Archive for November, 2008

November 16, 2008 0

Useful Command Line Reference

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Whenever I write a shell script I find myself trying to construct command line arguements to achieve what I want. Then I google the problem I’m going to solve and find better ways to do it. By the next time I need to solve a similar problem I forget what I’ve done… hence this post. [...]

November 5, 2008 0

Using ssh -D in Leopard (well really any OS with openssh)

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Scenario: You are VPN’d into your company and you wish to browse the web without any traffic traversing your corporation’s network. If you company has split-tunneling configured on their vpn, chances are that traffic destined towards the internet will not touch the corporate network. One downside to split tunneling is that in Leopard your /etc/resolv.conf [...]