June 9th, 2008 by phrozen77
“ChatSpike is migrating to Atheme IRC Services (from ircservices 5 which we have been using since we started, 6 years ago)” Brain said to IRC-Junkie.
W00t explains why IRC Services no longer serves the network. “IRC services was and is a big influence on the IRC landscape, to me. It was one of the first packages to be OSS’d, it was actively developed over a long timeframe, and incorporated user feedback. It supported a wide range of IRC daemons, and was also one of the earliest packages to get modules support”
Tags: Atheme, Chatspike, Network Addons, Software
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June 7th, 2008 by phrozen77
IRC Defender is a security package written in Perl made for small to medium sized networks. Its written in Perl and fully modular.
It took some time to release version 1.5. Developer Thunderhacker explains: “InspIRCd became far more popular than he (Brain, ed.) expected and development of Defender got pushed to the side. Shortly after I took over I went back to school, so my schoolwork pushed its development aside. Now that school is out for the summer I will be doing a lot more development.”
Although newer versions are always available over SVN the team recommends stable releases if stability is important.
Tags: IRC-Defender, Network Addons, Software
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June 4th, 2008 by phrozen77
Back in April 2004 we reported about a worldwide anti-piracy sweep named “Operation Fastlink” where members of the APC group (and other warez groups) were being arrested.
Mark Shumaker, 21 years-old, was a member of the APC group and also led the Apocalypse Crew’s Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. The group specialized in releasing music not yet available to the public.
Shumaker has pleaded guilty and faces up to 5 years in jail and a USD 250,000 fine. Fifteen other members have been convicted already.
Tags: IRC, Piracy
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May 31st, 2008 by phrozen77
Apparently I had forgot to include an urlencode somewhere which did not surface until now.
The feed should be OK now. Excuses for the inconvenience.
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Tags: Site News
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May 26th, 2008 by phrozen77
“EFnet has recently enabled SSL connections on a select few servers,” EFnet admin Taliz wrote to IRC-Junkie. “irc.efnet.ch, irc.pte.hu and irc.blessed.net are allowing SSL clients to connect on ports 9999, 7000, 7001 and 6697.”
The developers of the Ratbox IRCd added it to the code after continuous requests. “The option to support SSL connections is part of ratbox 3, which is currently in beta stage. Hence only a few servers support it yet, namely irc.efnet.ch, irc.pte.hu & irc.blessed.net. However irc.eversible.com is running a special solution also accepting SSL, using the older ratbox 2. Also irc.efnet.ch and irc.pte.hu are running separate ircds for the SSL clients, to not disrupt regular clients while bugfixing etc.”
Tags: EFNet, IRC, Network Addons
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