I’ve reached a bit of happiness in my quest for IRC on windows thru a shell account running a bouncer with SSL encryption from my client to my shell account. I ended up using XChat. After googling, I was able to turn off the internal ident server that comes with it by using the command /set identd 0, which I found in the FAQ. With that turned off, I needed to find a windows ident server that was configurable. After googling, I found one here which is fully configurable. I can now authenticate to my psybnc since ident is properly configured. The only thing left to do that will make me happy is to setup the bouncer so that I can be on two IRC networks at once. I am running into an issue on my Mac. I haven’t found a configurable ident server for os x yet. Snak comes with an ident enabler, but there is no way to configure your username or os/host, so that’s out. I’m still looking for a working solution as time permits. Read the rest of this entry »

Tonight I setup psyBNC so that I could connect to IRC without having to worry about some of the issues that come with being on IRC. I haven’t been active on IRC in about two years and the last time that I was on it was only for a month or so. At every 2600 meeting, I see my friend txs and he always asks me when we are going to start having a work night at the lab to work on projects that we have going on? My response is always I’ve got too much other stuff going. Most recently, the excuse is that there is standing room only in the lab. The reason I have a sudden increased interest in IRC is because he is always in #nc2600 and hopefully I can get some dialog going with him on projects that I’m planing on work on this summer. Read the rest of this entry »