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There are several ways to stay connected to IRC all the time even as you move from location to location (there are somewhat advanced techniques -- don't worry about this when you're first getting started!):
* Use the [http://irssi.org/ Irssi] client (which is character-mode) in conjunction with [http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ GNU Screen] on a machine that is constantly running. You can then connect using ssh from any computer, disconnect, and then reconnect from another computer. See the [[Irssi Tutorial]] for basic instructions.
* Use a graphical client with on a machine which is constantly running, and use a remote-GUI program such as VNC to connect to that machine from wherever you travel.
* Use a graphical client such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat XChat] on a Linux machine which is constantly running. You can then connect to that system from another Linux computer (or a Windows or Mac system with an X server running) using ssh with the "-XC" options, stop Xchat (<code>killall xchat</code>), and then restart it. The display will be exported to the remote system, and the scrollback will be intact, so you can read messages that were sent previously.
