Encoding Software and File based Q&C

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posted by Julian Firminger on Jan. 29, 2014, 3:35 a.m. (3 days ago)

Grtz from HollandJatha, please return out bikes. Pretty sure Telestream Vantage will do most of what you need, perhaps not one or two of the QC steps, that will depend on how fancy/anal the broadcasters are. There are however caveats, or at least design considerations within the cluster. Lots of maths and matrices for you my friend. If you want to provide some real world numbers (timeframe/files/footage) I can comment on the scale of systems you might need. Don't make the mistake I made and think a larger and larger computer will handle more and more things. (While this canwork, it wont necessarily) I've used it in large scale transcode/delivery including QC very successfully. What I really like is the decision making capability based on QC and other analytics results. i.e.transcode"x" para>analyse>QC fail on para>re-encode with "y" para >transcode> analyse > QC pass > report > transform meta > notify. (imagine lots of diff QC steps and each fail having a differentre-encode path) This strategy is frankly awesome when it comes to eyes-off checks for blocking and tearing. It can figure out if the image is being over compressed or there is not enough bandwidth to accurately create frames. Saved me hundreds of hours of interns looking at screens falling asleep. Better still you can analyse on source file input and pre-decide workflow paths based on what you find. And you can also get it to make decisions based on xml submitted meta, pre-analytics. It does however take quite a lot of setting up. :) Julian Firminger Head of Systems (SASA). VidiGo BV Sysadmin, Post Production Workflow Architect, Avid Video Editor, Colorist Amsterdam, The Netherlands On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:36 AM, <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote: We are searching for something similar though we need DVCProHD MXF OP1a . We are having trouble finding anything that can do the specific format the client has requested : DVCProHD with 5 stereo audio tracks . We have a demo of a Telesteam HDPipeline , I don't think it does XDCAM directly but I think, Vantage will convert. We are also looking at 2 other systems , both with capture hardware and conversion software MOG Technologies MXFSpeedrail OpenCube Technologies OpenCubeHD Doug Holberton Watershed Digital North Vancouver ,Canada To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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Grtz from HollandJatha, please return out bikes. Pretty sure Telestream Vantage will do most of what you need, perhaps not one or two of the QC steps, that will depend on how fancy/anal the broadcasters are. There are however caveats, or at least design considerations within the cluster. Lots of maths and matrices for you my friend. If you want to provide some real world numbers (timeframe/files/footage) I can comment on the scale of systems you might need. Don't make the mistake I made and think a larger and larger computer will handle more and more things. (While this canwork, it wont necessarily) I've used it in large scale transcode/delivery including QC very successfully. What I really like is the decision making capability based on QC and other analytics results. i.e.transcode"x" para>analyse>QC fail on para>re-encode with "y" para >transcode> analyse > QC pass > report > transform meta > notify. (imagine lots of diff QC steps and each fail having a differentre-encode path) This strategy is frankly awesome when it comes to eyes-off checks for blocking and tearing. It can figure out if the image is being over compressed or there is not enough bandwidth to accurately create frames. Saved me hundreds of hours of interns looking at screens falling asleep. Better still you can analyse on source file input and pre-decide workflow paths based on what you find. And you can also get it to make decisions based on xml submitted meta, pre-analytics. It does however take quite a lot of setting up. :) Julian Firminger Head of Systems (SASA). VidiGo BV Sysadmin, Post Production Workflow Architect, Avid Video Editor, Colorist Amsterdam, The Netherlands On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:36 AM, <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote: We are searching for something similar though we need DVCProHD MXF OP1a . We are having trouble finding anything that can do the specific format the client has requested : DVCProHD with 5 stereo audio tracks . We have a demo of a Telesteam HDPipeline , I don't think it does XDCAM directly but I think, Vantage will convert. We are also looking at 2 other systems , both with capture hardware and conversion software MOG Technologies MXFSpeedrail OpenCube Technologies OpenCubeHD Doug Holberton Watershed Digital North Vancouver ,Canada To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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posted by Adrian Paul on Jan. 29, 2014, 6:05 a.m. (3 days ago)

Anyone here going along to the SSA Superbowl event in Sydney on Monday? I'd imagine PJ O'Brien's is going to pretty packed, I presume there's a table/area booked for SSA? P.S. Thanks to Avere (and John/Stefan?) for organising - Danny Seitz, will you be there? - adrian.

