One persistent problem that I run into is that I need to access certain network resources through a SOCKS proxy server. This works great for web resources, but I also need SSH and Subversion access. SOCKS support in these tools are woefully inadequate or nonexistent.

Now, tsocks is a nifty little tool to transparently divert network traffic through a SOCKS 4 or SOCKS 5 proxy. This allows even non-SOCKS-aware applications to function through a SOCKS server. Unfortunately it is very old, unmaintained code (1.8 beta 5 was released in 2002). It doesn't compile cleanly on OS X due to this. I would like to compile this tool for OS X.