Ambient Irony

Absolutely nothing happened in Sector 83 by 9 by 12 today.
I repeat, nothing happened in Sector 83 by 9 by 12.

Sunday, February 05

Design Refresh

I'm doing a new design for the next version of Minx, based on the 960.gs / Skeleton / Bootstrap CSS layout libraries.*

The rounded corners are likely to go at this stage; form design will improve, and blogs will resize (at least in theory) to fit your device, but in discrete steps rather than one pixel at a time.

The idea is that you'll choose a 12- or 16-column layout, and then assign a certain number of columns to each element on the page, so you might choose 12 columns, and allocate 8 to the content and 4 to the sidebar. But you could also have a headlines area (between the banner and the content) with three items each four columns wide.

The new base widths will be 700 pixels (for smaller devices like tablets and phones), 940 pixels (for older PCs and notebooks), and 1180 pixels (for larger screens). All of those work out evenly whether you choose a 12- or 16-column grid.

There will be a pair of new, interactive menu bars above and below your banner image, the top one for the mee.nu system as a whole, the bottom one for your site. The current ads (which I haven't sold any of yet anyway) will shrink down to fit in the top menu bar, rather than sitting above it, and will expand out on mouseover. I think that's the best compromise to make them as unobtrusive as possible while still giving advertisers a useful amount of space.

Sample Images

Update: Damn arithmetic! One problem with the above layout is that to fit ads neatly in the sidebar you'd want it to be 240 pixels wide - the same as the ad itself. But the maths just doesn't work out.

With a 940-pixel standard layout, you have 12 columns each 60 pixels wide, and 11 margins in between each 20 pixels wide. 12 x 60 + 11 x 20 = 940.

With 16 columns, it's 16 x 40 + 15 x 20 = 940.

This works because we're ignoring the rightmost 20-pixel margin - if we included that, the widths would be 720, 960, and 1200 pixels - all multiples of 240, with lots and lots of useful factors.

So if you have a 3 column sidebar in a 12-column layout, that's 3 x 60 + 2 x 20 = 220px. 4 columns in 16-col layout is 4 x 40 + 3 x 20 = 220px. Either way, too narrow for the ad. 4 columns in 12-col layout is 4 x 60 + 3 x 20 = 300px; 5 columns in 16-col layout is 5 x 40 + 3 x 20 = 280px, which leaves a fair chunk of space over.

I'm not sure how bad that will be in a live design, so I'm not going to tear up the fundamental principles of mathematics just yet. And you could force the sidebar into a 240-pixel layout within a 280/300 pixel division if need be, with a larger than normal gap between the sidebar and the main content.

Real-world testing is indicated here.

* Most likely Bootstrap; I had some issues with version 1.4, but the newly released 2.0 cleans up most of the things I didn't like and adds even more features.

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Tuesday, August 30

Location, Location, Location

Okay, I've lined up reasonably-priced providers in the following locations:

Phoenix (2)
Dallas (2)
Atlanta
New Jersey
Chicago
Los Angeles
Fremont

I'm not sure about the company operating the Chicago and Fremont hosting - they seem to have happy customers, but they're small and operate out of Malaysia. Mind you, I'm even smaller and operate out of my living room...

One of the providers in Phoenix - I/O Flood - is also a tiny company, but they clearly know what they are doing (very active online) and their pricing is great. The other two providers have been in business for years and I've had servers with both of them previously, but they're the most expensive. (But still significantly cheaper than what I'm paying now.)

Fremont, Dallas, and New Jersey would make sense from a geographical perspective, but I really like the guys in Phoenix. Maybe Phoenix and Atlanta.

Ah, decisions, decisions. wink

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Saturday, August 27

Planned Downtime

We're going to have a little downtime around 1AM CDT this Sunday to replace the failed drive. Should only be around 15 minutes assuming all goes well. If all goes wrong, could be a couple of hours. I'd place the probabilities at about 60/40.

Running and double-checking backups right now.

Update: Ran a little late and a little long and a little hiccupy, but all done now.

Update to the update: And then when all was said and done, the network decided to notwork: The switch lost track of all our IP addresses and effectively null-routed the server. Had to manually bind them directly to the network interface, then restart the virtual servers one by one.

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Sunday, August 21

Sorry About That, Folks!

Had a drive failure¹, which caused the system to reboot², which caused a lengthy filesystem check because we'd been up so long³, which when circumvented allowed us to boot cleanly, which highlighted a networking glitch⁴, which when fixed allowed us to find the database corruption⁵ which we've now fixed allowing us to get back on the air.

