I use my gmail account to manage multiple email accounts/addresses. I recently wanted to set up a vacation responder for one of my email address. However, the default vacation responder in gmail uses the default email account to send and there is no option to activate vacation responder for a single email address. I found read more
In one of my group’s website (operated using [Google Sites](http://sites.google.com/)), I post news and announcements to a page that has an RSS feed. I don’t expect people to visit the website on a daily basis to find updates. With the RSS feed, updates can come to them using their RSS aggregator or reader of choice, read more
[This](http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-write-perl-script-to-monitor-disk-space.html) site and [this](http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-script-to-watch-the-disk-space.html) site describe some scripts to monitor disk usage of a computer based on the [df](http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/51600) command and email the ADMIN when disk usage reaches a certain percentage. The scripts can be ran periodically based on `cron`. These scripts did not work on my local NAS because I have one filesystem called read more
I always wanted to set this up, but never got around to it because I a particular need never arised. I finally had some time to set up my GPG key so others can send me encrypted files and emails. Google “gpg” or “pgp” for more information about it. ## Setup I followed [these](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto) instructions read more
i usually run long simulations in R on a remote server. i’ve read an article on linux journal about emailing yourself after something happens…i forgot. since my jobs are long, and i usually have to run multiple jobs sequentially, it’d be nice to look at my results immediately when they’re gone. good thing *nix based read more
so i recently discovered (through michael zeller again) a new blogging service called posterous. it’s pretty innovative in that u can post by email. really? blogger let’s me do that too, and so does wordpress and most blogging services. however, posterous stands out because it’ll do all the work for u. put in a link read more
