flinux without STONE disks array

[laballade]

Hi, do you think i can work on Flint Linux without any STONE disks array ?

[Anonymous]

That’s a fully legal, discreet-supported Flint system, right? Why not just ask discreet support?

[Anonymous]

maybe in same position as me…(flame8.5 though) unsupported stone.. (old!) place I work have not paid for support update this year.. hardware or software… so.. need a new stone… or a non discreet one clueless on that side as well!!)

.. but can’t ask support because don’t have any 😥

and yes.. I know it’s silly.. go tell them holding the purse strings though! 👿 👿

[Deke]

flameop wrote:

maybe in same position as me…(flame8.5 though) unsupported stone.. (old!) place I work have not paid for support update this year.. hardware or software… so.. need a new stone… or a non discreet one clueless on that side as well!!)

All serial numbers on all drives on a stone have to be licensed in order to work. You can try begging Autodesk for new lics if the old stone died. It worked at one job I worked where we bought out a Boss Films old Flames and the Stones were dead, but that was like 6-7 years ago. Good Luck!

As for laballade, since he is asking about linux and it has only been around for a year and a half, then I am 99% sure it is a warez version he is asking about.

-deke

[Anonymous]

but I heard you don’t have to use a Discreet Raid with Flame.. only if you want to use Wire ?

[Anonymous]

depending on the version you are running, ffi definitely wants to have some sort of discreet stone attached.
still what you could do is attach any storage (local or networked) & work in batch with schematics, which begin with an import node & end with an export node, that will use the stone only for temporary stuff.
you could also work with soft imported images, then proxies & renderings will sit on the local stones.
in all you cannot be completely independent from stones, but you have some range, depending on workflow & other needs

i hope this makes sense …

ciao
robert

[Anonymous]

Well, with discreet announcing Linux versions of almost every system product, we can now look forward to a glut of not-so-cleverly disguised warez questions in the forums. Sigh…

[TurboWidget]

Hey Zolo,
I’m going to Bangkok at the end of the year, how many copies of flinux d’ya want me get you 😉

It’ll be interesting to see how discreet/Autodesk prevent this, maybe they’ll offer the IFF software for free, but a stone file system is gonna cost you $200000 !! 😀

cheers
TW

[patdawg]

TurboWidget wrote:

Hey Zolo,
I’m going to Bangkok at the end of the year, how many copies of flinux d’ya want me get you 😉

It’ll be interesting to see how discreet/Autodesk prevent this, maybe they’ll offer the IFF software for free, but a stone file system is gonna cost you $200000 !! 😀

cheers
TW

If warez versions start to proliferate then I suspect some stupid scriptkiddie will figure out how to copy the stone firmware from an actual stone to an off the shelf disk.

[chrise]

dekekincaid wrote:

All serial numbers on all drives on a stone have to be licensed in order to work.
-deke

I don’t think that all serial numbers on all drives have to be licensed. A percentage (20%?) of your drives may be unlicensed – at least the last time that I checked.

[eltopo]

Does any software company has susccesfully developed a system that can’t be pirated?

I also agree that the flinux torrent is not too far away…

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