January 30, 2013, 5:50 pm
By Paul Simpson -
Hi all,
Quick sanity check: has anyone any any good / bad experience with solarflare 10Ge base T nic / phy spf+ adaptors? They look rather cheap..? this is all rather new and interesting to me.?? Especially using them in a flame and/or smack?
Paul
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January 30, 2013, 6:10 pm
By Wayne Chang -
say() { if [[ "${1}" =~ -[a-z]{2} ]]; then local lang=${1#-}; local text="${*#$1}"; else local lang=${LANG%_*}; local text="$*";fi; mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=${lang}&q=${text}" &> /dev/null ; }
To use:
$ say you have got to be kidding me
You can also provide a language code, like this:
say -es queso
say -fr I would like to buy a hamburger
source for the above magic:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17kc45/gotta_love_ssh/c86e6m2
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January 31, 2013, 2:05 pm
By Craig Van Horn -
Hey All,
Does anyone know of any way to get better performance of ProRes files on Windows machines? Specifically in CS6.
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From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Brian Krusic
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 1:13 PM
To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] analytics and visualizing data
Do any of these projects assign moods to data flow?
Something like happy, sad, in between?
On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
Yeah, it is definitely time consuming. I love the way John Allspaw put it... "We're quite addicted to data pr0n here at Flickr. We've got graphs for pretty much everything, and add graphs all of the time".
That's one of the reasons I am leaning towards Graphite, because you don't need to do anything to start sending it more data, just send it and it deals with it. I am hoping I can get Thinkbox to somehow get data out of Deadline into Graphite.
Also forgot that Matt's talk at LISA 2010 was pretty awesome too, they do a lot of graphing and monitoring.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Brian Krusic <brian@krusic.com> wrote:
Cool info Shawn, will check it out.
I would love to be full time on this stuff as to it proper I think you need total focus.
On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
Very good book, Also good is Beautiful Visualization. And, even though they aren't directly related to graphing/monitoring, etc are Web Operations (978-1-4493-7744-1) and The Art of Capacity Planning (978-0-51857-8). They talk a _lot_ about graphing and metrics.
The Etsy engineering blog is great too..
And Brendan Gregg does some really cool stuff with heat-maps (not temperature),
I love this stuff, configuration management, monitoring, graphing, etc. I wish we were entirely Linux shop, as most of this stuff would be so much easier with Linux ;)
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Brian Krusic <brian@krusic.com> wrote:
This is a very interesting topic that when time permits, I dabble in.
Bout 5 years or so ago I read a cool article in ISSA LA by Russ McRee regarding data visualization specific to security.
What I got from the article was how data has become basically useless due to the amount and simple nature of it being flat. His approach was to put it in real time graphics (not graphs) so that one can easily discern data of interest in an active manner. This was more then just a simple Nagios or Cacti graph but one that had several dimensions to it.
I'll try and dig up the article as it was way cool but this is Russ McRees site;
And a book I came across a few years back about data visualization;
Security Data Visualization
It would be cool to have a few monitors setup were each would display certain data types. Picture the Windows Mystify screen savor but for real and relevant data.
Then one for sound were your network would be represented by various sounds and when things start to chime differently, curiosity and interest would peak so that you can investigate.
Anyways, this is a bad ass topic and glad you brought it up.
On Jan 30, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Michael Oliver wrote:
I have been looking at Roambi for reporting and visualizing data. Has anyone used their platform before? Any other suggestions?
Michael Oliver
Worldwide Director of Technology
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January 31, 2013, 2:05 pm
By Michael Oliver -
Back at it again revisiting our remote video setup. ?We use video conferencing in three areas. ?
1) person to person meetings (discussing expanding this to every artist workstation to allow them to video chat with remote facilities as we are collaborating more and more inter-facility)
2) management meetings between facilities hosted in our conference rooms
3) "Windows" into the other facilities whereby each facility has a setup of monitors with a camera in a gathering area (usually near the kitchen) to help promote unity between facilities as well as allow us a cool stop on company tours.
Currently we are using Google Hangouts and after a little education most are really liking it. ?It's no lifesize/cisco telepresence/HP Halo but the cost is right. ?Skype and ichat/facetime are also good options for meetings and we have found many vendors gravitating that way.
Cisco Umi had a decent chance I thought but it looks like they are shelving it. ?I recently ran across Tely ?
http://www.tely.com started by the two co-founders of Sonic Wall. ?Looks pretty slick and I'm going to try and get a demo. ?$500 per site ($200/site each year after), connect up to 6 sites, plug and play into the TV. ?Eliminates having to use a macmini or windows box to drive the conference for management meetings and might look pretty cool for the "window" setup.
One concern is the microphone quality as we have seen issues utilizing the audio feature in large conference calls. ?We usually end up doing the audio over the spyder phones.
I have been seeing more than a few TV's coming out with skype built in but have not played around with them much.
Anyone else doing something similar with regards to the "window" thing? ?I suppose a few high quality IP CCTV cameras might be another option. ?
Michael Oliver
Worldwide Director of Technology
Look Effects, Inc.
