March 20th, 2008 by phrozen77
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
Posted in Clients, IRC, Software | 1 Comment »
March 17th, 2008 by phrozen77
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.
Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC, Piracy
Posted in Botnets/DDoS, Hack, IRC, Networks, Piracy | 7 Comments »
March 9th, 2008 by phrozen77
I’ve made some changes to the site here and there. I hope it fixes some of the problems you guys had.
Biggest change is shifting to CSS. Although I had just 1 report of someone who had a problem displaying the page I hope this is fixed now. For me it was an exercise in CSS as I never did the complete layout of a page in CSS before.
Hope everything works OK 
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Tags: Site News
Posted in Site News | 5 Comments »
March 9th, 2008 by phrozen77
Another EFNet server adds supports IPv6.
Recently IRC.EFNet.CH added support for the IPv6 protocol. IRC-Junkie asked IRC EFNet.CH admin Taliz for how long IPv6 has been supported on EFNet. “Ratbox is an early fork of Hybrid 7 and, if I recall correctly, has always supported IPv6. Hybrid 7 has supported IPv6 since it was released back in 2003(there were however a lot of Betas & RC’s supporting IPv6 as well, which ratbox built on, dating back to 2001).”
Tags: EFNet, Hybrid, Network Addons
Posted in IRC, IRCd, Network Addons, Networks | Be the first to comment! »
March 3rd, 2008 by phrozen77
The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the sentence against the first convicted spammer in the USA, saying anti-spam laws do not violate freedom of speech.
Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C was one of the world top spammers in 2003. The case he was convicted in was built on a single action where he produced 53,000 emails in 3 days in July 2003. He was sentenced to 9 years in jail.
Jaynes said in his defense that his spamming actions do not fall under anti-spam legislation because of freedom of speech guaranteed under the First Amendment.
Tags: Botnets, IRC, Scum
Posted in Hack, IRC | 7 Comments »
