RSTY

In OS X, Apple has thoughtfully given us network location profiles. You know when you go round to your mates and want to plug into their LAN, but they don’t use DHCP? Annoying isn’t it. With network locations, you can setup multiple profiles and switch easily, rather than having to reconfigure your TCP/IP settings each and every time. I’m surprised that even in Vista, as far as I know, this still isn’t possible (I assume it is in Linux, or even possibly originated there…)

With this in mind, it’d be useful if we could also have Dock profiles. The apps I use at home are, for the most part, completely different to those I use at work. At home my notebook functions almost exclusively as a net-top - instant messaging and browsing - that’s it. Work is a different story - multiple browsers, enough terminals to get me in a mess, multiple file transfer clients, text editors, IDEs… the list is endless.I suppose I could create a seperate user for home and use fast user switching, but I’d rather keep everything simple and in one place. Hmm.