1

But, but, but without the aah asteroid belt asteroid belt aah there wouldn't be anyplace for the aliens to hide, there wouldn't be any sudden wayword bigassed rocks to threaten earth, there wouldn't be anything to catch the van Allen belt on fire... why, it's indespensible. 

 

2

What the Smurf is Pleh?

Is this one of those Aussie words?

Like U2?  

In Japan I was utterly befuddeled by a man in the gaijin house who was "going to get U2".

(I never really "got" U2 myself though their music was not bad. 

Only much later did I realize, he was getting a job driving a "ute".

You aussies are SUBVERTING the emerging English skills of a whole race!

 

3

Offtopic, Pixy, but...

I love The New Pond, what do I have to do to make it happen?

4 Let me know if you can log in okay, and I'll switch you across.

5 ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

6 Yeah!

(Sorry, just fixing the comment listing so that it doesn't mess up on long unbroken words.)

7

Pixy, I can indeed log in.  Throw the switch, and bring your greatest* creation to life!

 

*note: Wonderduck's Pond may not, in fact, be your greatest creation... or a great creation at all.

8 Is done!

1 I think the truth is you should never run phpBB at all...

2 Okay... I'll remember... I'll file this with the advice a very nice elderly lady gave me one time.

She said "My dear, never buy a house in Palm Springs. Rent instead. There is so much sand, it's not worth it to buy."

I figure one day all these little tidbits I'm collecting will come in useful. You never know. ;-)

On a bloggy note - I cleaned up my blogroll considerably by putting the "blogrolling" lists into scroll boxes. I'm wondering if that would have helped with the comment page problem. *grin*

3 Pixy,
I may have uncovered a problem with your magnificent minx setup. Font size should probably be controlled. Just sayin'.

4 ack.  That didn't work even CLOSE to how I planned it .

5 Heh.  Yeah, slight difference between the way the editor shows that and the way it turns up in the page.  The CSS is set up so that you can't screw up the layout with a comment, but I'm not sure exactly why the lines overlap like that.  Line height is set as a percentage, which should be relative to the font size...

6 That is a modern-art masterpiece.

7 That is vandalism. (There's a difference, these days?)

8 But This IS SPARTA.

9 Pixy, off-topic bug report: I was just browsing the "Shingu" category on Chizumatic, and when I click the "more..." link (same result on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th posts from the beginning of the category, that's all I've tried), it gives me the first page of the category browsing again instead of the full post.

This is the URL being generated for the "more..." link, if it helps:
http://chizumatic.mee.nu/shingu/shingu_secret_of_something-or-other#more

10 This seems to be a bug that happens when you add a post to a category after the fact.  I'm investigating further.

1 I had completely forgotten about this, and yes, it's the best part of the show. Which is a sad commentary on the rest of it.

2 Continued conversation from Chizumatic ....

 OK, It's coming back to me now....this was gloriously bad.

3 (Closing theme of Dragon Half.)

4

There wasn't anything glorious about it.

There's a damned good reason they hung it up after two episodes.

5 I see the end theme is titled 'My Omelette'.
I'm kinda glad I don't understand Japanese!

6 that was...

I...

uhm...

yeah.

bedtime.

1

Ahhh.

Is this why Ace Of Spades comments (ace.mu.nu) is so jammed up right now?

Must be.

*clapping hands*

Looking forward to the new goodies!

1 Cool.  I shall make it happen.

But you're 5th in line.

2 Sure, why not.  I like my computer banner best... ;-)  Please add my name to the list and your assistance will be GREATLY appreciated.  I'm even up for you adding a ad if you would like.  Though, I am a small time blogger so it might not be worth your time.  But you have been very kind and I would love to help bring in revenue.

3

The Pond would love to be Minxified, and will be more than happy to have a small ad, if it'll help in any way.  Being somewhat clumsy in the way of the backstage stuff, if you moved me, it'd be much appreciated. 

Would it still stay wonderduck.mu.nu, or would the address change?  It matters not, just wondering.

Thanks, Pixy, and happy b-day (I put a post up, but didn't comment here... oops)!

