I am in a situation that I'm sure a lot of SLUG members are in. I am a prolific user of IRC, using it from one of three machines depending on where I am. I have three main problems:
(1) maintaining a single and constant online presence (2) maintaining easily accessible chat logs, even when not at the machine (3) being notified of messages that suit specific criteria I currently use Xchat, which means that I am logged in at least two places at once. Being a fat client, it can beep when I have a message. If I leave it connected, it keeps logs (I only need the last 1000 lines or so). I can't do this with my laptop, though (I need to disconnect when travelling). Also, it forces me to have a separate login for each machine (and hence each Xchat session) connected. Issues (1) and (3) can be addressed by something like irssi-proxy[1], since it would allow me to use local clients with a single login. I could ssh into a single system running irssi, which would alleviate both (1) and (2). I understand that there are plug-ins for irssi that perform a notification service or run commands on certain cues. If irssi was running locally, I could do all kinds of things with such a feature. If running remotely, however, I believe that I am limited to notifications inside the irssi window itself. This would force me to manually check the window on a frequent basis, which will either become annoying or be forgotten. I would like to have audio/visual cues to let me know that my attention is required. [1] http://www.garion.org/irssi/irssi-proxy.php -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "This summer we're going to totally divorce Sun. ... JDK [Java Development Kit] 1.2 has JFC, which we're going to be pissing on at every opportunity." - Microsoft programmer Ben Slivka to CEO Bill Gates, 1997-05-14
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