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Anyone here going along to the SSA Superbowl event in Sydney on Monday? I'd imagine PJ O'Brien's is going to pretty packed, I presume there's a table/area booked for SSA? P.S. Thanks to Avere (and John/Stefan?) for organising - Danny Seitz, will you be there? - adrian.

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posted by Rob LaRose on Jan. 29, 2014, 6:20 p.m. (3 days ago)

Running Windows Updates, IE9 opens its own "Do you want to install IE 9" window, BEHIND the Windows Update window.  It's ALWAYS 20 minutes before I notice that the updates are taking for-freaking-ever, realize it's the IE update dialog, bring it to the foreground and click. IE updates during Windows updates have done this for at least 10 years.  IE8, IE7, and IE6 did the exact same thing. If anybody has a MS TAM in-house or on the phone, do me a favor and ask them what the hell, eh? Amiright? That is all. --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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Running Windows Updates, IE9 opens its own "Do you want to install IE 9" window, BEHIND the Windows Update window.  It's ALWAYS 20 minutes before I notice that the updates are taking for-freaking-ever, realize it's the IE update dialog, bring it to the foreground and click. IE updates during Windows updates have done this for at least 10 years.  IE8, IE7, and IE6 did the exact same thing. If anybody has a MS TAM in-house or on the phone, do me a favor and ask them what the hell, eh? Amiright? That is all. --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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posted by Klaus Steden on Jan. 29, 2014, 10:45 p.m. (3 days ago)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-grandma-enjoys-flourishing-correspondence-wit,35100/?ref=auto 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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Nvidia Quadro/Geforce Beta Drivers

posted by Andreas Martin Aanerud on Jan. 30, 2014, 5:40 a.m. (2 days ago)

Hey, anyone got Nvidia Beta drivers for OS X ? Im trying to make my 780TI card work on a MacPro calculated the power consumption and all, (Cubix) and got the card working and booting but OSX will not recognize the Nvidia chip , as it got no drivers for it =) Have done loots of googling and mailing, and everyone says its not there yet ^^ But the latest Nvidia Driver for OSX where like in October, so it got to be an update somewhere =) Best Andreas -- _____________________________ Andreas Martin Aanerud, ing. Cell: + 47 90978137 email: a.m.aanerud@gmail.com To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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Hey, anyone got Nvidia Beta drivers for OS X ? Im trying to make my 780TI card work on a MacPro calculated the power consumption and all, (Cubix) and got the card working and booting but OSX will not recognize the Nvidia chip , as it got no drivers for it =) Have done loots of googling and mailing, and everyone says its not there yet ^^ But the latest Nvidia Driver for OSX where like in October, so it got to be an update somewhere =) Best Andreas -- _____________________________ Andreas Martin Aanerud, ing. Cell: + 47 90978137 email: a.m.aanerud@gmail.com To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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posted by Will Rosecrans on Jan. 30, 2014, 2:45 p.m. (2 days ago)

I was recently spelunking in an old config file on a Flame system, and I found this in it. I haven't quite sussed out what this is for. Does anybody know why this would belong in an X11 config? Section "InputDevice" Identifier "mousenull" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/null" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection

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I was recently spelunking in an old config file on a Flame system, and I found this in it. I haven't quite sussed out what this is for. Does anybody know why this would belong in an X11 config? Section "InputDevice" Identifier "mousenull" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/null" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection

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Thoughts on Spectra T120 Library

posted by Saker Klippsten on Jan. 30, 2014, 4:20 p.m. (2 days ago)

Anyone have or use the Spectra T120? We need to upgrade to something that can hold more slots. Not so concerned about the drives but more about the Lbrary/Robot itself .. We have happily been using Overland Neo 2000e's for a while but always time to look for something new, or old in this case seeing as the T120 has been around for a while.. Thank you -Saker

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Anyone have or use the Spectra T120? We need to upgrade to something that can hold more slots. Not so concerned about the drives but more about the Lbrary/Robot itself .. We have happily been using Overland Neo 2000e's for a while but always time to look for something new, or old in this case seeing as the T120 has been around for a while.. Thank you -Saker

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posted by Kris Kostiuk on Jan. 30, 2014, 8:06 p.m. (2 days ago)

Hi StudioSysAdmins Members,     Click here to RSVP for the ROBOCOP Screening near you:http://quantum.mv.treehousei.com/Surveys/13/356F4C9791BA64A5/RoboCop.aspx PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PRIVATE SCREENING OF ROBOCOP IN A CITY NEAR YOU! Quantum invites you to your local StudioSysAdmins chapter meeting & private screening of ROBOCOP. Of course many of you worked on this project and others are just fans of the mash up of robotics & law enforcement... Whatever your fascination, come hang out with your colleagues for an evening of good discussion and fun, besides... it’s on us! PRIZES: In each city one lucky attendee will be walking home with a new Sony PS4! (Note: you must attend to win). STUDIOSYSADMINS TECHNICAL DISCUSSION WILL BE ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: Automated Tiered Archival workflows leveraging LTFS Object Storage as a Collaborative, Multi-Geo Content Store SCHEDULE 6:30 pm - Check-in, concessions & take your seat 6:45 pm - SSA Technical Discussion & Screening of ROBOCOP 10:00 pm -Movie concludes PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SPOT BY REGISTERING TODAY! Click here to RSVP for the ROBOCOP Screening near you: http://quantum.mv.treehousei.com/Surveys/13/356F4C9791BA64A5/RoboCop.aspx For more details on StorNext 5 please visit the new StorNext website for Media & Entertainment: http://stornext.com/ For questions, please contact: Kris Kostiuk | Country Manager, Canada - Big Data & Cloud | Quantum Corporation | Mobile: +1 (604) 818-7207 | kris.kostiuk@quantum.com The Story Behind StorNext Content Workflow THE FOREVER DISK ARCHIVE - Lattus Object Storage - Durable, scalable disk storage for Big Data archives   Click here to RSVP for the ROBOCOP Screening near you: http://quantum.mv.treehousei.com/Surveys/13/356F4C9791BA64A5/RoboCop.aspx

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Hi StudioSysAdmins Members,     Click here to RSVP for the ROBOCOP Screening near you:http://quantum.mv.treehousei.com/Surveys/13/356F4C9791BA64A5/RoboCop.aspx PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PRIVATE SCREENING OF ROBOCOP IN A CITY NEAR YOU! Quantum invites you to your local StudioSysAdmins chapter meeting & private screening of ROBOCOP. Of course many of you worked on this project and others are just fans of the mash up of robotics & law enforcement... Whatever your fascination, come hang out with your colleagues for an evening of good discussion and fun, besides... it’s on us! PRIZES: In each city one lucky attendee will be walking home with a new Sony PS4! (Note: you must attend to win). STUDIOSYSADMINS TECHNICAL DISCUSSION WILL BE ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: Automated Tiered Archival workflows leveraging LTFS Object Storage as a Collaborative, Multi-Geo Content Store SCHEDULE 6:30 pm - Check-in, concessions & take your seat 6:45 pm - SSA Technical Discussion & Screening of ROBOCOP 10:00 pm -Movie concludes PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SPOT BY REGISTERING TODAY! Click here to RSVP for the ROBOCOP Screening near you: http://quantum.mv.treehousei.com/Surveys/13/356F4C9791BA64A5/RoboCop.aspx For more details on StorNext 5 please visit the new StorNext website for Media & Entertainment: http://stornext.com/ For questions, please contact: Kris Kostiuk | Country Manager, Canada - Big Data & Cloud | Quantum Corporation | Mobile: +1 (604) 818-7207 | kris.kostiuk@quantum.com The Story Behind StorNext Content Workflow THE FOREVER DISK ARCHIVE - Lattus Object Storage - Durable, scalable disk storage for Big Data archives   Click here to RSVP for the ROBOCOP Screening near you: http://quantum.mv.treehousei.com/Surveys/13/356F4C9791BA64A5/RoboCop.aspx

