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posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Feb. 8, 2014, 2:06 a.m.

As of Feb 19, no firmware updates for HP servers unless you have a valid support contract: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog/Customers-for-life/ba-p/154423 No firmware for you! JF

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As of Feb 19, no firmware updates for HP servers unless you have a valid support contract: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog/Customers-for-life/ba-p/154423 No firmware for you! JF

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posted by Dan Young on Feb. 8, 2014, 11:40 a.m.

Hello everyone! Pleased to announce that we will be having an event on Thursday, March 6th, 2014 - at my new office in Chinatown. We've got a big open loft space to host all of us in, and Avere and SGI are coming to chat to us about nifty roadmap type stuff for their storage platforms. There will be; - BEER - PIZZA - PRIZES (It's a super rad AR drone helicopter thing, you can pretend to be Obama and destroy your enemies!) - GOOD TIMES Please do put it in your calendars, and tell all your nerdiest, developiest friends to come on down and have a slice and a pint and a conversation. Doors will open at 6:30pm, the meeting will run 7-9. Likely, if there is interest we will move onto 169 Bar (around the corner) if we need to carry on drinking and such. The office is located at; 50 Eldridge St (between Hester and Canal) 7th Floor New York, NY 10002 The closest subways are; - GRAND ST (B and D - express orange / 6th ave trains) - EAST BROADWAY (F - local orange / 6th ave train) and (at a push) - SPRING ST (6 - local green / lexington train) Spread the word, and see the flyer that's attached! Thanks everyone, it's been a minute, so we're hoping to get all of you lovely folks out. Cheers, DY -- ---------- Dan Young CineSys-Oceana New York 347-334-0132

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Hello everyone! Pleased to announce that we will be having an event on Thursday, March 6th, 2014 - at my new office in Chinatown. We've got a big open loft space to host all of us in, and Avere and SGI are coming to chat to us about nifty roadmap type stuff for their storage platforms. There will be; - BEER - PIZZA - PRIZES (It's a super rad AR drone helicopter thing, you can pretend to be Obama and destroy your enemies!) - GOOD TIMES Please do put it in your calendars, and tell all your nerdiest, developiest friends to come on down and have a slice and a pint and a conversation. Doors will open at 6:30pm, the meeting will run 7-9. Likely, if there is interest we will move onto 169 Bar (around the corner) if we need to carry on drinking and such. The office is located at; 50 Eldridge St (between Hester and Canal) 7th Floor New York, NY 10002 The closest subways are; - GRAND ST (B and D - express orange / 6th ave trains) - EAST BROADWAY (F - local orange / 6th ave train) and (at a push) - SPRING ST (6 - local green / lexington train) Spread the word, and see the flyer that's attached! Thanks everyone, it's been a minute, so we're hoping to get all of you lovely folks out. Cheers, DY -- ---------- Dan Young CineSys-Oceana New York 347-334-0132

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posted by John Kleber on Feb. 10, 2014, 10:55 a.m. (1 day ago)

Hello All,  We have an immediate opening for a Systems Admin/Engineer at MPC New York. Please reply to the email address in the job description and pass along to anyone who may be interested. Description below: Systems Engineer (New York City) @ MPC - The Moving Picture Company Position type: Full-Time MPC is one of the world's leading post production facilities creating high-end digital visual effects for the advertising, music, television and feature film industries. The company works with and continually invests in new technologies, and a key part of the organization is the Systems team which develops and maintains the infrastructure on which all the visual effects are created.   There is currently a vacancy for the position of Systems Engineer. Reporting to the Chief Engineer, this role offers the successful candidate unlimited potential to advance technical skills, offers experience with state-of-the-art technology and opportunity to learn from specialist digital media colleagues.   The Engineer works in collaboration with VFX Supervisors, Compositing Supervisors, 3D Animators and Production staff to advise management and clients   Primary responsibilities are:            Ensure systems run reliably and perform as required          Work with the team to design, develop and implement/install software tools and programs to achieve the desired functionality of the production stages.          Work with the Systems team to develop tools and systems to increase efficiency of the systems infrastructure          Identify upcoming requirements, recommend and implement solutions          Provide technical support for VFX Artists using mainly Linux workstations          Take ownership of and assist the team with various evaluation, installation, development and decommissioning projects.          Keep abreast of latest developments in data based workflows, knowledge of audio and video systems, Autodesk products as well as working practices of high-end commercial post production.          Artist support: oversee deployment of workstations, calibration of monitors, general IT issues (email, Internet access…)          Manage preventative maintenance schedules.          Act as an expert resource on equipment issues.          Work with Producers, Artists and Operations to understand individual projects and advise on strategies to streamline services and achieve client objectives within budget and technical limitations. Knowledge, Skills and Experience:            Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering. Electrical Engineering or equivalent          A minimum of 3 years UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows system administration experience          A knowledge of programming with C/C++ and scripting languages such as Python, bash, tcsh, and Perl          An understanding of technologies such as MySQL, NFS, Apache, Subversion and RPM          Engineering level knowledge of standard CG and compositing applications (Maya, Houdini, Mental Ray, Flame, Nuke …)          Experience with render farms and queuing systems          A good grasp of storage and networking concepts and techniques, computer hardware and operating system.          Able to develop and enhance any aspect of the production and editing systems.          Integrate off the shelf and custom applications into production pipelines.          Excellent communication, people skills, and team working skills.          Capacity to manage a busy workload with high productivity. Please submit resume's and expected salary to Tiffany.Barry@technicolor.com John Kleber | Head of Technology MPC 9th Floor, 434 Broadway, New York, 10013 T +1 212 915 3110 | C +1 347 821 9399 London – Vancouver – Bangalore – New York Los Angeles – Amsterdam – Montral – Mexico City moving-picture.com

