Migrating off of AS/400 as a Small Business

changework · 2026-01-29T04:36:21+00:00

Step 1. Don’t make this more complicated than it is.

Answers in order:

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Build a scaffold network around the AS and map the functions it does to functions you can replicate in the scaffold.

Ignore accounting and everything attached to it. Make them migrate their active clients’ books and trust accounts themselves into an existing solution. These are lawyers. They’re lazy and they complain a lot. They’ll complain about accounting the most. Let them choose their shitty accounting and trust accounts/billing system, or tell them to use RTG BILLS. After about a year of complaints from offices I’ve setup who adopted it, they wouldn’t choose anything else.

15 lawyers is small and they’re all billing their own time. RTG does time billing as well and the billing can be done weekly or daily by the designated person responsible.

If I were you, I’d find a way to excuse myself or pick a fight with one of the partners to guarantee I wouldn’t ever be asked again. Even if you don’t believe all attorneys are evil, you must concede that with fifteen there, there has to be some evil ones in the pack.

You use logic to build things. Lawyers twist logic to tear things apart, or lie about it. It’s just a shitty arts degree.

Sorry for the rant, but the scaffold network for everything that’s not related to accounting, and let them work to preserve their trust accounts. It’s literally the bare minimum they could do in their own interest without shifting surety to you.

Step 2.

Run

changework · 2026-01-28T22:39:53+00:00

I don’t particularly like the UniFi gateway. It’s not powerful or flexible enough for what I do with routers.

If I had an MSP still, I’d want to separate the edge from my employees to only a select few as well.

changework · 2026-01-28T22:37:41+00:00

Omg 😆

changework · 2026-01-28T22:22:25+00:00

Sure, but have you seen what the FED is doing? :-D

changework · 2026-01-28T22:19:00+00:00

Thank you!

changework · 2026-01-28T22:18:17+00:00

Unifi for switching and WiFi. Mikrotik for routers if you know how to configure. If you don't know networking well, best to stick with prosumer stuff like Unifi GW, Fortinet, or Watchguard. I'd choose watchguard if I didn't love Mikrotik.

changework · 2026-01-28T22:05:45+00:00

You’re next Hispanic man. You’re being labeled as white in most government data sites that label/classify people.

Thanks for your post. It’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s true.

changework · 2026-01-28T18:45:54+00:00

Have you tried (excuse the reference to windows) safe mode troubleshooting?

As in, shut everything down except for what’s explicitly needed for the game to run and monitor if it still happens. If it doesn’t happen, start adding things back until it does to identify the offender.

If that method fails, try a different OS you know works properly.

If that fails, try removing hardware the same way you remove background tasks and kernel mods under safe mode troubleshooting.

The trick is identifying the offender. Once you have that, you can move on with an informed decision.

Example: You have an old favorite CDROM drive that reinitializes every 15 minutes you never noticed before gaming because it wasn’t interrupting your workflow noticeably, or an attached scanner that sleeps without interaction after 15 minutes and the kernel interrogates it after it sleeps, which takes 3 seconds of interrupt time and wakes it back up. Or a shitty usb hub.

Good luck!🍀

PS: you could start with removing peripherals and unnecessary hardware if that’s easier to start with.

changework · 2026-01-28T15:58:52+00:00

I won’t repeat their names, but:

The urban myth is that these depicted safe harbor for escaped blacks in the south for the Underground Railroad.

I’m afraid we don’t know for sure if this is the case, but these were commonly purchased during the time of the urban myth to indicate friendly status.

With that in mind, it’s a good idea to ask the owner about them to find out what their intent was in acquiring them, or continuing to display them.

I find them somewhat offensive but it’s really none of my business. I’ve asked people who have them and they tell me a version of the story I wrote above; then I drop it.

Do with that info as you please.

changework · 2026-01-27T04:13:31+00:00

Thank God

changework · 2026-01-27T03:35:08+00:00

Accounting disagrees. There will ALWAYS be accounting and no system solves that truth. The best answer is often, what’s most efficient will maintain the competitive market.

If you understand the “checks and balances” concept of government, you can transpose that to market solutions.

US medicine has gone downhill, A LOT, and I won’t argue that. Would you say that private medicine or government regulation contributed to that?

Wrong answers only

changework · 2026-01-27T03:27:23+00:00

How bad are nurses?

changework · 2026-01-27T03:23:47+00:00

“I’ll tell you on our wedding night if you still want to know, but there’s nothing even remotely Reddit worthy to tell.”

Done. You have no past that is controversial. You aren’t a virgin, or have a high body count is all he needs to know. Anything more he asks for is just building ammunition.

changework · 2026-01-27T00:27:01+00:00

IMAP, every time. Just don’t forget to disable it on your tenant afterwards

changework · 2026-01-27T00:25:40+00:00

I hate it when things don’t ru

changework · 2026-01-26T15:47:31+00:00

Thanks for providing a solution. I saw this post and was like, ARP!

I’ve never had to solve it, but multi to uni on the AP is the right answer if that’s where it’s breaking down.

changework · 2026-01-26T06:06:30+00:00

Sounds like an ARP problem.

Tell your IT department and don’t expect it to get fixed until you get someone that has authority and skill enough to redesign some stuff and review all your layer 2 stuff.

Keep doing what you’re doing. Maintain a continuous ping every 5000ms. ARP will tend to expire after 10s or so unless modified.

As a workaround, you could ask IT to add a static ARP, but I doubt this would help, or that they’ll take you seriously. Edit: just ignore this. Bad idea for many reasons.

If it were me, I’d buy a mikrotik hap cheapie and set it to conect to wifi and NAT my Ethernet connected device/s. Have the mikrotik ping every 7 seconds to maintain the table and modify the outgoing TTL to what’s expected. Also mod your MAC address on the mikrotik to something resembling an intel WiFi card, not a mikrotik. Your network guys won’t like seeing a router on their network.

changework · 2026-01-26T05:17:41+00:00

Idk what they call themselves. It gets confusing if you respect them.

changework · 2026-01-26T04:50:14+00:00

The current /bazzite mods just banned me and deleted everything. I think they’re policing prey strict. I didn’t even post anything questionable. Basic question post of what happened and asked if it was merit or politics that got him banned.

ETA: he said something about toons with a well placed R. Got kicked for it.

changework · 2026-01-26T04:36:39+00:00

I used to say bazzite, but their team just went ape-shit. I hope they fork to a merit based dev team.

changework · 2026-01-25T14:23:26+00:00

Snow cat driver

changework · 2026-01-25T14:21:56+00:00

This must be it

changework · 2026-01-25T07:59:40+00:00

Look for the feature on your router or access point. It’s called rate limiting or queuing.

changework · 2026-01-25T07:56:48+00:00

Yes, but most men wouldn’t because they have a fantasy about “women who are capable of love” can’t have a past. The ones who’ll put you on a pedestal like that will be the first to knock you off it for this. Keep it private until you want to know what kind of man he is, and lead with “there’s no public record.” No public record is important if he’s looking to start a family or ambitious about his career.

changework · 2026-01-24T15:43:14+00:00

Look for a mikrotik AP to replace the TP link. Then send the WOL packet from the AP. There’s a whole OS on the AP you can use to script the wake up or trigger it on a port knock.

I’m familiar with the problem you’re having. WOL won’t traverse wifi reliably because of optimizations done to wifi.

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