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So our company letterhead is a pile of JPGs sitting at the top of a word document. It prints out with artifacts and I hate it because it mars some tiny text and details that should be perfectly legible at 150dpi. I think, maybe this is a fun no-intellect project to hide behind on a day where I can't concentrate. Make it a proper header instead of being in-line with the body, maybe I could set up Styles correctly and show some people how that poo poo works later, maybe I could even see if I can get Office365 to include it for everybody as a default template. Not pissing me off: As it happens, those graphics were first drawn by somebody in powerpoint, and we do have copies of that file. A little amateurish, but I've got vectorized originals! God bless the accidentally-good user. Pissing me off: Microsoft Word is an idiot with vectors. You can insert an SVG and Word will scale and display it just fine, but then it flattens it to a JPG when it's sent to the printer, so that shows absolutely no upshot over the status quo. Microsoft's proprietary clip-art format, .EMF, offers some weird text glyph conversion issues, but I hammer it out and then it prints in razor-sharp quality. The thing is, though, that when you scale it to size in the Word document, it displays as a badly-aliased pixelated mess. What the gently caress? The improperly handled SVGs scaled down on screen like a dream but the native format can't do it? Any rational user looking at this before he prints it is going to think it's loving garbage, and probably try to go back to the bad old copy.
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Our network started making GBS threads itself and throttling github at work. When we opened a ticket with IT they started asking questions about how and why we were using the app 
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Apr 17, 2019 16:49
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Actuarial Fables posted:Our SAN died 
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Apr 17, 2019 18:33
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Actuarial Fables posted:Our SAN died Here's hoping that your backups are good.
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Apr 17, 2019 19:04
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WhoNeedsAName posted:
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Apr 17, 2019 19:23
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Wibla posted:Back...up? Yeah as in “when’s it going to be back up??!!”
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Apr 17, 2019 20:05
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WhoNeedsAName posted:
 that the backups are on the SAN.
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Apr 17, 2019 20:11
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Hey this snapshot feature is like a backup, right?
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Apr 17, 2019 20:13
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Thanks Ants posted:Hey this snapshot feature is like a backup, right? *twitch*
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Apr 17, 2019 20:14
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ConfusedUs posted:*twitch* No no, it's fine, it was on RAID. 
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Apr 17, 2019 20:14
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Kyrosiris posted:No no, it's fine, it was on RAID. *twitching intensifies*
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Apr 17, 2019 20:15
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ConfusedUs posted:*twitching intensifies* 
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Apr 17, 2019 20:24
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Asmodai_00 posted:Two 64GB flash drives in RAID0, labeled as "Server drives" Oh thank god, it was just a nightmare
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Apr 17, 2019 20:25
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ConfusedUs posted:Oh thank god, it was just a nightmare The drive in Slot 1 has failed. Please replace the drive in Slot 1. The slots are unlabeled for your convenience.
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Apr 17, 2019 20:58
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Unfortunately we were able to get the SAN back up and running. Two drives had failed - one a while ago, one just now. We supposedly had a hot spare, but it wasn't actually configured to be used. Reconfigured that, re-slotted the recently failed drive to get it to work, and got the array rebuilding.xsf421 posted:
They're actually on a separate device! A product that we've never actually been able to successfully do a bare-metal recovery off of, but whatever we're invincible we only need to do test restores of individual files.
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Apr 17, 2019 21:25
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Wizard of the Deep posted:The drive in Slot 1 has failed. And also not in any particular order because someone plugged the cables into the backplane in a random order.
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Apr 17, 2019 21:25
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Actuarial Fables posted:Unfortunately we were able to get the SAN back up and running. Two drives had failed - one a while ago, one just now. We supposedly had a hot spare, but it wasn't actually configured to be used. Reconfigured that, re-slotted the recently failed drive to get it to work, and got the array rebuilding. 5:1 odds it dies during the rebuild. What's the problem with the Bare Metal backups? There are a lot of common pitfalls that hold true across many products, odds are good I can point you in the right direction.
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Apr 17, 2019 21:26
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He that should not be named was a giant idiot.
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Apr 17, 2019 21:32
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JESUS CHRIST THAT THING'S REAL?
