Subject: Re: Unofficial macppc 2.1 ISO for old world machines
To: None <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/21/2005 12:45:02
>> If you have another Unix box with X installed, you can run X
>> software on your headless Mac quite easily.  All you need to do, is
>> telnet to your headless Mac and set the display to your Unix box
>> running X.
> Ugh - noone should be using telnet.

Why not?  Surely you're not under the (mis)impression that everyone's
network is exposed to random attackers from the net-at-large?

Yes, there is a large class of problems for which telnet is a very very
wrong answer.  That doesn't mean that there aren't also problems for
which it is a right answer.

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