The Gate Keeper

it is true that Apple doesn't get as many problems in terms of viruses, but research also shows that Apple users are more suseptable to hackers and viruses as they think that viruses won't affact their machine and that it's more secure, which is a load of garbage. the reason viruses aren't mainstream for the Mac operating system is because they're still only a single digit percentage compared to the rest of the PC industry. That and if anything goes wrong with the unit hardware wise, they've made it pretty close to impossible now to fix it yourself. For example, if you're a tech person, owning a Mac G5 or one of the new MacBooks, they more then likely have the new Apple anti tamper screws on them, meaning you can't even open the device, even if you know it's the harddrive corrupted or the graphics card shot, you cannot fix it. You have to take it back to them and pay a premium in price not only for the parts that you're locked to (Apple are very strict on hardware), but also the labour. As for argument of taking linux over Windows, really it's similar to the use of Apple. As much as many claim linux to be more secure or safe, people who use it that aren't aware of all the ins and outs of linux really can fall straight into the same trap that many Mac OS users do. I have used Windows for majority of my life with Apple and Linux (Ubuntu) use inbetween here and there, and I have found it a lot more of a hassle in setting up some of the OS things to the way I like than i did in windows. Windows 7 is a lot more secure than the earlier versions, and they continue to improve it more and more. Of course there are still viruses about, but there are great free products to help, even one by Microsoft (Security Essentials) which I personally use and it has done a great job.

happy birthday as well. and yes still here and there checking up every now and then

have you tried using the windows live beta? see if the new beta works for you?

do you get an error message? have you tried on a different computer? or a different computer in a different network (i.e. not at home?)? My girlfriend had a similar issue using the current messenger and she was stranded on the old messenger. i worked it out via uninstalling messenger, and going through and deleting something from appdata, then restarting and reinstalling.

i have modified it slightly, not sure if it's better or not. check the previous post.

as mentioned above... but if you really wanted it... on @!*:JOIN:#: { .timerversion $+ $chan $+ $nick 1 10 kick $chan $nick no version response | .ctcp $nick version } on *:PART:#: { .timerversion $+ $chan $+ $nick off } on *:KICK:#: { .timerversion $+ $chan $+ $nick off } on *:QUIT: { .timerversion* $+ $nick off } on *:CTCPREPLY:VERSION: { .timerversion* $+ $nick off } note... it has literally been 5 years since i have touched mIRC so i don't even know if this code is correct. If it isn't post back and someone else will amend it. I don't know if you can wildcard inside the timer.

well you wouldn't want wubi as it's a windows application. meaning you need to install windows first, then install wubi which allows you to install ubuntu, but not onto a separate partition i believe. i think it's just a location within the same drive. what you do is leave your harddrive as is, boot up with the windows CD, goto "Install Now", follow it through to where it asks where you want it installed. When you get here, click "make new partition" (or something like this). Your unbuntu partition only really needs to be about 20gb or so as it's pretty small, unless you plan on installing MASSIVE programs onto it. But yea, work out how big you want your windows partition, create it at that size, and then tell windows 7 to install into the newly created partition. And presto, you have dual boot. When you start your computer, windows boot record will kick in (i believe), and you can select windows or ubuntu.

no... what happens is that when they write on the harddrive, they base it off 1000 bytes = 1kB. however, the true definition (and the one microsoft uses) is 1024 bytes = 1kB. It is because it goes in powers of 2. Hence why it is 1024, and hence why you may have bought a 320gb harddrive, but windows (and pretty much all other operating systems) will tell you that it's a loss of approximately 8 to 9 percent (so in your case, a little under 300gb.

as far as i'm aware, you need the spectator mode enabled for the room, then provide voice to all other members. sorry mate. though you could make an alias which sets voice to everyone, and no voice to that person, then enables the spectator mode.

did you say mIRC 3.5? why are you using such an ancient version?

yea, and the fact you have to create the dialogs in DCX commands? Or has that changed as well? Man i haven't touched mIRC for 5 years. The joy of university, and now work life.

interesting points you bring up x, and i do see that you have a strong understanding of it. Things like pattern matching the user IDs werem't really possible on MSN due to it using that whole "@GateKeeperPassport" bs, so regex'ing that wasn't possible back in the day. But i will admit, the majority of the concepts of the protections you're writing up sound quite solid and strong. There are still a couple of limitations to MSN which i think you may still not understand fully, such as MSN would only accept so many sockwrites/commands at one time. And yes, i was using the $crlf technique as well as it was a lot better, but it capped it at like 8 commands in 1 burst before it kicked you out of the room for flooding the server. I applaud you for the technical aspect and knowledge, because you definitely have shown you know what you're talking about. Back to what you have shown in the screenshots... I'm guessing you're trying to avoid using dlls to "pretty up" your dialog? If not, why not put a bit in? If so, all good and i understand that as well.

@x-system: from memory... guarddog provided a lot better support than just the simple on text stuff, where users could use the dialog i provided to make their own kicks based on the inputs. i may not have had regular expressions implemented (just with my lack of knowledge 5+ years ago when i made it, but it would be easy as now), but Choke Chain Protection definitely had all the bells and whistles for the majority of user protections. as for buffering, mIRC has had that on it's own for donks, though it wasn't very good i found, not for MSN type scripts. Thanks to Petertje, and a tweak of my own, i already had a buffering system in guarddog. I could eliminate 900 flood bots in an MSN room, without getting kicked. This can be backed by several people who witnessed it in action, travis for one. and i believe this has continued on in other works such as soulfly, and warriors' stuff. so buffering is definitely not new. the example you provided to say that the regular expression would never have false positives is very incorrect. Given my knowledge of regular expressions, " ck ", " dck", "ddddddddddck", etc. would trigger the regular expression you provided as an example as not delivering "false positives". From my knowledge a * would mean 0 or more of the previous character/syntax. If it works differently (to say that * means that it is just a substitute for a character, like iswm would use), how about " dock "? You cannot tell me that regular expressions are full proof either. They are just as flimsy as isin and iswm. However, it does definitely provide more power and ability to cover a larger range, and that, so i do applaud you for implementing better techniques... but yes, regex has been used for quite some time. And as for banning via regular expressions, i believe it was a limitation of the server, not our ability, which meant we couldn't do it that way. I don't mean to tear down your work, but I will tear down your attitude if you don't fully understand that much of what you've done has been done before in some form or another. It is good to do it yourself, and perhaps you will find better ways to do things. Respect is the number one thing. You must respect those that came before you for the fact that much of your understanding of what you're doing now, came from their work. Whether that be something like Kenobi which was MSN only, or an IRCd script. @dj: lol, you did love those whistles... what about the bells? in general: i though MSN was the most abused of all. I though IRCd was the most protected server side, and that it didn't exactly need things like flood protection to be created cause the server normally takes care of it? or was that a misconception?

guys, come on, be a bit more upbeat. i guess it's just something that we've seen done over and over just in slightly different ways. from kenobi to hybrid to guarddog, to who knows what else. if the sole purpose is just room protection and having it good for your friend, then yea, stick with the basics as there isn't any real need to make it look flashy.

josh... it's not unheard of... i've been approached a couple of times after GD5 was released to have work done on servers, websites, and yes... even mIRC scripts. all of which i turned down.