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==Buying a bike==
This is a mish mash of comments from the redbrick boards on bicycles. Contributors include Gavin, Gliceas, Sandman

Sender: cambo@murphy.internal
Reply-To: cambo
Thinking about getting a bike for cycling in and out of work.
I've seen a few people here talking about cycleways.com on Parnell St.
Are they the best place in town to get a bike ?

People tend to recommend cycleways on Parnell St when buying bicycles in town. They have a website, decent prices and are well located. Other places are cyclogical on the quays, Joe Dalys in Dundrum, and a bunch in Ranelagh, Rathmines, Georges St etc. Duff Cycles [http://www.duffcycles.com/] in the Omni Park Shopping Center have always been pleasant, a few members have bought bikes there. Other might add more here.

Online shops are http://www.chainreactioncycles.com and http://www.evanscycles.com/

When buying bicycles, there are three main types, road bikes, mountain bikes and hybrids. Roadbikes or 'Racers' are what ya see in the Tour de France. They go fast. You won't be reading this if you are looking to buy a roadbike.

Mountain bikes are what you had as a kid, typicaly heavy enough bikes, flat handle bars, reasonably upright posture when cycling them. Mountain bikes can come with front suspension (hard tail frame), front and rear suspension (full suspension) and no suspension.

Hybrid bikes are as you might think, a combination of the two above types. The posture of a hybrid is the same as a mountain bike, but the bikes tend to be lighter, thinner tyres and not have suspension. Or at least only have suspension on the saddle post. For cycling through town as the original question asked, I would recommend a hybrid bicycle with no suspension.

Suspension is somewhat debatable. I cycle a mountain bike with front suspension and thinish tyres. (1.5") I prefer to have a bit of suspension as the roads on my route can be cack and occasionally it's necessary to mount the kerb to go around traffic. However, suspension detracts from your speed, by absorbing some of the the downward force applied when pushing on the peddle. You might think, 'Well feck that, I won't be zooming around, the suspension will keep me comfortable' but after a few weeks of cycling, being able to go a bit faster can start to look quite appealing. A compromise is to ensure that the bicycle you can buy enables you to lock out the suspension. You still have the added weight of the heavy front forks, but the lack of suspension will result in a speed up. (I have aspirations of going mountain biking, which is why I stick with the mountain bike and don't get a hybrid)

Check as many bits as possible (pedals, pedal housing, brake/gear levels
and so on) are rust-proof. Pedals should be sealed to prevent road gunk
getting in and causing problems.

Basically, ask the sales guy:

"What's most likely to break first?" and "How much will it cost to fix?"

He'll tell you the brake / gear cables might need tuning after a few
weeks on the road. Reply "yes, obviously, but apart from that ...?" :)
Also, see will he throw in your first servcie (to tighten said cables)
for free.

See is there a front chain guard to stop your trouser cuffs getting
destroyed with oil :) Be prepared to tuck your trousers into your socks.

===Insurance===

Most people put the bike on their house insurance. The house cover should go up to bikes worth 500euro, beyond that you might need to add the bike to the policy and pay more.

If you are renting, apparantly a crowd called http://www.123.ie will insure the house contents and your bicycle.

CyclingIreland provide bicycle insurance through http://cyclesure.ie/ which covers theft, accidents and more.

==Accessories==

===Bells===
Bells are useful to have and in fact are a legal requirement. They can be slightly dangerous though. You shouldn't rely on a person getting out of the way when you ring your bell, they tend to ignore em. Always be ready to brake when going through an area with lots of pedestrians, don't worry so much about making sure they know they have inspired your ire by ringing your bell furiously.

An alternative to a bell is an air horn. These could be of more use than a bell as they are so loud. To be used only in an emergency though.

===Lights & Reflectors===

There are several requirements under law concerning lights & reflectors.

Legal requirements are:
* You are required at all times to have a rear reflector
* From "''half an hour after sunset and ending half an hour before sunrise on the following morning''" you must have a front and rear lamp. Flashing lights are actually not legal. http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/travel-and-recreation/vehicle-standards/lighting_of_bicycles_in_ireland

Broadly speaking, there are two types of bicycle lights. Those that allow you to see and those that allow you to be seen. For commuting through the city center, ones that allow you to be seen are usually enough. These are typically LED lights, running off AA or AAA batteries, usually with a flashing option. The other type of lights are for use on dark roads with no street lighting. These type of lights can be extremely expensive, come with their own powerpack. They are usually halogen, but increasingly more powerful LEDS are also being used.

The best approach is to have a set of lights on the bike which are non-flashing. Then, on your person/bag, put smaller flashing lights. These can help if you come off your bike at night. Non-flashing lights make it easier for drivers to gauge your speed/distance.

The best low range rear bicycle light is the Planet Bike Super Flash. http://ecom1.planetbike.com/3034.html

There are a range of decent front lights. The one I recommend for serious visibility on a budget is a Fenix L2D. http://fenix-store.com/product_info.php?products_id=195 This is actually a handheld torch, but with twofish lockblocks https://www.fenix-store.com/product_info.php?cPath=25_66&products_id=273 can be attached to a bicycle. This torch allows you to see on pitch black roads and be seen going through the city center. Get rechargable AA batteries, at least 2700mah.

There are alternative ones, as bright, available at dealextreme. Anything that uses a Cree LED is going to be bright.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7938 I haven't used these, so don't know how good they are. Substantially cheaper than the Fenix though.

For flashing lights, I found these lights bought them off ebay. It's a LED Band. It's not one of the green reflective strips with 4 dim red leds in it. They are quite bright, glowing reasonably well for the whole length of the band.

[[Image:Twinkle_amber_on.JPG]]

A number of people seem to make them, Nite-Ize, Polybrite and a korean crowd do knocks off called Twinkler.

I bought the Twinkler version off ebay from here
http://stores.ebay.com/CycleJerseys-UK

The delivery price ain't fantastic, but at least it's quick. I bought an Amber one and a white one. The picture on the website is misleading for the white one though, it's actually multicoloured, Red, Green, Blue lights. Looks a bit odd, but highly visible.

I put the amber one on my ankle, it's easily spotted when cycling along. The other one goes on my arm. I found an american place on ebay selling the Nite-Ize ones a bit cheaper

http://stores.ebay.com/Lights-and-Holsters-Plus

Get a reflective, Hi-Vis jacket. If you're around DCU, head into Heitons up in Santry, a builders store with cheaper jackets.

===In the rain===
Get a light rain-jacket, and waterproof trousers.
Waterproof boots help too.

You'll heat up in no time once you get going, so don't smother yourself
with overcoats and whatnot. Wear a decent pair of gloves (I use padded
ski gloves) as your hands tend to freeze when cycling in cold rain.
Gloves are also handy in that they stop you getting cut when you skid off
on wet, icy roads.

