August 14, 2008

How Do I Kill All That Remains of My Dead Blog?

I've deleted everything I possibly can from my former Weblog, SlagleRock's Slaughterhouse @ http://combatarms.mu.nu

However, anytime I google SlagleRock it manages to find all of my old entries and pull them up in their entirity. It was a great run and fun to blog, but I had to duck out of the game. There were both personal and professional reasons for this, but I need all past entries and information eradicated from the web. Can an administrator do this? Someone please delete/help.

How do I do this? Can it be done?

SlagleRock Out!

Posted by SlagleRock at 07:50 AM

March 01, 2008

Comments broken? Or is it a Spam Issue?

Something crazy seems to going on with comments in general. Are they broken? I'm getting this message when I attempt to comment on my blog:

An error occurred:

Invalid [] range "p-c" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/-4-you.info|-com.com|-mobile-phones.org|-site.info|.+cialis.+|.+cn.+|.+diamond.+os.com|.+index.+|.+shemale.com|.+viagra.+|.+xx.+|.a-scuba-school.com|.bg.de|.biz|.blackjack-21.ws|.blackjack-p.com|.blackjack-strategy.ws|.casino-games.co.il|.casino-online-i.com|.casino-royale.ws|.cheapativan.com|.chuanqisf.cn|.cut-jobs.info|.debt-help-bill-consolidation-elimination.com/|.diabetic-care-supplies.com|.gambling-casinos-trx.com|.hbsnwa.org|.imxafterclub.com| at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 3098.

What's up?

Posted by Ensie at 09:50 AM

February 28, 2008

Comment Help Needed

Since the birth of my site on MuNu my comments have had a weird glitch. Should you want to comment, you click the "comment" button and you are assummed to be signed in. You cannot sign out. You are asked to enter a URL and your comment. Once you have entered this info and go to post your comment you are forwarded to an error page where you are asked to enter your name, e-mail, re-enter your URL and THEN post.

My system will also not remember anyone.

It's a pain in the ass and I'm missing out on comments because of it.

Can anyone help?? Please?? It's going on four years of having this crappy system and I'm sick of it.

Posted by Ensie at 08:40 AM

December 21, 2007

Bandwith Exceeded?

Have I reached my limit, or is there a larger issue?

Posted by Groovyvic at 12:02 PM

November 26, 2007

IP Blocking

So I decided to try to block a couple of freaks from my site. I entered their IP's a few days ago and the retards are still getting in to my site, according to my Sitemeter stats this AM. Anyone have any suggestions??

Thanks in advance!

(Posted under "Idiots and Other Infections", which seems fitting...)

Posted by Old Cloots at 04:18 PM

October 08, 2007

Oops I May Have Did It Again

Comments are broke again. If it was me, I plead exhaustion and a three-day spam attack that made it impossible for me to go through and check hundreds of comments for open brackets.

I have been working with Teresa to fix the problem. Thanks to her, I was able to insert code that closed comments on some, but not all, of my old posts.

Ogre, Pixy, any suggestions?

Also I notice that I get an "Error 500 Bugger" message when I tried to user the search feature on my site this AM.

Anyone with info on how I can close ALL of my old post comments, please reply post haste!

Thanks in advance.

Posted by Old Cloots at 03:26 PM

Help!!!

My blog seemed to have been hacked. Please help me!

http://ageofreason.mu.nu/

It now says some pretty nasty stuff under the name American Warmonger.

Posted by Tom Jefferson at 03:18 PM

October 07, 2007

Blacklist again

Someone's blacklisted parenthesis again I think. Commenters are getting the following error message: Invalid [] range "n-g" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/-4-you.info|-com.com|-mobile-phones.org|-site.info|.+diamond.+os.com|.+shemale.com|.a-scuba-school.com

Posted by Everydaystranger at 11:24 AM

October 05, 2007

Things Moving To Other Things

I'm going to move Munuviana to Minx sometime in the next few days. Maybe even today! It will take me a little time to add all the munu users to the authors list, so if you have a problem and find you can't log in at the new blog, leave a comment (I'll sticky a post for that) or email me.

Also, I'm preparing to do the server migration this weekend; things may get a leetle bumpy, but I'll do my best to minimise any slowdowns or downtime.

I'll post more details later today.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 02:31 AM

October 04, 2007

Yay! For Helen

In case you missed the news, Helen of Everyday Stranger has given birth to twins today.

