Blog: 2025-02-14

BBN had a big contract to implement TCP/IP, but their stuff didn't work, and grad student Joy's stuff worked. So they had this big meeting and this grad student in a T-shirt shows up, and they said, "How did you do this?" And Bill said, "It's very simple — you read the protocol and write the code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy

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setting up local irc server so I can set up a local irc client, had the idea while weechat was taking a while to compile! Here's the config. Built inspircd from source, on the insp4 branch. Configured as follows:

inspircd $ cat run/conf/inspircd.conf 
<server name="localhost"
  id="99R">

<bind address=""
      port="7000"
      type="clients">

Ok and here's the command

run $ ./bin/inspircd --debug

Then

Server is all set up. Ran 1 client as weechat, then the usual

/server add localone localhost/7000 -notls

Just have to disable ssl

Then connect:

/server connect localone
/join #roro

or any channel

Was able to make a new weechat client and make them talk to each other thusly:

$ cd (mktemp -d)
tmp.A8yiRWBf $ weechat --dir=.

tada!