Basically, as long as you're wrapped up, cycling in the rain is no hassle.
Just remember to allow extra stopping distance. Your brakes will be wet.
And if you try to jam on, the whole bike will just shoot from under you :)

Disc brakes can be an advantage here if you are willing to fork (ho ho) out a bit of extra cash. They are superior to v-brakes in the wet.

I tend to not wear waterproof trousers as I end up sweating so much in em that I get just as wet as if I'd been rained on. Decent waterproof trousers may prevent this.

===Helmets===
There is substantial debate as to the merits of helmets for cycling. I won't get into it particularly much. Whilst they may not safe your life, they can make certain falls less painful. All the stores mentioned at the top will stock em. Any helmet they sell will adhere to the safety regulations, the most important thing is to buy one that is comfortable on your noggin.

===Pump and spare tubes===
You will get a puncture at some point. With a bit of practice, fixing a puncture can be done fairly quickly. You will need bicycle levers (these are much more useful than forks or spoons) a spare tube and a pump. Rather than take the tube from the bike, fix it with a puncture repair kit, wait for the glue to dry and put it back in, the smarter bet is to just have a spare tube you can swap in. You can repair the burst one at home. This guy has a detailed description on how to handle punctures

http://sheldonbrown.com/flats.html

An advantage of thinner tyres is that you can pump them up to a very high pressure, which reduces the likelihood of a puncture. There are also tyres with puncture prevention, these have kevlar lining on the side. Any decent bicycle shop will have them.

===Keeping your bicycle===

[[Image:locked_bike.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A locked bicycle. Chain around mainframe, Ulock, with both wheels, going through rear triangle onto immovable object. Saddle removed.]]

When Gavin replied to Kevin's post about getting a good bike lock he has helped
loads of us keep our bikes safe. Here's the origional post as posted on redbrick.help

From: Gavin
Newsgroups: redbrick.help
Subject: Re: Bike Locks
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:58:47 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 3 May 2005 Kevin wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Anyone recommendations for a good bike lock, for securing a mountain bike?
>
> - Kevin

I did a ''lot'' of reading about this a few months ago. Have a look at http://www.sheldonbrown.com. He has lots of cycling articles and a good one on bicycle locks.

The end points were :

# Its all about pissing the thief off and making them look for an easier target.
# Use two different locks, the thief will need to carry two seperate pieces of equipment to nick the bike. I use a chain/padlock & Ulock. More on this.
# If you have a detachable front wheel, take it off and lock it to the back wheel. Lock it with the ulock, passing it through the rear triange and onto something immovable. The less space available in the lock, less room for leverage on behalf of the thief. Taking the wheel with you doesn't increase your security.
# Take your detachable saddle with you, or replace the quick release bolt with an alan key one. Someone will just nick your saddle and chuck it in a bin, cause they are scummers.
# Other obvious things. Park it in a public place, not in some secret location no one will ever find it. A secret location means a thief can spend their time working away on the locks without worrying about passers by. Lock it to an immovable object.

That's most of what I can remember. The lock I settled on was a rather [http://www.evanscycles.com/product.jsp?style=29338 large Abus Granit lock and chain]
for 90 euro. I bought it in The Great Outdoors, funnily enough. They have a reasonable bicycle accessories section in there. Last time I went in, they were out of that exact lock though. You could also head into a locksmith and ask for a boron alloy chain and good padlock. Something like a 13mm boron chain requires a hydraulic bolt cutter to
get through it. The best padlocks are the ones that only have room for one link to be fit through. No space for a crowbar to get in there then.

My second lock is a fairly cheap combination ULock. If you get a Ulock, make sure it doesn't have a circle key. Google for Bic pen attacks ! The best Ulocks are Kryptonite ones. As above, make sure you get a flat key one. I see the New Yorker one mentioned a lot.

If you get a large chain & padlock, leave em at your target location.. I.e I leave mine locked to the bike rack in DCU, it's too heavy to be carrying it on my bike everyday. I have the ulock for quick tops. Also, never leave the padlock resting on the ground, you are leaving it open to getting whacked with a hammer. Wrap the chain good and tight about the frame and the 'immovable object'.

There are standards for locks, one of which is the SoldSecure label.
http://www.soldsecure.com/Leisure.htm
There is a very good youtube video showing that in fact the SoldSecure ratings are not as accurate as they claim to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3hFr8p2ck The second lock shown is the one mentioned above, that I bought from the Great Outdoors.

Apparently the more expensive Kryptonite locks can be bought on ebay, and are better value than from cycling shops.

That's around about it. In conclusion, get a Granit chain and a Ulock & don't ever lock your bicyle in the city center if you love it.

==Good cycle practices==
[[Image:wheelie.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A Wheelie, performed by a daredevil cyclist with nothing to lose]]

People might put in comments about cycling through town, what to do and what not to do. There are a number of books about cycling through urban locations, a google will find em.

===Road Positioning===
Cyclists are not required to cycle near the kerb. This is a myth, perpetuated by society in general in order to keep motorised traffic moving as quickly as possible.

The rules of the road state "keep to the left", but this rule applies to motorised traffic as well; it means that all vehicles must stay as close to the left of the road '''as is safe to do so'''. Cycling to the left of the lane '''can''' be safe if the lane is wide enough to accommodate you and passing vehicles with sufficient space in between. However, in most cases, lanes are only designed to be for one vehicle.

Kerb <- 1m -> Cyclist <- 1.5m -> Motor Vehicle

When cycling through town, or for that fact anywhere, there are occasions when it is safest to move into the center of the lane. This is particularly the case when there is not enough room for a car to safely overtake you. By cycling in the middle of the lane, the car will not attempt it. If you are over beside kerb, they might.

Similarly if cycling along a line of parked cars, do not stay in close, give them the mandatory door length space between you and them.

If approaching a left turn, it might be best to enter into the main lane of traffic. This way cars turning left will not squash you as they turn. Indicate of course that you are moving into the main lane of traffic. I find that drivers invariably allow you in, if you indicate, as they are nervous of making you go spat. Also, moving into the main lane makes it easier for oncoming cars turning to their right to see you and also for cars emerging from the left turn ahead to see you. (this is also why a front light at night is important, so as oncoming turning cars can see you)

Trucks and HGVs are the primary killer of cyclists. The classic situation seems to be where a cyclist goes up the inside of a truck turning left. The driver can't see the cyclist and the cyclist is crushed. This site, http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/598/hgv-blind-spots-from-nozzer/, has an excellent description of blind spots and how to cycle around/near trucks.

Never trust motorists not to kill you. It is your responsibility to be assertive in order to keep them at bay.

===Cycle Lanes===
You are no longer legally required to use any form of cycle lane or cycle infrastructure. Thus, it is up to you whether to use them or not, depending on your skill or experience. In many cases, it is safer to ignore them.

A mandatory cycle lane (solid white border) means that motorised traffic cannot drive or park in the lane. It does not mean that cyclists must use it.

