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3 IBM Bladecenter HS20 for sale Toronto Area

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3 IBM Bladecenter HS20 for sale Toronto Area
posted by Andrew Painter on Dec. 28, 2013, 4:50 p.m. (6 days ago)
Weve got 3 IBM Bladecenter HS20 systems for sale. System includes chassis and 12 blades each. The one chassis has blades which have 4GB of ram and 2HDDs in each blade. The other Chassis weve kept as spares and most blades in them have both RAM and HDDs but some are lacking in drives or RAM due to being used as replacements in the other systems. Systems are working well but have been replaced with other hardware. Looking to sell them as a group. If interested please make an offer. -- Andrew Painter systems administrator relish + 567vfx + tendril 119 spadina avenue #800 toronto, on, m5v 2l1 To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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Weve got 3 IBM Bladecenter HS20 systems for sale. System includes chassis and 12 blades each. The one chassis has blades which have 4GB of ram and 2HDDs in each blade. The other Chassis weve kept as spares and most blades in them have both RAM and HDDs but some are lacking in drives or RAM due to being used as replacements in the other systems. Systems are working well but have been replaced with other hardware. Looking to sell them as a group. If interested please make an offer. -- Andrew Painter systems administrator relish + 567vfx + tendril 119 spadina avenue #800 toronto, on, m5v 2l1 To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

OSX; To 10.7,.8 or .9 or not to be...

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OSX; To 10.7,.8 or .9 or not to be...
posted by Brian Krusic on Dec. 29, 2013, 1:05 p.m. (5 days ago)
... that is the question.

In terms of Finder/NFS and CS what are you all running and what do you  prefer in therms of stability and performance?


- Brian

SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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... that is the question.

In terms of Finder/NFS and CS what are you all running and what do you  prefer in therms of stability and performance?


- Brian

SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

Video tape recycling

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Video tape recycling
posted by Saker Klippsten on Dec. 30, 2013, 2:15 p.m. (4 days ago)
Anyone have a contact/place to destroy video tape like D1, Digibeta, Beta SP... Film etc? I have about 2 dumpsters worth I need to get rid of.... Thanks! -s To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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Anyone have a contact/place to destroy video tape like D1, Digibeta, Beta SP... Film etc? I have about 2 dumpsters worth I need to get rid of.... Thanks! -s To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

PipelineFX Qube installation issue on Windows

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PipelineFX Qube installation issue on Windows
posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Dec. 30, 2013, 5:25 p.m. (4 days ago)
In case this saves someone some head scratching...

I was struggling with why installing the Qube Worker MSI wasn't showing up in Add/Remove program, and even worse, made it impossible to do a clean upgrade, since when trying to remove the "Qube Core" package, it would fail claiming that "Qube Worker" was installed, yet even from the command line trying to remove "Qube Worker" claimed it wasn't there to be removed.

Turns out the Qube Worker MSIs (both 6.4.4 and 6.5.1) were built without the "ALLUSERS" property set, so by default they get installed for the Current User rather than All Users. So unless you are logged in as the same user who did the original install, you will be in dependency hell.

I tried to play around with "re-advertising" in msiexec (the /JM switch) but that didn't seem to work reliably. Reinstalling the Qube-Worker with "ALLUSERS=1" on the msiexec.exe command line seems to clean things up, and then allow removal and upgrade.

A bug has been filed with PipelineFX, and they are saying that this should be fixed in the next build.


JF

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In case this saves someone some head scratching...

I was struggling with why installing the Qube Worker MSI wasn't showing up in Add/Remove program, and even worse, made it impossible to do a clean upgrade, since when trying to remove the "Qube Core" package, it would fail claiming that "Qube Worker" was installed, yet even from the command line trying to remove "Qube Worker" claimed it wasn't there to be removed.

Turns out the Qube Worker MSIs (both 6.4.4 and 6.5.1) were built without the "ALLUSERS" property set, so by default they get installed for the Current User rather than All Users. So unless you are logged in as the same user who did the original install, you will be in dependency hell.

I tried to play around with "re-advertising" in msiexec (the /JM switch) but that didn't seem to work reliably. Reinstalling the Qube-Worker with "ALLUSERS=1" on the msiexec.exe command line seems to clean things up, and then allow removal and upgrade.

A bug has been filed with PipelineFX, and they are saying that this should be fixed in the next build.


JF

OT funny

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OT funny
posted by Wayne Chang on Dec. 30, 2013, 6:55 p.m. (4 days ago)
dinner was NTSC-compliant last night.
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dinner was NTSC-compliant last night.

