Systura Where information becomes knowledge...

I have been a fan of KeePass for several years now.  KeePass is a great password manager.  I use it for all my passwords and every new site that needs a password, I use KeePass to generate a password for that site.  Because of KeePass, I only remember a small handful of my passwords and the rest require that I open up KeePass to get the information.  Why do I like KeePass so much, well, there are a few reasons:

I have been dealing with Check Point Firewall-1 for many years and was one of the first instructors in Canada.  In the past few years, Check Point has been asking its instructors to come to their training centers to take part in the alpha and beta training sessions when they are developing new courses.  I have tried many times to go and take part in these sessions and I have always had a conflict which prevented me from going.

I recently set up OpenDNS as my forwarding DNS server.  Why?  I was looking for a solution to control what sites the people on my home network go to.  There are several solutions out there, but I had a hard time finding a solution that supported all the devices on my home network.  OpenDNS is primarily a DNS server and OpenDNS does its filtering based upon the DNS request and every time a device goes to the Internet, the device will make a DNS request and with OpenDNS, the request will get process by OpenDNS and possibly filtered base

 For Christmas, I got a very cool book, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive by John Graham-Cumming.

A while back, I converted my monitoring from Nagios and Cacti to Zabbix.  I loved Nagios because Nagios is very flexible and reliable.  I switched to Zabbix because Zabbix was totally configured via a web browser and Zabbix provided Nagios and Cacti in one product versus two products - Nagios provides the monitoring and Cacti provides trending and graphing.