Cougar

tsclient – for the RDP from a GNOME desktop

vpnc for the cisco vpn – you just need to configure it

vpnc – client for cisco vpn concentrator

vpnc is supposed to work with:

Cisco VPN concentrator 3000 Series
Cisco IOS routers
Cisco PIX / ASA Zecurity Appliances
Juniper/Netscreen
Supported Authentications: Hybrid, Pre-Shared-Key + XAUTH, Pre-Shared-Key
Supported IKE DH-Groups: dh1 dh2 dh5
Supported Hash Algo (IKE/IPSEC): md5 sha1
Supported Encryptions (IKE/IPSEC): (null) (1des) 3des aes128 aes192 aes256
Perfect Forward Secrecy: nopfs dh1 dh2 dh5

Yeah ok the open office / ms office compatability isnt worth the risk at work…

But for home use.. it probably has you covered

I’d risk rounding off my nuts.

Are your nuts not already round Cougar? (Not that I really need to know of course)

deliberate attempt by Master Gates to make Macs look shit.

Odd, I remember reading an article that when Microsoft wrote Office for Mac they went out their way to make it better than the PC version 😕

But I have never used it on the Mac so it might have been PR bullshit.

Bravo has the best post so far.

As for whether osx is the right tool for the job? I’ll make that judgement when it comes to spending my own hard-earned money on whatever I like.

EDIT – that sounds more defensive and snarky than intended. What I’m saying is it’s not a big deal, really