Patent wars - spectralogic_queries_overland_patent/

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Patent wars - spectralogic_queries_overland_patent/
posted by Saker Klippsten on Dec. 31, 2013, 1:40 a.m. (3 days ago)
Interesting..
I use overland but was looking at some spectralogic




-s

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Interesting..
I use overland but was looking at some spectralogic




-s

Thunderbolt hater (was MacPro comparative)

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Thunderbolt hater (was MacPro comparative)
posted by Marc Brewster on Dec. 31, 2013, 11:35 a.m. (3 days ago)
Given more options I would not care about PCIe ports at >all. >>- Jimmy Hi Jimmy, Can I ask why you dislike PCIe cards? Is it the cards themselves or the technology? Personally I hate Thunderbolt with a passion which is, I assume, your preferred method of connectivity? The idea of having racks of systems all with crappy 'push fit' connectors going to some shonky external box to give me FC/10Gig/etc connectivity fills me with dread. That leads to super messy racking and tons of cables that might unseat themselves given enough heat cycles. Is there a 'pro' version of the ThunderBolt connector that I haven't seen that has positive connectors? If your business model is one or two systems on a desk then fair play and if you have no use for external connectivity then you'll have a lovely clutter free desk with a system that already resembles an NYC MTA dustbin.. ;-) Marc To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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Given more options I would not care about PCIe ports at >all. >>- Jimmy Hi Jimmy, Can I ask why you dislike PCIe cards? Is it the cards themselves or the technology? Personally I hate Thunderbolt with a passion which is, I assume, your preferred method of connectivity? The idea of having racks of systems all with crappy 'push fit' connectors going to some shonky external box to give me FC/10Gig/etc connectivity fills me with dread. That leads to super messy racking and tons of cables that might unseat themselves given enough heat cycles. Is there a 'pro' version of the ThunderBolt connector that I haven't seen that has positive connectors? If your business model is one or two systems on a desk then fair play and if you have no use for external connectivity then you'll have a lovely clutter free desk with a system that already resembles an NYC MTA dustbin.. ;-) Marc To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Have a Safe and Happy New Year

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Have a Safe and Happy New Year
posted by John Hickson on Dec. 31, 2013, 4:08 p.m. (3 days ago)

Hey everyone,

Just a quick thanks to all our members at StudioSysAdmins for all their contributions to the community.

I hope everyone has a safe, happy and prosperous New Year. 2014 is going to be great!

 

Look forward to hearing and seeing you all this year, we are planning to have a lot more going on this year with the group and we could not have done it with all of your participation.

 

-John Hickson

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Hey everyone,

Just a quick thanks to all our members at StudioSysAdmins for all their contributions to the community.

I hope everyone has a safe, happy and prosperous New Year. 2014 is going to be great!

 

Look forward to hearing and seeing you all this year, we are planning to have a lot more going on this year with the group and we could not have done it with all of your participation.

 

-John Hickson


OT - I moved - found in the archives

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OT - I moved - found in the archives
posted by Derrick MacPherson on Dec. 31, 2013, 5:05 p.m. (3 days ago)
I moved a couple weeks ago, and in going through my collection of crap, I came across this golden olden
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I moved a couple weeks ago, and in going through my collection of crap, I came across this golden olden

OSX - Apple Rooting Their Own Systems?

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OSX - Apple Rooting Their Own Systems?
posted by Derrick MacPherson on Jan. 1, 2014, 3:45 p.m. (2 days ago)
Just looking at a USB drive my girlfriend has, saw some weird things that Apple does, googled, came across




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Just looking at a USB drive my girlfriend has, saw some weird things that Apple does, googled, came across




Launching CreativityReactor - Free Community for Artists

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Launching CreativityReactor - Free Community for Artists
posted by John Hickson on Jan. 2, 2014, 9:28 a.m. (1 day ago)

Following more than 5 successful years of StudioSysAdmins (http://www.studiosysadmins.com) - a network community for technical people in the Digital Content Creation (DCC) industry.

 

We are now proud to finally be launching ourbrand new community:

 

CreativityReactor  (http://www.creativityreactor.com)  is a new social media networking community for artists

 

Sponsored by various hardware and software vendors that sell to our space, both of these sites are FREE to use for all Production Studios, Technical People and Artists.

To help us kick off the new site, we invite you to login (using your existing StudioSysAdmins account) or create a new account @ CreativityReactor  (http://www.creativityreactor.com). If you can help with some initial content (like job postings, and company profiles) it will help us get the artists active in the community.

 

For Recruiters...

Once logged in you can start posting any job openings that may be coming up at your studio.  You can login to either site to post a job, just remember to post technical jobs to StudioSysAdmins and all production management and/or artistic jobs to the CreativityReactor site. There are no limits to the number of postings you are allowed, and remember, postings are free.

