http://billy.the-kid.org mIRC scripts and other computery things Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:23:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok I did this to kill 2 birds with one stone, firstly I wanted to do a vlog on something, anything and secondly a how-to to help people who ask me this anyhow. Enjoy... btk http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/08/01/my-first-vlog The most recent additions to the site are... A script that allows you to post to twitter from within mIRC. A Blogshares Ideas helping script. Tiny mIRC MP3 player. Quick-Grab script that turns play messages/@find results into clickable grabs. That lot keep you going for a while? http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/28/recent-additions I've put the long elusive WP Stripper online, after hunting it down from Archive.org as I'd lost it on my own machine too!!! btk http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/21/wp-stripper Uninstall colorzilla. Open a terminal and enter: apt-get install libxul-dev libstdc++5 gcc-4.1 libstdc++6 reinstall colorzilla This informations was gained from this reply to the blog announcement. James Dunmore, the-kid.org salutes you! btk http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/15/getting-the-colorzilla-eyedropper-to-work-in-kubuntu-firefox3 As part of my linux journey I've come across a few tweaks needed to set it up. Most recently - getting hyperlinks in thunderbird to open in firefox when you click them. There are loads of long winded fixes for this around the net, most requiring some script or other to ... http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/10/opening-links-from-thuderbird-in-firefox I just switched to Linux, I know it's been a long time coming. First problem I had was getting my Belkin F5D7050 wireless dongle to work. I got it working by doing the following... find the .inf file in the CD that came with the dongle, mine was rt2500usb.inf so substitute that ... http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/09/one-for-the-other-computery-things I've updated the BS Quiz script to include Coloured Messages On-top option Also for some reason Rantz was having trouble with longer lines being cut off which I think is fixed too. I couldn't replicate the problem so I think it may have been in his formatting of the questions??? I think I'm going ... http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/06/30/small-update-to-bs-quiz mIRC 6.32 has been out for a wee while now and it seems to be running along nicely. I'm loving the extended length handling for variables etc. So yeah, upgrade NOW! btk http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/29/mirc-632 I've updated btktext to fix a bug where if you type the last letter of a command it activated, e.g. if you had "brb:be right back" and just typed "b", it would send "be right back". Fixed. v1.2 now, ignore the version on the screenshot, visually, it's not changed at ... http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/29/updates I've reset all the download counters to 0. There was some wrong information in them(googlebot hits etc.) so from now on they'll hopefully be more accurate. http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/28/counters-reset