Posts made by gjacobse

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hey everyone, happy holidays!

Happy Holidays

Hope your dad is doing okay,.. I’m hearing a bit out of the Buffalo area about the weather, power and food issues.

I’m slow and behind but I am still using keepass or on the iOS device Strongbox as it is compatible with keepass db.

Nothing like trying to get HVAC service after a;

Holiday
Extreme cold snap

Yup,.. this could be costly,.. house isn’t twenty years old yet and we are system number two already… this system is only seven years old…

Have to say it’s a good Christmas this year-

After a double bypass last Tuesday, my father in law came home last night.

We went down and cleared snow and ice from the driveway and steps. Glad he is home and recovering…

Merry Christmas

Happy holidays

@MrWright4hire said in Captive Portal/Splash Screen/Better Alternative:

@Pete-S said in Captive Portal/Splash Screen/Better Alternative:

He or his guests doesn't need to type in anything.
Most phones for example support qr codes for ssid & pwd.

There are many sites that can generate the right qr code for him to print out.

For example https://wifiqrcode.com

Hey Pete. I wish I knew you well enough to put you on my Christmas list. That idea was the BOMB! My bad for those who are not hip to that term. It was a great idea.

I also talked him into getting a Unifi Dream Router (UDR). With the UDR you don't need to buy extra gear. It's a 4 in one. It's a router, switch, AP and controller. There's another one called Unifi Dream Machine (UDM). It's a 3 in 1. It's a switch, AP and Controller. Both can create a captive portal / splash screen.

Here's a side by side comparison:

If anyone else has any cool ideas like Pete, please share. I'm open to learning and sharing information.

If anyone is interested, below are setup video of both products.

Unifi:
UDR - Router
UDM - Machine

In the mean time, MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I got excited and started to re-consider my initial heart attack the other day when I searched up the UDR.. That sheet is old and incorrect. the UDR on Amazon is the same price as the UDM - $400+

I'm already looking to re-engineer my entire network from a ERL and UniFi controller running on Ubuntu ...

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Got some heavy tunes blasting, coffee brewing (again)... so much to do before heading across town for the xmas-ing.

I also just remembered it is 17F out, so I finally put a space heater in the garage to keep those pipes from freezing.

17, that’s a heatwave compared to our -7

dont forget windchill dash

We are finally up to 0degF,… we were at -6 this morning.

Is Texas ready for another freeze? Yikes!

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just put in a ticket to get our new VDI servers racked up... also trying not to freeze to death (southern version). See below:

As you can see, the apocalypse will occur sometime over the weekend. Between holidays and the looming lack of temperature, I'm afraid to go outside. Probably WW3 going on at Walmart right now.

Trade ya,…

And you to 4” of snow,… after rain. With a FLASH freeze.

“Le gasp”

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just put in a ticket to get our new VDI servers racked up... also trying not to freeze to death (southern version). See below:

As you can see, the apocalypse will occur sometime over the weekend. Between holidays and the looming lack of temperature, I'm afraid to go outside. Probably WW3 going on at Walmart right now.

Trade ya,…

And you to 4” of snow,… after rain. With a FLASH freeze.

Unifi has a captive portal in the controller,..

Oh,.. can’t be troubled to type a SSID, then dealing with a controller or really ANY captive portal option will likely be more than he wants to deal with..

This is not meant to be helpful:

Tell him to box up his equipment and return it, he doesn’t understand how to use technology.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm up in NY with my dad. Will be heading back to Texas tomorrow.

Welcome back, -waves- hope your dad is doing well.

If you are driving hope you make it through before we get hit with the Siberian Front…

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

hypervisor rebuilt & vm's moved back over.
success=yes

Nice. It's always great when things behave themselves after we whack them with a hammer a few times.

Yes,.. yes,.. whack it again!

Way to quiet,.. I’m gonna go over and unplug something,…

User profile is likely damaged,… kill the profile or Nike the computer…

But that is a first read guess.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

not getting replies to this topic emailed to me.
can the help desk help?

Should be under SETTINGS:

Then on the right side is Notifications.

@Obsolesce said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@BraswellJay said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@Obsolesce said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@BraswellJay you don't need one with word. In Word, just export as pdf.

I can't do that in bulk that way though, can I?

My user may have 50 or so word files and she wants to convert them all to separate PDFs without having to open each one individually in word.

I thought there may be a tool that would just let her bulk select all and convert them all at once.

You can do it with PowerShell. Make a simple script for the user to run.

Powershell for the win! Nicely done.

Pardon the geek out, but happy with a successful email send tonight...

What is so special about sending an email? Only that it was using AX.25 over VHF on 145.030MHz using a fifteen year old radio.. message travel about forty miles before it hit another computer then the internet....

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hey is @Phil-CommQuotes still around? I got permission to explore some bandwidth upgrades

How profile shows he was last here in 2020, if he has notify on, he may see your reference tag.