There are a number of laws relating to the use of cycle lanes and cycling on the road in general. Theses are nicely presented at
http://www.geocities.ws/cyclopath2001/legal.htm

===Braking===
As mentioned above disc brakes offer superior performance to V-Brakes, especially in wet weather. When braking, the various books and sites I've read advise using your front brakes first, not your back brakes. Front brakes offer much greater stopping force. To avoid going head over heels, don't jam on the brakes as hard as you can. If travelling particularly fast, shove your arse up and over the back of the seat, moving your weight over the back of the bike, this will prevent you flying forward.

Be particularly careful in wet weather, skidding on your front brakes is remarkably scary.

Check your brake pads regularly enough, if you head a scraping sound from em when you brake, make sure you change them quickly. You might have worn the pad away and the metal underneath is shredding your wheel rim to pieces.

===Traffic Lights===
Various Gurus differ on traffic lights. At a dangerous junction, where it is difficult for a cyclist to get in the correct lane, it can sometimes be safer to move out while the light is red so as to get ahead of the waiting cars.

In general I obey all junction traffic lights, but tend to go through pedestrian lights. This is illegal of course, you are required to obey all lights. A number of traffic light junctions (in Dublin anyway) now have cyclist zones in front of the traffic that lets you be in front of where cars are (supposed to) stop, these let you legally be ahead of the traffic.

===Wheelies===
Wheelies are extremely cool and must be performed in front of lots of people for the best effect. To achieve wheelie perfection, one must practise on a green area. Concrete areas can result in broken arses. To capture your wheelie fame for all to behold, ensure that you have a friend along with some sort of camera shooting skills. Perform wheelie, record result and bask in adulation. This may in fact not be a good cycle practise.

==Routes==
Getting to and from DCU from various locations can be easier and safer by going via certain routes. A map showing routes and times around Dublin in general is available at http://273k.net/cycling/googlemaps_times.html created by and copyright of Robert Fitzsimons.

Another good link is http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/
Its very handy for route planning and figuring out your distances in advance. Yahoo Maps now has updated maps of dublin, and it's route planner can do a similar service.

If you're into leisure or training in dublin, this guy has a great collection of routes in and around Dublin on his [[http://www.routeslip.com/user/dickobrien RouteSlip page]]. There is also the more general page at [[http://www.routeslip.com/discover/Ireland/Dublin RouteSlip Dublin]]

===DCU into the City Center (O'Connell Street)===
*Leave via the Ballymun Road entrance, and go down the Ballymun Road.
*At the junction of Griffith Avenue and Ballymun road, go straight on. If the traffic is stopped at this point, move into the righthand lane, out of the cycle lane, otherwise when the lights change you will get stuck on the inside of car or buses turning left.
*Go straight on, down Mobhi Hill, and move back into the cycle lane, keep an eye on the left behind you, cars don't turn to the left sometimes and can surprise you.
*Go past HomeFarm road and down to the bottom of Mobhi Hill. At the bottom turn left onto Botanic Ave.
*Go all the way up Botanic road to the junction with upper Drumcondra road, staying in the middle in most places, as there is not enough room for cars to overtake, if there are oncoming cars.
*Get to the top of the queue, if the traffic lights are red. If you saw the lights turn red, then cross the road onto the path at Fagans and press for the pedestrian crossing. Cross the road when the green man arrives. This way you can get ahead of all the cars
*When on Drumcondra road, go to the left onto a slip road at the public toilets, this leads you onto a shared cycle path/footpath facility. Go to the end of this path, right up to the junction and back onto the main road.
* Stay in the bus lane and zoom along this road, making sure to move out occasionally when the road turns to the left, to ensure you don't get squashed.
*Turn left onto Parnell Square, go straight on and you are on O' Connell St.
*Stop somewhere for icecream after securely locking your bicycle.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=459587

===Dundrum to DCU===
For getting from Dundrum to DCU my route is

Dundrum -> Clonskeagh -> Ranelagh -> Canal -> Camden St -> Georges St -> Dame St -> Westmoreland St -> O Connell St -> Parnell St -> Nt Gt Neorges St -> MountJoy Square -> Belvedere Rd -> Dorset St -> Drumcondra -> Collins Avenue -> DCU
From Dundrum to Dame St and from Drumcondra to DCU there are reasonable cycle lanes.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=459481

===City Center to BlackRock/Dun Laoghaire===
Head out through Pearse St. & Grand Canal Dock, Over the canal and follow road round to the right. Take the left before "the big red pub" onto Pembroke st. out onto the beach road and straight along the strand road to merrion gates (Road crosses the dart line). From Merrion gates, theres a cycle lane until booterstown station, and then enter the park on the left... theres about a mile and a half of cycle lanes in the park away from the traffic. Exit the park in the SE corner and take the back path behind Blackrock station and then follow the road up into the town center. From there its a pretty much straight run down the coast road (by Seapoint, Salthill & Monkstown) to Dun Laoghaire.

===Rathfarnham to City Centre===
This way avoids alot of traffic lights and also alot of the heavy traffic on the canal. Sorry for the lack of roadnames, I'll update as I get to know more of them. From Rathfarnham, cycle past the river and up into Terenure. In Terenure take the right hand turn to go towards Rathgar (this is officially a No Right Turn but I've never had any trouble doing it). At Rathgar, take the road to the right of the Church. Keep cycling straight until you reach the first set of traffic lights and take the slip road to the left. Cycle on this road until you reach the shops. About halfway along the shops, there's a right hand turn. Go down this road and at the end of this road there should be a Church. Go around the Church and straight on until you reach the traffic lights. At the lights turn left onto Palmerston Road and keep straight until you reach the next lights. At these lights, turn right and this will bring you into Ranelagh. In Ranelagh, turn left at the traffic lights and head out of Ranelagh. Shortly after Ranelagh there's a right turn onto Northbrook Road, go down this road and this will take you onto Dartmouth Square. Go around this and this will bring you onto Leeson St Upper. Cycle down Lesson St and into the City Centre.

==Links==

===College Club===

http://cycling.redbrick.dcu.ie

The following set of links have been blatantly stolen from the [http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=410 Cycling] forum on http://www.boards.ie

===Shops===
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com - Northern Ireland, free delivery , decent enough.

http://ontrackdublin.com/ - Fixed gear and track specialists, Cook St.

http://www.evanscycles.com - UK

http://www.cyclesuperstore.ie - Ireland

http://www.cycleways.com - Ireland

===News & General===
http://www.irishcycling.com -Irish news

http://www.cyclingnews.com - World News

===Bike Reviews===
http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/ - all your MTB products & bikes reviewed

===D.I.Y Repair & Maintenance Tips===
http://www.parktool.com/repair_help/FAQindex.shtml

http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/fix/

http://www.sheldonbrown.com - Plenty of good advice on this site. Ignore the dodgy design and scary photos.

