Male 1: Alright, hello and this is Juno from BluePhoenix.tv, and we actually have two people on our live stream or ventrilo today. Eric and Simon from Ipocalypse.net that is an IRC network in which you can join and actually create a chat room to build more less like it, community or maybe chat with your friends, or what not. So basically, Eric and Shaggy are here, Shaggy is his nickname and Simon is his real name in the ventrilo and on the IRC network. But, I am going to ask them a few questions about IRC networks and what are actually is going on.
So basically, so Eric, I was going to ask you about IRCD servers, how they work, and what causes the net splits. I do not even know people who are watching this by now and they do not know what net splits are, but, maybe give them an explanation
Eric: Well, net splits are caused by distant interruption and communication between the servers, it can be anything for just any volatility to like an actual server crash, and basically IRC networks that serves that are--you know people is started talking to each other and one of them drops out, that is where net splits occurs and all of the people that are on that server, their network for that server will lose connections, their network, so to speak. And, they are going to lose those connections to the server itself, but that is basically it and that is the way it is.
Male 1: In essence, you will end up having half of the network on two or three servers and half of the network comes to other two or three servers, and they will think that something is going on. Each other little things that the other servers down, when it is actually in theirs, something along those lines—
Eric: Exactly and when they reconnect you, you get things like meet collisions on people who are disconnected from the server that crash and would be back on the network, when their server reconnects and their net is still on that server or whatever. And they get killed and also in stuff like that.
Male: Alright so, as far as like IRCDs are the actual severs that running in IRC network, basically it is just—basically what its--I guess what its acronym is, internet relay chat, it basically just release the information from a client to the server and then back down to all the clients, correct?
Eric: Yes, it is just basically what it is, and IRCD is worth for IRC damon, and it is basically just the software on the servers that mixed all that, worked and allows people to send text to different channels and what not and stuff like that.
Male: Alright, so I know that there is a lot of IRC clients out there, but what exactly would you prefer or has somebody use when they are joining in your network, or does not even really matter?
Eric: Well, I kind of just depend on yourself, I mean. If you are not as the operator like me, an IRC there is nothing to beats it. I mean you can make all sorts of tools worth scripting, and I mean if there is just so much you can do. If you are just someone that does around in chats, you know maybe want a couple of channels or whatever. There some people around that use Xchat, which I do not think is graphically organized, as well as an IRC it is. And then probably the next to Xchat, I would say Ice chat is okay. Ice chat is quite further like, you know you basic IRCDs that have big buttons that say up and de-up and stuff like that.
Male: Simon do you have anything to add to that, I mean basically I am pretty sure you both use merk, but any other IRC clients that would more useful to somebody who does not really do how merk works? Because that is probably one of the most unuserfriendly, if that is the way you put it. IRC client compared to the others?
Simon: Eric, basically, some to not go through that. I think particularly, like if you are an IRCL, MIRC definitely those, it is the IRC clients that cannot say I may need it; it just has kind of support. It is very--it is phenomenal, I mean it has all sorts of front ends that make you plug in to it. But yeah, I mean for certain things there is—it cannot be a little or I use our own--like I mea
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