A taste of Linux.

Today I've been playing around with irssi and getting that up and running. First problem was that it wasn't installed but that was easily rectified. Then to find a theme that I liked which was different from the default theme, which had pale purple writing on a dark purple background to the bars at the top and bottom of the irssi program. The combination of colours I found was totally unreadable, so the need was rather urgent. On the irssi website [http://www.irssi.org/] I looked in the themes folder until I found one that I liked, eventually plumping for the 'spring.theme'. And then goltor over on #gllug was talking me and Peter through getting it all set up and running, suggested that we download and use 'adv_windowlist.pl' from http://tenr.de/misc/misc.php?a=misc and save it into irssi/scripts/autorun/ ready to run next time we started irssi. So I /quit irssi and then restarted it, joined freenode by using the /server freenode command and then once that had joined I put in /join #gllug and then a couple of other channels that I wanted too. To swap between the windows just use the ALT+number key. And thats about as far as I've got in running irssi at the moment.