Dot-ORG TLD Opened for DNSSEC Signing

The online world just became a little more secure yesterday. The dot-ORG (.org) top-level domain (TLD) just opened up the ability for the owner of a .ORG domain to include their zone's DNS Security Extension (DNSSEC) Delegated Signer (DS) key.

Cisco Certified Network Professional 642-832 TSHOOT Exam Passed!

(642-832) Troubleshooting and Maintaining Cisco IP Networks (TSHOOT) - Passed

I received word that that I passed the new 642-832 TSHOOT Beta exam that I took on March 26! Woot, CCNP recerted, and by passing this test my CCDP and CCVP are renewed as well for 3 more years.

Running multiple Firefox profiles for security

When it comes to security, the more layers you can provide without over-complicating things, the better.

I like using Firefox to store passwords, and enjoy having a "locked-down" browser that let's nothing through for news story surfing, but then being able to fully navigate my financial institutes' webpages. Even better is doing all of this at one time. Firefox allows you to do all of this and more with multiple Profiles.

New laptop, new install method, Windows 7 to Fedora 12

I'm going to document my steps of taking a brand new HP dv7 laptop and getting Fedora 12 installed dual-booted with Windows 7. This will be a "live" blog which I'll be updating throughout the day as I move data over from my HP dv9000 which is going to go off to HP for warranty support at the end of the day.

IT Geek Breakfast for May 2010 @ Huckleberry's, Modesto

"IT Geek Breakfast" at Huckleberry's is back on again for May! Saturday, May 22, 7am. I've set up a Facebook Event to RSVP at. We have also set up a Facebook Fan Page for IT Geek Breakfast so that we can centralize announcements.

This is a get-together breakfast of some Christians who work in the IT/IS/computer field (or are just hobbiests/enthusiasts!) so we can fellowship.

Everyone (non-Christians friends too) are welcome. But the topics will probably be highly geek/technical in nature, and probably boring for non-technical spouses.

5 Killer Games, name your price

I love World of Goo and so do the kids. If you haven't seen this game, now is the time to snatch it up for whatever price you think it is worth.

Additionally, there are 5 other games, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, Penumbra Overture, and Samorost 2 you can pick up in the bundle. I haven't played the other 4 games, but I support the concept of independent developers and especially open source games, which the other 4 games will be (Goo, unfortunately, will not be).

Best of all, all 6 games are available for Linux, Windows and Mac.

Dependence on China

Try and buy something from Walmart, Target, or Home Depot that isn't made in China. There are some items, but not many. Try buying something from a Dollar Store not made in China.

I bought a pair of cheap throw-away hammers to send to school so the kids could make bird houses. There were "designed and packaged in the USA" but "made in China."

Not a big deal though, since these are all low-end manufacturing jobs that American's won't take the pay for, right? Except it doesn't end there, and there really are no quick easy fixes when there are hiccups in supply chains, especially for technical equipment with hundreds if not thousands of components and dozens if not hundreds of companies involved in making them.

But would could go wrong?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta 1

RHEL6 Beta 1 was publicly released last week and the files on the FTP server are dated April 14th.

You can fill out an optional survey and then be provided with the download links. The Beta Release Notes are full of all the changes.

As I speculated, much of RHEL6 major versions are based on Fedora 12 or updates that have come out since.