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posted by  on Jan. 31, 2014, 9:50 a.m. (1 day ago)

What a dance: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-released-guardian-editors-snowden-hard-drives-gchq cal@bluebolt To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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posted by Julian Firminger on Jan. 31, 2014, 10 a.m. (1 day ago)

Good thing they took an angle grinder to not just the RAM but the GPU on that graphics card. Otherwise they could still see the secrets, even if they couldn't read them. or something. Julian Firminger Head of Systems (SASA). VidiGo BV Sysadmin, Post Production Workflow Architect, Avid Video Editor, Colorist Amsterdam, The Netherlands On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cal Sawyer <cal-s@blue-bolt.com> wrote: What a dance: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-released-guardian-editors-snowden-hard-drives-gchq cal@bluebolt To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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Good thing they took an angle grinder to not just the RAM but the GPU on that graphics card. Otherwise they could still see the secrets, even if they couldn't read them. or something. Julian Firminger Head of Systems (SASA). VidiGo BV Sysadmin, Post Production Workflow Architect, Avid Video Editor, Colorist Amsterdam, The Netherlands On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cal Sawyer <cal-s@blue-bolt.com> wrote: What a dance: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-released-guardian-editors-snowden-hard-drives-gchq cal@bluebolt To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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posted by Greg Whynott on Jan. 31, 2014, 12:40 p.m. (1 day ago)

Thank god for calendars... Happy birthday John!

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Thank god for calendars... Happy birthday John!

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posted by Matt Daly on Feb. 4, 2014, 10:45 a.m.

Maybe someone took out the seagate/hitachi battery, kept those safe since grinding those could be unsafe, so that the circuit thingamums could be thoroughly obliterated On 1/31/2014 8:57 AM, julian firminger wrote: Good thing they took an angle grinder to not just the RAM but the GPU on that graphics card.  Otherwise they could still see the secrets, even if they couldn't read them.  or something.   Julian Firminger Head of Systems (SASA).  VidiGo BV Sysadmin, Post Production Workflow Architect, Avid Video Editor, Colorist Amsterdam, The Netherlands On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cal Sawyer <cal-s@blue-bolt.com> wrote: What a dance: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-released-guardian-editors-snowden-hard-drives-gchq cal@bluebolt 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 -- MATT DALY chief scientist// LEVIATHAN ------------------------------------------------ W 312.878.1500  | M 773.294.3977| lvthn.com

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Maybe someone took out the seagate/hitachi battery, kept those safe since grinding those could be unsafe, so that the circuit thingamums could be thoroughly obliterated On 1/31/2014 8:57 AM, julian firminger wrote: Good thing they took an angle grinder to not just the RAM but the GPU on that graphics card.  Otherwise they could still see the secrets, even if they couldn't read them.  or something.   Julian Firminger Head of Systems (SASA).  VidiGo BV Sysadmin, Post Production Workflow Architect, Avid Video Editor, Colorist Amsterdam, The Netherlands On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cal Sawyer <cal-s@blue-bolt.com> wrote: What a dance: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-released-guardian-editors-snowden-hard-drives-gchq cal@bluebolt 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 -- MATT DALY chief scientist// LEVIATHAN ------------------------------------------------ W 312.878.1500  | M 773.294.3977| lvthn.com

