Don't tell me it was really that easy...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:30 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I've reactivated Trickle and the New on MuNu updater script. There's a lot of little fiddly things scattered around MuNu that I kind of forget about once they're working.

The server seems to be quite happy, though it's just gone quarter-past-midnight server time so the day's stats don't show a heck of a lot. I'll try to remember to check in the morning. The old server was getting up around 60% busy at times, so it will be interesting to see how the new server fares.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:16 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

If you posted a post just recently and it's not there now, it probably got left behind in the move. That doesn't mean it's gone; just a little lost.

Let me know and I can dig it out from the old server for you.

If you have a mailing list or some other thingy set up in CPanel, and it didn't come along for the ride, you can get to your CPanel account on the old server by going to http://old.mu.nu:2082/ and logging in with your normal CPanel login and password. I'm not sure whether that will help you much, so give me a yell if you need a hand getting something moved.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:54 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Okay, I've visited every MuNu blog and forum, and left comments on most of them, and everything seems to be working except for USURP, which I will fix. (And Nick's mailing list, which I'll have to retrieve from the old server.)

Wups! And Lemurgirl's borked too. Have to fix that,

If you have any problems, do let me know, and I will jump on them and tear them into tiny pieces fix them ASAP.

I'm going to take a little nap, and then I'll be back.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:44 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

What happened to my post. I just posted something to my website and it isn't showing up. Then I posted something on that and it didn't show up. I've two posts listed in my entry that aren't appearing, at least to me. I have saved and rebuilt. Is something else happening? Thanks,

Posted by: Rachel Ann at 07:58 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

We're moving to the new server right this moment. I've disabled comments with a friendly message.

See you all in a couple of hours!

...

Update: Make that five hours. Erk.

I think it's done, though. Let's see if this posts...

Update: Yes!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:12 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Yes, the monkeys struck again, but at least this time they didn't break anything, and I have the server set so that everything comes back up cleanly. (Which it should do in any case, but doesn't...)

Bah.

Anyway, we'll be moving tomorrow (Sunday) as planned.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:58 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The Muve is on!

This Sunday, 31st October, starting at 1AM GMT.

The move should take less than an hour, but there's an issue with DNS catching up to where we've gone, which may take a bit longer. I can mitigate that, but because DNS is distributed I don't have complete control over it.

And then... No more monkeys!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:35 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hey folks, a couple of you might have heard about my campaign to add The Jawa Report (formerly My Pet Jawa) to Google News as a source. I figured if Kos was 'news' than so was half the crap I write--and I guess from time to time I do actually break a story.

Anyway, Google added me a couple of days ago. The side-benefit for all of you is that it looks like they added the entire mu.nu extension instead of just my blog. I hope you won't get too irritated if all of your blogs show up on Google News as "The Jawa Report", but at least this might increase traffic some. Simon reports that he's already showing up for a post he did on the Japanese hostage on Google News. I would say don't expect a landslide of hits, but if you do commentary on current events you might be pleasently surprised with the sitemeter.

This also shows the power and the future of blogs. A number of blogs have broken stories and others, like mine, have been used by the MSM as sources (plagiarism I call it!!) for their stories for quite some time. Now let's get out their and put Dan Rather to shame!

Posted by: Rusty at 02:49 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Thanks for the info, Mike!

Posted by: Tig @ at October 28, 2004 03:59 PM

2 Way cool!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 28, 2004 11:21 PM

3 This is exactly what my Research Paper is on for school! (The research paper is a graduation requirement) Hehe. Woot! Another example I can shove in the paper about how "the modern blog, particularly the pundits, are showing the media's bias and will soon hold a prominate place in the crediable news industry".

Posted by: M 0.o kie @ at October 28, 2004 11:46 PM

4 prominent

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 29, 2004 01:36 AM

5 I guess this would be a good time for moi to start blogging about current events again. YAY!
Maybe even get the Consent Of The Governed gang back on track...

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at October 29, 2004 01:37 AM

6 I showed up on Google News front page twice today!! I also noticed M.H. King was pretty close to the top on one post. The trick seems to be to comment on a story that is also on the front page of Google News. Otherwise, they won't find you unless they do a Google News search.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford @ at October 29, 2004 02:07 AM

7 I also heard that a sure way to get on there is to link to me.

Posted by: Tig @ at October 30, 2004 04:12 AM

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Due to our formerly reliable hosting provider being taken over by a bunch of illiterate fucking monkeys whose idea of a good time is to wait until I've gone to bed and then reboot the server and to break something new and exciting each time*, we will be moving to our new server this weekend.**

There will be a little bit of downtime, but it should be rather less than we've had from any one of the recent monkey-related incidents.

Now I just have to work out how to do it... I actually have everything on the new server already, but Fantastico and your individual CPanel accounts aren't configured yet.

In the meantime, I now understand how Frank J feels. Goddam monkeys!

Update: The CPanel account transfer thingy seems to work, so that part is easy. Now I just have to configure Fantastico on the new box, and plan things so that downtime is minimised. I'll post an exact time for the move here shortly. During the move, posting and comments will be disabled, but your blogs will at least be readable.

Update: Fantastico is configured now! Yay! Now I just have to, um, do some work.

* And adding to the joy this morning, some sort of network problem meant I couldn't even reach the server to fix it.

** The monkeys are our new hosting company are extremely laid back and if the server goes down they'll send me an email once they finish their banana. They wouldn't even think of getting out of their comfy chairs to screw up a server.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:08 AM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

My site was down for most of the day. Was anyone else's? Are things all better now?

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 12:17 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm feeling a little schizophrenic, but I wanted to let you all know I've transferred my hosting of margilowry-dot-com to Blogs-About Hosting.

This in NO WAY is reflective of the kindness shown to me by The Reverend Pixy and the rest of the Munuvian Tribe; not at all. I love you all and I hope to be considered an Honorary Munuvian. (The transfer will take approximately 5 to 7 days, so I mean after THAT. LOL)

No, it's so that I can no longer be accused of "crying poverty" when, in fact, I never did such a thing.

So this is not a farewell, just a "So long and thanks for all the fish!"

Love,
Margi
a/k/a Miss Apropos

Posted by: Miss Apropos at 03:37 AM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Noooooo!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 26, 2004 04:36 AM

2 Does this mean I'm not going to be an Honorary Munuvian? :: wink ::

Posted by: Margi @ at October 26, 2004 04:39 AM

3 hehe, I love that book! Sorry to lose ya though.

Posted by: M 0.o kie @ at October 26, 2004 10:16 PM

4 What ingrate made that accusation? I'll murdalize him!

And of course you're still a Munuvian. The club is for life. [insert dramatic music and evil laugh]

Posted by: Jim @ at October 26, 2004 11:28 PM

5 Welcome to the Hotel Munuvian...

You can check in any time you like but you can never leave!

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at October 27, 2004 04:50 AM

6 Anyways, I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this so I'll just come out and say it. Won't you reconsider? We can string up any one whose been offensive, unlessthey'd like that too much.

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at October 27, 2004 04:54 AM

7 But...but...don't you...(sniffle!)...love us anymore?

Posted by: Jennifer @ at October 28, 2004 12:32 AM

8 [Posted and e-mailed.]

OHMIGOSH!! Nothing could be further from the truth!!

Actually, I figured that since my husband has started blogging (incognito, since MY troll is HIS ex-wife, so it has to be on the down-low) and I was in the process of setting up his URL and hosting service, I would also join the hosting service and this way the bandwidth and server space I'm sucking up from MuNu could go to someone more deserving.

That's all.

Now give me a hug.

xoxo
M

And one final thought -- Jim said the club is for life! You ain't gettin' rid of me THAT easily.

