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We have the best government that money can buy. 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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theoldfool wrote: that money can buy
Don't forget the weekly discounts and buy one get one free days.
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So MS has slowly but surely been migrating all Windows settings (control panel and beyond) to this new UI type whose name changes every few months so I won't even try to name it, all under Settings...and then search for it, otherwise if you just try to walk the hierarchy you'll never find it as it seems to change from one update to the next.
So yesterday I tried to change a system from DHCP to static IP. No problem, I've done that a million times on different systems.
But now the familiar TCP/v4 dialog box has been replaced with "one of those"...and while my subnet is typically set to 255.255.0.0 (yes, rather than 255.255.255.0), I did not notice that the caption for that field is asking for the "Subnet prefix length", rather than Subnet Mask (as has been the case since Windows started supporting TCP/IP). Couldn't save. Just a generic message, "Unable to save", or words to that effect, in red, near the top of the window. Didn't say which field was in error, and the message was completely useless. It's only when I compared with another Windows system that I realized that instead of having 255.255.0.0, my other (working) system was using 16. Changed that, saved, everybody can ping each other in both directions. Good to go.
a) I'm not sure why MS felt that change in format was necessary
b) Would it have killed them to
(i) show a better error message
(ii) failing that, place a red "*" next to the field in error as they're doing everywhere else these days?
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Windows 11 went back to the traditional subnet mask.
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DHL went back to Monday again.
Ten minutes later, DHL threw the package at the door and ran away. 
Fortunately, it was well packaged, and undamaged - so I have a watch on my wrist again!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And here I thought I was getting a rant about how Microsoft added their new icons to the Courier New font.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Especial venom is directed to UPS (Ur Parcel Smashed) who can't deliver anything here without sitting on it or using it as a football, and DHL (Don't Have Logistics) who were supposed to deliver a parcel yesterday, but changed that to the 9th, then the 12th, then back to the 9th, then told me it had been handed to Evan (because they gave me the delivery details for a different customers package), then back to the 12th, and just now decided it's the 10th instead. 
Some are OK - Yodel appear to work fine, DPD tend to dump and run but that's OK where we are, and Amazon Prime Delivery can manage pretty much anything and do some really long hours.
Let's not mention Fedex as I tend to start foaming at the mouth and swearing ...
But how can the big players get their logistics and computer tracking systems so badly wrong? Or is it just me?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Amazon handed my $365 motherboard off to UPS. *sob*
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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My sincere condolences. How many pieces did it arrive in? ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It isn't schedule to decompose, destroyed on my front port until monday.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Better than handing it off the USPS (US Postal Service).
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I get very courteous drivers and packages arrive in good shape here from all the couriers -- perhaps I am more fortunate than most?
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Over the last 20+ years of shopping online, I have had one parcel lost, 2-3 parcels delayed, and one damaged. In my experience, the international couriers (and their Israeli subcontractors) do a decent job.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Agreed! I must have had hundreds of packages delivered over the past 20 years here in Florida, and I don't remember losing a single one. However, some were a day or so late. But I admit I cannot speak for the service in the UK.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've been lucky this past months.
Now, if the shipping allow it, I will deliver packages at the post-office (2 minutes from home).
I know it's delivered, I know it won't get stolen.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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We've lived in a resort town way up in the high Rockies for 30 years, remote and isolated even though overrun with visitors. It can be a wild ride getting here from afar and we have been ordering things by necessity from remote places via all the usual carriers over that time I cannot say enough good things about them. We order for business and pleasure, on average 2 items to be shipped per day. I think maybe only one or two packages in that time frame ever went mia.
USPS, UPS, FedEx and (snicker) DHL all have come through.
When you live up here away from the usual city goodies, you appreciate what they do. I was walking my dog around our neighborhood and saw a FedEx driver walk off the porch of a neighbor's house and I said "Alright Fed-Ex" with a fist pump. She was like "O.....K dude, whatever" 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Or is it just me?
Its just you... UPS, Fedex and Amazon Prime Delivery all provide good service in my neck of the woods. Even the USPS isn't too bad around here.
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OriginalGriff wrote: But how can the big players get their logistics and computer tracking systems so badly wrong? Or is it just me?
In the case of UPS: they've outsourced their main logistic system (to India I think) and have gotten back a big pile of brown substance. Since then, they salvaged back their old developers and are trying to sort thing out.
In my previous company which is the size of the UPS the same happened (although they were smart/decent enough to keep us - the original developers). It took us more than 3 years just to smooth out the rough edges. It wasn't fun.
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USP managed to first lose, and then smash a UPS once for me. When I say smashed, I mean smashed. The metal case of the UPS was dented in hard.
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True story: In the late 1980's I shipped a microVAX and its 300MB hard drive from my home in Ohio to California. The computer arrived in good shape. The hard drive, which weighed 80 pounds and was in a large set of nested shipping boxes and packing, did not.
Based on the damage someone drove a forklift into the side of the box.
Software Zen: delete this;
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FedEx and UPS are merging.
They're going to call it FedUp
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Mike Hankey wrote: They're going to call it FedUp
Once they merge with Apple the new name will be iQuit.
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Question about where to put speech (2,6)
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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