I was supposed to be in a conference session on hosting web applications right about now...

1 Grrr Western Digital!⁶
2 Grrr Adaptec!⁶
3 Grrr ext3 default settings which I didn't bother to override...⁶
4 Grrr OpenVZ!⁶
5 Grrr MySQL!⁶
6 Though it must be said that we've been running on this without a hiccup for nearly 18 months.

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1 Yay Pixy! Our Hero!

Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, August 21 2011 10:12 AM (o45Mg)

2 I am sorry to bring it up in view of quick and successful resolution, but you should not keep two DNS servers on the same subnet. Run "host -t ns mee.nu" and "host -t ns zaitcev.us" to see what I mean. My secondary is not just on a different subnet, it's on a different continent.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sunday, August 21 2011 02:36 PM (9KseV)

3 Agreed. I had secondary DNS on a little VPS at another provide, but then the host node fell over and was down for 20 hours, during which time I moved it to the main server and never got around to moving it back.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 21 2011 06:02 PM (PiXy!)

4 "...it's on a different continent" --- yes, but what if an asteroid takes out the planet? How will the astronauts on the ISS get to your web site after that? I plan to put DNS servers on Luna, Phobos, and Io. Just in case.

Posted by: dkallen99 at Monday, August 22 2011 12:50 AM (HOXKi)

5 Grrr Western Digital!

Never took a liking to their product.

I'll buy Seagate or Hitachi, even (ugh) Fujitsu, before I buy something from WD.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at Monday, August 22 2011 10:53 AM (PaYgs)

6 Hey Pixy, I have a new idea on fixing spam at AoS, but I don't want you to ban me, and I don't want to humiliate myself in front of internet great Steven Den Beste again(is he still around?)

So let me write my idea here, and you can quickly delete it once you've read it. Thanks in advance for not banning me.

Here it is. We all know that 'captcha' sucks. But what if you added captcha for any comment that included 3 or more hyperlinks? You'd catch 100% of the spam, and maybe half a percent of the nonspam. You'd win, aussie! Oi!

Posted by: Kevin at Thursday, August 25 2011 09:57 AM (PjWPp)

7 Yeah, some sort of captcha when there's something unusual going on - too many links, too many posts an hour from a given IP - that could definitely help.

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Thursday, January 27

(Tinkery-Type Noises)

Youtube video, default size (now widescreen, 480x270 16:9 video).
[youtube=5_sfnQDr1-o]

Youtube video, custom size, including the extra 30 vertical pixels the player uses:
[youtube=5_sfnQDr1-o size=400x255]

Youtube video, custom size, not including the extra 30 vertical pixels - the BBCode engine detects if you've entered something that works out to exactly 4:3 or 16:9 and adjusts the player size appropriately:
[youtube=5_sfnQDr1-o size=400x225]

If you mess up the size it still works:
[youtube=5_sfnQDr1-o size=400x224]

Specify just the width - assumes you want 16:9:
[youtube=5_sfnQDr1-o size=540x]

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Wednesday, June 09

Spring Cleaning

While in fact it's Wintertime here at Pixy Labs (and it's bloody freezing - or close to, anyway), I've just spent a couple of hours dusting off the main mee.nu site and I'm going to be posting there again. In fact, I'm going to try posting there every day. Even if it kills me. Which it probably will.

Going to put up a new banner too. I can recycle the current one next month anyway.

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Friday, April 23

Testing Stuffs

Test test...
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Saturday, April 17

Server Migration - Sunday 18th April 8AM-9AM GMT

We'll be moving to our shiny new server this Sunday at 6PM Sydney time - 8AM GMT, 4AM EDT, 1AM PDT. So a mostly convenient time for most people - in the evening for me, and in the middle of the night for almost everyone else.*

Downtime is expected to be 30 to 60 minutes, depending on exactly how long the network switch takes to refresh its ARP cache. All URLs, logins, and IP address will be unchanged; it should just go offline and then come back an hour later on the new server running (up to) twice as fast.

Update: Pushed back one day and bumped. My test migration worked perfectly, but I only got there half an hour before the real thing was scheduled to happen, so I'm putting it off until tomorrow.

* 8 o'clock on a Sunday morning counts as the middle of the night according to ISO 8833.7.

