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URGENT - Need a 10GigE fibre card in LA

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By Shawn Wallbridge - Anyone have a 10GigE fibre card in LA that we could borrow until we can get a replacement? shawn To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Mac file transfer app

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By Ben De Luca - Does any one know of file copy app for mac that does. Multi threaded file copy Queued file copy retry on fail ftp support To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Urgent: Cross-platform windows/linux admin needed in Seattle area

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By Donn Gurule - Dear SSAs,

I would really appreciate if anybody can recommend a good part-time studio system administrator for one of my customers in the Seattle area. ?They must be proficient with Microsoft Windows servers,?Linux?would be a huge plus, and know how to set up and administer a domain?controller?as well as secondary controllers. ?Also, they must have extensive experience with networking Apple/Windows/Linux to a Windows and Linux server. ?They must know how to set up a new server, administer and maintain the server and network in both Linux and Windows.

This will be an ongoing contract/part-time position to a qualified candidate. ?References?are a must.

Thank you very much, you can reach me at donn@lightbeamsystems.com

Donn.


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"It always seems impossible until its done."
Nelson Mandela?


CGW Silver Edge Best in Show Award Winner - NAB 2011
Member: Visual Effects Society, IEEE

Donn M. Gurule
President and CEO
Lightbeam Systems Inc.

4000 Harlan St.
Emeryville, CA 94608
415 613-9792 Direct
510 473-7290 Main
888 406-8776 toll free in US and Canada
www.lightbeamsystems.com
Twitter feed at:
http://twitter.com/lightbeamsys
Designers of digital effects equipment for film, TV and engineering
3D stereoscopy, 2k/4k footage, rendering, GPU processing and pipeline design

"This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.? If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein.? If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message.? Thank you for your cooperation."

Urgent: Cross-platform windows/linux admin needed in Seattle area

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By Nick Allevato - Hey Donn,

I have a few associates in the LA area that would fit the bill very well. Worked with them throughout the years moving from systems to consulting to build-outs. 

Too far? Relocation something you would consider? Let me know offline.

Also, we are still running some nodes from you here...they are working great!

-nick



Nick Allevato | Information Technology | 
 
Cell: +1.661.645.3507 
Office: +1.323.337.9990

On Feb 22, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Donn Marcus Gurule wrote:

Dear SSAs,

I would really appreciate if anybody can recommend a good part-time studio system administrator for one of my customers in the Seattle area.  They must be proficient with Microsoft Windows servers, Linux would be a huge plus, and know how to set up and administer a domain controller as well as secondary controllers.  Also, they must have extensive experience with networking Apple/Windows/Linux to a Windows and Linux server.  They must know how to set up a new server, administer and maintain the server and network in both Linux and Windows.

This will be an ongoing contract/part-time position to a qualified candidate.  References are a must.

Thank you very much, you can reach me at donn@lightbeamsystems.com

Donn.


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"It always seems impossible until its done."
Nelson Mandela 


CGW Silver Edge Best in Show Award Winner - NAB 2011
Member: Visual Effects Society, IEEE

Donn M. Gurule
President and CEO
Lightbeam Systems Inc.

4000 Harlan St.
Emeryville, CA 94608
415 613-9792 Direct
510 473-7290 Main
888 406-8776 toll free in US and Canada
www.lightbeamsystems.com
Twitter feed at:
http://twitter.com/lightbeamsys
Designers of digital effects equipment for film, TV and engineering
3D stereoscopy, 2k/4k footage, rendering, GPU processing and pipeline design

"This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.  If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein.  If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message.  Thank you for your cooperation."
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Linux Kernel Needed

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By Jonathan Solomon - Hi Gang- I finally had an opportunity to upgrade to CentOS 5.8, only to find out that as of 2/12, the distro rpm I need has been pulled from the repos. Specifically, I am looking for *kernel-2.6.18-308.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm*. If anyone can point me to a repository it would be appreciated! Thank you To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Mac share with a Windows server

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By Donn Gurule - Dear SSAs,

I want to network with Apple/Macintosh workstations from a Windows server. ?I'm concerned that SMB might be too slow (you can give me your opinions on this), but I am leaning towards setting up a virtual machine on the Windows server, installing Linux (example Linux Mint), sharing a Windows volume on the VM and run netatalk as an alternative to connect to Apple machines instead of SMB. ?Are there better options out there to do a Mac share? Is SMB unreasonably slow? ?Am I overcomplicating things? :)

Thanks,
Donn.

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"It always seems impossible until its done."
Nelson Mandela?


CGW Silver Edge Best in Show Award Winner - NAB 2011
Member: Visual Effects Society, IEEE

Donn M. Gurule
President and CEO
Lightbeam Systems Inc.

4000 Harlan St.
Emeryville, CA 94608
415 613-9792 Direct
510 473-7290 Main
888 406-8776 toll free in US and Canada
www.lightbeamsystems.com
Twitter feed at:
http://twitter.com/lightbeamsys
Designers of digital effects equipment for film, TV and engineering
3D stereoscopy, 2k/4k footage, rendering, GPU processing and pipeline design

"This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.? If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein.? If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message.? Thank you for your cooperation."

OT - The Hobbit

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By Brian Krusic - Hi,

Just saw The Hobbit.

Two things to ask you;

1) Do you think it could've been condensed to 1 film?
me: I think so.  The LOTR books were each as rich and were 1 film each.