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Hello All,  We have an immediate opening for a Systems Admin/Engineer at MPC New York. Please reply to the email address in the job description and pass along to anyone who may be interested. Description below: Systems Engineer (New York City) @ MPC - The Moving Picture Company Position type: Full-Time MPC is one of the world's leading post production facilities creating high-end digital visual effects for the advertising, music, television and feature film industries. The company works with and continually invests in new technologies, and a key part of the organization is the Systems team which develops and maintains the infrastructure on which all the visual effects are created.   There is currently a vacancy for the position of Systems Engineer. Reporting to the Chief Engineer, this role offers the successful candidate unlimited potential to advance technical skills, offers experience with state-of-the-art technology and opportunity to learn from specialist digital media colleagues.   The Engineer works in collaboration with VFX Supervisors, Compositing Supervisors, 3D Animators and Production staff to advise management and clients   Primary responsibilities are:            Ensure systems run reliably and perform as required          Work with the team to design, develop and implement/install software tools and programs to achieve the desired functionality of the production stages.          Work with the Systems team to develop tools and systems to increase efficiency of the systems infrastructure          Identify upcoming requirements, recommend and implement solutions          Provide technical support for VFX Artists using mainly Linux workstations          Take ownership of and assist the team with various evaluation, installation, development and decommissioning projects.          Keep abreast of latest developments in data based workflows, knowledge of audio and video systems, Autodesk products as well as working practices of high-end commercial post production.          Artist support: oversee deployment of workstations, calibration of monitors, general IT issues (email, Internet access…)          Manage preventative maintenance schedules.          Act as an expert resource on equipment issues.          Work with Producers, Artists and Operations to understand individual projects and advise on strategies to streamline services and achieve client objectives within budget and technical limitations. Knowledge, Skills and Experience:            Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering. Electrical Engineering or equivalent          A minimum of 3 years UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows system administration experience          A knowledge of programming with C/C++ and scripting languages such as Python, bash, tcsh, and Perl          An understanding of technologies such as MySQL, NFS, Apache, Subversion and RPM          Engineering level knowledge of standard CG and compositing applications (Maya, Houdini, Mental Ray, Flame, Nuke …)          Experience with render farms and queuing systems          A good grasp of storage and networking concepts and techniques, computer hardware and operating system.          Able to develop and enhance any aspect of the production and editing systems.          Integrate off the shelf and custom applications into production pipelines.          Excellent communication, people skills, and team working skills.          Capacity to manage a busy workload with high productivity. Please submit resume's and expected salary to Tiffany.Barry@technicolor.com John Kleber | Head of Technology MPC 9th Floor, 434 Broadway, New York, 10013 T +1 212 915 3110 | C +1 347 821 9399 London – Vancouver – Bangalore – New York Los Angeles – Amsterdam – Montral – Mexico City moving-picture.com

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posted by Bobby Jain on Feb. 10, 2014, 4:55 p.m. (1 day ago)

With our rapid growth, and remote offices, users are requesting laptops. Traditionally we had a few laptops which were easy to keep track of. But with the growing numbers, traveling users, and different configs (OSX and Windows) management is becoming a pain point. I have a few questions: 1) What management/tracking software have you used? 2) If you join a Windows laptop to the domain, how do you allow the user to login outside of the company walls? 3) Do you give the user admin privileges on the laptop so they can install and upgrade software when in the field? This is a mixed environment with OSX(10.6-10.9) and Windows 7. Thanks in advance.

