Topic awaiting preservation: A Big Gigantic Favour to Ask

I know the standard answer to the upcoming question will most likely be a resounding "NO, DAMNIT!", but I'll ask anyway. Can someone here make a sig for me?My coffee swirl sig's acting up, and I have no idea how to use Illustrator. Thank you so much if you do, I'll be eternally in your debt for about two weeks if it's a good one.

Until then, I'm pretty much sigless.

-RN3-

You DO know what happened to the last guy who asked me for a sig, right? I would want to make you one, but you will have to use it for the period of your eternal debt. Let's say, two weeks. Deal?

Deal. Thanks mahjqa, you legend.

hehe ... hehehehe...heheHAHAH MUAHAHAHAH MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

hehehe
~coughsuckercough~

Ooh... this should be good.

What? Why do your posts give me an impending sense of doom? What do you know that
I don't?

*snicker* Oh, nothing. *snicker*

n n n nothing. wuhahaha

"We are your friends. Surely you can see that now. We want your journey to be smoother. Don't you want your journey to be smoother? "

*extreme worry!

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What do you know that
I don't?

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Well....uh...for starters, we read Mahjqa's post

Beyond that, the list gets far too long to write out in any detail....

quote:

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"We are your friends. Surely you can see that now. We want your journey to be smoother. Don't you want your journey to be smoother? "

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Off topic, but is that an Adams or Anton Wilson quote? Or both... or neither?

Googled the whole thing and got that far, but ran into a wall at the One World Alliance (which seems totally unrelated to a quote like this).

Meheheheheheh......... I don't know what's going on, but it's funny...

Dear Rameses Niblik the 3rd, dear Rauthrin. Look at this sig. It is not mine. It was for the previous guy who requested me to make him a signature

heh, thats not a bad sig :rollseyes:

But that's a good sig. Mahjqa, you're not making a lot of sense.

[edit]??confused??[/edit]

Hah!!!

Oh, this is too much.

Ok then, please majqa, make one *just* as good for rameses =)

Be careful what you wish for...you just might get it !

Relatively new here (okay - really new FRESH MEAT)
but enjoying the banter thus far.



[This message has been edited by Astrolegoboy (edited 07-16-2003).]

*curls in a ball around my nightstick whimpering and covering my face with my paws.*


The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH''

Wolfen's Sig Site

RN3: Let me give you a hint... yes, someone around here isn't making a lot of sense, but it ain't mahjqa. I can think of another word to describe said person... rhymes with "sense"... starts with a "d"...

Suho1004: 'defense'?

Do I win a prize? Do I?

___________________
Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Dense!!!! Yay I win!!! =)

or did I win??

phyreHazard: - of course that's the One World Allience! see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OneWorldAlliance ...

Okay, just screw the whole thing.

RN3, the Sigless Wonder

That's the spirit!

Ohhh you guys are really mean ... all he wanted was a siggie !!!



[This message has been edited by trib (edited 08-19-2003).]

Yikes.

adsl.highway.telekom.at ?
thats an austrian provider!

uh, mas - it's YOUR provider...

That's so cool!

Bahahaa. Well done trib.

hehehe nice one trib, i looked twice at that when i saw my ip and os and browser listed on it, nifty effect

It's a bit of throwaway php I wrote ... originally it was to give me a sig which showed the "Currently Playing" track on my web radio station ... but it can easily be modified to work as a random quotation "fortune cookie", with or without randomly selected background pictures, or as I did it here .. a "gotcha" sig ... If you're interested, here's the code for the one above ...

?php

//

// get the information about the brower etc

// this needs browsecap.ini to be up-to-date and

// the browsecap entry in php.ini to be set to on

//

$tempthing = get_browser();

$browser = $tempthing->parent;

$os = $tempthing->platform;

// 

// now make up the ip and domain details (read the php.net documentation and

// notes on the gethostbyaddr() function and the $_SERVER[$REMOTE_HOST] variable

// if you really want to see why I did it this way.

