I am experiencing some bizarre problems when trying to build/edit queries on  Confirmed to be firewall/proxy problem. This started on SEDE, whenever I try to create a query with a Group By clause. For example, this trivial query works: Select Id AS [VID], Name AS [VName] from VoteTypes  but when I add a group by clause: Select Id AS [VID], Name AS [VName], count (*) from VoteTypes group by Id, Name  I get the following (note:  I get the same error if I have the group-by right - including the 'name' column - as well as when I get the group-by wrong....):  I went to Chat to whine about this, and discovered that I cannot type group by in chat either. Any time I try to submit a chat with that text it fails with 'unexpected error'. I have tried a number of things, but it appears that I can type &quot;group by&quot; just so long as there is something other than a space immediately after the 'y' in 'by'.  Here is the difference bewteen having something after the 'y', and not:  I have tried rebooting, I have used both firefox and IE. This is on windows7. When I get home I guess I can try a different computer. EDIT: When I tried to add a comment to this post, I got :-) :
OK, I've been having weird problems for the last 1/2 hour trying to  on StackOverflow, and I keep getting this result (on Firefox 3.6)     The connection was reset      The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.         The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few        moments.   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network        connection.   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure        that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.      The problem seems to occur when I try to post some code with 'd--- table' in it, where 'd---' is replaced by the word drop.  I cannot post the following 3 lines, in either SO or this site, if they include the well-known SQL statements DROP.  stat.executeUpdate('d--- table if exists people;'); stat.executeUpdate('create table people (name, occupation);'); prep = conn.prepareStatement(...     'insert into people values (?, ?);');   test again:  'dro* table' 'drop ball' drop the table drop fable drop    t*ble droptable   drop a table  The evil words for me are "drop" and "table"... how come you guys can post? :(  edit: Could someone please suggest another online site that is not stackoverflow that is a quick way to try out a POST request of a text field?  UPDATE: Never mind. I don't know what the answer is, but the same problem occurs on Google's website. So it's not stackoverflow. Now to go to my IT Dept...
I read that it is a best practice to double quote all of your variable expansions in Bash. I also read that one cannot use a shell glob (wildcard(*)) right after a double quoted variable expansion. These situations conflict when one wants use the value of a regex pattern, expanded out of a variable.   The reason I would sometimes want to combine regex with a wildcard is to keep my regex minimal, neater, in my personal taste.  My particular problem  I downloaded phpmyadmin into my document root directory and unzipped it, but I fail to rename it with mv by a regex pattern I put in a variable, and available when expanding its variable. Here's the exact trace:  userName@compName:/var/www/html# ll total 11336 drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 Feb 14 07:04 ./ drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 Feb 14 06:56 ../ -rw-r--r--  1 root root      612 Feb 14 06:57 index.nginx-debian.html drwxr-xr-x 12 root root     4096 Dec 23 08:50 phpMyAdmin-4.7.7-all-languages/ -rw-r--r--  1 root root 11589684 Dec 23 14:08 phpMyAdmin-latest-all-languages.zip userName@compName:/var/www/html# echo $pma [pP][hH][pP][mM][yY][aA][dD][mM][iI][nN] userName@compName:/var/www/html# mv "$pma"*/ phpmyadmin/ mv: cannot stat '[pP][hH][pP][mM][yY][aA][dD][mM][iI][nN]*/': No such file or directory   If I'll unquote the variable expansion to ${pma} I would indeed be able to combine the variable expansion and the regex, as in ${pma}*, but it is important to me to follow the best practice without exceptions, if I can.  My question  How could I keep the variable expansion double quoted, but still using the extracted value with a wildcard? 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