Anyways, today I sat down and installed EJabberd, a decent Jabber server. The quirkiest part of the whole thing is it is written in Erlang and it's configuration files appear to be Erlang code as well. Still, I wandered through the install with the help of the Gentoo Wiki EJabberd documentation and got it set up. It was fairly straight forward (not dead easy, but not super bad). I had to disable a couple of modules in the configuration file till the testEJabberd.sh test file stopped giving me errors but hen it worked. Right now, it's just a one user system, me, but thats all I need right now. Now I should be able to chat with people on Google Talk, Livejournal, and other Jabber servers. How very open source of me ;).

My account is dan@mindstab.net.