The Shrine

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:19 pm**

please say yes.....because this is driving me nuts....

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:33 pm**

Yeah, very odd problem. Fail2ban was banning anybody that hit that bogus image that Replay posted. It's normally only supposed to ban bots that hit bogus script pages, but the regex was too greedy, and looked at the referrer on that same log line.

Or, is it something else?

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:18 pm**

Good to know I wasn't the only one affected... was driving me crazy. The whole time it looked like I had gotten sniped by an Intrusion Prevention System and blacklisted but I couldn't imagine Sine installing something like that on the server. Never would have guessed it was a dead image link that would cause it.

It's odd then, why didn't it affect everyone?

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:23 pm**

Tessian wrote:Good to know I wasn't the only one affected... was driving me crazy. The whole time it looked like I had gotten sniped by an Intrusion Prevention System and blacklisted but I couldn't imagine Sine installing something like that on the server. Never would have guessed it was a dead image link that would cause it.

It's odd then, why didn't it affect everyone?

Cookies or login expiration possibly?

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:42 pm**

Anarky wrote:
Tessian wrote:Good to know I wasn't the only one affected... was driving me crazy. The whole time it looked like I had gotten sniped by an Intrusion Prevention System and blacklisted but I couldn't imagine Sine installing something like that on the server. Never would have guessed it was a dead image link that would cause it.

It's odd then, why didn't it affect everyone?
Cookies or login expiration possibly?

Nah, none of that. I found for the past few days I was getting blacklisted after visiting here once. Sine found out it was because of that Fail2Ban script was blacklisting some of us when we tried to load an image in the Mental "mea culpa" thread. Because the image didn't exist anymore, it gave an error similar to what that script was looking for bots to try to load nonexistent scripts and therefore kicked us out for the day. I was able to confirm this by going to the site through a proxy website and after visiting the thread in question even it would stop being able to connect.

So it wasn't user specific, just thread specific.

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:58 am**

I think it was only people who posted on Mental's thread. I edited his post and I think Sine will be relaxing the filters on Fail2ban

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:29 pm**

I already fixed it. Changed a .* to a \S*

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:24 pm**

See, that's why I can't be a programmer

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:26 pm**

Naw, that's why you don't want to be a programmer.

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:30 pm**

Kupek wrote:Naw, that's why you don't want to be a programmer.

No, no. I can't. I'm just not good at the tiny meticulous details that make every difference in the world when you're a programmer. I'm an accountant, we have a thing called "materiality" in our world. If you miss something small here and there, it just don't matter. I just can't worry about whether or not a semicolon in a certain place rather than not makes or breaks the entire code (that actually happened to me in the only coding course I ever took). I'm very good at the logic, I just can't deal with the actual process of coding.

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:46 pm**

No, you just didn't like it, so you didn't continue to do it. You develop those abilities through practice, they're not innate.

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:57 pm**

I'm taking a computer class now. Programming is fun! Just type <html> and you're golden! Learning the language may take awhile, but it doesn't seem so hard to me.

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:51 am**

RentCavalier wrote:I'm taking a computer class now. Programming is fun! Just type <html> and you're golden! Learning the language may take awhile, but it doesn't seem so hard to me.

hahahahahahahahah @ "html"

and just imagine what html could have been without internet explorer!

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:52 am**

Kupek wrote:No, you just didn't like it, so you didn't continue to do it. You develop those abilities through practice, they're not innate.

Kup, I've missed your wisdom...no disrespect intended to anyone either. Practice makes perfect.

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:09 am**

Kupek wrote:No, you just didn't like it, so you didn't continue to do it. You develop those abilities through practice, they're not innate.

I was an auditor, too. There's a big part of being an auditor where you look at tiny little details and I wasn't good at that either regardless of how hard I tried. I was good at getting close which was good enough.

Having the ability to be meticulous isn't necessarily a learned skill. Some people are just more predisposed to it than others.

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:54 am**

Zeus wrote:
Kupek wrote:No, you just didn't like it, so you didn't continue to do it. You develop those abilities through practice, they're not innate.
I was an auditor, too. There's a big part of being an auditor where you look at tiny little details and I wasn't good at that either regardless of how hard I tried. I was good at getting close which was good enough.

Having the ability to be meticulous isn't necessarily a learned skill. Some people are just more predisposed to it than others.

Ive completely moved out of audit for similar reasons. I'm a big fan of materiality and tax utilizes it more.

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:00 pm**

Flip wrote:
Zeus wrote:
Kupek wrote:No, you just didn't like it, so you didn't continue to do it. You develop those abilities through practice, they're not innate.
I was an auditor, too. There's a big part of being an auditor where you look at tiny little details and I wasn't good at that either regardless of how hard I tried. I was good at getting close which was good enough.

Having the ability to be meticulous isn't necessarily a learned skill. Some people are just more predisposed to it than others.
Ive completely moved out of audit for similar reasons. I'm a big fan of materiality and tax utilizes it more.

I've been in industry for 3 years now and I MUCH prefer the work. Although the workplace can be more relaxed and just better overall in an audit firm, the work itself is just garbage

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:18 pm**

this site has an accounting fetish!

jesus, i ought to go kiss ass at BDO Seidman just to help YOU guys network.

wonder if anyone will understand that...

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:22 pm**

See, i would disagree with that too. In audit, youre always at a clients and they dont want you there. You get crammed into a conference room or makeshift desk and every question you ask the client is treated to eye rolls and sighs.

Hell, i treat our auditors at AOL the same way, lol. I like having a desk and a department and same old building to call home. In audit, i was one week in Northern Virginia, the next in Maryland, and then DC... it sucked. I'm glad i hopped into private industry, too, and its only been a little over a year.

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:38 pm**

Replay wrote:hahahahahahahahah @ "html"

and just imagine what html could have been without internet explorer!

Better, and all of the standards work.

The Shrine

is it finally fixed?

is it finally fixed?