Movable Type 3.1 - the general release - will be released on August 31. I'm planning to buy an unlimited non-commercial license and install it.

I haven't worked out yet exactly how we're going to manage the transition. I need to play with it a bit first to see how compatible it is. I'll set up a test environment so that people can try out their own templates and see whether it works. Once we've done that we'll see how we want to organise the move.

At least it's not going to cost $4000 to upgrade:

Do I qualify as a "Personal User?"

If you're an individual whose blogs don't support a commercial endeavor, you can use the Personal Use license. (Incidental revenue such as Google AdSense, Amazon Associates fees, PayPal tip jars, or other similar programs which aren't the main purpose of the site are allowed under the personal license.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:18 AM | Comments (83) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Speaking of tip jars, where's yours so we can chip in?

Posted by: Ted @ at August 27, 2004 09:51 AM

2 ted's right (again).

Also what are the benefits of MT 3.1 over where we are now? Just curious...

Posted by: Simon @ at August 27, 2004 10:01 AM

3 Uh, the tip jar is coming.

And MT 3.1 has more, um, thingies. Yep, thingies. Definitely.

(Apparently the new MT Blacklist for MT 3 is very nifty.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 27, 2004 10:33 AM

4 And, on MT 3.1, you don't have to turn off your Norton Personal Firewall to post like you do on 2.6-whatever.

(sorry, that just always bugs me)

Of course, waiting for the tip jar...

Posted by: Daniel @ at August 27, 2004 12:18 PM

5 Why run Nortonal Person Firewell if it's that braindead?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 27, 2004 01:05 PM

6 It's so good at blocking ads and at all the other fun personal firewall stuff. I don't know why it has a problem with MT 2, but you can't do any rebuilding if it is enabled. I thought all of that stuff was server-side, so it's just weird...

Posted by: Daniel @ at August 27, 2004 05:53 PM

7 Yay! 3.1 I'm so psyched. I was going to ask you about this, but I know you're so busy with stuff that I felt really guilty. Do you have a paypal account that we can contribute to...if not for the program, the beer to help you through the installation?

Posted by: Linda @ at August 29, 2004 02:47 PM

8 erm, well there is loads of templately goodness that needs to be massaged to get mt2.6 templates to play nice with v3. Aside from that*, the upgrade is pretty damn easy...

*ie having to edit every single template by hand!

Posted by: Rob @ at August 31, 2004 10:00 AM

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So, what happens when the number of posts on Mu.nu get to the one right after 99999? I mean, based on trackback links, the storage number of posts is only a five digit number. So what happens when we need that sixth number? Do old posts just get rewritten or something?

(I'm sure this isn't pressing (we're only at 42XXX) but it may come up and I'm somewhat curious...)

Posted by: Daniel at 08:25 PM | Comments (79) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 uh, do you get 100000?

Posted by: Kang A. Roo @ at August 26, 2004 10:55 PM

2 Um, it is Six digits, Daniel.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 26, 2004 11:57 PM

3 Hmm. Permalinks are six digits, but trackbacks don't have the leading zeroes, so you can't tell.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 27, 2004 12:02 AM

4 Okay, then what happens when we reach the one after 999999? Will the permalinks then start having seven digits?

Posted by: Daniel @ at August 27, 2004 12:17 PM

5 No, I think at that point it goes SPLATOOIE!!!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 27, 2004 01:32 PM

6 TEOTWAKI

Posted by: spacemonkey @ at August 27, 2004 05:03 PM

7 Sorry that should have been, T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I.

Posted by: spacemonkey @ at August 27, 2004 05:04 PM

8 The marsupial got one right! Yeah!!!!!!

Posted by: Kang A. Roo @ at August 27, 2004 07:17 PM

9 Very useful information looking forward to your next article please try again

Posted by: supra cruizer @ at April 15, 2011 06:15 AM

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Hi all.

The server has been complaining about being overloaded, so as a temporary measure I've disabled the web stats programs except for Awstats (which I think is the best one anyway), since they were the only thing I could find that seemed to be putting a significant load on the machine.

I've also tweaked Awstats so that it only updates every two days rather than every day. If you need right-up-to-the-minute figures, you can update it manually. Just click on the link at the top of the Awstats page; it takes a minute or so to rebuild.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:48 AM | Comments (70) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 It's my fault, isn't it?

