Hi all,

Has anyone seen this under Lion?

• From a terminal on a Lion box, ssh into a Snow Leopard box.

• From that terminal try running top:

  [edit002:/usr/share] root# top Error opening terminal: xterm-256color.

What the heck?

Here are a few others:

[edit002:/usr/share] root# clear
terminals database is inaccessible[edit002:/usr/share] root# tcsh
tcsh: Cannot open /etc/termcap.

All these commands work fine, when going from Lion to Lion. More research to follow...

Happy Turkey Day.

Good day list...

I have a client in California who needs to get about 5TB of data to our datacenter, not to us. Can anyone recommend an alternative to him shipping HDD's half way across the planet so we can then transmit the data straight back to Huston?

Julian

-----Original Message----- From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Dave Young Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2011 5:47 PM To: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Wireless access points

used these ones extensively and they seem to last longer than your run of the mill linksys or lower-end dlink access point. just like anything, when they die, they die horribly (popped capacitors and other surface mount components seem to have about a 1.5-2 year lifespan in those crappy linksys AP's everyone seems to get from Staples). i quite like these D-Link dwl-3200ap's. as far as configuration goes, basically every AP is the same, i very rarely have to reboot these (i'm talking months, if ever) until they're about to die. they can do PoE or you can fake it with a supplied little power supply and ethernet splitter.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=396

---------- Dave Young Systems Administrator Spin VFX

On 11/24/2011 11:15 AM, Barry Zubel wrote: > It might be a dirty word, but we used the Netgear WAG102's at a > previous place of employment and they performed absolutely > fantastically, with excellent range. > > http://www.netgear.co.uk/business/products/access-points-wireless- controllers/access-points/WAG102.aspx > > > VLAN support etc. The only down side is a 10/100 Ethernet port on an > 108Mbps capable access point. However, for most mobile users, > saturation of the line isn't an issue. > > B. > > Derrick MacPherson wrote: >> Aruba Networks got some great stuff >> >> On 24 November 2011 08:07, Rory Falloon rory@mrxfx.com wrote: >>> It's just a very unnecessary hoop to jump through. >>> >>> Rory Falloon >>> Systems Administrator >>> Mr. X Inc. >>> 35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100 >>> Toronto, ON M5T 1V7 >>> T: (416) 595-6222, x 290 >>> F: (416) 595-9122 >>> E: rory@mrxfx.com >>> >>> __ >>> From: "Vinit Borrison" vinit@vinitborrison.com >>> To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com >>> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:02:15 AM >>> Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Wireless access points >>> >>> Ah yes... forgot about that aspect, you can login remotely but as >>> far as I >>> know you need the airport config to do it, not through a browser... >>> i guess u could have a machine dedicated in the shop to remote to >>> directly >>> to config the router but i could see how that would be annoying.. >>> On Nov 24, 2011, at 10:57 , Rory Falloon wrote: >>> >>> Airport extreme was suggested but on first look it seems you need to >>> use a >>> windows or mac app. to do configuration - ie. you cannot use a web >>> browser ? >>> Seems distinctly 'Apple' to me.. not great. >>> >>> Rory Falloon >>> Systems Administrator >>> Mr. X Inc. >>> 35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100 >>> Toronto, ON M5T 1V7 >>> T: (416) 595-6222, x 290 >>> F: (416) 595-9122 >>> E: rory@mrxfx.com >>> >>> __ >>> From: "Vinit Borrison" vinit@vinitborrison.com >>> To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com >>> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 10:45:00 AM >>> Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Wireless access points >>> >>> honestly the apple airport extreme offers a lot, and when you hook >>> it up to >>> a switch for the rest of your machines it works pretty damn good =) >>> On Nov 24, 2011, at 10:39 , Rory Falloon wrote: >>> >>> Hey all, >>> What are you guys ( and gals ? ) using these days for internal >>> wireless AP? >>> Based on the size of where we want to cover (two full floors) I >>> assume we'll >>> need a couple or more. >>> Was originally leaning towards the cisco/linksys 4410n routers but >>> they seem >>> to have some great reviews, and some very very poor. Want to avoid >>> the sorts >>> of issues people have reported (bad firmware, constant drop outs >>> ,rebooting.. not good) >>> So, suggestions? >>> >>> Rory Falloon >>> Systems Administrator >>> Mr. X Inc. >>> 35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100 >>> Toronto, ON M5T 1V7 >>> T: (416) 595-6222, x 290 >>> F: (416) 595-9122 >>> E: rory@mrxfx.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >

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Hiya, Need to replace our image workstation monitors. Can really justify HP Dreamcolour (would love to..) and it seems the next step down is a big step down to the LP2475w. Anyone got any suggestions for something in the middle? I'm not set on HP either.

