...is our very own Blather Review!

Congrats, man!

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 04:49 PM | Comments (128) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yay!
I never get tired of "yay", btw, it's a very multipurposeful word.

Posted by: LeeAnn @ at December 24, 2003 08:43 PM

2 Yay!

Posted by: Susie @ at December 24, 2003 11:02 PM

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The Bartender at Madfish Willie's would like to wish every Munuvian a Merpy Chriskwanzukkah!

May the season find you and your loved ones healthy, wealthy, and wise!

Here's a little gift for Victor!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 08:23 AM | Comments (131) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Munuvia Base here. Simon has landed.

Contact has been established. A date has been set. Will Pixy emerge upright and coherent? The world waits...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:25 PM | Comments (133) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm thinking about switching from an individual archive to a weekly one and I was wondering if I could just change the check box in the config place and then rebuild. Is there anything else I have to do?

Thanks

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Has anyone else noticed that the rpc.weblogs.com is getting a little... snotty, one might say, with its rejection of pingage?

"Ping 'http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2' failed: Ping error: Thanks for the ping, however we can only accept one ping every half-hour. It's cool that you're updating so often, however, if I may be so bold as to offer some advice -- take a break, you'll enjoy life more."

Don't make me stop this blog and come back there, you.
Attitude indeed. Pffftt.

Posted by: LeeAnn at 03:15 PM | Comments (132) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

...but the Bartender hasn't posted since Sunday. I hope he hasn't pulled a Collins on us!
Pixy, I think you need to collect everybody's addresses and phone numbers for, um--administrative purposes...

UPDATE: It seems that the owner of a rival bar had kidnapped our Barkeep and was attempting to pry the recipe for the House Special out of him with a combination of tequila shooters and Wayne Newton ballads when Harvey and Blackfive burst in to rescue him! (The beer kegs ran dry--they had to do something!)
The disturbance in the blogosphere has subsided; your regular drinking may now resume....

Posted by: Susie at 02:00 AM | Comments (140) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1. How do you fix the background picture so that it doesn't scroll (like on Consent of the Governed)?

2. How is everyone getting those nifty little boxes around quotes and such?

Need to catch up on my reading, instead of just skimming...

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1 For number 2, use the blockquote tag. That's:

Whatever you want blocked and quoted.

But without the spaces between the brackets.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 17, 2003 07:02 PM

2 It stripped my example. Bah! Humbug. Try this:

[blockquote]Stuff being quoted.[/blockquote]

But use the regular "" instead of "[" and "]".

Posted by: Jim @ at December 17, 2003 07:03 PM

3 What the hey? Can you not put a greater and less than symbol in a comment?

Posted by: Jim @ at December 17, 2003 07:04 PM

4 and then define 'blockquote' in the template or the stylesheet?

Posted by: Ted @ at December 17, 2003 07:33 PM

5 Nope--blockquote is an html tag.

Posted by: Victor @ at December 17, 2003 08:13 PM

6 Ted - CSS is the answer. Swipe someone's styles-site.css (So yes, you use blockquote and assign a stle to it in the stylesheet.)

Jim - MT strips out any HTML from comments that isn't specifically permitted, to stop people playing nasty tricks. To show a < use lt; instead.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 17, 2003 11:17 PM

7 Ted, the Bartender gave me the script for my CSS template. You can find his post about it here

Posted by: Susie @ at December 18, 2003 12:09 AM

8 Don't mind me.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 18, 2003 11:27 PM

9 But what about the scrolling picture?

Posted by: Mookie @ at December 19, 2003 02:12 AM

10 The non-scrolling picture code for Consent of the Governed is:

body {
margin:20px 20px 20px 20px;
background:#FFFFFF;
background___:url(http://madfishwillies.mu.nu/images/BG-WeThePeople.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
}

You can probably take the code out for the repeat line - no need for it here. It was in the sample code I modeled from so I just included it to be safe. I did define the background color above the picture url so that if they have pictures disabled they will see a colored background (well white background in this case).

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 06:11 AM

11 Pixy: I was browsing the MT support forum and ran across this post about inserting code into posts without it being parsed by MT. It has some macro coding, which I don't know anything about for MT -yet. I wonder if it would work in comments. Here is the link and the response by Brad Choate looked like the end of the discussion. Is this something for you to implement or is it something I can do locally?

