And now you know why UPS is so heavily not suggested in the Vintage Computer world.
Then what would you suggest, Pentium? Carrier pigeon? Driving it myself? Not selling it at all?
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50812751]Then what would you suggest, Pentium? Carrier pigeon? Driving it myself? Not selling it at all?[/QUOTE]
Surely you have other couriers there?
[QUOTE=SataniX;50812796]Surely you have other couriers there?[/QUOTE]
None of them are suggested. Fedex is just as bad and USPS is laughable for any large packages.
[QUOTE=SataniX;50812796]Surely you have other couriers there?[/QUOTE]
all of our carriers tend to be operated by trained gorillas. shipping computers is always risky business over here.
I've had the best luck with UPS in all my years, even with big heavy stuff. FedEx has broken more stuff of mine, DHL is a fucking joke and often just gives up delivering. USPS could work if it wasn't so big. They're fine for small stuff but I hate going to the store to do anything.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50812751]Then what would you suggest, Pentium? Carrier pigeon? Driving it myself? Not selling it at all?[/QUOTE]
You know those companies that will have someone drive your car to the city that you're moving to or whatever?
I wonder if you could contract them as a courier service
What I SHOULD have done was packed it myself. Maybe even found someone who had the box to one and bought that to pack it in. I should have asked to see the packaging they came up with.
i once had usps deliver a quadcopter to someone in florida, but i lived in tennessee??
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;50812831]i once had usps deliver a quadcopter to someone in florida, but i lived in tennessee??[/QUOTE]
They delivered the rim for our F150 to some dude in florida but the tire from the same seller bought at the same time to our house. How.
Are the parcel companies and cable companies in America linked in some way? They seem to be equally shit.
FedEx costs more but I've had a good history with them. DHL is even more expensive but when they're paying, it's not my problem. I have also shipped packages using the standard postal network and even Greyhound freight.
Every single time I have dealt with UPS something always fucked up. The package got mangled, the prepaid shipment was refunded and became a COD and brokerage fees. That delightful $40 ding they always throw on my shit. The only time I've ever seen UPS work was when you're a large company who can afford to move their weight around when they fuck up and even then weird shit happens. Three 46" LCD's leave the same seller. Two arrive one day, the third shows up a day later.
[QUOTE=helifreak;50812926]Are the parcel companies and cable companies in America linked in some way? They seem to be equally shit.[/QUOTE]
They're linked by a capitalistic economy where companies balance the money saved from shit service with the price of lost customers/paying out insurance
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;50812944]They're linked by a capitalistic economy where companies balance the money saved from shit service with the price of lost customers/paying out insurance[/QUOTE]
And this is why many people in the UK didn't want Royal Mail privatised, but the fucks did it anyway.
[QUOTE=pentium;50812931]FedEx costs more but I've had a good history with them. DHL is even more expensive but when they're paying, it's not my problem. I have also shipped packages using the standard postal network and even Greyhound freight.
Every single time I have dealt with UPS something always fucked up. The package got mangled, the prepaid shipment was refunded and became a COD and brokerage fees. That delightful $40 ding they always throw on my shit. The only time I've ever seen UPS work was when you're a large company who can afford to move their weight around when they fuck up and even then weird shit happens. Three 46" LCD's leave the same seller. Two arrive one day, the third shows up a day later.[/QUOTE]
DHL is a complete and utter joke here in the US. I've almost always had great experiences with UPS, and very much the opposite with FedEx.
I've had DHL take 3 weeks to deliver something like 100miles away.
[QUOTE=ballads;50812935]or a wooden goddamn crate with a shitload of foam that is specially molded to the chassis[/QUOTE]
I've done that via Canada Post.
I framed and crated an antique cast iron water pump and it arrived almost two weeks later ready to be rebuilt.
One of the greatest things you can do when you ship large items is secure it to a thin sheet of plywood slightly bigger than the item itself. It prevents the object form getting dinged up when placed on its side or on a corner., plus it's cheap and not really heavy.
