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posted by Viet Nguyen on April 27, 2017, 10:35 p.m. (1 day ago)

I've got perhaps literally a ton of old stuff. A whole lot of cables. My first priority is getting rid of all of the NEMA 5-15 to C13 cables (my data center uses all C14 to C13), of which I may have thousands of which came standard with various equipment. After that, I have things like old DDR/QDR infiniband switches, raid controllers, sata cables and lots of other random equipment that probably work just fine for someone and would be heart breaking to e-waste. Anyone have any experience with companies that can come in and, evaluate that stuff and sell it for you? Thanks, V

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I've got perhaps literally a ton of old stuff. A whole lot of cables. My first priority is getting rid of all of the NEMA 5-15 to C13 cables (my data center uses all C14 to C13), of which I may have thousands of which came standard with various equipment. After that, I have things like old DDR/QDR infiniband switches, raid controllers, sata cables and lots of other random equipment that probably work just fine for someone and would be heart breaking to e-waste. Anyone have any experience with companies that can come in and, evaluate that stuff and sell it for you? Thanks, V

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posted by MythVFX on April 28, 2017, 4:24 a.m.

A new Beijing based production company is seeking an Director of IT Systems to oversee global IT and Systems across our main office in Beijing as well as an office in Los Angeles.  We’re looking for someone who can help plan and architect a long term vision for the company’s infrastructure and workflow as well as the ability to dive into the day-to-day operations of an international, multi-location production company.  We’re looking for a thinker and a collaborator with management experience, who is interested in being part of a positive, collaborative team where input into the decision making process is expected.  The ideal candidate has come up from the trenches and has the ability to execute as well as effectively manage a larger team.     We’re a new company with a big plan and we have to get started immediately.  You will be in on the ground floor of a company that will be handling production, post-production and VFX management on some of the largest, most exciting film projects ever made in China.  If you think you’re a good fit, drop us a line!    Basic Qualifications: Natural communicator with excellent problem-solving skills.  Likes to work within a team environment and mentor more junior team members. Enjoys working to craft creative solutions to complex problems under the pressure of production. 3-5 years of leadership and management experience in an IT/Systems dept. 5+ years in a technical non-management role. Mandarin/English fluency is a must. Bachelors Degree in Information Management/Technology, Computer Science or other relevant technical field.  Graduate experience a bonus.   Necessary Experience: Linux System administration (RHEL/Cent OS). Deep understanding of network administration in a mixed OS environment with varied data needs across end-users. DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, IP, subnetting etc. Designing and Operating complex systems for companies with multiple international offices.   Dealing with large amounts of data moving and syncing across multiple locations around the world.  VPN, transfer protocols (Aspera, Signiant, etc). Prefer a candidate with significant experience in a VFX/post-production environment. Understanding of cloud solutions infrastructure and systems management. In-depth understanding of managing high-load, enterprise NAS/SAN systems, render farms, mixed ethernet/sfp/fibre networks. PCoIP Designing custom systems tools; i.e. Virtual file systems, crons, custom data display and management, ip based data transfer tools, etc. Strong Shell scripting, Python, Java   Responsibilities: Design and ensure ongoing healthy operations and administration of local + remote storage, networks and systems. Ensure/Troubleshoot: IO efficiency, network bottlenecks, backups, data center cooling and power infrastructure, licensing, email and various operational servers, Think and implement on your feet. Be generally ready for a fast-paced, dynamic production environment with new challenges and fires to extinguish daily. Ongoing hardware/software technology budgeting, forecasting and vendor relationships + management. Provide regular discussion/status reports regarding planning and ongoing operational updates. Collaborate with production and pipeline departments regarding the IT/systems planning and operations in relation to pipeline and workflow. Manage systems administrators and IT tech staff locally in Beijing as well as remotely in Los Angeles.   Ongoing maintenance of local fast storage, tiered storage, networks, backups, data center infrastructure, cloud infrastructure and data transfer technologies. Design and architect systems tools as necessary. Please send your resume to recruiting@mythvfx.com  with "Director of IT Systems - Your Name" in the subject line if you are interested in this position.

