Memory Lane, with records.

[vakkotaur]

This morning I speculated about reciprocating versus rotary roses.

Three months ago I had my first visit to a water park and had some really spicy Indian food. I also did some installs and upgrades (and even a version or two later, Xchat is still buggy, dagnabbit).

Six months ago I was pondering what it would take to not go to the moon but still look like it.

A year ago I'd just gotten back from the Des Moines Fall Faire.

Two years ago I got meta-quoted when I commented on the term "metrosexual."

Three years I made my initial LiveJournal post.

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yup, xchat has always been buggy. Try gaim or chatzilla instead. ;)

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I've tried gaim and found it's acceptable for AIM, but irritating for IRC. I have yet to figure how to get it do the aliases I so desire and expect to have handy. I've not tried chatzilla, but it sounds like a mozilla group thing and that... does not inspire confidence in me. For its faults, at least xchat lets me fix the most irritating things.

The problem I have with xchat (and I've checked on both Mandrake 10.1 and Ultima 4 linux, so I doubt its distribution specific) is with DCC send. When I start xchat, I can do a DCC send just fine. If I leave xchat running for a few hours, instead of sending the DCC, xchat promptly crashes/exits. I tend to leave xchat running for a considerable time, too, if I can. But I can at least close and restart xchat and get what I desire.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Gaim does aliases, but probably not in the way you are used to. In order to assign an alias, you must first add the target nickname as a buddy, AIM style. Then you can right click on them in the buddy list and assign an alias through the associated properties.

At least, that's true for the version I'm using. I can't say how long the capability has been present, because I don't actually use the feature. Gaim has gone through many releases in the past year.

Chatzilla is the work of a single individual, I believe, though you are correct that it has a connection to the Mozilla project. It runs as a plugin to Firefox, though it can be started independently of the browser. It must use pieces of the Firefox code, because you have to have Firefox installed in order to use it. It is actually a very capable IRC client, with lots of features and all the standard stuff. (Though, since I don't use aliases and actually tend to use epic for IRC myself, I don't know offhand whether or how Chatzilla supports aliasing.)

DCC send works in both without any hitches I can detect, though I much prefer to use other means for transferring files in any case.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

The aliasing I miss is not a renaming of nicks, but (extensions) of commands. There are a few things I expect to have around, the most basic of which is /a to work as /me. It's something I've gotten so used to that I simply don't use /me. I type /a automatically and then get an error if I don't have it available. I agree that DCC is not an efficient means of file transfer, but it is often the most convenient.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. Chatzilla has that kind of aliasing. You're right, Gaim does not, though it seems to be under rapid development so suggesting an alias or macro facility to the developers just might get you one. It can't be that hard to implement.