[TriLUG] Anyone up for a question?

[Jim Ray]

Why not use putty to ssh to server and then use screen to keep your session alive in case of internet burp?

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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of WA Brown
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:26 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Anyone up for a question?

Right Now I am on a winblows laptop. Will it work with XP?

WA Brown



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cristóbal Palmer" <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Anyone up for a question?


> On Nov 28, 2007 11:27 PM, WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net> wrote:
>> I am not familiar with IRC.
>
> It's multiplayer notepad. Here's a longish tutorial:
>
> http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html
>
> I would suggest using Pidgin as your client:
>
> http://www.pidgin.im/
>
> since it supports a lot of protocols (IRC, AIM/Oscar, MSN/Yahoo,
> Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, etc.) and can therefore be useful even if you end
> up not liking IRC.
>
> To get to #trilug, just add an account from within pidgin. Pick IRC
> from the dropdown box. For you it would look something like this:
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/tarheelcoxn/2073156996/
>
> don't worry with a password the first time. You'll have to register
> with nickserv for that to matter. Once you've created the account, you
> can use the dropdown on the buddy list window that in the picture says
> 'Offline' to toggle yourself to online. Once you connect, you'll get a
> window with a bot called freenode-connect that's checking what version
> your client is. In that window, just type '/join #trilug' (without the
> quotes) and hit enter. It'll look like this:
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/tarheelcoxn/2073157004/in/photostream/
>
> Once you get into the channel, you can ask for more help on using IRC.
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Cristóbal M. Palmer
> celebrating 15 years of sunsite/metalab/ibiblio:
> http://tinyurl.com/2o8hj4
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