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With our rapid growth, and remote offices, users are requesting laptops. Traditionally we had a few laptops which were easy to keep track of. But with the growing numbers, traveling users, and different configs (OSX and Windows) management is becoming a pain point. I have a few questions: 1) What management/tracking software have you used? 2) If you join a Windows laptop to the domain, how do you allow the user to login outside of the company walls? 3) Do you give the user admin privileges on the laptop so they can install and upgrade software when in the field? This is a mixed environment with OSX(10.6-10.9) and Windows 7. Thanks in advance.

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posted by  on Feb. 11, 2014, 9:20 a.m.

Hello All,  We have an immediate opening for a Systems Admin/Engineer at MPC New York. Please reply to the email address in the job description and pass along to anyone who may be interested.  Description below: Systems Engineer (New York City) @ MPC - The Moving Picture Company Position type: Full-Time MPC is one of the world's leading post production facilities creating high-end digital visual effects for the advertising, music, television and feature film industries. The company works with and continually invests in new technologies, and a key part of the organization is the Systems team which develops and maintains the infrastructure on which all the visual effects are created.   There is currently a vacancy for the position of Systems Engineer. Reporting to the Chief Engineer, this role offers the successful candidate unlimited potential to advance technical skills, offers experience with state-of-the-art technology and opportunity to learn from specialist digital media colleagues.   The Engineer works in collaboration with VFX Supervisors, Compositing Supervisors, 3D Animators and Production staff to advise management and clients   Primary responsibilities are:            Ensure systems run reliably and perform as required          Work with the team to design, develop and implement/install software tools and programs to achieve the desired functionality of the production stages.          Work with the Systems team to develop tools and systems to increase efficiency of the systems infrastructure          Identify upcoming requirements, recommend and implement solutions          Provide technical support for VFX Artists using mainly Linux workstations          Take ownership of and assist the team with various evaluation, installation, development and decommissioning projects.          Keep abreast of latest developments in data based workflows, knowledge of audio and video systems, Autodesk products as well as working practices of high-end commercial post production.          Artist support: oversee deployment of workstations, calibration of monitors, general IT issues (email, Internet access)          Manage preventative maintenance schedules.          Act as an expert resource on equipment issues.          Work with Producers, Artists and Operations to understand individual projects and advise on strategies to streamline services and achieve client objectives within budget and technical limitations.   Knowledge, Skills and Experience:            Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering. Electrical Engineering or equivalent          A minimum of 3 years UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows system administration experience          A knowledge of programming with C/C++ and scripting languages such as Python, bash, tcsh, and Perl          An understanding of technologies such as MySQL, NFS, Apache, Subversion and RPM          Engineering level knowledge of standard CG and compositing applications (Maya, Houdini, Mental Ray, Flame, Nuke )          Experience with render farms and queuing systems          A good grasp of storage and networking concepts and techniques, computer hardware and operating system.          Able to develop and enhance any aspect of the production and editing systems.          Integrate off the shelf and custom applications into production pipelines.          Excellent communication, people skills, and team working skills.          Capacity to manage a busy workload with high productivity. Please submit resume's and expected salary to Tiffany.Barry@technicolor.com   John Kleber | Head of Technology MPC 9th Floor, 434 Broadway, New York, 10013 T +1 212 915 3110 | C +1 347 821 9399 London  Vancouver Bangalore  New York Los Angeles  Amsterdam  Montral  Mexico City moving-picture.com

