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September 22, 2004

Bandwidth Bandwidth Eek!

Guess who has these Sitemeter stats:

VISITS

Total 137,903
Average Per Day 3,655
Average Visit Length 1:14
Last Hour 2,331
Today 34,117
This Week 25,588
Bandwidth consumption, which had started to slow down, has now shot through the roof. I'm going to contact my hosting company and see if I can move to a higher plan without moving servers. I mean, well done guys, but so far today we've had more traffic than we did in the whole of March.

Oh, yeah:

mysterysite.gif

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:54 AM | Comments (89) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 21, 2004

I really hate to ask it...

But I need help on my homework... or more importantly the Research Paper that lets me graduate!

Heh. So anyway, I have to write a research paper, and I need 7 sources. Only 1 can be a website.

My topic is:

Does a* government have the right to limit what people say on their blogs?
Now since its apparent that my main source of information is cut off from me, I've found a way around it. But it requires the help of bloggers. I can interview people to get the information I need. Idealy I would most like to talk to the bloggers in other countries, though my offer is extended to all. (I'll give ya links if you help... even though I'm not blogging-eh). So if you could email me at mookie_riffic @ yahoo dot com or leave a comment with your email, I'd really appreciate it.

*as in any government, including and not excluding the U.S. but I think the US is pretty clear on it.. ya know, the whole first admendment thing

So... Please?

UPDATE: I changed my topic to

Blogs are destroying corporate media's hold on the public

Posted by: Mookie at 10:20 PM | Comments (80) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 20, 2004

Pixy's Birthday

Pixy is obviously the Benevolent Dictator of Munuvia. Does anyone have any ideas on what his Official Title should be?

All I can come up with is "Dear Leader."

Posted by: Victor at 05:35 PM | Comments (88) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 19, 2004

Keeping everybody straight - a request

With the recent population explosion at Munuviana, it's getting harder to recognise what sites people are from just by their first names (usernames). This can be particularly difficult here when folks post their questions and the person who wants to help can't tell what your blog address is from the post. Moveable Type can automatically take care of this by turning the 'posted by' link on each of these posts into a link to your blog, but you have to tell it that's what you want. (By default, it just links to your email address, which isn't always instructive.)

So, a request to all MuNu's. Go to your main menu page (its the first one that shows up after you log in to administer your blog) and click on the Edit your profile link on the right hand side of that page. On the line that says Website URL (optional), fill in your blog's address (http://myblog.mu.nu). While you're there, you can look at the Nickname box , as that's the name that will be displayed in your 'posted by' on your blog, and here at Munuviana. (Update: Sorry, the Nickname field is NOT currently being used as your 'posted by' name here, and it's not enabled by default on many of the basic templates. Changing that will be the subject of an upcoming post.)

If everybody does this, I think it'll make these group areas much more useful to each other.

And if any of this isn't clear, just ask.

Posted by: PaulT at 06:42 PM | Comments (71) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Archives Question

This is probably one of those annoyingly simple things that is confounding me at the moment: how do I set up our archives so that when someone follows the link back to our page it shows just that particular entry, plus comments, instead of the whole durn archive for the whole month?

Thanks!

Posted by: Steve at 02:13 PM | Comments (71) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 18, 2004

Semicolon? I Don't Need No Stinking Semicolon

Well actually it seems that I do and that I left a bunch of them out when last updating the Pull Down Menu.

You have my full apology and all of the semicolons where they are supposed to be.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 05:55 PM | Comments (74) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Referrer's Log in Javascript

Near the bottom of my sidebar, I have a script to list my referrers from the last 24 hours (original source here). Sometime in the last couple of weeks, it went wonky on me, only listing one or two people. But, and this is really odd, it's only acting up on my home PC, and if I check my site from work the referrer log is nice and long, like it should be (and used to be at my home PC).

Here's the snippet from my template, which hasn't been changed (I've replaced the 'greater than/less than brackets with square brackets):

[script language="Javascript" src="http://blog.mu.nu/referrers.js"][/script]

Any ideas for what might be happening?

Posted by: Ted at 01:31 AM | Comments (81) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 17, 2004

Gmail anyone?

If anyone has an extra Gmail invite, I'd love to have it. If you want to be nice that is.

tbux at psualum.com

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 09:21 PM | Comments (71) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Future MUNU Candidate?

This guy looks pretty cool. A former Pennsylvanian. In exile.

Just thought I'd like to share.

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 09:16 PM | Comments (71) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Oh, And...

A couple of you are waiting for replies to emails. Hi Linda! Hi Elizabeth! My computers at home blew up, and although my Linux box is back up and running (all I needed to do was repair some mirrors and fsck a one terabyte filesystem), my Windows box, which is where my email is - has gone completely insane. I need to back it all up and reinstall it - which will be the third time this week.

Anyway, I'll be getting back to you this weekend, and then after that it's the Carnival of the Munuvians (for real this time!) And then... stuff. I have to get pets installed on the forums or my life won't be worth living.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:57 AM | Comments (77) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Munuserver Mk 3?

Apropos of our recent boom in hits and our ongoing growth in members, I've been shopping around for a new Munuserver.

This is what we're currently running on:

Athlon XP 2500+
1GB memory
2 x 80GB disks (mirrored)
120GB backup disk
500GB bandwidth per month
Fedora 1
CPanel & Fantastico
This costs $160 per month.

