#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Image::Magick; use Win32::API; use constant MAX_PATH => 120 ; use constant SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER => 115; use constant SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER => 20; use constant SPIF_UPDATEANDSENDINI => 3; use constant NULL => 0; # if you wish to use a different font or this isn't the proper path to + your fonts # then just simply change the value of this variable my $font = 'C:\\windows\\fonts\\arial.ttf'; # Retreieve name and path of current wallpaper my $syspinf = Win32::API->new('user32','SystemParametersInfo', ['I' +,'I','P','I'], 'I') or die "Could not import function.\n"; # SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER insists that the variable passed to it must +already have enough # space in it to contain it's return value, so this is the quicke +st way I know # of to fill one up my $wallpaper = "*" x 120; $syspinf->Call(SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER, 120, $wallpaper,0); $wallpaper =~ s/\*//g; my @wallpaper = (split /\\/ , $wallpaper); my $wallpaperfile = pop @wallpaper; # Quick and dirty method to insure that we don't add text to an ima +ge that already has it $wallpaperfile =~ s/^MOD//; $wallpaper = (join "\\" , @wallpaper,$wallpaperfile); # Generate fortune to be placed on the wallpaper # Uncomment this section if you by chance have a functional version +of fortune # my @text =split /"\n"/,`fortune -s`; # my $text = join ("\n",@text); # $text =~ s/\t//g; # And here's the section for everyone else (Comment it out if you do + have fortune my $text = ""; $/ = "%%\n"; rand($.) < 1 && chomp($text = $_) while(<DATA>); $text =~ s/\t//g; # A quick check to see if the directory for saving modified wallpapers + is present # and create it if it isn't if (!(-e "images" && -d "images")) { mkdir "images"; } # And now for imagefying the text and slapping it onto the background +image my $textimg = Image::Magick->new; my $newwallpaperimg = Image::Magick->new; $textimg->Set(size=>'500x500'); $textimg->ReadImage('null:none'); $newwallpaperimg->ReadImage($wallpaper); # Gotta make certain there's a copy of the original saved too $newwallpaperimg->Write("images\\".$wallpaperfile); $textimg->Annotate(y=>+14,x=>+4, gravity=>'NorthEast', font=>$font, po +intsize=>12, antialias=>'true', fill=>'none', stroke=>'#3cc0c5', text=>$text); $newwallpaperimg->Composite(image=>$textimg, compose=>'over', gravi +ty=>'NorthEast'); # And finally the new composited image is saved and set to be the wall +paper $newwallpaperimg->Write('images\\MOD'.$wallpaperfile); # The image is saved with a prefix for the identification of alread +y modified # files checked earlier in the script $syspinf->Call(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, 'images\\MOD'.$wallpaperfil +e, SPIF_UPDATEANDSENDINI); undef $textimg; undef $newwallpaperimg; __END__ A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- it is an opportunity. %% A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. -- Stanislaw Lem %% A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about. %% A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to renounce the devil. Replied Voltaire, "This is no time to make new enemies." %% A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." %% All hope abandon, ye who enter here! -- Dante Alighieri %% All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. -- The Book of Bokonon / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. %% An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. %% At the end of your life there'll be a good rest, and no further activi +ties are scheduled. %% Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. -- Jean Anouilh %% By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of dea +th. -- Titus Lucretius Carus %% Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzz +les. -- Howard Chaykin %% Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign. -- Anatole France %% Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. -- Herodotus %% Coincidences are spiritual puns. -- G.K. Chesterton %% Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut + behind. -- Erma Bombeck %% Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy. %% Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. -- R. Geis %% Death is Nature's way of recycling human beings. %% Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'. %% Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. %% Depart not from the path which fate has assigned you. %% Disease can be cured; fate is incurable. -- Chinese proverb %% Ditat Deus. [God enriches] %% Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them. %% Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. %% Do what you can to prolong your life, in the hope that someday you'll learn what it's for. %% Do your part to help preserve life on Earth -- by trying to preserve y +our own. %% Don't abandon hope. Your Captain Midnight decoder ring arrives tomorr +ow. %% Don't abandon hope: your Tom Mix decoder ring arrives tomorrow. %% Don't go to bed with no price on your head. -- Baretta %% Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them +. %% Don't kid yourself. Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever. %% Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distanc +e. %% Don't make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything. %% Don't stop to stomp ants when the elephants are stampeding. %% Don't take life seriously, you'll never get out alive. %% Down with categorical imperative! %% Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul. %% During the voyage of life, remember to keep an eye out for a fair wind +; batten down during a storm; hail all passing ships; and fly your colors proud +ly. %% Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. -- Woody Allen %% Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. %% Each of us bears his own Hell. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) %% Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped. -- Groucho Marx's last words %% Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" %% Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn't end. %% Everything in this book may be wrong. -- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul %% Everything is possible. Pass the word. -- Rita Mae Brown, "Six of One" %% Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. -- Marcus Aurelius %% Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay. %% Facts are the enemy of truth. -- Don Quixote %% Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. -- Sir Walter Raleigh %% Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. %% Faith is under the left nipple. -- Martin Luther %% Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth %% For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. %% For good, return good. For evil, return justice. %% For your penance, say five Hail Marys and one loud BLAH! %% Force has no place where there is need of skill. -- Herodotus %% From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance. %% From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. -- Bertolt Brecht %% Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of d +eath. -- Miyamoto Musashi, 1645 %% Getting