Looking for hunting advice (MacOS X and NFS mounts)
By Peter Devlin - Apologies up front for a blatantly brain-sucking post. We have just put together a satellite facility wherein one of the artists (a genuine power user, an endangered species) works...
View ArticleLooking for hunting advice (MacOS X and NFS mounts)
By Peter Smith - Hi Peter What mount options have you used on the client? Have you tried removing Finder from the mix, or updating to the latest version of OSX? HTH On 19 August 2013 16:39, Peter...
View ArticleLooking for hunting advice (MacOS X and NFS mounts)
By JJ Franzen - I would turn off async as you usually only want to use that option on a tight LAN. If he's in over VPN, that can cause the timeouts you are seeing in my experience. I would also add...
View ArticleZmap...Scan the entirety of IPv4 in under an hour
By Michael Oliver - I have been playing around with Zmap for the last few days. ?Really cool...
View ArticleBIIIIG houdini rendering
By Michael Oliver - Anyone have a giant Houdini farm we could "rent" to run a heavy Houdini mantra render? ?About 2TB of alembics and IFD's. ?687 frames. ?Houdini has Hqueue but those boxes only have...
View Articlelead on cheap LTO 5 drives HP brand
By Brian Krusic - Hi,Any one got a good source for bare LTO5 drives?- Brian~ Chef Burger ~
View ArticleNetwork switch rental in LA?
By Anonymous - Anyone know where to rent a 48 port switch with 10 gig uplink in LA on short notice? Thanks, Ryan Ryan Lynch head of operations imaginary forces | 6526 sunset blvd | los angeles | p...
View ArticleEnt HDD brands - what are you using
By Julian Firminger - Quick straw poll, what enterprise HDD brand(s) are you all buying??I was just about to order another bunch of boxes of Seagates and it occurred to me I'm doing that out of habit...
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Pricing of cloud rendering service
By Brian Turner Ottosen - Hi all We have a client in Brazil who is asking for advice on how to increase their render capacity for a 3D TV Series. Project specs: 13 episodes of 25 minutes at 25 fps...
View ArticleStudioSysAdmins-Discuss Digest, Vol 47, Issue 33
By Terry Dale - The main question you have to ask is how much data are you sending and how much data are you getting back from the renderer. Then calculate how long that will take to transfer all that...
View ArticleWindows submitting to linux render farm
By Tommy Nikjoo - Hi All, We're Mac/Linux shop with a Linux render farm, but have had a couple of Windows boxes creep onto the network which need to be able to submit Nuke renders to the farm. At the...
View Articlea few jobs at our facility.
By Derrick MacPherson - just a heads up, a few jobs here, check the Vancouver linkhttp://www.imageworks.com/jobs.php?p=job-postings
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By Drew Rosen - Hi List Users? Anyone super excited about a Final Cut Pro Timeline Troubleshooting experience? We have a project that has a mysterious issue where if you select an audio clip, it links...
View ArticleSound Dampening a Server Room
By Jason Fotter - Anyone have any recommendations local in Los Angeles to sound proofing / dampening a small server room. Been adding more and more gear and the noise level has become a bit to high....
View ArticleUSB port control; related, Active Directory group policy on mac / linux
By Joe Chonacky - Heya, I’m working on doing some media access control in our shop – meaning limiting access to removable USB storage – as a security measure to protect client assets. We’ve been...
View ArticleA2DP Bluetooth for Win 7
By Jim Tucker - Does anybody know where to get the A2DP Bluetooth for Win 7? Do you get this from MicroSoft or the hardware vendor? JT
View ArticleReminder London SSA Next Thursday - Please Sign up so I have enough Food and...
By Ben De Luca - Date:?Thursday 29th AugustTime: 6:30pm till 9pmPlace: ?Sohonet Roof Top Terrace5 SOHO STREETLONDON W1D 3DGBen?Roeder, Sohonet?s CTO will be presenting a brief talk on Openstack Swift...
View ArticleAdobe CCT strategies?
By Jean-Francois Panisset - I'm trying to wrap my head around deployment of Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams (we're unfortunately not big enough to meet the minimum spend requirements for Creative Cloud...
View ArticleEMC/Isilon Support
By Jeremy Smith - Hello everyone, Just wondering if anyone out there has contacted Isilon support lately? We are having some major issues with EMC support and things just aren’t getting done. I’ve...
View Articlefriday funnies
By Greg Whynott - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X-lb0M6QV0probably old news but i thought it was good.love the line " i was told I'd be doing lines off my wacom in not time if i learned Flame"-g
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