he has a franken'puter with his name on it waiting for him...!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 09, 2004 05:40 AM

4 Oopsie. The above link was meant to go to THIS ANCIENT POST.

Whadda ya want fer nuttin'... :/

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 09, 2004 05:46 AM

5 Either that or we rename it the John W Collins Memorial Blog and post stuff there ourselves.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 09, 2004 08:40 AM

6 I vote for the Memorial Blog.

Posted by: Jennifer @ at November 09, 2004 03:24 PM

7 Yeah, Memorial Blog. For really off-the-wall personal "huh?" moment stories.

And broken noses.

Posted by: Ted @ at November 09, 2004 07:53 PM

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I got another 3some of comment spammers and tried to add the URLs to the blacklist but got the following return:

Could not save your blacklist data: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet'

Posted by: Tiger at 02:06 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Everyone knows by now that TypePad and MT 3 offer comment registration using a service called TypeKey. While it's effective in blocking spam, it does leave you dependent on the TypeKey server, and not everyone wants that.

One of the neat plugins I'm installing is something called TinyOrwell, which is a standalone TypeKey-compatible authentication server. So I'll be able to set up a MuNuKey service: Register once to be registered across all MuNu blogs (or at least all those that use MuNuKey).

We'll also have MT Blacklist, and not one but two ways of blocking comments to old posts.

Now I'm just waiting for Brad Choate's site to come back. Curiously enough, it's hosted at the same company as our new server.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:45 AM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 That sounds super spiffy. How difficult is it going to be to take type II templates over to III?

Posted by: Jim @ at November 08, 2004 04:08 PM

2 Just curious for a sec - what ever happened to Minx?

Posted by: Daniel @ at November 08, 2004 07:18 PM

3 Minx has this little scaling problem - beyond a hundred or so blogs it just fell down dead. I would need to rewrite it with a different database to fix that, and I haven't had the time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 08, 2004 10:44 PM

4 Well, I haven't had a single spam comment in a couple of weeks. Just wanna thank you for whatever it was you've done so far!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 09, 2004 03:07 AM

5 I still get a 404 error for USURP and for the munu forum. I was hoping to find some chatters on election night, but couldn't get there. Wassup wit dat?

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 09, 2004 03:11 AM

6 USURP I'm fixing right now.

Munu forum, though, should be working... Yeah, munu forums are fine.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 09, 2004 01:45 PM

7 USURP is fixed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 09, 2004 01:54 PM

8 YAY PIXY!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 10, 2004 04:21 AM

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Good news first: MT3 is up and running! Email me at andrew -at- pixymisa -dot- net and I'll give you a login and password so you can play around. The test blog is at playpen.mu.nu.

I've installed two plugins so far and have at least two more to install, but it's a lot more straightforward than with MT2 and nothing is likely to break.

Less good news: It looks like we've hit some sort of limit in MT Blacklist; I couldn't get rid of the latest spam until I went and pruned some redundant entries. There are quite a few redundant entries, fortunately, so we'll survive for a while yet.

Oh yeah. The dates on the test blog are in Czech, because the languages are listed in alphabetical order on the config page and that turns out to be the default. I thought it was cool so I left it that way.

Update: MT3 seems to be working well, except for the dynamic publishing, which isn't working at all. Unfortinately, Brad Choate's site is down, so I can't get updates for two of the plugins we currently use. Hopefully it will be back up soon and we can get this baby off the ground!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:58 AM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Here's a simple idea who's time has come. Visit five blogs you usually just lurk at, and leave a comment. Visit three blogs you've never been to before and leave a comment. Even if it's just "Hi, it's Leave A Comment Day", that's fine. We are but fragile flowers who bask in showers of attention Everyone likes a little feedback, otherwise we feel like we're just talking to ourselves. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

(cross posted to Rocket Jones too)

Posted by: Ted at 01:13 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I've been commenting all over the friggin' place this past week. I'm all commented out.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 05, 2004 03:04 PM

2 I know you have. But I've been really bad about lurking quietly lately, and since it can't be my fault...

Posted by: Ted @ at November 05, 2004 03:07 PM

3 Hello!

(Just a comment from a regular lurker)

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 06, 2004 03:15 AM

4 I endorse this idea, as I occasionally find myself wondering who the hell actually visits my site and reads my cra--er, stuff. The site counter inches slowly upward, and it all can't just be from my own visits.