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Apr 17, 2019 21:33
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ConfusedUs posted:JESUS CHRIST THAT THING'S REAL? You only thought it was a dream 
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Apr 17, 2019 21:37
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ConfusedUs posted:What's the problem with the Bare Metal backups? There are a lot of common pitfalls that hold true across many products, odds are good I can point you in the right direction. Our largest problem is that we don't test our backups more than just simple file recovery. We've never done a bare-metal or VM restore. We use Datto for our backup, and the only time one of our clients had been in a situation requiring a restore my boss took the ticket, gave up, and rebuilt the server.
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Apr 17, 2019 21:39
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I want to pull those
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Apr 17, 2019 21:39
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Someone still has the "Virtual" Desktop Infrastructure pic kicking around, right?
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Apr 17, 2019 21:39
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Someone still has the "Virtual" Desktop Infrastructure pic kicking around, right? Duh 
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Apr 17, 2019 21:41
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Actuarial Fables posted:Our largest problem is that we don't test our backups more than just simple file recovery. We've never done a bare-metal or VM restore. Ah yes, Shroedinger's backups. They are both restorable and not restorable until tested. Datto is solid as gently caress, surprised you had trouble, unless your boss is the kind to give up at the drop of a hat in favor of something far less optimal, because he's familiar with it.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:The drive in Slot 1 has failed. Well I assume the lowest numbered slot is on the left, but does it start at 1 or 0? gently caress
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pixaal posted:Well I assume the lowest numbered slot is on the left, but does it start at 1 or 0? gently caress The same guy who numbers the ports on the back numbered the slots, so he put the lowest number on the left. But if you look from the front, that's the higher number. It's still not clear if it starts at 0 or 1.
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Apr 17, 2019 21:50
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I have the Tetris version of that on the wall in my office along with my donkey Kong Verizon escalation chart
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Apr 17, 2019 22:20
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Welp, none of Google's authentication services seem to be working
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Apr 17, 2019 23:30
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Thanks Ants posted:Welp, none of Google's authentication services seem to be working Looks like: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-iam/19001
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Schadenboner posted:I’ve got bad news for you... Yeah, I know. If they acquiesce to making an internal wiki, there'll be a bunch of interference from the bosses and I'll have to work on the project alongside my normal day-to-day work with the Service Desk. Or...well, I work for the government, so god only knows. The Macaroni posted:I want to build a company wiki but just got told that we can't use our Sharepoint site for...reasons. What should I propose that we use? The field is open because we don't really have an intranet site besides our homebrew database front-end that lives on Azure. MediaWiki with SMW, LDAPAuth, and ApprovedRevs if you need that for whatever reason.
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Joda posted:Our network started making GBS threads itself and throttling github at work. When we opened a ticket with IT they started asking questions about how and why we were using the app We had a very similar issue yesterday, I don't know specifically what the cause was but github was pretty much unusable.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:The drive in Slot 1 has failed. Also you'll need to roll the dice on whether there is a Slot 0 or not.
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pixaal posted:Well I assume the lowest numbered slot is on the left, but does it start at 1 or 0? gently caress Good luck.
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Note to self: don't do a find & replace all where you're finding 'x' and replacing with 'x and y'
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tactlessbastard posted:Note to self: don't do a find & replace all where you're finding 'x' and replacing with 'x and y' Yeah you should probably not do this. Good shower thoughts.
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tactlessbastard posted:Note to self: don't do a find & replace all where you're finding 'x' and replacing with 'x and y' Sometimes you need to do this. Just make sure you only do it once.
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Che Delilas posted:Sometimes you need to do this. Just make sure you only do it once. But what if X & Y already exists in some places in the file? (The answer is X & Y replace with X, followed by Replace X with X & Y, as a matter of fact you might want to do even if you aren't sure, or at least get a count of how many X & Y already exist)
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Replace X with spaces/delimiters around so you only get that result hopefully. e.g. code:
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Scaramouche posted:Replace X with spaces/delimiters around so you only get that result hopefully. That works Joe and banjoe but not Joe and Ted, which is what I was thinking of.
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