Posted by: Susie @ at August 27, 2004 07:18 PM

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I was wondering why Frinklin had sent me an email with the subject "^_^ mew-mew (-:" and a zip file attached. The contents of the message didn't make much sense, and I hadn't had time to check the attachment.

But just now I got a message from BRD with the subject "Re: Mail Server" and a zip file attached.

Someone's got a virus. It's probably not Frinklin or BRD; the one from BRD was recognised by SpamAssassin as coming from a forged address, but I don't have much else to work on. Whoever it is, though, has all three of us in their address book, so it's likely to be a Munuvian.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:10 PM | Comments (73) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I've had to rebuild PHP yet again. This is done using that script that resets everyone's file permissions so that nothing works anymore.

It should all be reset back to working state, but if I've missed anyone, let me know.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:57 AM | Comments (72) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hi everybody!

Just two quick questions:

1. what code do you use to list the trackbacks under the post in the main body--ie a line showing each trackback, title etc?

2. is there an easy way to create a condensed format in a two column sheet? in html it would be done by making the whole thing in a table, and setting the table width at 75% or whatever, but I'm not sure how to do it in CSS. Any thoughts? (what we're trying to do is create a format/look that will produce relatively equivalently among different browser resolutions---in our current format the right hand column is getting kicked down to the bottom for many readers.)

Thanks in advance!

Posted by: Steve at 11:53 PM | Comments (81) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Today is my one year Blogversary. Not at mu.nu, that came later, but one year of witty comments.

I just thought you'd like to know.

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 02:41 PM | Comments (70) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Quick question - I'm using the 4Images Gallery tool (installed via Fantastico here) and I'm trying to get it to do thumbnails, but it keeps asking me what the path for ImageMagick is. So what do I put in there?

Posted by: Daniel at 02:07 PM | Comments (79) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Can anyone pull up Madfish Willie's... or is it just a boggle on my end?

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 02:13 AM | Comments (88) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hi kids!

I've been busy this past week setting up the all new MuNu Portal. Hop on over and give it a try!

You'll need to register to get all the goodies (and trust me, you want all the goodies!) but all that requires is a username and a working email address, so it's no great drama.

Anyway, have fun and let me know what you think.

Update: Wups, you can't play the games because you don't have any coins for the machines! I've given you 20 pengos each. Have fun!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:20 AM | Comments (105) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 So, how does one get a shiny new board?

Posted by: Linda @ at August 22, 2004 01:18 PM

2 Well, I can set you up with a forum in the Munuvian Underground. This is open to all the MuNu bloggers. Just say the word.

Or if you want to set up your own independent forum, I'd recommend using Fantastico (which lives in your CPanel account) to install phpBB. This takes a bit more work, but it does allow you to change the forum any way you like.

On the other hand, the main forum has cool things like attachments and pengos and games and pets (almost) and a bank and a stock market and a lottery and a photo gallery and a calendar and RSS and blog integration. Or will have shortly.

And trust me, you don't want to try to install all that stuff yourself...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 22, 2004 06:01 PM

3 But, but... Where's the Chatroom?! Forums are just like blogs, only... not(?). I want to talk to Munuvians in real time!
Chat room, chat room, cat room...

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at August 23, 2004 01:03 AM

4 The chat room will be up soon. No news on the cat room, though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 23, 2004 01:12 AM

5 Umm... what if we're having, like, extreme log-in issues and stuff?

Posted by: Daniel @ at August 23, 2004 11:50 AM

6 Um, that's bad. Unless you mean just now, when our hosting provider was doing a network upgrade. If it's still happening, give me any details and I'll see if I can fix it.

Oh, one note: You may have to delete any old mu.nu cookies. The server will be either mu.nu or .mu.nu. This is easy in Mozilla or Firefox, harder in IE. It's easy to delete all cookies in IE, not so easy to delete just some of them.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 23, 2004 12:03 PM

7 If we only got 20 coins, is there a way to earn more?

Posted by: M 0.o kie @ at August 23, 2004 07:54 PM

8 Miss Mookie--one earns pengos (coins) by winning games and posting messages in the forum (that's what I've found so far). You have to use the blue skin to see your pengo totals, tho'....

