If you want to contact me, you can do so by connecting to my IRC network or private-messaging me on the L33TSig Forums.

Alternatively you can email me at - if you do, you might want my GPG public key, or my GPG key ID: 0×4D491CC5.

Please note, all chain mail (such as “if you don’t forward this to X people msn/facebook/<some other lame service> will be shutdown”) and all other spam is never read; it is deleted automatically — (I never see it!), so don’t waste your time sending it.

About

For now I’ve just taken the stuff below from my page on the L33TSig Wiki until I rewrite it.

I am a student at Kingston University, studying Computer Science and Network Communications. I live in West London, somewhere between Twickenham and Kingston.

Want more info? Ask me… if you’re lucky, I’ll answer
I don’t give out photos of myself though, so don’t ask for those :P

Photography

I love taking photos of pretty much anything… usually it’s pretty random and/or geeky, but it’s a good use for my Flickr account

My latest 10 photos (+ some info):

Websites

I run a few websites:

• L33TSig.net, a free dynamic signature & avatar service I created
• Fr3d.org, my personal blog

I used to run one or two more, but they kinda disappeared :P

I also develop websites at a semi-professional level — I don’t publicize the links, so if you want to see them send me a mail

IRC

Find me at irc://irc.fr3d.org/Fr3d, and also in #L33TSig and #Lobby. SSL is available on port 6697. See http://irc.fr3d.org for links to the .us and .de servers, and more info about my network.
I also have a BNC that I sometimes connect to, which hangs around on Neowin, MsgPlus! and FreeNode.

Why do two out of three users on most IRC networks these days have to use a lame script? Each one is more n00by than the last…

WTF does a noob need with a clone scanner?! Noob’s aren’t opers, so they can’t do anything about clones. And a sensible oper uses a plain(-er) mIRC, Xchat, or another client.

Also, do noobs need an annoying away system which spams every single channel their in with an action (using “/me”) when they go /away, come back, or are highlighted? I don’t think so… That’s what /whois is for!!

Another annoying habit is for noobs to load a system stats script (or a lame script to bundle one inside), and then not change any of the settings, so if you send a VERSION request to that user, you’ll end up with between two and four replies! One from mIRC, one from any lame scripts their running, and one from the System Stats thing, with all their OS/CPU/RAM/HDD info in.

There will come a point where I start banning every user of these damn scripts from any channel where I have +o or higher… and it’s coming quickly.

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Another small addition was added to my downloads today

Fr3d’s Now Playing Script for mIRC

A short script that gets your current info from a plugin called AMIP and displays it in a channel, private message session or dcc chat in mIRC.

Screenshot of what can be done with a bit of creativity:

Download Now Playing for mIRC

- Fr3d

A few new updates in my IRC channel and network:

• PISG (Perl IRC Statistics Generator) stats are now available.
• PieSpy (a graphical view of who people talk to) diagrams are also available.

Fr3d IRC and MessengerMad IRC are now linked to the SubIRC Network after a quick trial link, with hopes to attracting more users and make life easier for everyone.

To connect to the network you can still use the same address; irc.fr3d.org, but you will need a client installed to use that link, such as mIRC or XChat. There are several other clients but those are the best two I’ve used. XChat also works on Linux

If you are wondering what IRC is, I suggest you look on Wikipedia.

- Fr3d