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Interested in chatting with us? #batlabs on irc.dal.net!

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I'm thinking about the possibility of setting up a time / place (maybe IRC?) to have a batlabs chat or something to that extent. i've chatted back and forth with a few people on AOL IM, and other services for that matter, and it seems interesting to learn more about who answeres your questions, and shoot the sh*t back and forth.

I'm wondering how interested people would be in having some sort of online get together persay.

What do people think?

-Alex
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Post by FF CARTER 4687 »

i think this is a great idea! it is kinda time consuming to find things out through emails and topic replies! i think tjis would speed up the process plus it just makes the communications a little better and i wouldnt mind jut sittin around and shootin the sh*t either
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Post by AngelFire_91 »

I would be interested as well. It would be fun to just sit around and shoot the Sh*t, since some of us can't make the Hamvention and meet face to face, maybe we could meet words to words and get a feel for what the wounderful people on this board are all about.
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C'mon in!
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Post by EC-7 »

I like the idea too :) Could it be like a live chat room here or a link to a dedicated Batlabs room?
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Post by wavetar »

Well, I've tried mIRC a few times, it's not really my cup of tea, but maybe I wasn't talking to the right people. I'll give it a shot.

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Re: Anyone Interested? Chat?

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alex wrote:I'm thinking about the possibility of setting up a time / place (maybe IRC?) to have a batlabs chat or something to that extent. i've chatted back and forth with a few people on AOL IM, and other services for that matter, and it seems interesting to learn more about who answeres your questions, and shoot the sh*t back and forth.

I'm wondering how interested people would be in having some sort of online get together persay.

What do people think?

-Alex
I can provide an IRC server.

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Post by PCSAR 4x4 652 »

It's about time! :lol:

I would be very interested. Realtime answers without the wait.
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Post by alex »

Alrighty - I'm going to work on something with Jon and see what we can come up with. He's going to help me get IRCd setup so that I could run an IRC server on my system, or one of his. We'll figure something out. Using AOLIM chat is pretty crappy as it is, and requires you to have AOLIM installed.

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IRC sounds good to me...

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I'd love to chat with people via IRC (MIRC). Great idea, sign me up!!
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Post by oh2lak »

I propose that a base channel #batlabs will be created to IRCnet.
If "sub-channels" like #batlabs-astro or similar are needed they are easy to create.

I propose the channel to be created to IRCnet as it is the widest IRC-network in the world, and it makes people easy to join all over the world.

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Post by alex »

At this point, I'd like to learn how to setup the server as it is myself. Also, if we run the actual server we have more control over it's uptime and other things. I find that most the irc servers go up and down a lot of the time, sometimes they loose their link to the master server, and some other things like that. At least this way it's either up, or down. There's no reason why you can't connect to a server in the US anyway.

Its going to take a bit of work, but in the next couple of days I think something will be proposed.

-Alex
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Sweeet! A batlabs IRC channel would be awesome!
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Post by Will »

I would be up for this too. Now if my old IRC will work, I do NOT run Win9x here.
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Post by Jay »

I agree, I'd like this idea as well. You guys can IM me as well.

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Post by alex »

OK!

Jon has helped me out once again!

Here's where we will have the Offical, well, as official as I can say I guess Batlabs chat room.

We will be using DALnet, info can be found at http://www.dal.net. you can use irc.dal.net to connect, and join #batlabs.

I'm there now, will be there for a bit, your welcome to join up, if I don't catch you tonight, maybe tommrow.

Enjoy :)

-Alex
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help for the idiots among us

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:evil: I don't get it. I downloaded an mIRC program but I don't know what to do from here with it to get to a batlabs chat situation.

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Here is how to get connected to MIRC and Batlabs chat chanel

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You got MIRC, and have never used it before. Here is a step by step guide to connecting to the #Batlabs irc chat channel.

Open MIRC program
Click FILE|OPTIONS

Make sure Catagory(left side) is highlighted CONNECT
Click the ADD BUTTON (right side of Options screen)
In Description field, put: Batlabs
In IRC Server, put: irc.dal.net
In Ports field: 6667
In Group: leave blank (nothing/blank)
Click OK button


Now Click the botton: Connect to IRC Server
Wait till your connected to the Dal.net server

Now click on the "channels Folder" ICON (on the top, 3rd from the left)
Click the ADD button
In the Channel field type: #Batlabs
In the Password field type nothing (leave it blank)
In the Description field type: Batlabs chat channel (or put what ever you want)
Network: All
Click the OK button

Now just double click on the #batlabs (MIRC channels folder)
Your there.

Once you've done this, next time you start MIRC, just select MIRC OPTIONS, Click the Connect to IRC server button, then click channels folder, and double click on #Batlabs - done

I hope I got this correct. I did it step by step on my version of mIRC Version 5.82 to try to make it as easy as I could. Hope to see you all there!!

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Post by vcaruso »

I'm In!
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Post by alex »

Join up! were chatting now.

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CHAT!!!!

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EWveryone get in chat tonight! Lets have a good one! Ill be in all night known as Code3Response.
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LLOOOOLLL~~~~

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LLOOOOLLLL!!! My ISP has been denied to irc.dal.net!!!!!!!!!
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Post by CHEFA2001 »

I tried to use MIRC and the stupid thing keeps coming up with all these messages that I have been autokilled and other stupid garbage.....

Anyone know what the problem might be??

I am not going through AOL, incase anyone was going to suggest it.
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Post by alex »

Hi Chef,

Probably has to do with the subnet that you are coming in from being baned from the network, or it's just being a PITA.

I would wait a day or so and see if the problem clears up.

If not, there is a Java based IRC client that you can use, and will work

-Alex
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Post by Jonathan KC8RYW »

If you dal.net won't let you in, try... http://kline.dal.net/

Try enabling the identd server on your end. Try messing with the settings, until dal.net likes you. That's what I did.

PS: It'd be nice to pick a "hot" time to talk, so I don't spend all day in idle :)
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