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Mobile Colloquy review – version 1.0

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Mobile Colloquy, the mobile counterpart of the popular Mac OS X IRC client, has hit Apples AppStore.

Even though this is the first release in its current form (there once was a version for jailbroken iPhones) and is only at version 1.0 right now, it already has quite a huge featurelist and a very polished UI. It’s built using the same framework, called Chat Core, as the desktop version.

The mobile version is opensource too, but unlike the desktop version – which is free – it costs $1.99 (€1.59). The sourcecode is freely available from SVN though, so you may build your own version – provided you do have Apples iPhone SDK.

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Tags: Colloquy, iPhone, IRC
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Happy 15th Birthday, freenode!

Friday, January 30th, 2009

christel of the freenode network writes in a posting on the staffblog about the beginning of freenode, which started 15 years ago.

15 years ago, on January 29th 1994 Rob (lilo) Levin first joined the channel #linuxneo on the EFNet IRC network. This date has since been referred to as the conceptual moment, the foundation, the cornerstone which later led to the network you now know as freenode.

She continues to tell how freenode became a network of its own, which happened after the channel has been through several moves over various networks to finally become irc.linpeople.org in 1995 – and “a few name-changes later and we’re freenode.”

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Tags: freenode, IRC
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Polish man broadcasts suicide live on the internet

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

On sunday evening, a man from Zagorz / Poland broadcasted a livestream of his suicide after his birthday party.

The guy, who turned 27 the day before, was described as being depressed and acting strange. He told friends that he had a surprise prepared for his birthday party but wouldn’t tell what it was when asked.

According to reports he logged in to a chatroom on Interia.pl, a polish web-portal, started broadcasting the videostream and hanged himself in front of the camera. One chatter immediately alerted the police reporting that there is a user “hanging motionless and in unnatural position” in front of his cam.

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Tags: IRC, Suicide
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Unreal 3.2.8-rc2 has been released

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

A little less than 4 weeks after the -rc1 release, there now is a -rc2 release of UnrealIRCd 3.2.8 available where some of the still present bugs have been fixed.

Fixes in this release include a bug that prevented you from compiling the IRCd on Mac OS X , problems with OperOverride that prevented you from -q/-a’ing someone when you were halfop, an issue with SuSE Linux 10.3 on AMD64 arch where the IRCd core-dumped on start, prevention of throttling client connections and stalling the IRCd when there are big adjustments made to the systems time after starting the IRCd and, last but not least, the documentation has been updated to reflect the latest additions and changes.

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Tags: IRC, Software, Unreal IRCd
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HydraIRC releases version 0.3.165 and opens access to its sourcecode

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

On monday HydraIRC, calling itself “the professional client”, posted an announcement of a new version that has been released back in December on its website.

The announcement mentions a good reason for the update – security issues that also have plagued other clients as well, again in the form of malicious irc:// URLs which can lead to a crash of the client. The changelog calls the vulnerability a “remote DoS exploit” that is present in the “parsing code for long irc:// urls” but only when “hydrairc’s url handler is enabled.”

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Tags: HydraIRC, IRC, Software
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