by siyb

I realized today that there is a new Eggdrop version available and took the freedom to create a xMind release containing the new Eggdrop version. Please note that xMind development has been “stopped” some time ago and that I will only fix critical Bugs and add features if I need them. Both installers have been tested and should work, please refer to the xMind wiki if you have difficulties installing. If you do not want to use 1.6.19 I suggest that you download r1 that still uses 1.6.18.

xMind ListonBeta6.1r2 .tar
xMind ListonBeta6.1r2 .run

by siyb

While I was surfing the net today I came across a familiar artist by the name of Ryan8bit, that participated in the Dark Side of Phobos compilation/sampler that was discussed on geek\o/sphere before. According to his lastfm page, most of ryan’s songs are metal covers of videogame related themes such as the ones from Megaman, Descent and Zelda (to mention some of them).

Check out his songs, I assure you it’s worth it :>

by siyb

Someone send me this link on IRC yesterday, but the TCL obfuscation seemed to readable too me, here is my version:

echo ’set __ [string map {/ n . m \
% r _ a & e} "%&/_.&"];$__ $__ |;| \
set __;__ .. map;| string .,;| [., [__ \
..] {% f & i} &%] -;| ., .__;| [.__ [__\
..] {% r & p § c / o} &%/§] &;| .__ \
&%§;& % {} {. 1};& ~ {} {. 0};| \
[&%§ [__ ..] {% n & r § i / c} §%/&]\
/;| &%§ ////;| [//// [__ ..] {_ x . e ~ r \
+ p} ._+~] <>;| //// &%.,;& + n {- {[\
& // _ {- {$_||!$_} {. $_}}]==”"&&\
[// $n]==[%]||[// $n]==[~]} {. $n;}\
{. [<> [+ [<> $n-[%]]]+[+ [<> $n-2\
]]];}};| [&%., [__ ..] {= o ! f ? r} !=?] \\;
& . _ {return $_;};| &%., _%_;| [_%_ \
[__ ..] {/ t & p . s § u} &§/.] ,;\\ {__ i 0}\
{$i<="[%][~]"} {;;;;;;;;;;;;;} {, [+ $i];/ i;\
};’ | tclsh

//edit: to be fair, this code complicates things, especially the heavy use of the rename command and the declaration of commands that handle tasks, that could easily be performed by native TCL.

//edit2: cracked it up a nodge :>

by siyb

mount.at will go down at approximately 14:00 CET today due to maintenance related issues. Please be patient, we will try to keep the downtime as short as possible. In the period of this downtime the following services will not be available: jabber, svn, web, irc, game and teamspeakserver.

Please keep in mind that you are able to reach our IRC network by using a different server.

//edit: jabber service is available now again, please note that you will have to reregister with the icq/msn transport(s)
//edit2: Man this is really beginning to PMO … well mount.at will hopefully be online again tomorrow …

by siyb

Eight days after the release of version 1.1, version 1.2 has been completed and may be acquired from our Debian depot or its git repository. The plugin loader as well as the clientsettings option window have been remodeled and plugins are now provided as special formatted tarballs that can be easily installed using the well known plugin installer. Additionally, the IRC away system has been fully implemented now and is therefore ready to be used.

Some nasty and pretty annoying bugs have also been fixed, for instance, all channelflags will be excluded from the nick autocompletion now. For a full list of changes, bugfixes and additions please take a look at the changelog. Windows users will not be able to run this version of tIRC, I simply do not have enough time to modify the code so that it is fully windows compliant.

The platform independence of tIRC defiantly is an important matter, as the client was in fact designed to run on many different platforms, but ever since the introduction of the trayicon and the trayicon flashing mechanism in particular, platform independence was at stake, due to the two completely different approaches of winico, that relies on the windows api and Freedock. The tIRC project is therefore looking for a windows maintainer / packager that is capable of fixing windows related issues within the tIRC code as well as creating full installer packages, for one click installations.

If you are an interested, capable and motivated windows user, that is willing to invest some time and sweat creating a tIRC windows port please let me know. In the meantime, if you are using Windows and want to run tIRC you will have to find a workaround yourself, submit your patch if you did :>.