Why?

comprehensiveness!

but anyway ctrl+a, ctrl+g, shrink that motherfucker down
also you can force visio to scale and print to basically whatever size of how many pages you want

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Shrinking the doc to any reasonable size would result in massive loss of detail. It's like EVERY SINGLE CABLE in the datacenter is represented on this beast.

Control-A takes like 10 seconds to complete, too.

Captain Telephonic needs to come in and cut the gordian knot.

I have seen similarly giant ones but nothing with literally thousands of connectors.

clearly some comic book guy type with a cisco cert was told to chart the datacenter and did exactly as he was told. this is what happens when you loosely define all requirements but one.

Someone in CO apparently needs to have a nice long sit-down with Edmund Tufte.

tom did you make that pic?

Er, Edward. LA has gotten into my brain.

He did and if you read all of ILX as you are tasked you'd KNOW that already duh tom = Visio GOD.

I think j0rdan is just making an oblique zing at me for posting it everywhere

Where can I get good network/computing Visio stencils that work in OmniGraffle 5 Pro, or at least I can paste into a diagram and work in OmG 5? Most of the photorealistic Visio ones show up as grey blocks, and any that use WMF/EMF OmG hates. Also, many of the good OmG grafix don't work at all in Visio.

The ones that come with Visio 2003 work well in both, but I need more servers and network devices.

you need more servers and devices than visio 2003 provides? Uh.

you're sure you're using all the server/device stencils they have already?

I'm just using Computers and Monitors and Networks and Peripherals. I thought that was pretty much it.

I did a search on "server" and I don't see anything that looks like 19" mountable hardware, which is what I'd like.

fuck that search tool. go to file -> shapes and just start adding stencils and seeing what's in there

Visio has a lot that's pretty cool, but there's a ton that's totally annoying and wrong. All in all, the OmG experience is superior.

I just discovered the snap to geometry pref, which will make life a bit easier.

I mean, why in the hell would you ever WANT a hidden arrowhead?

Er, glue to geometry.

Currently attempting to print this monster on the DesignJet 800.

OK, even at this size, I'm going to need a loupe to read the text, which is probably around 4pt.

No, I'm wrong. The type is exactly 2.25pt.

WHY do there have to be many different common headshells, each wired incompatibly with the others?

And naturally, with no distinguishing markings.

what is a headshell

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