4 Thanks Wonderduck.

Yep, you keep your mu.nu address.  Though that is what's causing a slight delay - the cookies aren't quite working because the same system is now running across multiple domains (I think).  Should have it fixed today.

5

Don't know if the request from another post made it, but I'd like to be moved.  Please add the place(s) to advertise mee.nu you deserve the bucks after all the work you've done. 

I also don't need Cpanel for a while so whatever place I'm in line... go ahead and move GM's Corner, http://gmroper.mu.nu and let's get that critter movin' along. 

 

6 Damn those cookies... not only are they fattening, but one just can't live without them.  I was wondering what was going on. 
:-)

7 Yes, sorry about that Teresa.  Loaded up your blog, happy happy, everything works, except that you can't log into it.

Shouldn't be too much longer, though.

8 Don't stress on my account Pixy... I'm always wondering what's going on.  *grin*

9 I'm in, whenever you get the chance.

10 Pixy, the register button in the banner is failing to appear (in internet explorer) at either mee.nu and at my site, just thought you might want to know.  Also how in the wrold do I get the background of my sidebar to be white without having it also turn the page margins to white rather than blue? 

11 Pixy--I went to the main menu at munu (http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/index.cgi) and I got this :

Can't load error template; got error 'Loading template 'error.tmpl' failed: HTML::Template->new() : Cannot open included file tmpl/cms/error.tmpl : file not found. at extlib/HTML/Template.pm line 1500 HTML::Template::_init_template('HTML::Template=HASH(0xa1cbad4)') called at extlib/HTML/Template.pm line 1105 HTML::Template::_init('HTML::Template=HASH(0xa1cbad4)') called at extlib/HTML/Template.pm line 999 HTML::Template::new('HTML::Template', 'filename', 'tmpl/cms/error.tmpl', 'path', 'ARRAY(0xa16e6d4)', 'die_on_bad_params', 0, 'global_vars', 1, ...) called at extlib/HTML/Template.pm line 1049 HTML::Template::new_file('HTML::Template', 'tmpl/cms/error.tmpl', 'path', 'ARRAY(0xa16e6d4)', 'die_on_bad_params', 0, 'global_vars', 1) called at lib/MT/App.pm line 302 eval {...} called at lib/MT/App.pm line 301 MT::App::load_tmpl('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)', 'error.tmpl') called at lib/MT/App.pm line 189 MT::App::show_error('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)', 'Loading template \'list_blog.tmpl\' failed: HTML::Template->n...') called at lib/MT/App.pm line 259 eval {...} called at lib/MT/App.pm line 203 MT::App::run('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)') called at index.cgi line 27 eval {...} called at index.cgi line 21 '. Giving up. Original error was Loading template 'list_blog.tmpl' failed: HTML::Template->new() : Cannot open included file tmpl/cms/list_blog.tmpl : file not found. at extlib/HTML/Template.pm line 1500
HTML::Template::_init_template('HTML::Template=HASH(0xa117b10)') called at extlib/HTML/Template.pm line 1105
HTML::Template::_init('HTML::Template=HASH(0xa117b10)') called at extlib/HTML/Template.pm line 999
HTML::Template::new('HTML::Template', 'filename', 'tmpl/cms/list_blog.tmpl', 'path', 'ARRAY(0xa12fd5 ', 'die_on_bad_params', 0, 'global_vars', 1, ...) called at extlib/HTML/Template.pm line 1049
HTML::Template::new_file('HTML::Template', 'tmpl/cms/list_blog.tmpl', 'path', 'ARRAY(0xa12fd5 ', 'die_on_bad_params', 0, 'global_vars', 1) called at lib/MT/App.pm line 302
eval {...} called at lib/MT/App.pm line 301
MT::App::load_tmpl('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)', 'list_blog.tmpl') called at lib/MT/App.pm line 334
MT::App::build_page('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)', 'list_blog.tmpl', 'HASH(0x9bd4c6 ') called at lib/MT/App/CMS.pm line 218
MT::App::CMS::build_page('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)', 'list_blog.tmpl', 'HASH(0x9bd4c6 ') called at lib/MT/App/CMS.pm line 2129
MT::App::CMS::list_blogs('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)') called at lib/MT/App.pm line 251
eval {...} called at lib/MT/App.pm line 203
MT::App::run('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)') called at index.cgi line 27
eval {...} called at index.cgi line 21

12 Sorry about that, Susie!  All fixed now.

13 Thank you Darling Pixy! 

14 Pixy,

The dogs and I have talked it over and we're ready to move whenever you have the time.  We're also in for an ad.

