NordicBots.com News

New channel settings: Protect your privacy

soczol@noreply.nordicbots.com (soczol) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:58:27 +0100

As you might have noticed most of the pages that show information about a channel (e.g. chaninfo, stats, logs) are visible to everyone that knows the name of your channel, including search engines like Google. While this might not be a problem for some, we can understand that others would like to keep some information private.

We had already introduced the 'hidelogs' channel setting that made sure that the logs page was not accessible, the downside to this is that the logs page is then not accessible by anyone, not even you as the channel owner. We also received signals that some of our users would want to hide information from the channel information page and stats pages.

To combat these issues we have introduced three new channel settings:

CHANSET +restrictchaninfo [level]
Restrict access to the channel information page
CHANSET +restrictstats [level]
Restrict access to the channel statistics page
CHANSET +restrictlogs [level]
Restrict access to the channel logs page

Where [level] is a channel level, defaulting to 'Friend' if not specified.

As you can probably tell from their names and descriptions these channel settings allow you to restrict access to these pages so that only users that have the specified level on your channel can see it.

Say you'd want to make sure that only users with the Master level or higher can view the channel info page then you'd write:

/msg |NordicBots| chanset #yourchannel +restrictchaninfo master

Then when visiting the channel information page the user will be greeted by a login screen asking them to login or register on the website.

After logging in the site checks if the user has linked their QuakeNet account to their NordicBots account already. They will be asked to do that now if they haven't yet done so.

Once they have done that, or if they had already linked their account, they will be given access to the page if they have sufficient access on the channel, else they will be shown a page explaining why they don't have access.

Guess that's about it. Please go and try it out and report any issues you might have.

Happy Birthday h3ll!

X-LP@noreply.nordicbots.com (X-LP) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:08:38 +0100