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Friday, July 17

One Last Outage - Around 1AM CDT

Today's outage is proudly brought to you by Adaptec - "The number one name in overpriced RAID controllers with crappy firmware" - and Western Digital - "Our drives are so tough they eat other disk drives! Also, your data."

This is to replace the insane drive and wipe and rebuild the corrupted RAID-5 volume. Should be about 15 minutes. Once it's done, everything should be good - we have a RAID-5 array and a RAID-1 array and an enterprise SSD for the databases. What could possibly go wrong?

...

No, thanks, I don't want a list.

Update: DONE!

Update: And for some bizarre reason, after the maintenance was done and I'd made sure everything was working correctly, the networking went notworking. Bleh.

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Friday, June 19

And We're Back

I said half an hour, and half an hour it took!

Update: Except that my clever trick of redirecting the reverse proxy to minimise downtime caused the spam filter to block, um, everyone.

Most people should have picked up the DNS changes by now and won't have that problem any more.

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1 Testing commentses.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, June 19 2009 08:52 PM (PiXy!)

2 Pokety poke...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, June 20 2009 12:58 AM (PiXy!)

3 Big Daddy Pixy? I don't know if it's just me or what, but ever since the upgrade I've noticed two perhaps-bugs.

1) If a spam-comment is put into a thread, it gets blocked but the comment count increases. Clicking on "comments" to read the thread opens... nothing.

2) I've been experiencing a huge slowdown on all mee.nu/mu.nu blogs, including my own. It takes 20 seconds to open the "add link" or "add image" windows in the editor, not to mention just trying to visit a blog.

I know it's not on my end, because non-mee/mu.nu sites open just fine and I'm able to download things at my normal rate.

Thanks for all your efforts, Pixy ol' saint!

Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, June 21 2009 09:20 AM (hlGBx)

4 #1 is a known problem. I need to fiddle with that.

#2... Um. I haven't experienced any problems. Hmm. Hrm. (Just tried the linky thing there.)

Could you open a Command Prompt window, and do the following:

ping ai.mee.nu
ping wonderduck.mu.nu

And let me know what IP address it finds for each one? Maybe you're still going to the old server and getting redirected to the new one every time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, June 21 2009 09:34 AM (PiXy!)

For me:

ai.mee.nu: 174.37.121.38
wonderduck.mu.nu: 174.37.121.38

and loading performance is normal.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, June 21 2009 09:43 AM (+rSRq)

6 Yep, that's what it should be. Sometime soon the mu.nu Minx blogs will move to 174.37.121.39, but apart from that, no changes are expected.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, June 21 2009 10:21 AM (PiXy!)

7 What he said, as far as the IP addy goes.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, June 21 2009 11:41 AM (eXdIs)

8 Okay, that's good.

Could you try a different browser, or clearing your browser cache? Something bad might have got stuck somewhere during the move.

Another possibility is a routing issue between you and the new server, but I'm hoping it's not that because that would be a bugger to get sorted out.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, June 21 2009 04:56 PM (PiXy!)

Cache cleared. If I go to a mu/mee.nu site directly, it loads fairly swiftly, but if I follow a link (say, via my blogroll, or Steven's), it crawls.

The "backstage" pages at The Pond are still crawling.

I'm experiencing the same thing on three different browsers: Firefoxy 3, IE7, and whatever browser it is that AoL uses these days (some variant of IE).

Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, June 21 2009 05:26 PM (8kQ8M)

10 Huh. That's seriously weird. Let me have a think.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, June 21 2009 08:27 PM (PiXy!)

11 It all still works, it's just slow. I used dialup until October 2007, I can deal with this until it fixes itself or you work your usual magic!

Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, June 22 2009 03:53 AM (hlGBx)

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Thursday, June 18

Really Moving

The on-again off-again mee.nu server move is on again, for this Friday at 6AM GMT.

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Monday, June 08

Mooving

mee.nu (and the mu.nu Minx blogs) will be migrating across to its new home on Monday at 6AM GMT.

Was originally scheduled for Sunday at the same time, but I somehow slept through all of Saturday, so I'm not quite ready yet.

Downtime is expected to be about an hour. Originally it was going to be just a few minutes, but due to recent hiccups I'm now planning to do a full database reload, so it will take a little longer.

Update: Running a bit behind schedule, bit still planning to do the move today. I have worked out a plan to minimise the downtime, so when your blog goes blank for twenty minutes or so, that will be it.

(I should be able to put up a message saying what's happening.)