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January 31, 2013, 2:15 pm
By Michael Oliver -
Happened a few days ago but did not see it on the list so thought I would send it out:
Critical SSH Backdoor in multiple Barracuda Networks Products
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January 31, 2013, 2:55 pm
By Dan Young -
Happy birthday to our dear, supreme leader!
Get loaded tonight buddy!?
DY
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February 1, 2013, 1:30 am
By Julian Firminger -
Because it's Friday and it's cool:
JDF
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February 1, 2013, 12:35 pm
By Rory Falloon -
I've got bind (9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.4) / dhcp (4.1.1-P1) running on centos 6.3 and I'm able to have a PTR record update when a hostname changes (Ie a dual boot machine is rebooted from linux into windows) but the A record will not update.. With AD,the one hostname will be entered and the older one will be deleted from DNS (until rebooted into linux where the opposite happens) - that's the behaviour i'm going for..
bind.log
01-Feb-2013 12:19:19.094 update-security: info: client x.x.x.x #38288: signer "dhcpupdate" approved ( x.x.x.x being the DHCP server )
01-Feb-2013 12:19:19.123 update-security: error: client y.y.y.y #62842: update 'our.local.zone/IN' denied (y.y.y.y being the client in question)
01-Feb-2013 12:19:19.133 update-security: error: client y.y.y.y #59975: update 'our.local.zone/IN' denied
audit.log
01-Feb-2013 12:19:19.094 update: info: client y.y.y.y #38288: updating zone '168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN': deleting rrset at 'y.y.y.y.in-addr.arpa' PTR
01-Feb-2013 12:19:19.094 update: info: client y.y.y.y #38288: updating zone '168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN': adding an RR at 'y.y.y.y.in-addr.arpa' PTR
The timestamp w/ .094 is obviously the dhcp update key working for the PTR. But the forward zone is just denied. What am I missing? I would imagine if the PTR is working, the config for both zones are the same, the A should work too? I can change my named.conf so clients can update themselves, and that works, but I end up with two hostnames for one machine which is not ideal in our environment.
Ideas?
Rory Falloon
Snr. Systems Administrator
Mr. X Inc.
T: (416) 595-6222, x 290
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February 1, 2013, 1:15 pm
By Wayne Chang -
does anyone in the los angeles area have an hp dreamcolor calibrator i
can borrow for a day?
w
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February 1, 2013, 5:15 pm
By Anonymous -
Heads up...Amazon has introduced a new video transcoding service priced around $0.015 cents per minute for SD footage and $0.030 for HD footage. The first 20 minutes of SD transcoding per month is FREE.
Here's the link and the marketing blurb?
https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/
"With Amazon Elastic Transcoder, developers simply use the web-based console or APIs to create a transcoding job that specifies an input file, the transcoding setting, and the output file. This eliminates these three complexities. First, there is no need to buy, configure or manage underlying transcoding software. Second, Amazon Elastic Transcoder has pre-defined presets for various devices that remove the need to find the right settings for different devices through trial and error. The system also supports custom presets which let customers tune output to specific transcode requirements such as a unique size or bit rate needs.
Pricing
Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Our charges are based on the duration, in minutes, of your output content and whether it is standard definition (SD) or high definition (HD) resolution. High definition (HD) video (defined as having a resolution greater than or equal to 720p) costs twice as much to transcode as SD. If your job fails to transcode for some reason, our policy is to not charge you unless the number of job failures becomes excessive."
Free Usage Tier
To help you test Amazon Elastic Transcoder, the first 20 minutes of SD content (or 10 minutes of HD content) transcoded each month is provided free of charge. Once you exceed the number of minutes in this free usage tier, you will be charged at the prevailing rates. We do not watermark the output content or otherwise limit the functionality of the service, so you can use it and truly get a feel for its capabilities.?
Pricing Examples
- A 10 minute source file in US West (Oregon) transcoded to an SD output will cost 10 x $0.015 = $0.15.
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A 10 minute source file in US East (N. Virginia) transcoded to an HD output will cost 10 x $0.030 = $0.30.
- A 10 minute source file in EU (Ireland) transcoded to one SD and one HD output will cost (10 x $0.017) + (10 x $0.034) = $0.51.
FYI,
Reid
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February 3, 2013, 8:00 pm
By Brian Krusic -
Hi,
Was wondering if there is any one out there with some real SEO chops?
Would very much appreciate some help, contact me off list to discuss. Compensation is not a problem.
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February 4, 2013, 2:05 pm
By Greg Whynott -
finally my iphone has been re-liberated since about noon today. 8)
this allows me to use it as an SSH device once again which has saved me a trip to home/work once so far. because of this, this posting is legit and falls within the defined SSA policy! 8D
I recall something about it being or will be soon, illegal to jail break the devices you buy in north america. how crazy is that? its like buying a home and being told you can't paint it.
-g
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February 4, 2013, 3:50 pm
By Kar Hung Tom -
Hey guys,
We have a bug here with NFS and OSX machines and was hoping someone might have some ideas. When we either automount or just directly connect using the Go To function on OSX to a share located on either our XSAN or bluearc filesystem via nfs, and we do a get info in the Finder, the creation date of any folder or file within that share is December 31, 2000. This behaviour occurs on 10.7 machines while on 10.6 machines, the creation date field is empty. When we mount using smb (xsan/bluearc) or afp (xsan), the creation date will show correctly in the finder's get info tab for the file/folder. Also, using the stat command in the terminal will reveal the correct info. Does anyone know if this is a known Finder bug with OSX?
