Funny IBM typo typo. Can’t remember what page I saw this on but it was last week.

Someone told me once that they didn’t like using a Mac because it doesn’t have enough keyboard shortcuts built in. For example, how do you access the menu bar without using your mouse? On Windows, you use the alt key to access any menu item. In OS X, you just need to turn on full keyboard access in system preferences (see image) and use ctrl-F2 to do the same thing.

Daniel challenges you to spend a month using OS X exclusively and see if it’s not much better than Windows. Too bad there isn’t a try-and-buy program to let people actually do this without risking any money. Absent of that, we are left to testimonials by current owners (fanboys) and marketing.

In 2006, I read Lifehacker quite a bit trying to squeeze more productivity out of my PC. Someone in the comments always mentioned how Macs “didn’t have that problem” or that some feature was already built in to the OS (Apache web server or something). I switched because I could see that a Mac was going to give me much more value than a PC. I’m glad there were “fanboys” passionate enough to comment all over the internet to teach me this.

Jack Jones of RMI will be doing a preso for the Cisco InfoSec Leadership Forum. I would love to see this but I’ll be on vacation. Maybe I’ll catch the replay if they have one. You can sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/5wgh2s

iShared, the nifty little WAFS product that Packeteer got when they bought Tacit Networks a couple years back, will likely be dropped by Blue Coat from what I have heard. Blue Coat mentioned that they planned on rejuvenating Packetshaper as a standalone product as well as integrating some Packetshaper technologies into the ProxySG appliances. Nothing was mentioned of iShared, and I doubt anyone asked, unless you count all of the current customers that invested in iShared not because it does byte-level caching better than Riverbed, Blue Coat or Cisco, but because it integrates uniquely into a Microsoft shop, giving them a branch office services in a single box that syncs with headquarters. Riverbed and Cisco have recently announced integration with Microsoft services so this might be a good option for iShared users if Blue Coat forgets about them, but that wouldn’t be good for Blue Coat. Maybe that is why Wedbush Morgan thinks Riverbed may benefit from this Blue Coat acquisition of Packeteer.