Author Topic: Alembic IRC? (Read 117 times)

juggernaught · « **on:** September 15, 2007, 04:55:34 PM »

The Alembic club forum is really great, but has anyone given any serious thought to a Alembic IRC channel? Might be a good way to get instantaneous advice and have real-time conversations with other members.

jacko · « **Reply #1 on:** September 16, 2007, 04:49:04 AM »

i have no idea what IRC is. You'll need to elaborate somewhat.

Graeme

pierreyves · « **Reply #2 on:** September 16, 2007, 08:11:01 AM »

Internet Relay Chat, International Radio Company, Indiana Risk of Crash ?
;o)

hieronymous · « **Reply #3 on:** September 16, 2007, 08:55:11 AM »

If I Recall Correctly...

(oops, 1 too many I's!)

juggernaught · « **Reply #4 on:** September 16, 2007, 08:59:18 AM »

(double post)

(Message edited by juggernaught on September 16, 2007)

juggernaught · « **Reply #5 on:** September 16, 2007, 09:00:26 AM »

Basically it would be a chat room where members could talk in real time. It's free, simple, and independent. It is somewhat like instant messengers (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN), but better in many regards.

In order to use, you will need an IRC client (MIRC, XChat, IRCSS, etc). There is also a firefox extension available: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16

As an example, you can connect to the server irc.freenode.net and join the channel #alembic (command: /join #alembic) which I have set up for people to check out.

If you want to know more, wikipedia is great.

(Message edited by juggernaught on September 16, 2007)

pierreyves · « **Reply #6 on:** September 16, 2007, 09:01:54 AM »

wikipedia is what we want to do with....

juggernaught · « **Reply #7 on:** September 16, 2007, 09:05:54 AM »

If you're using windows, the client I recommend is MIRC. If you use macos or linux, xchat is the best. There's also a firefox extension that's pretty good so you can use your browser.