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== Create an The Basics of IRC account and login (in Windows) ==

1IRC is also known as Internet Relay Chat. google search "ChatZilla"The principal of it is essentially to provide accessible chat rooms for people over the internet over multiple operating systems. To be able to connect and interact with IRC, one must first have an IRC client of some sort.Two of the most common are [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16 downloadChatzilla] (Add-on forFirefox), and install it[http://www.mirc.<br com/>mIRC]. 2Once installed and running, you will have such options as connecting to various servers. From "FireFox" menu => select "Tools" => select "ChatZilla"We're particularly interested in the one which the seneca chatroom is located. <br />3This table has some basic commands for IRC. commands: <br /><table><tr><td>{|| /server irc.freenode.net </td><td>| /* connect Connects your client to an IRC server. In this case, it is the freenode server */</td></tr><tr><td>|-| /join #seneca </td><td>| /* join Join #Seneca seneca channel */</td></tr><tr><td>|-| /nick nickname </td><td>| /* Change your nickname */|-| /leave| /* Leave the channel */<br />**Note: /part also works|-| /query nickname| /* Open a private chat with some one */td|} Once connected to the server, it is a good idea to register your nick, otherwise someone can impersonate you and steal your nick -- Forcing you to change your name again. To register, one uses the following command:<code>/msg nickserv REGISTER foo foo@bar.com</trcode> This will associate your account with the e-mail foo@bar.com, as well as have your password be foo.To identify yourself, you do a similar command:<trcode>/msg nickserv IDENTIFY foo<td/code> If someone has taken your registered nick, or you have a zombie in the channel (Where you drop connection but you still appear in the channel), there is a command to fix that. {|| RECOVER Kill another user who has taken your nick<br /leave ><br />Syntax : /msg NickServ RECOVER [nick] [personal password]<br /td><tdbr />/* leave out the channel brackets [] */(NOTE: Please use the Ghost command instead for now)|-| GHOST Kills the nickname<br /td><br /tr>Syntax : /msg NickServ GHOST [nick] [personal password]<trbr /><tdbr />/query nickname * leave out the brackets []<br /td><tdcode><br /* open a private chat with some one *>/msg NickServ ghost nickname password<br /td></trcode></table>|} Stick with GHOST for now, as Recover is becoming more obsolete.