[Ubuntu Oregon] IRC help (was: Re: Thank you.)

[Phillip N]

Thanks Cody for "what is" and "what's not" IRC verses IM LOL.... As you can
see its been several years since I used any of those, because IRC/IM really
is not my forte'.  I do it only to show support for Ubuntu.

Joshua - thanks for suggesting irssi, in fact I installed it on a Raspberry
Pi just for fun, and it works great!.
Was able to connect to *irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>* on
channel *ubuntu-us-or* just fine, via irssi on a Pi.

The only problem was my user name was "Pi____", because I have not figured
out the "freenode" command to change the name to philn-k.

I used the following CL inside irssi to connect:
 /server irc.freenode.net
 /join ubuntu-us-or
/SET nick philn-k (does not work), also tried /SET user_name = philn-k.

The documentation found on the web seems to differ, so does anyone know the
proper "freenode SET" command to change the "user name"?

Thanks in advance
Phil. N




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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Cody Smith <cody.smith9202 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> didn't know that. good to know. Still probably won't do znc (which I
> connect through)
>
> --c_smith
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Joshua R. Poulson <jrp at pun.org> wrote:
>
>> Actually, they added an account plugin so empathy can do a limited IRC:
>>
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/463033/is-it-possible-to-use-irc-chat-on-new-empathy
>>
>> I prefer irssi myself.
>>
>> --jrp
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Cody Smith <cody.smith9202 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Empathy doesn't DOES NOT do IRC, it's only for IM, IRC is a different
>>> protocol. Same thing with iChat. Now Pidgin CAN do IRC, but imo it's a
>>> crappy implementation.
>>>
>>> --c_smith
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Phillip N <philn at deltatriad.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Walter, Cody, Thomas,
>>>>
>>>> I'm familiar with iChat, Pidgin, and Empathy, which is the default IRC
>>>> in Ubuntu.
>>>> My problem was not app based, it was Logging in via web interface.
>>>>
>>>> Because Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) calls me to simplify any
>>>> situation, I was therefore trying to "directly" log in to web based IRC
>>>> w/out authentication.   I have recently discovered that logging in through
>>>> Ubuntu One "first", solves many a log in issues - go figure... LOL. Problem
>>>> solved.
>>>>
>>>> I'll eagerly await this evenings irc meeting at 6:30pm, to see it all
>>>> works.
>>>> BTY: I think tonight's topic is review of UOS.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks everyone for your support.
>>>> Phil. N
>>>>
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>>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > c_smith:
>>>>> >> Yeah, IRC clients aren't exactly "one size fits all", there's ircii
>>>>> for
>>>>> >> those wanting to use it from the CLI, there's Quassel for those
>>>>> wanting a QT
>>>>> >> version, Xchat for those wanting a GTK version, and so on and so
>>>>> forth.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > i tend to prefer cli ones. irssi or weechat are my go-tos.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > again, if help is needed, let me know.
>>>>> >
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>>>>> > Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
>>>>> > Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader
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>>>>> irccloud.com FTW
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Thomas Mashos
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