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 08:10 PM

12 It's already implemented.

That's how the smilies work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 21, 2003 01:36 AM

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The buy illustrious leader Pixy a beer (or two) fund is taking off. A very big thanks to the following contributors:

Susie
Victor
Mr. Green
UPDATED with even more sponsors:
Rocket Jones
Mookie
Rob
Tuning Spork (it's to come, but I trust him)

It is not too late to join in the fun. I'm leaving Hong Kong on Friday afternoon for Sydney. After that it will be too late. For those of you who can't work out what Friday afternoon in Hong Kong is, just assume it's midnight Thursday as a deadline.

At the moment (including my own modest contribution) we have enough to get Pixy moderately plastered and fed. I need more $$$ if we want him to spill all the beans.

Thanks to those who've already donated and thanks in advance for donations to come.

And ummm, Pixy, can you please send me your phone number or some such method of communication. I understand you don't want all your female fans getting hold of it so I promise to keep it confidential.

UPDATE: we're up to mild headache territory at the moment. Don't forget Pixy is an Australian, so genetically it takes more alcohol to reach hangover status. Thanks again to all donations so far.

Posted by: Simon at 02:39 AM | Comments (153) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Howdy-is there any one place where I can find all the pics that I have uploaded? See, I no longer have said pc where I once loaded them all from, and I need to find a pic that I once had. Any advice?

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 12:44 PM | Comments (135) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 it depends if you named an archive or just generally uploaded 'em. Try http://everydaystranger.mu.nu/images/ or
http://everydaystranger.mu.nu/archives

Posted by: Susie @ at December 15, 2003 03:13 PM

2 They were pictures I loaded up onto the sidebar. Does that mean they're AWOL?

Posted by: Helen @ at December 15, 2003 07:08 PM

3 They're in your archives directory. I don't have your email address here at work, but I'll send you a list once I get home.

Mr H has added a simple file manager to the list of features for the new blog software.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2003 04:03 AM

4 Gotta love Mr. H!!! He's really on top of things!!

Posted by: Susie @ at December 16, 2003 05:31 AM

5 If Mr H survives tomorrow - no sure thing - he should have time to acutally do some stuff over Christmas.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2003 11:51 AM

6 Any luck yet Helen?

Posted by: Susie @ at December 16, 2003 02:44 PM

7 My email at home is slightly broken I moved to a new computer on the weekend and not everything is working quite right.

I'll get the list to you somehow, Helen...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2003 03:44 PM

8 Note to self: I do have Helen's email address here at work. Duh. Silly Pixy.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2003 10:40 PM

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Consent of the Governed is up at http://consent.mu.nu
The Bartender has done an awesome job with the design. I made a request and he filled it! I had a beef and he grilled it! That boy-y-y is onto something!
Have a visit and update your blogroll!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 11:59 PM | Comments (158) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yay!

Could someone tell me who all the Munuvians are? I've lost track.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 15, 2003 06:22 AM

2 By the way, if you are using one of the MuNuRolls (http://munuviana.mu.nu/mu.js or http://munuviana.mu.nu/nu.js), you won't need to update your blogroll.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 15, 2003 06:23 AM

3 Isn't that Tuning Spork's department? Keeping up with all the new munus so he can immortalize them in song?

Posted by: Susie @ at December 15, 2003 04:01 PM

4 Yeah, but I started to lose track after Mr. Greeeeeen.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 16, 2003 04:57 AM

5 Hey... I was never immortalized!!!

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 06:14 AM

6 Spork: Thanks for the compliment!

Susie: Does the Mozilla Monster push the sidebar under the posts column? If it doesn't, then I think I have it fingered out how to fix my site too so you see the column on the right hand side.

Pixy: Is there a switch you can install in the MuNu script, or create a new script for it, that would open the link in a new window?

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 06:40 AM

7 Mr Bartender - I could certainly create a new script.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 20, 2003 09:26 AM

8 Oh, and the sidebar on Consent works fine in Mozilla.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 20, 2003 09:28 AM

9 Yes, the sidebar there is on the side....

Posted by: Susie @ at December 20, 2003 03:08 PM

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If you do a cross-blog search, as you can here on Munuviana, Movable Type will pick up the style-sheet of the first blog that has a matching post - rather than using the style-sheet of Munuviana itself.