Posted by: Margi @ at October 28, 2004 12:37 AM

9 Yeah, once a Munuvian always a Munuvian, as someone once said.

Besides, being a Munuvian kinda grows on you...like mold...

Posted by: Victor @ at October 28, 2004 01:13 AM

10 Why dodn't you get Pixy to set him over here? or is it already too late?

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at October 28, 2004 01:25 AM

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Hello,

Got a quick question. I am using Advanced Poll on my website, and have for some reason lost all the images inside the folder, and elsewhere related to it. The path hasn't changed and it has been like this for a few weeks. I can't figure it out. I installed it from Fantistico on Cpanel. Any Web Gurus know what's up?

Also, any news on Munu getting Expression Engine or MT 3?

Posted by: Nick Queen at 10:43 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hi kids.

As suggested by Paul, I've renamed the comments script here at MuNu. For this to take effect, though, everyone needs to rebuild their blog. Just click on the "Rebuild Site" button; it only takes a couple of minutes. Then leave a note here to let me know.

Any new posts will automatically use the new script, so if I turn off the old script in, say, a week's time, that will have the same effect as turning off comments to older posts (at least until you rebuild).

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:29 PM | Comments (33) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I am rebuilt. So does this mean my old posts will automatically close the comments after two weeks' time?

Posted by: Helen @ at October 24, 2004 05:01 PM

2 Err, not exactly. There are two separate things going on here.

I'm still looking for best comment-closer. I have MT-Close2 installed, but it's not automatic.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 05:05 PM

3 Rebuilt Madfish Willie's, and all sub-blogs, and SAPSA...

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at October 24, 2004 06:24 PM

4 Rebuilt Willow Tree.

Posted by: Rachel Ann @ at October 24, 2004 06:37 PM

5 Rocket Jones, the Skunkworks and Fear Your Future are all rebuilt. I let Mookie know too so she should be doing a rebuild sometime today.

Posted by: Ted @ at October 24, 2004 07:03 PM

6 I rebuilt Mookie Riffic and my lab

Posted by: M 0.o kie @ at October 24, 2004 07:51 PM

7 Shoes, Ships & Sealing Wax is rebuilt. Thanks very much, Pixy!

Posted by: Nic @ at October 24, 2004 08:12 PM

8 Light and Dark
CaughtintheXFire
MadMikey
Ace of Spades

-Rebuilt

Yay splorp!

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at October 24, 2004 08:32 PM

9 Thank you, Paul...
*kissy, kissy, kissy, hug*

Posted by: Stevie @ at October 24, 2004 09:30 PM

10 Rebuilt Bad Example and Straight White Guy too... I didn't know if they visit here very often, So I just did it anyway for them....

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at October 24, 2004 09:33 PM

11 Frinklin Speaks is done, and I'll let the missus know she needs to do hers too.

Posted by: frinklin @ at October 24, 2004 09:44 PM

12 Blather Review and Consent of the Governed have been rebuilt.

Anybody know why I regularly get a "comment could not be loaded for de-spamming" error message? I had 5 comments posted to old posts by the same spammer today and can't get rid of any of 'em using blacklist. Hrmmph!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at October 24, 2004 10:42 PM

13 Spork, that's probably because I've already zapped it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 25, 2004 04:21 AM

14 Both Hands is done now too.

Posted by: frinklin @ at October 25, 2004 04:52 AM

15 I'm rebuilt. By the way here's another anti-spam thing: it's a code a human has to enter in MT comments for the comment to go through. Small extra annoyance for great gains...

Is it just me or has spam mulitplied massively in the last few weeks?

Posted by: Simon @ at October 25, 2004 07:10 AM

16 Patriot Paradox rebuilt, and I even posted the Philosopher's Drinking Song!

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at October 25, 2004 07:23 AM

17 Spam does seem to be on the rise, but I hate those enter-the-illegible-code things. Grrr!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 25, 2004 07:58 AM

18 Jennifer's History and Stuff--done.
Frank J Fan Club--inactive, but done.
Front Line Voices--ditto.
Amish Tech Support--not mine, but done.

