Archive for the ‘irc’ Category

What do I think about Facebook’s “Rooms”?

Friday, October 24th, 2014

In short: Nice idea, not so good implementation.

Nice idea: welcome back, 1988! IRC anyone?

The Implementation:
1) Scan a qrcode in order to join a room, seriously?
2) Where is /list?
3) Why nickname is only unique per room? people can use other people’s nicknames and impersonate them on other rooms…
4) Where is the android client?
5) Why does it require IOS 7?
6) Why is it only available on the US apple store?

Really disappointing.

On the other hand, you can always connect to DALnet 🙂

-Kobi.

(Kobi_S @ DALnet)

freenode servers got hacked?

Saturday, September 13th, 2014

17:33 [freenode] -tomaw(tom@freenode/staff/tomaw)-

[Global Notice] Earlier today the freenode infra team noticed an anomaly on a single IRC server. We have identified that this was indicative of the server being compromised by an unknown third party. We immediately started an investigation to map the extent of the problem and located similar issues with several other machines and have taken those offline. For now, we recommend that every change their NickServ password as a precaution.

17:33 [freenode] -tomaw(tom@freenode/staff/tomaw)-

[Global Notice] We’ll issue more updates as WALLOPS and via social media!

21:31 [freenode] -tomaw(tom@freenode/staff/tomaw)-

[Global Notice] Some have pointed out that it might have been useful if I had told you HOW to update your passwords. Use /msg NickServ SET PASSWORD (without the <>). Thanks!

freenode wrote:

Earlier today the freenode infra team noticed an anomaly on a single IRC server. We have since identified that this was indicative of the server being compromised by an unknown third party. We immediately started an investigation to map the extent of the problem and located similar issues with several other machines and have taken those offline. For now, since network traffic may have been sniffed, we recommend that everyone change their NickServ password as a precaution.
We’ll issue more updates as WALLOPS and via social media!

A wake up call?

-Kobi.

I resigned from my DALnet “duties”

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Hi all,

I just sent my resignation email a few minutes ago (I won’t publish this post until I get a confirmation it was received and acknowledged, though).

After 28 services.dal.net releases, 15 stats.dal.net releases, new users.dal.net website, a few updates to services2 and probably other things I forgot, I think it’s fair enough to say I did my share.

I’ll probably post about the other projects I’m working on soon so stay tuned! 😉

-Kobi.

(Kobi_S @ DALnet)

A notice to all the idiots out there…

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

You only see what I want you to see.

Flooding me with my last name doesn’t make you look cool, it makes you look stupid.

-Kobi.

Bahamut 1.8.6 is released!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

cmode +c bug that blocked some languages characters (like Arabic and Hebrew) made us release Bahamut 1.8.6. I have no idea what I was sniffing when I wrote that!

(and no, I didn’t do it to stop Hebrew characters on #israel :))

-Kobi.

Bahamut 1.8.5 is released!

Monday, March 16th, 2009

It took us some time but we did it 🙂

Changes list:
– Fixes for x64
– Fixed squelch (for /part & /quit)
– Fixed compiler errors on gcc4
– Fixed a few server IPs leaks
– zlib sources were removed and bahamut now uses searches for installed zlib
– SVSHOLDs are no longer being removed by kill -HUP
– Splits of u:lined servers do not show the uplink server to users
– /who & /rwho parsing fixes so it won’t let opers flood themself too easily
– /invite now honors umode +R and /silence
– New hooks were added for modules

I guess that’s about it!

Bahamut can be downloaded from: http://bahamut.dal.net

-Kobi.

DALnet’s new website!

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

DALnet has re-launched its website (www.dal.net) today, brand new features include (but not limited to):
– The option to select your own skin so you can choose how the site looks for you.
– A knowledge base, where your frequently asked questions are answered.
– RSS feeds, so you are always up to date on DALnet news.
– An easy to use search function so you can always find what you are looking for.
– Tip of the day, our suggestions for how you can make your time on DALnet more simple and fun.
– A new Teams/Servers/Staff Directory with Ajax searches.

In case you wondered, it’s powered by a FreeBSD machine running Apache, PHP, MySQL and memcached.

-Kobi.

We finally enabled the User Levels on IRCtoo!

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

We finally enabled the User Levels on IRCtoo!

The levels are:
Recognized User (required registration time: 3 months)
Dedicated User (required registration time: 1 year)
Senior User (required registration time: 1.5 years)
Winner (special prize for official games winner like trivia game, etc)

For more information:
http://users.irctoo.net/kb/#C8

-Kobi.

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