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Preparing for yet another year

nospam@example.com (shadowmaster) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:11:00 +0000

It’s almost over. Time flies even faster as we get closer to the end of 2010, and apparently there’s a lot to summarize despite we’re not in the finish line yet!

This has been a particularly difficult year for me in a more personal sense, and I’ve faced some trials I won’t speak about and then some, but I’ve also learned new things in the road — things that may be of greater use to me in the future. There’s really a lot that could be said about this year but I’ll restrict it to computer stuff to ~~avoid boring the audience too much~~ bore the audience as much as possible.

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Taking a level in chanop

nospam@example.com (shadowmaster) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:18:24 +0000

Freenode's staff and a group of users have been busy testing ircd-seven, the ircd which will eventually replace the aging collection of ugly hacks known as hyperion-ircd. So far it seems I've been the only one who's found and reported bugs in channel management code (account bans + forwarding, in particular), which is a pity; we need more testers!

Occasionally, the server instances get restarted and some people complain.

I think I cannot complain, because I just got my own 10 seconds of fame. It's a pity that I didn't have a better one-liner or a larger audience for the occasion!

<@shadowmaster> eh.

(And if you don't use freenode or IRC at all, you won't understand any of this.

atheme-info.pl - Yet another irssi script

nospam@example.com (shadowmaster) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:23:37 +0000

<+shadowmaster> ... I have acl, cs_info, and ns_info aliases on irssi.
<+shadowmaster> for some reason I tend to type ns_info when I want cs_info (for /msg ChanServ INFO)
<+shadowmaster> maybe I should just write a script for the /info command that decides which one is the correct service for me.

So here's a quick 5-minutes hack to patch my incompetence. This little irssi script introduces the /AINFO command for querying freenode's services (which are from the Atheme package) for information on a nickname or channel. I don't need to check whether I am querying the correct service anymore. Yays.

atheme-info.pl (1.4 KB)

The installation procedure is the same as with any other irssi scripts.

Irssi script: window-cmd

nospam@example.com (shadowmaster) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:47:00 +0000

Some time ago I was searching for a legendary irssi script that would allow me to use commands like /1, /2, etc. to switch to the respective window numbers without having to type the complete /window command. Although I didn't succeed in my search, one of the freenode staffers gave me a little command to populate the command aliases list with some adequate (99) entries.

That's very nice except that the config file becomes a bit larger.

I was bored last night so I decided to reinvent the wheel and write such a script that doesn't require any client configuration changes to bind the same aliases automagically on startup. I am pretty sure it already existed, but since I couldn't find it...

window-cmd.pl (1.4 KB)

The installation procedure is the same as with any other irssi scripts.