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My email breaks about once a year. Something about one of the mail clients I use, the mail server, procmail or whatever, trashes the mail file somehow. I’ve tried editing the file but that often doesn’t work. I think I’ve found another potential solution…

I needed to hide a linux server inside a pedestal for a piece of sculpture that I’m working on. Bandsaw and drywall screws, it’s ugly but exactly what I needed.

motd stands for “message of the day” and it’s the message that you see when you login to a unix-like system via ssh, telnet, the console, etc. Some people like to put cute sayings or “welcome” messages, but if I’m setting up a server for someone else, I generally want to put a less friendly [...]