Geeks on IRC – Epoch 1234567890

SWAT — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:34:01 +0000

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.

How to set up a nickname and get a generic cloak on Freenode

SWAT — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:38:39 +0000

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.

Choose and switch to your (not already registered or occupied) nickname.
```
/nick your_nickname
```

/msg nickserv register your_password your@email.address

Hide your e-mail.
```
/msg nickserv set hidemail on
```
Change to your alternate nickname. I suggest you use, your normal nickname appended with an underscore.
```
/nick alternate_nickname
```
Link your alternate nickname to your nickname.
```
/msg nickserv group
```
Switch back to your normal nickname.
```
/nick original_nickname
```
Check who is currently on-duty.
```
/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.
Ask the staffer politely for an unaffiliated cloak.
Set up your IRC client to automatically identify (log in) yourself to nickserv. You can also do this manually:
```
/msg nickserv identify
```

Source: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml

Geeks on IRC

SWAT — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:24:32 +0000

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.

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Geeks on IRC – Epoch 1234567890

How to set up a nickname and get a generic cloak on Freenode

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