Workshop Inventory Software

[ian]

No NBN here, it would take a year to upload all the photos to G Drive if I was to do that. I think I might load all the photos and the spreadsheet on a biggish USB drive or an SD card and name the photos with the cell number from the spreadsheet. Park that off the premises and update it by swapping another equivalent drive every now and then. If we had the NBN it would be simple to update over the net, thanks Mr Turnbull for nothing.

should I report this post -- Nah

but I do get a bit incensed by this constant bagging of "Turnbull's NBN".

In terms of usability and, more importantly, affordability to the average punter, there is nothing to choose between the Rudd/Gillard FTTP NBN and Turnbull's FTTN version. Except possibly the final out-turn cost.
To keep the $50+ billion cost off the Government's books, the NBN is required to generate a "commercial" return -- which I believe needs to be in the order of $5 billion per year. With only 1 in 5 consumers willing (able?) to pay for the politically promised performance, this means the vast bulk of consumers are left with what are unaffordable prices or appallingly slow speeds. Or a mixture of both.

As I understand the finances, there is no "fix" to this problem unless the Government -- of whichever flavour has the balls -- bites the bullet and brings the "investment" onto Treasury's books, effectively writing off the NBN's cost.

[Fuzzie]

I've just transitioned to the NBN. Previously I was on copper with ADSL speeds of about 1.8Mbps. The Telstra line rental and ISP combined cost was $55 for 60GB. Today I am on lowest tier NBN 12Mbps and actually seeing 10Mbps with unlimited data for $60. I also used to totally lose phone services completely at least once a year because the copper wires in our street are so corroded. For the most part I can't see much different performance at the keyboard, but then again maybe I'll start using services like video streaming now which I was unable to use before because of buffering. I'm guessing I'm one of the lucky ones that actually sees an improvement going NBN for not much more $.

[Bendigo Bob]

WHAT????!!!! The timber is not insurable???? That's outrageous!!!!!!!!

The timber isn't insurable, but I keep it for reference.

Every time I buy something I add it on. So, thats only twice a week

[DavidG]

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Workshop Inventory Software

Please stay on topic.

[FenceFurniture]

Chris, you may be guilty of one of my specialty maladies here - overthinking it.

Bob's suggestion of a pic of each group of tools is the go. I would then "insert" that into an Excel sheet, and list the details of the contents of the pic underneath it. I very much doubt that you even need to associate each description with each item with numbering - AT THIS STAGE. Perhaps number the drawers or whatever, so that when you add a new tool to that place you can say "tool X added to location Y"

At the time of claim you could say which items have disappeared and them circle them in the pic. This would save you doing a yuge amount of work .....that will probably never be needed. Do the work as and when required, if ever.

Then backup the spreadsheet to a few different places, maybe send it to the insurance company (saying that it's a moveable feast). Update the main sheet every time you add a tool, renew the backups as appropriate.

Remember that you can "flatten" images in Excel to keep the size down. It also helps to crop off any useless part of the pic. To flatten, do a right click on the pic and explore what you find there.

[Bendigo Bob]

WHAT????!!!! The timber is not insurable???? That's outrageous!!!!!!!!

Hmm, wonder what that's going to do to the total on my spreadsheet?

[Chris Parks]

Chris, you may be guilty of one of my specialty maladies here - overthinking it.

I learned my OCD from the best, thanks mate!