@JourneymanGeek the canine pre-delivery warning system here goes off when UPS is 1 block away, but USPS can go by unnoticed. UPS sometimes has milkbones :-)
> Yodel apologised to Ajmal for the 'overly enthusiastic attempt to deliver a parcel for a customer who was out: aiming for an open window, he missed and found the roof'.
> It told MailOnline: 'It was obviously a silly thing to do and this is very embarrassing. To his credit, the driver returned to the house with some ladders in his own time to retrieve the parcel and apologise to the customer.
@Ohnana oh, those are fun. nearest (toll? tnt?) collection point is across the suburb. takes 30 mins to get there by public transport, it's some 2km away.
There's a few pickup store within a block of my house. But DPD have never once been outside their allocated timeslot, at least not once a parcel gets on a van and actually gets given a timeslot
Thankfully work is only 10 minutes away from home so when I get the message with a 1-hour window I can pop home right in the middle of it, sign for the parcel, and be back at work within an hour.
@Bob Most UK retailers (Amazon, Scan, Overclockers, etc.) charge £5-10 for a DPD shipment. However on DPD's website their minimum prices are like £30 for a small parcel, plus £30 Sat/Sun surcharge
@JourneymanGeek Thats what ParcelForce (Parcelforce Worldwide is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd.) get called by the peeps who don't like them ;)
Whereas UPS go Retailer => Receiving depot => Some other depot => Regional sorting hub => Some other depot => Some vague location 100 miles away => You
Oddly i think it is from the 12V only on modern CPU, while it would seem strage to do the like 1V from the 12 i assume it uses a method that is series , dividing much of the voltages out.
there was a time when the CPU power was derived from the 5V , and the many 5V lines provided on the 20pin (before the 24pin) connection.
The only reason i knew about it (5V) is overclockers underestimating the amperage when raising the voltages , had cooked that at times or even meltdown burned it.
Incidentally even a high-end power supplies barely enough power off 5v or 3.3v to power a modern CPU anymore. A lot of sites have been testing crossloads on PSU reviews incidentally, and jokingly adding you shouldn't try running a Pentium 3 off a 2015 PSU