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posted by Joe Chonacky on Feb. 4, 2014, 8:15 p.m. (1 day ago)

Hi,   I did a search to see if this had been hashed over previously and didn’t find much.   I was sketching out a new workstation for DaVinci Resolve.  It would also be a Premiere NLE system, and I still believe in PCIe, so it would be Windows (hails of derisive laughter).   My thoughts were to start with a 2k system but preserve the ability to go to 4k.  Blackmagic’s configuration guide is awesome and happily validates the Supermicro SuperServer 7047GR-TRF GPU workstation as the weapon of choice so I feel on fairly comfortable ground.  I’d use the DeckLink 4k Extreme even starting at a 2k build because it’s not terribly expensive and why replace it next week when someone has an “OMG 4k now!” moment.   Here are the points I am pondering:   1. We still don’t feel that working with R3D footage natively is working well so I was planning on leaving the Red Rocket in another system.   Am I wrong in thinking that it has no utility outside of dealing with R3D footage?  Is anyone just loving working with R3D directly, suggesting we should give it another shot? 2. The guide gives considerable latitude in recommending processing GPUs.  Does anyone have any direct experience with how the different classes of cards stack up?  My instinct is to start with 1-2 GTX 780s or GTX Titans, I don’t suppose it makes more sense to put in 1 Quadro K6000 instead of 2 GTXs? 3. Has anyone had an experience of note with a particular card for the GUI role?  Something that should have worked but didn’t?  We’re only looking at driving 2 DVI monitors directly, or possibly 2 DVI + 1 HDMI, obviously the SDI out would go through the DeckLink. 4. Has anyone observed heroic CPU / RAM usage on a Resolve system?  I don’t see going past a pair of 6 core 2.6Ghz E5-2630 v2s and 64GB of RAM if Resolve isn’t known for chowing down on system resources, particularly in a multi-threaded fashion.   All useful or funny input appreciated,     --Joe   Joe Chonacky IT Manager / BENT Image Lab joec@bentimagelab.com 503.228.6206

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Hi,   I did a search to see if this had been hashed over previously and didn’t find much.   I was sketching out a new workstation for DaVinci Resolve.  It would also be a Premiere NLE system, and I still believe in PCIe, so it would be Windows (hails of derisive laughter).   My thoughts were to start with a 2k system but preserve the ability to go to 4k.  Blackmagic’s configuration guide is awesome and happily validates the Supermicro SuperServer 7047GR-TRF GPU workstation as the weapon of choice so I feel on fairly comfortable ground.  I’d use the DeckLink 4k Extreme even starting at a 2k build because it’s not terribly expensive and why replace it next week when someone has an “OMG 4k now!” moment.   Here are the points I am pondering:   1. We still don’t feel that working with R3D footage natively is working well so I was planning on leaving the Red Rocket in another system.   Am I wrong in thinking that it has no utility outside of dealing with R3D footage?  Is anyone just loving working with R3D directly, suggesting we should give it another shot? 2. The guide gives considerable latitude in recommending processing GPUs.  Does anyone have any direct experience with how the different classes of cards stack up?  My instinct is to start with 1-2 GTX 780s or GTX Titans, I don’t suppose it makes more sense to put in 1 Quadro K6000 instead of 2 GTXs? 3. Has anyone had an experience of note with a particular card for the GUI role?  Something that should have worked but didn’t?  We’re only looking at driving 2 DVI monitors directly, or possibly 2 DVI + 1 HDMI, obviously the SDI out would go through the DeckLink. 4. Has anyone observed heroic CPU / RAM usage on a Resolve system?  I don’t see going past a pair of 6 core 2.6Ghz E5-2630 v2s and 64GB of RAM if Resolve isn’t known for chowing down on system resources, particularly in a multi-threaded fashion.   All useful or funny input appreciated,     --Joe   Joe Chonacky IT Manager / BENT Image Lab joec@bentimagelab.com 503.228.6206

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posted by Jeremy Smith on Feb. 5, 2014, 11:45 a.m.

