Good news everyone!

The latest InspIRCd for your enjoyment is out! We’re sorry about the delay in announcement but our site maintainer was busy with RL and all that boring stuff. On a positive note, yours truly is now also a maintainer of the site and thusly you can also spam me with any site related issues.

A detailed changelog since last release will be attached as always.

http://inspircd.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7658

Recently, the Linux version of UnrealIRCd was discovered to have had a Trojan worm its way into the source code. Even more embarrassing for the developers of Unreal is that the Trojan’s been holding open the backdoor in the source code since November of 2009– not very recently. And, of course, bloggers and press in general are taking the opportunity of another breach in Linux security to point out doomsday devices that don’t really exist.

http://www.osnews.com/story/23448/Linux_IRC_Server_Gets_Trojan_Press_Harps_On_Linux_Security

http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=6562

We’re pleased to announce the latest release of the Anope stable branch; 1.8.4.

This release brings a list of fixes generally, and some further compatibility with InspIRCd 1.2.

As always we recommend you test the new version out in a testnet environment with your database and third party modules before considering upgrading.

We are in the process of also adding the functionality to our modules site (http://modules.anope.org/) to ‘mass’ build modules for Windows each time there is a new release from us which should hopefully help Windows’ users make decisions upon upgrading irrespective of whether the module author has produced a new dll for them.

http://www.anope.org/news.php?id=57

Here is the blade server’s spec:

P3 800MHZ Blade Server
40GB Hard Drive
512MB RAM
100GB BW
1 IP
$14.99 / Month $0.00 / Setup

It’s good for low budge people and want to test their development software. Here is the link in WHT:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=938236

Enough has been done on 2.0 that it’s probably a good idea to release another beta. There is now an unofficial feature freeze on 2.0, and hopefully the protocol won’t need any further tweaks. Linking with 1.2.x servers is still supported as it has been throughout the entire 2.0 line.

We need people to test 2.0, especially in a live environment. Since it can link to 1.2 servers, it’s possible to link a test server to an existing network and get real network traffic, while (hopefully) restricting any stability issues from the new code to the test server. Alternatively, contact us on IRC if you would like information on linking to the inspircd dev/QA testnet.

http://www.inspircd.org/

http://www.inspircd.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7202

The server spec:

* 60 GB Disk Space
* 500 GB Bandwidth/ 2 IPs
* PM 1.0 GHZ
* 1 GB RAM
* Choice Of OS
* Free Setup

The port speed is 10Mbits (100Mbits is upgradable with 5usd/month extra). They also accept IRCD stuffs.

lightIRC supports channels, queries, a lot of IRC commands, some CTCP commands and is much customizable through StyleSheets. It has multi language support (currently English, Spanish, German, Turkish, Hungarian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Serbian, Estonian, Romanian) and a nice GUI to set kicks, bans and channel modes.
The client uses a socket to connect directly to the IRC server (no XMLSocket, no gateway).

You need flash policy server running at IRCD’s host. Otherwise the lightIRC client can not connect to your IRCD. Here is a link of how to setup a socket policy server: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_policy_files.html

Freely connect them with this address: irc.khclub.net

IRC statistic via web: http://khclub.net/phpdenora/

They have very cheap unmanaged linux vps plan which I never found any before.  They named their unmanaged VPS to Budget VPS now. Here is the cheapest plan:

• Disk Space: 20GB
• Memory: 256MB
• Burst Memory: 386MB
• Bandwidth: 700GB
• Virtualization: OpenVZ
• IP Address(es): 1

Just $5.95/month

The setup is instant activation after the invoice is paid. You might also find they have 50% promotion in webhostingtalk. Nowadays, I use this budget VPS for backup and a tiny IRC node to my friend’s network.

Here are what you will get:

• SSH / SFTP

• File space 50MB for standard users
• File space 500MB for elite users
• cron
• screen
• IPV4/6

Development/Scripting

• GNU tools, gcc, g++, make, etc…
• Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, Bash
• Subversion

Web Devel/Hosting

• Apache Server (SSL)
• PHP
• Perl
• MYSQL
• Python
• Mono
• phpMyAdmin

Chat / IRC

• Irssi
• (FiSH, OTR, SILC, XMPP)
• finch / pidgin
• centerim
• ekg

• BitchX
• Bitlbee server (MSN, ICQ, YAHOO, etc…)
• Jabber
• psybnc/bnc/eggdrop/bots etc… ONLY for elite users.

Email

• pine
• mutt
• IMAP access (SSL)
• SMTP access (SSL)

Web

• lynx

• links

• elinks
• Tor
• I2P

Editors

• vim
• pico
• joe
• nano
• emacs

Their website: http://www.bshellz.net. One important note is: you _MUST_ every 168 hours visit their channel #bshellz on Freenode Network, and say !keep username.

you _MUST_ every 168 hours visit our channel #bshellz on Freenode Network, and say !keep