New LJ icons! Waiwaiwai~!

[osaraba]

Old:
duo: from Gundam Wing (default)
kyou-kun: from Fruit Basket
sara: as Közi from Malice Mizer

New:
drowning: Sailor Neptune from Sailor Moon
obsession: Koji from Zetsuai 1989
pain: Izumi from Zetsuai 1989
grrrr: Youji, Omi & Aya from Weiß Kreuz
aya: Aya from WK
duo-eyes: Duo from GW doujinshi

Deleted:
carebear: digital photo of Bedtime Bear
sara-akuma: digital photo of Sara with flashing horns!

To be considered for posting:
hotohori: from Fushigi Yuugi
koyasu: my favorite seiyuu!

Look at them here.

Comments

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

The new icons are nice! I'll bet you can guess which is my favorite. Hehe.

Hey, I need to ask you about something. I joined Saikou Fansubs so I could download SDK (I've only seen up to episode 7, at Ohayocon). I got many episodes from their site, but I need to go to IRC to get the rest. I know how to get to IRC, but what do I do when I get there? I didn't see any instructions anywhere. I hate being clueless....

[osaraba]

The new icons are nice! I'll bet you can guess which is my favorite. Hehe.

Well, that's a no-brainer! (It also happens to be my favorite!) ^_~

Warning: LONG explanation ahead! (Cut into 2 posts because LJ wouldn't let me post it as one.)

About IRC... it's simple and complex at the same time. And I admit I might not be the best person to ask, since I have a love-hate relationship (1:9 ratio) with IRC. If you've already dl'd the program, you might want to check out the general FAQ, which you can find here.

Aside from that, basically you have to register your tag/ID, which I'm assuming is going to be "zerotwofan"...

In the "Options" button (2nd from left), you want to either pick the server you want to connect to, or create a new one. Saikou Fansubs is on the irc.enterthegame.com server (as are many digisubbers). Once you're on that server, you can go to the "Channels folder" button (3rd from left) and add a channel. Every channel has a "#" in front of its name. For example, Saikou Fansubs' channel is "#saikou-fansubs". For this particular channel, you don't need a password to get it, although in some channels you do. You can also search for a channel by keyword (in its title) by typing /list *keyword into the status window. Alternatively, you can click the "list channels" button (4th from left) and do a search through that dialog window.

Once you're in a channel.... (see next post

IRC: part 2

[osaraba]

Once you're in a channel, stuff gets a bit more tricky. I'd recommend typing in !rules to find out the channel's rules. There's an @find command which is like a search, but most channels don't allow you to use it (I can't figure out why). In those channels, if you use it you'll be kicked out. Most channels allow you to use the !list command, which lists all the fservs people have available in that channel. The fservs show who has stuff available for download. Sometimes people will list some of the things they have in their fserv, but sometimes they don't. They way to access someone's fserv, is usually by typing a certain code they've provided, called a trigger. It will look something like /ctcp zerotwofan duorules! where zerotwofan is their ID, and duorules! is the trigger. This command will open up a new window where you can access what is basically a selected folder in their harddrive that you can dl stuff from. However, there will be a limited number of available "sends" after which you are put in "queue" if you want something of theirs. When you're in the fserv window, the commands used are actually DOS commands (you remember DOS, don't you?)... "dir" to list directory, "cd" to access folders, then if you see a file you want to dl, you type out get complete filename including any spaces.zip and it will either begin downloading, or place you in queue.

The problem with IRC is that you almost always have to leave your computer on for a long time because (1) it takes quite a while to actually find what you're looking for (if it isn't newly released), (2) once you find it, you're probably 10th in queue, so you have to wait until all the people in front of you finish dl'ing their stuff before you can, and (3) since what you're looking for are episodes, the file sizes are 150mb+, which means dl times are very long. Which means if you're 10th in queue, you may have to wait a day or more before you can start dl'ing. Also, you cannot leave the channel of the person whose queue you're on, otherwise you'll lose your spot.

For all this, I recommend WinMX, which is much the same in terms of dl'ing time, but at least it's more straightforward: it's like Napster was, you just search and dl. You may be in queue for a day or so, but you don't have to waste all the time looking through fserv upon fserv for what you want.

*However, in this case, I have all the episodes of SDK on VCD, so if you'd like I'll make you a copy of what you need. I know you have a DVD player, so it won't be a problem for you to watch them on that, or on your computer (if you have a DVD-ROM drive).

Sorry this was so long, but IRC is a bit complicated. Of course, it gets easier once you know what you're doing, but I just can't bring myself to waste all that time on it. ::shrugs:: And I hope that if you do decide to go with IRC, this helped a bit!