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posted August 15, 2004 01:29 AM         

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Kidding - I'm trying to figure out where the part is to fill out the text field info.

...........bear with me....I'm a Bull...

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posted August 15, 2004 01:34 AM         

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No worries.

Now: ground rules for when someone like me is guiding you through something new in computers: DONT do ANYTHING unless I EXPLICITLY tell you to do so. I know that sounds like a control freak talking, but it's not. This is how tech support works. Stop whatever you're doing with it and tell me what you see.

(Unless, of course, you REALLY want to figure it out on your own.)

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posted August 15, 2004 01:36 AM         

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YES SIR!

Okay I'm now at the box where I am to fill out the info, I'm about to fill it out. Click the flower thing after right?

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posted August 15, 2004 01:38 AM         

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this could take awhile, if a normal person can do it in five minutes, it might take me two hours.....

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posted August 15, 2004 01:38 AM         

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Okay. LOL. If you found your way back there, then just follow the directions I already typed out.

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posted August 15, 2004 01:43 AM         

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You have no idea what I'm going through right now!

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posted August 15, 2004 01:47 AM         

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God that's confusing. Yahoo! IM and AIM are so much more simple you computer nerd!

I can't even get IRC to connect properly.

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posted August 15, 2004 01:50 AM         

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Hush, BRM. Though shalt not blaspheme against mIRC. And it's NOT difficult. 6 pieces of information. How hard is that???

The REAL problem is that you kids have been raised on crappy software MEANT to keep you from knowing anything about how a computer really operates. I'm not being mean, I swear; it's the truth.

Here: http://www.chatzy.com/?307635967523

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posted August 15, 2004 01:52 AM         

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sorry - having technical diffculties ---- not w/ the computer w/ an idiot......

it's gonna be a bit.....

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posted August 15, 2004 01:57 AM         

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Do what u gotta do 26. It's not like I'm goin' anywhere.

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posted August 15, 2004 02:07 AM         

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I didn't see a Macintosh download for IRC. Is there one?

I put in the information It's telling me Wych is taken. AND WychOfAvalon and BloodRedMoon are invalid nicknames. Now I dunno wot it's doing.

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posted August 15, 2004 02:08 AM         

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If you still want to chat, 26, just go here: http://www.chatzy.com/?307635967523

Don't want to add to any residual frustration you might be feeling after dealing with 'an idiot'. Hope it's nothing too serious...

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posted August 15, 2004 02:09 AM         

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Go to the chatzy link, BRM. Quicker answering questions that way.

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posted August 15, 2004 02:26 AM         

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BloodRed (if you're still out there), you could use IRCle for macintosh. http://www.ircle.com/

Tomorrow I'm going to make a VISUAL guide to setting up mIRC.

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posted August 15, 2004 02:42 AM         

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All I wanted was a chat! Just one chat!!!

(Suicidal Tendencies fans will know where that comes from.)

I feel like such an old man. *sigh*

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posted August 15, 2004 02:46 AM         

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Had to reboot. Now the chatzy link is different: http://www.chatzy.com/?621757475632

Not that anyone is going to want to talk to me now. :P

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posted August 15, 2004 02:48 AM         

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I want to talk to you Unfortunately I'm getting 'the look' from the husband (who, btw, is playing video games on his computer but THAT is okay *sighs)

So I'll have to postpone until tomorrow! I'll try the irc again then

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posted August 15, 2004 02:49 AM         

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yoo hoo....

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posted August 15, 2004 09:20 AM         

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Heya!!
I wish you guys would be online when I am.... stupid time zone difference... I wanna chat, too

What's up, luvs?

Ghani

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posted August 15, 2004 03:47 PM         

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DEMYSTIFYING IRC (and mIRC)

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A note from Foamy:

You WILL discard the foolish notion that this is difficult or complex!

You WILL read directions slowly and carefully! You will not go on to the next direction until you understand the one you're on!

Your Lord and Master commands it!

Or taste my squirrelly wrath!

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IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It is the great-great-grandaddy of ICQ and Instant Messengers. It has been around a long time. It happens on public networks that aren't owned or operated by any company. It exists solely because the people who love it put in the time and effort (and dedicate one of their computers) to make it happen. It kicks Instant Messenger's butts because it allows you complete control over your chat environment, and it kicks Chatzy's butt because it works at near-instantaneous speed even for people with slow computers and dialup connections.

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posted August 15, 2004 03:53 PM         

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Wherefore art thou, Paras? 26? BRM? Peeps.... whatcha doing? There's crap on the telly right now, kinda bored and it's humid right now...ech...

Paras,
Can I be in the club, too? purdy pleeze...

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posted August 15, 2004 03:59 PM         

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Before I explain how to install, set up, and use the program mIRC, I'm going to explain networks to you, very simply and briefly.

When you connect two computers together with a wire, so that they can pass information back and forth, you have created a network.

Fig. 1: A Network

You can also connect more than two computers together to create a network. Each computer in the network can now share information with all the others.

Fig. 2: Another Network

You can also interconnect two or more already-created networks together to form a larger network. In fact, this is how the Internet is formed.

Fig. 3: Yet another network.

At any time, a computer can connect or disconnect from the network, and when this happens, the network grows or shrinks. For example, when you connect to "the Internet", you become a part of that network, and increase its size by one computer.

Fig. 4: Adding to a network, in this case the Internet.

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posted August 15, 2004 04:06 PM         

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Now, of course, in real life, there are privacy concerns and security issues, so not every computer on a network (like the Internet) has access to all the information on all the other computers. And some connections are only made for a specific reason, like getting e-mail, or chatting, or surfing the World Wide Web.

A lot of network connections use the Client-Server Model. In this kind of connection, one computer is the Server and the other is a Client. The definitions of Server and Client are:

Server: a computer that provides a service.

Client: a computer that uses a service.

Let's take e-mail as an example. When you want to use Yahoo's e-mail service, your computer plays the Client, and theirs plays the Server:

Fig. 5: A Client-Server connection.

This stuff ain't so complicated, now, is it? I'm not twisting anybody's brain out of shape, right?

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posted August 15, 2004 04:09 PM         

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Now I can talk to you about an IRC Network, and you won't feel like it's scary geek jargon.

An IRC Network is simply a network made up of a bunch of Server computers, which we can connect to as Clients to chat with each other (use the IRC service).

Fig. 6: An IRC Network

Important Note! It doesn't matter which Server you connect to, you're still on the same network.

There are many IRC Networks, and they all have names. The one I hang out on is called Undernet. Undernet has Servers in Arizona, Californa, Florida, and many other places. We could both connect to the Florida server, or you could connect to California and I to Arizona, or whatever. Either way, we're still both on Undernet, and can still chat with one another and everyone else on the network.

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posted August 15, 2004 04:14 PM         

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Now, IRC is a service. mIRC (notice the 'm') is a program.

mIRC is the program that allows our computers to act as IRC Clients. So we can connect to an IRC Network through one of its Servers. And chat and stuff.

So, to use IRC, you need a client program. mIRC is the best! Go get it! www.mirc.co.uk

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