Configuring site-2-site VPN on Cisco PIX 506
We normally recommend our customers to secure their network using the Cisco PIX firewall products since they are secure, cheap and easy to configure - once you know how of cause... :-) The reason I post this is that one of our customers is setting up an office in New York City so I needed to configure a site-2-site VPN tunnel and I thought I would share the how-to. The how-to should work for any PIX product (501, 506, 506E, 515).
Accessing the menus on a Mac using the keyboard - impossible?
I went to the Mac-store the other day to look for a computer bag but ended up playing with the Macs they had on display. I have been playing with the idea of getting a Mac Mini to use at home, but one thing bothered me though: I was unable to access the menus using the keyboard.
None of the store employees knew how to do it but instead told me that: "OS X is a mouse operating system..." This is totally unacceptable to me so I left the store and kind of gave up on the idea of becoming a Mac owner.
After this experience I was very pleasently surprised when my big brother found out how (via one of our customers where a couple of users uses Mac). Pressing Ctrl-F2 will access the menu.
So now it is back to the store... :-)