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April 12, 2013, 12:15 pm

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By Anonymous -

Hi all,

I have a customer located in Toronto with an immediate requirement for a 4-post rack.  Could be either a half rack or full height.  Square holes preferred, but round would be acceptable.

Please contact me directly off list if you have one available to sell right away.

Thanks!

-stuart

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Annex Pro

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C.O.R.E. Max-T Sledgehammer- FREE

April 12, 2013, 12:15 pm

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By Robert Moggach - Any sentimentalists in Toronto want HERA/PABLUM and the two LUNs? If you can carry it, it's yours... I'll take 6 Asahi tallboys if you're feeling generous. The drives alone are worth it. I wiped the Max-T config but storage has worked fine for me running CentOS. Rob +1 647 966 3274 To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

NAB; Hits and misses

April 13, 2013, 4:55 pm

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By Brian Krusic - Dobro dan,

While I wasn't at NAB, in fact last time I was at trade show was Siggraph 2006, I did hear a few interesting things.

A seemingly big hit in my mind was Foundrys purchase of Modo.  This is indeed fantastic as Foundry is such a solid software company and they truly understand our workflow, mentality and needs.

Imagine, Modos smooth integration with Nuke, enhanced to run faster and being the mo-graphers tool of choice.

Then there is further detailing what benefits Hiero brings to our pipeline.

All these tools have a huge impact on infrastructure as they are really all parts of one large seemingly living organism.

The implications are exciting.

Then there was Autodesk, well.... umm.... not so much.  Anyways...

A brief analogy of my point.

Back in 05' ish Clark Foam closed shop in rather Draconian fashion.  At that time, ~95% of all foam blanks world wide used as the core of surf boards were made by Clark Foam.

While speculation was high as to this seemingly ruthless act, the 2 main rumors were;

1) He lost his mind.

2) He wanted to force a paradigm shift in the surf industry.

Since then, a rich field of materials has emerged to replace the traditional foam blank.  As a result, newer more radical designs/shapes/wights are now being seen that up the fun factor for surfers.

Is it time for this to happen in the field of animation apps?

I will say one thing for paradigm shifts, they force you to rethink the status quo.

A personal example relating to our industry was BlueArcs demise.  Prior to that, i was happy to have one for the rest of my profession.  Just keep upgrading BlueArc to BlueArc etc...

But I was forced to look at options and realized how truly important it is to deconstruct your views and ideologies on a regular basis, keeps you fresh and relevant.

 

- Brian

"All have their worth

and each contributes to the worth of others."

looking for used rack mount servers

April 14, 2013, 7:50 am

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By Greg Whynott -

I'm looking for 1 or 2 used 1-4 U servers with CPUs which have at least an intel X5 series (X5570 or better would be optimal).  These would be for a personal non revenue generating project,  8)  If you have or know of any,  please let me know how much you are after.

thanks!

-g

Dell R720 + H710P NV 1GB cache + 3rd party SSD's

April 15, 2013, 8:00 am

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By Mike Owen -

Has anyone got a similar setup to this working?

Dell R720 + H710P 1GB cache RAID card + 3rd party SSD's - such as OCZ/Intel/Samsung SATA 3 drives working as both the main storage but also as the Dell re-branded LSI cachecade virtual volume as a read-only cache?

The web has many stories of Dell actively blocking 3rd party SSD's back in 2010, then public outcry, then firmware updates opening it all up, and now crazy pricing for low capacity SSD's driect from Dell.

Anyone gone renegade with a Dell box and bought themselves some 3rd party SSD's and some empty caddies from China?

CVLT job posting

April 15, 2013, 9:50 am

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By Dan Young -

Hey guys, here's a request a got from someone looking for a fulltime engineer in NYC.

Hit me up if you're interested in applying.

Full time position at Video Post Production House

Experience with?configuring?& supporting:

- render farms, both software & hardware

- video servers and networking for all major CGI applications, Flame, Smoke & FCP

- production suites and workstations?for all major CGI applications, Flame, Smoke & FCP

Experience calibrating computer & broadcast monitors to rec. 709

System administration of both mac & linux servers & workstations

Pay consummative with experience.

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BlueArc Titan for sale in NYC

April 15, 2013, 9:55 am

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By Dan Young -

Sorry for the cut/paste nonsense, this is a by-owner sale in NYC - it's for a Titan, figured someone might be after this to suppliment, or need parts, or whatever. It's still running if anyone wants to see it and I can put you in touch with the engineers selling it.?

CP below;

Tape Library: Overland Storage ARCvault 48 with 2 HP LTO-4 FC drives.

