Re: [9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer
well, there is a session persistense in Plan 9, and its name is vncs(1)…
Re: [9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Yaroslav yari...@gmail.com wrote: well, there is a session persistense in Plan 9, and its name is vncs(1)… Opening mibbit in a web browser is easier than installing a VNC client on every computer I use. Do you have some personal problem with IRC bouncers that makes you desperately suggest half-assed alternatives? I've been using Plan 9 for something like 7 years now, I'm reasonably familiar with what you can do with it... is it so terrible that I got a piece of software working and felt like sharing the changes? John
Re: [9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer
2012/1/12 John Floren j...@jfloren.net: but I missed the simplicity and convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times why not to use their nickserv extentions for this purpose, and a startup script to deal with connection and authentication to select servers and channels?
Re: [9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Yaroslav yari...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/12 John Floren j...@jfloren.net: but I missed the simplicity and convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times why not to use their nickserv extentions for this purpose, and a startup script to deal with connection and authentication to select servers and channels? The problem is that I typically have an IRC client running on my desktop, and on my laptop in the living room, and sometimes on my phone, and maybe open up a web client if I need to get on a technical channel at work. This beats having john, john|laptop, john|phone, john|work. Plus, when I'm bored on the road or whatever, this allows me to open up my Android IRC client, connect, and get the last hour's backlog so I know what's going on. Nickserv prevents other people from stealing your nickname. An IRC bouncer allows you to maintain one continual presence online; I've set up Miau to authenticate with Nickserv at startup. John
[9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer
Back when I had my FreeBSD server, I used to run a tmux session and irssi to keep myself connected to IRC at all times. This let me access it from any computer with an SSH client. Now I only run a Plan 9 server, but I missed the simplicity and convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times. I finally got fed up and did a very crude port of Miau, an IRC bouncer. A bouncer stays connected to your selected servers and channels while serving the IRC protocol itself. You then point an IRC client at your bouncer, which instantly restores for you all the channels you had open. This serves essentially the same purpose as ircfs, but with the advantage that you don't need Plan 9 or Inferno to access it--any computer with an IRC client can connect. In fact, you can just use Mibbit to connect as long as you have a web browser. Porting Miau was pretty easy; the configure script actually ran properly and I only had to do a little bit of hacking to account for things like the lack of crypt() (so yes, you have to type in a plaintext password in the config file rather than giving it a hash). There's a tar at /n/sources/contrib/john/miau9.tgz, or you can check out the bitbucket repo from http://bitbucket.org/floren/miau9 (preferred). Known bugs: It's really easy to type maui instead of miau. John
Re: [9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:03 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: Back when I had my FreeBSD server, I used to run a tmux session and irssi to keep myself connected to IRC at all times. This let me access it from any computer with an SSH client. Now I only run a Plan 9 server, but I missed the simplicity and convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times. I finally got fed up and did a very crude port of Miau, an IRC bouncer. A bouncer stays connected to your selected servers and channels while serving the IRC protocol itself. You then point an IRC client at your bouncer, which instantly restores for you all the channels you had open. This serves essentially the same purpose as ircfs, but with the advantage that you don't need Plan 9 or Inferno to access it--any computer with an IRC client can connect. In fact, you can just use Mibbit to connect as long as you have a web browser. Porting Miau was pretty easy; the configure script actually ran properly and I only had to do a little bit of hacking to account for things like the lack of crypt() (so yes, you have to type in a plaintext password in the config file rather than giving it a hash). There's a tar at /n/sources/contrib/john/miau9.tgz, or you can check out the bitbucket repo from http://bitbucket.org/floren/miau9 (preferred). Known bugs: It's really easy to type maui instead of miau. John Oddly, I can't get this to compile on my home Plan 9 system; there, it bails out like all other configure scripts I've ever tried to use: # ./configure ln: conf115166.dir destination exists usage: ls [-ACFHLRUacdflprstu1] [file ...] configure: error: working directory cannot be determined # I'll have to try and figure out the difference. John
Re: [9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer
That error is very common where ls -di is called in the configure script (strange that it did not complain on your other system). a nice fix is fgb's config script http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/fgb/rc/config another common problem is grep, where the easiest is to write GREP=grep at the top of the configure script. 2012/1/12 John Floren j...@jfloren.net: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:03 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: Back when I had my FreeBSD server, I used to run a tmux session and irssi to keep myself connected to IRC at all times. This let me access it from any computer with an SSH client. Now I only run a Plan 9 server, but I missed the simplicity and convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times. I finally got fed up and did a very crude port of Miau, an IRC bouncer. A bouncer stays connected to your selected servers and channels while serving the IRC protocol itself. You then point an IRC client at your bouncer, which instantly restores for you all the channels you had open. This serves essentially the same purpose as ircfs, but with the advantage that you don't need Plan 9 or Inferno to access it--any computer with an IRC client can connect. In fact, you can just use Mibbit to connect as long as you have a web browser. Porting Miau was pretty easy; the configure script actually ran properly and I only had to do a little bit of hacking to account for things like the lack of crypt() (so yes, you have to type in a plaintext password in the config file rather than giving it a hash). There's a tar at /n/sources/contrib/john/miau9.tgz, or you can check out the bitbucket repo from http://bitbucket.org/floren/miau9 (preferred). Known bugs: It's really easy to type maui instead of miau. John Oddly, I can't get this to compile on my home Plan 9 system; there, it bails out like all other configure scripts I've ever tried to use: # ./configure ln: conf115166.dir destination exists usage: ls [-ACFHLRUacdflprstu1] [file ...] configure: error: working directory cannot be determined # I'll have to try and figure out the difference. John
Re: [9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer
Turns out it's been fixed after a pull--thanks to whoever submitted that patch! John On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Jens Staal staal1...@gmail.com wrote: That error is very common where ls -di is called in the configure script (strange that it did not complain on your other system). a nice fix is fgb's config script http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/fgb/rc/config another common problem is grep, where the easiest is to write GREP=grep at the top of the configure script. 2012/1/12 John Floren j...@jfloren.net: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:03 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: Back when I had my FreeBSD server, I used to run a tmux session and irssi to keep myself connected to IRC at all times. This let me access it from any computer with an SSH client. Now I only run a Plan 9 server, but I missed the simplicity and convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times. I finally got fed up and did a very crude port of Miau, an IRC bouncer. A bouncer stays connected to your selected servers and channels while serving the IRC protocol itself. You then point an IRC client at your bouncer, which instantly restores for you all the channels you had open. This serves essentially the same purpose as ircfs, but with the advantage that you don't need Plan 9 or Inferno to access it--any computer with an IRC client can connect. In fact, you can just use Mibbit to connect as long as you have a web browser. Porting Miau was pretty easy; the configure script actually ran properly and I only had to do a little bit of hacking to account for things like the lack of crypt() (so yes, you have to type in a plaintext password in the config file rather than giving it a hash). There's a tar at /n/sources/contrib/john/miau9.tgz, or you can check out the bitbucket repo from http://bitbucket.org/floren/miau9 (preferred). Known bugs: It's really easy to type maui instead of miau. John Oddly, I can't get this to compile on my home Plan 9 system; there, it bails out like all other configure scripts I've ever tried to use: # ./configure ln: conf115166.dir destination exists usage: ls [-ACFHLRUacdflprstu1] [file ...] configure: error: working directory cannot be determined # I'll have to try and figure out the difference. John
