Before this article, I wanna introduce cowsay again, cowsay is an ASCII art generator, which is alway the nerd's favorite toy. Cowsay & Fortune I already used cowsay in my email client, gnus. And at that moment, I found out cowsay's closet mate, fortune . And this time is the moment to make some fun to my ssh login terminal. How to decorate your ssh login console? Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-53-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ ____________________________ / Expect the worst, it's the least you \ \ can do. / -------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||--------w | || || Following is a step to step tutorials to make the above dark ASCII art. install both cowsay and fortune. install following script into /etc/update-motd.d/