Posted by: Susie @ at August 23, 2004 08:33 PM

9 Oh okay then. That makes sense.

Posted by: M 0.o kie @ at August 23, 2004 11:05 PM

10 Um, that's bad. Unless you mean just now, when our hosting provider was
doing a network upgrade. If it's still happening, give me any details
and I'll see if I can fix it.





Oh, one note: You may have to delete any old mu.nu cookies. The server
will be either mu.nu or .mu.nu. This is easy in Mozilla or Firefox,
harder in IE. It's easy to delete all cookies in IE, not so easy to
delete just some of them.

Posted by: P90x Workout Schedule @ at July 13, 2011 03:43 AM

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Has anyone ever installed one of these successfully? I know Emma did, but every time I ask her about it, she doesn't respond. I use my cPanel file manager to upload the necessary files, insert the code on my page and have performed the necessary steps to actually get music and colors right and it does NOT appear on my page.

HELP!!!

Posted by: Auterrific at 06:26 PM | Comments (84) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I tried to install it once and when the batch file tried to convert my playlist, it kept crapping out... that's about as far as I ever made it into the installation.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 21, 2004 07:23 PM

2 That worked just fine for me. Then I copied the RBS files into the sounds folder in the radio.blog directory. It says to upload the directory from your hard drive to the server. So, I uploaded that to the file manager. Do you think I uploaded to the right place?

Posted by: Linda @ at August 21, 2004 08:00 PM

3 It needs to all be under your www directory for anything to show up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 22, 2004 06:09 AM

4 Oh, thank you!!!! That did it! Woo Hoo!!!

Posted by: Linda @ at August 22, 2004 12:50 PM

5 Yay!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 22, 2004 05:13 PM

6 I downloaded the new version of Radio.blog and everything works really well except for one thing... everything sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks... does anyone have any idea what went wrong?

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 22, 2004 08:37 PM

7 I found the forum that they have at the site to be very, very helpful. There are lots of issues discussed there.

Posted by: Linda @ at August 22, 2004 08:49 PM

8 OH.MY.GOD

I think you need to leave it just the way it is. I haven't laughed that hard in ages...listening to Mama Told Me hyper fast. I have tears running down my face. Thank you! That was great.

Posted by: Linda @ at August 22, 2004 08:51 PM

9 I looked at the forums... I found a thread about Chipmunk Speed... it said something about sampling rates, but I can't find anything to controil that on any of my system standard software...

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 23, 2004 02:40 AM

10 Linda: Let me ask you this... what software did you use to copy your CD music over to your hard drive and what format did you copy to... I used Windows Media Player and used the default format, not MP3... haven't been able to figure out how to adjust the sampling rate per the Radio.blog forum yet... thanks for any help you can give me!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 24, 2004 10:10 PM

11 I can tell you what the problem is right away now. Also, I'm kinda stoked that I know something that you don't. Hee hee...but I digress. The songs have to be in mp3 format for this to work. You just need an mp3 encoder. Here is a site that lists different software programs that will do such a thing. Page down to the FREE software and have a ball. Can't wait to hear your list of songs!!!

Posted by: Linda @ at August 25, 2004 01:36 PM

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That's right folks, it's time to start gearing up for the second annual

The rules are simple:

1. If you have a favorite hockey team, place their logo somewhere on your front page.
2. Every time your team plays someone else's team in the Jamboree, the loser must place the winner's logo on their front page for 24 hours.

That's it!

Need an example? Let's say that Victor's Washington Capitals are playing Heather's St. Louis Blues and win (it's an example, not reality *snicker*), then Heather will display the Caps logo prominently for a day or so, and Victor can crow and link to and point out her shame and sudden increase in good blogging taste - yes, trash talking is encouraged.

Last year's line up (I assume you are all participating again):

Victor - Washington Capitals
Heather - St. Louis Blues
Helen - Dallas Stars
Ted - San Jose Sharks

Others I expect will participate this year:

Daniel - Atlanta Thrashers
Nic - Washington Capitals

Who else? Gir, what moosey club do you follow now that the Jets left town? Any Detroit fans? Who still admits that they kinda like the Rangers?

