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Okay, here's the scoop:

• CCNP will now be three exams, ROUTE, SWITCH, and TSHOOT
• Exam price will increase from $150.00 to $200.00 per exam
• ROUTE and TSHOOT courses (typically 1 week Cisco official courses) are now supplemented with e-learning material (nearly 8 hours for ROUTE and 9 hours for TSHOOT) which is exam material
• Classes / Exams are becoming even MORE real-world (TSHOOT class is 92% hands-on)
• New ROUTE and SWITCH exam is available in March, TSHOOT is available in April.
• BSCI exam can substitute for ROUTE or vice versa
  
• BCMSN exam can substitute for SWITCH or vice versa
  
• ONT and ISCW exams can substitute for TSHOOT until end of July (ONT/ICSW exams expire then...BSCI and BCMSN are no longer offered after July 31, however can substitute for ROUTE / SWITCH for their entire 3 year expiration period).
• New CCNP exams now prepare you more for the CCIE R&S
  

One of my CBTNuggets students forwarded this over to me. Freakin' amazing use of a Cisco 1900 series switch. Wish I could do something like this for my fish tank!

http://www.newtonnet.co.uk/catfeeder/

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Okay, I've got more useless iPhone apps than I care to admit...but CBTNuggets just released their iPhone app and it's awesome. I was learning how to configure MS Exchange 2007 Storage Groups on the way to Pizza Hut last night. Nice!

...watching the demos does create quite the driving adventure though...

While randomly searching for a Cisco DSP Calculator, I came across this link with a plethora of free Cisco tools - go Brad Reese! (a fellow I commonly see in Network World magazine).

Wow - this will save me some cash when I decide to finally learn the "dark side of the force".

GNS3 0.7RC1 Supports JunOS

I recently stumbled on this...If you try to shortcut copy running-config startup-config with anything shorter than copy run start you'll get an ambiguous command error (ex: copy ru st). However, the Cisco IOS does allow you to type copy r s as a shortcut. Who knew?

...Yes...I still like wr better too.

I was on a call with someone today who said they just ordered an ISR G2 from Cisco. Huh? (That'd be my response). Wow - just looked into this; welcome to the "next level" of ISR routers:

Comparing the ISR to the ISR G2

I'm just excited about the "one IOS image" finally coming to consumer-level routers!

Excellent tool - allows RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, etc... all from a single, tab-based utility. It looks like someone took Putty Connection Manager to the next level.

http://www.mremote.org

Simple tip to see pre-shared VPN keys:

CiscoASA# more system:running-configuration

1. Tried to upgrade MovableType to the latest version to fix some painful bugs
   
2. Upgrade failed, gave an error code
3. Googled the error code, first link, "Simple fix, just delete xxxx directory"
4. Deleted directory, blog management explodes, can't even log in
   
5. Kicked myself for not backing up the directory before deleting it
6. Vowed to find the person who posted that link on Google
   
7. Months go by, I can't log in to post...
8. Suddenly realized I had a friend who knows how to code, he fixes everything no time at all

Yes, I am still alive, but have been EXTREMELY busy over the last couple months. So, a quick post for a quick link that I always dig too long to find:

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/StratumOneTimeServers
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/StratumTwoTimeServers

Update: You can also point to the NTP server pool (in the US) at us.pool.ntp.org. Thanks Brent!