Videotape storage and LTO tape shelving
By Rob LaRose - Hi everybody! I'm having my own storage wars, looking for suggestions from y'all for my two needs: 1) I've got years of old videotape I'm not ready to destroy but am sick of storing in...
View Articleclustered FS comparisons
By Brian Krusic - Hi,Any one here compare MooseFS, OrangeFS and Gluster?Curious about your thoughts? - Brianwww.krusic.com
View ArticleAPC... UPS.. PDU woes..
By Saham Ali - <rant>Just got a brand new APC Symmetra LX 16000 RM. Sweet!The PDU's I?received?have the ability to send emails notifications......... only to open SMTP servers.... no...
View ArticleReminder - Vancouver Sys-Admin meeting next Wed Oct 10th.
By Ron Stinson - <!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> Hi Everyone, I’d like to invite everyone in the Vancouver area or those visiting, to join us...
View ArticleFinal Reminder - Vancouver Sysadmin meeting tonight
By Ron Stinson - <!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> Hi Everyone, I’d like to invite everyone in the Vancouver area or those visiting, to join us...
View Articlerender machines for hire in london..?
By Paul Simpson - hi all,we're looking to bump up our farm for a few weeks this month. ?can anyone recommend anyone who does that? ?or, if anyone has spare capacity/boxes and wants to receive some...
View ArticleFW log analyzer + free in NYC...
By Maciej Maciak - Happy Thursday Everybody!So whats the world using these days to analyze traffic and trends on the network ? I'm mostly using/running firewalls from GTA and closest I've been is...
View ArticleWacom Intuos 4 USB tablets and the buttons down the side...
By Chris Hyman - Hi all, System is running Centos 5.8/ Gnome and the linux wacom driver. I have had a request from a user to enable the buttons on the tablet and is also wants to make them user...
View ArticleWacom Intuos 4 USB tablets and the buttons down the side...
By Peter Smith - IIRC there's some patches for the Intuos 4.
View ArticleWindows Sysadmin Needed
By Jeremy Oddo - Hey Fellow SSAs, EdenFX is currently looking for a Senior level studio sysadmin to help with some projects we're working on. We run almost entirely Windows, with a few Mac...
View ArticleMountain Lion OpenLDAP Authentication woes
By Robert Moggach - Anyone successfully have mountain lion authenticating against openldap?I'm having... issues.ssh login WORKS and I do get kerberos tickets and autofs mounts but gui login just...
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SSA Toronto 10/23/12 w/FileCatalyst and TSO Logic
By John Hickson - <!--[if !mso]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> All, We are happy to announce the next StudioSysAdmins...
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New 24" from Eizo- move aside, Dreamcolor!
By Anonymous - <!--[if !mso]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]-->Hello Admins to the stars! Eizo has released a new 24"...
View ArticleNew SlingBoxHD HDMI First Test Results
By Anonymous - Thought I would share.. Just picked up? the new SlingBox to do remote viewing of some of our suites for editorial and flame. The new one does 1080p ( finally )? the old one only did...
View ArticleRendering - E5645 vs E5-2620
By Peter Smith - Hi all Anyone done any hard comparisons rendering on the above procs? We're x86_64, mostly Houdini and Nuke. How does the greater clock speed on the older E5645 compare to the greater...
View ArticleFirst LOPSA-LA Dinner and a talk by master sysadmin Tom Limoncelli
By Shawn Wallbridge - Sorry for the short notice, but this is tonight in LA, just RSVP. http://www.meetup.com/League-of-Professional-System-Administrators-Los-Angeles/ shawn Social dinner and a talk...
View ArticleFirst LOPSA-LA Dinner and a talk by master sysadmin Tom Limoncelli
By John Hickson - <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> That would be a great event. Wish I could make it :) Say hi to Tom for me and tell him I enjoyed his book :)...
View ArticleSSA October 2012 Update - Your feedback requested
By John Hickson - <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> StudioSysAdmins Update for October 2012 StudioSysAdmins has been planning some changes as some of you are...
View Articlebiometric ID
By Greg Whynott - the leadership wants to purchase biometric devices and have employees use them to access the building and areas within, as well as for time management. I know this is a sensitive...
View Article[OT] google data centre on the news
By Dave Young - kinda cool http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57533989/behind-the-cloud-a-tour-of-googles-secretive-data-facilities/?tag=showDoorLeadStoriesAreaMain;thisMorningLeadHero
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