New Site

I'm in the process of making an integrated website/blog, probably to be hosted at my own domain. When it's up and running I'll be sure to post here!

Music Sharing

I thought it might be a good time to remind people that you should only share music in channel of which you own the copyright/rights of distribution. Illegal sharing of music should not be conducted.

There have been a few high-profile cases recently of a crackdown in this activity and if you are sharing illegally you may well be playing with a ticking time-bomb.

Don't say we didn't warn you!

Channel Mode +R (Reg'd nicknames only)

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great holiday period and I'm sure the whole team at wavplayers wishes everyone a great new year 2008.

You might have noticed the channel is using mode +R at the moment. This is activated on a temporary basis to help combat spammers. There are a couple of spam bots doing the rounds, where they send a user to a website trying to encourage them to download a file, usually an .exe file, to install themselves on the users machine. Infected people probably wont even know it's running there, but it does serve as an annoyance to us regular IRC users.

[edit - mode R is off at the moment but please familiarise yourselves with this for your own benefit]

If you can't get in the channel...

If you have a registered nickname : identify to nickserv using

/ns identify {password}

where {password} is the password you used when registering your nick. If you have forgotten it type

/ns sendpass {yournick}

where {yournick} is the nickname of which you want the password. (I hope you used a real email address when registering!)

If you DO NOT have a registered nickname : type

/ns register {password} {email address}

where {password} is a password of your choosing and {email address} is your real email address.

Following either of those steps you should then be able to join our channel using

/join #ircwavplayers

Hope this helps anyone not in channel.

Billy

Christmas Nicks

It's that time of year again. If you want to use a different nick for the season please do one of the following. For the explanation the nick you will use i'll refer to as "xmasnick" and your regular nick i'll refer to as "yournick"

Either...

• type /ns info xmasnick


• if it's not taken type /nick xmasnick


• if it IS taken try another


• type /ns group yournick password


• nickserv should then reply to you with a confirmation of now being in teh group of "yournick"

...OR...

• type /ns info xmasnick


• if it's not taken type /nick xmasnick


• if it IS taken try another


• type /ns register password your@email.address


• see a SOp or Founder for adding to the access list(chanserv auto opping/halfopping you)

I'll update the list below with our xmas nicks so you can see who's who...

Founder

Oscartg - Grinch

Sops

Chopper - XmasTree
Peggysue - Mistletoe^Kisses
billythekid - elfythekid

Ops

willywesa - Santaclaus
Freebird - SanteesLilHlpr
Bones - wish^big
BluzBug - Bah^HumBug
froggy - froggyclaus

HalfOps

Grn_iz - gRnTinSeL

Others

-none-

Thanks.

SpR 8.7 RC4 Link

Some of you may have noticed there are a few copies of SpR 8.7 RC4 about. This IS a proper copy as seen here(scroll down to 31-Dec-2003). I've hunted down a copy and hosted it at my site with a handy download linky from over there ---->

I can't personally speak for this script(or any SpR script actually) so use at your own risk.

btk

I'm a SOp now

That's a bit good isn't it! Thanks Oscy. Let's see if the power corruupts...

:)

billythekilt

OK for those who I couldn't send to....

Links...

...are back up I think. Sorry if this caused anyone inconvenience.

Links over there --->

I'm currently in the process of updating my personal websites, so some of the links to wavget, SpR etc. might be broken until I get everything uploaded. If anything is needed before I get it uploaded either see an op in channel who might have it, or email me directly and I'll send it to you.

Thanks.

Triviabot...

...will return to channel next week with one change.

There is now a limit set on how many questions you can answer in one day(calendar day not one 24 hour period.) At the moment it's set to 200 questions per day, however this is subject to change once we see how it's running.

This change has been implemented in response to some concerns that some players were hogging the quiz, thus not everyone could get a fair chance.

Once you reach your quota, you get a message telling you well done, you will then be unable to answer anymore questions until the bot resets, at midnight, that's the bot's midnight. (I think currently GMT-5[eastern time??])

/ctcp the bot to find out what time it's at when it comes back. (/ctcp nick TIME).

Hopefully this change will suit everyone, if you have a complaint though, feel free to get in touch with Oscartg, PeggySue, Chopper or myself and we'll deal with it.