When I shipped a Tandy 6000HD to Australia we made what amounted to the sleketon of a wooden frame around the machine so that no matter what angle you had it you would not damage the plastics. It did cost something like $3100 between the shipping and the pressure treated wood because customs is anal about that but it made it.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50813089]I've had DHL take 3 weeks to deliver something like 100miles away.[/QUOTE]
They do a lot of end to end work with USPS at least by me and just pick it up at origin office and drop off at destination office. They somehow manage to do this slower than USPS themselves.
Well that too far too long to troubleshoot. My mom does telepracticing speech therapy via a virtual classroom. It just stopped loading all together on her laptop but still worked on her chromebook and my laptop. Turns out out of nowhere that uBlock Origin started blocking it. Hasn't updated or anything, just all the sudden did it.
Well I guess I should go check out Vessel and see what it's all ab-
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[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50814228]Hey guys remember the 970 RAM issue.
[t]https://chie.club/files/images/st/f92ac468-676f-4cbc-af88-453e1b122e38.png[/t]
Tell me I'm not tin foiling.
[editline]2nd August 2016[/editline]
Oh yeah my old 750 TI is displaying the same results it will only read up to 1.5GB.
Note this is the same tool I found back when the 970 RAM issue came about and it read up to 2GB but the last 512 was fucking slow as shit.[/QUOTE]
Is that the same tool that only displays 6.7gb of RAM for the GTX 1070, and people on /g/ got all worked up over it?
Yeah I'm not trusting that tool in any way.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50814925]Hell I don't even know how people even proved with a legitimate benchmark[/QUOTE]
IIRC, people themselves never couldn't provide actual proof of this, but the stink they made about it made nvidia disclose technical details about whats going on.
Aparently even that benchmark tool led to people having different results.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50814228]Hey guys remember the 970 RAM issue.
[t]https://chie.club/files/images/st/f92ac468-676f-4cbc-af88-453e1b122e38.png[/t]
Tell me I'm not tin foiling.
[editline]2nd August 2016[/editline]
Oh yeah my old 750 TI is displaying the same results it will only read up to 1.5GB.
Note this is the same tool I found back when the 970 RAM issue came about and it read up to 2GB but the last 512 was fucking slow as shit.[/QUOTE]
Shows 768 MiB on my 1024 MiB potato. Probably just a bug.
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;50814799]Well I guess I should go check out Vessel and see what it's all ab-
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Vessel is for premium content right?
Jesus christ I'm finding so much PC-98 shit but so far all I could find for my X68000 is a CZ-6BV1 for 5000 yen.
Why does you avatar have the face section on 7 different frames when it is exactly the same on all 7? Wasting valuable kilobytes here.
[QUOTE=helifreak;50815501]Why does you avatar have the face section on 7 different frames when it is exactly the same on all 7? Wasting valuable kilobytes here.[/QUOTE]
I've long since forgotten the art to gif redundant pixel elimination.
[editline]asda[/editline]
Or you could say it's a.....[i]long face.[/i].
My dual monitor setup is plugged into this power bar and when I turn on my room light, or when someone turns on or off a light in another room nearby, the monitors loose power often and it's something I have noticed lately. Either my home's power is starting to suck or the power bar I'm using is starting to die. I can try another power bar and see how it goes but for the most part, I think my home's power is starting to really suck and surge.
Thoughts?
[QUOTE=garychencool;50815557]My dual monitor setup is plugged into this power bar and when I turn on my room light, or when someone turns on or off a light in another room nearby, the monitors loose power often and it's something I have noticed lately. Either my home's power is starting to suck or the power bar I'm using is starting to die. I can try another power bar and see how it goes but for the most part, I think my home's power is starting to really suck and surge.
Thoughts?[/QUOTE]
It could be the power strip is bad, the circuit that outlet is on is bad, or the entire house wiring is bad.
Try a new power strip. If that doesn't work, try another outlet in the room. If it's still doing it, get a long extension chord and try another outlet that's not on the same circuit.
There's a Happy Hacking keyboard here. I'm tempted to buy it but only because I need a smaller keyboard.
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