New file server: advice on eliminating file
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| posted by Brian Krusic on Sept. 24, 2014, 1:05 p.m. | |||||||
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| I found file locking to be absolute rubbish in most cases and needed in only a select few. So agreed about no locking client side. - Brian Technologist... i.e., Purveyor of the ironic" On Sep 24, 2014, at 9:33 AM, content@studiosysadmins.com wrote:
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3d paining. | ||||||
| posted by Greg Whynott on Sept. 24, 2014, 5:10 p.m. | ||||||
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thought that was kinda neat... -g |
BASH Vulnerability | ||||||
| posted by Will Rosecrans on Sept. 24, 2014, 6:30 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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I imagine this is already on most folks' radar, but probably worth spreading around in case anybody missed it: So, enjoy panic updating. :) |
146GB Autodesk drives available in LA | ||||||
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Sept. 24, 2014, 9:15 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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I've got what looks like 18 x 146GB Seagate Cheetahs with "AD05" firmware on them that are going to get tossed. Anyone interested? You pick them up, West side of LA. JF |
iCloud blocking all our email | ||||||
| posted by Jason Fotter on Sept. 24, 2014, 9:25 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Has anyone every run into an issue where all iCloud accounts would not receive email from your domain?
All email from fusefx.com right now is not getting through to any iCloud accounts. Lots of very unhappy clients and producers. We are checking into things like blocked lists and such. Our email is hosted through O365 so it's all going through MS servers Jason _______________________________________________ Jason Fotter Co-Founder / CTO / Visual Effects Supervisor FuseFX 2316 West Victory Blvd. Burbank, CA 91506 Office: 818-237-5052 Mobile: 323-687-9682 |
London SSA event - Thursday 9th October - SSA Night
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| posted by Peter Smith on Sept. 25, 2014, 11:35 a.m. | ||||||
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| Youve probably all heard of or have read about HPs recently refreshed workstation range. HP and Escape Technology would like to invite you to attend the SSA Night at HP ZED in Soho. We've organised a unique evening where we will have keynote speakers from HP, NVIDIA and Intel who will be talking all about their latest technologies. After the presentations they welcome open discussions, questions, and feedback. As always there will be good food, a fridge full of cold beers and great company - so sign up quickly while spaces are available! Sign up: http://www.escape-technology.com/ssa-night-at-hp-zed :: Agenda :: Date: Thu 9th Oct Venue: HP ZED Pop up store at The Vinyl Factory Limited, 16-18 Marshall Street, London W1F 7BE Time: 6-6:30PM Registration note ***all visitors have to preregister for this evening*** The following presentations and Q&A sessions will be taking place: - HP - James Morrish - UK Chief Technologist PPS will be presenting The Workplace Of The Future - Intel - Claudio Maniscalco - Technical Account Manager will be presenting The performance advantages of using Haswell EP based platforms - NVIDIA - Alex Micallef - M&E, Nvidia will be presenting The next generation of Quadro GPUs and their position in the centre of Visual Computing Workflows Don't forget outside of our SSA night, HP's ZED event is fully loaded with talks, tutorials and creativity sessions brought to you by industry leading production houses For more information on HP ZED make sure you visit HP's ZED website (http://bit.ly/1uhAhUH) and get early access to events free! Any questions, give me a shout. See you there on the night. And REMEMBER, YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP TO GET IN. :-) -- Pete Smith Engineer Smoke & Mirrors d: +44 (0)20 3206 6511 m: +44 (0)7738 067455 e: petersmith@smoke-mirrors.com t: +44 (0)20 7468 1000 www.smoke-mirrors.com 1-5 Poland St London W1F 8PR ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
FCPX AVCHD | ||||||
| posted by Terry Barnum on Sept. 26, 2014, 6:55 p.m. | ||||||
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| I've done a bunch of searching and asked on the Avid-L and FCP-L's but wonder if any edit house sysadmins here have run into this and might have suggestions: The current version of FCPX on Mavericks does not allow the in-place editing of AVCHD files from our Sony FS700 cameras. It wants to copy and rewrap them. Based on some searches this wasn't the case for the previous FCPX version (I don't know first-hand, we've been Avid and FCP7 up until recently) but it could also have been due to the version of OS X or Quicktime at the time. I do recall a change at some point where OS X stopped displaying an AVCHD file/folder hierarchy but instead showed a single window with thumbnails of the footage, treating it as a Package file. My guess is that the AVCHD files are treated by Mavericks or Quicktime as a Package and FCPX is mistakenly thinking that this package file is the camera's card and won't allow pointing to the files to edit, even though the footage has been copied onto drives. Is there some way to change some characteristic of the AVCHD package to allow FCPX to edit the files in place but not breaking it so that when the FCPX project is converted into an Avid project the connection to the original footage will still be there? We've got 100's of GBs of FS700 footage and the thought was to have the producer offline with FCPX. I'm concerned that if FCPX imports/rewraps and copies the footage, the link to the original footage will be lost and once the project gets to the Avid it won't be able to point back to the original footage. Thanks for any insight. -Terry Terry Barnum digital OutPost http://www.dop.com To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Sydney Meet Up | ||||||
| posted by Kim Pearce on Sept. 29, 2014, 4:45 a.m. | ||||||
