[ale] IRC and directory structure questions

[synco gibraldter]

i like xchat a lot... and bitchx of course.  i've been using irc a long
time and i've never had any first hand experience with people's clients
being exploited.  of course you don't want to use a client with known
holes, but bitchx with a nice trustable script on it is generally pretty
safe.  but xchat is better if you have a gui.. they even have a windows
version now.  it runs perl scripts and has a lot of great features.

synco g.

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On 2 Dec 2002, Matty wrote:

> What IRC client do most ppl use? I have become a huge
> fan of epic. BitchX is cool, but people seem to find
> a lot of buffer overflows with their code base. Any
> other notable clients?
>
> On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 18:35, synco gibraldter wrote:
> >
> >
> > for me, efnet is the best-- it's the internet's playground.  they don't
> > have all the bs like channel 'ownership' and nick monopolies.  efnet has
> > any type of channel you could want... if you're looking for a big network,
> > efnet is the best.  www.efnet.org.
> >
> > i run a small irc net called xodarap [irc.xodarap.net] and we have some
> > technical people, but we are very small.  feel free to come check it out..
> > we *do* use the bs services [which i absolutely hate, but users on small
> > networks seem to demand them].
> >
> > as far as the directories and file locations, it's all a matter of
> > preference for the most part.  on my own system, i like to keep my home
> > directory relatively clean.. i download to it, but move things to where
> > they need to go soon after.  when i install new packages, it's always in
> > /usr/local/src/package and my own system scripts and binaries always go in
> > /usr/local/bin.  after installation, i leave all the sources in
> > /usr/local/src in case i ever need to look back at the source or
> > documentation and i delete the archives.  this works well for me, but it
> > really is just a matter of organization and you should do whatever makes
> > the most sense to you.
> >
> > peace,
> > synco g.
> >
> > ------------------
> > synco at xodarap.net
> > the xodarap network [what you thought?]
> > atl,georgia
> > http://news.xodarap.net
> > irc://irc.xodarap.net
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Matthew Brown wrote:
> >
> > > 1.    Do any of you IRC much?  Where is a good place to go for this -
> > > that doesn't have all the porn/file sharing/etc.  I am mainly interested
> > > in technical IRC.
> > >
> > > 2.    Is there an accepted standard for laying out files in a directory
> > > structure?  For example, say I have a .tar.gz file I want to download.
> > > It is, say, vmware-yada-yada.tar.gz.  Where would you put it?  ~/...?
> > > Where do you install it to?    /usr/...?
> > >
> > > 3.    Now let's talk about the actual data files for something like
> > > vmware...  These would need to be shared for many users.  Would it go
> > > under /opt/... or /var/...?
> > >
> > > Coming from the Windows background, this issue has always confused me.
> > > I suppose I could have created my own set of directories, but that would
> > > create more mayhem!
> > >
> > > Hope you're having a great day!
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Matthew Brown, President
> > > CorData, Inc.
> > > O: (770) 795-0089
> > > F: (404) 806-4855
> > > E: matthew.brown at cordata.com
> > >
> > >
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