Try, for example, searching on smilies or gm1 or chez cheese, for example.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:02 PM | Comments (124) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 gm1 or chez cheese... heh

Posted by: LeeAnn @ at December 12, 2003 03:09 PM

2 Neither of which - I might add - picks up your rather festive style-sheet (which was what I was trying for).

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2003 03:26 PM

3 Can't have everything, now can we?
You can't tell, by the way, but I sounded exactly like my mom when I said that.

Posted by: LeeAnn @ at December 12, 2003 07:28 PM

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Let's say, for the sake of the discussion, that someone was thinking of writing a new blogging system. This is of course purely hypothetical, and does not suggest in any way that this person is already knee-deep in code.

What features would you like to see in such a thing?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:43 AM | Comments (157) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Spell check!
I mean, I would want spell check, not that you need to spell check this post.
I need more coffee....

Posted by: Susie @ at December 12, 2003 03:50 PM

2 A spell checker... Hmm. A simple one wouldn't be hard.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2003 04:23 PM

3 Um, I mean, I'll pass that on to Mr Hypothetical.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2003 04:24 PM

4 Yeah, definiatly Spell Check. And the ability to write a post, and have it posted at an advanced time, with out showing up automatically... That would be nice. And for people who are HTML/challanged maybe a simple what-you-see-is-what-you-get program. But if not, okay.

Posted by: Mookie @ at December 13, 2003 01:43 AM

5 Spel checkr. Got it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2003 07:49 AM

6 Fully agree on some kind of time delay posting, so you can set a post to be released some time in the future. Spull chuckur could be handy. And automatic smileys in the comments.

Posted by: Simon @ at December 13, 2003 11:34 AM

7 I don't know how possible this is, but maybe some tools to work with comments. The ability to list comments by name or email address, a group delete function in case spam gets through, a search function for comments to go find that particular one where someone said...

Posted by: Ted @ at December 13, 2003 12:40 PM

8 Good suggestions. Mr Hypothetical says thanks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2003 06:54 PM

9 Formatting buttons for all comment sections and the ability to use strike in the comments would be a nice and useful feature. By the way, could you enable the strike in our comments? Thanks!

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 14, 2003 10:42 PM

10 Another thing is something that autosaves posts in draft status as you are doing them, maybe every 5 or 10 minutes. That way I someone doesn't lose them after they've almost finished a long post.

Posted by: Simon @ at December 15, 2003 07:42 AM

11 how about an include feature that operates above the blog parser level so you could use stuff in SSI's? Of course that would mean that the pages would have to be built on the fly which would result in a pretty hefty server proc cycle overhead and ... oh I've gone cross eyed...

Posted by: rob @ at December 15, 2003 04:48 PM

12 an it would be nice if it was written in something less archaic than perl ... I'm done now.

Posted by: rob @ at December 15, 2003 04:50 PM

13 I would like a button where we can trackback to the server of all spam commenters, and when we recieve a spam comment, we Hit The Button and the program tracksback to the servers of the spammers and they are given The Top Secret Intel Signal of Self-Destruction, resulting in lots of explosions and fire and general destruction of the spam servers, and a pox upon thee and thine of the spam server person with boils on their bottoms, too.

But if that's a little unfeasible, pretty colors are nice.

Posted by: Victor @ at December 15, 2003 07:40 PM

14 Victor is on to something huge here!

We NEED an 'Electrocute Crap-Weasle' button!!!

Posted by: Ted @ at December 15, 2003 07:55 PM

15 Hurray for the boiling of bottoms!
Pox is good too.

Posted by: LeeAnn @ at December 15, 2003 09:55 PM

16 rob - Mr Hypothetical is planning to use SSIs to improve page generation speed. This is how the nested template system will work. SSIs seem to work pretty darn fast in Apache, so it doesn't look like they will be a problem.

Also, Mr H. is a big fan of Python. I hope that meets with your approval.

simon - Making autosave work well in a web application is tricky, but Mr H promises to explore this.

Susie, Mookie - Mr H. informs me that a prototype spell-checker is already operational, and can spell-check a 2000-word post in 0.54 seconds (on a 1GHz P3). Of that, 0.50 seconds is taken up in loading the dictionary... In production, the dictionary would already be loaded, so it would only take 0.04 seconds. We can probably live with that.

