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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.

About a week ago, I upgraded my Windows 7 from Windows 7 RC1 Ultimate to Windows 7 Enterprise - the actual release.  If you were following me on Twitter, you will see that the upgrade actually took about 1.5 hours, but that was after first running the upgrade and finding out I had to remove some software before I could upgrade.