Yes its for colour work but the output is for web so it's more about colour consistency, good controls, staying calibrated for a reasonable time etc. Somehow I don't feel safe doing colour on a monitor that only costs $400... Feel like I'm cheating or something.

Julian

let me start this off by just laying it out there: i hate xcat.

let me rephrase that, I LOVE one part of xcat and hate the rest; the ability to remote power ibm blades en masse without having to use the web gui is totally sweet, but the way it handles kickstart (tftp) and dhcp is the most absurd thing i have ever seen.

so i'm hoping someone can help me here. i'm on late today, doing the classic 11-8 PM shift. in reading emails from last night while at the gym, i encountered a bunch saying "the blades are down".

now last night i had configured some new rendernodes to pick up on our render vlan and kickstarted them in a more 'traditional' manner (using a hand-built tftp server and studio-standard kickstart files etc). so as you do, i added the new rendernodes' mac address to dhcp (this is on our xcat server, remember). while i was doing this i noticed that the dhcpd.leases file was empty (sure, who cares if its empty you must be all thinking, as i thought). anyway they picked up, kickstarted fine, started rendering and i went home. turns out that adding those machines to dhcpd.conf on our xcat server removed the other 175 blades' information from dhcp.leases, so when they maxed out their local resources and had to be restarted by our render wrangler over night, they came up and couldn't get leases, so everyone thought they were down. the whole effing farm.

so i keep getting calls, when i'm supposed to have a nice lie-in cause i'm working the late shift and i come in early to find its a simple matter of doing a 'makedhcp -a' on the xcat server to recreate the dhcpd.leases file, but does this mean i literally can't add hosts that aren't under xcat's control to dhcp on my xcat server without breaking the whole farm? what a joke! i mean of course the blades shouldn't be on dhcp anyway, but this is something i inherited not something i designed. can anybody tell me if its at all possible to run dhcp for xcat in a more traditional manner (i.e. - through /etc/dhcpd.conf rather that /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases)?

My old position is open again -

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Contact Marc with any questions: Marc.Lapierre@thomsonreuters.com or I would go ahead and apply through the link above

IT/Engineering Manager-TEC00020305 Description

IT/Engineering Manager

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Haven't used them but look at Meraki. Let me know if you need a contact.

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Hi all,

Checked out Rukus, cool but no diff in cost then say a DLink were a 15,000 square foot facility would run me $6-7K for what I need, Extreme and Juniper came in at ~$10K.

I have cash, but that's not a good reason to spend it especially on tech which I despise really as its all land fill in a few years, very gross.

Will check out Aerohive as I like the meshing idea, thanks Bobby, great post.

• Brian

they cost more but the cisco 1250's are awesome. powerful and modular,

meaning you can replace the radio's in them as newer revisions. Made of > thick metal too, heavy as a brick and could be used in your garage as tire > blocks should you need one while changing the oil. Aruba makes some nice AP solutions too, and they aren't as expensive. > would be nice to have a opensource WLC like solution that can be used with > the cisco ap. 8) > -g > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Ben Roeder > ben.roeder@sohonet.co.ukwrote: >> Hi >> Have a look at http://ubnt.com/unifi >> Ben

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Hi all,

Does any one know of a way to get to project archives done on a Flame,
not setups but the project?

We currently have to use our Flame in getting to them as the projects
them selves are not regular old tar.

We changed how archive is done so this is no longer the case but we
have legacy stuff needing access now and again.

I just think its silly to use a Flame in getting to a project archives.

• Brian

Just thought I would share with everyone our new office floor layout for the latest ramp up on a small project:

I am out of the office until 01/03/2012.

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