Aww... my bees.
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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Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, June 19 2009 08:52 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, June 20 2009 12:58 AM (PiXy!)
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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)
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#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!)
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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)
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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!)
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What he said, as far as the IP addy goes.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, June 21 2009 11:41 AM (eXdIs)
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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.
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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)
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Huh. That's seriously weird. Let me have a think.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, June 21 2009 08:27 PM (PiXy!)
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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!
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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.
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.
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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The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.
Please contact the server administrator,
webmaster@blog.mu.nu and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.
More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5
mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
PHP/5.2.9 Server at blog.mu.nu Port 80
Posted by: Susie at Saturday, May 23 2009 09:08 PM (SFNt4)
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Whoops!
Sorry Susie. Fixed now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, May 23 2009 10:23 PM (PiXy!)
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Hi Pixy, I have a question about the server you described over at Ace of Spades HQ —
“a dual-processor quad-core hyper-threaded Xeon E5520 with 24GB of RAM, a 4TB RAID-5 array (using an Adaptec 5805 controller), a 32GB Intel X25-E SSD, redundant power supplies, and a gigabit internet connection, running CentOS 5.3 and OpenVZ.”
— Does this server host all of your mee.nu sites, or just Ace?
Thanks!
Posted by: CTN at Saturday, May 23 2009 11:52 PM (hJ2AD)
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It's to host all of mu.nu and mee.nu, replacing three smaller servers. Ace is just one of the biggest sites and was going to be down a little longer because I had to set up the comments server separately, so I posted an announcement there.
There's a second, smaller server in the new arrangement - a quad-core Xeon 3230 with 2GB of RAM - but that's mainly for test and development. I got that because it came as a special deal with 4TB of bandwidth that I can pool with the main server - for half the price of the bandwidth alone.
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My next question isn’t fair, primarily because it’s none of my business . . . . but . . . how do you make money hosting sites for others, for free, when it requires you to maintain oodles of hardware and software, with no ostensible returns?
Posted by: CTN at Sunday, May 24 2009 12:19 AM (tyVJj)
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Damn. I knew I was doing something wrong.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, May 24 2009 12:33 AM (PiXy!)
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Clearly, I should have opened my reader before my site this morning.
Thanks for all your hard work!!
Posted by: pam at Sunday, May 24 2009 01:29 AM (l6NIn)
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Thanks, Pixy! Main menu good--blacklist not so good: "An error occurred: Byte order is not compatible at blib/lib/Storable.pm
(autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 415, at
lib/MT/PluginData.pm line 28"
Sorry to be such a pest!
Posted by: Susie at Sunday, May 24 2009 02:51 PM (SFNt4)
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Uh-oh. That's not supposed to happen.
Thanks for the bug reports!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, May 24 2009 04:58 PM (PiXy!)
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Okay, I'll just need to export and re-import the blacklist. Not a problem.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, May 24 2009 05:06 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, May 24 2009 05:13 PM (PiXy!)
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Yay! Thanks very much--in gratitude, your chocolate allotment for the month has been increased exponentially...
Posted by: Susie at Monday, May 25 2009 01:16 AM (SFNt4)
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When I visit El Robbo, I enter a timewarp to 2005.....
I don't think that is right.
Posted by: Any A. Mouse at Monday, May 25 2009 04:43 AM (4ZO/8)
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That is to say, the Llama Bootchers at http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/
Posted by: Any A. Mouse at Monday, May 25 2009 04:43 AM (4ZO/8)
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Hi Any! Sorry about that. Robbo mentioned it, and I found that a few sites had done the time warp again. Should all be fixed 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.
more...
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Thursday, October 09
Whoops!
Back now. Invalid entry in my.cnf.
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Yo! Pixy! You still around? (It always worries me when you leave a spam up for more than a week.)
Hope everything's OK with you.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, October 19 2008 02:03 PM (+rSRq)
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I'm around, just busy busy busy.
Writing the new Minx scripting language.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, October 19 2008 03:33 PM (PiXy!)
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If you've got a minute to look, I've somehow created a layout anomaly on my blog- probably by doing something I'm not supposed to(!). Rather than put the whole saga here, it's in
this post (although you need to look at the main page to see the problem). The anomaly will be live until Sunday, then I'll be putting things back to normal. Thanks!
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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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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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Wow. 5 blog years is how many in dog years?
Happy Blogiversary!
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Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, April 16 2008 10:47 AM (xC579)
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I'm having a hard time going past two years already. Five years is a great feat. Congratulations.
Well, seeing that I'm a fan already, happy anniversary. I admire the perseverance and diligence you have in maintaining this blog.
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Sorry for the double post, but I just hate it. I always forget to adjust my name, and I have a MIchael instead of Michael.
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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:
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.
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Doing my happy dance....!
Posted by: pam at Saturday, December 22 2007 01:06 AM (l6NIn)
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It's ALWAYS the last place you look, innit?
Posted by: Old Grouch at Saturday, December 22 2007 01:27 AM (M9BNg)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, December 22 2007 08:51 AM (+rSRq)
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Woot!
Thank you! You rock!!
DANCITYDANCITYDANCITYDANCITYDANCITY...