2) Did you like the 48fps?
me: Well, kinda.  At times I felt hard edges and a bit too much contrast.


- Brian

Subordinate Monkey





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StudioSysAdmins-Discuss Digest, Vol 41, Issue 35

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By Jonathan Solomon - What about SSDs as the "system" or cache and/or metadata drives? We've seen that on some of our storage systems where swapping out to SSD for the metadata drives has resolved slow access times, which occasionally would causes a client system crash. On 2/24/13 2:47 AM, "studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com" wrote: >Message: 13 >Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:23:23 -0500 >From: greg whynott >To: "discuss@studiosysadmins.com" >Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Changing MTU size on bluearc to support > jumbo frames >Message-ID: >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >>just throwing this out there... adding another head is a serious amount >of >money to throw at the problem. you'll need single name space license and >cluster license, it'll be a 6 figure ticket I'd think. and one head will >still be servicing the load if the data is on its EVS, >>a caching device, while still expensive, would probably be the best use >of your money to address this, if you were to spend money. BA also had >caching solutions but i'm not overly familiar with them, or if HDS still >is offering them. I suspect they are... >>-g >> To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Monitoring Windows Clients with Ganglia

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By Bobby Jain - Hello,

This came up during our last meeting in Toronto. ?

You can use the following agent to monitor your windows clients within Ganglia. ?


It requires Ganglia 3.2+

Enjoy,?

-Bobby Jain

rental render nodes in London?

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By Peter Smith - Hi all So, we're here again (last time was mid October 2012). Need to rent rendernodes for crunch project! Anyone got any under-utilized hardware that they'd be prepared to rent out? We are fully insured for this. And can pay, obviously. :-) Thanks. -- Pete Smith DevOp/System Administrator Realise Studio 12/13 Poland Street, London W1F 8QB T. +44 (0)20 7165 9644 realisestudio.com To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

64-bit cinesync tarball

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By Dave Young -
anyone got it for linux (or a link to it)? 

the download link on their website is 32-bit and support is sleepy at the mo (i believe they're in aus?)

Dave Young
Systems Administrator
Mr. X Inc.
35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100
Toronto, ON  M5T 1V7
T:  (416) 595-6222, x 290
E:  davey@mrxfx.com


IP Phone Systems?

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By Rob LaRose -

We're looking at options for a new VOIP phone system -- have seen proposals for the Cisco, Avaya, and Allworx systems.

Anyone want to weigh in on positive/negative experiences with any or all of these systems?  They *seem* to be on a par in terms of administration/management and feature set, so actual telephone quality, service/support quality, etc. are areas I'd love to hear about from those of you with experience.

--Rob


rob larose | engineer | rock paper scissors | 212-255-6446 | www.rockpaperscissors.com

SSD for VM swap

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By Greg Whynott -
Holly snap adding SSDs to your ESX db/exchange VMs ever make them happy.

if your VMs are getting slow,  move them to an SSD and add another for swap files. 

make sure your backups are working too.  8)

-g


 

hows your colour?


ZBrush for Windows off network share?

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By Jean-Francois Panisset - Has anyone had any luck running ZBrush (the floating license version) off a network share, preferably accessed via a UNC path? My initial attempt at just copying over the install results has the Zbrush executable never actually putting up a UI window. Pixologic tech support basically told me that this is not supported, but I wondered if anyone had done the required sleuthing to make this work. BTW, looks like the floating license version of 4R5 just got released, unfortunately the update RLM support files apparently don't support earlier versions, which will make transitioning from 4R4 to 4R5 a bit trickier. JF To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

A, MX and CNAMEs

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By Brian Krusic - Allo,

So I have a situation were doamin.com needs to resolve.

However I have MX records being;


Can I also have an A record for domain.com that is a different server entirely?

And then;

domain.comCNAMEwww.domain.com

I'm fearing some mail clients will use an A record rather then an MX.

Am I off?

Here are my symptoms when domain.com has an A record;

Mail clients using SSL will fail and list the IP addy of the domain.com rather then the MX record as the reason for failure.

Or, could this be my wild card SSL cert have a subject alternative name of;

*.domain.com, domain.com

- Brian

Subordinate Monkey





Number of blades per circuit 30 amp/220 watt circuit

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By Bill Heiden -
Just wondering how many blades people are hooking up per circuit.  We are planning to start putting our blades on 30 amp/220 watt circuits.   Each blade contains two Super-Micro X8DTT-F boards and a 1200 watt power supply. Is any one doing something similar?   My electrician suggested that I reach out to the community to see what everyone else is doing, he's curious to see if the 1200 watt supply is overkill on the manufacturer's part.   Also plan on getting a metered 220 power strip to see the actual draw.

Number of blades per circuit 30 amp/220 watt circuit

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By Doug Atkinson -
What proccessors?

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

Douglas Atkinson
604-619-9430

From: bill@yuco.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:17 PM
To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Reply To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Number of blades per circuit 30 amp/220 watt circuit


Just wondering how many blades people are hooking up per circuit.  We are planning to start putting our blades on 30 amp/220 watt circuits.   Each blade contains two Super-Micro X8DTT-F boards and a 1200 watt power supply. Is any one doing something similar?   My electrician suggested that I reach out to the community to see what everyone else is doing, he's curious to see if the 1200 watt supply is overkill on the manufacturer's part.   Also plan on getting a metered 220 power strip to see the actual draw.

I cant not share

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