===Groups & Activists===
http://www.MTBIreland.com - MTB Ireland, forums here as well.

http://www.dublincycling.org

http://home.connect.ie/dcc/ - Dublin Cycling Campaign

http://www.madmtb.com - Mountain Biking Association of Dublin, based in Rathfarnham

Cycling

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[[Image:rockhopper.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A Bicycle]]

==Buying a bike==
This is a mish mash of comments from the redbrick boards on bicycles. Contributors include Gavin, Gliceas, Sandman

Sender: cambo@murphy.internal
Reply-To: cambo
Thinking about getting a bike for cycling in and out of work.
I've seen a few people here talking about cycleways.com on Parnell St.
Are they the best place in town to get a bike ?

People tend to recommend cycleways on Parnell St when buying bicycles in town. They have a website, decent prices and are well located. Other places are cyclogical on the quays, Joe Dalys in Dundrum, and a bunch in Ranelagh, Rathmines, Georges St etc. Duff Cycles [http://www.duffcycles.com/] in the Omni Park Shopping Center have always been pleasant, a few members have bought bikes there. Other might add more here.

Online shops are http://www.chainreactioncycles.com and http://www.evanscycles.com/

When buying bicycles, there are three main types, road bikes, mountain bikes and hybrids. Roadbikes or 'Racers' are what ya see in the Tour de France. They go fast. You won't be reading this if you are looking to buy a roadbike.

Mountain bikes are what you had as a kid, typicaly heavy enough bikes, flat handle bars, reasonably upright posture when cycling them. Mountain bikes can come with front suspension (hard tail frame), front and rear suspension (full suspension) and no suspension.

Hybrid bikes are as you might think, a combination of the two above types. The posture of a hybrid is the same as a mountain bike, but the bikes tend to be lighter, thinner tyres and not have suspension. Or at least only have suspension on the saddle post. For cycling through town as the original question asked, I would recommend a hybrid bicycle with no suspension.

Suspension is somewhat debatable. I cycle a mountain bike with front suspension and thinish tyres. (1.5") I prefer to have a bit of suspension as the roads on my route can be cack and occasionally it's necessary to mount the kerb to go around traffic. However, suspension detracts from your speed, by absorbing some of the the downward force applied when pushing on the peddle. You might think, 'Well feck that, I won't be zooming around, the suspension will keep me comfortable' but after a few weeks of cycling, being able to go a bit faster can start to look quite appealing. A compromise is to ensure that the bicycle you can buy enables you to lock out the suspension. You still have the added weight of the heavy front forks, but the lack of suspension will result in a speed up. (I have aspirations of going mountain biking, which is why I stick with the mountain bike and don't get a hybrid)

Check as many bits as possible (pedals, pedal housing, brake/gear levels
and so on) are rust-proof. Pedals should be sealed to prevent road gunk
getting in and causing problems.

Basically, ask the sales guy:

"What's most likely to break first?" and "How much will it cost to fix?"

He'll tell you the brake / gear cables might need tuning after a few
weeks on the road. Reply "yes, obviously, but apart from that ...?" :)
Also, see will he throw in your first servcie (to tighten said cables)
for free.

See is there a front chain guard to stop your trouser cuffs getting
destroyed with oil :) Be prepared to tuck your trousers into your socks.

===Insurance===

Most people put the bike on their house insurance. The house cover should go up to bikes worth 500euro, beyond that you might need to add the bike to the policy and pay more.

If you are renting, apparantly a crowd called http://www.123.ie will insure the house contents and your bicycle.

CyclingIreland provide bicycle insurance through http://cyclesure.ie/ which covers theft, accidents and more.

==Accessories==

===Bells===
Bells are useful to have and in fact are a legal requirement. They can be slightly dangerous though. You shouldn't rely on a person getting out of the way when you ring your bell, they tend to ignore em. Always be ready to brake when going through an area with lots of pedestrians, don't worry so much about making sure they know they have inspired your ire by ringing your bell furiously.

An alternative to a bell is an air horn. These could be of more use than a bell as they are so loud. To be used only in an emergency though.

===Lights & Reflectors===

There are several requirements under law concerning lights & reflectors.

Legal requirements are:
* You are required at all times to have a rear reflector
* From "''half an hour after sunset and ending half an hour before sunrise on the following morning''" you must have a front and rear lamp. Flashing lights are actually not legal. http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/travel-and-recreation/vehicle-standards/lighting_of_bicycles_in_ireland

Broadly speaking, there are two types of bicycle lights. Those that allow you to see and those that allow you to be seen. For commuting through the city center, ones that allow you to be seen are usually enough. These are typically LED lights, running off AA or AAA batteries, usually with a flashing option. The other type of lights are for use on dark roads with no street lighting. These type of lights can be extremely expensive, come with their own powerpack. They are usually halogen, but increasingly more powerful LEDS are also being used.

The best approach is to have a set of lights on the bike which are non-flashing. Then, on your person/bag, put smaller flashing lights. These can help if you come off your bike at night. Non-flashing lights make it easier for drivers to gauge your speed/distance.

The best low range rear bicycle light is the Planet Bike Super Flash. http://ecom1.planetbike.com/3034.html

There are a range of decent front lights. The one I recommend for serious visibility on a budget is a Fenix L2D. http://fenix-store.com/product_info.php?products_id=195 This is actually a handheld torch, but with twofish lockblocks https://www.fenix-store.com/product_info.php?cPath=25_66&products_id=273 can be attached to a bicycle. This torch allows you to see on pitch black roads and be seen going through the city center. Get rechargable AA batteries, at least 2700mah.

There are alternative ones, as bright, available at dealextreme. Anything that uses a Cree LED is going to be bright.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7938 I haven't used these, so don't know how good they are. Substantially cheaper than the Fenix though.

For flashing lights, I found these lights bought them off ebay. It's a LED Band. It's not one of the green reflective strips with 4 dim red leds in it. They are quite bright, glowing reasonably well for the whole length of the band.

[[Image:Twinkle_amber_on.JPG]]

A number of people seem to make them, Nite-Ize, Polybrite and a korean crowd do knocks off called Twinkler.

I bought the Twinkler version off ebay from here
http://stores.ebay.com/CycleJerseys-UK

The delivery price ain't fantastic, but at least it's quick. I bought an Amber one and a white one. The picture on the website is misleading for the white one though, it's actually multicoloured, Red, Green, Blue lights. Looks a bit odd, but highly visible.

I put the amber one on my ankle, it's easily spotted when cycling along. The other one goes on my arm. I found an american place on ebay selling the Nite-Ize ones a bit cheaper

http://stores.ebay.com/Lights-and-Holsters-Plus

Get a reflective, Hi-Vis jacket. If you're around DCU, head into Heitons up in Santry, a builders store with cheaper jackets.

===In the rain===
Get a light rain-jacket, and waterproof trousers.
Waterproof boots help too.

You'll heat up in no time once you get going, so don't smother yourself
with overcoats and whatnot. Wear a decent pair of gloves (I use padded
ski gloves) as your hands tend to freeze when cycling in cold rain.
Gloves are also handy in that they stop you getting cut when you skid off
on wet, icy roads.