The BlueArc is a Titan running version 7.0.2051.04. 20 GB Fibre Channel. 30 GB SATA.? Also there is a UPS and spare parts

Blue Arc Abstract

Server Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Storage Array Storage Array Storage Array Accessories

Storage Array Storage Array Network Network

Network System Cabinet - System Management System Management Accessories Documentation Spares Spares Spares Spares Spares Server Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Feature Licenses Storage Array Storage Array Storage Array Network Network Accessories System Options System Options System Options

KIT: Titan Server Model 3210 Titan Software License - Data Migrator Titan Software License - iSCSI Titan Software License - Windows (CIFS) Titan Software License - Unix (NFS) Titan Software License - Cluster Name Space Titan Software License - 1TB Storage Capacity KIT: RC16TB Storage Controller - 4 Gbps Dual RAID Controller KIT: RC16SA Storage Controller - 4Gbps Dual Raid Controller RC16 Disk Drive Module - SATA 1TB, 7200 rpm (16 pk) Serial Cable - 2m (6ft) RS232 DE9-Mini Din6 (Engenio)

KIT: DS16EXP Storage Expansion RC16 Disk Drive Module - FC 400GB 10,000 rpm, 4Gbps (16pk) XFP - Multi-mode Fiber - 10 Gbps SFP - Multi-mode Fiber - 4 Gbps

KIT: FC Switch - 4 Gbps 8-port with SFPs (Brocade 200E) KIT: APC .Storage System Cabinet - 42U 1070mm 208V (US) KIT: Ethernet Switch - 16-port 10/100 Mbps KIT: SMU Model 200 - Titan Documentation Wallet - Titan (US Sales) System Cabinet Layout, Option A - Single Titan FRU: RC16 Disk Drive Module - SATA 1TB, 7200 rpm FRU: RC16 Disk Drive Module - FC 400GB 10,000 rpm, 4Gbps FRU: Titan Fan Module Type2 (FSX) FRU: RC16TB Raid Controller, No Battery FRU: RC16SA Raid Controller, No Battery KIT: Mercury Server Model 100 Mercury Software License (Tier A) - File System Auditing Mercury Software License (Tier A) - Cluster Name Space Mercury Software License (Tier A) - Cluster Mercury Software License (Tier A) - Unix (NFS) Mercury Software License (Tier A) - 1 TB License Mercury Software License (Tier A) - iSCSI Mercury Software License (Tier A) - Windows (CIFS) Mercury Software License (Tier A) - External Cross Volume Links Mercury Software License (Tier A) - Data Migrator RS/RC12 Disk - Nearline SAS 2TB, FDE, 7200 rpm (12 pk) KIT: RS12C Storage Controller - 8Gb FC to 6Gbps SAS Dual - 4 week lead time KIT: RS12E Storage Expansion XFP - Multi-mode Fiber - 10 Gbps SFP - Multi-mode Fiber - 4 Gbps Documentation Wallet - Global BKIT: No Rack Selected, 208V Power (US) System Cabinet Layout, Custom Layout - See Manufacturing Instructions FC Cable (Fiber) - 1.0m (3ft) - Multimode Fiber Optic LC Connectors

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pixar's tractor

April 15, 2013, 10:10 am

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By Greg Whynott -

Is anyone using Pixar's Tractor?

If so,  are you running it on bare metal or VM?  I'd like to know if it is reasonable to run it in a VM with SSD drives.  There would be about 400 physical HPC nodes and 200 or so artist workstations talking to it.

their supported platform page is fairly sparse with no mentioning of actual recommended requirements.  Perhaps I'm not reading in the proper spots.

-g

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OSX 10.7, Maya 2013, Shave/Haircut 7.0 and V-Ray

April 16, 2013, 8:35 am

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By Aled Jones -

Has anyone with the above combination had any issues rendering with V-Ray.  I have just installed Shave 7.0 on OSX 10.7.4, running Maya 2013 and V-ray 2.30.01.  

It all works fine, until I try rendering using V-Ray,  I get errors related to the V-Ray plugin and the hair does not render. On the exact same install setup but a Windows 7 box it works fine.  My thoughts are right now that the OSX install of Shave didn't install the related V-Ray plug-ins as I see shave related files under V-Ray on Windows 7, but not on OSX.  Waiting for Shave's support to get back to me, but thought I'd see if anyone on here had come across this setup and issue?  

Thanks!

Aled R Jones systems administrator
imaginary forces | 530 west 25th street | new york | p 646.486.6868 | www.imaginaryforces.com

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dash (pixar's tractor)

April 16, 2013, 10:10 am

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By David Laur - When we were looking at the dash issue, in the tractor daemon start-up scripts, I was surprised to learn that dash also ships with recent Red Hat now as well, although it is not a replacement for classic /bin/sh as it is on Ubuntu. It doesn't seem to be part of RHEL5, but new in RHEL6. a rationale: a remarkably short wikipedia entry: a thread of rants, starting six years ago: On Apr 16, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Jimmy Christensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Shane McEwan wrote: >> Rant 2: Ubuntu, why do you ship with dash? Why not ship with bash as the default shell, setting it to be POSIX conformant by default if necessary? >> I beleive that the reason was that dash was more lightweight than bash. To improve startup time of the OS. >> To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

DS_Store files (again)

April 17, 2013, 7:45 am

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By Antti Pennanen - Hey everybody, We've been fighting with DS_Store files related problems on a mixed NAS / SAN environment for a while now. We found a way (tested) to disable creation of them on both SAN and NAS clients but still the files keep appearing to the shared storage. I finally figured out why. You could imagine that running the following command on terminal would stop macs generating garbage: > defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true Well, this is the case when you CREATE files on the network share. But as soon as you copy an existing folder from your desktop, the DS_Store files appear to the network server. Now, I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but I can't think any reason why it should work like this. Does anyone have any tips how to prevent this from happening for good? Thanks in advance! Andy To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

PyQT and Maya issues on Mac OSX 10.8.2

April 17, 2013, 8:40 am

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By Francisco Lima -

Hello guys!

