Slightly OT: credit card breach on LaCie web site | ||||||
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on April 16, 2014, 3:35 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/16/lacie_breach/ Presumably most of us are buying our orange rubber ringed "video tapes" from a local distributor, but in case someone bought direct from their site, you may want to check your credit card statements. JF |
Studio Mice | ||||||
| posted by Saham Ali on April 16, 2014, 4:20 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hey guys, Just curious to know what everyone is using for there artists workstation Mice? I am personally a huuuge fan of the old Microsoft Intellimouse 1.0-3.0 It was ambidextrous, accurate, and lasted a while. though sucked on shiny surfaces, but mouse pad fixed that.. After that $20 mouse was EOL, people are asking $45-$60 on some sites! What do you all use for the studios? -Saham |
thunderbolt cards | ||||||
| posted by Wayne Chang on April 16, 2014, 7:15 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| thunderbolt is basically pci-e over a cable, right? does anyone make thunderbolt cards? i want to use thunderbolt devices on a cheese grater mac pro. To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Restoring circa 2010 Flame archives | ||||||
| posted by Brian Krusic on April 16, 2014, 8:25 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Hi, Say one ran a Flame 2010 archive to a directly attached LTO3 autoloader. And said Flame box is now dead like Zed. Is there a way to dump the tape contents some how? I think I know that answer but one can always hope. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. |
Farnsworth-Munsell 100 HueColor Vision Test | ||||||
| posted by Saker Klippsten on April 16, 2014, 8:40 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Maybe all cg/comp artists should be required to take this test before working at any VFX company or anyone dealing with color pipelines/calibrating monitors. I have had some interesting color conversations where artists are saying the color is off. So I challenged him to this test. he scored a 47. Not bad , but not as good as a 12 :) http://www.color-blindness.com/farnsworth-munsell-100-hue-color-vision-test/#prettyPhoto This was on a crappy non calibrated dell monitor from 2010 U2410f. We also took the test on the same monitor... |
Mac Pros + Cinema Displays for Sale, NYC area | |||||||||||
| posted by Greg Ercolano on April 16, 2014, 11:05 p.m. (1 day ago) | |||||||||||
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Forwarding this on behalf of a small company in Brooklyn, NY (AST Studios) selling 7 Mac Pros and 10 Cinema Displays. Looks like they're running OSX 10.6. He's asking $650 for each Mac Pro and $500 for each Cinema Display. Contact AdamTeninbaum adamshawn0102@gmail.com for more info. Details + pics below. -------- Original Message --------
7 machines available with these specs: Mac Pro (model 3,1) Dual Quad core 3.0 Ghz (8 cores) 6GB
RAM 500GB HD 10 Cinema Displays available: Large 30" display with 2560x1600 resolution Located in Brooklyn, New York. Pick up is preferable but
would consider shipping as well. Will sell each individually
or multiples. Asking $650 for each mac pro and $500 for each
Cinema Display. Adam |
GPFS User Group Meeting: 29th April 2014 - last few
places remaining | ||||||
| posted by Jez Tucker on April 17, 2014, 6:15 a.m. | ||||||
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Hello all, We have approximately 10 places left for this year's GPFS User Group with over 100 folks attending. If you want to pop along, drop me a reply via email, or email secretary@, below. The day encompasses technical presentations (no sales) on the new version of GPFS and tweakage. Come along and meet the GPFS developers, users and technical pros. Waffle, discuss, opinionate, eat, drink. The event will be held at: IBM Southbank Client Centre, London, UK It is free to attend. Please register via email to secretary@gpfsug.org More updates will be provided on http://www.gpfsug.org See you there. Jez GPFS User Group Meeting: 29th April 2014 Agenda 10:30 Arrivals and refreshments 11:00 Introductions and committee updates Jez Tucker, Group Chair & Claire Robson, Group Secretary 11:05 GPFS 4.1 Scott Fadden, IBM GPFS Technical Marketing 12:15 GPFS Performance (Basics) Sven Oehme, IBM Scalable Storage Research 13:00 Lunch (provided) 13:45 GPFS Performance (Advanced) Sven Oehme, IBM Scalable Storage Research 14:45 Refreshments break 15:05 Numascale Robin Harker 15:35 User Case Study 16:00 Group discussion: Questions & Committee matters Led by Jez Tucker, Group Chairperson 16:05 Close N.B. My employer actively supports my involvement with organising the GPFS User Group. Jez  This email is confidential in that it is intended for the exclusive attention of the addressee(s) indicated. If you are not the intended recipient, this email should not be read or disclosed to any other person. Please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your computer system. Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the company from which this email was sent and, whilst to the best of our knowledge no viruses or defects exist, no responsibility can be accepted for any loss or damage arising from its receipt or subsequent use of this email. |
Autodesk Flexlm 11.12 and Foundry flexlm Maya 2015
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| posted by Lee Danskin on April 17, 2014, 7:50 a.m. | ||||||
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Just a heads up chaps, just had some interesting installation issues with the latest NLM from Autodesk conflicting with the Foundry version of Flexlm When upgrading to 11.12 you will find that Maya lic's are not checked out on the client machine but look fine on the server. Stopping the foundry version fixes the issue We have seen that the lic file from Autodesk for 2015 runs fine with 11.11 so no upgrade required although stated by Autodesk. This was a windows install just thought i'd put it out there for anyone else. Lee Lee Danskin Linslade Bedfordshire Mobile: 07711007695 |
Redhat Summit 2014 | ||||||
| posted by Rory Falloon on April 17, 2014, 2:30 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Some PDFs are online from talks at RH Summit 2014 this week - http://www.redhat.com/summit/2014/presentations/ Rory Falloon Snr. Systems Administrator Mr. X Inc. T: (416) 595-6222, x 290 |
Autodesk Flexlm 11.12 and Foundry flexlm Maya
