SSH tunnelling from OSX

11 01 2018

In certain situations, I need to connect to a remote network via a bastion host but only have SSH available to me.   To get around installing some kind of VPN gateway, the easiest thing to do is to create an SSH tunnel.

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FTP and Telnet removed from OSX High Sierra (10.13.1)

15 12 2017

For those of us that often have to use console servers to connect over IP to serial ports of devices, the removal of telnet from High Sierra is a bit of a pain in the bum.   Here are two things you can do:

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Conduit.com search browser hijack on OSX

21 11 2013

Just spent a half hour sorting out some irritating search toolbar and browser hijack that my mum’s Mac seemed to have got from somewhere.  Most of what I read on the internet seemed to be out of date or inaccurate maybe, so I’m posting my steps to getting rid of this here in case it is of use.

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