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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Some Pictures taken at S'pore



Kids-Online games




I've learned that to avoid having your kids to play with your PC/notebook at home, it's best to let them occupied with 'online games' rated for toddler.(with supervision of course)
Give them the chance to move the mouse and the arrow keys on the console. My son started the online game when he knows Sesame Street. :) So we(the parents, of course) would be searching for Elmo characters on-line since he loves Elmo very much. When we bumped into Sesame Street online, guess what??, there's a link to the online game.. hurrayy!! (note that sometimes the link take longer time to reload)
There's a lot of characters to choose from, starting from the friendly Elmo till the grouchy Oscar :)
I prefer the mighty Super Groover.. :p
Then we started to search for other on-line games, to name a few which my son likes to watch on Astro are Bing and Bong, Bob the Builder, Pingu, etc.
You guys can also visit BBC kids(BBC-CBeebies) for a whole lots of online games and you can prints the characters for you kids to color.
You can find all the BBC kids characters here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/characters/

For school children, I would recommend FunBrain for a start.

Enjoy :)

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Investment in Unit Trust

I've recently invested in Public Bank unit trust and prior to that, I was quite skeptical about the way the 'unit trust' provide the profit. However, after listening to my agent, the aggressive fund, not so aggressive, moderate, etc, I've decided to buy two funds which I hope can provide a good return in the long run.
I've had wanted to invest in PB Mutual, but didn't have the time and the money to do so.After postponing for few times (since the money quickly disappear from my pocket :) ), I've managed to dump the money into the Public Asia Ittikal Fund and Public Islamic Balanced Fund. A combination of an aggressive and a moderate fund.
It's easy to see the summary of the trust funds at this link http://www.publicmutual.com.my/

I am hoping to hear any unit trust which have proven to be a good investment, prudential, SSB, AMBG, etc.
Please share any :)
I've found this link that give me some understanding on unit trust investment and how to invest and spend wisely. www.irwan.biz

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Firewall: Checkpoint vs Netscreen

I've been using Checkpoint firewall since 2002 and still using it now. I've also had hands on with Netscreen and Cisco Pix. Till now I still prefer to use Checkpoint (given the option, provided your company can spend extra money to pay for the expensive software subscription and also its platform maintenance warranty.
Of all platform I've been using, i.e, SUN SPLAT, Nokia, Resilience, HP/Rainwall, I prefer to use SUN SPLAT more. I think it's because easy to use, easy to trace the logs via smartview tracker and my server running MRTG can pick up the stats from the SUN servers well.
If budget is a constraint, then Pix firewall is a good choice :)
However, Netscreen provide an alternative to Checkpoint due to its scalability and functionality.
Pros using Checkpoint
1. Can configure the fw policy offline and execute the policy at a later stage during maintenance window.
2. Can track fw logs easily and filter based on ports, source, dst ip, and rules #.


Pros using Netscreen
1. It's a hardware appliance based and the process of firewalling is more faster.
2. Whatever being configured on the WEBGUI is pushed automatically. (this can be a cons)
Anybody want to share their experience?

my first new blog


I'm just starting this new blog for fun and see if I can make good use of it. Hopefully I can share some of my experience and also learn new things frm others on the net.
My first upload picture would be a picture of KLCC, taken at jln pinang.(i think it's jln pinang)

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