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plist editor in Linux

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By Brian Krusic -

Hi all,

Does any one know of such a thing (that they tried)?

Its not just plain old XML as far as I can see.

  • Brian

Dell Voice

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By Zorion Terrell -

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http://www.dellvoice.ca/

anyone using it?

 

Description: dhx media

Zorion Terrell

IT Manager | DHX Media Vancouver

e: zorion.terrell@dhxmedia.com

p: 604-684-2363 | m: 604-562-5148

600-190 Alexander St,

Vancouver, BC V6A 1B5

 

LTO labels.

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By Greg Whynott -

I'm sure most know about this or similar but for the uninitiated...

LTO labes appear to be made of gold, or you would think. sheesh... 30 dollars for 1 sheet of printed labels. that's a lot of money for a piece of sticky paper with some ink on it. Must be the alignment tolerances between the lines in the bar code, or the integrated nano bots which maintain the colors in the ID code. don't bother looking,
they can't be seen with the naked eye - you need the VENDOR3000 microscope.

in any event...

you can go to this page and generate all the tape labels you wish:

http://tapelabels.librelogiciel.com/

then order either Avery or NetC lables

http://www.labelarchitect.com/p-71-ltosaitt10k-blank-label-stock-20-labelssheet.aspx

http://www.avery.com/ (search for label type 6571 or 6577)

then for a huge fraction of the reseller price, you can spin your own gold.

That said I am official offering label printing services, 29 dollars a sheet! who wants sum? 8)

-g

Reverse data migration - blue arc

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By Brian Krusic -

I posted this question a few days back and didn't get much feedback.  Not that I'm demanding or any thing but am hoping this topic peaks an interest.

Is any one doing reverse migrations and if so, can you share some perls in terms of scheduling?

Like its frequency, impact on performance, practical settings, etc...

I currently have a forward policy set so that after 7 days of inactivity, files are moved to tier 2.

I would like files to migrate back to tier 1 after say 5 minutes of access.

I see pitfalls such as fs performance, not so much Cpu.

Since this is my first time using such a technology, "I know this, this is Unix...", sorry poor Jurassic Park quote.

But since this is my first time doing such a thing, I was hoping to gleen some knowledge from the commilunity.

  • Brian

From Google to Exchange Migration

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By Greg Whynott -

I have about 200 google accounts to migrate into an internal Exchange 2010 server. This would include calandar events, contacts and folders.

I'm aware of the online services like migrationwiz.com, but at 10 bucks a mailbox, that's a bit costly for a one off, perhaps....

know of anything? The imap folders shouldn't be an issue, imapsync or similar will address those, its the calendars and contacts i'm a bit concerned about.

-g

Fusion video

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By Anonymous -

Hi Again

Kind-a says it all about PCI accelerated IO cards from FusionIO!

And please don't compare to solid state drives .... laughable!

Jorg - LA

Begin forwarded message:


Date: February 13, 2012 11:18:01 AM PST
Subject: Fusion video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQvdpbCdkc

Hey Jorg

I just wanted to send this video to you.
It's a short sweet soundbite.

Best
Mark

anyone using Cloud Storage?

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By Anonymous -

Does anyone use Cloud Storage - Amazon S3, Rackspace, other - as an intermediary storage between vendors and clients?? Aspera is the norm but wondering pros/cons of moving to an S3 or Rackspace scalable storage system seeing as you can get a similar if not more comprehensive security solution there.?

Thanks

Laptops and IP reservations / handling in your offices...

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By Tommy Asbee -

Hi Guys,

Question for everyone....

Was wondering how you handle laptops in your offices... More interested in what you do with producers and such who may plug in for a part of the day, but also roam around wirelessly.. Do you set reservations on the ethernet mac addresses?

I hope that makes sense

-Tommy


[SSA-Discuss] =?utf-8?q?Laptops_and_IP_reservations_/_handling_in?= =?utf-8?q?_your=09offices=2E=2E=2E?=

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By Brian Krusic -

Yep, reserve on both interfaces and assign a name like johndoe.domain.name so that my sflows make sense.

I also do diff subnets for traffic shaping.

  • Brian


    From: Tommy Asbee <tommy@a52.com>
    Sent: Wed Feb 15 08:13:04 PST 2012
    To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
    Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Laptops and IP reservations / handling in your offices...

    Hi Guys,


    Question for everyone....

    Was wondering how you handle laptops in your offices... More interested in what you do with producers and such who may plug in for a part of the day, but also roam around wirelessly.. Do you set reservations on the ethernet mac addresses?

    I hope that makes sense

    -Tommy


Gefen KVM (LA area)

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By Bill Heiden -

Anyone know where I can get some Gefen KVMs from an actual brick and mortar in the LA area? Thanks in advance.

XrackPro + Flame z800 + array

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By Brian Krusic -

Hi all,

So has any one racked a Flame + Array in an Xrack Pro?