Posted by: Jennifer @ at October 25, 2004 05:02 PM

19 Publius & Co. has been rebuilt. Heck, I even posted something!

Posted by: Victort @ at October 25, 2004 08:01 PM

20 annika's journal is rebuilt. What do i get for it?

Posted by: annika @ at October 25, 2004 08:49 PM

21 Rebuilt. Thanks, Pixy, as always, for all that you do for us. And I'd add my vote to Stephen's to allow us some individual control, if at all possible, over closing comments. I just had an interesting comment today on an old post.

Posted by: Random Penseur @ at October 25, 2004 10:57 PM

22 SBD and Flaptrap are rebuilt.

Posted by: Jim @ at October 26, 2004 11:32 PM

23 And Protomonkey too.

Don't ever forget the monkeys. They really hate that.

Posted by: Jim @ at October 26, 2004 11:33 PM

24 Little Miss Attila is rebuilt.

Posted by: Attila Girl @ at October 27, 2004 04:51 AM

25 Thanks guys.

I'll disable the old script tonight. Since any comment or post in the last couple of days would have done a rebuild anyway, it shouldn't cause too many problems...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 27, 2004 08:35 AM

26 Rebuilt. Is it moot now?

Posted by: John Lanius @ at October 29, 2004 09:44 PM

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Apparently Kate from Small Dead Animals can't leave the name of her blog in the comments on my own blog. I figure either "dead" or "animals" is the problem. I'd check, but I'm not sure I'm qualified to enter the Blacklist Zone. Let me know if you find the offending word, or if you'd like me to brave the Blacklist myself.

Posted by: Attila at 06:55 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 dead

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 12:18 AM

2 animals

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 12:18 AM

3 smalldeadanimals

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 12:19 AM

4 smalldeadanimals.com

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 12:20 AM

5 Fixed now!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 12:21 AM

6 It was probably Bad Karma, her talking about killing small animals. Mr. Mouse no doubt had a poop fit; my rats certainly did!

Posted by: Victor @ at October 25, 2004 08:03 PM

7 Hey--go to her site. It's quite clear that she's discussing roadkill up on those Canadian highways. And not of her own doing: she drives a motorcycle.

Thanks for the help, Pixy!

Posted by: Attila Girl @ at October 27, 2004 04:44 AM

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I understand that it's possible to put script into the server that will close comments on old posts, but it would have to be done Munu wide. I don't know about anyone else, but I have had to close all my old posts, and in fact, even have to keep them closed from up to the past 7 days-I get hit by spam comments constantly, sometimes to the tune of 300 a day.

I now notice that old Munu posts are getting them, so I have been closing my old posts on Munuviana.

Please-can we please consider as a group, the function of closing old posts?

-H

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 05:54 PM | Comments (22) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 In the past we were discussing two weeks, which I absolutely think would be a good idea. I might be agreeable to one week, though this could require a little thought.

But could we implement the two week rule right away and see if it helps?

Posted by: Attila Girl @ at October 23, 2004 06:44 PM

2 I agree. I wouldn't mind closing commments older than two weeks. I don't know about 1 week since I sometimes have legit comments after that period. But two weeks, that would work for me.

Posted by: Rachel Ann @ at October 23, 2004 09:09 PM

3 I've deleted over a thousand spams from munu in the past two days.

Y'know, I think this might be a good idea.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 12:17 AM

4 Pixy: Here are some links to some stuff from the MT Support Forum

David Raynes

php Script

MTCloseComments

Last One

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at October 24, 2004 02:33 AM

5 I lied... One more

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at October 24, 2004 02:34 AM

6 Pixy;

Please rename the comments script?! It's such a quick, simple first step with no negative ramifications and the potential to make an instant difference.

