It’s been raining all weekend. The good news is that my 275 gallon IBC is full of water for the new setup, but the bad news is that I have not been able to work on the new setup! I need to get the water covered because algae is starting to grow, and that won’t be fixed until I get the tanks in place, GB media purchased, delivered, washed. I may just have to ditch the water. 
Or I might use that for washing the media…
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Slowly making progress… I’ve been painting the IBCs a bit (old trashcans make great pedestals), and am getting used to where they are going to go. Unfortunately, the ground is not quite level there (odd for Houston, which is super flat), so I am leveling as I go. I can’t put concrete down, as it’s on an easement, unfortunately. The other down side is the shadow cast by the house… however, in a month or two the sun’s angle should give direct sunlight on the GBs, so it’s not terrible. Unfortunately, not too much of a better spot for 9 months of the year.
We had a big storm last week, so I took the downspout to my rain barrel and put it in my fish tank…. I got about 150 gallons, but now I can’t paint it until I get the water pumped to the sumps, so I better get the sumps levelled and plumbed quickly!
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Got the sludge out! The fish tank IBC had been worrying me, as the pressure washer seemed to clean some parts, but they still felt slimy afterwards. Fortunately, some Simple Green + warm water + sponge and a plastic paint scraper together with some elbow grease produced a clean fish tank!
The growbed/sump that had glue in it I gave a once-over with the Simple Green as well, followed by some Comet… I figure if that is not enough, nothing reasonable will be. Worst case, I can exclude that GB/sump from the system. I’ll try putting some water in it and monitoring the pH change to see what happens.
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As manager of a web administration team, we’ve encountered several teams who have had trouble adding internal Certificate Authorities to iPads and iPhones… and I don’t blame them, it’s not obvious.
To add private CA certs to your iPhone or iPad, you will need:
Once the above requirements are met, do the following:
That’s all, the CA profile should be installed and verified with a geen check. I hope this helps some of you out there.
This process can also be used to install client SSL certs on the iPad.
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Yuck!!
That’s all I can say about two of the IBCs. Two growbed/sumps are just fine, cleaned up now. The other growbed/sump used to have glue in it, it turns out. See the picture below – I ended up using the pressure washer at its highest setting and it was able to get the big parts out. After it dries out a bit, I may try sandpaper to see if it can get rid of the remaining glue bumps. The fish tank is a little different – rather than glue, it seems to be some sort of greasy gunk that does not seem to go away – there’s still a film on the inside. I may try the bleach and hot water approach that I’ve heard suggested as a good general approach… or I may look for a strong degreaser.
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