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A new Beijing based production company is seeking an Director of IT Systems to oversee global IT and Systems across our main office in Beijing as well as an office in Los Angeles.  We’re looking for someone who can help plan and architect a long term vision for the company’s infrastructure and workflow as well as the ability to dive into the day-to-day operations of an international, multi-location production company.  We’re looking for a thinker and a collaborator with management experience, who is interested in being part of a positive, collaborative team where input into the decision making process is expected.  The ideal candidate has come up from the trenches and has the ability to execute as well as effectively manage a larger team.     We’re a new company with a big plan and we have to get started immediately.  You will be in on the ground floor of a company that will be handling production, post-production and VFX management on some of the largest, most exciting film projects ever made in China.  If you think you’re a good fit, drop us a line!    Basic Qualifications: Natural communicator with excellent problem-solving skills.  Likes to work within a team environment and mentor more junior team members. Enjoys working to craft creative solutions to complex problems under the pressure of production. 3-5 years of leadership and management experience in an IT/Systems dept. 5+ years in a technical non-management role. Mandarin/English fluency is a must. Bachelors Degree in Information Management/Technology, Computer Science or other relevant technical field.  Graduate experience a bonus.   Necessary Experience: Linux System administration (RHEL/Cent OS). Deep understanding of network administration in a mixed OS environment with varied data needs across end-users. DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, IP, subnetting etc. Designing and Operating complex systems for companies with multiple international offices.   Dealing with large amounts of data moving and syncing across multiple locations around the world.  VPN, transfer protocols (Aspera, Signiant, etc). Prefer a candidate with significant experience in a VFX/post-production environment. Understanding of cloud solutions infrastructure and systems management. In-depth understanding of managing high-load, enterprise NAS/SAN systems, render farms, mixed ethernet/sfp/fibre networks. PCoIP Designing custom systems tools; i.e. Virtual file systems, crons, custom data display and management, ip based data transfer tools, etc. Strong Shell scripting, Python, Java   Responsibilities: Design and ensure ongoing healthy operations and administration of local + remote storage, networks and systems. Ensure/Troubleshoot: IO efficiency, network bottlenecks, backups, data center cooling and power infrastructure, licensing, email and various operational servers, Think and implement on your feet. Be generally ready for a fast-paced, dynamic production environment with new challenges and fires to extinguish daily. Ongoing hardware/software technology budgeting, forecasting and vendor relationships + management. Provide regular discussion/status reports regarding planning and ongoing operational updates. Collaborate with production and pipeline departments regarding the IT/systems planning and operations in relation to pipeline and workflow. Manage systems administrators and IT tech staff locally in Beijing as well as remotely in Los Angeles.   Ongoing maintenance of local fast storage, tiered storage, networks, backups, data center infrastructure, cloud infrastructure and data transfer technologies. Design and architect systems tools as necessary. Please send your resume to recruiting@mythvfx.com  with "Director of IT Systems - Your Name" in the subject line if you are interested in this position.

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posted by Tommy Asbee on April 28, 2017, 12:05 p.m.

Hey guys. I need to rent a Fiber Attached external LT) 5 drive in Los Angeles. Preferably HP brand. Thanks! -Tommy

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Hey guys. I need to rent a Fiber Attached external LT) 5 drive in Los Angeles. Preferably HP brand. Thanks! -Tommy

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posted by Greg Whynott on April 28, 2017, 1:35 p.m.