Basically, as long as you're wrapped up, cycling in the rain is no hassle.
Just remember to allow extra stopping distance. Your brakes will be wet.
And if you try to jam on, the whole bike will just shoot from under you :)

Disc brakes can be an advantage here if you are willing to fork (ho ho) out a bit of extra cash. They are superior to v-brakes in the wet.

I tend to not wear waterproof trousers as I end up sweating so much in em that I get just as wet as if I'd been rained on. Decent waterproof trousers may prevent this.

===Helmets===
There is substantial debate as to the merits of helmets for cycling. I won't get into it particularly much. Whilst they may not safe your life, they can make certain falls less painful. All the stores mentioned at the top will stock em. Any helmet they sell will adhere to the safety regulations, the most important thing is to buy one that is comfortable on your noggin.

===Pump and spare tubes===
You will get a puncture at some point. With a bit of practice, fixing a puncture can be done fairly quickly. You will need bicycle levers (these are much more useful than forks or spoons) a spare tube and a pump. Rather than take the tube from the bike, fix it with a puncture repair kit, wait for the glue to dry and put it back in, the smarter bet is to just have a spare tube you can swap in. You can repair the burst one at home. This guy has a detailed description on how to handle punctures

http://sheldonbrown.com/flats.html

An advantage of thinner tyres is that you can pump them up to a very high pressure, which reduces the likelihood of a puncture. There are also tyres with puncture prevention, these have kevlar lining on the side. Any decent bicycle shop will have them.

===Keeping your bicycle===

[[Image:locked_bike.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A locked bicycle. Chain around mainframe, Ulock, with both wheels, going through rear triangle onto immovable object. Saddle removed.]]

When Gavin replied to Kevin's post about getting a good bike lock he has helped
loads of us keep our bikes safe. Here's the origional post as posted on redbrick.help

From: Gavin
Newsgroups: redbrick.help
Subject: Re: Bike Locks
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:58:47 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 3 May 2005 Kevin wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Anyone recommendations for a good bike lock, for securing a mountain bike?
>
> - Kevin

I did a ''lot'' of reading about this a few months ago. Have a look at http://www.sheldonbrown.com. He has lots of cycling articles and a good one on bicycle locks.

The end points were :

# Its all about pissing the thief off and making them look for an easier target.
# Use two different locks, the thief will need to carry two seperate pieces of equipment to nick the bike. I use a chain/padlock & Ulock. More on this.
# If you have a detachable front wheel, take it off and lock it to the back wheel. Lock it with the ulock, passing it through the rear triange and onto something immovable. The less space available in the lock, less room for leverage on behalf of the thief. Taking the wheel with you doesn't increase your security.
# Take your detachable saddle with you, or replace the quick release bolt with an alan key one. Someone will just nick your saddle and chuck it in a bin, cause they are scummers.
# Other obvious things. Park it in a public place, not in some secret location no one will ever find it. A secret location means a thief can spend their time working away on the locks without worrying about passers by. Lock it to an immovable object.

That's most of what I can remember. The lock I settled on was a rather [http://www.evanscycles.com/product.jsp?style=29338 large Abus Granit lock and chain]
for 90 euro. I bought it in The Great Outdoors, funnily enough. They have a reasonable bicycle accessories section in there. Last time I went in, they were out of that exact lock though. You could also head into a locksmith and ask for a boron alloy chain and good padlock. Something like a 13mm boron chain requires a hydraulic bolt cutter to
get through it. The best padlocks are the ones that only have room for one link to be fit through. No space for a crowbar to get in there then.

My second lock is a fairly cheap combination ULock. If you get a Ulock, make sure it doesn't have a circle key. Google for Bic pen attacks ! The best Ulocks are Kryptonite ones. As above, make sure you get a flat key one. I see the New Yorker one mentioned a lot.

If you get a large chain & padlock, leave em at your target location.. I.e I leave mine locked to the bike rack in DCU, it's too heavy to be carrying it on my bike everyday. I have the ulock for quick tops. Also, never leave the padlock resting on the ground, you are leaving it open to getting whacked with a hammer. Wrap the chain good and tight about the frame and the 'immovable object'.

There are standards for locks, one of which is the SoldSecure label.
http://www.soldsecure.com/Leisure.htm
There is a very good youtube video showing that in fact the SoldSecure ratings are not as accurate as they claim to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3hFr8p2ck The second lock shown is the one mentioned above, that I bought from the Great Outdoors.

Apparently the more expensive Kryptonite locks can be bought on ebay, and are better value than from cycling shops.

That's around about it. In conclusion, get a Granit chain and a Ulock & don't ever lock your bicyle in the city center if you love it.

==Good cycle practices==
[[Image:wheelie.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A Wheelie, performed by a daredevil cyclist with nothing to lose]]

People might put in comments about cycling through town, what to do and what not to do. There are a number of books about cycling through urban locations, a google will find em.

===Road Positioning===
Cyclists are not required to cycle near the kerb. The rules of the road state "keep to the left", but this rule applies to motorised traffic as well; it means that all vehicles must stay as close to the left of the road '''as is safe to do so'''. Cycling to the left of the lane '''can''' be safe if the lane is wide enough to accommodate you and passing vehicles with sufficient space in between. However, in most cases, lanes are only designed to be for one vehicle.

Kerb <- 1m -> Cyclist <- 1.5m -> Motor Vehicle

When cycling through town, or for that fact anywhere, there are occasions when it is safest to move into the center of the lane. This is particularly the case when there is not enough room for a car to safely overtake you. By cycling in the middle of the lane, the car will not attempt it. If you are over beside kerb, they might.

Similarly if cycling along a line of parked cars, do not stay in close, give them the mandatory door length space between you and them.

If approaching a left turn, it might be best to enter into the main lane of traffic. This way cars turning left will not squash you as they turn. Indicate of course that you are moving into the main lane of traffic. I find that drivers invariably allow you in, if you indicate, as they are nervous of making you go spat. Also, moving into the main lane makes it easier for oncoming cars turning to their right to see you and also for cars emerging from the left turn ahead to see you. (this is also why a front light at night is important, so as oncoming turning cars can see you)

Trucks and HGVs are the primary killer of cyclists. The classic situation seems to be where a cyclist goes up the inside of a truck turning left. The driver can't see the cyclist and the cyclist is crushed. This site, http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/598/hgv-blind-spots-from-nozzer/, has an excellent description of blind spots and how to cycle around/near trucks.

Never trust motorists not to kill you. It is your responsibility to be assertive in order to keep them at bay.

===Cycle Lanes===
You are no longer legally required to use any form of cycle lane or cycle infrastructure. Thus, it is up to you whether to use them or not, depending on your skill or experience. In many cases, it is safer to ignore them.

A mandatory cycle lane (solid white border) means that motorised traffic cannot drive or park in the lane. It does not mean that cyclists must use it.

