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Title: Signature length
Post by: that_punk_guy on July 16, 2004, 10:04:11 PM
I think the signature length has recently been restricted.

While that's a very good idea in theory, it's actually preventing me from making my sig less obtrusive (I could use a [size] tag and a proper http:// tag.)

Right now it looks like this:

[quote][img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/christopher.sheffield/chris_sig.gif[/img]
[b]I'm doing time in a maximum security twilight home[/b][size=small]
http://tinderbox.mpunk3.org :: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/christopher.sheffield/positivity.html
[/size][/quote]

But I'd like to do this:

[quote][img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/christopher.sheffield/chris_sig.gif[/img]
[size=x-small][b]I'm doing time in a maximum security twilight home[/b]
[url=http://tinderbox.mpunk3.org]Tinderbox :: Positivity in the Amiga community (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/christopher.sheffield/positivity.html)
[/size][/quote]

The bottom example requires a few more characters but I think it's much more acceptable. I hate obtrusive sigs. :-(
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: blobrana on July 17, 2004, 05:49:48 PM
Hum,
i know exactly what you mean...
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: that_punk_guy on July 23, 2004, 07:49:38 PM
:bump:

Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: BoingBoss on July 23, 2004, 07:59:24 PM
Hi that_punk_guy,

Nice dog.  Is that yours?
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: that_punk_guy on July 23, 2004, 09:10:36 PM
Yes, he is. :-)
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: Karlos on July 23, 2004, 11:58:43 PM
@TPG,

Getting off topic...

Is that Dale, then?

@BoingBoss - that your puppy? Reminds me of my brothers (long since sadly departed) dog when he first got him. Grew into one humungous, massive (and extremely strong) beast! Due to the whole "all big dogs are all nasty an evil" thing that occured here (following some cases seriously nasty attacks on people) people assumed he was straight from the Omen or something. But he never really grew much out of being a puppy ;-)

Taking some 12 stone (I kid you not) of playful muscle for a walk to the beach was quite a tiring experience :lol:
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: that_punk_guy on July 24, 2004, 10:54:25 AM
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Karlos wrote:
@TPG,

Getting off topic...

Is that Dale, then?


That's cool, it keeps the thread bumped. Although apparently no-ones interested. :-?

But yep, that's Dale. He has an online journal, by the way:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/daledawg/ :-D

(Oh, it seems livejournal is down for some reason, but anyway.) :-)
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: Karlos on July 24, 2004, 11:17:24 AM
Hmm, seems the dale dawg diaries have some technical hitch atm :-(
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: that_punk_guy on July 24, 2004, 11:37:42 AM
'Tis working again now. :-)
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: Karlos on July 24, 2004, 11:55:20 AM
So I see :-D

Satisfying break from work ;-) Jeez, I once made a promise to myself that I'd never work Saturdays and yet here I am, sitting infront of a sodding iMac, using BBEdit to fix, update and generally replace a bunch of totally *awful* (as in the least optimal, biggest abuser of deprecated features, most pathetically 'no knowledge of programming paragdims beyond the function') implemented) l DreamWreckerMX generated php code.

And that's just the application back end :lol:
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: that_punk_guy on July 24, 2004, 12:22:31 PM
Heh... Remind me again why I've been trying to get back into IT? ;-)
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: Karlos on July 24, 2004, 12:28:51 PM
Er....:lol:

I'm more your traditional C/C++ kinda feller so web stuff isn't really my dream position ;-). I had to learn php, javascript etc. pretty damn quickly for this job.

Annoyingly it pays a total pittance, but ...

extern Beggar* oldMe;

try {
Chooser* newMe = dynamic_castoldMe;
} catch (...) {
std::cerr << "Beggars can't be choosers!\n";
}

has a tendency to throw every time ;-)
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: on July 24, 2004, 12:39:25 PM
By way of explanation, one of the things I *hate* about Xoops 2 is the fact that everything is written in a manner that is so overly complicated and obfuscated that it's very difficult to make even simple code changes.  It is for this exact reason that I have considered moving to another system for quite a while.  

The problem now is that, having gone to Xoops 2 based on it's other merits (the features some of you love), all this data is pretty much pigeon-holed, meaning it would be almost impossible to move 200,000+ forum posts and countless stories, articles, FAQ entries, not to mention nearly 3,000 users etcetera to a new Web software package.

Wayne
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: Karlos on July 24, 2004, 01:31:00 PM
And I thought it was all explained in xeron's signature :lol:
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: cecilia on July 24, 2004, 05:56:50 PM
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That's cool, it keeps the thread bumped. Although apparently no-ones interested.
not true, i  noticed immediately that my sig had been suddenly cut!
i decided to keep the import part for the moment because until nov, i want to remind people that bush is dangerous.

i figured there wasn't anything i could do about the sig length. so i didn't mention it.
Title: Re: Signature length
Post by: that_punk_guy on July 24, 2004, 06:16:00 PM
Quote
Wayne wrote:
By way of explanation, one of the things I *hate* about Xoops 2 is the fact that everything is written in a manner that is so overly complicated and obfuscated that it's very difficult to make even simple code changes.  It is for this exact reason that I have considered moving to another system for quite a while.  

The problem now is that, having gone to Xoops 2 based on it's other merits (the features some of you love), all this data is pretty much pigeon-holed, meaning it would be almost impossible to move 200,000+ forum posts and countless stories, articles, FAQ entries, not to mention nearly 3,000 users etcetera to a new Web software package.


Ah.