Unfortunately, free software developers are not a major source of advertising dollars for LJ , so it is not likely that LJ will be publishing alternate views to the Open Source camp anytime soon. This is one reason we chose the Debian distribution to use in our office. Perl is free and Larry is most definitely not a money-grubbing type of guy. They told me that it is fairly easy to get it working using freely available C code downloaded from the Web. Mr. Meyers offers a solution.
Disconnects show as hangups.
This live syslog is also invaluable when debugging your chat script. Not being a desktop sort of guy, I am not particularly excited about it, but, if you want a desktop, it seems adequate. He's not a desktop sort of guy. It's hard to take seriously reviews that completely leave out subjective comments about functionality a reviewer doesn't really have an interest in, or more to the point, his audience does have an interest in. The rest of us, though, might have been interested in the state of this product's constantly evolving user environment, but the heck with us.