In the test post it found such bloopers as desrve, contraints, serach, tunring and skwering. However, it also found don't, we're and people's, so it needs a bit of tweaking.

Victor, Ted & LeeAnn - I will speak to Mr H regarding the Electrocute Crap-Weasel button and see what can be done.

Victor - There will likely be a pretty-colour version, and also a dull-grey version for those who post from work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2003 03:51 AM

17 Oh, and Mr Bartender, you can enable strike in comments yourself - it's in the MT config thingy. You can enter a list of acceptable HTML tags. My list is: a href,i,b,u,strike,sup,sub,br,p

It's on a per-blog basis, so you need to decide yourselves which ones you want to allow.

Mr H will look into formatting buttons. Any features implemented will work in both IE and Mozilla... And hopefully other browsers.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2003 03:55 AM

18 So Pixy I just copied your list (a href,i,b,u,strike,sup,sub,br,p) and pasted it to my preferences. Will they work now?

Posted by: Susie @ at December 16, 2003 05:30 AM

19 It won't let me use strike in the PP comments, though it will here...

Posted by: Susie @ at December 16, 2003 06:03 AM

20 ok, I see now--you allowed "strike" whereas I was typing "s" and not getting a result. So I added "s" to the list and am rebuilding...hope it works now, cuz I'm lazy a minimalist

Posted by: Susie @ at December 16, 2003 06:09 AM

21 Oh.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2003 06:10 AM

22 Python sounds and looks funky although I've never actually used it. Another couple of suggestions for Mr H.

* Full X browser compatibility (down to version 5)

* Xhtml compliant markup (things like parsing the & into automatically)

* A PDA compatible version of the admin pages! I'm currently writing one for MT.

*Some tags which make use of the data produced by the various "Now playing" plugins for WMP WinAmp etc.

* And I'm not sure if this is covered in notification but it would be nice to be able to sign up for an email when someone replies to a comment you left.

And am I being dense but you can already have formatted buttons - just stick a class on them or even swap them out for ___ buttons.

Posted by: rob @ at December 16, 2003 12:51 PM

23 The Bartender was referring to little buttons that do italics and bold and underline so that you don't have to type in the <i> <b> <u>.

Cross-browser compatibility is a key point, and Mozilla and IE are just the minumum (Mr H tells me).

Your other points are certainly worth thinking about, but might not make the first (or rather, zeroth) release, which Mr H is hoping will be ready sometime next month.

And Python is indeed funky, assuming you mean that in a good way.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 16, 2003 01:53 PM

24 Funky is a good thing unless used in reference to smell!

Hmm, those buttons should be stylable but for some reason are rendered by javascript. All they do is call a function in the comments JavaScript so there is no reason why they can't be replaced with your own buttons (famous last words!) ... I'll investigate and see how easy it'll be to do with the current MT interface.

Posted by: Rob @ at December 16, 2003 10:07 PM

25 How about a little automatic skinning???

Posted by: Daniel @ at December 17, 2003 05:46 PM

26 Rob: I have the formatting buttons installed on my site if you want to go check them out. They look and work fine and even allow shortcut key formatting [ctrl][shift] etc. They work but don't display in my individual archives... only displays x picture... haven't really looked into it though. These buttons do not show up in Mozilla for some reason... probably the Mozilla Monster ate them??

FWIW: I took the code for the buttons out of the page where you post your entries, if that helps you any.

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 06:23 AM

27 Thanks Pixy. Got my strike etc updated and working like a champ!

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 06:33 AM

28 I also added blockquotes to your list.

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 06:35 AM

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I will be making the annual pilgrimage to MuNu world HQ in Sydney, Australia. Home of Pixy, our fearless and benevolent leader. It's fair to say none of us would be here without him and his constant help.

Should Pixy be willing/able I will be buying him a beer/dinner/new car on behalf of all Munuvians. Pixy, are you around from December 20th to January 3rd? You can email me seperately with contact details if you are to arrange it.

For everyone else, I hearby dedicate any donations sent via my Paypal for the next couple of weeks solely to the purpose of getting Pixy pissed treating Pixy in the way he should. If you donate I'll send special seperate photos of the auspicious occasion. I am open to any other ideas or ways we can show our adoration short of intimate acts.

