Driver Packs might be useful when we look at doing unattended installs of Windows XP boxes in the future. They are collections of all the common drivers for all kinds of hardware, far beyond what comes with the Win XP install media. You can slipstream into a Windows install CD (slipstreaming is inserting drivers and other add-ons into your Windows Install CD), and have the Windows detect & install the drivers automatically without having to worry about installing/setting up the drivers for each computer configuration or install case.
A product that I have always found useful has been released for mac. Download Nessus here.
The following sites might be helpful to configure IPSec again, or on a more complex basis:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_60/ipsec/conipsec.htm
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/overload_private.shtml
Dear Thought Deposit:
I’m not writing this from within Thunderbird, as I would prefer, but through a slick new client called Drivel. This client is used to post to blogs.
Other clients: http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client
1) Select “MoveableType” as blogging type.
2) Enter in “http://10.0.4.20/wordpress/xmlrpc.php” as the address for the blog.
Access Grid looks like minority report, minus the scientology enthusiast. Crazy futuristic video conferencing that’s probably spendy, seeing as NASA is a fan of it. Still, if some of it’s concepts can be scaled down, might be something we can use some day. It’s based on free software, and there’s plenty of documentation.
This RSS reader integrates into Firefox, and is free. I see a lot of potential for RSS feeds & the intraweb integrated together to keep people up to date on what they need to know. But we’ll need an easy to use, easy to deploy RSS reader. So, this is interesting. Appears to be not yet compatible with Firefox 1.5 on the Mac though 
Link
Another one from the old bookmark bin.
Right now when users access shared folders, they see all folders created, even the ones they don’t have access to. Hiding folders that don’t have read access is called ABE, access based enumeration.
This page has details on how to do this in Window Server 2003. Wonder if there is a way to get this working with Samba.
From the “Ian’s old bookmarks” file — that’s a lot of fonts.
Synchroedit is a multi-user simultaneous notepad, like Gobby, but instead of being a stand-alone application it’s web-based. And of course, it’s open source.
It is still very very rough around the edges, not quite ready for primtime. But in the future once it’s a little more polished, this could be a service we provide as an intraweb app for people to conduct meetings with.
I will tackle the UPS man when ‘The Practice of System & Network Administration’ from Amazon arrives at my doorstep next week. The TOC says to me it covers stuff we always knew instinctually about how we should run IT here, but never sat down and articulated. I’m looking forward to plowing through this tome and thinking about our IT with a more solid understanding of best practices.