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Google’s Desktop Search Tool Includes mIRC Plugin

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Google released its Desktop Search Utility which was previously only available as a beta as full version now.

Running from the desktop it can perform searches over the Net, but also includes searches over the users’ own system. It will perform a quiet index of the users’ system and display matches above those found on the Net.

Possibilities include searching through your own email and viewed pages from Netscape, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Firefox. Google hired Ben Goodger for this task, who is a developer of FireFox. Other possibilities include searching through meta data in avi’s, image formats, etc.

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Tags: IRC, mIRC
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DDoS’er of IRC network arrested

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Tom Bral, 20 year-old from Oudenaarde in Belgium has been arrested in suspicion of DDoS’ing the Kreynet IRC network.

Kreynet is the base some commercial TV stations use in Belgium to host their chats. Bral, who is using the nick Inco on IRC, had an application going for a server link on Kreynet.

Bral used to have a server linked to the AfterNet network as well.

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Tags: AfterNet, Botnets, DDoS, Hack, KreyNet, Scum
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A decade of mIRC

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

“mIRC celebrates its tenth year of development today, of having played a small though curious, and unexpected, part in the life of the Internet over the last ten years”, the mIRC website announced.

“In the early years of IRC, IRC was mostly limited to technical users, people who used non-graphical, command-line IRC clients such as ircii, and who had a fairly intricate knowledge of how IRC and the Internet worked. mIRC was designed with one purpose in mind: to make the basics of IRC accessible to as many people as possible, while at the same time retaining the technical aspects which so many others enjoyed”. mIRC remains one of the most popular clients in use on IRC today.

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Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
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GamesNET releases Partial Evidence from Domain Dispute

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

You might recall the domain dispute that took place between Donald Wasylyna, and the at that time GamesNET Board of Directors which we reported on. The case finally resulted in a settlement between the two parties on February the 4th of 2004. Part of the settlement is an agreement to remain silent over the outcome of the case from both sides.

The 15th of this month however, Donald Wasylyna, who regained the domain GamesNET.net as part of the settlement, published part of the evidence on the GamesNET website. Wasylyna explains that he was only able to gain access to the evidence over Federal court-orders. “This process is painfully slow and very expensive”, he wrote on the GamesNET website.

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Tags: GamesNet, GameSurge, IRC
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QuakeNet’s Support Channel introduces Ticketing system

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

“We are currently trialling a new system for user support in #feds”, meeb announced on the QuakeNet website.

During the test period, users requiring assistance will need to join #help, and explain their problem there. The #help staff will then supply a ticket for #feds, if an oper is required to solve the problem. During this testing period, #feds will be an invite only channel. With that ticket you can invite yourself during a 2 day time period into #feds.

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Tags: IRC, Network Addons, Quakenet
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