We use a vendors software for one of our storage systems. We recently dismantled it and built it all back up from zero. While attempting to join it to the domain, it would refuse to join but not much info in the error logs about why. While talking to support I told them I had the MTU set to 12000 on all interfaces in the network. He asked me to turn it down to 1500 on the storage appliance and attempt to rejoin the domain. It worked. Why? I'm beside myself trying to figure that out.. greg

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We use a vendors software for one of our storage systems. We recently dismantled it and built it all back up from zero. While attempting to join it to the domain, it would refuse to join but not much info in the error logs about why. While talking to support I told them I had the MTU set to 12000 on all interfaces in the network. He asked me to turn it down to 1500 on the storage appliance and attempt to rejoin the domain. It worked. Why? I'm beside myself trying to figure that out.. greg

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posted by Greg Whynott on May 3, 2017, 12:30 p.m. (2 days ago)

I wrote a script some time back on a machine which was rsync'n to a partner using a password. The machine developed problems and the help desk guys re-imaged it upon request. naturally the next day we got a ticket saying lastnights rsync didn't happen. Whoops... forgot to backup the script and the machine isn't in the backup loop.. Not wanting to admit anything or call the partner to ask them what the password is again, I decided to dd the file system and search for it. At about the same time I finished re-writing the script, my grepper script found the old one and the password file! Get to avoid asking for a password and being 'that guy'. :) The short here is if you delete something from XFS/EXT, or reformat the drive, there still is hope. I found the password file and the password days later on a live disk, using included GNU tools on the system (grep and dd). Crez^D<96><90>^F^@^C^Drepo^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Coot^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Dsync^D<96><90>^F^@^E^Hexcludes^D<96><90>^F^@^E^Dpass^D<96><90>^F^@^@^Dsdir^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Ah^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Dtats^D<96><90>^F^@^B^Dudio^D<96><90>^F^@^@^Dtest^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Foolbox^D<96><90>^F^@^@^Duser^D<96><90>^F^@^@^@^F^B^@^@^@^@1^@MAR&@,^]^M^C<94>^@^A^@>^@^@>^C<94>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@<86>Q<86><90>^VG^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@?^C^@^@<8b>W^C^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^C^C^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ @^@^@^@^@^@application/x-shellscript^A<86>#! /bin/sh -- CMD="rsync -avz --links --progress --stats --delete --force --chown=greg:greg --exclude-from /root/.rsyncexcludes " USER=rezrepo PASSFILE=/root/.rsyncpass AUTH="--password-file /root/.rsyncpass" $CMD $AUTH $SDIR rsync://$USER@$DIP/$DEST ^A<86>^A<88>^V^A<86>^@^@^@l^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ here is the command I used: grep -i -a -B10 'rsyncpass' /dev/mapper/centos7-root > findstuff.txt -g

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I wrote a script some time back on a machine which was rsync'n to a partner using a password. The machine developed problems and the help desk guys re-imaged it upon request. naturally the next day we got a ticket saying lastnights rsync didn't happen. Whoops... forgot to backup the script and the machine isn't in the backup loop.. Not wanting to admit anything or call the partner to ask them what the password is again, I decided to dd the file system and search for it. At about the same time I finished re-writing the script, my grepper script found the old one and the password file! Get to avoid asking for a password and being 'that guy'. :) The short here is if you delete something from XFS/EXT, or reformat the drive, there still is hope. I found the password file and the password days later on a live disk, using included GNU tools on the system (grep and dd). Crez^D<96><90>^F^@^C^Drepo^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Coot^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Dsync^D<96><90>^F^@^E^Hexcludes^D<96><90>^F^@^E^Dpass^D<96><90>^F^@^@^Dsdir^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Ah^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Dtats^D<96><90>^F^@^B^Dudio^D<96><90>^F^@^@^Dtest^D<96><90>^F^@^A^Foolbox^D<96><90>^F^@^@^Duser^D<96><90>^F^@^@^@^F^B^@^@^@^@1^@MAR&@,^]^M^C<94>^@^A^@>^@^@>^C<94>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@<86>Q<86><90>^VG^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@?^C^@^@<8b>W^C^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^C^C^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ @^@^@^@^@^@application/x-shellscript^A<86>#! /bin/sh -- CMD="rsync -avz --links --progress --stats --delete --force --chown=greg:greg --exclude-from /root/.rsyncexcludes " USER=rezrepo PASSFILE=/root/.rsyncpass AUTH="--password-file /root/.rsyncpass" $CMD $AUTH $SDIR rsync://$USER@$DIP/$DEST ^A<86>^A<88>^V^A<86>^@^@^@l^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ here is the command I used: grep -i -a -B10 'rsyncpass' /dev/mapper/centos7-root > findstuff.txt -g