So everyone, let me know and I'll do the minimal setting of this up (translation: I'll make a list). If anyone needs, I have a source for team logo's if you can't find one.

Despite the name, I see no reason that this can't be open to any and all.

I just hope that there will be a hockey season this year.

(sorry for the cheap shot, Victor)

Posted by: Ted at 11:10 AM | Comments (92) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I'll take the Yankees they always win!!!

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at August 21, 2004 05:18 PM

2 Cool.. I'm in, and my fave is the Vancouver Canucks.

This is assuming we will have an NHL season of course.

Posted by: frinklin @ at August 21, 2004 05:36 PM

3 I'm in...Calgary Flames all the way!

Posted by: Gir @ at August 21, 2004 05:56 PM

4 For my sins, I admit to still rooting for the hapless Rangers. I also like the Blackhawks. I'd like to play, too, so I'll pick one and get back to you.

Posted by: RP @ at August 22, 2004 11:47 AM

5 I'm in! With my beloved Stars!!!!!

Posted by: Helen @ at August 22, 2004 12:46 PM

6 Woo-hoo! Put me down for the Hartford Whalers! Go Whale Go!

Posted by: Steve the Llamabutchers @ at August 22, 2004 07:09 PM

7 Got it, Steve. One for the Hurricanes, right?

Posted by: Ted @ at August 22, 2004 10:08 PM

8 Ted - I'm definitely in this year! I have a feeling the Thrashers are going to dominate!

Posted by: Daniel @ at August 23, 2004 12:18 PM

9 Ok, I'm taking my home town Rangers. Let me know what we have to do when we get bitch slapped around the league.

Posted by: RP @ at August 25, 2004 01:11 PM

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Please, please, oh please, go to this guest post at Lovely Wife's blog and say how very much you agree with the poster. Don't forget to throw a "Yay" in the comments, just to make it official.

Thank you. The check is in the mail.

UPDATE: Never mind, y'all. LW purged and closed the comments as it was getting way too serious. My thanks to the ones who figured out it was humor, though!

Posted by: Jim at 01:41 PM | Comments (75) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

A question: I am trying to keep a track of the top referrers to my site so I can keep an updated "top referrers" section. However from 4 different sources I get 4 very different answers. From using Cpanel (Webaliser) I get a set of results that doesn't ring entirely true against what I expect; when I use Sitemeter (I know, not the best) it has very different answers; when I look at the Truefresco referrers it's similar to Sitemeter with a couple of discrepencies; and when I use my old fashioned Spidey-sense there seem to be ommissions or ranks that are way out of kilter.

So the question is does anyone know of a decent way to track top referrers? Is there a better way of doing it through Cpanel? Or is it all guesswork, all the time?

Posted by: Simon at 09:27 AM | Comments (75) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

So I'm wandering through CP Panel, marveling at all the pretty lights and blinking doo-dads, when I come across an area the promises to tell me "interesting information" about my last 300 visitors...cool!

It seems that a lot of my hits (if not the majority) come from the Alliance logo image that bogsplotted Alliance members are using. That was not unexpected. What was unexpected was this referrer, using what I believe is called a "hotlink" to my Clinton Pez dispenser picture. I don't like that.

I considered trying to delete the image from my image page, but then my post would suffer, too.

Then I found that CP has hotlink protection! Way Cool! Only, I'm afraid if I turn it on, all the bogsplotted Alliance members will lose their logo...

So--a little help? Anyone know how I can use the hotlink protection feature without making the poor bogsploters needlessly suffer?

UPDATE: I altered the image in my files, as you may notice if you click the link. That doesn't solve the bandwidth problem, but it's funny....

UPDATE part deux: Following Madfish Willie's instructions, I put as many Alliance URLS as I could find in the CP Panel list of recent accesses into the "allow" box, and then enabled the protection. We'll see if it works.

Oh, and Jim--the picture I substituted for the clinton pez dispenser image is in the extended entry...