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Hello All,  We have an immediate opening for a Systems Admin/Engineer at MPC New York. Please reply to the email address in the job description and pass along to anyone who may be interested.  Description below: Systems Engineer (New York City) @ MPC - The Moving Picture Company Position type: Full-Time MPC is one of the world's leading post production facilities creating high-end digital visual effects for the advertising, music, television and feature film industries. The company works with and continually invests in new technologies, and a key part of the organization is the Systems team which develops and maintains the infrastructure on which all the visual effects are created.   There is currently a vacancy for the position of Systems Engineer. Reporting to the Chief Engineer, this role offers the successful candidate unlimited potential to advance technical skills, offers experience with state-of-the-art technology and opportunity to learn from specialist digital media colleagues.   The Engineer works in collaboration with VFX Supervisors, Compositing Supervisors, 3D Animators and Production staff to advise management and clients   Primary responsibilities are:            Ensure systems run reliably and perform as required          Work with the team to design, develop and implement/install software tools and programs to achieve the desired functionality of the production stages.          Work with the Systems team to develop tools and systems to increase efficiency of the systems infrastructure          Identify upcoming requirements, recommend and implement solutions          Provide technical support for VFX Artists using mainly Linux workstations          Take ownership of and assist the team with various evaluation, installation, development and decommissioning projects.          Keep abreast of latest developments in data based workflows, knowledge of audio and video systems, Autodesk products as well as working practices of high-end commercial post production.          Artist support: oversee deployment of workstations, calibration of monitors, general IT issues (email, Internet access)          Manage preventative maintenance schedules.          Act as an expert resource on equipment issues.          Work with Producers, Artists and Operations to understand individual projects and advise on strategies to streamline services and achieve client objectives within budget and technical limitations.   Knowledge, Skills and Experience:            Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering. Electrical Engineering or equivalent          A minimum of 3 years UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows system administration experience          A knowledge of programming with C/C++ and scripting languages such as Python, bash, tcsh, and Perl          An understanding of technologies such as MySQL, NFS, Apache, Subversion and RPM          Engineering level knowledge of standard CG and compositing applications (Maya, Houdini, Mental Ray, Flame, Nuke )          Experience with render farms and queuing systems          A good grasp of storage and networking concepts and techniques, computer hardware and operating system.          Able to develop and enhance any aspect of the production and editing systems.          Integrate off the shelf and custom applications into production pipelines.          Excellent communication, people skills, and team working skills.          Capacity to manage a busy workload with high productivity. Please submit resume's and expected salary to Tiffany.Barry@technicolor.com   John Kleber | Head of Technology MPC 9th Floor, 434 Broadway, New York, 10013 T +1 212 915 3110 | C +1 347 821 9399 London  Vancouver Bangalore  New York Los Angeles  Amsterdam  Montral  Mexico City moving-picture.com

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posted by John Hickson on Feb. 11, 2014, 1:28 p.m.

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 REGISTER For questions, please contact Kris Kostiuk 604.818.7207 or kris.kostiuk@quantum.com

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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 REGISTER For questions, please contact Kris Kostiuk 604.818.7207 or kris.kostiuk@quantum.com

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posted by Julian Firminger on Feb. 12, 2014, 3:50 a.m.

Sometime's it's the small problems that get you stuck for the longest, hence I'll drop this here for anyone running google business, and I know some of you are. Her royal googleness has changed the way g+ is activated in your domain and not bothered to document this. If you were not running g+ but were running hangouts and not runningPicasa,you might, I say might, find that suddenly none of your users can use hangouts anymore even though hangouts is still enabled and turned on for everyone. Users will get an error saying g+ is not enabled in your domain. Now, according to the docs, you need to turn g+ on https://support.google.com/a/answer/1631746?hl=en but it no longer turns up in google apps, it's moved to: admin console > more controls > other google apps > premium features. Julian Firminger Head of Systems (SASA). VidiGo BV Sysadmin, Post Production Workflow Architect, Avid Video Editor, Colorist Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Sometime's it's the small problems that get you stuck for the longest, hence I'll drop this here for anyone running google business, and I know some of you are. Her royal googleness has changed the way g+ is activated in your domain and not bothered to document this. If you were not running g+ but were running hangouts and not runningPicasa,you might, I say might, find that suddenly none of your users can use hangouts anymore even though hangouts is still enabled and turned on for everyone. Users will get an error saying g+ is not enabled in your domain. Now, according to the docs, you need to turn g+ on https://support.google.com/a/answer/1631746?hl=en but it no longer turns up in google apps, it's moved to: admin console > more controls > other google apps > premium features. Julian Firminger Head of Systems (SASA). VidiGo BV Sysadmin, Post Production Workflow Architect, Avid Video Editor, Colorist Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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posted by Jeremy Smith on Feb. 12, 2014, 8 a.m.