This is what I'm looking at:

Dual Xeon 2.4GHz
1GB ECC memory (ECC = extra crunchy)
2 x 200GB disks (mirrored)
1500GB bandwidth per month
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CPanel & Fantastico
Urchin web analyser thingy
About twice as fast, three times the bandwidth. Same amount of disk space, effectively, but it's all mirrored. $219 per month.

I think it's a good deal, but I'll hunt around a bit more. And then we get to move house again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:51 AM | Comments (83) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Bandwidth Bandwidth Yum!

Just thought I'd let you know that you kids are really chewing through that 'ol bandwidth this month, thanks in no small part to our friend Dan. In fact, you're on track for a 50% increase from last month!

(Which is great, except that this pushes us from a comfy 40% utilisation to a not-as-comfy 60%.)

Anyway, top gobblers so far this month are Ace at 35GB, Dr Rusty at 11GB, and then our friendly Llamabutchers at 9GB and Anna at 7½GB. Go Ace!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:39 AM | Comments (76) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 15, 2004

Jes' so's ya know!

I was checkin' the munu blogroll and saw some blogs I didn't recognize. One was S A P S A which stands for San Antonio Polio Survivors Association, I learned. I actually have a brother-in-law, now in Tennessee who survived polio, but I know very little about his battles. He seems fairly fit now, although I do know he has some abnormal musculature in one leg, but otherwise seems to be fairly normal and fit. I perused this blog, and there is some postin' of a general nature, but the main reason I mention such is because of the design. It was another of those done by Hammerhead and Pamibe, and, this one is superb eye-candy. Welcome to Munuviana S A P S A!

Posted by: Tiger at 10:31 PM | Comments (105) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Pro Football Pick Em

OK, so I'm a week late, but I feel better late then never. In any case the settings will drop the first week from averages, and we all start at week two anyways. The rules are simple: each week pick who is going to win the games. More you get the better.

To join go here and join group ID # 46883 and the password is paradox.

Good luck! Up to 50 can join.

Posted by: Nick Queen at 04:30 PM | Comments (73) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

There is definitely somethin' strange goin' on

So, wanna see jes' how many different views you can get lookin' at the same page? I got the full scoop on whatever is causin' the where is the page with my most recent posts? non-voluntary contest in the Munuvian universe over on my blog. Check it out!

Posted by: Tiger at 04:08 AM | Comments (83) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 14, 2004

Need help with obscene spam

In the last 2 weeks I've been getting lots of obscene comments posted to my site (lettersfromnyc) and I've had to delete them all manually. This morning I was lucky I only had 10, but that's because I keep checking/deleting frequently and only keep comments open for my 4 most recent posts. The spammers all use unique IP addresses. All this typing has caused my carpal tunnel syndrome to flare up again.

I've checked MT's help feature to see what to do but other than "sanitizing defaults" and adjusting the "Comments template" there's not much. At Munuviana archives there's mention of a plug-in back in Nov '03 but that was prior to MT blacklist being added to the current MT version we have (if I'm not mistaken).

I'd appreciate it if anyone could provide me with some specific solution on how to permanently block these commenters/comments. Thanks.

UPDATE: thanks Rachel Ann, it was set up but I just didn't know that link at the bottom of the comment was how you de-spammed!

Posted by: Michele at 04:23 PM | Comments (90) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

If I wasn't buzzed, I would pullin' my hair

Is it me, or is anyone else havin' problems gettin' their files replaced on the server? Here I am in the middle of recreatin' my template as well as reworkin' my css file and I cannot get the pages to upload right. How do I know? I have saved and rebuilt the css file three times, then asked to view the file once the rebuild is done, and I cannot find any of the changes I made to such file. I am givin' up, I guess, for awhile. If it looks bad, it will get better. It is readable, I think. It ain't like I was up to postin' much of anythin' today anyway. I am kinda sad. I hear Zongo is in a real bad way.

Posted by: Tiger at 02:20 AM | Comments (80) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 13, 2004

I been givin' some thought to somethin' - BUMPEDx2

[I am leaning toward 2 columns, wantin' to javascript the hit parade ala NZB, and open to other suggestions. Madfish? You must be buried!]

I have been thinkin' 'bout doin' some extensive renovations on my blog template and .css files, but thought I might put the situation out for comments and any suggestions, bids, or ideas from the professionals. Come on, ya'll munuvians, lend me your thoughts on my blog.

Posted by: Tiger at 11:59 PM | Comments (91) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 12, 2004

Pull Down This

I have updated the Pull Down Menu with all the latest MuNubies.

A couple of thoughts - when earlier I sent out a cry for help - thank you Mr. Willie and Tuning Spork - our great and exalted leader Pixy Misanoted this in a comment:

I've confirmed that the Javascript lists definitely aren't working with the Ecosystem, so I changed Ambient Irony and Munuviana over to PHP (which definitely does work).
I guess this means that links from this script aren't working with the Ecosystem either. I haven't the slightest idea what to do about that. Can this PHP (whatever the hell that is) do a pull down?

I guess I have some Googling to do!

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 02:39 AM | Comments (87) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 11, 2004

I didn't get that memo

Miss Apropos has closed up shop?

Serious bummer, I'm gonna miss you Emma.

Posted by: Ted at 05:10 PM | Comments (101) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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