There are a number of laws relating to the use of cycle lanes and cycling on the road in general. Theses are nicely presented at
http://www.geocities.ws/cyclopath2001/legal.htm

===Braking===
As mentioned above disc brakes offer superior performance to V-Brakes, especially in wet weather. When braking, the various books and sites I've read advise using your front brakes first, not your back brakes. Front brakes offer much greater stopping force. To avoid going head over heels, don't jam on the brakes as hard as you can. If travelling particularly fast, shove your arse up and over the back of the seat, moving your weight over the back of the bike, this will prevent you flying forward.

Be particularly careful in wet weather, skidding on your front brakes is remarkably scary.

Check your brake pads regularly enough, if you head a scraping sound from em when you brake, make sure you change them quickly. You might have worn the pad away and the metal underneath is shredding your wheel rim to pieces.

===Traffic Lights===
Various Gurus differ on traffic lights. At a dangerous junction, where it is difficult for a cyclist to get in the correct lane, it can sometimes be safer to move out while the light is red so as to get ahead of the waiting cars.

In general I obey all junction traffic lights, but tend to go through pedestrian lights. This is illegal of course, you are required to obey all lights. A number of traffic light junctions (in Dublin anyway) now have cyclist zones in front of the traffic that lets you be in front of where cars are (supposed to) stop, these let you legally be ahead of the traffic.

===Wheelies===
Wheelies are extremely cool and must be performed in front of lots of people for the best effect. To achieve wheelie perfection, one must practise on a green area. Concrete areas can result in broken arses. To capture your wheelie fame for all to behold, ensure that you have a friend along with some sort of camera shooting skills. Perform wheelie, record result and bask in adulation. This may in fact not be a good cycle practise.

==Routes==
Getting to and from DCU from various locations can be easier and safer by going via certain routes. A map showing routes and times around Dublin in general is available at http://273k.net/cycling/googlemaps_times.html created by and copyright of Robert Fitzsimons.

Another good link is http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/
Its very handy for route planning and figuring out your distances in advance. Yahoo Maps now has updated maps of dublin, and it's route planner can do a similar service.

If you're into leisure or training in dublin, this guy has a great collection of routes in and around Dublin on his [[http://www.routeslip.com/user/dickobrien RouteSlip page]]. There is also the more general page at [[http://www.routeslip.com/discover/Ireland/Dublin RouteSlip Dublin]]

===DCU into the City Center (O'Connell Street)===
*Leave via the Ballymun Road entrance, and go down the Ballymun Road.
*At the junction of Griffith Avenue and Ballymun road, go straight on. If the traffic is stopped at this point, move into the righthand lane, out of the cycle lane, otherwise when the lights change you will get stuck on the inside of car or buses turning left.
*Go straight on, down Mobhi Hill, and move back into the cycle lane, keep an eye on the left behind you, cars don't turn to the left sometimes and can surprise you.
*Go past HomeFarm road and down to the bottom of Mobhi Hill. At the bottom turn left onto Botanic Ave.
*Go all the way up Botanic road to the junction with upper Drumcondra road, staying in the middle in most places, as there is not enough room for cars to overtake, if there are oncoming cars.
*Get to the top of the queue, if the traffic lights are red. If you saw the lights turn red, then cross the road onto the path at Fagans and press for the pedestrian crossing. Cross the road when the green man arrives. This way you can get ahead of all the cars
*When on Drumcondra road, go to the left onto a slip road at the public toilets, this leads you onto a shared cycle path/footpath facility. Go to the end of this path, right up to the junction and back onto the main road.
* Stay in the bus lane and zoom along this road, making sure to move out occasionally when the road turns to the left, to ensure you don't get squashed.
*Turn left onto Parnell Square, go straight on and you are on O' Connell St.
*Stop somewhere for icecream after securely locking your bicycle.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=459587

===Dundrum to DCU===
For getting from Dundrum to DCU my route is

Dundrum -> Clonskeagh -> Ranelagh -> Canal -> Camden St -> Georges St -> Dame St -> Westmoreland St -> O Connell St -> Parnell St -> Nt Gt Neorges St -> MountJoy Square -> Belvedere Rd -> Dorset St -> Drumcondra -> Collins Avenue -> DCU
From Dundrum to Dame St and from Drumcondra to DCU there are reasonable cycle lanes.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=459481

===City Center to BlackRock/Dun Laoghaire===
Head out through Pearse St. & Grand Canal Dock, Over the canal and follow road round to the right. Take the left before "the big red pub" onto Pembroke st. out onto the beach road and straight along the strand road to merrion gates (Road crosses the dart line). From Merrion gates, theres a cycle lane until booterstown station, and then enter the park on the left... theres about a mile and a half of cycle lanes in the park away from the traffic. Exit the park in the SE corner and take the back path behind Blackrock station and then follow the road up into the town center. From there its a pretty much straight run down the coast road (by Seapoint, Salthill & Monkstown) to Dun Laoghaire.

===Rathfarnham to City Centre===
This way avoids alot of traffic lights and also alot of the heavy traffic on the canal. Sorry for the lack of roadnames, I'll update as I get to know more of them. From Rathfarnham, cycle past the river and up into Terenure. In Terenure take the right hand turn to go towards Rathgar (this is officially a No Right Turn but I've never had any trouble doing it). At Rathgar, take the road to the right of the Church. Keep cycling straight until you reach the first set of traffic lights and take the slip road to the left. Cycle on this road until you reach the shops. About halfway along the shops, there's a right hand turn. Go down this road and at the end of this road there should be a Church. Go around the Church and straight on until you reach the traffic lights. At the lights turn left onto Palmerston Road and keep straight until you reach the next lights. At these lights, turn right and this will bring you into Ranelagh. In Ranelagh, turn left at the traffic lights and head out of Ranelagh. Shortly after Ranelagh there's a right turn onto Northbrook Road, go down this road and this will take you onto Dartmouth Square. Go around this and this will bring you onto Leeson St Upper. Cycle down Lesson St and into the City Centre.

==Links==

===College Club===

http://cycling.redbrick.dcu.ie

The following set of links have been blatantly stolen from the [http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=410 Cycling] forum on http://www.boards.ie

===Shops===
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com - Northern Ireland, free delivery , decent enough.

http://ontrackdublin.com/ - Fixed gear and track specialists, Cook St.

http://www.evanscycles.com - UK

http://www.cyclesuperstore.ie - Ireland

http://www.cycleways.com - Ireland

===News & General===
http://www.irishcycling.com -Irish news

http://www.cyclingnews.com - World News

===Bike Reviews===
http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/ - all your MTB products & bikes reviewed

===D.I.Y Repair & Maintenance Tips===
http://www.parktool.com/repair_help/FAQindex.shtml

http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/fix/

http://www.sheldonbrown.com - Plenty of good advice on this site. Ignore the dodgy design and scary photos.