Hello fellow Sysadmins!   I haven’t had to do this in a very long time, but can someone please remind me on how to enable (and disable) flow control on multiple ports at once on HP Procurve switches (running K.15.10.0009, ROM K.15.30).  Also it is possible to do this from the web GUI?   I have a 5406zl and 5412zl.  Also looking on the HP site for some manuals, but any reminders from everyone here would be welcome!   Thanks in advance   Jeremy

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Hello fellow Sysadmins!   I haven’t had to do this in a very long time, but can someone please remind me on how to enable (and disable) flow control on multiple ports at once on HP Procurve switches (running K.15.10.0009, ROM K.15.30).  Also it is possible to do this from the web GUI?   I have a 5406zl and 5412zl.  Also looking on the HP site for some manuals, but any reminders from everyone here would be welcome!   Thanks in advance   Jeremy

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posted by Jeremy Smith on Feb. 12, 2014, 2:20 p.m.

Hello everyone,   Just a quick question for everyone on the list here.  We have different users in different departments and I need a way of doing traffic shaping certain people access to the internet.  My requirements are   1.       Change priority based on groups in Active Directory.  I may want the general artist have very slow internet access compared to a producer who is downloading DPX plates etc.  I believe that you can do with with some of CyberRoams products (haven’t looked there products to closely), but thought I would see what else people have heard of. 2.       I currently have things organized into several vlans and I could set up rules based on IP address, however it would be easier management to do this via groups that we already have in AD (producers, artists etc).  There is the chance that people may have to change Vlans at some point etc etc.   We have a pretty decent connection to the net, but after several people get on vimeo, youtube, Spotify at once the connect definitely does take a hit.  I basically need to guarantee Quality of Service for a certain group of people over another.  If the primary group isn’t using that bandwidth then the secondary group can use it for whatever.  It would be nice not to have to kill access to the internet completely.. but just need to better control it.   If anyone can suggest anything I would definitely be interested!   Thank you   Jeremy

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Hello everyone,   Just a quick question for everyone on the list here.  We have different users in different departments and I need a way of doing traffic shaping certain people access to the internet.  My requirements are   1.       Change priority based on groups in Active Directory.  I may want the general artist have very slow internet access compared to a producer who is downloading DPX plates etc.  I believe that you can do with with some of CyberRoams products (haven’t looked there products to closely), but thought I would see what else people have heard of. 2.       I currently have things organized into several vlans and I could set up rules based on IP address, however it would be easier management to do this via groups that we already have in AD (producers, artists etc).  There is the chance that people may have to change Vlans at some point etc etc.   We have a pretty decent connection to the net, but after several people get on vimeo, youtube, Spotify at once the connect definitely does take a hit.  I basically need to guarantee Quality of Service for a certain group of people over another.  If the primary group isn’t using that bandwidth then the secondary group can use it for whatever.  It would be nice not to have to kill access to the internet completely.. but just need to better control it.   If anyone can suggest anything I would definitely be interested!   Thank you   Jeremy

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posted by Greg Whynott on Feb. 12, 2014, 3:20 p.m.

Is this still on for tomorrow? if so where? Last I seen the location was tentatively Dundas/Young but I never seen a confirm. I will likely have to bail before the movie but will come along for the presentations and to say high. we seeing the 2D or 3D version? or is it in 3D? or is anything not have a 3D release now? so many questions..

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Is this still on for tomorrow? if so where? Last I seen the location was tentatively Dundas/Young but I never seen a confirm. I will likely have to bail before the movie but will come along for the presentations and to say high. we seeing the 2D or 3D version? or is it in 3D? or is anything not have a 3D release now? so many questions..

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posted by Michael Stein on Feb. 12, 2014, 4:15 p.m.

I'm trying to resolve some issues related to license purchases of Optical Flares for Nuke from Video Copilot, but they seem to only want to email and I'm struggling to get my questions answered properly. Does anyone have a phone number for them or a direct email contact they wouldn't mind sharing? This is taking far longer than it should for something so simple. Thanks in advance. stein

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I'm trying to resolve some issues related to license purchases of Optical Flares for Nuke from Video Copilot, but they seem to only want to email and I'm struggling to get my questions answered properly. Does anyone have a phone number for them or a direct email contact they wouldn't mind sharing? This is taking far longer than it should for something so simple. Thanks in advance. stein

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NFS on WINDOWS 7 for the win ^h^h^h^h fail

posted by Greg Whynott on Feb. 12, 2014, 5:10 p.m.

