JOTI / JOTA

SOFTWARE

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) software

• Windows: The most common IRC client for Windows in mIRC
• Mac Classic: The most comon Mac Classic IRC Client is Ircle
• Mac OS X: We recommend the X-Chat Aqua client for OS X
• LINUX: Well this market has a few options X-Chat and Bitch-X are probable more common

You may also wish to use JAVA webchat using http://irc.scoutlink.net/ Please pick a nickname to use (the default nickname is WebScout) which can be changed. Click on the Connect button and then Click on #english to start talking or type /join #irc_help to find more help on using IRC.

Modem/Broadband Sharing software
This is a perenial difficulty for many JOTI/JOTA sites. I recommend using a LINUX router distribution such as FREESCO as the front end to your JOTI network; this avoids many of the security issues found with Windows based internet sharing products. To make things easier, we'll make a disk image available from this site for you to download for your 2005 JOTI Base.
[JOTI-ROUTER:Status:in progress]

IRC CHANNELS
For a details on the JOTI channels check out http://www.scoutlink.net/

Desktops?
We have had a very successful trial of the 'live CD' LINUX desktop KNOPPIX for the 2004 Eltham JOTI Base. As the operating system is running from a CD there is no issue with the users corrupting the base installation. We will try to make a custom 'JOTI' version available for JOTI 2005.
[JOTI-WORKSTATION:Status:in progress]

IRC Bouncers?
If you wish to have a common choke point for IRC connections from your network, you can use an IRC bouncer (BNC). A well setup bouncer can protect clients in a similar manner to a web-proxy server.
ProBNC : irc bouncer for windows
psyBNC : irc bouncer for *NIX

IRC Servers?
So you want 'ops' do you so that you can do the +o and get a fancy @ hat ... You will need to get yourself some practice *off* the servers!

ScoutLink runs Hybrid6/SLink6.12.6.1-3000, this is a modified Hybrid6 ircd

Have a look at http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircd/, if it doesn't make sense you probaly need to do more homework before you can even think about +o

From the ScoutLink motd :
Please do not send email requesting
o:lines. We are NOT looking for IRC Operators These types of
requests will not receive any answer, affirmative or negative.

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