Mac at Work (was FreeBSD on Dell C400, and other stuff)

I just figured out how to save terminal settings in Leopard so I can use spotlight to launch a terminal with an ssh session started automatically. You pick Shell->New Remote Connection and set up your connection. In the line below the username box, for ssh you would type ssh user@server. Then click the connect button. When the new terminal window comes up, Select Shell->Export Settings and save the file somewhere. Now you can use launch an ssh session by opening that file.

Recently, my wife has been complaining that the internet is significantly slower on my MacBook than on here linux PC. She was right. The MacBook was substantially slower, but it was only slower at home. At work and school, pages load very quickly so I suspected that perhaps the DNS server had something to do with it. Sure enough, once I changed the DNS server to OpenDNS, the pages were loading faster than ever. Both of these machines use a wireless connection, but my wife's desktop has a static IP address while my laptop is set to automatic, so it gets whatever the router gives it for DNS. I created a Home location in the Network Preferences with a static IP and the OpenDNS servers for name resolution. Now I can have fast internet everywhere :)