Rack Needed
By Anonymous - Hi all,I have a customer located in Toronto with an immediate requirement for a 4-post rack. Could be either a half rack or full height. Square holes preferred, but round would be...
View ArticleC.O.R.E. Max-T Sledgehammer- FREE
By Robert Moggach - Any sentimentalists in Toronto want HERA/PABLUM and the two LUNs? If you can carry it, it's yours... I'll take 6 Asahi tallboys if you're feeling generous. The drives alone are...
View ArticleNAB; Hits and misses
By Brian Krusic - Dobro dan,While I wasn't at NAB, in fact last time I was at trade show was Siggraph 2006, I did hear a few interesting things.A seemingly big hit in my mind was Foundrys purchase of...
View Articlelooking for used rack mount servers
By Greg Whynott - I'm looking for 1 or 2 used 1-4 U servers with CPUs which have at least an intel X5 series (X5570 or better would be optimal). These would be for a personal non revenue generating...
View ArticleDell R720 + H710P NV 1GB cache + 3rd party SSD's
By Mike Owen - Has anyone got a similar setup to this working?Dell R720 + H710P 1GB cache RAID card + 3rd party SSD's - such as OCZ/Intel/Samsung SATA 3 drives working as both the main storage but...
View ArticleCVLT job posting
By Dan Young - Hey guys, here's a request a got from someone looking for a fulltime engineer in NYC.Hit me up if you're interested in applying.Full time position at Video Post Production...
View ArticleBlueArc Titan for sale in NYC
By Dan Young - Sorry for the cut/paste nonsense, this is a by-owner sale in NYC - it's for a Titan, figured someone might be after this to suppliment, or need parts, or whatever. It's still running if...
View Articlepixar's tractor
By Greg Whynott - Is anyone using Pixar's Tractor?If so, are you running it on bare metal or VM? I'd like to know if it is reasonable to run it in a VM with SSD drives. There would be about 400...
View ArticleOSX 10.7, Maya 2013, Shave/Haircut 7.0 and V-Ray
By Aled Jones - Has anyone with the above combination had any issues rendering with V-Ray. I have just installed Shave 7.0 on OSX 10.7.4, running Maya 2013 and V-ray 2.30.01. It all works fine,...
View Articledash (pixar's tractor)
By David Laur - When we were looking at the dash issue, in the tractor daemon start-up scripts, I was surprised to learn that dash also ships with recent Red Hat now as well, although it is not a...
View ArticleDS_Store files (again)
By Antti Pennanen - Hey everybody, We've been fighting with DS_Store files related problems on a mixed NAS / SAN environment for a while now. We found a way (tested) to disable creation of them on...
View ArticlePyQT and Maya issues on Mac OSX 10.8.2
By Francisco Lima - Hello guys!We're currently using Maya on Mac Pro Workstations on OSX 10.8.2 but we're facing several issues when trying to load the interface of the tools we are developing...
View ArticleFlavorsys "Strawberry" - who's using it?
By Rory Falloon - p { margin: 0; }Hey,Is anyone out there using Strawberry ? What kind of san/nas do you have behind it? Size, specs of the system? How many editors? etc etc!Is anyone using the...
View ArticleFoundry SuperX
By Brian Krusic - Allo,Any gurus out there know if I can bond 4x10GB trunks together on a SuperX?- Brian"All have their worthand each contributes to the worth of others."
View ArticlePFTrack 2013.2.1 vs Windows Firewall
By Jean-Francois Panisset - Don't know if this is specific to our site, but I'm finding that if you try to install the recently released PFTrack 2013.2.1 on a Windows 7 system where the Windows...
View ArticleAT&T coverage & microcell
By Jeremy Mullis - We have 2 AT&T microcells and they help a little but seem to drop calls randomly. We tried a 3rd party booster before that was spotty and needed to reboot frequently. Has...
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FileCatalyst Los Angeles User Forum
By John Hickson - Feed: StudioSysAdmins EventsPosted on: Friday, April 12, 2013 9:42 AMAuthor: StudioSysAdmins EventsSubject: FileCatalyst Los Angeles User Forum FileCatalyst on the Road: Los...
View ArticleToo many writes to server (vray/exr/deadline)
By Matt Daly - I am looking for a way to reduce the load on the file server while rendering. Before I start writing a python script to write local temp files and then copy them to the server when...
View ArticleOT_REALLY?!
By Anthony Hoit - Server down. Completely non responsive and won't post. So I start troubleshooting hardware and make it all the way down to removing the CPU2 and it's ram. Taking a look at the CPU, I...
View Articleclusterssh / cssh for CentOS 6?
By Klaus Steden - Oof. My dev chops aren't what they used to be ... has anyone got a version of clusterssh 3.x working for CentOS 6? I'm running into all sorts of weird problems with Tk, and v4 looks...
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