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"Magical" Internet Relay Chat · 2006-06-02

I missed the mindless chatter of the hub, so after some prodding, I looked into IRC as a replacement.

The original plan was to have a local IRC server, but I ran into two problems:

  1. The university frowns on running IRC servers. I might get away with it if I restricted it to only UMD IP addresses since it wouldn’t be a public IRC server.
  2. When I set it up, Windows clients couldn’t connect. Clients on OS X and Linux did just fine as did Java clients in Windows, but no native client on Windows worked. Some Googling revealed that the problem is actually with winsock (Windows socket interface); how the public IRC servers deal with it, I do not know.

Since that failed, we’re sitting on #umd on irc.rizon.net for now.