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Main Forums => Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap => Topic started by: Dark Shade on September 08, 2002, 10:21:10 AM
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Alright. I've joined the Hacker Network...
I see alot of people with little tiny logos at the bottom of their posts...
How exactly do you obtain one of those? I'd like to snag one myself.
I was thinking of copying another members logo who didn't post...but that's not right...
Heheheh.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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I assume you're talking about sig images, much like the one I have below on here.
First, you need to grab a graphics program like MSPaint (heh) or PSP or Photoshop and make one. (or convince someone to make one for you)
Then you have to find a place to host the file. I recommend Netfirms. Then you go into your profile, and in the signature area you type
[I M G]http://www.yourhost.com/filename.extension[/ I M G]. (without the giant spaces twixt the letters in IMG, natch)
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Would you be willing to do that Lacerda?
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Yeah, sure...I've got an hour to kill. Whaddya want?
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Um...do I just pick an image, and then tell you to put my name on it?
Putting my name on it would be aight, but I'm trying to think of an image...
Some kind of Lich, dark, thingy...
I can't quite tell ya what image...but something along those lines.
Hell, Satan-ish, Dark, etc.
And then stuff my name in the bottom corner, if you'd be so kind.
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Maybe try putting for a quote if you could spare it:
"Darkness is my light."
Thanks again.
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Generally speaking, one usually puts the quotes in separate of the sig image. Check your HN PM box.
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Thank you. You wouldn't want to do that same deal again, with "Dark Shade" as my name, would ya?
It's alright if you don't. I'm sure the guys won't mind if I use it here.
Thanks again Lacerda.
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Ehhh...I'd have to do it again from scratch...
First one's free, next time it's $800.
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Oh well, then don't bother. Thanks again though. I really appreciate it.
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Maybe I'm just being stupid here, but wouldn't it make much more sense to be using that sig on HN?
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That's kinda why I wanted another for here, but that's alright. HN it is...
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Lacerda made the sig you're using on HN? Nice! I like it! Where'd you get that source image, Lacerda?
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Google search for "lich".
:)
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Weird Tingly Feeling. A couple of months ago, when I was making my L337 custom DM screens, I did a GIS for exactly that, and I came up with very few decent results, and certainly not that one.
Dammit. :evil:
I did, however, come up with lots and lots of images of Roy Lichtenstein's work. Those are pretty cool, IMO.
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You know what I wouldn't mind gentlemen, is if you made me a sig for the Geekery.
I'd appreciate that, since I have no artistic talents on or off my computer.
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Ask, and you shall receive. I went for the freaky DogStarMan syle of flicker animation in this one, though I'm sure Lacerda's effort will probably make mine look pretty amateurish...
(http://webpages.charter.net/shifty/images/darkshade_sig.gif)
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Considering I didn't make one, I don't think that's possible.
:lol:
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Well, I was assuming you probably would, not that you already had....
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or you could just go to a place like http://www.flamingtext.com and knock yourself out :lol:
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Thank you very much Demo. I appreciate your efforts, the artwork kicks ass.
I wish I had artistic talent....
Well, PICTURES anyways.
Again, thank you very much.
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Hey Demo, just don't change it to gay porn on him now. :roll:
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Yeah, that would suck.
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Just in case you're interested, here is what it looks like before I did all the ripple type filter effects on it. It really didn't take me very long. It took longer to animate it than it did to assemble all the elements...
(http://webpages.charter.net/shifty/images/darkshade_sig_clear.jpg)
The background is from a John Howe painting called "In Mordor". There's a pretty good scan of it here (http://www.jrrtolkien.org.uk/Images%203/mordor.jpg), if you want to see the entire thing...
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That's wicked Demo, thanks again for the sig.
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No problem. I learned how to use Photoshop by making sig images for myself and others over on HN (http://www.hackernetwork.com), and I make a point to try something different every time I make a new one, so I can keep learning new stuff. Photoshop is a pretty cool program, but there is no end to stuff you can learn about it. I find new things every time I open it up, even if it's just to make something simple...
