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You just spelled it incorrectly: FLATUS[^]
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Twatter - good call on the name. And perhaps it's most famous user.
If Twatter were biased the account would have been closed long ago.
Wait - I'll recast that: the bias is that they'll make more money keeping those posts coming by have more eyes to charge for when setting advertising rates.
Overheard: "Listen, Boris. If they close his account, why don't we give him a few hundred of our accounts!"
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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With his Tweets he's doing him (and the country) a favor 
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: if they find who it was.
They already know who it was which is how they knew it was done on the employee's last day of work.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's a pity he didn't manage to close every Twatter account.
You'd think that the simply act of refusing to ever look at the damned thing would be enough to avoid it. But no, every time you turn on the news, all you get is "Twat X twatted this, Twat Y twatted that, Twat Z twatted the other." People texting nonsense is not news! Teenagers do it every minute of the day.
Can media editors not understand the simple concept that I don't give a twatting twat what some twat has been twattering while they could have been doing something more productive with their twatty lives?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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There may be a lot of idiots but it also features several really useful and enjoyable accounts...
such as:
National Weather Service Tornado Warnings[^]
and
NASA[^]
The former posts alerts as soon as they form which is extremely useful when you live in Tornado Alley[^].
The latter posts a lot of really cool pictures and updates of what is going on in space.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: Nothing more to add, though I wonder if they can do anything if they find who it was.
They can sue them. They would need to prove damages though. Maliciously of course, just the suit is going to cost the employee.
Of course doing that would continue to provide publicity that it happened in the first place.
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So I was looking for an algorithm to "best fit" rectangles on a limited area surface (the screen, in other words, and the rectangles are forms/dialog boxes that are dynamically generated as needed), turns out this is called "Rectangle Packing" or "Bin Packing" or "Binary Tree Bin Packing" and it turns out to be a complicated problem to determine an optimal solution, something they call "NP complete" meaning there is no fixed solution, as in "nondeterministic polynomial time". Yeah, whatever, I just needed something that did a decent job, didn't have to be perfect. Once I figured out the right keywords to search on, Google led me to Fast Optimizing Rectangle Packing Algorithm for Building CSS Sprites
Very cool. The core algorithm can be stripped down to two files, and I tweaked it so I can select whether I want horizontal or vertical precedence, and unlike many of the other algorithms I found out there (mostly in one of those "J" languages) this one doesn't require that all your rectangles are known ahead of time, which was one of my requirements.
Thank you Code Project! (And the author, of course) ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Marc Clifton wrote: whether I want horizontal or vertical precedence
I gave you a solution to that issue yesterday. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Quote: I want horizontal or vertical precedence
Quote: Thank you Code Project! (And the author, of course)
Thank you Matt Perdeck! (And Code Project, of course).
Fixed the precedence issue 
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Thank also the "mighty search box". 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I had a classmate in undergraduate school that did the bin packing problem for one of his assignments. It was in the context of putting boxes in a truck (i.e., UPS)? Cool stuff.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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That's my job every day except for me it's a three dimensional problem and it's on such a large scale that a tenth of a percent change can result in a difference of millions of dollars.
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One of my client's IT dept. has gone overboard with web security and blocked the ports used by our remote (over the web obviously) desktop solution. (gotoassist) Their network guy explained that gotoassist as well as teamviewer were blacklisted since they are often used in scams...those ports weren't getting turned back on, no exceptions. He advised us to try Chrome Remote Desktop. It works fine with one major exception.
If my client has an active window on either screen that was started with elevated privileges, (runas Administrator) user input (mouse and keyboard) into the user's system is ignored completely!  Minimize the offending screen/app and input is restored! This is probably a security feature, but ime, this is the only remote desktop software that behaves this way. It' OK once you understand the limitations, but very frustrating until you do!
I did check the unattended remote and thankfully it doesn't have that 'bug'. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: If my client has an active window on either screen that was started with elevated privileges, (runas Administrator) user input (mouse and keyboard) into the user's system is ignored completely!
Interesting. How did you discover that was the problem?
Google? Or some test you tried?
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I discovered it this morning while working with the client but couldn't make the connection until after an hour or so of testing internally between two of my own systems here.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Wow. You happened to think of opening an app as admin on the target and then trying to remote to that machine?
Not sure I would've thought of that.
You were obviously desperate and trying everything.
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kmoorevs wrote: teamviewer were blacklisted since they are often used in scams
I would have asked for proof. TeamViewer is a well known support app, and this just shows the guy doesn't know WTF he's talking about.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: the guy doesn't know WTF he's talking about
Agreed!
That said, I've seen this crap happen (usually right after they failed an audit or somebody gets a promotion) where they (the org's IT/Web gurus) block everything, lock everything down...and make life hell for the poor bastards downstream. Eventually, the peasants will revolt, heads will roll, and order will be restored in the kingdom. Until then, I'll try every available option just to get a simple job done!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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FWIW, my company uses ScreenConnect corporate-wide to connect between roughly 15 different sites in three different states and it works really, really well for us. It requires a client-side app and uses their server but I think those things are what gives it such good performance.
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Thanks, I'll keep that one in mind!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Their network guy explained that gotoassist as well as teamviewer were blacklisted since they are often used in scams...
Have you informed him about what goes on in email?
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but this keeps the bad tech guys from taking over...you never know...I might just go nuts and run syskey!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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So for the last year I've been writing my latest book, Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment!
The schedule was pretty tight and there were a lot of pages to be written (over 400)!
After a year of writing and stressing the book was finally released this week!  
A lot of it is JavaScript (Node.js, npm, MongoDB, Karma, Jasmine, Gulp), but there's an entire chapter (and then some) on .NET Core and PostgreSQL as well.
There is a chapter on Git and a couple of chapters on Jenkins (traditional and new Groovy pipelines) as CI tool as well
Other tools include SonarQube, Selenium and Postman.
I'm now a published author (with Packt Publishing) whose book also sells on Amazon
As eBook and/or printed book (my first pBook)!
Now, what was this thing called "spare time" again?
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Congrats
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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