Back when I had my FreeBSD server, I used to run a tmux session and irssi to keep myself connected to IRC at all times. This let me access it from any computer with an SSH client.
Now I only run a Plan 9 server, but I missed the simplicity and convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times. I finally got fed up and did a very crude port of Miau, an IRC bouncer. A bouncer stays connected to your selected servers and channels while serving the IRC protocol itself. You then point an IRC client at your bouncer, which instantly restores for you all the channels you had open. This serves essentially the same purpose as ircfs, but with the advantage that you don't need Plan 9 or Inferno to access it--any computer with an IRC client can connect. In fact, you can just use Mibbit to connect as long as you have a web browser. Porting Miau was pretty easy; the configure script actually ran properly and I only had to do a little bit of hacking to account for things like the lack of crypt() (so yes, you have to type in a plaintext password in the config file rather than giving it a hash). There's a tar at /n/sources/contrib/john/miau9.tgz, or you can check out the bitbucket repo from http://bitbucket.org/floren/miau9 (preferred). Known bugs: It's really easy to type "maui" instead of "miau". John