What a f'n bummer!!!!! I feel like such a shmuck for believing. preface: I removed windows from my work place desktop and installed linux many moons ago. fast forward a few months and I decided to install a windows VM on it for testing things and opening M$ files. Instead of using the company standard image installed by XCAT/WKPG which installs windows 7 pro by default, i told it to install Ultimate. just wanted to see what the differences were, which I couldn't, till today. One of our challenges we continue to have here is dealing with cross platform/protocol ACLs maintenance on ZFS file systems. While talking to a vendor they mentioned a shop they knew of that turned off CIFS entirely and were running NFS on all their windows machines. NFS for windows has been out for a long time but this was the first I ever heard of a large shop standardizing on it and enjoying life. After doing some research it turns out NFS on windows 7 is quite good and 'compliant'. So i enabled the feature on my windows VM, installed the SDK/UNIX tool download from M$'s site, turned off every trace of SMB/CIFS, then started mounting all our exports via NFS and mapping them to drive letters. it worked wonderfully. UID/GID's worked out of the box (after ticking a box). it respected ACLs, things appeared to be good in the hood. So then I send an email to my group and say "do a limited deployment and take the test to the next level". I even wrote a friend boasting how I had a working solution to make up for all the lameness i've been dealing with ACL wise at work. then one of my guys responded to me after tying to install it... i got hit with the big M$ dumb-ass bat. Silly rabbit... NFS services for windows is for some reason only a M$ loving zealot would be able to explain, is only available on the "Ultimate" version... Even tho they advertise the "professional" version for enterprises... what f'n shit. f-u M$ and anyone who likes them!!! 8) -g

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What a f'n bummer!!!!! I feel like such a shmuck for believing. preface: I removed windows from my work place desktop and installed linux many moons ago. fast forward a few months and I decided to install a windows VM on it for testing things and opening M$ files. Instead of using the company standard image installed by XCAT/WKPG which installs windows 7 pro by default, i told it to install Ultimate. just wanted to see what the differences were, which I couldn't, till today. One of our challenges we continue to have here is dealing with cross platform/protocol ACLs maintenance on ZFS file systems. While talking to a vendor they mentioned a shop they knew of that turned off CIFS entirely and were running NFS on all their windows machines. NFS for windows has been out for a long time but this was the first I ever heard of a large shop standardizing on it and enjoying life. After doing some research it turns out NFS on windows 7 is quite good and 'compliant'. So i enabled the feature on my windows VM, installed the SDK/UNIX tool download from M$'s site, turned off every trace of SMB/CIFS, then started mounting all our exports via NFS and mapping them to drive letters. it worked wonderfully. UID/GID's worked out of the box (after ticking a box). it respected ACLs, things appeared to be good in the hood. So then I send an email to my group and say "do a limited deployment and take the test to the next level". I even wrote a friend boasting how I had a working solution to make up for all the lameness i've been dealing with ACL wise at work. then one of my guys responded to me after tying to install it... i got hit with the big M$ dumb-ass bat. Silly rabbit... NFS services for windows is for some reason only a M$ loving zealot would be able to explain, is only available on the "Ultimate" version... Even tho they advertise the "professional" version for enterprises... what f'n shit. f-u M$ and anyone who likes them!!! 8) -g

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posted by Jason Navarro on Feb. 12, 2014, 9:50 p.m. (1 day ago)

Were doing some NFS (v3) tuning on our Isilon cluster. Our environment is mostly Linux (Cent6) with a few Mac stragglers. Any suggestions appreciated, but looking at: What block size do you set your Isilon NFS exports? Default is 8K in the NFS performance settings. What NFS mount options do you use for your Linux/Mac clients? Do you set any other NFS performance settings on the Isilon side of things? Do you set any TCP/IP performance settings on the Linux/Mac clients? Thanks, Jason

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Were doing some NFS (v3) tuning on our Isilon cluster. Our environment is mostly Linux (Cent6) with a few Mac stragglers. Any suggestions appreciated, but looking at: What block size do you set your Isilon NFS exports? Default is 8K in the NFS performance settings. What NFS mount options do you use for your Linux/Mac clients? Do you set any other NFS performance settings on the Isilon side of things? Do you set any TCP/IP performance settings on the Linux/Mac clients? Thanks, Jason

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posted by Brian Krusic on Feb. 13, 2014, 1:25 p.m.