I need something to quiet it down until I build out a proper machine
room.

My measurements put the Flame fromage at 6U total, so is an Xrack Pro
6U too tight?

  • Brian

BlueArc TAC #

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By Brian Krusic -

So BlueArcs TAC number has been down all day; 866.864.1090.

Does any one have a diff number?

I called em and they said thats it.

I left case notes on line but nada.

  • Brian

converting vdi to vmdk with LUKS passphrase

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By Michael Oliver -

Looking to transition from VirtualBox to VMWare and am running into an issue with the conversion. ?The virtual box vdi is running CentOS 5 x64 and was encrypted with LUKS. ?When I run the convert command:


VBoxManage clonehd hd1.vdi hd1.vmdk --format VMDK


I am able to successfully create the new vmdk file and subsequently load it into a new virtual machine using VMWare Workstation 8. ?The machine boots past GRUB but will not accept my password when I am presented with the prompt:

Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/sda2:

Should I be able to convert a LUKS encrypted disk? ?Is there a special flag I need to use when converting? ?Thanks.

--
Michael Oliver
mcoliver@gmail.com
858.336.1438

LSI 9201-16i + Nexentastor

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By Anh Quach -

Hey all,

Has anyone tried using the LSI 9201-16i SAS HBA with Nexentastor? The external version (LSI 9201-16e) is on Nexenta's HCL but the internal is not. I would assume it's the same chipset but if anyone can confirm it works w/out issue, I'd feel better obviously. :)

-Anh

RHEL6/KVM Cluster + Cisco Switches

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By Tudor Georgescu -

G'day, in the process of setting up a cluster using Conga.

There is nothing special about the set-up, just two nodes, out of the box RHEL6 with the HA Add-On. There are no failover clusers yet either, so no need for forwarding any multicast traffic anywhere. We're using the RSA on our IBMS for fencing.

One subnet for client facing server access, one restricted subnet for Conga/Cluster communication/failover. Bit of routing on the KVM hosts to keep traffic on respective ethernet device.

On the RHEL 6 Cluster docs: "each network switch andassociated networking equipment in the Red Hat High Availability Add-On must be configured to enable multicast addresses and support IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol)"

I'm not Cisco savvy, but need to spec this to our network guy. Could you folks advise on a set-up from the Cisco side, such as PIM protocol choice, etc. Also, any horror stories we can learn from, or tips we can take heed of would be much appreciated.

Thanks all, Tudor


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UPS on craigslist in Vancouver

Rental renderboxes in NYC?

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By Dan Young -

Anyone with great success?

MPC NYC
Dan Young | Systems Engineer
434 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York City, 10013
T
 212.915.3120 | 
C 347.334.0132

www.moving-picture.com

Senior linux workstation admin position

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By Vincent Liggio -

Blue Sky Studios is looking to augment its linux desktop team. Posting has been put on the SSA job website at http://www.studiosysadmins.com/jobs/view/213/.

Vince Blue Sky Studios

Lead Senior Workstation Admin--Windows position

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By Vincent Liggio -

Blue Sky Studios is also looking to augment its Windows/Mac desktop team. Posting has been put on the SSA job website at http://www.studiosysadmins.com/jobs/view/214/.

Feel free to ask me any questions.

Vince Blue Sky Studios

Laptops and IP reservations / handling in your offices...

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By Ken Spickler -

WiFi, even using WPA, can be somewhat easily compromised. We've taken a similar access-via-VPN approach, too. I guess it all depends on what you can stomach...

Ken Spickler
Sent from my iPhone, srry for tpos.

On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Brian Krusic <brian@krusic.com> wrote:

I think its a bad idea to treat WiFi diff then wired clients.

Your policies should reflect user group rather then layer 1.

  • Brian


    From: Jeremy Lang <jeremy.lang@it4vfx.com>
    Sent: Wed Feb 15 12:36:34 PST 2012
    To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
    Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Laptops and IP reservations / handling in your offices...

    I kinda like the two birds with one stone approach: all wireless is on an external (naughty) subnet, people who justifiably need more than just Internet get the ability to VPN.  In-office it's just about as quick as being on that net, and they can now do all the same stuff wherever they need to...

    __
    Jeremy M. Lang
    it4vfx
    ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯


    On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Brian Krusic <brian@krusic.com> wrote:

    Yep, reserve on both interfaces and assign a name like johndoe.domain.name so that my sflows make sense.

    I also do diff subnets for traffic shaping.

  • Brian


    From: Tommy Asbee <tommy@a52.com>
    Sent: Wed Feb 15 08:13:04 PST 2012
    To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
    Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Laptops and IP reservations / handling in your offices...

    Hi Guys,


    Question for everyone....

    Was wondering how you handle laptops in your offices... More interested in what you do with producers and such who may plug in for a part of the day, but also roam around wirelessly.. Do you set reservations on the ethernet mac addresses?

    I hope that makes sense

    -Tommy



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