A Minor Gripe
When I play with a new distro or *nix I tend to throw it into a virtual machine and install irssi on it. This allows me to work within the OS and ask questions without having to switch around too much. Given that most of the distro channels appear to be on freenode I give my virtual machine user a nick like purserj_$DISTRO to help distinguish.
I threw CentOS up this morning and after futzing around getting rpmforge installed I actually managed to install irssi and tried to connect to the #centos channel with purserj_centos. Except I couldn't. I got told that I was banned. Given that my entire time on the centos channel previously could be counted in minutes, a little wtf was warranted.
Turns out that for some reason they have the word centos banned for users trying to connect to the centos channel. Why? I have no idea, but it does seem kind of silly.
Anyway, that's my minor gripe for today.