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G'day Sydney-siders, Just a reminder that we're having a meet up on Wednesday this week: 6:30pm at Cutting Edge - 140 Myrtle St, Chippendale. Mark Fenson and Nicholas Lynch from HP will be there to talk about workstations and blades, and Martin from StormFX has kindly offered a few beers. Come along... and sign up at the sign up page above to show your love. Cheers, Kim |
Reminder SSA Toronto - tomorrow! | ||||||
| posted by John Hickson on Sept. 29, 2014, 9:55 a.m. | ||||||
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Please join us for our next StudioSysAdmins meeting in Toronto tomorrow night - Please RSVP on-line or by e-mail if you will be attending... nTier Verde - a High Level Overview Tuesday September 30th, 2014 from 6:00pm to ~8:30pm @ Arc Productions - 230 Richmond Street East, Toronto
See you tomorrow night! John Hickson |
Tape is stupid, right? | ||||||
| posted by Rob LaRose on Sept. 29, 2014, 11:30 a.m. | ||||||
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I want to encrypt my data and put it on the superhighway to a place where someone else will care for it. Any of you manage to get off tape archiving yet, and if so, what are you using? |
NexentaStor and Domain Controller Issues | ||||||
| posted by Bobby Jain on Sept. 29, 2014, 2:20 p.m. | ||||||
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Hello all, We are having a problem with our Nexenta server and Domain Controller talking to each other. - hostname: unicron Error:Sep 29 12:12:00 unicron smbd[467]: [ID 931549 daemon.error] ndr_rpc_bind: smbrdr_ctx_new(Srv=dc_name Dom=DOMAIN User=UNICRON$), BAD_NETWORK_NAME (0xc00000cc) Sep 29 12:12:00 unicron smbd[467]: [ID 931549 daemon.error] ndr_rpc_bind: smbrdr_ctx_new(Srv=dc_name Dom=DOMAIN User=UNICRON$), NETWORK_ACCESS_DENIED (0xc00000ca) Sep 29 12:12:00 unicron genunix: [ID 138131 kern.notice] NOTICE: smb_smb_treeconnect: (\\dc_name\IPC$) failed, status=0x0 For those of you using Nexenta with a DC, have you had problems with staying connected? Thanks. |
2k Monitor recommendations | ||||||
| posted by Bill Heiden on Sept. 29, 2014, 5:05 p.m. | ||||||
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Any recommendations for a 2k monitor? Need something that can be calibrated and is less than 32". Thanks in advance.
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3ds max point cache dropping geometry in renders. | ||||||
| posted by Seth George on Sept. 29, 2014, 8:54 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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A group of machines are dropping geometry when using point caches. It isn't dropping all geometry, just random rigs. The jobs are submitted through deadline, and no errors have been found in the logs. Only a group of our machines seem to be doing this as well. Network and connections to the storage aren't being dropped. Max 2014 version 16.5.277.0. What other possible issues could cause this?
Thanks for any help.
-Seth |
If you've got nothing to do today | ||||||
| posted by Andrew Klaassen on Sept. 30, 2014, 12:40 a.m. | ||||||
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| If you've got some time on your hands, you could try mining bitcoins by hand: http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html Energy cost (based on donut fuel) is "about 67 quadrillion times that of mining hardware". Andrew To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Reminder SSA Toronto w/Spectra Logic tonight! | ||||||
| posted by John Hickson on Sept. 30, 2014, 9:05 a.m. | ||||||
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Please join us for our next StudioSysAdmins meeting in Toronto tonight - Please RSVP on-line or by e-mail if you will be attending...
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c19 power cables in LA | ||||||
| posted by Michael Oliver on Sept. 30, 2014, 2:30 p.m. | ||||||
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Anyone near Santa Monica have any c19 / nema15-5p or c19/c14 power cables I can borrow for a couple days? Need 4-8 of them and the online order is lagging. Michael Oliver mcoliver@gmail.com 858.336.1438 |
Wireless ISPs in LA | ||||||
| posted by Ken Spickler on Sept. 30, 2014, 3:05 p.m. | ||||||
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I'm bringing this subject back up since it's been about a year since it was last discussed. We're looking for a wireless ISP for a branch office. Time Warner can't seem to build a very reliable network (so much for "business class") and fiber is too expensive. There was previous discussions about Towerstream and Fireline Broadband. How are these guys for reliability? I know Towerstream's services are different between <10Mb and >10Mb services (I think the lower speed services are WiMax versus licensed microwave for the faster ones). Does anyone have experience with the WiMax service? Is it reliable? Thanks, Ken |
SMB2 vs Finder | ||||||
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Sept. 30, 2014, 4:55 p.m. | ||||||
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The following Samba mailing list article is quite interesting wrt issues of Finder vs SMB performance: The upshot: Samba 4.2 should include code that makes Finder a lot faster when trying to display directories with large numbers of files. And Apple deals with this with a vendor-specific extension to SMB2 (didn't even know there was such a thing). JF |
Tape Recovery Services (symantec backup exec 2014) | ||||||
| posted by Bill Heiden on Sept. 30, 2014, 7 p.m. | ||||||
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Looking for recommendations on tape recovery services. Have an LTO-5 made with Symantec Backup Exec that is corrupt and really need the data on it. Any suggestions? Found these vendors, anyone have experience with them? http://datarecoverysystems.com
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The greatest new feature in Windows 10 | ||||||
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Sept. 30, 2014, 10:30 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Apparently in Windows 10 the command shell will allow... NON RECTANGULAR TEXT SELECTION! So when you select text, it will actual wrap around the end of the lines instead of unhelpfully selecting a rectangle of character cells. (that and CTRL-V will actually paste into a shell). I know, there are many sane alternatives to the default OS shell, but maybe this is the killer feature that will make upgrade from 7 to 10? JF |
