Author Archive for Jeff Weisbein

The Future of WyldRyde

So what does the future hold for WyldRyde? I have spent a lot of time thinking about this topic and have gone back and forth in my head several times, but I’ve come to a decision that I feel is best.

How To: Automatically Join Channels When You Connect to IRC

We have just added the ns_ajoin module to WyldRyde so you can easily auto join channels when you connect using a registered nick.  Once you have registered your nick and have identified with services you can use the following command (below) to add a specific channel to your list of channels to join upon connecting [...]

Security Alert: UnrealIRCd 3.2.8.1 Download Contains A Trojan

Just a quick security alert for anyone running UnrealIRCd 3.2.8.1, I recieved an email this morning stating that for the past 8 months the UnrealIRCd download has been tainted.  It has been tampered with and included a backdoor trojan which allows a person to execute ANY command with the privileges of the user running the ircd. The [...]

Happy Holidays From WyldRyde!

Happy Holidays from the entire WyldRyde Staff! We hope to make 2010 an amazing one! We have a lot planned, so stay tuned! The best is yet to come.

How To: Get Users Into Your Chat Room

One of the most common questions I have seen over the years I have been on IRC is “how do you get more people in your chat room?”.   There are many approaches you can take to help grow your chat room – some better than others.  I’m here to share with you some of the [...]

WyldRyde Website Redesigned

After many years of the same old web design on WyldRyde.org we have finally launched a completely new design for the site which we hope will last us well into the future. The new design is not completely finished, however, we felt it was complete enough to launch and make the minor changes and tweaks [...]

BestTechie Acquires WyldRyde

Roslyn, New York – October 24, 2009 – BestTechie Holdings, Inc. is pleased to announce it has acquired the WyldRyde IRC Network from WyldRyde Corporation. Steve Mermelstein (usrbingeek), long time WyldRyde Root Administrator and President of WyldRyde Corporation said earlier today, “I’m handing over control of WyldRyde to Jeff Weisbein and he’ll be assuming the [...]