Hello,   Just wondering if anyone out there has used Mac OS Mavricks and created a SFTP server (either on OS X server or OS X desktop).  If so are there any tips that you would recommend, also if you’ve done this and have a decent guide handy it would be appreciated.   Looking forward to all your replies and thanks in advance.   Cheers

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Hello,   Just wondering if anyone out there has used Mac OS Mavricks and created a SFTP server (either on OS X server or OS X desktop).  If so are there any tips that you would recommend, also if you’ve done this and have a decent guide handy it would be appreciated.   Looking forward to all your replies and thanks in advance.   Cheers

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posted by Viet Nguyen on Feb. 5, 2014, 2:30 p.m.

Hi all, I've got a windows share to an Isilon cluster accessing via UNC path. I need a way to tell which node that share actually is connected to without querying the server. I've considered using netstat, but I have several different connections to the same cluster using different UNC names and can't tell them apart. Any ideas? Thanks, Viet

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Hi all, I've got a windows share to an Isilon cluster accessing via UNC path. I need a way to tell which node that share actually is connected to without querying the server. I've considered using netstat, but I have several different connections to the same cluster using different UNC names and can't tell them apart. Any ideas? Thanks, Viet

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February 5, 2014, 11:50 am

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posted by Nick Allevato on Feb. 5, 2014, 2:50 p.m.

To confirm, you want to see which node on the cluster you are connected to from the workstation side. Show us your netstat output. Your description in line two is confusing. -nick On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Viet Nguyen <vietnguyen@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, I've got a windows share to an Isilon cluster accessing via UNC path. I need a way to tell which node that share actually is connected to without querying the server. I've considered using netstat, but I have several different connections to the same cluster using different UNC names and can't tell them apart. Any ideas? Thanks, Viet To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe -- Nick Allevato | Systems Administrator 5th KindDigital Asset Management www.5thkind.com | c:661.645.3507

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To confirm, you want to see which node on the cluster you are connected to from the workstation side. Show us your netstat output. Your description in line two is confusing. -nick On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Viet Nguyen <vietnguyen@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, I've got a windows share to an Isilon cluster accessing via UNC path. I need a way to tell which node that share actually is connected to without querying the server. I've considered using netstat, but I have several different connections to the same cluster using different UNC names and can't tell them apart. Any ideas? Thanks, Viet To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe -- Nick Allevato | Systems Administrator 5th KindDigital Asset Management www.5thkind.com | c:661.645.3507

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posted by John Morch on Feb. 6, 2014, 10:22 a.m.

Security is one of those topics we are all watching and learning about everyday. Here is a chance to get updated. We are holding a quick-fire security event on March 4th with 4 key Scalar partners covering the latest threat vectors and how to protect against them. If there is someone in your organization that would be interested please do me a favour and let them know to register. Links below to register: OTTAWA, February 26 TORONTO, March 4 CALGARY, March 5 VANCOUVER, March 6

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Security is one of those topics we are all watching and learning about everyday. Here is a chance to get updated. We are holding a quick-fire security event on March 4th with 4 key Scalar partners covering the latest threat vectors and how to protect against them. If there is someone in your organization that would be interested please do me a favour and let them know to register. Links below to register: OTTAWA, February 26 TORONTO, March 4 CALGARY, March 5 VANCOUVER, March 6

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posted by Nick Allevato on Feb. 6, 2014, 8:35 p.m. (1 day ago)

noice! On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Tommy Asbee <tommy@a52.com> wrote: Not sure how new this is ...thought it was kinda cool... Looks like revision offers a: These licenses provide cross-host licensing for RSMB. See our website for which hosts are supported by our floating licensing server.* I asked support and they said "The multi-host floating licenses for RSMB support all the hosts on this download list:http://revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/downloads/ " -Tommy Tommy Asbee Engineer A52 / Rock Paper Scissors / Elastic 2308 Broadway |Santa Monica CA | 90404 p. 310.586.0600 | f. 310.586.0601 To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe -- Nick Allevato | Systems Administrator 5th KindDigital Asset Management www.5thkind.com | c:661.645.3507