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posted by Doug Meyer on May 3, 2017, 6:25 p.m. (2 days ago)

Anyone have a favorite studio furniture vendor?  Looking to set up a grading suite. Something along these lines but perhaps a bit smaller:  https://images.blackmagicdesign.com/images/products/davinciresolve/landing/editing-md.jpg?_v=1492556504 Thanks Doug

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posted by Dan Young on May 4, 2017, 4:05 p.m. (1 day ago)

I'd like to talk to you. Specific interest in Openstack Swift - but interested in whatever you've built and how it performs. DY -- Dan Young Lead Systems Engineer LondonNew YorkLos AngelesChicagoMontral T+1 212 775 0600 135 Spring Street, New York NY 10012 TwitterFacebookframestore.com

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I'd like to talk to you. Specific interest in Openstack Swift - but interested in whatever you've built and how it performs. DY -- Dan Young Lead Systems Engineer LondonNew YorkLos AngelesChicagoMontral T+1 212 775 0600 135 Spring Street, New York NY 10012 TwitterFacebookframestore.com

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posted by Suzanne Van Dam on May 5, 2017, 8:12 p.m.

Don't know if anyone has come across this...The issue we are having is with the new render layers.  We are not being able to send more than one active layer from Maya to Deadline.

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Don't know if anyone has come across this...The issue we are having is with the new render layers.  We are not being able to send more than one active layer from Maya to Deadline.

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posted by Jeremy Lang on May 8, 2017, 2:25 p.m.

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/orange-is-the-new-black-season-5-hacker-piracy-leak-1202403760/ Story is lacking in technical details. Anybody know anything more? Does anybody have any experience/recommendationson pentesting? Am considering KnowBe4. Like that they focus on users. https://www.knowbe4.com/ ______________ Jeremy M. Lang it4vfx

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http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/orange-is-the-new-black-season-5-hacker-piracy-leak-1202403760/ Story is lacking in technical details. Anybody know anything more? Does anybody have any experience/recommendationson pentesting? Am considering KnowBe4. Like that they focus on users. https://www.knowbe4.com/ ______________ Jeremy M. Lang it4vfx

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posted by Patricio Zambrano on May 9, 2017, 11:46 a.m.

Greetings, For those who have not RSVPed, hurry up, spots at both locations are filling up quickly.LAST DAY TO RSVP IS TODAY! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn directly from Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance expert executives, and users, as they discuss best practices, strategies, and compelling use cases that take advantage of the appliance’s unique cloud-proven architecture. Hear first-hand from users and ZFS Storage SVP of Engineering, Ofer Michael, and VP of Product Management, Jason Schaffer! The Oracle ZFS Storage team is setting up two exclusive one-day events at the Oracle offices in Santa Clara and Irvine, California this coming May. The Oracle ZFS Storage Masters Symposiums will take place on May 16th and 18th, 2017.   Santa Clara Date:  May 16th, 2017  Time:  8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Where:  Oracle Santa Clara Office: 4230 Leonard Stocking Drive, Building SCA23 Room 1730 Santa Clara, CA  95054 Irvine Date:  May 18th, 2017  Time:  8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Where:  Oracle Irvine Office: 17901 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 800 Room 8076 Irvine, CA  92614   [Choose one date only] The Oracle ZFS Storage team has arranged an exclusive line-up of expert speakers, ZFS Storage executives, and special guests presenting on important topics including: Storage Technology Trends and Innovations Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud Technologies Storage Administration and Troubleshooting Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery New Data Reduction Technology Security Database Automation, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting All-Flash Configurations and Use Case Examples Live Demos We welcome Oracle ZFS Storage customers, partners and OZUG members only.   At the ZFS Storage Masters Symposium you will have access to a dynamic, interactive, and customer-driven educational forum to engage with peers, product and solution experts, and Oracle executive management. Event is free of cost excluding hotel and transportation. Questions and RSVP: Please email patricio.zambrano.garcia@oracle.com (Include: Job Title/Company/Email/Cell# /Oracle Sale Executive Email) Breakfast, lunch and dinner (with the Experts) after the event will be provided!   Best Regards,

