Using Choosy for OSX. A Better Way to Use Multiple Browsers.

I use mul­tiple web browsers all day. One for typ­ical web, and another for net­work man­age­ment. I need a way to eas­ily select which one I want.

Internets of Interest:1 Feb 10

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 1 Feb 10:

Switching Network Locations From the Menu Bar

You have now con­figured and applied the Network Profile. You can eas­ily switch between the Locations by open System Preferences, Network, and using the Location menu which is just a bit too manual for me.

Configuring Network Locations in Mac OSX.

When you are work­ing in a lab envir­on­ment, you often need to con­nect your laptop to dif­fer­ent net­works so that you can test stuff. For simple change like an IP address or a default gate­way a script is use­ful. But you may want to have a much more soph­ist­ic­ated pro­file, such as dif­fer­ent proxy serv­ers and mul­tiple eth­er­net ports. And if you are work­ing on dif­fer­ent sites, each one with dif­fer­ent IP address­ing and DNS details, and maybe even dif­fer­ent proxy set­tings or 802.1x. Mac OSX has a way for con­fig­ur­ing mul­tiple pro­files for your Ethernet con­nec­tion ( or Airport wireless).

What the Letters on 802.1 Ethernet Standards Stand For

A recent post from a mem­ber of the IEEE stand­ard finally tells us some­thing use­ful instead of keep­ing everything a secret.

Musing: Finding All Cisco Press Books on Safari

I like to see only Cisco Press books when research­ing or study­ing (since I find them easier to read and under­stand). A short post show­ing how to list Cisco Press books in O’Reilly Safari.

CSM, IDSM, ADSM Performance Problems or Memory Errors ? Increase Java Memory.

I have been get­ting out of memory errors in Java when run­ning CSM and ASDM cli­ents on MS Windows plat­forms. Here are some tips for improv­ing Java per­form­ance, and let­ting you run more than one Java pro­gram /​​ applet at the same time.