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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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Thanks!
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Way to go!
I'm on my way to Amazon now to check it out.
EDIT
I saw the book on amazon, but there's no preview yet.
Let us know when we can read a preview.
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Will do, I know they're working on it.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Now, what was this thing called "spare time" again?
That's something you use to work on the "Revised Second Edition"
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W∴ Balboos wrote: That's something you use to work on the "Revised Second Edition"
That's really funny because as G. Bernard Shaw said, "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
You have, no doubt, written books before, because that is the way it works.
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Ah, if only I could be young again. 
Congrats!
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Sander Rossel wrote: But how is that relevant here?
Um, do I really need to answer? I'm older than you, let's just say that, I don't have half the time nor energy to work a day job and write a 400+ page book, like you do. 
BTW, get a few more books and youtube video series, etc. in before you join the old fart club.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm now a published author
Gratz! 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Thankz!
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