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Greetings, For those who have not RSVPed, hurry up, spots at both locations are filling up quickly.LAST DAY TO RSVP IS TODAY! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn directly from Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance expert executives, and users, as they discuss best practices, strategies, and compelling use cases that take advantage of the appliance’s unique cloud-proven architecture. Hear first-hand from users and ZFS Storage SVP of Engineering, Ofer Michael, and VP of Product Management, Jason Schaffer! The Oracle ZFS Storage team is setting up two exclusive one-day events at the Oracle offices in Santa Clara and Irvine, California this coming May. The Oracle ZFS Storage Masters Symposiums will take place on May 16th and 18th, 2017.   Santa Clara Date:  May 16th, 2017  Time:  8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Where:  Oracle Santa Clara Office: 4230 Leonard Stocking Drive, Building SCA23 Room 1730 Santa Clara, CA  95054 Irvine Date:  May 18th, 2017  Time:  8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Where:  Oracle Irvine Office: 17901 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 800 Room 8076 Irvine, CA  92614   [Choose one date only] The Oracle ZFS Storage team has arranged an exclusive line-up of expert speakers, ZFS Storage executives, and special guests presenting on important topics including: Storage Technology Trends and Innovations Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud Technologies Storage Administration and Troubleshooting Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery New Data Reduction Technology Security Database Automation, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting All-Flash Configurations and Use Case Examples Live Demos We welcome Oracle ZFS Storage customers, partners and OZUG members only.   At the ZFS Storage Masters Symposium you will have access to a dynamic, interactive, and customer-driven educational forum to engage with peers, product and solution experts, and Oracle executive management. Event is free of cost excluding hotel and transportation. Questions and RSVP: Please email patricio.zambrano.garcia@oracle.com (Include: Job Title/Company/Email/Cell# /Oracle Sale Executive Email) Breakfast, lunch and dinner (with the Experts) after the event will be provided!   Best Regards,

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posted by Philippe Chotard on May 10, 2017, 1:35 p.m. (2 days ago)

We're looking for calibration services in NYC (for flames setups mostly) Any contacts/recommandations ? Philippe

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posted by Mathieu Mauser on May 11, 2017, 3:20 p.m. (1 day ago)

MacDevOps:YVR 2017 conference  If anyone is in Vancouver or Seattle or wants to join us from afar, it is June 5-6th (Monday-Tuesday), with a social at Steamworks on June 4th at 5pm. Heres a link to the MacDevOps:YVR speakers line up: https://www.macdevops.ca/speakers/ We got some pretty awesome speakers from Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Square, Disney Animation and many others.  Talking about managing Macs in the Enterprise and doing it with Open Source projects like Facebooks osquery, Googles Santa, and Disneys Munki project, just to name a few. Theyll also be talks on GitLab, securing dev environments, and AWS tips and tricks. I think theres one early bird ticket on the evenbrite page. This was freed up when one of the attendees decided to be a speaker. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/macdevopsyvr-2017-tickets-31630087443 Or theres a few $465 regular ticket price still left. Use it with this Super awesome 20% discount code:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/macdevopsyvr-2017-tickets-31630087443?discount=APLADM1 Cheers, :)  Mat X Cell: 778-837-1036 ---------------- MacDevOps:YVR, conference organizer https://www.macdevops.ca @MacDevOpsYVR June 5-6, 2017 ------------------