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I suck at photoshop :'(
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Could you make me a nice signature image, Demo? I'd appreciate it. :D
I tried to mess around with PShop but it was too hard to learn. Everything seemed profoundly unintuitive...
Ah, well, that's the way it goes with the really powerful programs. I use Metroworks Codewarrior to program Java and that turned me off to the whole language by its obtusity at first.
Please Demo? Pretty please?
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Since Demo and I are such good friends I think it only fair that he make me a sig first :wink: Anyways I got photoshop recently and am strugling with the writing part of the sig. Cropping a pic is easy enough but I can only get standard writing ( Veranda and stuff ) and this looks outta place on the pic. any suggestions on how to change this?
Thanks
SeK 612
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First off, I'd suggest not hosting your image with Tripod, Angelfire or Geocities.
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really ( :!: )
I've tried at DW and Fcpages and both have the same problem. Unfourtunaly it looks like all free accounts have tightend up on hotlinking :(
SeK 612
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You oughta start charging em Demo, just like Lacerda did.
Heheheh. :lol:
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Could you make me a nice signature image, Demo? I'd appreciate it. :D
I tried to mess around with PShop but it was too hard to learn. Everything seemed profoundly unintuitive...
Try Paintshop Pro...I find it a whole heckuva lot more intuitive and easy as hell to use.
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IT'S BACK!!!! (http://www.hackernetwork.com/forum)[/b]
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Pretty slow, I'll say.
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At least it's working.... that's promising.
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Remember what happened last time when it was slow... the SQL server for the forum kept on crapping out. :roll:
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Wooo Hoooo, I see it's death has been greatly exaggerated!
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Yeah I just got an email for a reply to a post. But I can't there from work. Monkey Balls!
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Try Paintshop Pro...I find it a whole heckuva lot more intuitive and easy as hell to use.
Thanks...I'll see what I can find on IRC.
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So I guess our little bunk-beds can now be thrown away and burned for lice infestation reasons, eh?
Thanks for stopping by at our hostel. Eat yer Corn Flakes, then pack it up and ship it out.
Or will you be wanting another room? THIS time, it'll cost ya 20 bucks a night....AMERICAN.
Glad to have yas here for the time we did.
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Why are all the Canadians on here insane to some degree? Is it the water?
:D
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Glad to have yas here for the time we did.
I like it here...it's all nice and dark now and not so hurtey on my eyes. I think I'll stick around.
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If it's good enough for DSM, it's good enough for me. I'll drop in from time to time too.
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Glad to have yas here for the time we did.
I like it here...it's all nice and dark now and not so hurtey on my eyes. I think I'll stick around.
So it was the white that was scaring people away.... oh well.
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For me it was. I stare at a PC all day and my eyes are pretty sensitive. I avoid bright and shiny websites like the plague.
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Witht thta being said, I smell a KIller Japanese Seizure Robots link comin up, just to warn you, DSM.
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Mmmmmm.....Seizure Bots :P
(http://3meg.netfirms.com/DickClarkAndroid.gif)
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One is occasionally reminded of the impermanence of pretty much fucking everything.
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Which one were you again?
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The n00b.
I was hoping Demosthenes would make me an avatar. Do you think he would?
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POOF.
You're an avatar.
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(http://www.geekforum.org/avatars/20725458434005923acb058.jpg) help... me...
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Nice!
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(https://i.imgur.com/EZ7nOMj.gif)
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You're all why we can't have nice things, you fucking fucks.
Especially CG.
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You're all why we can't have nice things, you fucking fucks.
Especially CG.
Nah. It was the fucking Turks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061023224533/http://www.hackernetwork.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20061023224533/http://www.hackernetwork.com/)
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(http://www.geekforum.org/avatars/20725458434005923acb058.jpg) help... me...
Well played, sir.
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Istanbul not Constantinople...
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I wonder if CG has dropped his asking price of hackernetwork.com from $5000 like he was asking for several years ago when I checked with him...
$5000! :-o
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That's crazy! Which, uh, makes sense, because that's his name