Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Technical Help and How To's IRC Quiz

This is an IRC quiz. First person to answer the question correctly.....gets to wait for the next question

First question, just for the record.

If on IRC and someone plays a sound and you don't have it, what do you type?

!trenna cuteclark.wav

In other words, it's ! followed by the nick of the person who played the sound, followed by soundname.wav.

Wendy

Type:

!<nick of person who played the sound> <name of wav>.wav.

So if I played a wav called Superman you would type:

!LabRat Superman.wav

What, you mean there's no prize?!

LabRat

Next question. And I'm really curious to the answer.

How can I get Wendy ready to paste more of WLMC in my IM?

Saskia

Umm... well, that would depend, Sas. Have I ever posted any of WLMC in your IM?

You mean... no way, it can't be... I'm not getting anything more? Not that I ever have, very correct, but it was worth a try. Somehow, someway and someday I'll find the perfect solution.

So for now I'll leave it at that, as long as part 19 comes out soon!!! Better yet, you are posting the rest of the fic soon!

Saskia

What about me? I want WLBM in my IM too. Okay, so I guess I'd have to be on IRC and figure out how IM works for that to happen, but a girl can wish .

- Alicia

Okay, now lets stay on track

2. How do you make the comments line....and in different colors?


3. How do you change your nick while online? For instance, going to AFK?


4. Common letters and their uses? AFK; BRB; RE; ROTFL, and anything else you can think of?


Thanks,

(Manual in progress )

2. ctrl k then select your colour...or ctrl k and a number between 0 and 9

3. type /nick [new nickname with out the square brackets] and hit enter
so for me to go to Marns-afk from Marns it would be:
/nick Marns-afk [enter]

By the comments line you mean something like:

LabRat wonders if that's entirely sane... ?

If so simply type /me and then the text you want. The /me command will be translated into your nick when you hit enter.

I'm not sure what you mean by question four. Whether you're looking for common abbreviations used or if you need an explanation of the ones you've listed?

LabRat (hey, it's 2.30 and I was supposed to be going to bed when I found myself in here...I might work it out better in the morning )

Well, if you're talking about what abbreviations we use and what they mean, here goes...

AFK = Away From Keyboard
BRB = Be Right Back
BBL = Be Back Later
BBIAF = Be Back In A Few
BBIAB = Be Back In A Bit
LOL = Laugh Out Loud
Re = um...well, it doesn't stand for anything. I think it means "hello again" (as in when you redo something, so you rehello)
ROTFL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing (sometimes without the T)
<g> = grin
<bg> = big grin
<vbg> = very big grin
<eg> = evil grin
(you can also combine the above, sometimes ending up with very weird concoctions like <vevbg> :p )
<inniocent> = when you've done something evil and would like to claim it as innocent.

Bethy (who is sure there is more which she will remember as soon as she goes to bed)

well, there's also

TTFN: ta-ta for now
TTYL: talk to you later
BTW: by the way
IM(H)O: In My (Humble) Opinion
AFAIK: as far as i know
IOW: in other words

(and, btw, i'm told some people use <eg> for "embarassed grin," rather than "evil grin." some people are odd... )

then there are the FoLC-specific acronyms like...

FoLC: Fan of Lois and Clark
WAFF: warm and fuzzy feeling
WHAM: varies, but i think Wrenching, Heart-wrending, Agonizing Moment is more or less accepted

anyone else got something i'm forgetting?

Paul

GTG = got to go
LMAO = laughing my...butt...off

Um, I'm sure I can think of some...

otoh = on the other hand
tx = thank you
yw = you're welcome
np = no problem
cya = "see ya" -- used when someone's leaving

Can I add a question, Trenna? <g>

What does "opping" mean?

PJ

Opping, let's see if I can explain that in not too many words.

If you're opped, that means you've got a @ in front of your name. For me, that would give @Saskia. An opped person has all sorts of cool powers. You can change the topic, you can kick, ban, op, de-op, voice and de-voice people. All lots of fun. Not that it really matters, as long as you're in the channel you can talk with the others.

Saskia

Oh, and some other common IRC abbreviations:

AIW!! = Annette is Wonderful!!

As far as question #2 goes, that's only for mIRC. I use BitchX (linux) and ircle (mac), which both use colors, but I have no idea how to use them. Since colors show up differently on different systems and with different characters, they can get kind of annoying, at least to me.

My personal favorite acronym, which was put together years ago..
roflmaowtimeapimp - rolling on the floor laughing my a** off with tears in my eyes and peeing in my pants. But that's not used much

And there's other random acronyms that pop up that relate to story names.. sometimes with this, you just have to ask

Thanks everyone, this is going well. These instructions are for IRC because of the LoisClark channel.

More questions...

How do you send stuff to people while on the channel?

How do you play a sound you have on your computer?

What is this SWTGTWWSSK (I know, I've got the letters wrong ) club?

Trenna,
who's extra project is to make an IRC Chat manual for FoLCs that is easier to read than the one mIRC has

Okay, let's see if I can answer these without being at a graphical IRC client... (not supposed to use IRC at work? let linux become your new best friend.)

To send a file in mIRC, right-click on the person's name, click on send file, browse the file, click on open, and hope it goes. In ircle, click on the person's name, and if you have the DCC button in the userlist, click on that. If not, click on Commands at the top, then click on DCC Send. For a command-line dcc send, type in /dcc send <nick> <filename>.

Hrm. To play a sound to everyone, it's /sound <channel> <sound>. To yourself, its /splay. I think. Dunno if this works on all clients.

As for the club, I'm not sure, but does it start with "Swear to god that we're writing..." somethign something something?

Pam said that you can use tx for thanks. Another common one for thanks/thank you is ta.

As for sending stuff, on mIRC (which is the only one I know how to use) I always use DCC. To do this you:

Click on someone's nick on the right of the channel to select them.

Right click to see a menu.

Select DCC. Within that, select send (if you select chat, it will open a private window with that person -- what people will call an IM window). It will open a window with your computer's files. Select whatever it is that you want to send, the same way you open a document in Word, for ex, and then choose send. And you're good to go!

I believe that is the Society of Writers Against The Use of Annoying *s. Or something like that. Someone else remember the exact name?

Bethy