Well it seems you've managed to hit 22 years old. Congratz! I have not got a chance to talk to you very much, but nonetheless, Happy Birthday man!

~~~segz + NordicBots staff~~~

Merry Christmas!

kayjay@noreply.nordicbots.com (kayjay) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:48:22 +0100

On behalf of the entire NordicBots team, I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas! Hope you all have a fantastic day - eat lots of wonderful-tasting food, enjoy spending time with family and loved ones, and have fun opening all your presents ;-)
2009 has been a great year for the NordicBots bot service, and we will continue to do our best to make 2010 an even better year. Please keep in mind that we (the NordicBots) staff actually have lives besides IRC (yes, we actually do, even though it may not seem like it), and that getting help, getting requests accepted etc. may take longer than it usually does seeing as it's Christmas holidays..
Hope you've all been good this year, and that Santa brings you what you wished for! =-)

~kayjay & the rest of the NordicBots staff~

Happy birthday Phoenix_the_II!

segumisama@noreply.nordicbots.com (segumisama) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:37:00 +0100

Today another member of the staff adds a year to their age, Phoenix turns 25 years old! You can all stop reading this right now, open your IRC and do /msg Phoenix_the_II Happy birthday! :D

The Nordicbots staff and I wish you much happiness and fun on your birthday, have a wonderful day!

~segz & the Nordicbots staff~

Happy birthday kayjay and Mini-m3`!

segumisama@noreply.nordicbots.com (segumisama) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:29:37 +0100

Yes, yes, the Nordicbots staff is lazy and forgot all about poor kayjay's 23rd birthday. (chances are, he's busy with his baby son, though :))

Mini-M3` turns 31 today! (See, soczol? HE isn't complaining about his age :D) he also has his kids to look after (a two year old and a five year old :D) so both the daddies celebrate their birthdays around the same time!

The NordicBots staff wish you both a happy and wonderful birthday with presents and cake

Happy birthday X-LP & shitbreak!

segumisama@noreply.nordicbots.com (segumisama) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:33:15 +0200

First and foremost, shitbreak's birthday was actually eight days ago. (No, the nordicbots staff didn't forget about him, they were just all extremely busy...)

And so, happy twenty first birthday to shitbreak as well as X-LP, the two newer staff members of the service.

shitbreak and X-LP are queue workers, meaning, they accept/reject channels, shitbreak is the newest staff member to the service, joining just a few months ago. X-LP's been around a bit longer than that, around two years or so, but they're both invaluable to the team, because *some* of the qws are downright lazy... (not mentioning any names...)

But you can't expect X-LP to be active today, because well, today IS his birthday. Not just his birthday, but his twenty first birthday. that means the only thing he can't do in the U.S. is rent a car (Yeah, I know, the US is crazy) and even though he doesn't drink, I'm sure he'll be out partying and having cake and ice cream and stuff!

(I'm sure shitbreak went out, got drunk, and partied so hard he threw up in a bush, and went and partied some more, too :D)

Happy (late) birthday to you both, hope you guys have (had) a great day!

~the NordicBots team~

Back Online

soczol@noreply.nordicbots.com (soczol) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:59:16 +0200

As you can see our website is back online and should be fully operational again.

For those of you who missed it: the harddisk that hosts the files for our webserver broke down and started corrupting our files. The harddisk was replaced and the server has been reinstalled.

Please let us know if you notice any problems with the website as it's possible that we might have forgotten something.

This speedy recovery wouldn't have been possible without TheAvatar rushing to the datacenter to replace the defective disk (on a sunday!) Thanks for that!

Also thanks to everyone else for their patience.

Happy birthday soczol and Munken!

X-LP@noreply.nordicbots.com (X-LP) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:13:22 +0200

Today we celebrate the birthdays of two beloved and dedicated staff members, soczol and MunkeN.

soczol, who is now 27 years ol-, ahem, young, came to the service five years ago. Even before he was a staff member, he helped with various programming, fixing bugs, etc, so it was no surprise that when he was made staff he quickly gained a master technician level. To this day, he implements new features and continues crashin-, ehm, helping* Nordicbots diligently. We wish him a happy birthday with craploads of presents and cake! :D (By the way: You're not old!)

MunkeN is the one and only Nordicbots queue worker!! (OK, not really, there's like, five more.) At only twenty years old, MunkeN is the youngest member of Nordicbots. (But he isn't the most immature, believe us.) He, for the most part, managed Nordicbots when it was on the network 'Gamesurge'. (Sadly, Nordicbots recently got removed from 'Gamesurge'.) Munken is also responsible for that horri- I mean, that AWESOME bouncer, nBounce! (I once asked him what the 'N' in nBounce stands for. His reply: "@MunkeN: the n in nbounce stands for nerds") We hope you have a wonderful birthday and get spanked twenty times! (One for each year, of course!)

~The NordicBots Team~

New feature: Translations

soczol@noreply.nordicbots.com (soczol) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:40:22 +0200

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick note to say that we've added Google Translate functionality to our bots allowing you to translate text to another language.

We have not yet updated the documentation on this feature, so I'll try to explain how to use it, although we don't expect it to be that hard to understand. To translate text you need to use the !translate command. This command is available if chanset +infobot is active.

The full 'syntax' for this command is: !translate [-from ] [-to ] .

If you specify a language through the -from or -to switches then you can write the language code (e.g. nl, en, hu) or the actual name of the language (e.g. Dutch, English, Hungarian). If you do not specify a 'from' language then our bots will try to automatically detect the language the text is written in. If you do not specify a 'to' language then our bots will translate the text to English.

So to translate the dutch text "hallo wereld" to English, you only have to write:

!translate hallo wereld

And the bot will then reply with:

Translation from Dutch (autodetected) to English: hello world

Note that this is basically the same command as:

!translate -from dutch -to english hallo wereld

And the same command as:

!translate -from nl hallo wereld

That's about it. If you have any problems or think you've found a bug don't hesitate to contact us in #NordicBots

Thanks!

Natasha mIRC Script Updated

TheAvatar@noreply.nordicbots.com (TheAvatar) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:12:18 +0200

Update, April 22, 2009
Due to a bug in the 0.6.3 version yesterday, a bugfix version has been released, version 0.6.4.
It can be found in the Downloads section or updated using the script auto-updater.
Users having decode-warnings with version 0.6.3 should either go to Options=>Other=>Lock and enable (uncheck) the 'Decode'.
If not possible, you might want to close mIRC, manually update the script to 0.6.4 (replacing the two old files with the 2 new ones) and then start mIRC. The errors should disappear then and the script work.
Thanks to StareX for discovering the bug.

Our Natasha mIRC control script has been updated with a new version.
Besides adding some extra languages, it has a few minor fixes.
Please notice, as of version 0.6.3 the script requires mIRC 6.17 or higher, because the language file now uses the format UTF-8, as mIRC only supports this since version 6.17.

It can be found in the Downloads section or by clicking here

Supported languages:

English
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese-Brazilian
Romanian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish

And a few more soon to come.

Please let us know if you have any problems with this new version.

For mIRC < v6.17 users:
If you use an older version of mIRC than 6.17 you must stick to the 0.6.2 version, which can be found here. It does not have the same amount of languages and wont be updated further. You are adviced to disable the version checker from the Status window.