Advice on laptop repair
By Jim Tucker - Does anyone have advice about a LA repair site to fix a headphone jackon a PC laptop? I'm a bit nervous about Fry's, Best Buy or Mom and Pop.................. Clevo 7200 chassis...
View ArticleAnyone seeing a lot of Error -50 in OSX?
By Rob LaRose - Over the last couple of months, I've started getting an annoying number of Firewire drives that while mounted, just stop being writable. The app throws one error or another, but...
View ArticlePassive Stereo Monitors
By Dave Young - p { margin: 0; }what's up crew?i am looking for recommends for workstation sized stereo monitors that operate with passive glasses. the hyundai ones are NFG (i'm told by artists,...
View ArticleLocal keyboard/mouse control buggy on render engines, suggestions?
By Jeremy Lang - Used our rental render engines drive image (Win7 Pro x64), but rentals went from X8 to X9 generation (E5 XeonV2).? Updated .inf fileLocal keyboard and mouse input is buggy as hell,...
View ArticleLocal keyboard/mouse control buggy on render engines, suggestions?
By Saham Ali - Ive had this happen on Supermicro kit.Didnt have a resolution.On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Jeremy Lang <jeremy.lang@it4vfx.com> wrote:Used our rental render engines drive...
View ArticleLustre FS in production
By Nikolay Kvetsinski - Hello guys,there was a thread about Lustre. Some of you were testing it. So I wanna ask have you gave it a go in production. We are trying it for one project, for now we do...
View Article"Custom" cable tray
By Rory Falloon - p { margin: 0; }Hi,Anyone have experience with http://www.snaketray.com/cable-management/snake-tray/ ? Good? Naff?Running the cable at an awkward angle, so to speak. So this looks...
View ArticleIsilon/EMC support renewal becoming punishing...
By Jeremy Lang - We only have 100TB, and we got a great deal on it by buying re-certified, older nodes (w/ 1TB drives).? But that means we have 6 nodes plus an accelerator (to get 10gE) which is...
View ArticleIsilon free space question...
By Jeremy Lang - Running 6.5.5.4, have snapshot feature.? Can't really contact support at the moment...Space getting a bit low, we deleted some stuff, didn't free up space (no surprise) so I give it a...
View ArticleLeaving the industry
By Vincent Liggio - Just a quick note to let those who know me that I'm changing industries and will be dropping off the SSA list as of this evening. I've been involved with the 3D world since the...
View ArticleLondon SSA event TONIGHT!
By Ben De Luca - Hope to see all you London folk this evening!Date:?Thursday 29th AugustTime: 6:30pm till 9pmPlace: ?Sohonet?Roof Top Terrace 5?SOHO?STREETLONDONW1D 3DGBen?Roeder,?Sohonet?s CTO will...
View Articleflame arching direct -> LTO vs nearline -> LTO...
By Paul Simpson - hi all,we've just had an LTO tape fail of a backup of a nearline flame archive. ?a 2d flame op stronly believes that the flame->nearline->LTO is fundamentally flawed and that...
View ArticleLTO 5 Drives and Archive Software
By Mathew Power - Hi,A friend of mine is looking to start archiving his work onto LTO 5. Currently he is using thunderbolt dives which is getting expensive!In the past I've used Quantum and Tandberg...
View ArticleIB with flame (& GPFS)...
By Paul Simpson - hi all,we're looking at speeding up our internal network / flames & storage - mainly for the new(ish) 2d department. ?we're investigating re-purposing / hacking some some old IB...
View Articleempty drive boxes
By Anonymous - Hi, Anyone recently deploy a bunch of drives and have spare boxes? I'm looking for a handful (maybe 4-6) empty boxes, the kind that batches of 20 3.5" hard drives get shipped in. I'm in...
View ArticleNVR and IP Camera recommendations
By Bill Heiden - A friend from a film company has suggested that we get some newer surveillance equipment to help maintain a good working relationship. After getting a quote from our security...
View ArticleWireless point to point recommendations
By Mark Story - Hi List, Any recommendations for small studio point to point wireless links. Less than ~$200, just needs to reach adjacent offices that can't be easily hard wired. Thanks in advance!...
View Articlehow to run PS on linux but not...
By Greg Whynott - So i f'd around with Wine and CS5 but am not sure its going to fly for the artists. I was wondering if any one knows of a remote like solution which may exist that will allow us to...
View Articlesupport my plight/effort
By Greg Whynott - http://forums.adobe.com/message/5654916#5654916i'm greg y! 8)
View ArticleRackspace for rent?
By Anthony Hoit - We are looking into getting 25x 64core machines and I'll need to power and cool them. Our little facility cannot handle it. I am hitting the pavement trying to find a place that can...
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