For Marketing...

Once logged in you can start updating office and contact details for your company, other social links (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc), add actual productions your company has worked on, as well as add YouTube and/or Vimeo links to your demo reels and/or related videos.

For Artists...

Once logged in you can associate yourself with the productions you have worked on, create your own galleries for artwork, add your personal demo reels (via YouTube or Vimeo links), post classified ads to sell old equipment, as well as participate in the on-line forums.

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail @ john.hickson@studiosysadmins.com

Also, please forward this e-mail to anyone you may think is interested. Anything to help our community grow is always appreciated.

 

Thank you and wishing everyone a happy and successful new year.

-John Hickson

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Following more than 5 successful years of StudioSysAdmins (http://www.studiosysadmins.com) - a network community for technical people in the Digital Content Creation (DCC) industry.

 

We are now proud to finally be launching ourbrand new community:

 

CreativityReactor  (http://www.creativityreactor.com)  is a new social media networking community for artists

 

Sponsored by various hardware and software vendors that sell to our space, both of these sites are FREE to use for all Production Studios, Technical People and Artists.

To help us kick off the new site, we invite you to login (using your existing StudioSysAdmins account) or create a new account @ CreativityReactor  (http://www.creativityreactor.com). If you can help with some initial content (like job postings, and company profiles) it will help us get the artists active in the community.

 

For Recruiters...

Once logged in you can start posting any job openings that may be coming up at your studio.  You can login to either site to post a job, just remember to post technical jobs to StudioSysAdmins and all production management and/or artistic jobs to the CreativityReactor site. There are no limits to the number of postings you are allowed, and remember, postings are free.

For Marketing...

Once logged in you can start updating office and contact details for your company, other social links (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc), add actual productions your company has worked on, as well as add YouTube and/or Vimeo links to your demo reels and/or related videos.

For Artists...

Once logged in you can associate yourself with the productions you have worked on, create your own galleries for artwork, add your personal demo reels (via YouTube or Vimeo links), post classified ads to sell old equipment, as well as participate in the on-line forums.

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail @ john.hickson@studiosysadmins.com

Also, please forward this e-mail to anyone you may think is interested. Anything to help our community grow is always appreciated.

 

Thank you and wishing everyone a happy and successful new year.

-John Hickson

Anyone trying to get rid of Isilon 6000i nodes?

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Anyone trying to get rid of Isilon 6000i nodes?
posted by Steven Allred on Jan. 2, 2014, 12:04 p.m. (1 day ago)

Just curious to see if anyone has 6000i nodes that they'd like to get rid of.

Thanks,

Steve

steven.allred@gmail.com

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Just curious to see if anyone has 6000i nodes that they'd like to get rid of.

Thanks,

Steve

steven.allred@gmail.com

New York part-time / short-term support

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New York part-time / short-term support
posted by Rob LaRose on Jan. 3, 2014, 12:10 p.m.

Happy Friday, folks!

I'm going to need someone to cover duties for a couple weeks at our edit shop in NY at the end of the month.  

Are there places w/ ssa-to-hire on a short-term basis?  There's support from the team in LA, but really a one-man operation here in NY tending to day-to-day video, av, IT issues.

Recommendations for services/companies/individuals who I should talk to?

--Rob






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

**NOTE OUR NEW STREET ADDRESS: 245 Fifth Ave, 23rd Fl, New York, NY 10016.
Our billing and remittance stays the same

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Happy Friday, folks!

I'm going to need someone to cover duties for a couple weeks at our edit shop in NY at the end of the month.  

Are there places w/ ssa-to-hire on a short-term basis?  There's support from the team in LA, but really a one-man operation here in NY tending to day-to-day video, av, IT issues.

Recommendations for services/companies/individuals who I should talk to?

--Rob






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

**NOTE OUR NEW STREET ADDRESS: 245 Fifth Ave, 23rd Fl, New York, NY 10016.
Our billing and remittance stays the same

Alerts from DDN storage?

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Alerts from DDN storage?
posted by Ken Spickler on Jan. 3, 2014, 2:05 p.m.
What is everyone doing to get alerts from their DDN storage devices? We've got a S2A9900 system and want to be able to get alerted to faults in the system (i.e. failed drives). So far it seems we have to rely on actively checking the front panel LED's of the storage shelves to make sure everything is copacetic.

It sure would be nice if DDN had SNMP or email alerts, but alas, they don't.

---Ken

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What is everyone doing to get alerts from their DDN storage devices? We've got a S2A9900 system and want to be able to get alerted to faults in the system (i.e. failed drives). So far it seems we have to rely on actively checking the front panel LED's of the storage shelves to make sure everything is copacetic.

