So Bitlbee. I haven’t been this excited about a piece of software in a while. I am going to keep using it. Apparently what people told me about signing up with AIM is not true, “Leia 26” is exactly like “Leia26” and it’s just a formatting option, even if you sign up with “Leia 26″. In Bitlbee I just add whatever name it is without the spaces.
I still get errors like:
16:09 -@root- serv_got_update() for unknown TOC handle Leia26:
16:09 -@root- loggedin = 1, type = 16
sometimes. It’s quite random, sometimes I’ll get a screen full of them when I log on, and sometimes I won’t get any. Doesn’t seem to influence the abilities of the client though, since these people still join the channel, and I can still chat with them. So this is a bug I can live with, for all I know it’s just AOL’s servers being screwy anyway.
I was so happy with all these improvements that I set up my own server:
USE=”msn, oscar, yahoo” emerge bitlbee
Done. Have I mentioned lately that I love Gentoo?
It’s just an internal server, running on my box behind the firewall, but I’m definately more comfortable using this than a public server.
This is so great %) Today I spoke with a cousin I hadn’t talked to in months because I wasn’t on AIM for so long. Woo!
In the past I only used the irssi away function when I went on extended vacations, so I really knew nothing about it. But now with IM I really need to be able to set away when I leave the desk. So I discovered this afternoon that you can set away on just one server! In one of the channel windows of the server you want to go away on just:
/away -one away reason
Yay for irssi.
*wanders off*