Also, thanks for all the hard work you do to keep us all up and running.  It is much appreciated.

Howard

1

Alright! Let me be the first Munuvian to wish His Coolness, Pixy, a very Happy Birthday!

2 Happy Birthday, Pixy!!!!!!!  Hope you have a wonderful day! 

3 I can has regrets about giving you bugs for your birthday. I hope they fix easy and you can spend the rest of the day slacking.

4 Happy Birthday!!! May you have a wonderful day!!! 

5 Happy Birthday!! (Pam sent me).

6 Happy Day, Pixy.  Thanks for everything you do for us.

7 Happy Birthday great maker!! 

8 Yay! (to Terry Pratchett) Happy Birthday!

9 Yay Pixy... you and I share the same birthday... but I think I'm quite a bit older at 61.  Happy Birthday amigo.  You deserve the very best!

10 Hey, I forgot about that!  Happy birthday to you too.

11 Belated birthday wishes from Osaka.

Things have been quite a bit berserk around my way. Prepping for a second visit to Japan which is currently underway.

Welcome to the DS side. Its a seriously great thing.

Number one son is eyeing my new black DS and clearly wishes to abandon my previous white DS lite that he so easily co-opted.

Just got back from Yodabashi Camera. They also come in navy blue and a bronze copper. The limited edition black with red top is available as well.

12 I was tossing up between the PSP and the DS, and went for the DS on the basis of Final Fantasy III.  I'm not regretting that decision one bit.

Looks like FFIV will be coming out for the DS soon too, and there's an FFXII sequel already out on DS in Japan.  (Just have to find time to play FFXII itself...)

If I ever run out of Final Fantasies, I'm going to pick up Phoenix Wright.

The only problem I have with the DS is that I've been playing it while lying in bed, and have ended up hurting my neck.

13 Ouch. The DS certainly can be addictive. You should see the positions my kids are managing whilst playing it.

It usually ends with me saying "Not so close !!".

Theres a new one out here. Can't recall the name, "Fate of Tears" or such like that I saw whilst feverishly scanning the aisles in Yodabashi Umeda.

Its our last day in Osaka and then shinkansen to Tokyo.

There is one other major benefit to the DS and its called "R4". Very handy indeed.

14

Another happy birthday wish.

FFIII is pretty good.  I'm not sure if they threw in arbitrary delays or are going too close to the limits of the hardware, but the long delays when switching screens are REALLY annoying.

FFIV is coming to the DS too?  Darn, I've already bought it for the GBA.

FFI and II are both out on the PSP, showing that Square Enix apparently will sell it as many times as they can.  I won't buy 'em, tho, not at $30 each, when I got them both together on one GBA cart.

 

1 Both the Web Developer and Firebug plugins for Firefox have been enormously helpful for me when trying to layout and design a web page.  I highly recommend both for web development work.

2 I've been using Firebug a lot, and it is incredibly useful.  Sadly it's also a terrible CPU hog.  I'll check out the Web Developer plugin, thanks.

3

Hey Pixy, I think there's something going on with the images used for the banner (at least with IE 6.0.29yada-yada).

I'm getting this.

And the post editing screen extends out beyond its own default width. The arrow of the status pulldown is just barely visible.

