Tag Archives: ssh

Remote Mac Control

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Dominic Mitchell

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, … Continue reading →

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My Sysadmin Toolbox

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

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TRAMP Rocks

Posted on December 2, 2005 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

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Nesting

Posted on November 28, 2005 by Dominic Mitchell

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.

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OpenSSH & zsh misfeature

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

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