Updates:

• 5/11/03 -- Two patches:
  • From Amiel Martin (martina3 at cc dot wwu dot edu), a bug fix so IM attributes aren't removed on update & the ability to attach a quote. Thanks Amiel!
  • From Steven Hilton (mshiltonj at libertystorm dot com), the ability to hook in your Slash Rating (at http://mshiltonj.com/sr/)
• 1/17/02 -- Patch from Roger Goun (roger at bcah dot com) to support the --baseurl switch. Thanks Roger!

Update your Slashdot signature automatically!

Currently, you can update your sig with:

• Your Karma Level
• Your system uptime

Usage is such:

slashsig.pl --user= --password= [--help] [--version] [--siggen=(karma|uptime|quote|rating|karating)] [--no-star] [--baseurl=site] --user - your slashdot user name --password - your slashdot password --no-star - turn off the tiny little star that links others back to the SlashSig page --siggen - how to update your signature - karma: with your karma level (Default) - uptime: with your system's uptime (nothing like bragging 'bout your days uptime ;) --baseurl - the Slash site to update (Default: http://slashdot.org) --quotefile - file to read quotes from when using siggen=quote - default is ~/.slashsigs - file format is: sig { optional quote name (unused) } { quote } - use --quotefile=~/.gaimrc to use your gaim away messages Author: William Reardon, wdr1@pobox.com Homepage: http://www.wdr1.com/projects/slashsig/

The inspiration is from Usenet & the various .sig tricks people would do. The most common was to make your .sig a named pipe that would automatically cycle through pitty quotes or something like that. Since we can't do that on Slashdot, we'll have to use cron & some HTTP communication.

If you can think of other things that would be neat to update your sig with, feel free to drop me an email (or even a patch -- the code is intended to make it simple to drop in new functionality like that).

Anyway, that's about it. To be honest, I'm kinda embarrased I wrote this. Devil, idle hands, and all that I guess.