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Autojoin invite channels or multiple connect commands with Xchat

by iam8up on Feb.24, 2010, under geeky, linux, windows

Open the network list and on the server you want to do multiple commands with, specify the connect command

/LOAD -e .\profile\somecommands.txt

Then in somecommands.txt

/msg thebot !join foo bar
/timer 8 join #firstchaninvite
/timer 8 join #topsecret

For me I am start xchat with

xchat.exe -d ".\profile"

making the profile directory easy. By default it’s either in ~/.xchat2 or “%appdata%\X-Chat 2″.

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XChat by Silverex for Windows made portable

by iam8up on Feb.24, 2010, under geeky, windows

Silverex’s faq suggests that you can copy and paste the example and run it. It doesn’t work for me and I believe it to be wrong.

I am using DropBox which should act exactly like a thumb drive. May cause havok with multiple clients running at the same time. I only use it on one PC but like having a backup.

I installed XChat to C:\Documents and Settings\jluthman\My Documents\My Dropbox\xchat

Then created C:\Documents and Settings\jluthman\My Documents\My Dropbox\xchat\STARTXCHAT.bat

set PATH=%PATH%;.\lib
start xchat.exe -d ".\myxchatsettingsdir"

Works for me.

UPDATE: There are TONS of questions asking how to hide the batch window while an executable called from a batch script is being run. Just invoke the executable with start.

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Windows math fail

by iam8up on Jan.21, 2010, under funny, geeky, windows

So we need to copy 2897.92MB at 33.4MB/s. I get 86.76407185628743 seconds, how about you Windows?

Reminds me of this – http://xkcd.com/612/

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