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MacDevOps:YVR 2017 conference  If anyone is in Vancouver or Seattle or wants to join us from afar, it is June 5-6th (Monday-Tuesday), with a social at Steamworks on June 4th at 5pm. Heres a link to the MacDevOps:YVR speakers line up: https://www.macdevops.ca/speakers/ We got some pretty awesome speakers from Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Square, Disney Animation and many others.  Talking about managing Macs in the Enterprise and doing it with Open Source projects like Facebooks osquery, Googles Santa, and Disneys Munki project, just to name a few. Theyll also be talks on GitLab, securing dev environments, and AWS tips and tricks. I think theres one early bird ticket on the evenbrite page. This was freed up when one of the attendees decided to be a speaker. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/macdevopsyvr-2017-tickets-31630087443 Or theres a few $465 regular ticket price still left. Use it with this Super awesome 20% discount code:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/macdevopsyvr-2017-tickets-31630087443?discount=APLADM1 Cheers, :)  Mat X Cell: 778-837-1036 ---------------- MacDevOps:YVR, conference organizer https://www.macdevops.ca @MacDevOpsYVR June 5-6, 2017 ------------------

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posted by Greg Whynott on May 16, 2017, 6:25 p.m. (1 day ago)

Quick little story, a look into my entropy depleted world. I have a neighbor named Jane (of course that isn't her real name...). Two years ago Jane asked me to ask my home cleaner to call her as she wanted to employ her services as well. She gave me her number for me to give to the cleaner. I put it in my phone address book. Some time ago I started seeing someone named, Jane. Most of you can stop reading here as you know the rest. lol... Jane sends me a text message while driving. I ask Seri to read it to me. "Finished laundry jumping in shower, see you soon". Me: "Seri send Jane a message " take your camera in the shower with you!! " ".. being a typical guy and messing around... Seri does that, but instead of telling me I have two Janes in my address book, she sends it to the wrong one, my neighbor!! Neighbor writes back " I am not sending you any pictures and don't send me any!! " sigh... ;) side note for apple, would of it been that hard to make a better guess at which Jane I wanted to send a message to? The first Jane I have _never_ called or texted, the other one I have called and texted about 300 times in the last few months and as recently as SECONDS ago.. "seconds ago vrs never, wonder which he wants to call?"... a few lines of code apple, just a few.... or how about have seri ask me which Jane? if I ask Seri to call someone she'll ask me which number... that would work.. be well! -g

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Quick little story, a look into my entropy depleted world. I have a neighbor named Jane (of course that isn't her real name...). Two years ago Jane asked me to ask my home cleaner to call her as she wanted to employ her services as well. She gave me her number for me to give to the cleaner. I put it in my phone address book. Some time ago I started seeing someone named, Jane. Most of you can stop reading here as you know the rest. lol... Jane sends me a text message while driving. I ask Seri to read it to me. "Finished laundry jumping in shower, see you soon". Me: "Seri send Jane a message " take your camera in the shower with you!! " ".. being a typical guy and messing around... Seri does that, but instead of telling me I have two Janes in my address book, she sends it to the wrong one, my neighbor!! Neighbor writes back " I am not sending you any pictures and don't send me any!! " sigh... ;) side note for apple, would of it been that hard to make a better guess at which Jane I wanted to send a message to? The first Jane I have _never_ called or texted, the other one I have called and texted about 300 times in the last few months and as recently as SECONDS ago.. "seconds ago vrs never, wonder which he wants to call?"... a few lines of code apple, just a few.... or how about have seri ask me which Jane? if I ask Seri to call someone she'll ask me which number... that would work.. be well! -g

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posted by Michael Stein on May 18, 2017, 7:55 p.m. (1 day ago)

I feel like I've asked similar before, but if you had to do a quick POC on analytics with Deadline, what would you use? Of course this hopefully won't just be a POC, so it would be great if it's something that scales. I'm a fan of Grafana, but don't have strong thoughts about backend, but really want to know what everyone is using. Thanks! stein

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I feel like I've asked similar before, but if you had to do a quick POC on analytics with Deadline, what would you use? Of course this hopefully won't just be a POC, so it would be great if it's something that scales. I'm a fan of Grafana, but don't have strong thoughts about backend, but really want to know what everyone is using. Thanks! stein

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posted by Greg Dickie on May 24, 2017, 9:20 a.m.