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1 What you do is make a very funny or grotesque image with the original file name and upload it. Then go take a screen shot of his page and share it with your readers. hehehe

Posted by: Jim @ at August 18, 2004 06:09 PM

2 Susie: You were much too nice to the jackass that's stealing your MuNu bandwidth...

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 18, 2004 07:45 PM

3 You could just delete the image file that they are stealing.

To allow all Alliance members to access the image file and no one else, you would have to enter their URLs in the Enable Hotlink Protection: box. That will prevent all other sites from stealing your bandwidth.

Make sure you have clicked the Activate button

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 18, 2004 08:27 PM

4 This thread reminded me of something I wanted to ask a while back. When I enable the hot-link protection for my site, no one, except me, can see my images! I had the opposite problem at ittasteslikeburning.net. When I would refresh my site, all my images would disappear. No one else seemed to have this problem though. Any ideas?

Posted by: Lynn @ at August 18, 2004 10:52 PM

5 How is everyone else getting into CPanel? I've never even seen it! Did I miss an e-mail or something?

Posted by: CD @ at August 19, 2004 01:29 AM

6 Pixy has to set up your account. Then he'll send you the url, username, password. Drop him an e-mail to get set up.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 19, 2004 01:33 AM

7 Dang, when I put that link in this am, it went right to where the picture was posted. Now it takes me to a log-in screen....Too bad I didn't get a screen shot!

Posted by: Susie @ at August 19, 2004 03:11 AM

8 Oops! Guess I need to ad munu to the allow group! Sheesh!

Posted by: Susie @ at August 19, 2004 04:11 AM

9 Susie: If you want to get all the Alliance blogroll, find a site that used the blogroll script, do a View Page Source, and it should list the entire blogroll. then just copy and paste into the Hotlink Protection box. I don't know who keeps it updated now that there isn't a showcase contest, but I assume someone keeps it current.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 19, 2004 08:26 PM

10 I see the Cluepon just fine, btw.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at August 20, 2004 02:39 AM

11 Hi, I own the site on which your image is being hotlinked.

As you know, it's a forum, and whoever did it probably did not have any idea of the complications of hotlinking.

If you need help with hotlink protection through mod_rewrite (the method cpanel uses) feel free to ask about it on our web development forum and I'll be sure to personally go by and help you out.

Regards,

Craven de Kere

Posted by: Craven de Kere @ at August 30, 2004 06:24 AM

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Yours Truly is in the printies. I was interviewed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Details over here. Annoying registration is unfortunately required to view the article and Bugmenot seems to be down. Drat.

On an unrelated note, traffic at Ellis Island is a bit low. Can I get some excitement for Elizabeth? She's an awesome writer and I think she'll be a wonderful addition to Munuviana.

Posted by: Jim at 01:27 PM | Comments (73) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I hyped her. So did RP. Is that a yes, then, oh great Pixymeister?

Posted by: Helen @ at August 17, 2004 01:51 PM

2 That's a yes

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 17, 2004 04:50 PM

3 How abut Goldie... she's having all kinds o' problems with her service provider?

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 17, 2004 05:40 PM

4 Yes to Goldie too

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 17, 2004 06:46 PM

5 And what's the story on Natasha?

O, and congrats, Jim!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at August 18, 2004 01:05 AM

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I was updating my Dropdown muNu blogroll and noticed that Lynn & physics geek had the same question I do. How do we go about styling the output of that list with CSS so we can get a smaller font that matches what's being used in our 'side' style?

Doesn't seem to matter how I wrap it, the output is unaffected. What am I missing?

Posted by: PaulT at 03:34 AM | Comments (87) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Pixy? Paul? Bueller? Anyone?

I just noticed this little gem on my sidebar -- that I don't recall seeing there before. Is this a Gremlin in my archives? Something I need to fix?

TIA,
Em

Posted by: Miss Apropos at 07:47 AM | Comments (78) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm trying to restyle and retool my blog, and in going through the stylesheet I see a definition for a CSS div id with the name #banner-commentspop. I've searched through all the other templates for my site, and can't find any reference to a <div id="banner-commentspop">.

Whenever I update a stylesheet or template, I like to prune out unused or unnecessary code. Is there some external template for the comments that incorporates this style definition, or can I safely delete it?

Thanks for any insight!

Posted by: JohnL at 10:36 PM | Comments (81) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Test test. Poke poke.

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