I just ran into alice, which is an irc client you run on a box, and then you connect to it via you’re browser. So I installed it (forgot the last time I used CPAN), then went to localhost:8080/view. It has a little settings box so you can set your prefs and channels.
Then I went to my laptop and put in http://192.168.1.101:8080/view and it just worked. And by just work I mean connected to the same session where I left off. This is basically screen+irssi, except I can do it over the web on any browser. OMFG. Add some auth and ssl and I will be set!
Why would I do this? So I can do this:
Now on the desktop combine that with Chrome’s App Mode (or Mozilla’s Prism):
I see something about libnotify but it doesn’t seem to work for me, also there are some layout quirks, for example the horizontal channels just scroll off the right side of the window and there’s no way to scroll there. Searching on the internet only shows me the CPAN resources and the author – I wish I would have known about this years ago! Who knows Perl? This is like, so close. Has anyone used this before? I’m going to keep messing with it and see about filing some bug reports but just had to get the word out.
One more local app down!
jorge's stompbox 
23:22 [Freenode] -!- There is no such nick jcastro
So much for persistent presence. 😛
Give me screen + irssi any day over GUIfication. irssi has a rich feature set that has been battle-tested, and its ubiquity among IRC vets ensures excllent and useful scripts, more eyes on bugs, etc etc.
And if you want irssi on the G1, install ConnectBot.
http://www.donneker.de/projects/web-irssi/
Ha!
You need:
– apache httpd or any other CGI capable web server
So much for “lightweight.” 😛
Hi, I am the author of alice. Thanks for the kind words!
The whole project is relatively new, so things are moving pretty fast at this point. The release on CPAN is actually missing a lot of recent changes, so it might be worth trying out the version on github (http://github.com/leedo/alice/). Most recently I’ve added searchable logs; useful since the default message buffer is only 100 messages.
Feel free to enter any bugs find into the github tracker. I’m aware of most of some of the rendering issues, but have been focusing on other things lately.
What device is that first photo? It kinda looks like a computer/dvd player for a car…
@lefty, it’s a TMobile G1 Android phone if I am not mistaken.
Jorge, just use Connect Bot to tunnel through to your Alice host. The point your browser on the G1 to localhost:whateverport..
If I get some time I’ll try this, thanks!