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Restarting a remote Mac via AppleScript
Authored by: derekhed on Nov 10, '04 01:56:51PM

Nice list, osxpounder.

Allow me to add one more thing that I have found useful. I allow only ports 80 and 22 through my router, and have VNCServer running at startup (boooot). (That's not a typo, my computer just takes a long time to start up :-).

Bad jokes aside, if I tunnel my VNC connection over SSH, I can also use the compression flag -C and get about 3X the speed of my broadband connection. Very nice. And of course, all the normal security advantages are there. This has made the entire procedure useful, where before it was just possible.

ssh -2 user_name@home_IP_number -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 -C



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