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noice! On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Tommy Asbee <tommy@a52.com> wrote: Not sure how new this is ...thought it was kinda cool... Looks like revision offers a: These licenses provide cross-host licensing for RSMB. See our website for which hosts are supported by our floating licensing server.* I asked support and they said "The multi-host floating licenses for RSMB support all the hosts on this download list:http://revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/downloads/ " -Tommy Tommy Asbee Engineer A52 / Rock Paper Scissors / Elastic 2308 Broadway |Santa Monica CA | 90404 p. 310.586.0600 | f. 310.586.0601 To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe -- Nick Allevato | Systems Administrator 5th KindDigital Asset Management www.5thkind.com | c:661.645.3507

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posted by Matt Daly on Feb. 7, 2014, 11:20 a.m.

I am dipping a toe into trying out using virtual machines in our render farm. I had a system drive die recently, so I took the opportunity to do a bare metal install. After a lot of research, I decided on KVM, using Proxmox. I considered vmware, but I know that the cost will be too much in the long run. Xen looked good, but I am looking for a simple solution. Our farm is running maya+vray, this machine came from a pool of core i7 2600k machines. This machine has 8GB of ram (enough for now). I made sure the VT-? setting was enabled in the bios. I gave the vm 8 processors, and 7.5 GB of ram, dynamic allocation. I spun up a windows 7 instance from local storage, worked great. Got it added to the farm, rendering away. I am getting about 60% of the performance of an identical system, running win 7 native. Is that normal? I have hyperthreading on - is that pooching it? Should I only be giving the VM 4 processors? I am not seeing any io wait times, network issues, and this render is light on ram, maybe 2.5GB on any system I look at. Should I stick to VM's for utility servers and that's it? Thanks for any insight, MD -- MATT DALY chief scientist// LEVIATHAN ------------------------------------------------ W 312.878.1500  | M 773.294.3977| lvthn.com

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I am dipping a toe into trying out using virtual machines in our render farm. I had a system drive die recently, so I took the opportunity to do a bare metal install. After a lot of research, I decided on KVM, using Proxmox. I considered vmware, but I know that the cost will be too much in the long run. Xen looked good, but I am looking for a simple solution. Our farm is running maya+vray, this machine came from a pool of core i7 2600k machines. This machine has 8GB of ram (enough for now). I made sure the VT-? setting was enabled in the bios. I gave the vm 8 processors, and 7.5 GB of ram, dynamic allocation. I spun up a windows 7 instance from local storage, worked great. Got it added to the farm, rendering away. I am getting about 60% of the performance of an identical system, running win 7 native. Is that normal? I have hyperthreading on - is that pooching it? Should I only be giving the VM 4 processors? I am not seeing any io wait times, network issues, and this render is light on ram, maybe 2.5GB on any system I look at. Should I stick to VM's for utility servers and that's it? Thanks for any insight, MD -- MATT DALY chief scientist// LEVIATHAN ------------------------------------------------ W 312.878.1500  | M 773.294.3977| lvthn.com

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posted by Saker Klippsten on Feb. 7, 2014, 12:55 p.m.

Anyone have any spare Autodesk 300GB SAS Drives? I can buy, or swap with you for the Non AD firmware version? Or know of how to wipe the dependency on Autodesk Firmware? Not using the array as a stone etc.. Thanks! -S

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Anyone have any spare Autodesk 300GB SAS Drives? I can buy, or swap with you for the Non AD firmware version? Or know of how to wipe the dependency on Autodesk Firmware? Not using the array as a stone etc.. Thanks! -S