How to use IRC

	In the process of using Jenkins, because the domestic use of Jenkins people are not many, only very few developers, so think of the official freenode to see, just before the IRC chat with the way, just tried, feeling is pretty good, there are many foreign developers, A lot of good channel can communicate, by the way also can improve their English communication level. And you share the basic IRC configuration bar, convenient for everyone to use, here released a link, is a good mIRC tutorial http://www.tigernt.com/onlineDoc/icq/jcp.htm.

What is IRC:

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is an internet-based communication protocol that is commonly referred to as Internet Relay Chat in Chinese. It was a network chat protocol pioneered by Finn Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988. After 10 years of development, there are currently more than 60 countries in the world to provide IRC services. On the most popular efnet, you can see tens of thousands of users using IRC at the same time.

	IRC employs client/server mode, which enables Internet users to talk to other users in real time, with each user establishing a connection with a remote host through a client program, a remote host accepting multiple connections from a client program, and implementing real-time calls between multiple users. IRC received worldwide attention during the Gulf War. Residents of Tel Aviv, Israel, used IRC during the air raids to describe what had happened to audiences around the world.

IRC works very simply by running the client software on your PC and then connecting to an IRC server via the Internet with an IRC protocol. It is characterized by very fast, almost no latency during chat, and takes up only a small amount of bandwidth resources. All users can talk or chat about a topic in a place called \\\ "channel\\\" (channel). Each IRC user has a nickname (nickname), and all communication is exchanged within their channel with different nickname.
What are the advantages of IRC over traditional web chats?

	1. Quick Refresh screen in the traditional web chat, because the use of the browser, need to download the page at the same time to explain, so the page refresh rate is usually a few seconds or even 10 seconds, and IRC is the use of specialized software to chat, do not need to explain the process of the page, So it's a pretty fast screen refresh (in milliseconds), that is, when the screen is refreshed, you don't feel a bit of latency or any jitter at all. This is a great benefit to the protection of eyesight. :-)

	2. Privacy IRC has very high confidentiality. In a formal IRC server, if you're not talking to people in a public chat room instead of chatting to someone (often talking about opening a small window), anyone else will not know what you're talking about, including the administrator. This is not like in some web chat rooms, administrators can use a number of specific CGI or ASP programs to spy on your chat content. This is probably one of the reasons why many hackers also use IRC for communication.

	3. Easy to manage on the vast majority of IRC servers, you can create your own channel (Channel, the chat room) whenever you want, and the system will automatically set you up as the OP (Operator, admin) for that channel, and you can always assign the OP's power to others as needed, for collaborative management. The OP in IRC has a variety of grades, such as admin (Administrator), SOP (Super Operator), AOP (Auto Operator), op (Operator), etc. This has undoubtedly created the conditions for the establishment of a good management system.

	4. Other ... For example, you can play music, transfer files, customize scripts to match chats, and so on, these are not in the ordinary web chat room to do. In fact IRC's advantages are more than this, only in the use of you can slowly realize: IRC is really a good chat way.

How do I use IRC?

1. How to use the Web Connection efnet IRC:

	Browser Open www.efnet.org (EFnet is the world's most famous IRC chat)
page upper left nickname transmission chat name (only support English) in the channel input #shanghai (must have a # in front) of course, you can also set up your own channel, such as #myownchannel其服务器上一般有5万人, so the English name may be a little longer, lest with other users to repeat the use of another interface look better: www.mibbit.com; there are a few more IRC servers to choose from EFnet, such as EFnet Prison.net or efnet umich.edu;; Nickname an English name channels write #shanghai then go (if the top two options are not connected, you can define IRC server as one of the following: irc.dks.ca; irc.servercentral.net; IRC. Shoutcast.com;irc.nac.net; Irc.mzima.net; irc.easynews.com; Irc.colosolutions.net, etc.) above goes to the same location: EFnet IRC #shanghai channel efnet is just one of many IRC server clusters, http://www.tigernt.com/onlineDoc/ Icq/jcp.htm some IRC basic introduction

2. Use of mIRC

	But using the Web is not your best choice, because this approach is slow (slow startup speed), less function, if you want more fun to enjoy chatting, you'd better download chat specialized software, commonly used to have Microsoft's Mschat,pirch,kvirc and Mirc,linux under the XChat, mIRC Although the graphical interface is close, but has a very powerful command line function, or very recommended by programmers to use.
MIRC Setup will automatically eject the option Setup Bar

	Nickname is the name used when chatting, alternative is the alternate name when your name is already in use, name and email can not be filled in.

	Click Servers, set IRC servers segment, I chose Freenode server here, you can consider their geographical location away from the server settings.

	Click Options to select Connect on startup

	Select Identd, enter the user ID and the name of the system
	now you can use the mIRC, after you want to personalize their own settings on their own groping it.

	Click Favorites, enter the channel you want to enter, you can also select a channel to enter the chat room.

	And QQ is almost the back.

	Now completed the installation of MIRC deployment, the specific command line to explore their own slowly, do not understand the link in the tutorial, hope to use IRC can give you the development and learning to bring progress.