Start a new screen:

skrien

Detach an active screen:

kintriel aa dee

Reattach a detached screen:

skrien mien dier

or

skrien mien raad

LOL

Thanks Aaron Toponce,
for pointing me to the windows_auto_renumber off option! Didn't know that one existed.

Regarding the problem that you usually remember which number a certain channel and/or conversation is(I do to) I do have a nice script which gives you an alternative 'act' bar. Instead of just the window number it also shows you the name of the channel/conversation.

The script can be found on f0rked.com and is called "Advanced Window List".

Some screenshots:

Using awl_hide_data=0, not hiding anything...

Using awl_hide_data=1, hiding inactive windows...

Using awl_hide_data=2, hiding all but msg's and query's...

I do realise that using this script can result into a very crowdy act bar, but that's what the awl_hide_data is for. You either like it or you don't and I do...

A friend of mine recently discovered and installed yet another irc bot, but this one was special :-)

The irc bot he installed is called gozerbot and is written in python. It has many features (implemented in modules) of which one module was very interesting, or at least very funny.

This module is called ‘markov’ and it learns from what you say in a channel, or you can feed it existing logfiles of conversations. Then, based on the markov chain (or at least I think so) it will reply meaning(ful/less) sentences. These replies can be triggered by !markov, it’s nick or a join, on the sites documentation an option ‘loud’ seems to exist but it is not available in the latest stable code nor in the svn code.

Here some example quotes: (WARNING: ALL QUOTES ARE IN DUTCH and yes we had an enormous funny evening)

2401 1548 @ ripperke : istnogvrij vertel is een mopje
2401 1548 @istnogvri : dat nu niet

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2401 0053 xavez : istnogvrij kent gij an
2401 0053 @istnogvri : is ni eens vermeld op wikipedia

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2401 0051 sid3windr : bdeferme wil istnogvrij neuken?
2401 0051 @istnogvri : ik ni echt :p

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2401 0056 xavez : istnogvrij wie is er hier dom
2401 0056 @istnogvri : dom dom
2401 0056 sid3windr : :D
2401 0056 xavez : ja istnogvrij dom
2401 0056 @istnogvri : dom dom
2401 0056 + bdeferme : :D
2401 0056 xavez : nee wie is dom istnogvrij
2401 0056 @istnogvri : dom dom
2401 0056 sid3windr : lmao

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2401 0058 sid3windr : istnogvrij wa vinden we van telenet?
2401 0058 @istnogvri : plan het te vervangen, of gade het zo laten?
2401 0058 sid3windr : istnogvrij ik plan het te vervangen
2401 0058 @istnogvri : is ongewoon koud in sibermet temperaturen tot min 53 graden celsius is het zeker 10 tot 12 graden kouder dan normaal in deze russische regio
2401 0058 + bdeferme : istnogvrij wil telenet vervangen :D
2401 0058 xavez : :D
2401 0058 @istnogvri : door smurfen? =d
2401 0058 + bdeferme : :D:D
2401 0058 @ ripperke : echt :’)