Charcoal HQ

12:05 AM

whoa, /var/log/apache2/error.log is scary

you get to see all the things people are trying on your server that don't work

[Sun Apr 06 10:54:17 2014] [error] [client 173.208.185.66] File does not exist: /var/www/w00tw00t.at.blackhats.romanian.anti-sec:)
[Sun Apr 06 10:54:18 2014] [error] [client 173.208.185.66] File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin
[Sun Apr 06 10:54:18 2014] [error] [client 173.208.185.66] File does not exist: /var/www/phpmyadmin
[Sun Apr 06 10:54:18 2014] [error] [client 173.208.185.66] File does not exist: /var/www/pma
[Sun Apr 06 10:54:18 2014] [error] [client 173.208.185.66] File does not exist: /var/www/myadmin

I kinda want to track down this 173.208.185.66 guy and see what he's up to :P

hichris123

Yeah. I get that too. :P

Undo

What the heck do they think is going to be at /var/www/w00tw00t.at.blackhats.romanian.anti-sec:, though? o_O

Seth

@Undo Reason #45689 not to use phpMyAdmin.

Undo

yup :P

Oh, another one:

[Mon Apr 07 18:51:56 2014] [error] [client 120.192.31.182] File does not exist: /var/www/manager

Seth

Workplace election ends in 20 hours :D

Undo

12:16 AM

:D

hichris123

goes to error log

[Mon Apr 07 11:40:18 2014] [error] [client 218.207.65.226] File does not exist: /var/www/manager
[Mon Apr 07 15:26:05 2014] [error] [client 93.174.93.62] request failed: error reading the headers
[Mon Apr 07 16:07:21 2014] [error] [client 202.53.8.82] File does not exist: /var/www/CFIDE

 Apr 01 13:45:51 2014] [error] [client 192.74.250.84] File does not exist: /var/www/manager
[Tue Apr 01 20:17:19 2014] [error] [client 212.117.156.225] File does not exist: /var/www/hudson
[Tue Apr 01 20:17:19 2014] [error] [client 212.117.156.225] File does not exist: /var/www/script
[Tue Apr 01 20:17:19 2014] [error] [client 212.117.156.225] File does not exist: /var/www/sqlite
[Tue Apr 01 20:17:20 2014] [error] [client 212.117.156.225] File does not exist: /var/www/sqlitemanager
[Tue Apr 01 20:17:20 2014] [error] [client 212.117.156.225] File does not exist: /var/www/SQLiteManager

[Wed Apr 02 10:31:07 2014] [error] [client 23.228.245.169] File does not exist: /var/www/fastenv
[Wed Apr 02 14:15:29 2014] [error] [client 65.55.24.237] File does not exist: /var/www/robots.txt
[Wed Apr 02 14:40:48 2014] [error] [client 202.53.8.82] <b>Security Alert!</b> The PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly.
[Wed Apr 02 14:40:48 2014] [error] [client 202.53.8.82]
[Wed Apr 02 14:40:48 2014] [error] [client 202.53.8.82] <p>This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled.  This

^ That's the best. :P

@Seth Who wants to bet jmac wins?

Oh, @Undo did you see this:

10

Q: What is cs50 and why can't I access it?

I just stumbled over this page in the Stackexchange dropdown (top left corner). cs50 - For students of HarvardX CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science When I click on it I get the following message: Warning: this site is currently in private beta for at least a few more days. To...

Seth

@hichris123 I bet he will. I hope jmort wins too.

hichris123

He probably will.

The people like him, he's been a good mod, etc.

Wait - I don't have a Workplace account?

Annonomus Person

1:07 AM

0

A: Connecting PS4 connected Arduino to laptop to another Arduino?

This project is very simple. As I understand it, this is your setup: +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | | | Arduino 1-––––––––––-PS4 Controller | | | (W. Shield attached) | ...

Whoah, look at the code highlighting :)

hichris123

@Annon Do you want code highlighting?

