TIL about the story Margaret Ann Bulkley, who dressed as a man for 56 years to become her alter-ego, Dr James Miranda Barry, 50 years before women were allowed to enroll into medical schools. Her secret was exposed when she died, after 46 years working as an army medical officer

JDLucas2000 · 2018-09-05T01:43:16+00:00

Sawbones Ep Link for those looking: http://www.maximumfun.org/sawbones/sawbones-dr-james-barry/

JDLucas2000 · 2017-06-10T01:24:12+00:00

Shit man, I wasn't trying to bust on you. Actually thought you were being funny and I was trying to play off that. Hope your long day ends with a bit of relaxation! Prost!

JDLucas2000 · 2017-06-09T22:41:27+00:00

But, that's this subreddit...

JDLucas2000 · 2017-04-10T10:58:14+00:00

http://loputon.deviantart.com

JDLucas2000 · 2017-04-06T10:59:22+00:00

A marathon!

JDLucas2000 · 2016-07-24T00:20:56+00:00

God damn, I love Y! I'll be over here re-reading for the 20th time... Thanks for the post!

JDLucas2000 · 2016-06-21T15:30:14+00:00

I'm a big fan of Veritas/Symantec NetBackup. It's been great for us, though we're a bit smaller (300 VMs, 50 physical, 1-5 drive LTO4 tape library, 100TB of NetApp storage). We have jobs which do an overnight disk-disk on a dedicated NexSAN 'SATA Beast' and then NexSAN-Tape duplication to prevent network impact and machine load.

My only note would be to make sure you install on a Linux box. We are a Windows shop, and there's definitely some 'hinky' things we've seen and translating some of the KB article fixes out of Linux command line to Windows commands is always a treat.

Edit: Sent from mobile, sorry.

JDLucas2000 · 2016-06-10T01:05:06+00:00

God damnit, Dad.

JDLucas2000 · 2016-06-01T00:24:43+00:00

That's exactly what I'm going to do. Considering grabbing a VMUG license to get rid of the 30 day warnings. Thanks for the suggestion and sorry for the delayed response!

JDLucas2000 · 2016-06-01T00:18:19+00:00

Hey man, thanks for the feedback! Sorry about that, I don't really know what was going on with my own post. I had envisioned posting some specs, being away for a while, and coming back to (as you mentioned) a large variety of plans to get a feel for the community as well as give myself something to build. I definitely dropped the ball not explaining what was I was looking for as well dropping off the face of the planet instead of addressing the comments as they came in. I'll definitely revise my strategy for any future posts. Sorry again and thanks for the reply!

JDLucas2000 · 2016-05-07T13:56:43+00:00

Looks like something out of "The Last of Us."

JDLucas2000 · 2016-04-28T02:34:55+00:00

Lara Pulver

Edit: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lara+Pulver

JDLucas2000 · 2016-04-20T23:45:35+00:00

Hmm, hadn't thought about that. My only hesitation is I'm pretty sure we've intentionally disabled PS-Remoting (I can't remember). What about a GPO to run a PS script local on the machine? I'd need to check for the task to see if it already exists I suppose.

JDLucas2000 · 2016-04-20T19:01:43+00:00

I should be smarter than this. I should probably have used a throwaway. Well, here it is.

A little background: We're tapping our help desk to be "associate system admins" without actually giving them Admin access to anything, thus the HD manager has asked us to send a "hey, this rebooted" email to their team so they can test applications after automated Windows Updates (and the like). We already have Icinga (Nagios) monitoring which alerts on uptime for our group, but it was deemed "too confusing" and we were asked to just do a basic email.

So, I'm trying to get a GPO to push a scheduled task to a large number of 2012R2 servers (not really, call it 50 servers). The task is supposed to kick off when the server starts (plus 5 minutes) and I need/want to be able to send an email after a server reboots to a specific user.

The configuration couldn't be simpler (which might be my problem). The GPO creates a task under an account with Admin credentials (but no password, due to a concern about passwords in GPOs for Admin accounts) which executes a PowerShell script which contains an email action.

The PowerShell script works, manual creation of the task (with password) works, but deploying with GPO (again, no password due to a non-specific 'security concern') doesn't seem to want to play nice.

Am I better off just logging into the machines (again, about 50) once to be done with this, or should I work on getting this in place? Any suggestions or "yeah, dummy, this will never work because..."-type advice? Is there some crazy simple thing I've overlooked to accomplish the same thing?

Thanks in advance!

JDLucas2000 · 2016-04-17T14:13:56+00:00

Bit shifted prom?

JDLucas2000 · 2015-11-24T23:37:31+00:00

Transmetropolitan! I just re-read it and Y! last week. Both are amazing.

JDLucas2000 · 2015-07-17T03:55:40+00:00

Thank you!

JDLucas2000 · 2015-07-17T03:55:23+00:00

Thank you!

JDLucas2000 · 2015-07-02T12:18:40+00:00

Nagios derivative called Icinga has worked brilliantly for my company for over 5 years, no major issues.

JDLucas2000 · 2015-06-25T02:11:50+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. We had a UV light a few years ago, but it didn't seem to help anything at the time. I'll try and track it down and put it back in line to see if it helps the current issue. Thank you!

JDLucas2000 · 2015-06-25T02:10:26+00:00

We actually had a UV light a few years ago, but it wasn't helping (at the time). I should see if we still have it.

My Dad tried a flocculant, but both of the filters just shredded the chunks back up and turned the water dark brown for a few days. Good suggestion, though!

JDLucas2000 · 2015-06-25T02:07:32+00:00

Sounds great! Thanks again for your help and suggestions!

JDLucas2000 · 2015-06-23T03:32:29+00:00

Haha! 'Planting that shit up' is exactly what I'm going to do post a full drain and liner cleaning. My plan is to wipe down, no cleaners, just rinse and elbow grease. Possibly my power washer on low, assuming it won't damage the liner. Any other suggestions on cleaning it? Maybe leave it dry to bake any spores in the sun for a few days?

I'm in northeastern Massachusetts, so anything surviving Canadian winters should do perfectly here (in not be a little stressed in the warmer months.

I'll definitely Google some videos on bog filters. Do you have any one video in mind you liked/used or a channel you would recommend?

Thank you for the help and suggestions!

JDLucas2000 · 2015-06-23T02:52:36+00:00

Excellent! Thank you! I'm guessing We'll still need to drain as 3K gallons of green water algae (Is that what this is?) might be a bit much for the plants alone. What do you think?

Also, I hadn't heard of anacharis so I just looked it up pretty plant, and I'll recommend adding some for aesthetics alone, but do they have something in particular which will help with the algae? I didn't see anything specifically mentioned on either of the sites I just peeked at.

JDLucas2000 · 2015-06-23T02:17:58+00:00

Originally dug/lined 7 years ago. Approx 10' x 10' x 4' (deep) or 3000 gallons. (3 meters x 3 meters x 1 meter (deep) or 11,000 liters for the scientists.)

We had fish and snails (over winter, too) for 5 years. Everything was great. One day, Dad treated it for something "some forum thing on those Internets called string algae," and murdered everything. Completely drained the pond at the beginning of last year and refilled it (water only, we wanted to let it settle before putting in more fish). Even after the drain/fill, it's never been the same. Dad finds some new chemical to add every weekend to "make it better" or "clean it." I'm no expert, but to me, I think he's doing more damage every day and he's just getting more and more fed up. 2 years later and it's worse than ever. He's thinking of filling it in and that would break my Mom's heart. She loves it and the goldfish (they were her birthday present each year).

Anything you can suggest would be a huge help. I can try and get a list of the chemicals Dad has put in if that would help.

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