External IRC application

From Mindat

If your computer is having problems connecting with the standard chatroom applet on the http://www.mindat.org/chat.php page, you may be able to connect using an alternative IRC application.

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, and is a standard method of realtime chat communication on the internet, dating back over ten years. IRC Chat works by clients (your computer) connecting in to a central server (or network of servers) which relay messages from you to other computers connected at the same time.

In the case of mindat.org, there is one central server, and many people can connect to this to chat at the same time.

Table of contents

1 IRC Software 1.1 Windows 1.2 Mac 1.3 Linux 2 IRC Settings

IRC Software

The following list details some commonly-available IRC software packages

Windows

• mIRC - http://www.mirc.co.uk
• chatzilla - http://www.mozilla.org

Mac

• Snak - http://www.snak.com/Snak.html
• Ircle - http://www.ircle.com

Linux

• chatzilla - http://www.mozilla.org

IRC Settings

To connect you will need the following settings

IRC Server: www.mindat.org
IRC Port: 9610
Channel Name: #mindat

To connect to education chat, you will need the following settings

IRC Server: www.mindat.org
IRC Port: 9610
Channel Name: #mindatedu