into trouble is easy. -- D. Winkel and F. Prosser %% Getting there is only half as far as getting there and back. %% Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. -- William Faulkner %% God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, coura +ge to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference. %% God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions +. -- De Caussade %% God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. -- Alfred Jarry %% God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. -- Paul Valery %% Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders' dying words %% Goodbye, cool world. %% Got a dictionary? I want to know the meaning of life. %% Great acts are made up of small deeds. -- Lao Tsu %% Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -- Ogden Nash %% Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion. %% Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have. %% Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. -- Oscar Levant %% Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. -- Socrates %% He has shown you, o man, what is good. And what does the Lord ask of +you, but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly before you +r God? %% He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. %% He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow. -- Sir Richard Burton %% He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. -- B. Franklin %% He who knows not and knows that he knows not is ignorant. Teach him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. %% He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. -- Lao Tsu %% He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. -- Lao Tsu %% Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. %% I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love toda +y. -- William Allen White %% I hate dying. -- Dave Johnson %% I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publilius Syrus %% I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" %% I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good. That would be dishonest. %% I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!! %% If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism +. -- Friedrich Nietzsche %% If something has not yet gone wrong then it would ultimately have been beneficial for it to go wrong. %% If the master dies and the disciple grieves, the lives of both have been wasted. %% If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. -- Anatole France %% If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are + headed. %% If we don't survive, we don't do anything else. -- John Sinclair %% If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything. %% If you find a solution and become attached to it, the solution may bec +ome your next problem. %% If you fool around with something long enough, it will eventually brea +k. %% If you have to hate, hate gently. %% If you have to think twice about it, you're wrong. %% If you keep anything long enough, you can throw it away. %% If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a de +feat. -- Simone de Beauvoir %% If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Maslow %% If you put it off long enough, it might go away. %% If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. %% If you wait long enough, it will go away... after having done its dama +ge. If it was bad, it will be back. %% If you want divine justice, die. -- Nick Seldon %% If your aim in life is nothing, you can't miss. %% Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -- Voltaire %% Immortality -- a fate worse than death. -- Edgar A. Shoaff %% In order to discover who you are, first learn who everybody else is; you're what's left. %% In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. %% In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart. -- Ann Frank %% In the long run we are all dead. -- John Maynard Keynes %% In the next world, you're on your own. %% Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. -- Edgar W. Howe %% It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations. %% It is Fortune, not Wisdom, that rules man's life. %% It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the + lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as +the eagle? %% It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, wor +ks and has his being. -- Thomas Carlyle %% It will be advantageous to cross the great stream ... the Dragon is on the wing in the Sky ... the Great Man rouses himself to his Work. %% It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together. -- Washlesky %% It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the lim +its are. -- Stirling Moss %% It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things. %% "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh. %% It's very inconvenient to be mortal -- you never know when everything +may suddenly stop happening. %% Just remember, wherever you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Bonzai %% Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. -- Muad'dib [Frank Herbert, "Dune"] %% Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awa +reness. -- James Thurber %% Life can be so tragic -- you're here today and here tomorrow. %% Life exists for no known purpose. %% Life is a grand adventure -- or it is nothing. -- Helen Keller %% Life is knowing how far to go without crossing the line. %% Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. -- C. Schultz %% Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put +into it. -- Tom Lehrer %% Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Goethe %% Life is the living you do, Death is the living you don't do. -- Joseph Pintauro %% Life is the urge to ecstasy. %% Life may have no meaning, or, even worse, it may have a meaning of whi +ch you disapprove. %% Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all. -- Thomas J. Kopp %% Living in the complex world of the future is somewhat like having bees live in your head. But, there they are. %% Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. %% Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens? %% Murphy was an optimist. %% Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't w +ork. %% Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. -- Lao Tsu %% My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed +. -- Christopher Morley %% Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon %% No matter where I go, the place is always called "here". %% No use getting too involved in life -- you're only here for a limited +time. %% Nobody ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the bright side of som +ething. %% Nonsense and beauty have close connections. -- E.M. Forster %% Normal times may possibly be over forever. %% Not every question deserves an answer. %% Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. %% Nothing is but what is not. %% Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example. %% Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -- Michel de Montaigne %% Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. -- Arthur Balfour %% Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. -- H.R. Haldeman %% Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easi +er to change your mind. %% One learns to itch where one can scratch. -- Ernest Bramah %% One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it. %% One monk said to the other, "The fish has flopped out of the net! How +will it live?" The other said, "When you have gotten out of the net, I'll tell + you." %% Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. -- Baba Ram Dass %% Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much b +etter. -- Laurie Anderson %% Perhaps the biggest disappointments were the ones you expected anyway. %% Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. -- John Keats %% Push where it gives and scratch where it itches. %% Reality always seems harsher in the early morning. %% Reality does not exist -- yet. %% Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth? -- Patrick Sky %% Reality is for people who lack imagination. %% Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity. -- Alvy Ray Smith %% Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. %% Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin %% "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away +". -- Philip K. Dick %% Rule of Life #1 -- Never get separated from your luggage. %% Seeing is believing. You wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't believed + it. %% So little time, so little to do. -- Oscar Levant %% Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -- Seneca %% Sometimes you get an almost irresistible urge to go on living. %% That that is is that that is not is not. %% The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. -- A. Camus %% The best you get is an even break. -- Franklin Adams %% "The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain." -- G. Fitch %% The chief cause of problems is solutions. -- Eric Sevareid %% The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. -- Alfred Adler %% The days are all empty and the nights are unreal. %% The door is the key. %% The farther you go, the less you know. -- Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching" %% The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions. -- Maurice Chapelain, "Main courante" %% The first requisite for immortality is death. -- Stanislaw Lem %% The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. -- Sophocles %% The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. -- Marcus Terentius Varro %% The major sin is the sin of being born. -- Samuel Beckett %% The more you complain, the longer God lets you live. %% The moss on the tree does not fear the talons of the hawk. %% The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. %% The price of success in philosophy is triviality. -- C. Glymour. %% The questions remain the same. The answers are eternally variable. -- Damon Runyon %% The savior becomes the victim. %% The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. %% The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin. -- Alexandre Arnoux, "Etudes et caprices" %% The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -- Oscar Wilde %% The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie. -- Lenny Bruce %% The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. -- Stanley Kubrick %% The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all +it needs to be. %% There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe. -- Baba Ram Dass %% There are no winners in life, only survivors. %% There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Mahatma Gandhi %% There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suf +fering. -- Cato %% There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana %% There is no sin but ignorance. -- Christopher Marlowe %% There's only one everything. %% To get something clean, one has to get something dirty. To get something dirty, one does not have to get anything clean. %% To give happiness is to deserve happiness. %% To give of yourself, you must first know yourself. %% To have died once is enough. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) %% To lead people, you must follow behind. -- Lao Tsu %% Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. -- Albert Schweitzer %% Truth is hard to find and harder to obscure. %% Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -- Euripides %% We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. -- Yates %% We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. -- Margaret Mead %% We have only two things to worry about: That things will never get back to normal, and that they already have. %% We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place. -- John Berryman %% We're all in this alone. -- Lily Tomlin %% Well, you know, no matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai %% What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -- Nietzsche %% What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with. %% What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -- Ursula K. LeGuin %% What we Are is God's gift to us. What we Become is our gift to God. %% Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche %% Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that y +ou do it. -- Gandhi %% When it's dark enough you can see the stars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, %% When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that i +s metaphysics. -- Voltaire %% When the wind is great, bow before it; when the wind is heavy, yield to it. %% When you die, you lose a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields %% Who does not trust enough will not be trusted. -- Lao Tsu %% Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. -- J. Winter Smith %% Wisdom is rarely found on the best-seller list. %% With listening comes wisdom, with speaking repentance. %% Yes, but which self do you want to be? %% You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. -- Tim Leary %% You can get *anywhere* in ten minutes if you drive fast enough. %% You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks. %% You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin %% You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra %% You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. %% You can't get there from here. %% You can't mend a wristwatch while falling from an airplane. %% You can't push on a string. %% You can't run away forever, But there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start. -- Jim Steinman, "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" %% "You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over" %% You can't take it with you -- especially when crossing a state line. %% You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. -- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad" %% You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead. -- Lois Platford %% You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster. -- Lewis Carroll %% You will always find something in the last place you look. %% Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life. %% Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is t +rue. %% Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into fo +cus. %% Your wig steers the gig. -- Lord Buckley %%
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