===Groups & Activists===
http://www.MTBIreland.com - MTB Ireland, forums here as well.

http://www.dublincycling.org

http://home.connect.ie/dcc/ - Dublin Cycling Campaign

http://www.madmtb.com - Mountain Biking Association of Dublin, based in Rathfarnham

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[[Image:rockhopper.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A Bicycle]]

==Buying a bike==
This is a mish mash of comments from the redbrick boards on bicycles. Contributors include Gavin, Gliceas, Sandman

Sender: cambo@murphy.internal
Reply-To: cambo
Thinking about getting a bike for cycling in and out of work.
I've seen a few people here talking about cycleways.com on Parnell St.
Are they the best place in town to get a bike ?

People tend to recommend cycleways on Parnell St when buying bicycles in town. They have a website, decent prices and are well located. Other places are cyclogical on the quays, Joe Dalys in Dundrum, and a bunch in Ranelagh, Rathmines, Georges St etc. Duff Cycles [http://www.duffcycles.com/] in the Omni Park Shopping Center have always been pleasant, a few members have bought bikes there. Other might add more here.

Online shops are http://www.chainreactioncycles.com and http://www.evanscycles.com/

When buying bicycles, there are three main types, road bikes, mountain bikes and hybrids. Roadbikes or 'Racers' are what ya see in the Tour de France. They go fast. You won't be reading this if you are looking to buy a roadbike.

Mountain bikes are what you had as a kid, typicaly heavy enough bikes, flat handle bars, reasonably upright posture when cycling them. Mountain bikes can come with front suspension (hard tail frame), front and rear suspension (full suspension) and no suspension.

Hybrid bikes are as you might think, a combination of the two above types. The posture of a hybrid is the same as a mountain bike, but the bikes tend to be lighter, thinner tyres and not have suspension. Or at least only have suspension on the saddle post. For cycling through town as the original question asked, I would recommend a hybrid bicycle with no suspension.

Suspension is somewhat debatable. I cycle a mountain bike with front suspension and thinish tyres. (1.5") I prefer to have a bit of suspension as the roads on my route can be cack and occasionally it's necessary to mount the kerb to go around traffic. However, suspension detracts from your speed, by absorbing some of the the downward force applied when pushing on the peddle. You might think, 'Well feck that, I won't be zooming around, the suspension will keep me comfortable' but after a few weeks of cycling, being able to go a bit faster can start to look quite appealing. A compromise is to ensure that the bicycle you can buy enables you to lock out the suspension. You still have the added weight of the heavy front forks, but the lack of suspension will result in a speed up. (I have aspirations of going mountain biking, which is why I stick with the mountain bike and don't get a hybrid)

Check as many bits as possible (pedals, pedal housing, brake/gear levels
and so on) are rust-proof. Pedals should be sealed to prevent road gunk
getting in and causing problems.

Basically, ask the sales guy:

"What's most likely to break first?" and "How much will it cost to fix?"

He'll tell you the brake / gear cables might need tuning after a few
weeks on the road. Reply "yes, obviously, but apart from that ...?" :)
Also, see will he throw in your first servcie (to tighten said cables)
for free.

See is there a front chain guard to stop your trouser cuffs getting
destroyed with oil :) Be prepared to tuck your trousers into your socks.

===Insurance===

Most people put the bike on their house insurance. The house cover should go up to bikes worth 500euro, beyond that you might need to add the bike to the policy and pay more.

If you are renting, apparantly a crowd called http://www.123.ie will insure the house contents and your bicycle.

CyclingIreland provide bicycle insurance through http://cyclesure.ie/ which covers theft, accidents and more.

==Accessories==

===Bells===
Bells are useful to have and in fact are a legal requirement. They can be slightly dangerous though. You shouldn't rely on a person getting out of the way when you ring your bell, they tend to ignore em. Always be ready to brake when going through an area with lots of pedestrians, don't worry so much about making sure they know they have inspired your ire by ringing your bell furiously.

An alternative to a bell is an air horn. These could be of more use than a bell as they are so loud. To be used only in an emergency though.

===Lights & Reflectors===

There are several requirements under law concerning lights & reflectors.

Legal requirements are:
* You are required at all times to have a rear reflector
* From "''half an hour after sunset and ending half an hour before sunrise on the following morning''" you must have a front and rear lamp. Flashing lights are actually not legal. http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/travel-and-recreation/vehicle-standards/lighting_of_bicycles_in_ireland

Broadly speaking, there are two types of bicycle lights. Those that allow you to see and those that allow you to be seen. For commuting through the city center, ones that allow you to be seen are usually enough. These are typically LED lights, running off AA or AAA batteries, usually with a flashing option. The other type of lights are for use on dark roads with no street lighting. These type of lights can be extremely expensive, come with their own powerpack. They are usually halogen, but increasingly more powerful LEDS are also being used.

The best approach is to have a set of lights on the bike which are non-flashing. Then, on your person/bag, put smaller flashing lights. These can help if you come off your bike at night. Non-flashing lights make it easier for drivers to gauge your speed/distance.

The best low range rear bicycle light is the Planet Bike Super Flash. http://ecom1.planetbike.com/3034.html

There are a range of decent front lights. The one I recommend for serious visibility on a budget is a Fenix L2D. http://fenix-store.com/product_info.php?products_id=195 This is actually a handheld torch, but with twofish lockblocks https://www.fenix-store.com/product_info.php?cPath=25_66&products_id=273 can be attached to a bicycle. This torch allows you to see on pitch black roads and be seen going through the city center. Get rechargable AA batteries, at least 2700mah.

There are alternative ones, as bright, available at dealextreme. Anything that uses a Cree LED is going to be bright.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7938 I haven't used these, so don't know how good they are. Substantially cheaper than the Fenix though.

For flashing lights, I found these lights bought them off ebay. It's a LED Band. It's not one of the green reflective strips with 4 dim red leds in it. They are quite bright, glowing reasonably well for the whole length of the band.

[[Image:Twinkle_amber_on.JPG]]

A number of people seem to make them, Nite-Ize, Polybrite and a korean crowd do knocks off called Twinkler.

I bought the Twinkler version off ebay from here
http://stores.ebay.com/CycleJerseys-UK

The delivery price ain't fantastic, but at least it's quick. I bought an Amber one and a white one. The picture on the website is misleading for the white one though, it's actually multicoloured, Red, Green, Blue lights. Looks a bit odd, but highly visible.

I put the amber one on my ankle, it's easily spotted when cycling along. The other one goes on my arm. I found an american place on ebay selling the Nite-Ize ones a bit cheaper

http://stores.ebay.com/Lights-and-Holsters-Plus

Get a reflective, Hi-Vis jacket. If you're around DCU, head into Heitons up in Santry, a builders store with cheaper jackets.

===In the rain===
Get a light rain-jacket, and waterproof trousers.
Waterproof boots help too.

