So did I stay up late, or did I wake up early?
Posted by Ryan on November 5th, 2006.
Well, the time right now as I start this is 6:46, so we’ll see how long it takes me to type this out. For the past 7 hours or so, I have helped three different people set up UnrealIRCd+Anope Services local servers. What this means is that they are now running an IRC server on their home computer. Now, there is nothing wrong with this, as I am running one on my laptop (I’m also making an mIRC bot, so having a local server is good for testing). Since they were using the same tutorial that I used (Phil, the article is great, thanks) we were all on the same page as to what had to be done for this to work, and I really didn’t need to walk them through that much, just help where the had some trouble, which was mostly the same points that I had trouble when I did mine a few months ago.
The last person to set theirs up though, I don’t think he followed the second half of the tutorial much, if at all. Besides having to keep saying the same thing over and over, he wasn’t listening to what I was saying. No matter how I formatted what I was saying, he couldn’t figure it out. I finally had to spell it out for me. Doesn’t give me much confidence in him, so luckily this server won’t get many users, let alone be a target for spammers and (most) hackers. And the fact that he’s a dial-up user means that more than probably 10 users will crash his connection.
As you should have already noticed, I have chosen a new theme for the blog. Thanks to Jeff at BestTechie.net for using it so I could go down to the bottom of the page and get it, and for helping with the language issue (some of it was in German when I installed it). The AdSense code that I talked about last time isn’t in this yet, I’ll get around to it when I’m not tired and can actually make sure that the colors are all right…yeah, all 6 of them.
As I posted about a few weeks ago (and commented about in a sentence above), I’m working on an mIRC bot. mIRC is an IRC client that has its own scripting language, making it good for bots. Of course, this also means that the bad guys also use it for their bots, but mine is a good bot. The connection stuff for it has been done since the first day, and most of the code that makes it sets modes on users has been done for a while. I finally finished making the kick/ban commands work correctly, that was a pain. If you tell it a ZIP code or a Town, Country, it will give you the weather. That was also a bit tricky, but only because I was helping the third person setup his server while I was working on it. The trickiest part so will be remaining a secret until either I find something that was harder, or until I’m done with the bot and its been tested.
I gotta say, I am so glad that Firefox 2 has a built in spell checker. Because well, I’m tired, and I made a few spelling mistakes I might not have caught. Took about 30 minutes to write this, not bad since I was adding my two cents into a conversation in IRC.