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Lovechild
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 Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 9:44 pm Post subject: Coolest signature? |
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Time to waste some time... who has the coolest sig in Gentoo land.
Remember - You can only vote once. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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If by sig, you mean the ones used here at the forums, then I'd say that everyone think that theirs is the best, or else they wouldn't chosen it.
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rac
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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Regardless of opinions on coolness, by far the most popular .sig I've seen here is the "10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't" line. I think I've seen at least five people using that.
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lx
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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Think you should also make some catagories, cause some are funny, other's quit deep like yours. Well I refreign from voting, somedays I like the one other days I like another......
I like rac's sig, 
Cya lX.
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mine. i forgot what it is though :)
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ebrostig
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I miss the ability to use the same system as I use on my emails.
I get a new signature for every email I write. I use a program called signature . It's a program running in the background and reads your fortune files. By creating a template with your standard information and a template for how the added texct from the fortunes should be formatted.
Unofrtunately, no ebuild exists, but if you are interested in it, you can find it here.
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pilla
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| Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:24 am Post subject: |
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coolest sig: "zero degrees Kelvin"
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rac
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ebrostig, while I can sympathize with the desire for signature rotation, phpBB actually appends your signature every time a thread is viewed. It's not part of the message. So .sig changes propagate retroactively. Even if it were possible to implement, the load on each thread display would be prohibitive.
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| I have this really 1337 sig that is invisible to non-1337 people.. |
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DArtagnan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 6:32 am Post subject: |
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1 4 ALL and ALL 4 1
Guess who said that 
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Larde
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| simulacrum wrote: | | I have this really 1337 sig that is invisible to non-1337 people.. |
Yeah, and it's quite cool, I always enjoy reading your .sig!
Larde.
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Curious
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| ebrostig wrote: | | I get a new signature for every email I write. I use a program called signature . It's a program running in the background and reads your fortune files. By creating a template with your standard information and a template for how the added texct from the fortunes should be formatted. |
At the beginning of the year, I was using and programming on HURD. ( Not even Debian GNU/HURD, just HURD with some development utils... yeah, I'm a real man ). HURD has a notion of a 'translator', which is kind of like a file system, and kind of like a device driver.
The first translator that I wrote was for signatures. It worked like this - whenever you accessed the file, it made a new 'session' of the translator. The translator would pick a fortune from the fortune file, measure its length, and report that as the file length. Then, as the file was read, it would feed back the fortune file data, keeping track manually of things like the seek position, etc. It was pretty rocking, but:
Hurd is for people who do drugs.
Stay away, chilluns. Anyway, this is the best of all worlds - you get a new signature everytime you access the file, but there's no load associated with having a daemon spinning constantly in the background. Also, these things could be written and mounted in user space, which was nice.
If you wrote your own mail client that you could teach to just read from a .signature file up until a \0 or similar ( so it doesn't read forever ), it would be quite feasible to do this with a named pipe and a program to spew endless fortunes. Might be worth looking into.
P.S. Larde, I really like that post you just did.
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rac
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| Curious wrote: | | P.S. Larde, I really like that post you just did. |
What's so cool? It was blank, wasn't it? Am I missing something?
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| ebrostig wrote: | I miss the ability to use the same system as I use on my emails.
I get a new signature for every email I write. I use a program called signature . It's a program running in the background and reads your fortune files. By creating a template with your standard information and a template for how the added texct from the fortunes should be formatted. |
That seems somewhat inconvenient; mutt is able to use an executable's output as a signature instead of just a static file.
Anyway, although it would be a little bit inconvenient, you could get a similar effect by making a bookmarklet that would generate a signature and paste it into a form, using that for signatures instead of phpBB's built-in system.
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i like mine 
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| I used to be concieted, but now I am simply perfetc. |
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lx
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| Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:04 am Post subject: |
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| ebrostig wrote: | I miss the ability to use the same system as I use on my emails.
I get a new signature for every email I write. I use a program called signature . It's a program running in the background and reads your fortune files. By creating a template with your standard information and a template for how the added texct from the fortunes should be formatted.
Unofrtunately, no ebuild exists, but if you are interested in it, you can find it here.
Erik |
I suppose signify does the same thing, and it's got a bonus, it is in the tree,
Cya lX.
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Lovechild
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| TheCoop wrote: | | i like mine |
I like yours to.... the Microsoft -> Adolf Hitler analogy cracks me up everytime (it's actually tragic, because in many respects it's so true) |
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lx
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Well I like the anology, TheCoop, however if you say 95% of all errors are caused between chair and keyboard, you probably suppose that most people aren't running Micro$oft software. Cause I've seen many problems, just caused by bugs (features) in Windows,,,,,
Cya lX.
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it applies to everyone, because its the persons fault that microsoft got installed on there , the only problems that are not cause of the person are some hardware failures
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For me, Richard Feynman has to be the man.
Of other peoples, I can't remember who had it and I'm sure I've seen it around before, but it always gives me a giggle:
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I like mine, just because I'm a big fan of Simpsons quotes.
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bpkri
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Okay here's my 5 (EURO)cent:
"Due to circumstances beyond your control,
you are master of your fate
and captain of your soul."
Quite old. but still I like it |
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lx
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| TheCoop wrote: | | it applies to everyone, because its the persons fault that microsoft got installed on there , the only problems that are not cause of the person are some hardware failures |
Could still blaim the person, for not buying better hardware c.q. upgrading on time,
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yes, but he doesnt know its about to fail whereas he knows hes going to get crashes and problems with windows
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