[ale] IRC and directory structure questions

[Drag0n]

As a multi net user (I am simataniously on Ef-net, Undernet, and
openprojects.net) and long time irc user (7+ years, packet warrior days
and all) I prefer the following networks. 
	Openprojects.net (www.openprojects.net) for technical discorse. Most of
the major open source projects are represented there. They dont take
kindly to abusive behavior of any kind.	
	Ef-net (www.efnet.net) is one of the old school nets in its chaos rules
mentality. no channel ownership means someone with a bigger pipe or
better expoit script than you can take your channel over and the Oper's
dont normaly get involved unless it affects their servers directly. Its
also one of the more notorious warez servers
	Undernet (www.undernet.org) is aimed more for the mud/mush/roleplaying
groups as you will find lots of "virtual" worlds represented in there
channel selections.
	There are many many more out there with various leanings depending on
what you want. (not even close to complete list at
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/networks/servers/index.html )

	As far as irc Clients go, for linux Xwindows I prefer X-chat
(www.xchat.org) it even includes a text version and a Windows version if
you wish to use it, but BitchX is a far better ncurses/console client.
	And for Windows i also prefer X-Chat, but before that i actualy used
Mirc with the 7th Sphere script Lots of nice options and removal of all
the default openings in Mirc, including the default download directory
being the application directory. (can you say dcc-send mirc.ini?)

	Now as for a directory structure, I dont even enable DCC-recieve and
have no need for it, if someone wants to send me something that badly, i
have e-mail and it runs through a virii check. System files is a bit
more touchy, Depending on the Distribution you use, they can be in
slightly different places. 

/usr/src     	kernel source directory (redhat does a lot of rpm stuff
			in here too
/usr 	     	anythying from the initial install
/opt	     	gnome and kde and a few other applications have started
			using this directory havent figured out why, but 			they do.
/usr/local   	any upgraded or less critical binaries and you can
			specify /usr/local/bun/$user for user installable 			applications to
keep them seperate from the main 			apps
/var 	     	any logs, spool files, system scripts, that kind of 			thing
/mnt	     	any non system related partitions/devices/network mounts
/home/$user/stuff/ any files i download before installing or moving off
		to my file server. 

and as always, the best sources of information come from 
	man, info
	www.linux.com
	www.kernel.org
	www.freshmeat.net
For more advanced info you can try 
	http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html
	www.lartc.org (Linux Advance Routing and Trafic Control)
And im sure the list can provide many more helpfull sites accumulated
through years of experience

Drag0n
dragon at atlantacon.org


 


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.


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