It’s been a while since I’ve worked on enBot (December ’05, actually), but I still get people downloading it. It’s no less stable now than when it was last updated, I just haven’t seen a lot of need for changes to it. I’ve published the source on Google Code, with the hopes that it will…
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Tag Archive: IRC
On the benefits of forums vs instant messaging.
Someone inquired why one would choose to use a forum over a chat medium such as MSN. Regarding public discussion Forums encourage more people to engage in discussion, by exposing the topic of conversation to a wider audience than MSN could target. Allowing for the use of group chats, each person must still be invited to take part. IRC…
Nicotine
Peer-to-peer networks are everywhere these days, but they are rarely very social. Nicotine is a SoulSeek client, a network that differs from many because of its social interaction. It functions very much like IRC (especially allowing users to form rooms, usually centered around a genre of music, making it easier to find people with similar…
XChat
XChat is a graphical IRC Client with a GTK+ GUI. It has a look and feel like AmIRC for the Amiga. Special features include the mIRC extension DCC RESUME and mIRC color, multiple server/channel windows, dialog windows, and a plugin API. XChat is hands-down the most enjoyable IRC client I have ever used. It handles…
Pidgin
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client (they call it a “universal chat client”). It supports XMPP (Jabber & GTalk), AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and most other major instant messaging systems. It’s quite convenient being able to log into multiple accounts (with different protocols) simultaneously and chat with everyone from one interface….
The Geek Fridge
Historic IRC Logs <Batterseapower> pizza, perl and newsgroups :) i am not fit to worship at your altar of geekiness <SiliconViper> Heh, that’s not all that geeky. <Batterseapower> it could only be geekier if you were installing linux on your toaster at the same time <SiliconViper> Yeah. <SiliconViper> Actually I was contempating writing some code…
