@markferron said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

@thwr said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

@coliver said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

@thwr said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

@coliver said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

Make sure you include the labor in the comparison as well. Hanging new APs can get very costly.

I guess all the wires are already in place. Shouldn't be too hard to replace them

Still would be to get someone in a ladder or lift to do the replacement. I've done a 150 AP organization before that was a good week for two people.

The question is: Who should climb the ladder? Probably not someone who bills $150+ per hour.

That'll be me. They're cheap, but I know what I'm worth haha.

@coliver said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

@thwr said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

@coliver said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

Make sure you include the labor in the comparison as well. Hanging new APs can get very costly.

I guess all the wires are already in place. Shouldn't be too hard to replace them

Still would be to get someone in a ladder or lift to do the replacement. I've done a 150 AP organization before that was a good week for two people.

The question is: Who should climb the ladder? Probably not someone who bills $150+ per hour.

@coliver said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

Make sure you include the labor in the comparison as well. Hanging new APs can get very costly.

I guess all the wires are already in place. Shouldn't be too hard to replace them

...and matching POE switches, which means even more savings.

@markferron said in Licenses for APs and Switches:

@thwr That's actually another issue. I don't really know how the budget works here, and we don't really interact with our vendors. Just guestimation...Amazon has 3 year licences for the MR32 @ $208 each and $120 for the switch. So that's about $29,240 for a set of 3 year licenses.

Wow... I guess they get some discount, but you could buy hundreds of UBNT APs for that anyway.

And now - just for science

If all fields are numbers and always have the same length (3/3/4):

=(A1*(10^7)) + (B1 * (10^4)) + C1

Apply a cell data format of 000\.000\.0000 or use the TEXT function

=TEXT((A1*(10^7)) + (B1 * (10^4)) + C1; "000\.000\.0000")

A shorter alternative to CONCATENATE

=A1 & "." & B1 & "." &C1

What @JaredBusch said

Just curious: About what amount of recurring costs are we talking about? Just a rough estimate if you don't mind

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh, and I recovered an unmaintained 2007 Joomla website from an even older OpenBSD bare metal (desktop) system today whose (single) HDD died a few days ago. There was SOME kind of a backup (mostly a dump without any documentation) and I was able to gather the last pieces from the dead disk.

Took some hours but it's now running as a Hyper-V VM with Ubuntu server 17.10, nginx, php-fpm and MariaDB instead of Apache 1.x, mod_php and mySQL. Just need to migrate the site to an up to date version of Joomla.

Uck, after being stuck with a Joomla site for a bit, I have an unnatural loathing of it now.

I would love to replace it, but I don't have the time Maybe in a year.

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

In the office 'til 5pm, then hospital. Bought a few things for the weekend. Cleaned the kitchen, fed the guinea pigs, exactly 9pm here now. Trying to eat some cornflakes for "dinner".

going to the hospital?

No, Becci (my wife) is there since Wednesday.

Oh sorry, I didn't see it or recall that. Sorry about that.

np. There's so much traffic in this thread
I hope she is going fantastic!

She feels better, yes. We just need to change a few things in the future.

Oh, and I recovered an unmaintained 2007 Joomla website from an even older OpenBSD bare metal (desktop) system today whose (single) HDD died a few days ago. There was SOME kind of a backup (mostly a dump without any documentation) and I was able to gather the last pieces from the dead disk.

Took some hours but it's now running as a Hyper-V VM with Ubuntu server 17.10, nginx, php-fpm and MariaDB instead of Apache 1.x, mod_php and mySQL. Just need to migrate the site to an up to date version of Joomla.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

In the office 'til 5pm, then hospital. Bought a few things for the weekend. Cleaned the kitchen, fed the guinea pigs, exactly 9pm here now. Trying to eat some cornflakes for "dinner".

going to the hospital?

No, Becci (my wife) is there since Wednesday.

Oh sorry, I didn't see it or recall that. Sorry about that.

np. There's so much traffic in this thread

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

In the office 'til 5pm, then hospital. Bought a few things for the weekend. Cleaned the kitchen, fed the guinea pigs, exactly 9pm here now. Trying to eat some cornflakes for "dinner".

going to the hospital?

No, Becci (my wife) is there since Wednesday.

In the office 'til 5pm, then hospital. Bought a few things for the weekend. Cleaned the kitchen, fed the guinea pigs, exactly 9pm here now. Trying to eat some cornflakes for "dinner".

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

been told upto 48hrs

No problem. You just need a good amount of composite explosives.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sorting this place out

Good luck. You'll need it.

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller i've been waiting for you lot to wake up

We are awake!!

Congrats. It's almost night here

Aww tell her I say I hope she gets well soon!!!!

will do, ty

@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@popester said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I hate Spectrum..... still dealing with them since first thing this morning.

It is a small world we had a couple dropouts about an hour ago. I used the chat function. I am not a nice person if I have been put on hold after sparing with rosy the robot IVR.

I have been having issues for a couple days (happens every time we get a bit of rain). Drives me nuts. I made them come out and fix stuff.

Nuts... remembers me of what I did with a USB thumb drive not long ago. We have some that we hand out to students. But they never bring it back. So I asked our workshop to just attach something large to it. They used a M60 nut (weights about 0.5kg, probably worth more than the thumb drive :p) and a wire. We normally use them to fix large machines to the floor.

Works perfectly.

I would try to get a cheap refurbished LSI / Broadcom SAS controller. Always good to have one, just in case

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr I hope it all works out.

Ty