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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.

I recently purchased a 15" MacBook Pro.  The MacBook Pro is a beautiful computer.  I like the look and feel of the computer.  Why did I purchase a Mac?  I am interested in doing some iPhone development and you can only do iPhone development on OS X.  I was thinking of running a virtual session with OS X in it, but I did not think that would be the best way to do the development.

I had a customer that had problems with their Blue Coat appliance. They were complaining that the box was slowing down as their traffic increased. In my initial investigation, I thought that it could be possible, if there were putting too much traffic through the Blue Coat. But, after talking to the customer, they were not pumping enough traffic through the Blue Coat appliance to explain why the performance was slow. So, I went to the customer with the following plan.

Just when I was starting to like Firefox 3.5 beta 4, I got an auto update to 3.5b99.  "b99" seems to have fixed a few things and added some new features, but has also broken a few basic things.  I use Remember the Milk(RTM) for tracking tasks, reminders, projects, etc.  RTM is heavily based on Javascript and now RTM is very slow, almost unusably slow.  I have been reading some other threads about others having problems, but I know my problems are not as bad as their problems, so far.