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Slow downloads for MacOS updates? Try this.

November 2, 2020

I discovered a nifty trick for those excruciatingly slow Apple Update downloads. My friend left his broken 2008 Mac Pro with me last week. It turned out that he just neglected to plug in the display power supply. The computer has been down for a year(!) because of that. Since the machine hadn’t run since last winter, I decided to do his free OS upgrade because obviously that was going to be over his head too. I started the update

SMB+SSH: Ubuntu server and OSX client

June 13, 2014

The title above is pretty close to the Google search query I used in vain to find a recipe for tunneling an OSX Samba client to an Ubuntu 14.04 server. Hopefully this post will save someone the hours I spent trying to set this up. In the end, like so many Unix projects, the answer turned out to be simple. All that’s needed is a configured and functioning Unix/Linux Samba and SSH server . Everything else is on the client side. I’m not

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Slow downloads for MacOS updates? Try this.

SMB+SSH: Ubuntu server and OSX client