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==January== | ==January== | ||
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15th - Spock announces intention to run for SU President. Eventually he pulls out of the race, & helps with Hugo Brady's election campaign (who got elected). | 15th - Spock announces intention to run for SU President. Eventually he pulls out of the race, & helps with Hugo Brady's election campaign (who got elected). | ||
16th - Bootie resigns | 16th - Bootie resigns. | ||
16th - Complaint from SU President re Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kempf" being hosted on mellow@rb's webpage. | 16th - Complaint from SU President re Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kempf" being hosted on mellow@rb's webpage. | ||
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Sandman (Mike [[Rbwiki_McHugh|McHugh]]) is the best man. | Sandman (Mike [[Rbwiki_McHugh|McHugh]]) is the best man. | ||
12th - Phil and Mark visit James Healy in CSD re opening ports (CVS, mail, DNS). CSD currently run a 2 MBit line to HEAnet, from "next week" they will run a 10 MBit line. | 12th - Phil and Mark visit James Healy in CSD re opening ports (NNTP, CVS, mail, DNS). CSD currently run a 2 MBit line to HEAnet, from "next week" they will run a 10 MBit line. | ||
13th - SPC AGM. Declan Boylan (decob@rb) elected chairperson, Jon Lundberg (spock@rb) elected secretary. | 13th - SPC AGM. Declan Boylan (decob@rb) elected chairperson, Jon Lundberg (spock@rb) elected secretary. | ||
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20th - Redbrick go to BICS as DCU's nomination for Best Society. Julie@rb and Phil@rb attend in Limerick. | 20th - Redbrick go to BICS as DCU's nomination for Best Society. Julie@rb and Phil@rb attend in Limerick. | ||
26th - Talk by HEAnet about what they do (Mike Norris and Dave Wilson) - XG21, 7pm-9pm. | |||
26th - Closing date for Web design competition | 26th - Closing date for Web design competition | ||
27th - Clubs & Socs ball | |||
29th - Ports access on CSD routers/firewalls is enabled for requested ports (DNS, NTP, NNTP, SMTP). | |||
Sites currently hosted by redbrick include funliam.com, perv.org, redbrick.org and redbrick.net | Sites currently hosted by redbrick include funliam.com, perv.org, redbrick.org and redbrick.net | ||
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==May== | ==May== | ||
30th - Phil leaves webgroup to concentrate on admin stuff. | 2nd - PSU failure on Enigma. | ||
5th - New switch ordered, Cisco 2900 (22 x 100BaseTX + 2 x 100BaseFX ports) by Dave Murphy (drjolt@rb). This fell through (the company ordered from went into receivership), thankfully we didn't pay any money! | |||
9th - Helpdesk mailing list set up. | |||
12th - Kpodesta and Phil meet with SU to be told that Redbrick servers will be housed in the "publications office" of the student centre, were given a tour, and were assured access would be no problem. | |||
12th - Redgiant has discussion with CSD to be told that they're considering implementing a clubsocs.dcu.ie domain for all Clubs & Societies (redbrick currently host all Clubs & Socs websites). | |||
16th - Prof. Alan Smeaton (CA) emails spock@rb regards the possibility of involvement with Linux on CA's S/390 system. Prompts some discussion on committee list and mention of Beowulf cluster experimenting. John Looney (valen@rb) mails Brian Stone (CA) about the possibility, to enthusiastic response. | |||
17th - Virtual hosts added for every DCU Club & Society (i.e. club.redbrick.dcu.ie). | |||
30th - Phil leaves webgroup to concentrate on admin stuff. | |||
==June== | ==June== | ||
17th - Redbrick FreeBSD upgrade. IRC and POP are down. | |||
Sometime during summer The Slipper on Ballymun Road is closed for refurbishment and re-opens as Matt Weldon's. | Sometime during summer The Slipper on Ballymun Road is closed for refurbishment and re-opens as Matt Weldon's. | ||
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==July== | ==July== | ||
9th - CSD downtime (switch upgrade). | |||
15th - colmmacc joins webgroup. | 15th - colmmacc joins webgroup. | ||
24th - Redbrick crash. Unknown cause, likely overheating. | 24th - Redbrick crash. Unknown cause, likely overheating. | ||
28th - Meeting in CA with IBM for initial discussion re S/390 access. | |||
==August== | ==August== | ||
CSD kindly donate a rack and fibre switch to redbrick. | 10th - CSD (James Healy) kindly donate a rack and fibre switch to redbrick. | ||
11th - Network outage (CSD). | |||
NNTP-Cache news server is being installed to put newsgroups under identd. | NNTP-Cache news server is being installed to put newsgroups under identd. | ||
24th - 3 x old lab PCs in CA were donated to Redbrick. | |||
27th - Proposals for projects on IBM S/390 were mailed to CA. | |||
29th - Redbrick build of Putty (by colmmacc@rb) is made. | 29th - Redbrick build of Putty (by colmmacc@rb) is made. | ||
29th - The donated rack from CSD is picked up and moved to the Student Centre (from the Physics building to the publications office in the student centre, new redbrick home). Physically moved by tibor, huey, phil, kpodesta. | |||
==September== | ==September== | ||
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The School of Computer Applications releases Fischlar. A system which allows you to record television programmes and watch them streamed later on. They give free computers to some ppl living in res to allow them to use Fischlar. | The School of Computer Applications releases Fischlar. A system which allows you to record television programmes and watch them streamed later on. They give free computers to some ppl living in res to allow them to use Fischlar. | ||
19th - Redbrick moved in entireity from Henry Grattan (original place) to Student Centre (publications office). Student Union webserver, enigma, nanny, are in the new rack (from CSD), as well as the switch. Everything else remains in the monolith. | |||
20th - "The Big Day out" in DCU's Freshers week. | |||
26th - pixies resigns as admin. | |||
26th - The Hub in DCU is officially opened. | 26th - The Hub in DCU is officially opened. | ||
Tom from the Big Brother programme is there. 'The 4 of Us' played. Maybe others *shrug* | Tom from the Big Brother programme is there. 'The 4 of Us' played. Maybe others *shrug* | ||
==October== | ==October== | ||
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Secondary school teachers' strike begins. | Secondary school teachers' strike begins. | ||
22nd - First DCU Societies Ball held in the Grand Hotel in Malahide. Organised in part by Redbrick (Spock@rb/Bootie@rb), Physeng (dad@rb), Aussie Soc (decob@rb), GAA Supporters. | |||
==December== | ==December== | ||
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The Postgraduate residences in DCU are opened. | The Postgraduate residences in DCU are opened. | ||
They have a full-size snooker table!! | They have a full-size snooker table!! | ||
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