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April 30, 2004

Nobody Saw That, Right?

Right?

All of you were either busy at work or home asleep and so failed to notice that a nasty BGP hiccup took both of Liquidweb's* Class B's off the net entirely** for about three hours... Yesno?

Good.

And since they offer a 99.9% uptime SLA with a 100:1 penalty clause, I expect that my bill will be rather smaller than usual this month. In fact, that should just about pay for the t-shirts.

* MuNu's hosting provider.
** Unless, it seems, you were plugged directly into the Verio backbone - which I, for one, am not.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:57 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 29, 2004

Thingys & Doodads - IV

In this edition of Thingys & Doodads we'll look at an expanding / collapsing comment script from the Scripty Goddess.

This particular script is an "in-line" script for php sites. It will produce this:

Permalink | Show Comments(3) | Add Comment | Trackback(2)

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 10:22 PM | Comments (47) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Quick Opera Question

Due to a recomendation of the fellow who's template serves as Mrs. Frinklin's blog, I have begun weaning myself off of the evil IE and switching to Opera. It looks and works far better than IE did, except for one thing: On my MT Create New Entry page, IE displays a very nice little toolbar allowing me to Bold, Italicize, underline or post a link without going through the trouble of putting in the HTML myself. This is a good thing, since I'm a total newbie when it comes to HTML. This toolbar is nowhere to be seen with Opera. Is it possible to add it?

Posted by: Frinklin at 03:08 AM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I just have to explain

I promise you that this guy is not a relation of mine. I am talking about the hamster, not Bill, although Bill is also not a relation of mine.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 01:00 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 28, 2004

Thingys & Doodads - III

In this edition of Thingys & Doodads we'll look at an expanding / collapsing comment script from the Scripty Goddess.

One way to make your site more reader-friendly is to provide a show/hide comments script. This script will show or "roll-down" your comments in the current window by clicking on a link displayed between your post text and your byline. Then you can click another link and hide or "roll-up" the comments.

I have modified the original Scripty Goddess code a little by inserting code to display a horizontal line between each comment. This makes separating and reading each somment a little easier.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 11:52 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

MuNuby Help - Background Images

Today's MuNuby Help lesson deals with background images.

You have already set the background-color property in your ID and Class divs. Now you may want to add a little "texture" or "personality" to your main page background.

Design gurus will tell you not to put text over an image as it will be difficult to read. I would make a few exceptions to that rule for my own personal purposes. One exception would be an image under the sidetitle text. Another design rule to keep in mind is "content is king". If you use tiled background images, make them subtle patterns and use complimentary colors so they don't overwhelm or distract from the content.

Now the process to insert background images.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 11:32 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

All aboard!

Y'all have probably heard of the fundraiser for the Spirit of America by now, right? Don't worry, I'm saving the serious begging for my blog. Here I'm just promoting a fantastic offer from one of the Fighting Fusileers.

To help raise some cash without spending a penny just trackback to this post. The Pudgy Pundit will make a donation for every blog that pings it.

We've got a load of Munuvians now. That would be a very nice chunk of change if y'all gave up a little link love.

Thanks!

Posted by: Jim at 08:42 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 27, 2004

Help!

Hi Everyone. I'm new. You might have already visited my site and have seen that it's pretty bare. Well, that's because I want to get things resolved before moving my archives and stuff from Blogger. I have a few questions that are important to me at this time and I'm hoping you can help.

I would like my blockquote to appear in a box, not just indented.

I would like my expanded post to appear on the same page, instead of on a separate page like the permalink. I would also like the code to allow a collapse back to the original view.

I would like to use an unusual font for my banner title and description (DeVinne Orn). I entered it in the font family, but it's not working. Any clues how I can get that to work?

I want to set up additional pages for additional info I currently have parked on another site. Is that possible to do with keeping the current style sheet, and how?

When I upload pictures, where do I go to find them again?

Posted by: Auterrific at 07:15 PM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 26, 2004

Mozilla Newbie

Well, my Internet Explorer has been become so corrupted by adware and spyware that it became pretty useless. Rather than uninstall it and reinstall the same super-insecure browser, I've finally decided to give up on IE and go with Mozilla 1.6.

So far, everything works great except for photographs. The pictures in the sidebars of caughtintheXfire and Everyday Stranger look kinda like they were turned into rough watercolors in PhotoShop or something.

So, tell me, Mozilla users... wus up wit dat? And..er..what can I do about it?

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 10:12 PM | Comments (25) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 25, 2004

Last Ping To Nowheresville

There's still something very strange going on with trackbacks. Sometimes they work. Sometimes they don't. I just got an incoming ping; I can see it in the little log file I've set up, but it don't appear on my blog.

Feh.

It's 2am now, and I'm not going to fiddle with this any more tonight. Come the morning, I'm going to try a fresh install of MT 2.661 and see if that fixes anything.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:16 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Only A Ping In A Gilded Cage

Ping!

Okay, we seem to have a slight problem with trackbacks.

As in, they don't work.

I'm looking into it now.

Update: Debbye just pinged me, and it worked fine. Weird. Still working on it...

Blah!

Update: I just pinged myself, and it worked - when I used autodiscovery. When I put the URL in the ping box, it didn't work.

Weirder and weirder.

I just pinged Xset, which is running on a separate installation of MT. Autodiscovery worked; manual ping failed.

I can sort of see what's happening, but it doesn't make a lot of sense. It's treating some incoming pings as requests to view the ping page.

Pinged myself again. Buuut... Is this a problem with incoming pings, or with outgoing pings?

