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* For Windows: Download and install [http://www.pidgin.im/ Pidgin] (free IM chat software for Windows -- there's plenty of other free software to choose from for Windows and other OSs). | * For Windows: Download and install [http://www.pidgin.im/ Pidgin] (free IM chat software for Windows -- there's plenty of other free software to choose from for Windows and other OSs). | ||
* For Macs - a reasonable client is Snak, http://www.snak.com/. It's $29 shareware with a 30 day free evaluation. A better IRC client for Mac OS X (that also supports SILC) and is Free Software is [http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy]. | * For Macs - a reasonable client is Snak, http://www.snak.com/. It's $29 shareware with a 30 day free evaluation. A better IRC client for Mac OS X (that also supports SILC) and is Free Software is [http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy]. | ||
* For those who run Ubuntu and are not familiar with IRC (unlikely?): | * For those who run Ubuntu and are not familiar with IRC (unlikely?): $ sudo aptitude install xchat | ||
Then: | Then (using Pidgin on Windows): | ||
# create an IRC account | # create an IRC account on Pidgin (good documentation at http://adammonsen.com/post/329): | ||
## Go to Accounts (I got to Accounts by right-clicking on the icon in the system tray)<br> | |||
## Click the Add button<br> | |||
## For the Protocal, choose: IRC<br> | |||
## For the Server: irc.freenode.net | |||
## If you have a Screen name (a “nick”), type it in as your Username (If you don’t own one yet, make one up)<br> | |||
## Click on the Advanced tab, and fill in the Real name field<br> | |||
## Check the Use SSL box, if you like<br> | |||
## Click the Save button<br> | |||
# join channel: #noisebridge: | |||
##In the "freenode-connect" tab that appeared in Pidgin, type: '/j #noisebridge' (without the quotes)<br> | |||
# So that no one else can use your nick, you can register your nickname at freenode.net<br> | |||
<br> | |||
There's some good general documentation about IRC and freenode at:<br> | |||
http://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml | |||
<br> | |||
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Revision as of 17:02, 15 August 2008
We use an IRC channel that's on freenode. It's temporary and quite useful. Feel free to join. The needed information is as follows:
irc://chat.freenode.net #noisebridge
We have a helpful bot in the channel by the name of noisebot run by adi.
It's impolite to store logs of this channel. Please disable logging before joining #noisebridge.
For those who are not familiar with getting on IRC, here's what Mitch did:
- For Windows: Download and install Pidgin (free IM chat software for Windows -- there's plenty of other free software to choose from for Windows and other OSs).
- For Macs - a reasonable client is Snak, http://www.snak.com/. It's $29 shareware with a 30 day free evaluation. A better IRC client for Mac OS X (that also supports SILC) and is Free Software is Colloquy.
- For those who run Ubuntu and are not familiar with IRC (unlikely?): $ sudo aptitude install xchat
Then (using Pidgin on Windows):
- create an IRC account on Pidgin (good documentation at http://adammonsen.com/post/329):
- Go to Accounts (I got to Accounts by right-clicking on the icon in the system tray)
- Click the Add button
- For the Protocal, choose: IRC
- For the Server: irc.freenode.net
- If you have a Screen name (a “nick”), type it in as your Username (If you don’t own one yet, make one up)
- Click on the Advanced tab, and fill in the Real name field
- Check the Use SSL box, if you like
- Click the Save button
- Go to Accounts (I got to Accounts by right-clicking on the icon in the system tray)
- join channel: #noisebridge:
- In the "freenode-connect" tab that appeared in Pidgin, type: '/j #noisebridge' (without the quotes)
- In the "freenode-connect" tab that appeared in Pidgin, type: '/j #noisebridge' (without the quotes)
- So that no one else can use your nick, you can register your nickname at freenode.net
There's some good general documentation about IRC and freenode at:
http://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml