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Title: SCI Community IRC channel
Post by: Eigen on March 05, 2007, 04:20:40 AM

Okay guys, I went ahead and created an IRC channel for this community. Channel is located in FreeNode server and is named #SCI.

To connect, you need an IRC client.
mIRC (http://www.mirc.com/get.html)
XChat (http://www.xchat.org/download)
HIRC (http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Network_and_Internet/Text_Chat_Clients/Hirc.html) - Add a new server from Tools>Servers with address irc.freenode.net, port 6667 and name FreeNode. HIRC is free with no registering.

Once you have the client and you're connected, type "/join #SCI" to enter the chat room.

You could also try irc://irc.freenode.net (Copy this into the address bar) and it should run the default IRC client if one is installed. Hopefully I'll see you there!


-Eigen

Title: Re: SCI Community IRC channel
Post by: Cloudee1 on March 05, 2007, 05:32:20 AM

Yeah, but both of those cost money after 30 days. I know mirc used to just be free, does anyone have any old versions laying around.

Otherwise You won't see me there much I'm afraid.

Title: Re: SCI Community IRC channel
Post by: Eigen on March 05, 2007, 05:55:09 AM

Yeah, the registration costs, but my mIRC version has passed the 30 day limits ..I dunno, maybe a year ago. Now I just have to wait about 5 seconds until the Continue button becomes active and I can use it normally. I have v6.16. It's available here (http://www.tucows.com/preview/193827) for example.

Title: Re: SCI Community IRC channel
Post by: Cloudee1 on March 05, 2007, 06:01:53 AM

I just installed a new chat, updated the links, and added the users chatting to the forum stats. wanna test it?

I haven't made it blue, but it is already a little more impressive than the last one.

Title: Re: SCI Community IRC channel
Post by: Eigen on March 05, 2007, 01:15:54 PM

I updated my first post with a link for a free client which works perfectly well.

Title: Re: SCI Community IRC channel
Post by: Cloudee1 on March 06, 2007, 10:21:30 AM

I tried Eigen, but it won't connect, giving me timeout errors instead. Windows firewall asked me, and I told it to unblock hirc...

Title: Re: SCI Community IRC channel
Post by: jtyler125 on March 10, 2007, 11:24:57 PM

Does the chat work...I can't leave it easily...it wants to log me out...and then I have to log back in???

Title: Re: SCI Community IRC channel
Post by: Cloudee1 on March 10, 2007, 11:46:20 PM

I added a couple of links just above the banner area. One leads to the main site and the other leads to the forum index. Now you shouldn't have to log out anymore.