It sure would be nice if DDN had SNMP or email alerts, but alas, they don't.

---Ken

if you have an isilon system with windows shares could you do me a favor?

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if you have an isilon system with windows shares could you do me a favor?
posted by Greg Whynott on Jan. 3, 2014, 3:25 p.m.


if you have an isilon system which has shares view-able from windows 7 clients could you please do me a favor and let me the results of this:

from UNIX (not the windows 7 test host) create a directory (not file, or both but i am mostly interested in directory) with any name, all in lower case. now at that same level make another directory with the exact same name but in all upper case.

what does it look like when you view this area from windows? does it show both versions correctly, or rename them, or only show one?

from unix:

cd /volumes/vol3/share/
mkdir foo
mkdir FOO

view from windows now.

thanks much, I'm discovering different NASs handle this differently...

-g

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if you have an isilon system which has shares view-able from windows 7 clients could you please do me a favor and let me the results of this:

from UNIX (not the windows 7 test host) create a directory (not file, or both but i am mostly interested in directory) with any name, all in lower case. now at that same level make another directory with the exact same name but in all upper case.

what does it look like when you view this area from windows? does it show both versions correctly, or rename them, or only show one?

from unix:

cd /volumes/vol3/share/
mkdir foo
mkdir FOO

view from windows now.

thanks much, I'm discovering different NASs handle this differently...

-g


if you have an isilon system with windows shares could you do me a favor?

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if you have an isilon system with windows shares could you do me a favor?
posted by Derrick MacPherson on Jan. 3, 2014, 3:40 p.m.
I see both, when I rename the lower case to foo1 it renamed them both to foo1 from the windows view, but on Linux I see foo1 and FOO. If i leave the directory on Windows and come back, I see them both named as I did in Linux




On 3 January 2014 12:24, greg whynott <greg.whynott@gmail.com> wrote:


if you have an isilon system which has shares view-able from windows 7 clients could you please do me a favor and let me the results of this:

from UNIX (not the windows 7 test host) create a directory (not file, or both but i am mostly interested in directory) with any name, all in lower case. now at that same level make another directory with the exact same name but in all upper case.

what does it look like when you view this area from windows? does it show both versions correctly, or rename them, or only show one?

from unix:

cd /volumes/vol3/share/
mkdir foo
mkdir FOO

view from windows now.

thanks much, I'm discovering different NASs handle this differently...

-g


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I see both, when I rename the lower case to foo1 it renamed them both to foo1 from the windows view, but on Linux I see foo1 and FOO. If i leave the directory on Windows and come back, I see them both named as I did in Linux




On 3 January 2014 12:24, greg whynott <greg.whynott@gmail.com> wrote:


if you have an isilon system which has shares view-able from windows 7 clients could you please do me a favor and let me the results of this:

from UNIX (not the windows 7 test host) create a directory (not file, or both but i am mostly interested in directory) with any name, all in lower case. now at that same level make another directory with the exact same name but in all upper case.

what does it look like when you view this area from windows? does it show both versions correctly, or rename them, or only show one?

from unix:

cd /volumes/vol3/share/
mkdir foo
mkdir FOO

view from windows now.

thanks much, I'm discovering different NASs handle this differently...

-g


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Workstation rental in Germany

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Workstation rental in Germany
posted by Jimmy Christensen on Jan. 6, 2014, 6:55 a.m.
Hi, Does anyone know a good place for workstation rental in Germany? - Jimmy To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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Hi, Does anyone know a good place for workstation rental in Germany? - Jimmy To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

oh my.

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oh my.
posted by Wayne Chang on Jan. 6, 2014, noon
my cat would enjoy this.

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my cat would enjoy this.

LTO4 tape machine

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LTO4 tape machine
posted by Todd Smith on Jan. 6, 2014, 12:55 p.m.
Hey all,

Anyone have a spare LTO4 tape drive or know of somewhere I can rent one in and around Toronto?

Thanks,

Todd Smith
Head of Information Technology

soho vfx 
99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8

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Hey all,

Anyone have a spare LTO4 tape drive or know of somewhere I can rent one in and around Toronto?

Thanks,

Todd Smith
Head of Information Technology

soho vfx 
99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8

Come for the crazy wiring photos.

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Come for the crazy wiring photos.
posted by Klaus Steden on Jan. 6, 2014, 4:05 p.m.
Stay for the urban exploration photos. http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2011/09/crazy-wiring-drb-series.html cheers, Klaus To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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Stay for the urban exploration photos. http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2011/09/crazy-wiring-drb-series.html cheers, Klaus To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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