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Beware!

It's dangerous to use prototyping professionally. Sometimes management folks tend to "not realize" the difference between a well done prototype and the result they desire for real. - Therefore use GPL licensed stuff "for compliance reasons" - if you know what I mean. Saves job and time.
There're numerous ways to enhance the following examples. Feel free to do so.

It's not a bug...

No... surely not. But if you're using Wing IDE for example and you edit files with an X11 based editor, you might want to sync your clipboards. Thing is: it seems MacOS 10.5's X11.app doesn't allow this by default and there's no option for that based on the frontend.

Edit the plist

Let X11.app's Preference menu activate the native key-set emulation to make use of the Apple keys. Do not use this preference panel again because it'll undo the following:

No more emulation

When it comes to the commandline administrators all over the Windows worlds nowadays think of Cygwin or Powershell. However Cygwin is a special layered environment and Powershell is .Net dependant and not very reactive.
Therefore I tend to turn back to the good old DOS-like commandline and add some stuff to the environment path in order to ease my life. However many people may think that extending your commandline tools doesn't help you in situations where you don't find these tools: on Windows the commandline is just an extra. The following stuff of course doesn't help you to do post-exploitation or to show of at your friends machine. But it helps to save time. My time ;).

UnixUtils

wishi's Fuzz-Box

A Fuzz-Box for me is a standalone machine. It has to:

• host multiple virtual machines at once (max 2 in my case)
• effectively manage ~4 GB RAM
• be Linux compatible with, stable clean device drivers
• energy efficient and ergonomically able to run 24h/day 7d/week...

Scaling Hardware?

You don't want a performance monster. - Or a gaming machine. And you do not want trash, because you're going to spend valuable time with it.

Usability war

I began to read Windows Internals in the 5th edition by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. There're experiemnets in there on how to do Kernel mode debugging, or how to include Debug symbols with Sysinternals ProcessExplorer... and lots of fascinating stuff to try in order to explore the architecture of modern NT6 systems. Before I was able to start my explorations, I had to install Windows 7 (NT 6.1) on a MacBook. But there's Bootcamp and Apple officially supports it. So... that shouldn't be a big deal?!

mutt meets the cloud

mutt is a pretty decent terminal based mail-client. It reliably runs on almost every platform, is RFC conform by default, lightweight, fast, extremely versatile and sweet as leet. In order to take advantage of all the kewl features of Gmail many people use heavyweight mail-clients like Mail.app (>300 MB), Outlook (infinite waste of space and time), or Thunderbird (the compromise).
In the past mutt was just a MUA, but since ~ 1.5 there's a useable smtp, imap and pop3 backend. In the following I hacked mutt to sync with multiple Gmail imap accounts to use the great filters and infinite space - from a terminal. Just mutt and Gmail.

Yes, it works! How to make the possible easier

Normally on a MacBook you'd expect lots of compatibility issues. However this is not the case.
You just get "Error 2229" if you're going to install the standard BootCamp drivers. Well... here's an unofficial patch. It's using the old install trick: the installer has been extracted, the checkup has been modified, and it has been repacked. Without any guarantee - but it works. Afterwards use the official Vista update. That's it.