Thanks
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Systems Administrator
Office:???? 514 397 9999 x 430
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February 4, 2013, 4:00 pm
By Jean-Francois Panisset -
Does anyone know where RealFlow 2012 (GUI) stashes its license file
info on Windows (7)? I'm trying to avoid having to manually
cut-n-paste the license info into every workstation... I've done a bit
of poking around, but so far no joy.
Hopefully a future version of RealFlow will use its own floating
license manager instead of the current "look around the network to see
if anyone else is running" approach.
JF
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February 4, 2013, 4:15 pm
By Nick Allevato -
not much to contribute specifically, but there is the longstanding finder-file-lack-of-update bug that sounds similar.
Certain protocols work, certain do not...not sure, but watching this thread for info.
-nick
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On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Kar Hung Tom wrote:
Hey guys,
We have a bug here with NFS and OSX machines and was hoping someone might have some ideas. When we either automount or just directly connect using the Go To function on OSX to a share located on either our XSAN or bluearc filesystem via nfs, and we do a get info in the Finder, the creation date of any folder or file within that share is December 31, 2000. This behaviour occurs on 10.7 machines while on 10.6 machines, the creation date field is empty. When we mount using smb (xsan/bluearc) or afp (xsan), the creation date will show correctly in the finder's get info tab for the file/folder. Also, using the stat command in the terminal will reveal the correct info. Does anyone know if this is a known Finder bug with OSX?
Thanks
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February 5, 2013, 7:15 am
By Simon Cox -
Hello SSAers,
Has anyone any experience or recommendations on password reset tools for MS AD? I want users to be able to do this without having to login to the domain via a computer first. I.e via a browser.
This is a new area for me, I have avoided any sort of LDAP for one reason or another so far. Now I have AD running, syncing passwords to google apps and acting as LDAP server to Farmers Wife and other services.
But the google password sync is one way (LDAP->Google), so I have disable users from changing passwords via their google profile or everything will get messed up. Hence the need for self service password management.
I am currently configuring PWM (
http://code.google.com/p/pwm/). I think this will do what I want, but I am interested if there are any other neat open source tools out there I have missed.
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Technical Manager
The Chimney Group
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February 5, 2013, 7:35 am
By Fabrice Altman -
Just received this from a reseller :
Apple is reportedly set to stop shipping its Mac Pro desktop in Europe over new regulatory standards.
According to a
report in 9to5Mac, Apple sent the following letter to its resellers in Europe:
"As of March 1, 2013, Apple will no longer sell Mac Pro in EU, EU candidate and EFTA countries because these systems are not compliant with Amendment 1 of regulation IEC 60950-1, Second Edition which becomes effective on this date. Apple resellers
can continue to sell any remaining inventory of Mac Pro after March 1. Apple will take final orders for Mac Pro from resellers up until February 18th for shipment before March 1 2013. Countries outside of the EU are not impacted and Mac Pro will continue
to be available in those areas."
As the report notes, Apple's decision only affects Europe, EU Candidates, and select surrounding nations (like the EFTA: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway.), and Mac Pro sales will continue in all other regions.
Final orders for Mac Pro's need to be placed by February 18th 2013.
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February 5, 2013, 10:50 am
By Greg Whynott -
Our leaders want us to consider disk backup instead of LTO5/6, but at the same time doesn't want to pay the costs a full on turn-key system would cost.
Our backup software does de-dup (at some level) and VTL. I'm thinking of setting it up so it sees each hard drive as a vtape.
To do this I think i'd need some soft of hard drive dock which can accept many drives at once.
Is there such a beast out there?
Anyone have any thoughts/got-cha's on a solution like this?
danke,
greg
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February 5, 2013, 11:35 am
By Rob LaRose -
Good afternoon!
AJA wasn't much help to me, so I thought I'd bring this here to see if anyone's tried it?
I've got editors who want to use iChat Theatre (integrated FCP + iChat that puts your canvas into an iChat Video Chat session). Works fine from laptops & Mac Pros w/ no video IO boards, but doesn't want to play along when I try it on the Macs w/ Kona cards installed.
Has anyone run into this issue? Or can anyone assure me that's NOT the factor? Due to a remote-support situation, I haven't yet been able to yank the card out and test my theory.
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February 5, 2013, 11:50 am
By Craig Van Horn -
With respect to using things like that Vantec for loading bare drives, does anyone know of an application that would let low volume users create offline directories of what is on those bare drives?
From: Matt Daly
Sent: ?February? ?5?, ?2013 ?12?:?41? ?PM
To: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] hard disk backup disk holder thingy
Ha, I have two of those, one of those
sellers had a good bundle with a LSI SAS card too.
On 2/5/2013 12:48 PM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
I don't know if it would work for you, but the
SGI/Rackable Systems 3U JBOD racks are super cheap.
shawn
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