[TriLUG] Anyone up for a question?

[Cristóbal Palmer]

On Nov 28, 2007 11:27 PM, WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net> wrote:
> I am not familiar with IRC.

It's multiplayer notepad. Here's a longish tutorial:

http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html

I would suggest using Pidgin as your client:

http://www.pidgin.im/

since it supports a lot of protocols (IRC, AIM/Oscar, MSN/Yahoo,
Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, etc.) and can therefore be useful even if you end
up not liking IRC.

To get to #trilug, just add an account from within pidgin. Pick IRC
from the dropdown box. For you it would look something like this:

http://flickr.com/photos/tarheelcoxn/2073156996/

don't worry with a password the first time. You'll have to register
with nickserv for that to matter. Once you've created the account, you
can use the dropdown on the buddy list window that in the picture says
'Offline' to toggle yourself to online. Once you connect, you'll get a
window with a bot called freenode-connect that's checking what version
your client is. In that window, just type '/join #trilug' (without the
quotes) and hit enter. It'll look like this:

http://flickr.com/photos/tarheelcoxn/2073157004/in/photostream/

Once you get into the channel, you can ask for more help on using IRC.

Cheers,
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Cristóbal M. Palmer
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