depends entirely on the purpose of the server and the environment in which it will be used OS X server in a mac environment win2k in a windows environment (haven't looked at 2k3 yet) for "real" *nix, i like solaris (irix and hpux are clunky, from my experience) for linux, i like gentoo and debian fo...

there are 40 millions lines of code in windows xp (35 million in win2k). you could do a crude (or very nice one, depending on skill level) clone checker in under 5k lines of code. and computer science includes programming. (software engineering is an entirely different matter, and discussion) in the...

i don't think it's quite as intensive as you think it would be even the most populated ircd's generally sit below a few percent cpu usage on any decent machine. a large webserver can be expected to get 100,000 hits per hour, often doing server-side scripting, which is more than a simple clone check....

OPME would, i think, require too much governing to prevent abuse. it probably wouldn't be too hard to find a day/time when most opers are asleep or ignoring operwalls when one could use it on a non-drone channel. and with some drones now being eggdrop 1.6.* for win32, it could become difficult to di...

hiding version reply is just a standard security through obscurity if someone really wanted to exploit a client, it's not hard to join a channel and ctcp/msg all clients in the channel to attempt to exploit them, so it's not like security through obscurity really protects you that much. though i do ...

what does being muslim have to do with discussing religion? are you not allowed to talk to non-muslims about religion?

i usually consider myself agnostic, but that doesn't stop me from talking to christians or catholics about religion...

Iron-Maiden wrote:Why proxy server is unallowed eh? I alway have - AKILL - when using proxy you know why?

open proxies are not allowed because of security purposes, closed proxies are just fine.

correction, this is older by a couple of hours

this is usually something on the client end, or between you and your isp. there are many things that can cause this: bad network drivers bad wiring in your network faulty firewall hardware failure (either your computer, your hub, etc) problems on your ISP level etc basically anything that can cause ...

depends on the network

it does not apply on efnet

i believe the original 'first post' can be found here
if anyone finds anything older, please share

nicknames like "i" "me" and "you" get some interesting private msgs (though few passwords) "test" gets some stuff from people testing scripts or un-configured scripts there will always be some nickname or other that will get information that was not intended for that client. imho, i believe it is up...

MeSZ wrote:Exact Audio Copy

you should check out CDex, it's my favorite mp3 ripper. uses lame codec, and has a good set of options that rip mp3's exactly the way i like them

http://www.cdex.n3.net/

like post to a forum during the party? must be exciting :P but really, it sickens me when i see people boast about how proud they are they haven't been away from their IRC console in X number of weeks, etc. get a f*cking life. don't get me wrong, i use irc most work days, and even occaisonally on we...

most core network equipment is moving to support ipv6, but it's a slow rollout because there's a lot of equipment to upgrade. upgrades are mainly starting at the larger networks (ie - AT&T, UUNet, etc) before it trickles down to the smaller networks. This is why a lot of ipv6 has to be tunneled thro...