As far as closing comments after a period of time, by far the most elegant solution I've been able to find is Mt-Close2

It allows per blog settings so individuals can select what interval works best for them, allows closing of trackbacks as well as comments, gives a great deal of control over which posts are closed, has built-in capability for re-opening comments, and allows for the use of automatically inserted text to inform the reader that comments have been closed, and how to use an alternative method if they still wish to comment.

Given the variety of users at muNu, I really think a solution which allows for individual choice of settings would be very beneficial.

I've been in touch with the author, and he indicates it will work with MuNu's multiblog setup, and with our mySql backend.

Whatever solution is implemented, it must include some way of making clear to commenters that the comments have been closed before they begin writing their comment. I've come across a number of situations where I've written the whole comment & posted it, only to then finally get an error saying comments have been closed. Not satisfactory.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at October 24, 2004 05:44 AM

7 Paul, I'm happy to rename the comments script, but it does require everyone to rebuild their blog for it to take effect.

So what I've done is made a copy under a new name, and once everyone has rebuilt, I can remove the old one. I'll start with Munuviana and Ambient Irony so I can gauge the effectiveness.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 02:20 PM

8 Test of new comments script...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 02:20 PM

9 Well, at least it works

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 02:20 PM

10 One big problem with MT-Close2: It gives everyone access to every blog. Only to close/open comments, but still...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at October 24, 2004 02:40 PM

11 Well crap. I knew there was bound to be fly in that ointment somewhere.

** Cranium smokin' to try to come up with a workaround.**

Paul

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Many thanks to the hard-working tech support guys at our hosting provider, who logged into the server overnight to do some inessential maintenance and COMPLETELY SCREWED EVERYTHING UP!!!!!

It should all be working now. I'm really sorry about this, folks. I'll work this weekend on getting the new box set up, which is hosted at a place where they don't login to your server and screw things up. (Not because they're smarter or anything, just because they don't do that.)

And I'm really late for work, so I have to run. If you have any problems, you can reach me at andrewm -at- teleone -dot- com -dot- au for the next few hours.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:09 AM | Comments (37) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm trying to set up guest bloggers to do their blogging thing, but I don't know how to change their name, once I've set it up, or how to delete a superfluous author.

Thoughts? Suggestinos? Ideas?

Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta at 05:05 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Here's an interesting Blacklist problem. I just attempted to leave a comment on my blog - Hold the Mayo - in response to another comment. In my comment I referred to John Kerry's thinly disguised socialism.

The problem is someone has blacklisted Cialis. Now I have gotten enough spam to know that blacklisting cialis is a perfectly sensible thing to do.

I also know next to nothing about the function of the blacklist. Is it possible to assign exceptions to a blacklisted word to cover a circumstance such as this?

I did find a work-around that will work for the site author only. Post your comment without the offending word or misspelling it. Then go into the entry page and edit the comment. Editing the comment apparently bypasses the blacklist.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:17 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Editing the comment apparently bypasses the blacklist.

That's pretty valuable info, Steve.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at October 21, 2004 05:14 AM

2 I was not previously aware that c i a l i s was a part of the s o c i a l i s t movement. Thanks for givin' me the heads' up!

Posted by: Tig @ at October 23, 2004 04:40 AM

3 This came up over at Michele's A Small Victory. The fix there was, people simply placed a hyphen in the "s" word. Ugly, but effective.

Posted by: Attila Girl @ at October 23, 2004 06:46 PM

4 The last time this came up, I think Pixy recommended that they just be called "godless commies."

Posted by: Debbye @ at October 24, 2004 05:00 AM

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I am writing a web-site for my Masonic Lodge, and I was wondering if you'd all give it a look and tell me what you think. It's pretty basic. I am not much into Eye candy. I believe in simple text based web-sites. As far as I'm concerned it's still 1996 as far as HTML pages go.

hehe.

Take A Look

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