IRC at #st1100


We will have IRC meetings on the #st1100 channel at fixed times!

Wednesday: at 22:00 GMT and
Saturday    : at 18:00 GMT

 Take a look at http://WWW.CAM.ORG/~d2d or http://www.mirc.co.uk

You may use irc.sol.no as server at the
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What is IRC? Have you ever used America Online? Or Prodigy? If so I am sure you have used their chat areas where you can chat with other members. Well, IRC is similar, but better! Unlike AOL and Prodigy, IRC is unregulated. The only regulation that exists are the owners of the individual servers that you log on to. To make this less complicated, it is exactly like the Internet. No one owns or has the power to regulate the entire internet. However, your internet provider has the right to install rules that you must follow for the benefit of all customers. It's that simple. IRC is owned by no-one, however, each server has rules that the user must accept if using that server to connect to IRC. IRCop's enforce these rules. SooOOooo…IRC is many uncontrolled AOL chat rooms. If you are not familiar with any kind of chat room….then IRC is simply a place to chat with people all over the world for free! Other differences exist as well. Chat rooms on IRC are called channels, and use the number simple. #Montreal, #Canada, #Pirch, #Dahn2dusq. Those are all possible chat channels and how they are written on IRC. Each channel has operators who run the channel. An operator has the power to kick and/or ban someone from their channel. Anyone can be a channel operator. The requirement for being an operator is to be the first one on the channel. Under that circumstance, you are automatically "op-ed" (given operator status). Also, a current operator can give operator status to anyone on his or her channel. Each channel has a channel topic, which is set by the operators of that channel. The topic could be anything and usually describes the current conversation in the channel. There are more complex items about IRC that I could get into but you will figure them out after a little while on IRC. How do I get on IRC? Well….you need a client. If you are using a shell account, most systems already have one. Just type 'IRC' at the prompt. If you are using Windows, Win95/NT, Macintosh, or DOS, then you must download a client. I have some clients listed on my previous page that you can download. Just go back to the page that brought you here. You install these clients as you would install Netscape or Eudora. It is that simple. Once you have a client installed, then you must connect to a server. I provide (or will in the near future) a list of servers to connect to. However, depending on where you are IRCing from depends on whether or not you will be able to connect to those servers. Try to find a server close to your location. After choosing a server, you are on IRC. Read the help files included with the client for instructions on how to use the client to chat with people.