Annonomus Person

???

hichris123

@AnnonomusPerson Do you want the syntax highlighting? I can get rid of it for you.

Annonomus Person

I did a ASCII flow diagram and it highlighted the text all wierd.

hichris123

Just add  to the top of that code block.

Annonomus Person

1:13 AM

@hichris123 Nah, I know

No need to give you two reputation ;)

hichris123

:(

Annonomus Person

Lol

>:)

hichris123

1:41 AM

@Seth or @Braiam around?

Braiam

?

hichris123

I'm curious about cron on Ubuntu.

Braiam

"chron"?

cron?

hichris123

Yeah.

:P

So when you have a cronjob for say every 20 minutes, with */20, does it run at 1:00, 1:20, 1:40, etc, or does it run every 20 minutes from when you installed the crontab?

Braiam

cron is almost the same on any linux distro

@hichris123 the answer is here, stackoverflow.com/a/15033883/792066, namely, cron doesn't care

hichris123

1:45 AM

Ah, okay.

Undo

2:50 AM

@hichris123 can you get in to it?

hichris123

@Undo ooh, that might work.

checks

Undo

and if you can, plz send teh instructionz.

it doesn't have a meta

hichris123

Yep, got in.

No, there's nothing in there.

Undo

really?

like actually nothing?

hichris123

Gimme a sec.

3 non-diamoned users, 4 including me.

@Undo ^^

@Undo It actually does have a meta... again, nothing on it.

rofl

> Ask about...

Specific issues with cs50

> Don't ask about...

Anything not directly related to cs50

Undo

3:04 AM

@hichris123 Any non-SE diamonds? I.e. professors or whatever they have?

0

Q: What does this mean?

I just saw this notification: What does this mean? Does this do anything?

discussion support

sigh

hichris123

@Undo Hmm...

Possibly.

Probably just testing accounts.

@Undo ^

@Undo rofl I think I was the person who told animuson about that user. :P

rofl I was.

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Mar 4 at 3:07, by hichris123

@animuson How bout the user that suggested the edit?

Undo

@hichris123 and now you've seen a real mod message :P

Huh, Anna changed her avatar. Again.

hichris123

3:36 AM

Yep to both. :P

@Undo Found another site which explains everything.

It's for... TA's?

Meta is so being misused on that site... meta tags on real questions. shudder

HamZa

1:06 PM

25

Q: Reference - What does this regex mean?

What is this? This is a collection of common Q&A. This is also a Community Wiki, so everyone is invited to participate in maintaining it. Why is this? regex is suffering from give me ze code type of questions and poor answers with no explanation. This reference is meant to provide links to qua...

regex

Undo

@hichris123 linky?

would it be wrong to show up and lay down the law?

hichris123

2:10 PM

@Undo edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com

Undo

whoa

hichris123

?

Undo

that's... a big site name

hichris123

:P

> edx-cs169-1x Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for students of BerkeleyX CS169.1x: Engineering Software as a Service.

Undo

did you get into that one too? :P

hichris123

2:12 PM

Yeah.

Give me a bit and I'll tell you how.

Undo

yayz!

actually, I'd rather not get in trouble :P

hichris123

When I'm not on my tablet...

rofl

You care about trouble?

Undo

moreso now that I have a diamond they can take away :P

hichris123

meta.edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com/questions/35/…

No onebox?

Undo

weird

meta.edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com/questions/35/…

huh

fine, I'll try to use my backdoor :P

3ventic

2:15 PM

it requires login to view so it's handled the same as deleted content I guess

hichris123

If you're curious what's on the site, use the iOS app.

Or your backdoor. :P

Undo

yeah, I know

hichris123

I so want to edit out all of the signatures on posts... sigh

Undo

I only see one question on that edx main site.

wow, they have a ton of mods on that site.

I wonder if they can get into TL.

hichris123

Hmm...

Wrong room?

Undo

2:21 PM

rofl, yeah

hichris123

2:35 PM

37

Q: Is Stack Exchange safe from Heartbleed?

