January 7, 2010 - 1:16 am
Tags: for you, Status, TFlash
Posted in News | 7 Comments
We have, for quite a while now, offered TFlash as our web based IRC client. This was originally written as a quick replacement for the Java client we used previously. TFlash has, however, stood up to the test of time and has proved to be a very popular client amongst users.
We have now decided…
January 2, 2010 - 10:30 pm
Tags: connect, FAQ, ports, SSL
Posted in Explanation | No Comments
Besides the default port 6667, all GeekShed servers accept standard connections on the following ports:
6660, 6661, 6662, 6663, 6664, 6665, 6666, 6668, 6669, 7029, 7070, 1494, and 1755
All servers also accept SSL connections on port 6697.
Should you experience difficulties in connecting, you can try another port or another server. Should you still have difficulties, you…
December 11, 2009 - 9:54 am
Tags: Status
Posted in News | 6 Comments
Due to an over keen data-centre staff member inadvertently taking one of our servers from its rack and formatting it, we have suffered an extended period of downtime for some of our services. These services include RSS topic feeds and User Count badges.
A new server was brought online today and we have restored the…
October 24, 2009 - 8:12 pm
Tags: for you, SSL
Posted in Tutorial | No Comments
GeekShed has established a certificate authority to allow it to issue signed SSL certificates. All you must do, to prevent your IRC client notifying you of a bad certificate (unless of course your connection is being tampered with) is install our root certificate.
To do this on Windows, follow the following simple steps:
1) Download this file…