Update: Still working on it. Tidying up the old environment now so that I can do a nice quick move. While I'm doing that, I'll do a test run of the database load.

Update: Downtime should be only about 15 minutes. The trial run took 3.5 minutes to dump the database, 1 minute to copy across to the new server, and 8.5 minutes to load. That's not at all bad.

The setup is nearly ready, so I'm going to proceed and get it done before the database glitches again. frown

Update: Damn. The database dump doesn't work correctly if there are corrupt indexes, so I'll have to do an index rebuild first, then dump.

Update: Ran into a bug. Looks like it's not happening today after all. I'll keep working on it and reschedule, probably to tomorrow.

Update: Doh! I know what's going on. Hang on...

Update: Nope, that wasn't it. sad

Weird. I'm already running a CherryPy app in production on this server, so why won't this one start? I can't even get a trivial sample program to run. Same version of Python and CherryPy too. Hmm.

Update: Foo. Networking wasn't running correctly on the newly-created virtual server. I restarted it, and everything is fine. It looked like a firewall issue - with the new system, not only is the server protected from the outside world, but all the virtual servers are protected from each other, and, in fact, from themselves. But no, it was just that the loopback interface wasn't running.

Update: Okay, looks like the application server and database are working fine now. Just need to set up the load-balancer. But it's nearly midnight, so I won't be doing the move today; it will be tomorrow instead.

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Saturday, May 23

Two Removes Are Equal To One Fire

Moving mu.nu into its new home right now.

I've reached the quiet spot between frantic preparation and even more frantic bug-fixing, where the files are doing their final update. Back to panic mode in 3... 2...

All finished! Not too much pain involved, either. Just waiting for the DNS changes to roll out now.

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Saturday, February 07

1.2-alpha-c1

The new edition of Minx is working!

Okay, it's still in internal alpha testing, but after I ripped out its internals to provide for some of the major new features (scripting language, API support, safe third-party applets) it's been kind of broken for a while.

Now it's working fine, and seems to be at least close to the speed of 1.1. I can optimise the common cases of my new tag dictionary class, which is very heavily used; that should help things along.

Hmm.

Before:

108kb generated in CPU 0.13, elapsed 0.1315 seconds.
65 queries taking 0.0324 seconds, 276 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.2-beta.

After:

106kb generated in CPU 0.12, elapsed 0.1285 seconds.
70 queries taking 0.0426 seconds, 279 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.2-alpha-c1.

But I just noticed that recent comments aren't working on 1.2.*

Based on the work I've been doing at my day job over the past year, I do have some neat ways to potentially speed up the query side of things (and reduce the number of queries). But that's only one third the total time, so Amdahl's Law applies in spades.

* Doh! It's that blasted cross-referencing indexy thing I implemented. Efficient, yeah, but if the cross-reference table is empty it don't work. And if the cross-reference table isn't accurate, it don't work right. I'll have to find - or rewrite - the code to rebuild the index, but at least I know it's not a bug. As such.

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Friday, November 14

Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?

Let's see what happens...

Well, it kind of works. (See below.) Say bye-bye to half my CSS settings, and at the same time, half the markup in the document itself, but other than that, it's readable enough.

That's the documentation for one active tag (albeit one of the more complex ones). And it's pretty terse and short on examples.

As of 1.2b3, the current development version, Minx supports 1651 active tags. (I have no idea how many data tags there are - closing on a hundred thousand, I expect.)

Of course, most of those tags are variations or combinations or or specialisations or refinements of other tags, because Minx has only about 23,000 lines of code.

But if each tag needed a paragraph of explanation, that would fill a phone book.

So I need to take what I've been writing in Word, parameterise it, and build it into a Wiki.

Fortunately, two of the features added in 1.2 are Wiki support and text macros, so I can do exactly that.

So, um, I will.

Do that.

Yes.

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Thursday, October 09

Whoops!

Back now. Invalid entry in my.cnf.

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Tuesday, June 03

And Off We Go Again

Cleanup is cleaned up. Migrator is migratoring.

Sleep time.

Have to get up early, there's a man coming round to destroy my bathroom.

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Monday, May 12

Stampeeeede!

And the buffalo are off!

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Sunday, May 11

Run! Run While You Still Can!

About to import the entirety of mu.nu into Minx. More than 200,000 posts, more than 1,500,000 comments.

Whee!

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Tuesday, April 15

Five Years Of Assorted Miscellanea

Today!

Huh. It's not immediately obvious even with that link, because April 15 2003 was also a Tuesday. But yep, five years old today.