Hopefully there are still some people left on email ;-) I'm having to deal with maya on linux these days and struggling a little bit with the best way to deploy it and all the plugins, modules, shelves, etc it requires. A bunch of the plugin installation instructions talk about copying files into the maya directory tree. That seems like a bad idea to me. The various MAYA_*_PATH variables also seem pretty limited. My question is has anyone mastered this and/or is there a best practices guide that already exists for this? Are there downsides to deploying on a network share versus locally? Is thee a way to centrally manage all the various plugins,modules,shelves? Thanks, Greg -- Greg Dickie just a guy 514-983-5400

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Hopefully there are still some people left on email ;-) I'm having to deal with maya on linux these days and struggling a little bit with the best way to deploy it and all the plugins, modules, shelves, etc it requires. A bunch of the plugin installation instructions talk about copying files into the maya directory tree. That seems like a bad idea to me. The various MAYA_*_PATH variables also seem pretty limited. My question is has anyone mastered this and/or is there a best practices guide that already exists for this? Are there downsides to deploying on a network share versus locally? Is thee a way to centrally manage all the various plugins,modules,shelves? Thanks, Greg -- Greg Dickie just a guy 514-983-5400

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posted by Saham Ali on May 24, 2017, 11:50 a.m.

Anyone going to InfoComm 2017? Anyone with a Hall pass codes there willing to share? -- ,\|//, ( o - ) -oOO--(_)--Ooo----------------- Saham Ali Founder/Systems Engineer DvNT Technologies saham@dvnttechnologies.com 407.729.3584 - Direct .ooO ( ) Ooo. --\ ( ------( )------------------- \_) ) / (_/

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Anyone going to InfoComm 2017? Anyone with a Hall pass codes there willing to share? -- ,\|//, ( o - ) -oOO--(_)--Ooo----------------- Saham Ali Founder/Systems Engineer DvNT Technologies saham@dvnttechnologies.com 407.729.3584 - Direct .ooO ( ) Ooo. --\ ( ------( )------------------- \_) ) / (_/

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posted by Julian Firminger on May 31, 2017, 4 a.m.

