Scene - IRCmania: "IRC What is this? First time getting here, you can hardly understand what was happening around."

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(C) vilaz / / 7zone
(C) 7zone # 2 e-zine
(C) kristoph.sc.ctl (included features spektrumizma)

Accents, to this day standing on that climb up to the
some porn site or download the regular 100mb mp3 depart
the second, third, fifth to tenth plan, when a man in popadaet
a totally different dimension, called the irc. So, what is
takoe? irc - this abbreviation of the internet relay chat, that 
is, essentially is a chat, similar to those that many are 
accustomed to watching on www, only much older, faster, and 
31337ney =). 

First time getting here, you can hardly understand what is 
happening around. All about something they say, conversation is 
interrupted by a line with inscriptions joined / left, and you 
stand as if on the sidelines and observe what is happening ... 
Porhodit time, you try going per channel not to watch people 
talk and say hello and somehow throw in my two cents, at first 
it udaetsya with difficulty, as people frostbite and give 
prioretety in a conversation already with friends of human 
beings. A month later, you've all known, all treat you like an 
old friend, soon even give opa and in the end you realize that 
fear and the terminally ill and disease called ircmania! It is 
comparable in scale with Drug .. Well, you want to become an 
addict? If not, then boldly PUSH edit and read other articles, 
which, thank God, abound, but if you still decided to give his 
soul irc, then - go ahead ...


So. First, you need some irc-client. Their
there are plenty, but most often ispolzuyutsya mIRC
and pirch, because they are easy to configure and maintain
many kinds of interesting features. I personally use
mIRC - it just looks fast, easy to use. You can download it
on www.mirc.co.uk. Assume that you have installed on your PC
this client and all deal only in options. Open options
is entered in the blank fields to the data, for example:

full name: kristoph.smg.ctl
e-mail address: kristoph@pisem.net
nickname: kristoph
alternative: kreestoph

The only thing that can cause a problem here - this field
alternative, it fits his second nickname, which will be
substituted in the event that your present is already used on
the server to which you connect. Right on the menu we see
many different settings, which in principle can not
touch. Below I will describe the most interesting.

ident - used to identify a user, that is you.

firewall - all have heard about the firewall and then I very 
spread thought I will not. He use to protect against kick, 
hiding ip, etc ... I advise you to put paranoid.


message - you can register the inscription, which will be
output, for example, when leaving the irc.

logging - the record in a log-file, I advise always to record 
chat if only in memory. For example, I have accumulated for a 
month already more than 700 kilos of pure text with the current 
talks about the scene in general, and the Spectrum scene in 
particular. 

Besides all this you can change fonts and colors, customize
sounds to play with dcc and a bunch of ..

All the settings we're done. Now select the mesh to
which will connect. There is no alternative - ircnet -
odnaznachno! To do this, connect, over the already inscribing 
the fields with nicknames / etc, a drop-down menyuhu with the 
server, the search ircnet: eu, ru, russia. You can, of course, 
choose other server, but irc.msu.ru closer and therefore 
faster. Another thing congestion servaka ...


Ok. With the settings finished, it remains only to click on
"Connect to irc server" and plunge into a completely different 
world .. 

When mIRC write that you prikonnektilis and to highlight the 
menus, mean teleportation was successful, with close menyuhu

Our offer channels. Predpolagaetsya you sceners or
want to be closer to the computer underground,
therefore, as I habitually type in the status bar / j z80 and
get on channel # z80. It's like a starting point, the heart =), 
with which most people begin to wander through. Then,

If you are interested in is the "other" scene, such as, for 
example, pixel, or tracker scene, you can go to: # trax.ru, # 
pixel, # Trax, # demoscene, # c = 64, etc ... This is only a few

channels, on the other you will learn later, when they 
themselves climbed on irc. So, I think, deserves to be told 
about irc-commands that often ispolzuyutsya:


/ List - show a list of channels available from this server.
/ Nick - change the nickname, not leaving with irc
/ Ignore user - to ignore someone, "user" - nick nick
/ Unignore user - No comments
/ Kick - in the first half, she will not want to =)

As there is still a lot of commands, some of them used
directly on the channel, some from connecting to irc ... In 
general, I do not want to waste this time, describing all the 
commands for this there is always a help, in addition, all by 
itself will come from time.


You will understand who these people with "@" and "+" why they 
should be respected =) Who are bot'y and what they are used and 
in the end the only thing that is unreal to see this issue 
moving Many generations ircShnikov - why we still can not have

longer live without irc?? ..