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1 I'll be there!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2003 11:10 AM

2 At least I will be easy to recognise.

I really do look like that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2003 02:09 PM

3 It's the wings that make the man, doncha think?

Posted by: LeeAnn @ at December 12, 2003 03:08 PM

4 I don't always wear the wings.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2003 03:36 PM

5 Great. And I'll be easy to spot too. You know what to look for.

Posted by: Simon @ at December 13, 2003 01:53 AM

6 We're up to US$11 so far!!! That's enough for a 5 star dinner. Thanks Susie.

Posted by: Simon @ at December 15, 2003 02:05 AM

7 Jus sent my $10.00 worth hope it counts toward a decent night out

Posted by: rob @ at December 18, 2003 12:00 AM

8 Wow, you didn't have to do that! But thanks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 18, 2003 04:28 AM

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For some reason, LeeAnn rebuilds about ten times faster than Susie. So you should all do what she does.

Whatever that may be.

I think the single biggest culprit is category archives. They are just grindingly slow.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:24 AM | Comments (126) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Does that mean I should uncheck category archives?
Will everything fall apart into 1s and 0s if I do?

Posted by: Susie @ at December 12, 2003 06:06 AM

2 Well, when I rebuild, I only rebuild the main template index. I don't have categories. I think maybe two, three times I've rebuilt completely.
It took... forever.
Of course, if I could just get it right the FIRST time, I might not have to rebuild so often, eh?

Posted by: LeeAnn @ at December 12, 2003 06:15 AM

3 Susie: If you like your category archives, leave them on. But they do seem to slow things down.

LeeAnn:

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2003 07:33 AM

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Ping!

Okay, the first try timed out as expected. Susie, it takes forever (over a minute) to rebuild PP after a pingage.

So, I save again...

It rebuilds PP again... (Which I think is what it's supposed to do.)

Okay, done. I check PP...

And no pong!

I think we may have a winner!

I've also installed the comment de-duplifier, which works in the same way. Have fun, peeps!

P.S. You're right, Susie. Delete the ping from the "Pings to send" box, and it gets sent anyway.

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1 Hey--you should see how long it takes to rebuild after playing in the template!!!!

Is there anything I can do about that???

Posted by: Susie @ at December 11, 2003 06:45 AM

2 Yay!! (again)

Posted by: Susie @ at December 11, 2003 06:45 AM

3 We could get a faster server.

Or move from MT to something else.

Or... Um.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 11, 2003 06:48 AM

4 Yay!!! no pong!!!! no spam and no pongs!! whoo hoo!! Par-tee par-tee par-tee.....

Posted by: Susie @ at December 11, 2003 06:53 AM

5 Meanwhile the poor server is getting killed to death I really need to find out why it's so slow.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 11, 2003 07:07 AM

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I've also (finally!) enabled MT-Blacklist. Any future spam should be countered by the response:

Your comment could not be submitted, probably because you suck.

Comment Submission Error
Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:

Your comment could not be submitted, probably because you suck.

Please correct the error in the form below, then press Post to post your comment.

I will now run the Despamming Thingy™...

...
...

That's a little time-consuming, y'know...

...
...

With this many blogs...

...
...

And this many comments...

Okay, I've processed the last 2500 comments now.

If you want to configure MT Blacklist for your own blog, just go to the mu.nu MT Blacklist configurating page. The only really interesting bit is customising the message returned to spammers. Be creative!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:32 AM | Comments (172) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Susie @ at December 11, 2003 04:37 AM

2 Oops..was my Yay! too enthusiastic for the comments board?

Posted by: Susie @ at December 11, 2003 04:39 AM

3 Oh Great Pixy, Keeper of the Templates and Slayer of Porn Spammers and Viagra-hawkers alike, I salute you!!!!

Posted by: Susie @ at December 11, 2003 04:41 AM

4 Should have done it weeks ago. But better now than not, particularly with that insance spam-crocodile running about.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 11, 2003 04:45 AM

5 "Your comment has been rejected.
Please be sure to secure your package, guide it toward the exit, scrunch inward and go fuck yourself."

Oooo, such language. But.. y'know....

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 11, 2003 05:31 AM

6 Yay! My Hero!!

Thanks again, Mr Pixy!

