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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing.

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Why BitchX is called BitchX?

I'm curious to know the reason for the name of BitchX. I searched on internet for etymology but it was a fail.
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IM client which can turn off notification in a specific conversation window?

So, the problem is that some chat buddies send chat lines a lot or too often. A typical example: Chad McChaddy: Hi mate Me: Hi Chad: Could you take a look at problem XYZ? ABC is not working. Me: K, checking... Chad: It's actually working…
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Become operator on all channels ircd-hybrid

I have a problem with my ircd-hybrid server. I can only make myself operator in the status tab but not when I join channels. There is my operator tag in ircd.conf: operator { /* name: the name of the oper */ name = "operator"; /* user:…
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Suggestions for a command line IRC client that supports downloads?

It's been awhile since I've used IRC and the last time I did was on a windows system with mIRC. I'm interested in finding a command line client that supports downloads and some degree of automation for those downloads. Any suggestions?
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How do I launch Pidgin when I click on an irc:// link?

Is there a way that when you click an IRC url (such as irc://##linux) that it will open Pidgin? I believe it has something to do with gconf-editor, but I do not know the terminal command to start an IRC chat in Pidgin. I am using Linux Mint, if…
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In irssi, how do I display previous chats of current chan, or current user if in bitblee?

When I reopen irssi, I'd like to display - easily and from inside irssi - previous conversations of a chan, or a query window with specific user (mostly for private conversation in bitlbee). I can obviously find logs, it's set in my ~/.irssi/config…
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Suggestions for IRC Server

I am planning to setup an IRC server for our internal communication needs. Which of the IRC servers do you guys suggest? Things I am looking for: Should not be very complex to setup Should allow running of bots written in ruby. Integration with…
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Disable anti-flooding in inspIRCd

How do I go about disabling anti-flooding in inspIRCd? It is only an annoyance on a private chat. No anti-flooding modules are enabled and all flooding-limits have been set to maximum - yet it still blocks posting for example an ascii image. Any…
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How to setup weechat to connect with facebook google talk and skype?

I'm looking for solution to tight all my communication channels I'm currently using: FB, GTalk and Skype into the terminal based chat client like weechat. It looks like FB and GTalk use XMPP, but it's really hard to setup suggested weechat plugin…
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How do you highlight ops' messages in Irssi?

I'm watching a large IRC channel with a lot of noise and precious few ops. How can I have all messages from ops highlighted?
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Are there any command line IRC clients that use readline?

I'm currently using irssi as my irc client, which is ok, mostly, but there are a couple of things that would make the chat experience better: readline support -- the ability to use vi key bindings in chat like I do everywhere else would be…
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WeeChat decryption fails while reading from data socket

I'm using WeeChat for quite a while on different machines now. All instances are using the same settings over and over again. When I connect, everything is fine, like this output from WeeChat, just some certificate warnings, but I usually ignore…
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How can you change ident, which shows up as [email protected] on ircll?

I know the nickname and the real name field can be changed with environment variables such as IRCNICK and IRCNAME. However, the documentation does not tell you how the ident is changed. (The ident is the name that's used when you /whois nickname,…
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How to autofocus already joined channels in irssi with /join?

I've got a bunch of windows (>80) in irssi. Quite often I quickly want to switch the active window to #channelX, without knowing which window number it has. Cycling through all of them is useless too of course. I'm not sure where to find the answer,…
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irc: message notification when away (xchat)

We are using IRC in my office for internal communication. It is very impractical to disconnect/reconnect every time I leave/return to my office. Therefore I leave my irc client (xchat) running all the time. But lets say, I got stuck in a meeting,…
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