We're currently using Maya on Mac Pro Workstations on OSX 10.8.2 but we're facing several issues when trying to load the interface of the tools we are developing in?PyQT?withing Maya.

The Maya menu disappears and it then crashes.

Maya does recognise?PyQt.

We are pointing Maya to the Qt site dir using "site.addsitedir" and that works fine.

Maya even loads whole PyQt4 module.

The issue is when we try to load the QtCore and QtGui modules to access our Application interface.

?Maya generates:

"ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/PyQt4/_qt.so, 2): Symbol not found: _PyCapsule_Type"

If we load these modules stand alone in the system they work fine. This just happens when loading through Maya.

This may be due to a mismatch between 32 and 64bit versions of Qt.

The solution would be to compile a 64bit only version of ?PyQt?for Mac and try to load it through Maya.

If this works we could then re-distribute this custom compile of?PyQt?to the other VFX machines so they can load our tools with no issues.

Any of you having similar issues or have any ideas of how to solve this?

Best Rdgds

Chico

Flavorsys "Strawberry" - who's using it?

April 17, 2013, 3:00 pm

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By Rory Falloon -

Hey,

Is anyone out there using Strawberry ? What kind of san/nas do you have behind it? Size, specs of the system? How many editors? etc etc!

Is anyone using the storage by Rorke Data behind it? Seems like the perfect situation where you would roll your own storage for it and save $... (as is always the case on first look)

Thanks,

Rory Falloon
Snr. Systems Administrator
Mr. X Inc.
T:  (416) 595-6222, x 290

Foundry SuperX

April 17, 2013, 3:25 pm

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By Brian Krusic - Allo,

Any gurus out there know if I can bond 4x10GB trunks together on a SuperX?

- Brian

"All have their worth

and each contributes to the worth of others."

PFTrack 2013.2.1 vs Windows Firewall

April 17, 2013, 5:00 pm

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By Jean-Francois Panisset -

Don't know if this is specific to our site, but I'm finding that if you try to install the recently released PFTrack 2013.2.1 on a Windows 7 system where the Windows Firewall service is not running, the installation will fail and roll back, without any useful error messages. You have to temporarily start the Windows Firewall service in order to allow the installation (or uninstallation as well) to complete.

Was amused to find out that the only way to get MSI to generate a log file of its actions is to create a Windows registry entry...

JF

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AT&T coverage & microcell

April 18, 2013, 8:40 am

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By Jeremy Mullis -

We have 2 AT&T microcells and they help a little but seem to drop calls randomly. We tried a 3^rd party booster before that was spotty and needed to reboot frequently.  Has anyone found a decent solution other than switching everyone to another carrier?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Sorry for lurking,

 

Jeremy

FileCatalyst Los Angeles User Forum

April 18, 2013, 10:15 am

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Too many writes to server (vray/exr/deadline)

April 18, 2013, 10:20 am

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By Matt Daly - I am looking for a way to reduce the load on the file server while rendering. Before I start writing a python script to write local temp files and then copy them to the server when complete, I am wondering if there may be a simpler solution out there. The software is vray for maya, and we are running deadline.
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OT_REALLY?!

April 18, 2013, 1:10 pm

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By Anthony Hoit - Server down. Completely non responsive and won't post. So I start troubleshooting hardware and make it all the way down to removing the CPU2 and it's ram. Taking a look at the CPU, I see this... https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gn3qthzc69ffgfg/-LZ1QEjntN 2 Years it ran like this! Until this morning. Once it was removed, it fires right back up. Thought someone might get a kick out of this. Probably should have checked CPU1 while I had it opened up..... -Anthony To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

clusterssh / cssh for CentOS 6?

April 18, 2013, 9:00 pm

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By Klaus Steden - Oof. My dev chops aren't what they used to be ... has anyone got a version of clusterssh 3.x working for CentOS 6? I'm running into all sorts of weird problems with Tk, and v4 looks like a nightmare of Perl dependencies. [fast forward one hour] So, all of the Perl dependencies got resolved cleanly, the package built and installed, and I'm running into the same error that made v3 fail on the same system: -- cut -- shell$ cssh bad pad value "3m": must be positive screen distance at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Tk/Widget.pm line 1218. at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Tk/Widget.pm line 203 -- cut -- ... sigh. Has anyone seen this before? More importantly, has anyone solved this particular conundrum before? cheers, Klaus To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe