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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7701 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The company I work for blocked WCG at the firewall. Looks like we are going to take a big hit in the point/hours/WUs from here on out.  8 or 9 members of our team works there and had permission to run it on there personal PCs. I am guessing it was not the IT Dept. that made the decision. Really too bad. Any chance the powers that be that did make the decision would ever change their mind ? If nothing bad had happened so far, why would they think it needed to be blocked ? I don't suppose there is a public Wi-Fi spot close enough so you could bypass ? 
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The company I work for blocked WCG at the firewall. Looks like we are going to take a big hit in the point/hours/WUs from here on out. 8 or 9 members of our team works there and had permission to run it on there personal PCs. I am guessing it was not the IT Dept. that made the decision. Really too bad. Any chance the powers that be that did make the decision would ever change their mind ? If nothing bad had happened so far, why would they think it needed to be blocked ? I don't suppose there is a public Wi-Fi spot close enough so you could bypass ? Our IT manager caught someone loading boinc on one of our Linux servers. I will try to change the mind of management but I think it's over. I will probably drop from 60 to 80K in point per day to a 1000 or less a day. Still calculating it. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Looks like our team lost at least 21 - core 2 duo 2ghz (or higher) computers running 24/7/365.
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Warpedcow
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 21, 2009 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline |
The company I work for blocked WCG at the firewall. Looks like we are going to take a big hit in the point/hours/WUs from here on out. 8 or 9 members of our team works there and had permission to run it on there personal PCs. I am guessing it was not the IT Dept. that made the decision. Really too bad. Any chance the powers that be that did make the decision would ever change their mind ? If nothing bad had happened so far, why would they think it needed to be blocked ? I don't suppose there is a public Wi-Fi spot close enough so you could bypass ? Our IT manager caught someone loading boinc on one of our Linux servers. I will try to change the mind of management but I think it's over. I will probably drop from 60 to 80K in point per day to a 1000 or less a day. Still calculating it. Can you just run an HTTP or SOCKS proxy on your home computer, and then tunnel through that from work? Everything on the internet here at work requires going through the corporate HTTP proxy, however WCG works just great through that.
Gaming/HTPC: Intel Q9550 @ 3.5ghz, 4GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4850
Primary Server: Intel Q9550 @ 3.0ghz, 8GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4830 Backup Server/Gaming: Intel Q9550 @ 3.4ghz, 8GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4870 My ICF Home Build: http://icfbuild.blogspot.com/ |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The company I work for blocked WCG at the firewall. Looks like we are going to take a big hit in the point/hours/WUs from here on out. 8 or 9 members of our team works there and had permission to run it on there personal PCs. I am guessing it was not the IT Dept. that made the decision. Really too bad. Any chance the powers that be that did make the decision would ever change their mind ? If nothing bad had happened so far, why would they think it needed to be blocked ? I don't suppose there is a public Wi-Fi spot close enough so you could bypass ? Our IT manager caught someone loading boinc on one of our Linux servers. I will try to change the mind of management but I think it's over. I will probably drop from 60 to 80K in point per day to a 1000 or less a day. Still calculating it. Can you just run an HTTP or SOCKS proxy on your home computer, and then tunnel through that from work? Everything on the internet here at work requires going through the corporate HTTP proxy, however WCG works just great through that. They don't use proxy servers they use content/protocol filtering firewalls. You can't even surf to a site that has the word proxy on it. Public proxy servers are are also blocked. I would need to vpn through to somewhere. Not worth it. Don't know if I will be working there very long anyway. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7701 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Looks like our team lost at least 21 - core 2 duo 2ghz (or higher) computers running 24/7/365.
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That bites. Must be needing more computer power and saw where they can get it from. Hope they change there minds.
----------------------------------------Looks like our team lost at least 21 - core 2 duo 2ghz (or higher) computers running 24/7/365.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
That bites. Must be needing more computer power and saw where they can get it from. Hope they change there minds. I've been told this was a final decision. No more discussions. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7701 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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That bites. Must be needing more computer power and saw where they can get it from. Hope they change there minds. I've been told this was a final decision. No more discussions. I hate to say this but maybe leave it lay a while. This storm may blow over after some extended period of quiet.
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Warpedcow
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 21, 2009 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline |
They don't use proxy servers they use content/protocol filtering firewalls. You can't even surf to a site that has the word proxy on it. Public proxy servers are are also blocked. I would need to vpn through to somewhere. Not worth it. Don't know if I will be working there very long anyway. Run an HTTP proxy on your home computer and address it by IP. The traffic would look like any other HTTP (web) traffic. Unless they use a huge whitelist and block everything else, this should work.
Gaming/HTPC: Intel Q9550 @ 3.5ghz, 4GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4850
Primary Server: Intel Q9550 @ 3.0ghz, 8GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4830 Backup Server/Gaming: Intel Q9550 @ 3.4ghz, 8GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4870 My ICF Home Build: http://icfbuild.blogspot.com/ |
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