Hi, I understand 2014 will use RLM, there Maxwell fromage already does so thats good. However are there any tricks to log usage of this 2012/2013 to a file? I could cron there lic server with -l -f -c and pipe to a file, but this seems crude to me.  Havent tried it yet either. Any guidance is appreciated. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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Hi, I understand 2014 will use RLM, there Maxwell fromage already does so thats good. However are there any tricks to log usage of this 2012/2013 to a file? I could cron there lic server with -l -f -c and pipe to a file, but this seems crude to me.  Havent tried it yet either. Any guidance is appreciated. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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posted by  on Feb. 13, 2014, 10:45 p.m. (5 days ago)

Have a friend with a flame 2010 setup which froze. On reboot stone won't mount. Stone is a FC raid which shows healthy on both controllers and the FS was setup via sw_config. sdc shows 3 partitions with a disk label of dvh and a name of swr2cfg. sdb has no label and no partitions. Any ideas on recreating the partitions without losing the data? JF? Pretty sure he is hosed but it would be great if he wasn't. Michael Oliver mcoliver@gmail.com 858.336.1438

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Have a friend with a flame 2010 setup which froze. On reboot stone won't mount. Stone is a FC raid which shows healthy on both controllers and the FS was setup via sw_config. sdc shows 3 partitions with a disk label of dvh and a name of swr2cfg. sdb has no label and no partitions. Any ideas on recreating the partitions without losing the data? JF? Pretty sure he is hosed but it would be great if he wasn't. Michael Oliver mcoliver@gmail.com 858.336.1438

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posted by Gregory Shiff on Feb. 14, 2014, 2:35 p.m. (4 days ago)

Folks--- Yeah, I'm spamming the list. But hey, this is going to be an awesome event.  Asset Management, Automation, and how that fits into the Adobe ecosystem. Plus free booze and food.  Hello! See the invite below and come throw things at me in public. Cheers. Greg Please join Reach Engine and Adobe to discover the innovative integration of Adobe Premiere Pro, Prelude and Anywhere into the Reach Engine ecosystem. Together these solutions change the potential efficiencies of video production through distribution, opening everything from the hardware you use to the location where you edit. The economics are just as exciting; earn more revenue as every member of your organization, from production through marketing, gains visibility and control. When: February 24, 2014 6:00pm - 9:00pm Soho House, 29-35 Ninth Avenue New York, NY If you will be able to join us please RSVP here. Gregory Shiff  Director of Technical Sales  o: (303) 495-2424 | c: (917) 499-4171 | e: gshiff@levelsbeyond.com  www.levelsbeyond.com

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Folks--- Yeah, I'm spamming the list. But hey, this is going to be an awesome event.  Asset Management, Automation, and how that fits into the Adobe ecosystem. Plus free booze and food.  Hello! See the invite below and come throw things at me in public. Cheers. Greg Please join Reach Engine and Adobe to discover the innovative integration of Adobe Premiere Pro, Prelude and Anywhere into the Reach Engine ecosystem. Together these solutions change the potential efficiencies of video production through distribution, opening everything from the hardware you use to the location where you edit. The economics are just as exciting; earn more revenue as every member of your organization, from production through marketing, gains visibility and control. When: February 24, 2014 6:00pm - 9:00pm Soho House, 29-35 Ninth Avenue New York, NY If you will be able to join us please RSVP here. Gregory Shiff  Director of Technical Sales  o: (303) 495-2424 | c: (917) 499-4171 | e: gshiff@levelsbeyond.com  www.levelsbeyond.com

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posted by Alex Gerulaitis on Feb. 15, 2014, 12:20 a.m. (3 days ago)

Perhaps someone seen this before and has a quick fix vs. nuking a local user profile. Basically the audio goes off on a Mac pro with Kona 3 in a specific user profile only - in anything but FCP. Is there a quick fix? Thanks. Additional details: - FCP audio - always good - any other audio (system sounds, QT clips) - mostly off (no audio), occasionally there's audio for a few seconds which then disappears - audio output is routed through Kona 3 (AES -> mixer) - when audio out is switched to internal speakers, no issue: audio is good - issue persists through restarts - issue does not persist in other user profiles: tried it in Admin user profile: no issue. - last time that user worked in that edit bay was a few months ago Determination: - the issue is limited to that user ID only; likely could be fixed by wiping out local user configuration settings or perhaps local user profile altogether. Alex.

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Perhaps someone seen this before and has a quick fix vs. nuking a local user profile. Basically the audio goes off on a Mac pro with Kona 3 in a specific user profile only - in anything but FCP. Is there a quick fix? Thanks. Additional details: - FCP audio - always good - any other audio (system sounds, QT clips) - mostly off (no audio), occasionally there's audio for a few seconds which then disappears - audio output is routed through Kona 3 (AES -> mixer) - when audio out is switched to internal speakers, no issue: audio is good - issue persists through restarts - issue does not persist in other user profiles: tried it in Admin user profile: no issue. - last time that user worked in that edit bay was a few months ago Determination: - the issue is limited to that user ID only; likely could be fixed by wiping out local user configuration settings or perhaps local user profile altogether. Alex.

