{"id":1841,"date":"2003-10-13T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T10:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/14\/not-a-good-evening\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:34:28","slug":"not-a-good-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/not-a-good-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a good evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2527,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.djwudi.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250925222118\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.djwudi.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 15:45:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 23:19:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:59:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:35:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 11:11:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 11:11:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5168,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8021,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9195,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jayallen.org\\\/projects\\\/mt-blacklist&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jayallen.org\\\/projects\\\/mt-blacklist\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13136,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/fink.sourceforge.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20141113114350\\\/http:\\\/\\\/fink.sourceforge.net.\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 06:36:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 06:36:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I host three sites on a computer here in my apartment &#8212; my old website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.djwudi.com\/\" title=\"djwudi.com\">djwudi.com<\/a>), my family&#8217;s website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanscomfamily.com\/\" title=\"The Hanscom Family Weblog\">hanscomfamily.com<\/a>), and my friend Kirsten&#8217;s site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/\" title=\"geek*muffin\">geekmuffin.com<\/a>). All three sites have been getting hit over the last few weeks with the comment spam that is rapidly becoming such a hassle.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I attempted to install the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/projects\/mt-blacklist\/\" title=\"MT-Blacklist\">MT-Blacklist plugin<\/a> that has recently been released as a tool to combat these comment spammers. Unfortunately, after installing it, when I attempted to access it, I got the following error:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <code>An error occurred: Can\u2019t locate Storable.pm in @INC (@INC contains: \/Library\/WebServer\/CGI-Executables\/mt\/extlib \/Library\/WebServer\/CGI-Executables\/mt\/lib \/System\/Library\/Perl\/darwin \/System\/Library\/Perl \/Library\/Perl\/darwin \/Library\/Perl \/Library\/Perl \/Network\/Library\/Perl\/darwin \/Network\/Library\/Perl \/Network\/Library\/Perl .) at \/Library\/WebServer\/CGI-Executables\/mt\/lib\/MT\/PluginData.pm line 9. BEGIN failed\u2013compilation aborted at \/Library\/WebServer\/CGI-Executables\/mt\/lib\/MT\/PluginData.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at \/Library\/WebServer\/CGI-Executables\/mt\/extlib\/jayallen\/Blacklist.pm line 18. BEGIN failed\u2013compilation aborted at \/Library\/WebServer\/CGI-Executables\/mt\/extlib\/jayallen\/Blacklist.pm line 18. Compilation failed in require at \/Library\/WebServer\/CGI-Executables\/mt\/mt-blacklist.cgi line 29.<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s no good. I dinked around with <a href=\"http:\/\/fink.sourceforge.net\/\" title=\"Fink\">fink<\/a> for a while, attempting to get the mysteriously missing &#8216;storable.pm&#8217; installed, only to continually get error message after error message. Eventually giving up in frustration, I decided to attempt one of the other, lower-tech methods of combatting the spambots &#8212; simply renaming the scripts that handle comment and trackback submission. However, when I attempted to do a rebuild on my old weblog, I ended up getting <em>the same error message<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This worries me. It would appear that this &#8216;storable.pm&#8217; is required for MovableType to function at all. However, now all of a sudden, I don&#8217;t have it, and I have <em>no<\/em> idea why. So now, I&#8217;m faced with reinstalling OS X, fink, and whatever other packages I had installed on the server &#8212; and I just hope I can remember them all &#8212; and hopefully do so while still managing to keep the information for all three weblogs. I could actually live if I lost what&#8217;s on my old weblog, as most of it is already imported into this weblog, and I&#8217;ve got the export files saved already, but I don&#8217;t have either a recent backup of the box or backups of the hanscomfamily.com or geekmuffin.com directories (yes, I know, bad sysadmin).<\/p>\n<p>I <em>think<\/em> I&#8217;ll be able to reinstall without losing everything &#8212; but then, I thought things were hunky-dory up until this point, too. So I&#8217;m a little concerned.<\/p>\n<p>End result &#8212; it&#8217;s past my bedtime, I&#8217;m tired, more than a little frustrated, and ready to go to bed. Hopefully things will look better when I get back to poking around tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t think that MT-Blacklist caused any of the problems, in case anyone is wondering. I think it&#8217;s just either my goofing something up, a random server glitch, or a combination of the two. No worries on the MT-Blacklist front in and of itself.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End result &mdash; it&#8217;s past my bedtime, I&#8217;m tired, more than a little frustrated, and ready to go to bed. Hopefully things will look better when I get back to poking around tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}