Blaaaweeef! Head hurties!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:44 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

MuNu Pull Down Menu Corrections

I noticed a coupe of minor errors in the pull down list of Munuvians and they have been corrected. Most notably stoooopid is that since I copied the script I set up for my own page - I did not include my own site!!!

I would suggest replacing the entire list section of the script. This will give you all the fixes and the new sites listed here.

<option value="http://minx.mu.nu/">Minx</option>
<option value="http://rishon-rishon.mu.nu/">Rishon Rishon</option>
<option value="http://countermeasures.mu.nu/">Electronic Countermeasures</option>

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 01:14 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Update Update Update

We is up!

Everything should have transferred smoothly, but if you do happen to notice anything odd, let me know. The old database is still around, so if any posts got dropped or broken during the move, we can fix it good as new.

And it is faster

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:49 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Update Update

I'll be converting the database this weekend. Starting Sunday 2AM GMT, should be finished around 10AM GMT.

During that time, you will not be able to post, and readers will not be able to leave comments. It's Sunday!* Sleep in! Go fishing! Vacuum the cat!

Oh yes: You won't be able to change your templates, rebuild your blogs, edit existing entries, receive trackbacks, import, export... But your blog will still be readable.

Once it's all over, things should be a lot faster. Probably at least three times, possibly more.

* Possibly Saturday where you are.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:00 AM | Comments (22) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 24, 2004

Vanity being what it is...

I've been looking for a way to post audio files. I looked at Radio365, and that ain't cheap, which is a requirement at this point. I can't get into my goodie-pile (or even my webmail) because it keeps telling me the link is down, the server is bad, evil has taken over the world, please try again later. I thought there was something in there that would allow for that.

Anyone got any ideas? Doesn't have to be an hours long radio show, updated weekly, or such. Just an ability to post rants, maybe an occaisional song from my friends, etc.

Let me know. I'm a looking.

Posted by: Mamamontezz at 06:51 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 23, 2004

Overwhelmed

OK, now that I have my super-sexy broadband (it's almost better than sex. No, scratch that-considering some of my exes, it is actually better than sex), I wanted to add the new Munuvians to my sidebar.

Problem is, I hadn't realized that we have gone into the mouse reproductive cycles for new blogs, so I am overwhelmed.

Does anyone have the latest list of the Munu blogs for the sidebar, that I can copy and paste?

And...um...do you have it in alphabetical order, since I am anal retentive?

If anyone needs me, I will be in a fetal position under the table. Or else using a magical whirring toy, thinking about my broadband.


-H.

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 02:45 PM | Comments (35) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

A Rose By Any Other... Yadda Yadda

A trivial thing, but I'd like to change the name under which I post from LeeAnn to The Cheese. Or maybe the Cheesemistress of Chaos.
Now, my question.... (s)....
Is this possible? How is it done? Will it be retroactive and change all the past entries?
I know that Google and others have caches or whatever, so if someone did want to find evildoings involving this "LeeAnn" person, they most certainly could. However, although I do not blog from work on work time using work equipment, I'd like to continue to blog ABOUT work and make it more difficult, if the powers-that-be so choose, to know it's me.
Plus I just really like that whole Cheesemistress of Chaos tag.
Any suggestions, ye who know all?

Posted by: LeeAnn at 02:33 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Quick Questions to Fellow Munuvians

Hi to all the friendly people of Munuvia! This is Dave of Blogo Slovo, the blog dedicated to News, Politics and other Semi-Coherent Ramblings, with an emphasis on things Slavic (coherent or otherwise).

First of all, let me thank Pixy Misa and Jim Peacock for inviting me to join and helping me to get set up. I'm still working on the migration to the MuNu site, I plan to go live on May 1 (May Day and all, you know). And I have a few questions for the crowd:

Posted by: Dave at 05:53 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

A Plea in the Wilderness...

..dear, sweet, gentle Munuvians.... I beg upon your tender hearts... please, hear this call from the lonely void... I, having been inducted into your ranks, have found myself adrift in a sea of woes.. it seems that... even though my passport has been stamped, my baggage is being withheld by Munuvian customs...

..so, if any of you have any pull with the immigration Gods, could you slip them twenty American for me?... it worked in Pakistan... so, maybe in Munuvia as well...

... still, my archives, when trying to export them, only work up to various points in March... sometimes the 3rd... sometimes the 17th... sometimes, it is the 23rd.... good lord... the ides of March, indeed.... it looks to me as if the entire Month is out to get me....

..with that said, gentle Munuvians... can any kind Samaritan offer a hand out of this ditch?... my residence in your fair land awaits... but, without my suitcase full of inflatable sheep, Scotch, and vintage tomes of Robert Service verse, home would not seem homey... so, I beg you.. Brothers (and Sistahs)... can ya spare a dime?....

Posted by: Eric at 02:54 AM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 22, 2004

Question for the cow puppy gallery

Every so often I get some adware and spyware gumming up the works and I periodically (like, every other day) run Adaware and spyguide to get rid of them.

However, over the year or so that I've been using this particular PC, strange tasks have been building up in my task scheduler -- right now there are about 12 of them and they really slow down my 'puter. They aren't actually listed in the task scheduler, of course, so I can't stop them from initiating at the boot-up.

I can press ctrl+alt+delete and end them one-by-one, but, each time that I reboot there they are again --- about 12 of 'em.

Does anyone know how in the heck I can get these vermin out of my task scheduler once and for all?

Also, each time I reboot I have to go to the control panel / internet options and re-list my IE homepage (I usually use Drudge), because it's replaced, everytime, with some obscure search engine's home page. That and the task scheduler issue means that I have to spend my first five minutes or so just cleaning up the same ol' mess. grrrrr

He-e-e-e-e-l-l-l-p!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 09:46 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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