Windows Vista & 7 Disconnected drives

Windows Vista & Windows 7 with UAC enabled always show mapped drives as disconnected after login. 

The workaround is a registry setting documented here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624

Routesplit on OSX 10.x

The routesplit tool fails to make routes permanent on Snow Leopard and later versions of OSX.  To work around the issue edit the following file as such:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/net.routes.static.plist



...
<key>ServiceDescription</key>
<string>Install static routes</string>
<key>WatchPaths</key><array>
 <string>/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
</string>
</array>
...

Linux Shell Menu

Linux shell menu, using pdmenu samples and examples available here:
https://gitlab.com/majorbob/sys-menu/blob/master/usr/lib/sys-menu

Start by installing pdmenu (apt-get install pdmenu).
Then download menu and pdmenu.main to /usr/local/bin and make them executable (chmod +x).
Type menu to start the menu.
Download other pdmenu scrpts as required.