Is it safe to use passwords on Stack Exchange sites following the announcement of Heartbleed? Currently, http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/214543/38765 does not list the sites being fixed.

discussion security

Huh.

Seth

Can I finally get Photoshop plz? I'm sick 'n tired of Paint. — Jin ♦ 43 mins ago

Hahaha

Blaze

3:48 PM

[Blaze] answer flagged: stackoverflow.com/questions/11978977/…

[Blaze] answer flagged: stackoverflow.com/questions/17489798/…

[Blaze] answer flagged: stackoverflow.com/questions/18520687/…

[Blaze] answer flagged: stackoverflow.com/questions/14374429/…

Blaze

4:20 PM

[Blaze] answer flagged: stackoverflow.com/questions/16222836/activerecord-nomethoderror/…

hichris123

4:36 PM

Okay, biting the bullet and updating 12.04 on my EC2 instance...

And everything's now back up!

Seth

Did I forget to reply to a ping here?

I can't remember.

Ah cron. Seems like Braiam got that ;)

I'm not much of a cron whiz anyway.

hichris123

@Seth Did you suspend Braiam again? :P

Undo

@hichris123 what... what was it on before?

hichris123

@Undo 12.04. But with 100+ updates. :P

Undo

wow :P

hichris123

4:45 PM

Yeah.

Undo

Preparing to replace openssl 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.11 (using .../openssl_1.0.1-4ubuntu5.12_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement openssl ...

whew!

(not that I use SSL too much, but that's scary nonetheless :P)

hichris123

Hmm... do I even have openssl?

Undo

probably

hichris123

yup

Seth

@hichris123 I don't think so..

Undo

4:47 PM

He isn't suspended currently. Should he be? :P

Seth

No.

Undo

5:21 PM

grrrr

Undo

5:57 PM

IE, I hate you.

3ventic

@Undo status-norepro

The only thing shown to old IEs should be a link to update it...

Undo

huh

well then IE hates Bootstrap or something

because it wouldn't show my placeholders.

3ventic

version?

Undo

no idea

whatever my dad's work uses.

3ventic

probably 9 or 10 then..

9 and older don't show placeholders

10 and 11 do

working with outdated browsers is horrible

Undo

6:15 PM

whoa, less +f is awesome

you can watch file appends in realtime :D

I.e. the Apache log file

3ventic

tail -f does the same

on debian/ubuntu at least

HamZa

0

Q: Regex reference and it's fate

Background: I was whining about the fact that regex suffers from bad quality questions and answers. I did something about it. I rampaged through the review queue: but I wasn't satisfied: I noticed highrep users (3k+) answering such obvious questions. Now there are two types of questions I no...

discussion reference regex

Undo

9:09 PM

someone changed the diamond color again >.<

Seth

meta posts are still blue.

Undo

oh, good

hichris123

@Undo ?

Oh, topbar.

Undo

yeah

Annonomus Person

9:45 PM

@Undo Blog is orange. At first, I thought someone had lit my diamond on fire!

Took me a minute to calm down from the terror :D.

(And to realize diamonds can't light on fire.)

Undo

diamonds can burn

3ventic

Hey

You people seem to know git

so could you help me set up an existing project to use it?

Undo

sure

git init

3ventic

I need to setup a repository first tho

hichris123

@3ventic On what? GitHub?

3ventic

9:59 PM

on my server

hichris123

Hmm...

Not sure.

3ventic

if github has private stuff, I guess that would work

It's paid.

so nop

yeah.. :(

10:00 PM

I could setup svn in a matter of minutes but I want to try out git

hichris123

Reminds me... I need to contact GitHub Education again...

Annonomus Person

►

Noooooo!

That does make since now that I think about it... pure carbon.

hichris123

10:34 PM

Steady traffic, deploying… umh, 31 m3.medium machines now. #Heartbleed http://t.co/5DnJIWEuz8

Tweeted by FiloSottile on April 8, 2014 at 7:19 PM

Woah.