Now to go find three new blogs to comment at...

JKS.

Posted by: JKS @ at November 06, 2004 03:38 AM

5 Whose. Whose. Whose.

(I get credit for this, right?)

Posted by: Jennifer @ at November 06, 2004 12:35 PM

6 We seem to be experiencing some difficulties with MT Blacklist. This is a just a test, so you can ignore it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 07, 2004 11:25 AM

7 Well, at least that still works.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 07, 2004 11:25 AM

8 Nike Free 3.0 Nike Free 3.0 V2 Nike Free 3.0 On Sale Nike Free 5.0 Nike Free 5.0 V4 Cheap Nike Free 5.0 On Sale Nike Free 7.0

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I was posting a comment to Jim's tail (get it?) when I included the word "socialise", spelt as most non-Americans would. The comment was blocked because it contains "cialis". So now you know the Blacklist is working AND where the word Cialis came from...

Don't thank me for pointing this useless bit of trivia out.

Posted by: Simon at 04:40 AM | Comments (31) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I jes' found the followin' link http://www.google.com/search?hl=xx-hacker&q=read+my+lips in my referral list. Anyone have a clue as to the purpose of addin' hacker into the search criteria? Other than makin' some of the links look a bit bizarre, I couldn't see much difference in the returns upon this page from those ya would find if ya did a regular Google search on the same terms.

While I am at it, can anyone 'splain to me why I keep comin' up with a 404 message ever' time I try to access the USURP site? I actually thought I had successfully posted a new item to it yesterday, but have been unable to access the site to see if it successfully published. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Tiger at 02:50 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

It seems that the only livin' former Munuvian has left a comment on my blog askin' why so few of ya'll drop by and comment on my crap. I was unable to come up with a decent explanation.

Posted by: Tiger at 11:59 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Must be the same reason they don't comment on my crap... because it's CRAP!... now, quit blegging for comments!!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 03, 2004 01:32 AM

2 I like your crap, Bartender

Posted by: Harvey @ at November 03, 2004 03:00 PM

3 Actually, I think there's a good reason: Lately, all the activity has been on the political blogs, and they've sucked all the air out of the blogosphere for the slice-of-life blogs. Give it a couple of weeks and people will start to return.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 04, 2004 05:48 PM

4 Too many lurkers. Let me know if you figure out how to draw them out. I've thought about striking, but I don't think I can shut long enough to be effective. ; )

Posted by: Key @ at November 04, 2004 06:31 PM

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After giving her fair warning, annika has not yet made her "Poetry Day" post. I now declare her comments hijacked to "Post a Racy Limerick" Day.

Posted by: Victor at 06:11 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

After you've cast that vote for President, Come on over to the Flying Space Monkey Chronicles, drop a comment and take part in the online exit poll.

Posted by: spacemonkey at 11:59 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 OK, I did, but, as it is Halloween, I came in costume.

Posted by: Tig @ at October 30, 2004 04:10 AM

2 I can't vote!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 30, 2004 05:54 AM

3 Pixy has been disenfranchised! Call Jesse Jackson! Get Sharpton on the line!

Selected not elected! We want a POTUS not a Poser!

Oh wait, you're Austrailian. Cancel the March on West Palm Beach!

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at October 30, 2004 06:16 PM

4 Oh yeah, that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 31, 2004 07:19 AM

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I have no idea what it actually _does_ let alone how it +works+, but I have installed the *Textile* plugin at Simon's request.

Someone else had a plugin request. I'm sure I still have it filed away among the 1100 emails occupying my inbox... Feel free to poke me if it was you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:15 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)