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Monday, March 31

New In 1.2: Video At Last!

Just as a reminder, this series of posts is talking about features in the new 1.2 relase coming in April. These tags aren't available on the live system just yet; I've copied the HTML produced by the test system to demonstrate their effects.

A couple more toys for you to play with, in the form of the [video] and [music] tags. I'm cheating slightly to show them working here, because while the player is installed on the server, the updated BBCode engine isn't.

To start with something simple, the tag [video=/flash/NewCuteyHoneyOp2.flv image=/flash/NewCuteyHoneyOp2.jpg theme=dark width=480 height=360] produces this:

The width and height default to 480 and 360 respectively, so if you're happy with that, you don't need to specify them. An extra 20 pixels is added to the total height for the player control bar. Two themes are currently available: dark, as shown above, and light, which is light grey with black buttons.

The image option specifies a placeholder image to be displayed until the user hits play. Or you can add an autostart option to, well, autostart. But that could get annoying - particularly if you have more than one video on the page...

Your file needs to be in FLV format at present (or SWF, but FLV is probably easier). There are a number of free tools that will convert AVI or MPEG files to FLV - Riva Encoder is one that I've tried that seems to work fairly well.

The [music] tag will display a simple player for MP3 files. The tag [music=/files/music/Eva-3-34.mp3] will produce:

You can specify a width and a theme just as with the video player.

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Friday, December 21

Fixed!

That bug that was logging people out at random - the same bug that occasionally gave you someone else's name on a comments page - has been found and fixed.

It's a CherryPy bug and not a Minx bug, so I'm going to see if it's been fixed in the new beta of CherryPy, and if not, file a bug report.

The only problem is that I spent three hours looking for a bug in my code before I turned my gaze to CherryPy. neutral

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Friday, September 21

Stampeeeede!

The migration is on. smile

Any mu.nu users want to move to Minx, just comment here or email me (andrew -at- pixymisa -dot- net), and I'll make it happen. I've copied the post from Munuviana into the extended entry for more details.
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1 Cool. I shall make it happen. smile

But you're 5th in line. wink

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, September 22 2007 01:39 AM (PiXy!)

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.

Posted by: vw bug at Saturday, September 22 2007 05:24 AM (FPOeI)

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)!

Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, September 22 2007 09:48 AM (qBCpG)

4 Thanks Wonderduck. smile

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.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, September 22 2007 02:45 PM (PiXy!)

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. smile

Posted by: GM Roper at Saturday, September 22 2007 10:53 PM (S60yG)

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

Posted by: Teresa at Sunday, September 23 2007 12:49 AM (rVIv9)

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

Shouldn't be too much longer, though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, September 23 2007 01:27 AM (PiXy!)

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

Posted by: Teresa at Sunday, September 23 2007 02:08 AM (rVIv9)

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

Posted by: spacemonkey at Sunday, September 23 2007 08:32 AM (2AE9r)

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?

Posted by: Raging Tachikoma at Sunday, September 23 2007 11:41 AM (Dr4C2)

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 cool

', '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 cool

', '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 cool

') called at lib/MT/App/CMS.pm line 218
MT::App::CMS::build_page('MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x9be0380)', 'list_blog.tmpl', 'HASH(0x9bd4c6 cool

') 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

Posted by: Susie at Sunday, September 23 2007 05:29 PM (OGAM5)

12 Sorry about that, Susie! All fixed now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, September 23 2007 11:57 PM (PiXy!)

13 Thank you Darling Pixy!

Posted by: Susie at Monday, September 24 2007 02:05 AM (OGAM5)

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

Posted by: Howard at Thursday, September 27 2007 08:01 AM (u2JaN)

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Friday, August 17

Popup Overload

Part one of the theme builder - the part that does fancy banners as seen above - is installed, though I haven't activated it for everyone.

Parts two and three, which handle layouts and styles respectively, will go in tomorrow. That brings the total number of colour options available to 104.

That's not 104 different colours; that's 104 different things for which you can specify the colour. Each with a little popup colour selector.

Also, you can spell it "color" and it still works.

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Whoopsy

I was testing the new theme builder module on my test box (a good place for that sort of thing). It seems to work well, except that the first thing it does is rename and deactivate your header, footer, and banner templates and replace them with the new standard versions.

Which I haven't actually set up yet.

One good point: Turns out the system is actually still usable with the header, footer and banner templates all missing.

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