Everyone is said to be doing fine.

Posted by Stephen Macklin at 11:34 PM

Pixy is a God!

OH. MY. GOD.

Minx is TOTALLY rad.

If you ain't got it yet, you should be crying yourself to sleep at night.

Thank you, Pixy! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Posted by Flibbertigibbet at 06:30 PM

Server Burp

Sorry, the server burped again. I'm not 100% sure what the cause was, because I wasn't able to log in at all and had to do a remote reboot.

I'm going to see about moving some or all of the sites to the new server this weekend. Fingers, legs and eyes crossed!

Posted by Pixy Misa at 05:16 PM

September 27, 2007

Open Door Found; Closed

Aargh.

The problem wasn't in Movable Type at all; it was in phpBB, as in the old mu.nu forums. A combination of a hole in phpBB, the design of Movable Type, and an oversight on my part allowed the hackers to deface your pages.

I've shut down the mu.nu forums. Completely. I've had too many problems with phpBB 2, and version 3 still isn't out. phpBB can be kept reasonably secure if you attend to it regularly, but I have too many things to look after to worry about something with as bad a history as this.

The hackers managed to run some other scripts as well as the one that defaced your blogs. They never had administrator access, but it's possible they made a mess in some places I haven't found yet, so I get to spend the next day or three crawling all over the system and zapping anything that looks suspicious. This *has* to be done before we can move to the new server, so I might have to put that off for another week.

Fortunately, none of this affects Minx, which is on completely separate dedicated servers, and isn't affected by the same sort of security loophole. (Which is not to claim that it's immune to attack, but it's immune to that attack.)

Sigh.

At least now I know what it was, and I can close the door on it. Apologies to everyone affected, particularly George Roper, who ended up (not that this was my intention) almost acting as bait so that the attackers would come back and I could catch them in the act.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 07:49 AM

Blacklist Brackets Again

Okay I deleted over 50 entries that were done today with a bracket in them. That seems to have taken care of the broken comments for now. But I wonder who "Key 121" might be... that's all it said to identify the lister.

Posted by Teresa at 01:07 AM

September 25, 2007

Ditto ditto etc. etc.

This time it was AlexC (ID: 305) at 2007/09/25 19:17:49 who blacklisted "cbcdrhmm.com]vakoacvw[" and broke the comments. Sigh. Anyone know who it is so I can email 'em?

Posted by Susie at 08:04 PM

September 23, 2007

News Update

Okay, a little update on the topics of the day:

I have a workaround for the cookie problem that was stopping the Minx-for-munu rollout, and I've also sent a question to the developers of CherryPy (the web framework Minx is built on). The rollout will begin tomorrow; I'll get through the waiting list as fast as I can. Each blog will be copied to yourblog.new.mu.nu, and then I'll email you so that you can check it out. If you're happy, I'll switch it over so that it takes the place of your old MT blog directly.

I've also been working to secure MT and stop the defacement attacks. I'm not sure if this has worked, but I have also implemented a new logging system in MT itself. So if we are attacked again, it should tell me how the attack is happening and who is doing it, and I will be able to put a stop to it.

I made a couple of booboos while I was doing this, and MT was down for a while. Sorry about that. :)

Again, if you see anything strange going on, please email me at andrew -at- pixymisa -dot- net, and I'll jump right on it.

Update: Sorry about the slowwwwwness... I was preparing for the move to the new server, and it was doing bad things to the old servers. I've changed tactics and I'm going to do a cleanup on the old servers first, and then copy everything across. The CPanel copy process is incredibly inefficient and causes huge problems to the server I'm copying from; unfortunately I don't have much choice but to use it. I have found that one option they added in the latest version of CPanel actually makes things worse, so I'll make sure that's turned off for the next pass.

Update: For example, I'm archiving and then deleting over 20GB of statistics from the web stats program Analog. I hate Analog.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 01:53 PM

September 21, 2007

I Was Hacked

Just to let everyone know that I was hacked last night (The Story Here) and sent an URGENT Help e-mail to Pixy.

Not only did Pixy respond almost immediately, he fixed the problem, helped another munuvian who was hacked the same way, but followed up and helped change passwords etc to make sure nothing was screwed up.

So, I just want to say: "THANK YOU PIXY, YOU ARE ONE HELL OF A GUY!!!"

