Category: numlock.ch

Simple answer: use relative instead of absolute URLs for these two settings in config.php:

photoAlbumURL
albumDirURL

(see FAQ C.8. When I try to click on the “[login]” link on the Gallery page, nothing happens (no window pops up). What’s wrong?)

As a provisional but hopefully effective additional measure against massive (24/7) comment blog spam any comments containing HTML links (<a href= etc.) will be trashed (just enter the URL instead). Thanks for your understanding.

If you’re experiencing the “Error: Unable to make thumbnail (0)” error in gallery, there’s a workaround:

Note to users getting the unable to create thumbnail error

..not yet, but almost ;) I need to find another anti-spam solution as by now, way too many comment spam postings pass MTB. And even those that don’t pass seem to confuse MT and leave my latest comments/pings list in a mess.

Promising candidate: SCode

Or should I write my own anti-spam plugin for MT? :)

Just added Moritz’ blog to my blogroll :) I’m looking forward to trying his gmailfs ebuild for Gentoo as soon as possible :) (Unfortunately, I’ll be very busy for the next two weeks though)

A blog-spam notification e-mail sent by MT-Blacklist conveniently contains a link to de-spam the according comment. Unfortunately, all URLs start with “http://”, meaning that the request (and hence your credentials) are sent as plain-text. To force using HTTPS (encrypted HTTP) for anything related to MT-Blacklist, you can add the following line to your Apache configuration (this is an example, adjust it to match your server layout):

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.6:80>
  # other redirects here
  Redirect permanent /cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Blacklist https://news.numlock.ch/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Blacklist
</VirtualHost>

and restart Apache (for Apache2 on Gentoo: “/etc/init.d/apache2 restart”)

Addendum: Opened a GMail account a couple of weeks ago (thanks to Moritz for the invite – pretty clever marketing on behalf of Google, BTW :) My add is mettlerd@.

Note: Please do not send any mails to that account yet as first I’ll have to define what I will use it for.. actually, I have an account with much more free space already (read: my private own mail server ;)

[*LOL*. Addendum to the addendum: Forgot to mention – The reason for posting this entry was actually the fact that Moritz made Gentoo ebuilds for GMailFS . Unfortunately, the Gentoo policy regarding libgmail/GMailFS ebuilds is very strict.]

BTW I’ve just added the blogs of Jo, Stef and Huebi :)

If any other friend of mine is having a blog without me noticing it, just tell me :)

[Addendum: Note that a blogroll is only about blogs, not good old homepages.. so better get yourself a blog if you don’t have one already ;)]

Downloaded the newly available plugin-pack for MT 3.1x and installed MTB-2.0b. For comments, the same restrictions as before apply.

So far, MTB-2.0b seems to work, despite of some “unaesthetic” perl warnings (“Use of uninitialized value in XY”) displayed on MTB’s admin screen ;)