Some of you might have noticed and probably a lot of you did not. This morning at 00:31:30 (Netherlands, GMT+1) the Epoch time was: 1234567890. There were a few people on IRC who were still awake at that time, so enjoy the screenshot.
The title of this blog post, pretty much says it all. Since reading “long” documents or manuals is an extremely hard and time-consuming occupation for most people, I just made this ‘how to’ for all the really lazy people ;-).
Note: Only register your nickname and get a cloak if you tend to use IRC on a very regular basis
Why should you care about getting a cloak? A cloak hides your hostname. A hostname can be used to the IP address which belongs to it. So if you do not want everyone to know your IP address, get a cloak. Furthermore, a cloak enables IRC channel operators to give a someone an ‘invite’ based on it, instead of a hostname invite. This is extremely usefull if some users have dynamic IP addresses and the operator does not want to change the invite list on a regular basis.
/nick your_nickname
/msg nickserv register your_password your@email.address
/msg nickserv set hidemail on
/nick alternate_nickname
/msg nickserv group
/nick original_nickname
/stats p
If nobody is on duty, you can get a list of the staffers who could help you out.
/who freenode/staff/*
If nobody is on duty, go to #freenode, ask politely for an unaffiliated cloak and wait. Do not request such a cloak repetitively if you do not get an answer immediately, but wait at least 3 hours between requests.
/msg nickserv identify
Source: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml
Today was a very fine day, just because it was the 13th of March 2007. This can also be written as: 13-3-7 and at 13:37 it was time for the geeks in an unspecified IRC channel to smile (why, I don’t know, they are crazy). Luckily a screenshot was taken of this strange event at that very moment.