//

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ? $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] : "unknown address";

$domain = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ? gethostbyaddr($ip) : "unknown host";

//

// set up the tsxt strings to be superimposed on the graphic

//

$line0="Rameses Niblik the Third           Sees all knows all";

$line1="Hello ".$ip." at ".$domain;

$line2="are you happy with ".$browser." on ".$os."?";

//

// define the mime-type and get the starting picture

//

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");

$im = imagecreatefromjpeg("./rn3.jpg");

//

// define a few colours for the text

// linux handles colours pretty poorly so I use imagecolorclosest()

// for a solaris box you can use imagecolorallocate() and get a precise match

// the black is to give me a chiselled look - use a 1+1 px diagonal offset

//

$black = imagecolorclosest($im, 0, 0, 0);

$orange = imagecolorclosest($im, 255, 80, 0);

//

// font size 1 is 5 px wide, size 2 is 6, size 3 is 7.5

// you have 5 font sizes to choose from and you can import

// and define more fonts if you want to (see imageloadfont())

// The first line calculates the centred starting position for a line

// the next 2 put it on the pikkie forst in black then in colour

//

$px = (imagesx($im) - 5 * strlen($line0)) / 2;

imagestring($im, 1, $px, 3, $line0, $black);

imagestring($im, 1, $px+1, 4, $line0, $orange);

//

// repeat for the number of lines you have

//

$px = (imagesx($im) - 5 * strlen($line1)) / 2;

imagestring($im, 1, $px, 16, $line1, $black);

imagestring($im, 1, $px+1, 17, $line1, $orange);

//

// we have two of them

//

$px = (imagesx($im) - 5 * strlen($line2)) / 2;

imagestring($im, 1, $px, 28, $line2, $black);

imagestring($im, 1, $px+1, 29, $line2, $orange);

//

// output the new picture and clean up

//

imagejpeg($im);

imagedestroy($im);

//

// bingo ... simple eh ??

//

?>

you call it with an img tag containing the name of the php file instead of the image. If you want to get REALLy slick, you can put the whole lot in a sub-dir, and create a .htaccess file containing

RedirectMatch (.*)sig.jpg$ $1.php

ind if your apache server recognises it, you can then use an img tag with a "genuine" .jpg name in it (filesig.jpg), and confuse everyone even more ... bwahahahahaha

The code is pretty self-explanatory, and all the functions are well documented at http://www.php.net, but if you have an earlier version of PHP (pre - 4.3) you will need to install the GD library and compile against it to get the graphics manipulation.


tune in now (Winamp .pls file)

[This message has been edited by trib (edited 07-21-2003).]

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bingo ... simple eh ??

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No.

Checking.

And on the other background.

Thanks trib, you legend!



[This message has been edited by Rameses Niblik the Third (edited 07-21-2003).]

Hey RN3 .. my pleasure ... now try referring to it as rn3sig.jpg instead of rn3.php ... I installed the RedirectMatch line in the directory so the deception is complete. See ...



[This message has been edited by trib (edited 07-21-2003).]

ugh! i cant get this thing to work on my server can u help trib

Sorry S.D. - I really don't have a lot of time right now, and PHP installations are quite site-dependant, so I may not be able to put my finger on what's not working. First thing to do is to strip out the comments and check the syntax. I may have added a typo or something in the process of commenting the code (coz I did it as I posted it here so it isn't tested in commented form).

OTOH - You should be able to work out what it does from the code ... I commented it for that reason ... and anything you don't understand you can look up at http://www.php.net by searching for the functions in the function reference section (search on the front page) and reading the descriptions and the accompanying comments.

I always say that if you don't understand a piece of code, then you shouldn't be using it .. my apology ... that's not intended to be a piss-off, it's just that in my experience, not doing so only leads to grief later.


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips

[This message has been edited by trib (edited 07-24-2003).]