Well, this is the right place for it.

I just thought about a Matrix-esque (or tron-esque) dos-prompt thing.
With C:> and a couple of lines from random songs... Ending with a "Computer Whizz:> exit" or "Comp Whizz:> Shutdown -t now" or something like that.

Or some C++ code or something... Any idea's?

By a Matrix-esque dos prompt, do u mean the hacking section from Enter the Matrix? That would make a good sig

That would be horribly cliche and the resident evil fanboy thing you have going on already isn't helping your hetero street credentials.

I will work on something manly for you, maybe something with HUGE AMERICAN BISCUITS!!!

My vote would be for something a little bit smaller than you have now...

Hahaha, street cred .

Alex - yeah, I thought it was a bit buly when I made this one... I think I need a new Avatar too.

Just something slim (maybe dos-prompt scrolling or something like that)... But yeah, only about 1 or 2 text lines.

And by matrix/tron-esque I would say no 007 - just dos prompt but in lime-green / bright blue, clearly in scan-line pixels (like it's on a TV screen).

If you intend to do that, you'd better make sure it's not a DOS prompt but you compiling something either malicious or world saving or even better GOT ROOT.exe oh man, the cliches could go on and on.

chown -R us. base

rofl

good idea, it's time for me too to find a sig...

just out of interest, what did u use to make your last one?

007bond wrote:just out of interest, what did u use to make your last one?

flash

flash makes interactive movies, not images. He either used fireworks, paint shop pro, photoshop, or some other deluxe picture editing suite

Ste be correct... He knows flash when he see's it!

Yeah - alot of other people commented that "CW went flashcrazy" when I showed them my current sig....
I shall use flash again as it gives a smooth image!

well it certaintly doesn't look like it

Yes it does... And now it doesn't!
*delete's*

Edit:
Found this on my webserver... w00t!!


Edit2:
Oh, and 007 - if you have questions on VB, I have some really crappy VB examples on my website:
http://www.compwhizz.freeserve.co.uk/
... They aren't compiled, just VB examples...
I can't believe that was a year ago now .

thanks for the advice. By the way, ur website currently points to the itidpwn.gif image, not ur real site.

007bond wrote:well it certaintly doesn't look like it

That's because it's not moving

You can do that in an editing suite easily, but yes, flash does have that really smooth, polished look about it.

Computer Whizz wrote:Yes it does... And now it doesn't!
*delete's*

Edit:
Found this on my webserver... w00t!!


Edit2:
Oh, and 007 - if you have questions on VB, I have some really crappy VB examples on my website:
http://www.compwhizz.freeserve.co.uk/
... They aren't compiled, just VB examples...
I can't believe that was a year ago now .

lol, your ASL editor, i remember that

It works, and it was good

No - the ASL editor was just a botched program really - I'm sure there are faster ways to search through text and colourise it than to go through in one big loop through the array, finding that text in the richtext box and then colouring it...

I guess you could manually load lines one by one into the textbox, finding the text that way... Still is pretty slow though.

Edit:
No - my link is directly to my homepage (index.htm). What are you doing to get my deleted image back from the grave?

Well I downloaded it in a compiled state (when I was searching back through the forums when i first arrived), and it worked fine. I never downloaded the sourcecode for it.

About the website. When I hover over the link to your website at the bottom of one of your posts, it comes up with: http://www.compwhizz.freewerve.co.uk/itidpwn.gif. I must say, that image would be great for you right about now.

The link has been changed (just realised you meant my website that was actually linked on my personals of this forum).

Anyway - Alex, any file size restrictions? Ie no bigger than 90k or something...

There's no hard rule for file size but I suggest you keep it sensible for people on dial-up.

Alex wrote:There's no hard rule for file size but I suggest you keep it sensible for people on dial-up.

oh please, people who are still on 56k using 800x600 res don't even deserve a bloody computer

I think Im Dead wrote:Stupid Image[/img]

Did mommy and daddy give you half a cup too much alchohol, or have you just really fucking lost it this time?

how about typing something next time

oh please, people who are still on 56k using 800x600 res don't even deserve a bloody computer

Hmmm. well reasoned - I don't think!

People still on 56k dial up at home include those (like me) who live a bit out in the country where cable TV isn't provided (not cost effective to run dozens of miles of underground cables for a few hundred village residents) and who are to far away (9 km or more) from a Telephone exchange for broadband connections to be provided through the usual (British Telecom) phone services. In short, I couldn't have broadband at home (even if I wanted it) because of geographical considerations.

Suggestions that I should move home from my very pleasant rural location to the suburbs of a city, just to get broadband will be treated with the contempt they deserve..

As it happens, being 'restricted' to using 56k at home really doesn't matter to me very often, in fact if it were available to me where I live it would have to be at the same price or at only a very small cost premium or I simply wouldn't bother. I don't download music/movies at all, and on the occasions where I do need a big file (service pack 6 for Visual Studio 6 for instance!) my work desktop with its 2GB (non shared) link and a USB 2.0 512Mb memory stick does the business for me quite nicely and of course costs me nothing extra...

It does get #%#?## irritating though, when someone clogs up a forum like this with repeated-with-each-post large graphics ('avatars' or whatever) which add nothing to the discussions and just slow down page loading.

For that reason I'd restrict graphics on these forums to a 'very small size indeed' or have the graphics on a view on demand basis.

As it is I turn off the display of gfx in my browser before I visit the forums, but that is irritating to have to do.

Al (MaDbRiT)

Oh yes, I still test all my web pages at 640 x 480 and 800 x 600 res - not only do some people still have monitors that can only use these sizes, not everyone views the web 'full screen' on their 1600 x 1200 monitors...

Thank you Al... I'll restrict it to a single "line" or something.

Just on the topic of sigs, I changed mine seing as the website has been down for a while.

just wondering, but did you make the sig in VB or something similar, like C++, and then just turn it into an animated GIF, or is it something different?

I took the dos shortcut from the start menu and edited the execution string till the colours and stuff were ust right, then changed the buffer and window height and width.

this is the executiong line:
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /K prompt #Computer$SWhizz#$G&&ver&&title Computer Whizz @ %DATE%&&color 0A

And the window and buffer size is 40x1 (40 character width, 1 character height)... It does if you just want to - say - "start http://www.axeuk.com" without having to go through the favourites... I'm going to write a batch or scripting file soon - which'll be "compy /axe" and it'll do the same - or "compy /flash" or "compy /editdemo". Alot easier.

Oh yeah - then I alt & print screen 'd the window twice and stuck 'em together in flash again. Saved them as a gif.

Computer Whizz wrote:
Oh yeah - then I alt & print screen 'd the window twice and stuck 'em together in flash again. Saved them as a gif.

You used flash for that? Pretty interesting. I've been wanting to learn how to use flash but I have to buy it first and I don't have the money to do so yet.

Well, all I did was change the movie size, paste the pictures into two frames, set the appropriate speed and saved it as a gif file (with minor alterations to the settings).

And get the program trial and then get a crack for it... If it's for personal use then *I* don't see any problem with it... I mean c'mon, for one person who will use it rarely, for a few private projects... For 'fun'. I don't see why such a person *SHOULD* pay $100-ish for a product like that... Nor should he get a hindered version.
A guy who plays to sell his product on, or get serious about that subject should though IMO.

last time i looked it was $500+ AUD. Don't know about US or UK though.

Flash mx 2004 is $499 US... so how you get $500 AU I don't understand... Since that's about $250 US.

i believe it's much less now. the US dollar is a round about 75c. it's gone up sharply in the last right or so months.