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| posted by James Bourne on April 17, 2014, 4:15 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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I had a related problem. Maya 2015 can't get a license if you deploy the lic file on AutoDesk FlexLM 11.11 (socket errors) - however Maya 2014 or earlier continues to work. You have to upgrade to 11.12. I've run into your issue before and try use the vendor's preferred license server software + license file on a separate VM or piece of tin wherever possible. On 17 April 2014 21:47, Lee Danskin <leedanskin@gmail.com> wrote:
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Microsoft is Dropping Support for Windows 8.1,
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| posted by Jeff Yana on April 17, 2014, 5:25 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| In a confusing and tersely worded press release, Microsoft announces EOS for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 (?) beginning in May. Huh, what? It must be hard being a Windows shop these days. :-) http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-confirms-its-dropping-windows-81-support-240407 To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Microsoft is Dropping Support for Windows 8.1,
Yet It Isn't | ||||||
| posted by Will Rosecrans on April 18, 2014, 2:10 a.m. | ||||||
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To be fair, if they had just called it Windows 8.1.1 instead of 'Windows 8.1 Update', it wouldn't really seem surprising that 8.1.2 would imply having 8.1.1. There's no real need to maintain completely parallel patch sets for that sort of thing. On Apr 17, 2014 2:22 PM, "Jeff Yana" <jyana@ranknfilesys.com> wrote: In a confusing and tersely worded press release, Microsoft announces EOS for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 (?) beginning in May. Huh, what? |
Smoke on Mac wire via 10GigE? | ||||||
| posted by Rob LaRose on April 18, 2014, 3:05 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Do tell! --Rob **NOTE OUR NEW STREET ADDRESS: 245 Fifth Ave, 23rd Fl, New York, NY 10016. Our billing and remittance stays the same |
Avere Gets S3 Religion | ||||||
| posted by Jeff Yana on April 18, 2014, 3:55 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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This must be the closet any vendor has come to a full NAS replacement. Benchmarks reflect IO workload on the local LAN (with no RT traffic back to S3 object store). The write back mechanism that only sends inactive data to the S3 bucket looks interesting and most likely help drive down potential S3 storage costs. Amazon Direct Connect appears to be a requirement in order to minimize potential latency and availability
issues which could be an issue since it is not available in all markets. I presume FlashCloud is a repacking of the AWS Storage Gateway APIs but I cannot find any supporting documentation to verify. It appears that multi-site clustering is supported (according to the press release below). The devil is in the details with regards to TCO but it looks very promising if for no other reason than the HA and DR benefits. With FlashMirror you should be able to replicate to another cloud provider for added security/availability? I would say that this is a good time to be an Avere customer. Avere FlashCloud " FlashCloud on FXT Series Edge filers integrates public and private object storage with legacy NAS into a global namespace and provides performance for users everywhere via NAS protocols. The filers provide enterprise NAS functionality, including NFS
and CIFS protocols, scalable performance, and HA, to support any applications running on NAS. Together, filers and object storage provide capacity scaling and enable 70% or more savings in TCO. " |
Self-Service AD Password Reset Solution | ||||||
| posted by Jeff Yana on April 18, 2014, 4:40 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Does anyone know of, or can they recommend a free self-service AD password reset product? Ideally it would be a web-based solution. I would really like to know what is taking Microsoft so long to implement this feature. AFAIK it does not exist in Server 2012. To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Reminder - SSA NYC | ||||||
| posted by Dan Young on April 21, 2014, 3:25 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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This Thursday! Be there or be square. Tell your friends! DY ---------- Dan Young CineSys-Oceana New York 347-334-0132 |
Autodesk floating licence server variables | ||||||
| posted by Jeremy Smith on April 22, 2014, 8:10 a.m. | ||||||
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Hello everyone
With the recent news that Softimage is no longer going to be supported by Autodesk we are looking at getting Maya up and running. My question, for those who have exsperience with Maya and Softimage, what are the enviroment variables for Maya and Softimage in regards as to telling them where to look for the licence server. Normally we could simply “burn” all this information into the setenv file (for Softimage) into a image of a workstaion and then deploy – this has worked for years. However since I’m doing this again, and now getting Maya into the mix I would like to improve upon this and would like to control all this system variables. Saying all that I believe the variable used by Softimage is “ADSK_LicServers” So something like set "_ADSK_LicServers=@mylicenceserver" should do the job? I’m not sure what the Maya variables are. If anyone has done this before (which Im sure people have) if they could please reply it would be appriciated. Thank you in advance! Jeremy |
Reminder SSA New York Meetup this week | ||||||
| posted by John Hickson on April 22, 2014, 11:14 a.m. | ||||||
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JOIN The Discussion CineSys-Oceana, Avere Systems and SGI are providing the beer, pizza, stimulating discussions, demos and an awesome grand prize draw for a Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter! DON'T Miss Out RSVP to Kate Bradford at events@cinesysinc.com or by phone to 1-866-905-2050 x 221
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Isilon work loads - best and worse. | ||||||
| posted by Greg Whynott on April 22, 2014, noon | ||||||
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I know Isilon has or had some challenges dealing with large volumes of small file transactions when compared to their direct competitors. Where is it they excel and/or fall behind compared to the others vendors in your opinion? -g |
anyone work at, has worked at,
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| posted by Greg Whynott on April 22, 2014, 12:10 p.m. | ||||||
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They worked on the production "Harlock: Space Pirate". I'd like to ask them to confirm which storage systems were used for the production of. getting some conflicting information which I'd like to verify.greg |
