Labbing in iTerm

In case you’ve not worked it out yet, I’m an enthusiastic Mac user.  I’ve used them on and off since I met my wife (a long-time and even more passionate Mac user) back in 2000 when she was running OS 9 on a Graphite iMac.  Despite negative initial impressions (“Ugh! Macs?”), she didn’t kick me out of her house and we got married 2 years later.

But I digress…  I’m running OS X Lion on a Macbook Air now and it’s easily my favourite computing environment.  I’ve also recently added an external screen (a Dell 22″ U2212HM) to try and prevent neckache from working on the laptop all the while.  I’m also trying (insofar as I can on the Mac) to replicate the CCIE lab environment.  From what I’ve seen on the web this roughly means:

• No tabbed terminals.
• Single 23″ display only.
• Work with electronic documentation, not hard copy.

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