Posted by GM Roper at 05:39 PM

Comment Change

The comment script has been renamed (once more). This gives us a brief respite from spam, and should last us until we're on the new server.

What this means is that comments on all your old posts are effectively closed (since they link to the old script) and comments on your recent posts won't work until you update your blog (post a new entry or edit a recent entry) or do a rebuild.

I'm going to see if I can do a quick rebuild of people's front pages to help work around that.

Update: The rebuild appears to be working. If you still have comment problems on your blog, first try updating a post (just edit the post and save it), and if that doesn't fix it, let me know and I'll get it sorted out for you.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:37 PM

Hmm...

Apparantly, someone in the middle east doesn't like fake UFO pictures or YouTube videos because Blather Review has been hacked! HALP!!!

Posted by Tuning Spork at 04:20 AM

Good News, Crap News

Hi everyone.

Good news first: Minx is open for migration, as of right now. :D

If you don't mind a fairly standard Minx layout - see my site, mee.nu itself, AZ Resident, Brickmuppet for some samples - I can get you up and running very quickly.

Also, it's easier if you don't use CPanel or your mu.nu email address; it will be another few days before I have CPanel and Minx playing nicely together. If you don't mind losing CPanel just for a few days I can move you right away and enable CPanel later.

If you'd like me to do all the work and just hand you the keys to a shiny new Minx version of your blog, all you have to do is post here or email me at andrew -at- pixymisa -dot- net. Posting in Minx is very much like MT, except there's a fancy WYSIWYG editor, so you can get going in your new blog very easily.

There are twenty standard themes you can choose from: Blue, Green, Grey, Orange and White just have colour gradients for the banner (see Brickmuppet for an example); Beans, Bug, Butterfly, Cheese, Chips, Clover, Fire, Gargoyle, Green Tomatoes, Ireland, Mountains, Rosebud, Saltnpepper, Sunrise and Sunset have nice photos (see AZ Resident for an example of the Fire theme). (I'll post examples of all the themes shortly.)

You can switch between 1, 2 and 3-column layouts at the flick of, well, a switch, so no problems on that score.

I'll also be available to help converting existing layouts and stylesheets and banners and so on.

If you'd like to do the work yourself you can export from MT and import into Minx. Again, just comment or email me and I'll set you up for that.

Oh yes, one other thing: I need to get the number of page impressions and ad views up for mee.nu and mu.nu to attract advertisting (and hence, money!) If you're willing to have a small banner add on your site (see my site), let me know. I'm more than happy to split the revenue with you, or if you're not interested in that (for smaller bloggers it might only be a few dollars here and there), we can pool the money and donate it to a charity. (I'm thinking the American Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders, but I'm open to suggestions.)

And now for the crap news: We have a hacker defacing mu.nu blogs. Several blogs have been hit already. I've restored them all, but it's possible that more attacks will occur. If you see anything untowards, please let me know right away.

Just another reason to move to Minx, I guess. :|

Posted by Pixy Misa at 02:54 AM

Comments

Any word on when comments will be back online?

Posted by Rhodey at 01:12 AM

September 20, 2007

Bandwidth Issues

I lost bandwidth and the notice is up. Can that be corrected Pixy? Thanks!

Posted by GM Roper at 05:39 AM

September 12, 2007

Oops

Another server meltdown - the other server, this time. :)

Migration to shiny new non-melty server is still on track for this Sunday. :)

Update: Aargh. A series of minor glitches combined to throw out my schedule. Move postponed until Sunday 23rd.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 02:20 AM

September 10, 2007

The Three-Column Blues

Can anyone help me with the old three-column set-up? I've read the stuff linked here, but I'm woefully uncertain of my ability to implement it.

I'm sort of at the limit of HTML/CSS/etc abilities when I figured out how to change the colors on the site and put a pair of flags in the banner, so yeah, not capable of figuring it out myself.

Posted by Country Pundit at 03:59 PM

Oops

Sorry about that outage. The server melted. Probably spammers again, but hard to tell, what with the server being all melty. :)

We will be moving to a new, less melty server next Sunday! There will be a couple of hours of confusi-time, where posts and comments might be saved but not show up immediately, that sort of thing. But since we are staying at the same hosting company, just moving to a larger box, the process will be a lot quicker and easier than previously.

I'll post more details later today.

Also later today: Minx. :)

Posted by Pixy Misa at 02:06 AM