OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a community supported open-source project as well as a commercial services, training, and support organization.

Cheops is an Open Source Network User Interface. It is designed to be the network equivalent of a swiss-army knife, unifying your network utilities. Cheops does for the network what a file manager does for your filesystem.

By making a server a login item, you can have the Connect to Server dialog automatically appear when you log in.

Freeware application Home and Away automatically mounts network volumes, launches applications, and opens files based on what network you're connected to.

Using network and Bluetooth detection software, you can do things like mount networked drives, set default printers, enable/disable your screensaver, and launch applications based on what networks are available, what network you're connected to, and what

Home Zone monitors Airport networks and Bluetooth devices in your proximity and can automatically trigger user-definable actions when configured networks or devices appear or disappear.

Automatic location switching for Mac OS X.

Craig Burton has said that the best geometric representation of the net's end-to-end architecture is a hollow sphere comprised of everything and everybody on it. Doc Searls, senior editor for Linux Journal, used this statement to describe the hollow spher

David Levinson tells how the story of transportation networks' evolution involves repeating series of peaks and declines. Drawing on specific examples from water, rail and road systems, he explains how competing modes, markets and politics lead to situati