We created the shared datacenter
By John Hickson - <!--[if !mso]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> Ron,  This is awesome, passing it to the group now…...
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Reminder - Tape Solutions & NAS Optimization (SSA Toronto)
By John Hickson - <!--[if !mso]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> All, Â Here is another reminder of the Toronto event on...
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Katana & Hiero by the Foundry (SSA Los Angeles)
By John Hickson - <!--[if !mso]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> All, Â Reminder to sign up for the StudioSysAdmins meeing...
View ArticleRant - buy outs and mergers, HDS/Bluearc as an example
By Brian Krusic - I call my buddies over at Bluearc TAC expecting to be asked how I'm doing personally and other pleasantries. But instead I got a thick accent and spent almost a full minute spelling...
View ArticleOT - face replacement/odd looking
By Brian Krusic - Yo, So as I watch Tron Legacy for the Nth time (ya that's right, I like it), I must appreciate and respect the facial recreation done on Jeff B. But I must say the eyes kill it, as...
View ArticleRant - buy outs and mergers, HDS/Bluearc as an example
By Anthony Hoit - So say we all!Sent from my Samsung Epicâ„¢ 4G Touch -------- Original message --------Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Rant - buy outs and mergers, HDS/Bluearc as an example From: Brian Krusic...
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By Brian Krusic - <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> Yo Jeremy, I know you got a Titan 3 as well. If you are so inclined, give em a call, make something up and do...
View ArticleRFX Event Feb 21st (StudioSysAdmin)
By Anonymous - Hay Gang Don't forget to RSVP at www.rfx.com! EVENT: Foundry Discusses Katana & Hiero Jorg - LA
View ArticleFriday beers
By Dan Young - What're you 'avin? Blue Point Toasted Lager over here. Dan YoungSystems Engineer MPC NYC 434 Broadway New York, NY 10013 DD: 212.915.3120 Cell: 347.334.0132 dan-y@moving-picture.com
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Office Prank...
By Zorion Terrell - <!--[if !mso]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]-->The office manager here did this to my...
View ArticleBU - data migration policies - resend
By Brian Krusic - Wondering if any are running DM on there Bluearcs and if so, if archiving off the BU, what are your thresholds for data going from tier 2 back to tier 1? Basically, how are you...
View ArticleNVIDIA PTex & EXR vs JPEG2000
By Robert Moggach - What's the consensus on NVIDIA's recent support of PTex? Where are we all at with GPU rendering? It seems other industries, architecture, product visualisation, etc. have been...
View ArticleFree rack mount shelves (Los Angeles area)
By Bill Heiden - Hi all, Free to a good home - a couple of new two post Rackmount shelves (P/N 3USHL-024FULL-29US). Any interest? Billh
View Articleargh. xorg.conf.
By Robert Moggach - Anyone care to share a working xorg.conf for dual monitor CentOS, Quadro 4000, Maya2011? i can't seem to stop the intermittent GL hanging... I've done the Overlay thing and...
View ArticleLos Angeles: CFEngine 3 training this month. Special discount for...
By Aleksey Tsalolikhin - I was pleased to have a fellow studiosysadmins member at my recent "automating system administration using cfengine 3" training in Palo Alto. As his feedback shows, my...
View ArticleRender box rental in LA?
By Klaus Steden - Hi there, Does anyone have a good recommendation for a place to rent half a dozen to a dozen 1U render machines in the LA area? Dealing with a bit of a crunch, investigating options...
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By Joerg Mohnen - Hello Fellow StudioSysAminer'sJust a BIG FYI on the RFX event happening on February 21st 2012 (see instructions below). Need to RSVP...Don't forget to RSVPJorg Mohnen - Los...
View ArticleBackblaze Pod
By Anh Quach - Has anyone successfully built and deployed one of these things? Seriously thinking about this as a super dense tier 2/nearline solution....
View ArticleCustom Photoshop scripting paths?
By Todd Smith - Hey all,I've been researching how Adobe has or has not instituted custom scripting/preset/brush paths inside Photoshop CS5, so that we can keep all of our custom...
View Article(Linux) removable media & data leakage?
By Michael Stevens - I assume multiple people reading this are somehow managing Linux clients to make sure proprietary data doesn't walk off-site via arbitrary usb devices and similar ... how are you...
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