Undo

holy cow

hichris123

Yeah.

That's a lot of instances.

Undo

that's a lot of $$$$

hichris123

He's using some AWS credits he got.

Undo

... how much?

hichris123

10:38 PM

Dunno.

You could probably ask...

works on InstaGlass homepage

Annonomus Person

Woks on @Todo login

Undo

@FiloSottile How many credits? $100 won't last long with 31 m3.medium's running...

Tweeted by Undo_SE on April 8, 2014 at 10:39 PM in reply to FiloSottile

hichris123

I ❤ having a home/closet server! :D

Annonomus Person

Old computer?

hichris123

Yeah, old WinXP computer turned into a 12.04 machine.

I'll update to 14.04 whenever it's out of beta.

Undo

10:43 PM

pretty nice, is it?

hichris123

@Undo_SE One more zero thankfully. I should be able to hold the peak

Tweeted by FiloSottile on April 8, 2014 at 10:42 PM in reply to Undo_SE

$1000. Wow.

Undo

probably has better specs than mine.

hichris123

@Undo What's your specs?

Undo

it's a laptop from 2003.

32-bit

hichris123

I'll dig the specs of mine up... but it's a single core, integrated graphics card one.

Undo

10:44 PM

Pentium, IIRC

hichris123

@Undo Meh, desktop from around then, too.

Annonomus Person

@hichris I want my own closet server... on CL I can get a 9 year old one for $100 but a Begal Bone Black would be much better :D

Or two of them

@hichris123 Desktops have like 3x performance of a laptop IMHO

Undo

At one of the code camps they gave out a server.

like a rack-mounted beast.

Annonomus Person

How many?

hichris123

cnet.com/products/dell-dimension-2400

Undo

10:46 PM

@AnnonomusPerson one

Annonomus Person

@hichris's specs for servers:

Pentium ?.??GHz, 2GB, 80GB

My server specs:

None 0GHz, 0MB, 0GB

:D

hichris123

@AnnonomusPerson It's actually a Pentium, with 2 GB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. That was an older model... & we added more RAM.

Annonomus Person

Ahh

Undo

mine has a 50GB HD

and about 1GB ram

I should download some more RAM.

Annonomus Person

lol

Where did I see that... SU?

Undo

10:49 PM

yeah

'But I've downloaded hardware before!'

hichris123

Oh, hiya @PatrickCullen!

Annonomus Person

@Undo At first, I thought he wanted to expand the pagefile...

hichris123

@Undo Anything that needs to be improved/fixed here?

Undo

I'm not a fan of the formatting on the 'We're all ready..Instagram account.' paragraph, but I'm not sure how else to do it @hichris123.

hichris123

True... hmm...

Maybe a bit bigger?

I dunno.

Undo

10:57 PM

just found another neat ST feature

hichris123

ST?

Sublime?

Undo

yeah

view>layout

side-by-side editing :D

hichris123

Woah.

Cool!

looks for cool Android tools like Instruments

Annonomus Person

Wait.... how come there are no popular coders on SE?

Conspiracy theory!!!

hichris123

@AnnonomusPerson ?

Annonomus Person

11:02 PM

Bill Gates isn't on here, neither is Mark Z...

I searched for Steve Jobs, but nothing there.

hichris123

... those aren't coders. :P

Annonomus Person

:)

Newton's 4th law of motion:

> THY WHO SHALL NOT BE ON SE SHALL NOT BE A TRUE CODER!

Undo

@hichris123 good luck

Apple cares about developers :P

3ventic

Because they need better software?

Annonomus Person

:D

hichris123

11:13 PM

@Undo ... you have those horrendus looking docs. So nope, Apple doesn't care about you. Otherwise they'd give you something you could stand looking at. :P

Undo

I like the docs

what's wrong with 'em?

(other than not being a horrendous shade of green, of course)

hichris123

Can you give me a link to one of them?

Undo

@hichris123 developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/…

hichris123

Compare that to this.

Doesn't it look a lot less ugly?

Undo