I almost let today go by without blogging about Open Discussion Day. Of course, lately, I haven’t been doing much blogging at all, which is entirely out of my person, but anyway, let’s get onto the festivities. First, so you understand, Open Discussion Day started back 4 years ago when Ploum first blogged about showing [...]
Now that school is out for the summer, I have a bit of time to work on some of the themes I’ve created for my ZSH prompt, Irssi and GNU Screen. The first focus of mine was to get all themes working well with both white text on black backgrounds, and black text on white [...]
Irssi, as blogged extensively throughout this site, is one solid client. The flexibility never ceases to amaze me, and tonight was one of those times. Hanging out in the amount of channels I do, I see a lot of activity in my statusbar for all of my joined channels. This can be overwhelming for some, [...]
It’s no surprise that Bitlbee is my chat client of choice. After all, I’ve blogged about it before. So, when I heard rumors that Facebook would be releasing their chat to outside clients over XMPP, I was excited to see the day when I could add it to my running Bitlbee instance. Lo and behold, [...]
I have found, that since using Irssi, many people like to edit the config directly. This is a natural instinct that we have as hackers in general. Because configs are stored in plain text, such as our shell RC files, Apache configs and many more, we just intuitively reach for our editor, and start hacking [...]
I’m on a bit of an IRC kick with the blogging lately, mainly because it seems I’m usually fine tuning my settings, and I like to share what I find. Hopefully, someone finds these posts useful. For today’s post, I’ve picked setting up an SSL connection on OFTC and securely identifying to NickServ when connecting. [...]
Last night, Freenode made the migration from hyperion-ircd to a fork of charybdis-ircd they’re calling ircd-seven. There are a few notable changes in the new ircd code that are worth mentioning here that are of benefit to end users and clients. They are the ability to use OpenSSL encryption between client and server and the [...]
So, I was browsing A Guide to Effectively Using Screen and Irssi, and I came across this little gem: Hilight Window See the irssi screenshot above. The section labeled “1″ is a split window called “hilight”. Anything that is hilighted (set using the /hilight command) will be logged to that window. To do this, first [...]
I made some updates to my 88_madcows.theme file for irssi. The biggest change is the theme working with 0.8.13 and greater. Further, I added the server tag to the statusbar when in the status window, so when I need to change servers for whatever reason, it’s obvious what server I’m on before cycling through. Screenshot [...]
I’ve come to the conclusion that the only user space software needed on a Linux machine is a browser and a terminal. Everything else is bloat. I just discovered mutt, a fantastic email client. Well, technically, I didn’t “just discover it”, as I have played with it in the past, but never got far with [...]
Yesterday, while students were working on labs, and I was bored stiff, I decided to update my Irssi installation running on my Debian SPARC box. I spent some time cleaning up the config (not by hand, mind you, but through the options in the interface) by updating the servers I connect to, the channels I [...]
My wife and I have A LOT of DVDs. As any normal logic-based person would do, we categorized the movies alphabetically in ascending order. As our collection grew, we added movies in their appropriate position. Unfortunately, due to the nature of our shelving, this meant taking large chunks of movies, and moving them in masse, [...]
