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Tell us WHY it's dreadful and a pile of crap. Everything else is just an opinion.
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because it steams and is brown
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Sounds like coffee. Mmmm... coffee...
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And fresh made chocolate brownies.
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And Halle Berry... 
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Mileage may vary...I've really not had any problems with Windows networking, aside from VMs which can be a pain. 
So, what's the problem?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It seems to be caching a lot of stuff because when you change something it takes minutes to get a connection.
You get endless progress bar, across the address field in explorer, followed b the useless 'diagnose' choice.
even after flushing the DNS cache, because my two test machines have the same ip address (makes testing easier when I switch between them), windows thinks it knows about the connection but can't access it (probably because the option 'let windows manage' got enabled.
Then you have the ridiculous inability to switch a network from private, to public, or work. In fact how the hell does an IP link even HAVE these sub types? It doesnt. This is windows trying to be clever and limit access. And when software tries to be clever it goes wrong. And it is painfully slow to find a machine on the network. You should try linux. It really is immediate.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: because my two test machines have the same ip address
That's probably the problem - Windows is trying to ensure that the machine at the other end is exactly the one it thinks it is.
I have no problems with it, and I've got 2 Win10 devices, 1 Win XP desktop, 5 Android (or 7 if I count the Amazon and Google TV devices - and I probably should), two linux based NASes and a gawd-knows-what based printer on my network. Plus the router. All the shares work fine, all access to SQL is fine, it just works.
Maybe that's because I don't play silly buggers with my IP addresses?
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That is just todays problem, and it wouldnt be if it didnt frigging cache it somewhere). My main grips is the time it takes, and frequent failure, to even access devices on the network. Hell, it does this even trying to open a local folder sometimes. You must have seen the blue progress bar in explorer surely?
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Only when a device is turned off and I try to access it.
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You could try (with an elevated-rights command line)
arp -d ip_address
and see if that helps. ARP table maintains a sort of dictionary between mac addresses and ip addresses. If your test machines do not have the same mac address, this can cause some troubles.
Depending on your network drivers, you could also try to give both interfaces on test machines the same mac address.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Samba still works on W7 and Ububtu. What is the problem, is it limited to 280 characters?
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Have you ever read the non-fiction book, Creativity: The Perfect Crime by Phillipe Petit[^]?
It's really good because it will honestly make you think about all kinds of things differently.
The writing is fantastic and the stories are extremely interesting.
Of course, Petit is the guy who strung a wire between the World Trade Centers in 197x-something and walked the tightrope.
Because I read the book, I wanted to see the movie about that, and it too is honestly a great movie, with great acting and the story of The Walk will keep you riveted to your seat.
Watch the movie after you read some of the book. However, my wife did not know anything about Petit and she really liked the movie too.
Watch The Walk movie trailer[^].
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... but you probably still have to draw a picture for them too.
Which they will photograph with their phone even if you offer them the paper.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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...and then post to pinterest complete with huge black bars as their own work.
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Lopatir wrote: Which they will photograph with their phone
True story: my sister in law called to ask me a stupid question about how to print something from her phone. She has one of those all-in-one printers with a scanner so I (sarcastically) suggested she place the phone on the scanner and hit copy. I didn't think she would actually try it! 
Now that I think about it, I've never had a need to print anything from my phone...but maybe I don't use mine to it's full capabilities.
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What is creative about walking a rope? I can only see it as a creative attempt at abortion.
How would creativity be "different" thinking? Please explain how it is a "special" form of thinking?
Is methodological listing pro's and con's of every possible combination of factors considered "creative", or is that label reserved for those who are drunk and accedentally stumble over a solution?
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Quote: is that label reserved for those who are drunk and accedentally stumble over a solution?
![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) Exactly!
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Lucky typo 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: What is creative about walking a rope?
That is exactly how I felt when I originally heard about him walking between the two buildings.
I also read his book on a whim and in some ways to just point out how ridiculous it was.
Then I read his book on Creativity and I really liked how he thinks. He looks at things from many angles.
Tight-rope Walking Between Trade Center Towers
Now, you've thought about it abstractly, like "ok big deal, so you do some stupid stunt that is dangerous".
But really think about everything you'd have to do to get to the point where you could walk on a wire between two buildings 90 stories up.
First of all you have to be able to confidently walk a tight rope. This is not a skill you build over night.
Next, you have to figure out how to get the wire between the two buildings without authorities noticing.
How do you get access? How do you get the wire installed so it is safe enough?
That's The Creativity Part
You see, in some ways you saw the task like a manager does : as some abstract thing that has no point and/or "should be easy enough".
But when you have to look at the task as the person who is actually building the thing then the thing becomes something completely different.
In other words, managers often only see only the bottom line and a have a "get it done" attitude so they cannot understand that some creative tasks are more difficult than others.
Meanwhile, we who are on the ground building the thing know the intimate details of how difficult it actually is to install a wire between two buildings so it is so sturdily installed that a life can actually depend upon it.
Then, layer on top of that, all the human fears, doubts, interpersonal actions and the rest and you see there is much more to building a thing or walking on a tight rope than some stupid trick.
This is the part that is about "thinking differently".
Why?
I've been building a device which is a Arudino nano, 20x4 LCD screen, and a bluetooth module and an SD card reader. I have it running and I showed my wife that I can send text from my Android phone to the little device and the message will show up on the screen and write the message to a file on the microSD card.
It takes about 20 seconds to demo but it took me a few days to get it all working -- LCD screens are a pain.
Anyways, my wife saw the demo and said, "but why would you need to do that?"
Answer: "Because I can!...and wasn't sure I could...and because someone else can't!"
I learned tons doing that and it will be appear in an article here sometime.
modified 11-Nov-17 10:07am.
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Yuck.
raddevus wrote: He looks at things from many angles.
I am not creative, but yet I make an effort to look at things from all angles that I can identify.
It is not magic, it is structured effort. Nothing else - spare me the marketing-drivel.
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Upvoted for obvious reasons
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modified 11-Nov-17 19:06pm.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
It is not magic, it is structured effort. Nothing else
Agree 100%
Eddy Vluggen wrote: spare me the marketing-drivel.
Yes, keep all ideas to your self in this forum from now on. The forum will be a much quicker read that way. 😁
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