Fellow Isilon admins, a community announcement. As many (all) of you would know, certain versions of OneFS running on certain hardware can be effected by a bug that will make your cluster restart spontaneously with no warning after 248.5 days, or 297 days. There are two varieties of this bug. One linked to Mellanox NICs, one to do with FS journal sizes. (ETA491747 and209918 respectivly) EMC of course gave us a script to run that will tell you how may days you have left before you have a problem. https://emcservice.force.com/CustomersPartners/kA2j0000000R4qCCAS But, this script output is NOT DEFINITIVE and NOT LINEAR. If, like us, you ran this script on one of your clusters and it spat out say 240days and you thought "right, I'll raise this with that business unit, advise them we need a service window in the next 4 months, book a date for say, June this year, everyone is happy, we will have about 110 days left on the clock" - YOU MIGHT BE WRONG. Apparently, the output from that script is only valid at the time of running and may change by next week, tomorrow, next hour, no one knows. So in our case, somewhere between days 240 and 110, the timer changed resulting in an unscheduled cluster wide restart, mid production, while I was on vacation. *mega-sigh* Advice from EMC is now to setup anisi_ropc cronjob to push out a daily report from the script. I've been looking at this output for the last two weeks and I can confirm that the "Worst case days until restart" output is not linear. I have some nodes that continue to report 240 days, some that fluctuate by ~30 days, day to day, and some that return the 2min timeout tick (meaning not effected) one day, and then a day count the next. Happy uptime to you all. Julian Firminger Snr. Systems Administrator, - Attempted Full-Stack Engineer United Broadcast Facilities Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Fellow Isilon admins, a community announcement. As many (all) of you would know, certain versions of OneFS running on certain hardware can be effected by a bug that will make your cluster restart spontaneously with no warning after 248.5 days, or 297 days. There are two varieties of this bug. One linked to Mellanox NICs, one to do with FS journal sizes. (ETA491747 and209918 respectivly) EMC of course gave us a script to run that will tell you how may days you have left before you have a problem. https://emcservice.force.com/CustomersPartners/kA2j0000000R4qCCAS But, this script output is NOT DEFINITIVE and NOT LINEAR. If, like us, you ran this script on one of your clusters and it spat out say 240days and you thought "right, I'll raise this with that business unit, advise them we need a service window in the next 4 months, book a date for say, June this year, everyone is happy, we will have about 110 days left on the clock" - YOU MIGHT BE WRONG. Apparently, the output from that script is only valid at the time of running and may change by next week, tomorrow, next hour, no one knows. So in our case, somewhere between days 240 and 110, the timer changed resulting in an unscheduled cluster wide restart, mid production, while I was on vacation. *mega-sigh* Advice from EMC is now to setup anisi_ropc cronjob to push out a daily report from the script. I've been looking at this output for the last two weeks and I can confirm that the "Worst case days until restart" output is not linear. I have some nodes that continue to report 240 days, some that fluctuate by ~30 days, day to day, and some that return the 2min timeout tick (meaning not effected) one day, and then a day count the next. Happy uptime to you all. Julian Firminger Snr. Systems Administrator, - Attempted Full-Stack Engineer United Broadcast Facilities Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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posted by Greg Whynott on June 5, 2017, 4:40 p.m. (2 days ago)

Was forwarded this today by a colleague. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/05/maxx_interactive_desktop_revives_sgi_irix_and_magic_desktop/ The web site is down, was 'slash-dotted' I guess. But there is this toohttp://5dwm.org/ -greg

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Was forwarded this today by a colleague. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/05/maxx_interactive_desktop_revives_sgi_irix_and_magic_desktop/ The web site is down, was 'slash-dotted' I guess. But there is this toohttp://5dwm.org/ -greg

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posted by Rob Blau on June 5, 2017, 8:50 p.m. (2 days ago)

Hi everyone! Do you work with an amazing TD or pipeline team that deserves recognition? Is there a tool or system that you've been using that saves you a ton of time or makes your job easier? If so, submit a nomination for this year's Shotgun Pipeline Awards! All it takes to submit a nomination is an email that summarizes the person, team, or tool that you think deserves recognition.  Send nomination summaries to pipelineawards@shotgunsoftware.com. The official call for entries is at: http://blog.shotgunsoftware.com/2017/05/call-for-entries-4th-annual-pipeline.html NOTE: There is no requirement that the people or tools being nominated use Shotgun.  We just want to recognize the folks in our industry who do this kind of work. Let me know if you have any questions! -r

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Hi everyone! Do you work with an amazing TD or pipeline team that deserves recognition? Is there a tool or system that you've been using that saves you a ton of time or makes your job easier? If so, submit a nomination for this year's Shotgun Pipeline Awards! All it takes to submit a nomination is an email that summarizes the person, team, or tool that you think deserves recognition.  Send nomination summaries to pipelineawards@shotgunsoftware.com. The official call for entries is at: http://blog.shotgunsoftware.com/2017/05/call-for-entries-4th-annual-pipeline.html NOTE: There is no requirement that the people or tools being nominated use Shotgun.  We just want to recognize the folks in our industry who do this kind of work. Let me know if you have any questions! -r

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posted by  on June 6, 2017, 12:45 p.m. (1 day ago)

Can I please get on SSA slack pforde@bardel.ca -- Pete

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Can I please get on SSA slack pforde@bardel.ca -- Pete