I Love MacFUSE
MacFUSE is one of those packages I always knew I needed but didn't know it existed or even what to call it. MacFUSE lets Mac OS X treat a remote ssh accessible server as a mounted disk resource. Upshot: I can use any of my Mac OS X tools directly on a file that lives on a remote Linux box. MacFUSE is an OS X implementation of FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). Google licenses it "New BSD", an OSI approved open source license. You obviously still need to be cognizant that the file system lives remotely because it's easy to abuse or forget, but given that caveat, this has to be one of the most useful pieces of software I've installed in a long time. MacFUSE project page says it will support other file system types than sshfs, but currently it looks like sshfs is it – that's enough for me. Thank you, Google.