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posted by Ryan Lee on Feb. 15, 2014, 10:40 a.m. (3 days ago)

Hi Greg, At of kick-off last week they had a tonne of vendors, Adobe being one of them. I raised the Linux issue and the person I was speaking with indicated it had been raised within their team. Don't hold your breath, but at least they know ... Enjoy your long weekend! Ryan   From: Greg Whynott [mailto:greg.whynott@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 09:25 AM To: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com <studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com> Cc: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com <studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com> Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Levels Beyond / Reach Engine + Adobe @ SoHo House, NYC. Feb 24th. 6-9pm.   I won't be there but could you ask Peter and Michel when Adobe plans to release a Linux Photoshop? G Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2014, at 12:17, Gregory Shiff <gshiff@levelsbeyond.com> wrote: Folks--- Yeah, I'm spamming the list. But hey, this is going to be an awesome event.  Asset Management, Automation, and how that fits into the Adobe ecosystem. Plus free booze and food. Hello! See the invite below and come throw things at me in public. Cheers. Greg Please join Reach Engine and Adobe to discover the innovative integration of Adobe Premiere Pro, Prelude and Anywhere into the Reach Engine ecosystem. Together these solutions change the potential efficiencies of video production through distribution, opening everything from the hardware you use to the location where you edit. The economics are just as exciting; earn more revenue as every member of your organization, from production through marketing, gains visibility and control. When: February 24, 2014 6:00pm - 9:00pm Soho House, 29-35 Ninth Avenue New York, NY If you will be able to join us please RSVP here. <ii_143e40b72b2a1bc8.png> Gregory Shiff  Director of Technical Sales  o: (303) 495-2424 | c: (917) 499-4171 | e: gshiff@levelsbeyond.com  www.levelsbeyond.com To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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Hi Greg, At of kick-off last week they had a tonne of vendors, Adobe being one of them. I raised the Linux issue and the person I was speaking with indicated it had been raised within their team. Don't hold your breath, but at least they know ... Enjoy your long weekend! Ryan   From: Greg Whynott [mailto:greg.whynott@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 09:25 AM To: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com <studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com> Cc: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com <studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com> Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Levels Beyond / Reach Engine + Adobe @ SoHo House, NYC. Feb 24th. 6-9pm.   I won't be there but could you ask Peter and Michel when Adobe plans to release a Linux Photoshop? G Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2014, at 12:17, Gregory Shiff <gshiff@levelsbeyond.com> wrote: Folks--- Yeah, I'm spamming the list. But hey, this is going to be an awesome event.  Asset Management, Automation, and how that fits into the Adobe ecosystem. Plus free booze and food. Hello! See the invite below and come throw things at me in public. Cheers. Greg Please join Reach Engine and Adobe to discover the innovative integration of Adobe Premiere Pro, Prelude and Anywhere into the Reach Engine ecosystem. Together these solutions change the potential efficiencies of video production through distribution, opening everything from the hardware you use to the location where you edit. The economics are just as exciting; earn more revenue as every member of your organization, from production through marketing, gains visibility and control. When: February 24, 2014 6:00pm - 9:00pm Soho House, 29-35 Ninth Avenue New York, NY If you will be able to join us please RSVP here. <ii_143e40b72b2a1bc8.png> Gregory Shiff  Director of Technical Sales  o: (303) 495-2424 | c: (917) 499-4171 | e: gshiff@levelsbeyond.com  www.levelsbeyond.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  on Feb. 17, 2014, 5:05 a.m. (1 day ago)

So, looking at consolidating tin, the question for today in work is do we visualise our AD servers or not? We only have around 100 users hitting them but is it really worth it? Is it going to introduce a whole new world of pain that we can just simply avoid? There'll be plenty of resources on the VM hosts for the AD servers, spare nics etc. Anyone else doing this (or am I the last!!)? Any comments welcome. Dave.

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So, looking at consolidating tin, the question for today in work is do we visualise our AD servers or not? We only have around 100 users hitting them but is it really worth it? Is it going to introduce a whole new world of pain that we can just simply avoid? There'll be plenty of resources on the VM hosts for the AD servers, spare nics etc. Anyone else doing this (or am I the last!!)? Any comments welcome. Dave.