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January
31st - Services are gradually moved off prodigy and onto deathray.
February
9th - Redbrick Alt.Rag Ball was held in Isaac Butt's.
Performances from Wolfhead and MC Dice. As always [images/04/feb/altRagBall] somebody] had to bring a [images/04/feb/altRagBall camera.]
25th - Redbrick Talk
Where: QG15 Talks: "GNU/Linux & the new battles of the Free Software Movement" by Ciaran O'Riordan. 2-3pm
"RedBrick and IPv6" by Colm MacCarthaigh (User:Colmmacc). 3-4pm
[docs/04/feb/rb-talk/emperor "Digital Video Backup"] by David johnston (User:Emperor @ rb). 4-5pm
27th - SSH login banner is introduced.
____ ____ _ _ _ _ ____ | _ \ / ___| | | | \ | / ___| Dublin City | | | | | | | | | \| \___ \ University | |_| | |___| |_| | |\ |___) | Networking |____/ \____|\___/|_| \_|____/ Society Debian GNU 3.0 Carbon - RedBrick Login machine.
March
24th - Date for Redbrick A.G.M is announced. It will take place on the 20th of April.
April
13th - Helpdesk exam @7:30pm
- art_wolf 65%
- atlas 60%
- firefly 25%
- thedara 46%
14th - Dizer announces email riedundancy, between deathray & prodigy.
Webmaster Test @5pm
- mickeyd 52%
- biteme 44%
Redbrick Table Quiz
Location: Old Bar
Time: 8pm
Prizes: 1st: 4 Portable T.V's, 2nd: 4 DVD Players, 3rd: 4 WebCams
QuizEmperor: Emperor
1st Place: Wibble@rb, plop@rb, sandman@rb, sandman@rb's girlfriend
2nd Place: Postgrad Journos(Who had won both the drama soc & postgrad quizzes)
3rd Place: Singer@rb, bob@rb, una, bootie@rb
15 - Admin Exam @8pm
- Phaxx 61%
- Mickeyd 59%
- Halenger 49%
20th - Redbrick A.G.M
- Chair: Drusilla
- Secretary: Thor
- Treasurer: Charlene
- Events: Kyper
- PRO: Dramaq
- Webmaster: Biteme
- Helpdesk: Keloe Art_wolf Atlas
- Admins: Prolix Phaxx Mickeyd
The A.G.M was held in QG15 at 8pm.
May
17th - Summer Exams Started
19th - Redbrick got a network upgrade for the server room with the addition of a new 100Mb/s fibre link instead of the 10Mb/s link they had been limited to since moving to the server room. This stopped the lag experienced during peak usage.
June
30th - Dcu.ie went down due to a serious hardware failure and perhaps because people were constantly hitting the refresh key in the hope that results would be released a day early.
July
1st - Results were issued, early for once.
August
4th - In a followup to a post on redbrick.babble about Internet addiction in the Finnish army, bosco asks "Finland has an army?"
September
October
6/7th - Clubs & Socs Days For the first time there were two Clubs & Socs Days. For the first year also, students now paid clubs/societies but went to a central point to register all their choices.
11th - First generaton 10 to log in: cult. First generation 10 to use chat: jesjes (through a tunnel using prodigy and mirc some days before getting an account. Let that be a lesson to future title contenders).
14th - Redbrick Freshers Ball
- Venue: Turks Head
- Music: Oldspoon Conspiracy + House DJ
- Pictures: [images/04/oct/rbFreshersBall/art_wolf (Art_wolf's)]
16th - First post to Redbrick boards using sms was posted by Redgiant. For a little [docs/04/oct/16/slrn-post_Redgiant_background.txt background] on how it happened read [docs/04/oct/16/slrn-post_Redgiant_background.txt this] and for the actual [docs/04/oct/16/first_sms_post.txt first post] read [docs/04/oct/16/first_sms_post.txt this]
November
December
6th - Redbrick Wiki launched. It was originally using Twiki software and was hosted on Cammy's webpage at wiki.thedeadone.net.
13th - Christmas Ball Venue: New Bar/Venue @ 7pm Charity event in association with Snowboarding/LGBT and Music Soc. Santa included. Pictures: (Igy's)