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 11, 2003 05:37 AM

7 I hope the Blacklist works better than the anti-pong!

Posted by: Susie @ at December 11, 2003 06:24 AM

8 Aha! MT Blacklist overrides the standard ping & comments routines, so installing it disabled the Anti-Pong. I'm now installing the AntiPong inside MT Blacklist...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 11, 2003 06:32 AM

9 Testing the comment-de-duplifier...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 11, 2003 06:36 AM

10 Testing the comment-de-duplifier... X

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 11, 2003 06:36 AM

11 Yes, that seems to work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 11, 2003 06:37 AM

12 Thank you God! Pixy! Whoever--you're one and the same, aren't you?

Last night I discovered a ton of hidden spam (hidden in that I could see it from the post, but when I went into edit mode, I couldn't delete them). I was so upset I went to bed.

They're all gone! Pixy, I owe you my firstborn male child.

Posted by: Victor @ at December 11, 2003 12:18 PM

13 BTW, just where *do* we change that response message?

Posted by: Victor @ at December 11, 2003 03:25 PM

14 Thank you, Pixy, it's a lovely holiday gift.

Posted by: LeeAnn @ at December 11, 2003 05:51 PM

15 Victor - a kitten would do fine. I'm ambivalent towards rats, but maybe... Just remember to package them carefully.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 11, 2003 10:35 PM

16 Sorry, Pixy, the gf is allergic to cats, so we can't go to The Cat Store and buy one. Plus, wrapping one of those wee beasties is a bitch...and I don't *even* want to talk about trying to ship 'im. No rats, either, because I'd want to keep 'im.

You'll just have to settle for First Born Male Child.

Posted by: Victor @ at December 11, 2003 11:01 PM

17 Pixy, you rule!

Posted by: Mr. Green @ at December 12, 2003 12:26 AM

18 Yes, he does--and benevolently, too (so far!)

Posted by: Susie @ at December 12, 2003 03:23 AM

19 All hail Pixy.

Posted by: Simon @ at December 12, 2003 08:21 AM

20 Very cool, Pixy!

Now how do we change that message? I don't see anything like it on the Blacklist config page you linked.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 12, 2003 01:22 PM

21 Um.

Well, one of you guys found it

It would appear that that particular setting is global, and not per-blog. I have set it back to what it was originally.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 12, 2003 01:31 PM

22 It would appear that that particular setting is global, and not per-blog. I have set it back to what it was originally.

Well, that just means it's time for a contest! We need all Munuvians to submit to some sucker someone who volunteers their text for the message, then we all vote for it! Should be fun! Except for the volunteer, anyway.

Posted by: Victor @ at December 12, 2003 03:51 PM

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Let's see if this works.

Hmm. That's slightly odd. Let's try it on a different post...

Ah, yes. That's better!

Mr Bartender, you owe me a beer! Guess I'll need to set up BBBP (Blog to Blog Beer Protocol) on the server.

To explain: I've installed the Anti-Ponging Hack, so no MuNu blogs should suffer from pongs any more. It's still possible, of course, to pong someone else's blog; the only way to fix that is to increase the ping timeout from 30 seconds to something even longer. Or get them to install the Anti-Pong Hack too.

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Someone please ban 62.213.67.122 who despite the creative comments is leaving spam URLS with different names but the same email addy of krokodilgena1@yahoo.com

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1 I'm getting that one, too. Dang!
Isn't there for each of us to ban the IP? I'll bet there is. I just haven't looked for one because I just loooooove getting comments and my penis needs enlargement.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 11, 2003 04:14 AM

2 "Isn't there A WAY for each of us..."

Preview is my friend.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 11, 2003 04:15 AM

3 Hey, T.S., let me be the judge if any enlargement is necessary....send me pictures and in three or four weeks I'll get back to you....

Posted by: Susie @ at December 11, 2003 04:43 AM

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Please check the DNS entries for www.snoozebuttondreams.com. The problem my blog is having is that this domain is not getting resolved. Since that's my $mtbloghost$ location this is very, very, very bad.

I've done a bit of butchery changing $mtbloghost$ to a static snoozebuttondreams.mu.nu and the index page at least is functional. Pure comment pages are working since those are served off of blog.mu.nu.

But my site, my beautiful site, is hosed until the DNS issue is fixed.

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For all you smiley lovers out there...

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