IRC with Adium: "Join Group Chat…"

You don't immediately consider Adium the right tool for IRC, but you can do that. Set up an account, then "Join Group Chat…"!

I need that, because I have problems installing GoLang on Lion, and there is a channel for GoLang: #go-nuts on irc.freenode.net .

DocBook XSL, the book – incorrect IRC channel

DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide - 4th Edition, Chapter 1. Introduction,  Online resources for finding solutions to problems (the paper book and the online version as well) says, that the IRC channel of DocBook would be at irc://irc.openprojects.net#docbook, but it actually is at irc://irc.freenode.net#docbook.

http://www.docbook.org/help had the right information.

This is not on their Errata yet, and I told webmaster(AT)sagehill.net about this problem in the meantime. I only wondered for a very, very short time, whether anybody will ever come back to me.
Bob Stayton (himself) answered at 2010-07-06 22:12:18 (my time at Berlin, ie. only an hour or so later):

Apparently it changed since that was written.
I'll put the new address in the next edition and add to the Errata.
Thanks for the report.

As I said, I will update this here, once I will notice their update.

first steps in IRC with pidgin

1. "Add Account"  for each IRC server/user pair (e.g. irc.freenode.net), that you want to use, within pidgin with IRC as protocol
2. "Join a Chat" (below Buddies), select the right Account (i.e. one of your IRC protocol/server accounts), enter the Channel (including the '#'), leave the Password blank! here we are!

Did I mention recently, how much I love my pidgin?
I did all this with a (fink) pidgin on my MacBook running Snow Leopard (OS X), but I don't doubt, it will also run on my openSUSE Samsung notebook.