4

Oh, and when I tried to tweak the banner text a bit, I got this.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 342, in respond
    cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 15, in __call__
    return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "Minx.py", line 156, in default
    return go(cherrypy)
  File "Minx.py", line 121, in go
    raise
  File "Minx.py", line 95, in go
    return Page.go(cp)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Page.py", line 395, in go
    Form.go(page)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 2917, in go
    handler(page)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 2490, in form_styleimage
    Photo.imagemacro(page,image)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 902, in imagemacro
    im=load(ipath)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 875, in load
    p.load(file)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Photo.py", line 51, in load
    self.im=Image.open(file)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1888, in open
    fp = __builtin__.open(fp, "rb")
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory

5

And here's what I got when I tried to make a copy of a style

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 342, in respond
    cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 15, in __call__
    return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "Minx.py", line 156, in default
    return go(cherrypy)
  File "Minx.py", line 121, in go
    raise
  File "Minx.py", line 95, in go
    return Page.go(cp)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Page.py", line 395, in go
    Form.go(page)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 2917, in go
    handler(page)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 2380, in form_style_multi
    do_mod_style(page,t,act)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 2397, in do_mod_style
    style['name']='Copy of '+style['name']
TypeError: tuple indices must be integers

6 Thanks Will.

With the tweaking of the banner, you actually need to choose an image to build the banner from.  (And I need to produce a sensible error if you don't.)

I'll check the post editing screen and fix that up.  It works with my browser and my font settings, but it needs to work for other people too.

With the IE 6 appearance problem...  Uh-oh.  I tested it in IE 7, Mozilla 2, Opera 9 and Safari, but not IE 6.  I'll see what I can do about that; IE 6's transparency is kind of broken, so my options are limited, but I can detect the browser and do something different just for IE 6.

And with the style copy problem - yeah, that's a bug.  I'll fix that.

7

Thanks. I was just trying to tweak the colors of the banner without modifying any other attributes. Is there somewhere else I should be doing that?

1 Yay!!!

2 Woot!

3

Pixy?

You, are well, ultimately the man behind the curtain, can you promote the "save Kramer" drive?

4 Hi WP.  While I'm the man behind the curtain, I have to stay behind my curtain; I don't like to even ask the mu.nu bloggers to do anything.  Best thing would be to email Ace or Rusty - a link from one of the big guys could make all the difference.

1 "factor of four"

LOL - that's okay we'll be here.

2 (couple of hours)⁴ = 32
32+02:20GMT = 10:20AM GMT -4 = 06:20AM EST

Whew!
_{(I was under the impression there would be no math....)}

3 LOL - Ken you win so you get to go first. I never thought to solve the equation! (why did I get that math minor anyhow??? it will remain a mystery)

1

I just tried to do a search here and got an error 500:

500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 342, in respond
    cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 15, in __call__
    return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "Minx.py", line 144, in index
    return go(cherrypy)
  File "Minx.py", line 121, in go
    raise
  File "Minx.py", line 95, in go
    return Page.go(cp)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Page.py", line 395, in go
    Form.go(page)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 2779, in go
    handler(page)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 131, in form_search
    Template.go_index(page)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 2579, in go_index
    page.content=do_template(page,t)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 180, in do_template
    return do_template_text(page,t)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 373, in do_template_text
    if not v1: text+=do_template_text(page,tsub); lastz=True
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 267, in do_template_text
    text+=do_template(page,opt[1],opt[2:])
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 180, in do_template
    return do_template_text(page,t)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 271, in do_template_text
    text+=do_applet(page,opt[1],opt[2:])
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 192, in do_applet
    return do_template_text(page,t)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 254, in do_template_text
    if ttype=='block': (s,i2)=show_block(page,t,i,opt,handler)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 48, in show_block
    if ok: text=do_block(page,tsub,opt,handler)
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 58, in do_block
    return handler(page,opt,template=k0+'.template')
  File "/var/minx/live1.1/Template.py", line 1302, in show_topics
    j=offset
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'offset' referenced before assignment

2 Thank you for the warning Pixy but it's too late for me.....

"Some folks call them green onions....but they're really scallions".

3 Regards SDB's reported search error.....I got the same error.
I'm on a PC using Firefox as a browser.

Note that I get no error and a successful search on my blog. Likewise, I get results on Chizumatic as well, though I suspect that the word "fan service" has been used more than 4 times on that blog.

