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IRC-Junkie is moving to paper

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Starting this month, the IRC-Junkie Daily will be available to subscribers.

Many changes for IRC-Junkie over the past period, and all have been planned for the next major change in service for its visitors: the move to a newspaper edition.

The new design had to be pushed through in order to make it possible for a consistent housestyle with the paper edition, which is available from now on. The previous design with black background would have cost too much ink, making subscription cost above threshold, which was set at just $9,99USD per month.

Interested visitors can subscribe here.

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Tags: Site News
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QuakeNet Overhauls Q

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The QuakeNet IRC network did a major overhaul of its major channel service Q.

“As many of you have noticed we’ve just upgraded our main channel service, Q, to a new version,” meeb announced on the QuakeNet website.

The upgrade consists of a complete rewrite of the bot and includes all old functionality and adds some new ones. Channels who previously used L have been upgraded to the new Q as well.

Bot response messages to commands have been changed. IRC-Junkie tried to ask QuakeNet whether problems have risen with scripts depending on these messages but we have had no reply.

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Tags: IRC, Quakenet, Software
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KVIrc 3.4.0 Released

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

“After a long time with development snapshots only (due to lack of importance given to producing a release tagged as stable), KVIrc has just released version 3.4″, user Elephantman tipped IRC-Junkie.

“This one took a very long time but, well, finally it’s here” the KVIrc development team announced on their homepage.

Some of the changed highlighted on the announcement:

* improved themeing support

* better desktop integration

* nicer support for many different IRC servers

* a totally revised option layout

* basic support for script “addons”

* improved help subsystem

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Tags: IRC, KVIrc, Software
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XChat for Windows 2.8.7 Released

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

A new version of the popular XChat client for Windows has been released.

This post on the XChat forum highlights some of the new features, illustrated with screenshots.

Highlights include /WHOIS information in nicklist on right-click, settings like tray icon blinking on a per-channel basis and support for colors in places as channel lists and topic bar.

The Windows built went shareware due to the costs of compiling for this platform. Free builds from the otherwise still open source code are released by third parties including Silverex. These builds are usually released at a later date.

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Tags: IRC, Software, XChat
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IRC Network Admin: More Then You Bargained For

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Many people wish to have their own IRC network. Once a basic network is setup they advertise the network to gain users, in the hope many will find and start using it. But what if they abuse your good intentions and start using your infrastructure to host bots engaged in illegal activities? Then things can start to become a real life nightmare. In this article we follow Dewd, from network admin to a suspect criminal with a 10 year prison sentence hanging above his head.

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Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC, Piracy
Posted in Botnets/DDoS, Hack, IRC, Networks, Piracy | 7 Comments »

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