[19:54] <ajgreeny> Please may I have a Ubuntu members cloak as I believe I am eligible for this. My launchpad page is at https://launchpad.net/~ajg-charlbury
[19:55] <Unit193> hggdh, funkyHat, Pici ^
[19:58] <Unit193> Now just wait for someone to show up.
[19:58] <ajgreeny> Will do!
[19:58]  * Pici starts chanting the magic spell
[19:59] <Unit193> And you already found roo.
[20:04] <Unit193> ajgreeny: Congrats.
[20:04] <Unit193> !conga-rats-#ubuntustudio-devel
[20:05]  * Fuchs adds to his list of most pointless and silly bot commands
[20:16] <ajgreeny> Thanks for the help Unit193.  Got my cloak now so I just need to figure out how to put it on.  The cloak-maker at #ubuntu-irc says I don't have to do anything but my User will just show as ajgreeny@ubuntu/member/ajgreeny next time I connect.  I'll do that soon to check it out.
[20:16] <PaulW2U> ajgreeny: we already see you cloaked :)
[20:19] <PaulW2U> do /wi and you'll see for yourself
[20:19] <ajgreeny> When I right click my name in the list on the right of xchat I still see ajgreeny@IP address.
[20:19] <Fuchs> Yes,
[20:19] <Fuchs> you and some staff members can see through the cloak, that's normal
[20:20] <Fuchs> the first line, if you /whois yourself, should show the cloak, though
[20:20] <Fuchs> the only thing you might want to set up (optional but recommended) is http://freenode.net/sasl/
[20:22] <ajgreeny> Already loaded the sasl script and running fine as far as I am aware.
[20:23] <Fuchs> perfect, then there is nothing else you need to do
[20:23] <Fuchs> actually there is,
[20:23] <Fuchs> you might want to connect via SSL, else you are sending your password as clear text every time
[20:23] <ajgreeny> Great!  Thanks for all the help.  I'm sure I'll soon get the hang of it.
[20:23] <Fuchs> but that's optional (but recommended) too
[20:24] <Fuchs> http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml lists the ports, most clients (I assume irssi, given the above) need to be told to use ssl (either via + in front of the port or, as far as I remember irssi, the -ssl switch)
[20:25] <Unit193> xchat, actually.
[20:25] <Fuchs> then I'd recommend switching to hexchat to not need an external script for SASL
[20:25] <Unit193> Fuchs: In irssi, -ssl and I'd say using the CApath would be good too.
[20:25] <Fuchs> (and still to use SSL, I assume hex/xchat has a silly checkbox for it, or something)
[20:27] <ajgreeny> I am not sure how to connect with SSL but it something I've already heard about.
[20:28] <Fuchs> ajgreeny: usually just choose an SSL port (as per the link above) and tell the client to use SSL, usually that is a checkbox in the server / connection settings if you have a GUI client
[20:29] <Fuchs> ajgreeny: if you don't, it's just that all text (including your password on connect) are sent as clear text, thus if somebody is seeing your network traffic (e.g. in a shared WLAN) they will see your password. As with everything else I wrote: optional, but recommended
[20:29] <Fuchs> (it's the same as https versus http, if that helps)
[20:31] <Unit193> Network list → Freenode → Edit → Use SSL for all servers on this network.  You'll also have to change the port to 6697 or whatnot.
[20:32] <Fuchs> and I'd still recommend hexchat, it's an xchat fork with some new features and fixes, so it will look and act the same but it's better (and you can just apt-get it from official repositories). Anyway, congratulations and enjoy your flight on freënode
[20:33] <Unit193> (And new bugs, of course. :P )
[20:34] <Fuchs> not aware of any, but given software development: entirely realistic. Still, it is maintained, while xchat basically lives off custom distribution provided patches
[20:34] <ajgreeny> The only thing I can see in the xchat preferences is an option to use a proxy server, which needs hostname, port number, type (which has socks4, socks5 wingate and  HTTP)
[20:34] <Fuchs> ajgreeny: it's not in the global xchat settings, you have to set it per network  (as per what Unit193 wrote above, starting in the network list)
[20:42] <ajgreeny> OK found it.  I presume the port number change is from irc.Freenode.net/8001 to irc.Freenode.net/6697.
[20:44] <Fuchs> Yes :)
[20:47] <ajgreeny> Thanks all.  Got to go for a while and need to disconnect.  I will find out what changes it has made next time, and I'll also have a look at hexchat.
[20:48] <Fuchs> you're welcome
[21:07] <Unit193> And he's now using SSL.