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I keep a pad of graph paper ... most mornings, when I look at it, I wrote gibberish on it. (Makes me think that my strategy is working). But, in the beginning, I'd often fire off an email before I had breakfast based on what I'd written. It all depends on what's rampaging through your mind that's keeping you awake.

Lol. I can just imagine waking up and seeing the nighttime scribbles from being half asleep.

This morning, I had. P.A.M.

I'm having issues virtualizing a server from around 2000. Last night, after I'd went to bed, I thought that I should look at the Pluggable Authentication Module on the virtual server. Since, back in the late 90's, early 00's, you could use rlogin, rsh, and rexec. But these methods were replaced by ssh (which is also 100% more secure AND encrypted). I rarely have to look at the PAM rules since I don't play in that sandbox any more.

The paragraph above would have rampaged my brain and prevented sleep ... but jotting down. P.A.M. was enough to satisfy it that the issue would be managed in the morning.

The good news is ... while looking on Google, I might be heading in the right direction. (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/340088/enabling-rsh-rlogin-with-pam-in-amazon-linux)

Now to get some more coffee and do some reading. ;-)

Since I’m a dumb human…I had to reread this a couple of times. Lol.

I’m so not computer savvy so it takes a moment to compute.

This reminds me of the awful notetaking I partake in when we play D&D. I jot random shit down with 0 context and then when we come back to it weeks later, I’m like P.A.M….what the fuck is that?!?

Lol

hehehe. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that anything written in the notebook has a shelf life of less than 24 hours. After that, it morph's into Klingon. If you don't speak Klingon, then:

"ma qel seng"

LOL

Every new D&D game, my buddy Bill and I laugh at my previous session's "notes" as we try to decipher the very foreign writings like you mentioned.