SSH recomendations
In these days of increased internet security, many web hosting services (including the one you’re currently soaking in, jtlnet) no longer allow telnet access. But any hosting service worth its weight in salt allows access via telnet’s more mature cousin, secure shell (SSH). On the Mac, the best freeware SSH client I’ve found is MacSSH. If you work on Windows, like I do, the best free combination I’ve found is Tera Term Pro (telent program) and ttssh, an extension to Tera Term that adds SSH functionality. On Linux, the command-line solution is OpenSSH (I’ve never used a graphical one on Linux, so I can’t reccomend one. If you know of one, pass that info along).
I found this online diary and a blog by the same person (Why have both? I’m not sure. But both are pretty fun).