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Now that I've blogged every day for a month and linked all my Europe photos, don't know were to go next ;)
I did find something exciting tonight.. when I first setup this blog on this new host two and a half years ago, I could never figure out why the email notifications for comments on my blog didn't work. Well it turned out they did, but they were being bounced because this host expected I was also hosting the MX record on the server, which I wasn't. So tonight when I was poking around at the mail on this server tonight because I actually want to bring the MX record across, I found all those emails!! Epic squeeeee!!!!
Seems like the disk on the server my blog is on is full (well, *almost* full). So weird stuff could happen if you try and comment until they get around to fixing it...
So as of today I've been blogging for seven years (!?!)
I didn't realise seven years ago what I was getting into. But now that it's been going for so long, I'm almost dependant on it. I've been blogging for nearly 20% of my life, which means I have a brilliant record of the crap that I've done.
Thanks to everyone that still continues to read my boring drivel, I think I'll be around for a while yet :)
I didn't realise seven years ago what I was getting into. But now that it's been going for so long, I'm almost dependant on it. I've been blogging for nearly 20% of my life, which means I have a brilliant record of the crap that I've done.
Thanks to everyone that still continues to read my boring drivel, I think I'll be around for a while yet :)
I seem to have run out of things to blog about.. should I stop?
It took nine minutes to republish the entire site. So all old entries should be commentable now. I didn't change the side bar much, just updated it to match the front page.
Now I can go back to thinking about Japan photos...
I've faced the fact that my hosting provider is never going to fix Perl, and hence my blog. But, since I'm not actually paying for my hosting, there's little I can do about it. It's not like I can refuse to pay! ;)
Sooo, I've been looking at replacing the Captcha.
As it turns out, Movable Type 4 comes with another Captcha provider - called reCaptcha. So I signed up and with a bit of fiddling (I'm still using 4.01 so had to do some manual hacking) managed to get it working (for at least the Japan blog). It's even uglier than the default Movable Type one (if such a thing were possible), and you can't use OpenID or other authentication methods, and it relies on another site, but for now it will have to do.
I'm going to have to rebuild the entire site for the changes to take effect, and this takes a good ten minutes of solid CPU power on the host, so I'm going to have a re-think about my sidebar and decide on any changes I want to make there before going ahead and doing it. (I've only ever rebuilt the entire site *once* since moving to MT4 and that was when I actually migrated to MT4 - all my old pages are still using the original design I had then, unless someone's commented on them to get something a bit newer). This entry should work though, so please leave me a comment if you're still reading this blog! :)
The sysadmins got back to me and agreed that an update they'd done had broken my captchas, and that they were planning to do another cpanel update that would fix it by the end of the week. So this is a good thing! Hurrah!
Except I wake up this morning only to discover a whole stack of spam comments in my blog. Upon investigation it seems that now the Image::Magick perl module isn't there. *sigh*
So hopefully this fix will come soon, because a tonne of spam is much worse than no comments at all.. :(
(on a lighter note, at least anyone can leave comments at the moment...)
Just letting you all know my captcha generator thingie is broken at the moment so you won't be able to leave comments unless you login with one of the appropriate authentication thingies.
Have asked the adminy type peoples if they've done any upgrades in the past day or two..
While trying to publish my previous entry (Synthy), I was getting horrible permission denied errors.
Grrr just got another one and will have to redo this post :(
It wasn't the usual /tmp full problem this time. Looks like you can't use i f r a m e code in MT posts... hrmm...
hell you can't even *say* it... most disturbing!! And very frustrating given that I've just had to redo this post *again* :(
The other bit of nonsense I was looking at while trying to figure this out, is that since August 4, I've been getting several core dumps a day in my MT cgi directory. I looked through the logs at these times and sure enough, comment spammers were hitting my blog at the time :( Might have to upgrade a dot point or something...
193.53.87.83 - - [04/Aug/2008:12:13:02 +1000] "POST /MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi HTTP/1.0" 500 - "http://kazza.id.au/2004/09/fq-topic-posession.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060612 Minefield/3.0a1"
193.37.152.242 - - [04/Aug/2008:21:21:19 +1000] "POST /MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi HTTP/1.0" 500 - "http://kazza.id.au/MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
193.37.152.242 - - [04/Aug/2008:21:21:25 +1000] "POST /MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi HTTP/1.0" 200 2247 "http://kazza.id.au/MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
193.37.152.242 - - [04/Aug/2008:22:33:50 +1000] "POST /MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi HTTP/1.0" 500 - "http://kazza.id.au/MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
Grrr just got another one and will have to redo this post :(
It wasn't the usual /tmp full problem this time. Looks like you can't use i f r a m e code in MT posts... hrmm...
hell you can't even *say* it... most disturbing!! And very frustrating given that I've just had to redo this post *again* :(
The other bit of nonsense I was looking at while trying to figure this out, is that since August 4, I've been getting several core dumps a day in my MT cgi directory. I looked through the logs at these times and sure enough, comment spammers were hitting my blog at the time :( Might have to upgrade a dot point or something...
193.53.87.83 - - [04/Aug/2008:12:13:02 +1000] "POST /MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi HTTP/1.0" 500 - "http://kazza.id.au/2004/09/fq-topic-posession.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060612 Minefield/3.0a1"
193.37.152.242 - - [04/Aug/2008:21:21:19 +1000] "POST /MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi HTTP/1.0" 500 - "http://kazza.id.au/MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
193.37.152.242 - - [04/Aug/2008:21:21:25 +1000] "POST /MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi HTTP/1.0" 200 2247 "http://kazza.id.au/MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
193.37.152.242 - - [04/Aug/2008:22:33:50 +1000] "POST /MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi HTTP/1.0" 500 - "http://kazza.id.au/MT-4.01-en/mt-comments.cgi" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
A function that worked quite happily last night (uploading pictures) is completely broken today. I get a horrible Apache permission denied when it tries to create the file.
Also, the "Tags" metadata of the blog entry is not loading my previous tags when I put in a keystroke.
Also, the gallery app I have on one of my other sites is broken in a similar way.
*however* the gallery app *can* create images from another web site, but not uploading through my browser.
Tried rebooting, another browser, even another computer, all with no luck.
I haven't done anything to my site that could affect this, and it's the weekend so doubt my hosting provider has done anything (although you never know)..
It's exceedingly distressing :(
UPDATE: /tmp is full on the host. This may or may not be related to problems that MySQL had on Friday morning which also broke my blog and gallery. *sigh*
UPDATE: /tmp has been cleared somewhat, picture upload ability restored! woot!
Also, the "Tags" metadata of the blog entry is not loading my previous tags when I put in a keystroke.
Also, the gallery app I have on one of my other sites is broken in a similar way.
*however* the gallery app *can* create images from another web site, but not uploading through my browser.
Tried rebooting, another browser, even another computer, all with no luck.
I haven't done anything to my site that could affect this, and it's the weekend so doubt my hosting provider has done anything (although you never know)..
It's exceedingly distressing :(
UPDATE: /tmp is full on the host. This may or may not be related to problems that MySQL had on Friday morning which also broke my blog and gallery. *sigh*
UPDATE: /tmp has been cleared somewhat, picture upload ability restored! woot!