February 18th, 2009 by phrozen77
The GameSurge network turns 5 years today as admin pb announces on their homepage.
But, as they write in the announcement “unlike your birthday (we hope, anyway), instead of you giving US presents, well, we’re giving YOU some!”.
He continues to write that they will have “a little party on IRC in #5thAnniversary” and that they’re “doing random giveaways”. Those will consist of “a ton of Left4Dead swag or some RazerZone gear” and he says that you “can’t go wrong no matter what”.
Their contest page has a little more information about the upcoming and planned events:
Tags: GameSurge, IRC
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February 16th, 2009 by Roo
Today, Quakenet.org has announced the release of their new web-based chat client:
“We’re pleased to announce that our brand new webchat client is now out of testing and live for public use. The webchat client is the best way to connect to QuakeNet from a web browser, and offers many many excellent features such as full integration with QuakeNet and our “Q” channel service bot.”
Of course, we decided to take it for a spin.
The client comes up with a nice and simple window:
Webchat Introductory Screen
I assume you know how the next part works 
Tags: IRC, Quakenet, Webchat
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February 15th, 2009 by phrozen77
After getting notified about a Cross-site scripting vulnerability in phpDenora irc-junkie quickly tried to get in touch with the project.
The vulnerability – which generally can be used to steal cookies – exists at least in phpDenoras then latest stable release, version 1.2.2 and “possibly all other versions” says developer Hal9000.
Due to lacking sanitization it was possible to exploit the vulnerability using specially crafted channelnames that would be visible on several pages of phpDenora – according to phpDenoras Hal9000 on the “channel listing, the channel stats page, the user stats page and the top channel list on the homepage – if the channel is in the top X channels”.
Tags: Denora, Hack, IRC, Network Addons, Software
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February 15th, 2009 by phrozen77
After interviewing the author of EPIC5, this sort of could be called a “follow-up” interview. The interviewees are the authors of amnesiac, a modular EPIC5 script.
- First, please introduce yourself to our readers so they get an idea who you are.
skullY: I’m a long-time UNIX user and administrator who works for a Silicon Valley startup.
My day job involves hating software (mainly Linux, Apache and MySQL) and I relax in the evenings by writing software to be hated.
Most of what I write is to scratch an itch, but a few things (amnesiac, nboard) see a wider release.
crapple(Zak): I’m a long-time UNIX user/admin/programmer working at a telecommunications company in Canada.
Tags: amnesiac, EPIC5, IRC, Software
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February 9th, 2009 by phrozen77
Following the announcement of InspIRCd 1.2-rc1, the Anope project wrote a news article on their homepage, stating that they have switched IRCds on their support network.
They’re now using InspIRCd 1.2 and a development version from the new 1.9.0 series of their services package. Stating reasons for this move, away from stable to potentially unstable development versions of both programs, chaz says that they “chose InspIRCd as it’s a well maintained, highly motivated and definitely innovative product and we (Anope) should be the forefront of the technology for the sake of our users”.
Tags: Anope, IRC, Network Addons, Software
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