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Remote Mac Control

I need to help out my grandmother with her mac occasionally. Now it’s much easier if I can just VNC straight into her machine. Unfortunately, it’s behind a router. But that’s OK. As usual, ssh tunnels to the rescue.
Unfortunately, she’s not really capable of using the command line. So it’s [...]

Posted 25 February 2007 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

My Sysadmin Toolbox

After seeing lots of these at Linux.com recently, I thought I’d try to come up with my own list. I used to be a sysadmin (I’m now a programmer), and I’ve long felt that you really a good set of tools (and to know how to use them) in order to be most productive.

zsh
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Posted 17 April 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

TRAMP Rocks

TRAMP is a tool for Emacs to let you edit files on another computer, using only an ssh connection. It rocks, as it lets me edit files at work from my laptop at home. Behind the scenes, there’s some serious voodoo going on, encoding and decoding files on the fly, transferring them to [...]

Posted 02 December 2005 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Nesting

I’ve just opened up a new command shell, without thinking about it. Inside an Emacs session. Which is running inside GNU screen. Which is running inside Putty. Transparent? Clear as mud.

Posted 28 November 2005 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

OpenSSH & zsh misfeature

For a while, I’ve been using a little trick that I found on the zsh wiki (CompletionExamples) to automatically turn my known_hosts file into a set of host names. Unfortunately, the latest Ubuntu upgrade has turned on a new feature of OpenSSH, HashKnownHosts (detailed in ssh_config(5)). Unfortunately, this breaks the parsing because the [...]

Posted 21 October 2005 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: