After messing around with the new MT v3.15 installation, I discovered that our ISP has now decided to give us SSH access! I don't think I've used any Unix commands in at least five years (since I ran my first web server on my office Mac using Apache), but it's all flooding back. tar xvf, man, vi commands, chmod, rm -r, ls ../.. | more. Ah, what fun.
I used my newfound root power to upgrade the installation of MT-Blacklist, which was needed in order to make comments work properly in the new version of MT. Whether comments truly work properly now remains to be seen, but I think they're ok. The only problem is that in this new version of MT, a lot of the buttons don't work properly with any Mac browser interface. I check a box or push a button, and it acts like nothing happened. There are ways around it, but it's a pain.
In the five minutes it took to uninstall the old version of MT and install/activate the new version, I was spammed once despite my renaming my mt-comments script. Oh well, I guess that wasn't a perfect solution, but maybe it will help in the long run.
Posted by Observer at January 30, 2005 11:23 AMComments on entries can only be made in pop-up windows while those entries are still on the main index page. Sorry for the inconvenience this causes, but this blocks about 99.99% of the spam the blog receives.
Trying out new comment script.
Posted by: Observer on January 30, 2005 11:49 AMTesting. Yesterday I couldn't recomment.
Posted by: Humbaba on January 30, 2005 01:53 PM