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Saturday, December 22 2007 12:12 PM (Fclht)
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Here is a terribly minor glitch I hadn't noticed before. The lower margin of the post does not recognize images. That is, on a very short post, unless the lower margin is lowered via the ENTER key, the image spills into the post below it.
I first noticed it
here. Of course the link won't show it bleeding into the post below
This is the case in Firefox, IE, and AOL.
This is a ridiculously easy fix of course...hit enter 'till the post lower margin is below the image.
(duh!)
I only mention it because it
might be a symptom of a bug of some kind.
I'll leave the relevant post unfixed for a day.
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Yes, I saw that on your blog. That's a weird one. It's a CSS issue, so it's time to go spelunking in the CSS docs again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, December 22 2007 05:23 PM (PiXy!)
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Well, I went ahead and lowered the margin manually.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Saturday, December 22 2007 06:57 PM (73lWn)
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I got around that problem by creating a spacer 1px high x 450px wide. Stick that in after any problem image (and any text you want to be adjacent to it), and everything squares up. Example:
this post, spacer included after "Help!" (see source). Also
this one.
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Friday, September 21
Stampeeeede!
The migration is on.
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.
more...
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Left a comment over at munuviana, so I'm just repeating myself here--I wanna move Cotillion over!
Posted by: Beth at Saturday, September 22 2007 12:11 AM (yqiXY)
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Cool. I shall make it happen.
But you're 5th in line.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, September 22 2007 01:39 AM (PiXy!)
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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)
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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)
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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.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, September 22 2007 02:45 PM (PiXy!)
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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.
Posted by: GM Roper at Saturday, September 22 2007 10:53 PM (S60yG)
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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)
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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.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, September 23 2007 01:27 AM (PiXy!)
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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)
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I'm in, whenever you get the chance.
Posted by: spacemonkey at Sunday, September 23 2007 08:32 AM (2AE9r)
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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)
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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
Posted by: Susie at Sunday, September 23 2007 05:29 PM (OGAM5)
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Sorry about that, Susie! All fixed now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, September 23 2007 11:57 PM (PiXy!)
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Thank you Darling Pixy!
Posted by: Susie at Monday, September 24 2007 02:05 AM (OGAM5)
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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.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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That's good news. I was worried that if my "u" key went on strike in protest of its heavy-handed abuse at the hands of the Queen's English, I'd have to start spelling it coloyewr.
Posted by: Will at Saturday, August 18 2007 12:47 AM (olS40)
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Can't have that.
My data module has a hook for each table so that I can add derived fields. It now dutifully copies the value of each colour into a corresponding color for your convenience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, August 18 2007 02:42 AM (PiXy!)
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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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02:37 AM
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Thursday, August 16
Presto Change-o
Okay, that looks a bit weird, but it actually worked.
Also de-tableized the banner.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
07:56 PM
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You rearranged the furniture since I was last over---looks good!
Posted by: Susie at Friday, August 17 2007 01:04 AM (Dw6Z5)
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I have a new module that generates designs like this automagically. You just feed it an image (or two), pick a few dozen options, and viola!
Pretty much. Still needs a few bugs ironed out.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 17 2007 01:11 AM (PiXy!)
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Wednesday, August 15
No Ears Kitty
Okay, the ad / no ad switch works fine, except now Floofy has no ears.
So I'll change the banner.
Update: You know what? That looks pretty good. I need to fiddle with the rest of the page style a bit to make it match, but that banner design I'm actually happy with.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
11:46 PM
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Would now be a good time to mention that Privoxy's default configuration blocks any images coming from a directory named "/banners"?
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, August 16 2007 07:23 AM (9Nz6c)
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Yep.
I thought of that yesterday, and I'm changing the standard directory for this to /style/images.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, August 16 2007 11:15 AM (PiXy!)
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The Problem With That
Is that if you have 140 different colours of menu text, you need 140 different colours of mee.nu logos. In two sizes. And the same for mee.fm, and mu.nu. (The other domains can wait.)
That's a total of 840 images, which took nearly three hours to create. Well, half an hour messing about searching for the original version, fifteen minutes re-creating it, two hours to write the program, and fifteen minutes to run it...
I won't display them all, but here's a sample of each:
more...
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Font Set Three At Last!
Wrapping up things with the theme builder, with the plan of installing it later today. Here's the third and final set of fonts - pedestrian, but Unicode-compliant. Ish.
These include the Microsoft "Core Fonts for the Web", Bitstream's Vera, and the SIL fonts Charis and Gentium.
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Tuesday, August 14
Words And Colours
Here's a list of the words and colours available for menu items. Eventually I'll have a dynamic generator set up so you can use any word at all, but for now if you need other words you'll need to file a New Menu Item Request and wait a couple of hours.
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Sunday, August 12
Bob The Builder
The new theme builder module in action. Well, almost in action.
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Friday, August 10
Thursday, August 09
All Dressed Up
Here's a sample with an ad, the mee.nu logo, and the menus overlaid. It's a little busy at this size; making the main banner section larger helps with that.
You can choose from white or black text for the system menus. Other colours maybe later.
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