4 Thanks guys.  Looks like I broke something in the recent update.  I'll get that fixed right away.

5 PIXY...The loutima song...it doesn't stop....at all. I  assumed it had consumed my brain but WONDERDUCK notes the same phenomenon. We're viewing your site in IE and AOL. When looking at the post itself the song plays wether or not the spinny leekophillic Orihime is visible.....possibly a bug...possibly world spanning maddness. It works fine in Firefox.

6 HAHAHAHAHA!

Get a real browser.

Seriously, I'll test this in other browsers. I checked in Firefox that it worked to silence the yaa tsi tsup, but didn't think to try IE or anything else.

Meanwhile, the search bug is fixed. Search worked if you used the [posts] tag, but if you used the [topics] tag, it wasn't setting the offset value (which should be zero anyway).

7 Okay.

Wrapping a Flash animation in a [hide] tag works perfectly in Mozilla and Opera, but it breaks horribly in Internet Explorer and Safari.  In Safari it still works to silence the Flash but destroys the page layout; in IE it doesn't work at all - but still destroys the page layout.

So anyone who views the page in IE didn't see anything beyond the original animation, if that.  Now fixed.

The solution is simple: Use Firefox!!!!!

8 How is the search engine supposed to work? I was just trying to find mentions of Magipoka on Avatar's site. Searching for "sankyuu" using your search engine turned up nothing. Google found 3 hits.

9 The current search engine does a direct text scan, so if the word is hyphenated in the text, you have to hyphenate it in the search form.  Google of course builds an index, and it removes all punctuation when it does so.

The reason I'm doing it this way is that it's faster than using MySQL's full-text index.  If you use a full-text index in a MySQL query, that's the only index used, so it searches the entire database first, and then checks the results to see if they come from the right blog.  The performance is fine...  Until the database grows larger than main memory.  Then it sucks.

Longer-term I'm probably going to set up a separate search database, but for now, that's what we've got.

(I'm also going to enable tags very soon, which might help.)

10 The problem is that the word I was looking for wasn't hyphenated -- and your search still failed to find it.

11 Sorry,  I hyphenated sankyuu in my posts, so I got confused there.  I'll take another look.  It looks like there's a bug, but that's pretty weird.

1

So is this a deep redress of "Sugar, a little snow fairy"? A kid who is having trouble getting over the death of his mother, is visited for a short time by a cute little something-or-other. They become friends, and then a magical flower blooms to indicate that their time together is over. Whatcha think?

2 I think it's something along those lines - but I'm pretty sure they're going to deliver a sharp twist in episode 12.

3 It looks like they went for "cute and sentimental" instead.

1 So once we're all moved to the shiny, new, non-melty server... will we be moving to minx?

I feel like a kid in the back seat of the car... are we there yet? are we? huh? are we? LOL.

2 Actually, we'll be moving to Minx first.  Look like I'll have to put off the server migration til next weekend. Few minor but annoying glitches to iron out there.

3 Cooooool on the minx...

Bummer on the server move.  That sucks.

4 Minx soon?  I'm getting that tingly sensation again!

1 Looks exactly the same to me - so unless you went back to your style sheet - it's looking good. 

1 I think you need a UPS.

2 I think you're right.

I was going to order one with my new PC, but I think I'll get the UPS first.

3 That reminds me... my UPS for my network appliances is shot.  *sigh*  I keep ignoring it because it's not hurting anything, just sitting there being a very expensive surge protector - but I should do something about it.  LOL.  

4 Know a good electrician? I'd check your AC for loose/oxidized connections (= high-resistance) in the service entrance, meter base, and distribution panel. Also bad circuit breakers. Don't know Aussie electrical standards, but in U.S. systems another cause for voltage fluctuations under load is bad bonding/connection of the neutral wire. Also, are your conductors aluminum rather than copper? (Early - 1960s vintage - Al installations had a host of potential problems involving connections/terminations, most of which turned up years after construction.)

5 Good advice, but my house is only two years old, and I have other external drives that aren't affected.  This drive has a power supply half the size of the others;  I think they just cut one too many corners.