You'll heat up in no time once you get going, so don't smother yourself
with overcoats and whatnot. Wear a decent pair of gloves (I use padded
ski gloves) as your hands tend to freeze when cycling in cold rain.
Gloves are also handy in that they stop you getting cut when you skid off
on wet, icy roads.

Basically, as long as you're wrapped up, cycling in the rain is no hassle.
Just remember to allow extra stopping distance. Your brakes will be wet.
And if you try to jam on, the whole bike will just shoot from under you :)

Disc brakes can be an advantage here if you are willing to fork (ho ho) out a bit of extra cash. They are superior to v-brakes in the wet.

I tend to not wear waterproof trousers as I end up sweating so much in em that I get just as wet as if I'd been rained on. Decent waterproof trousers may prevent this.

===Helmets===
There is substantial debate as to the merits of helmets for cycling. I won't get into it particularly much. Whilst they may not safe your life, they can make certain falls less painful. All the stores mentioned at the top will stock em. Any helmet they sell will adhere to the safety regulations, the most important thing is to buy one that is comfortable on your noggin.

===Pump and spare tubes===
You will get a puncture at some point. With a bit of practice, fixing a puncture can be done fairly quickly. You will need bicycle levers (these are much more useful than forks or spoons) a spare tube and a pump. Rather than take the tube from the bike, fix it with a puncture repair kit, wait for the glue to dry and put it back in, the smarter bet is to just have a spare tube you can swap in. You can repair the burst one at home. This guy has a detailed description on how to handle punctures

http://sheldonbrown.com/flats.html

An advantage of thinner tyres is that you can pump them up to a very high pressure, which reduces the likelihood of a puncture. There are also tyres with puncture prevention, these have kevlar lining on the side. Any decent bicycle shop will have them.

===Keeping your bicycle===

[[Image:locked_bike.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A locked bicycle. Chain around mainframe, Ulock, with both wheels, going through rear triangle onto immovable object. Saddle removed.]]

When Gavin replied to Kevin's post about getting a good bike lock he has helped
loads of us keep our bikes safe. Here's the origional post as posted on redbrick.help

From: Gavin
Newsgroups: redbrick.help
Subject: Re: Bike Locks
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:58:47 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 3 May 2005 Kevin wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Anyone recommendations for a good bike lock, for securing a mountain bike?
>
> - Kevin

I did a ''lot'' of reading about this a few months ago. Have a look at http://www.sheldonbrown.com. He has lots of cycling articles and a good one on bicycle locks.

The end points were :

# Its all about pissing the thief off and making them look for an easier target.
# Use two different locks, the thief will need to carry two seperate pieces of equipment to nick the bike. I use a chain/padlock & Ulock. More on this.
# If you have a detachable front wheel, take it off and lock it to the back wheel. Lock it with the ulock, passing it through the rear triange and onto something immovable. The less space available in the lock, less room for leverage on behalf of the thief. Taking the wheel with you doesn't increase your security.
# Take your detachable saddle with you, or replace the quick release bolt with an alan key one. Someone will just nick your saddle and chuck it in a bin, cause they are scummers.
# Other obvious things. Park it in a public place, not in some secret location no one will ever find it. A secret location means a thief can spend their time working away on the locks without worrying about passers by. Lock it to an immovable object.

That's most of what I can remember. The lock I settled on was a rather [http://www.evanscycles.com/product.jsp?style=29338 large Abus Granit lock and chain]
for 90 euro. I bought it in The Great Outdoors, funnily enough. They have a reasonable bicycle accessories section in there. Last time I went in, they were out of that exact lock though. You could also head into a locksmith and ask for a boron alloy chain and good padlock. Something like a 13mm boron chain requires a hydraulic bolt cutter to
get through it. The best padlocks are the ones that only have room for one link to be fit through. No space for a crowbar to get in there then.

My second lock is a fairly cheap combination ULock. If you get a Ulock, make sure it doesn't have a circle key. Google for Bic pen attacks ! The best Ulocks are Kryptonite ones. As above, make sure you get a flat key one. I see the New Yorker one mentioned a lot.

If you get a large chain & padlock, leave em at your target location.. I.e I leave mine locked to the bike rack in DCU, it's too heavy to be carrying it on my bike everyday. I have the ulock for quick tops. Also, never leave the padlock resting on the ground, you are leaving it open to getting whacked with a hammer. Wrap the chain good and tight about the frame and the 'immovable object'.

There are standards for locks, one of which is the SoldSecure label.
http://www.soldsecure.com/Leisure.htm
There is a very good youtube video showing that in fact the SoldSecure ratings are not as accurate as they claim to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3hFr8p2ck The second lock shown is the one mentioned above, that I bought from the Great Outdoors.

Apparently the more expensive Kryptonite locks can be bought on ebay, and are better value than from cycling shops.

That's around about it. In conclusion, get a Granit chain and a Ulock & don't ever lock your bicyle in the city center if you love it.

==Good cycle practices==
[[Image:wheelie.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A Wheelie, performed by a daredevil cyclist with nothing to lose]]

People might put in comments about cycling through town, what to do and what not to do. There are a number of books about cycling through urban locations, a google will find em.

===Road Positioning===
When cycling through town, or for that fact anywhere, there are occasions when it is safest to move into the center of the lane. This is particularly the case when there is not enough room for a car to safely overtake you. By cycling in the middle of the lane, the car will not attempt it. If you are over the in kerb they might.

Similarly if cycling along a line of parked cars, do not stay in close, give them the mandatory door length space between you and them.

If approaching a left turn, it might be best to enter into the main lane of traffic. This way cars turning left will not squash you as they turn. Indicate of course that you are moving into the main lane of traffic. I find that drivers invariably allow you in, if you indicate, as they are nervous of making you go spat. Also, moving into the main lane makes it easier for oncoming cars turning to their right to see you and also for cars emerging from the left turn ahead to see you. (this is also why a front light at night is important, so as oncoming turning cars can see you)

Trucks and HGVs are the primary killer of cyclists. The classic situation seems to be where a cyclist goes up the inside of a truck turning left. The driver can't see the cyclist and the cyclist is crushed. This site, http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/598/hgv-blind-spots-from-nozzer/, has an excellent description of blind spots and how to cycle around/near trucks.

===Cycle Lanes===
You are no longer legally required to use any form of cycle lane or cycle infrastructure. Thus, it is up to you whether to use them or not, depending on your skill or experience. In many cases, it is safer to ignore them.

A mandatory cycle lane (solid white border) means that motorised traffic cannot drive or park in the lane. It does not mean that cyclists must use it.

There are a number of laws relating to the use of cycle lanes and cycling on the road in general. Theses are nicely presented at
http://www.geocities.ws/cyclopath2001/legal.htm

===Braking===
As mentioned above disc brakes offer superior performance to V-Brakes, especially in wet weather. When braking, the various books and sites I've read advise using your front brakes first, not your back brakes. Front brakes offer much greater stopping force. To avoid going head over heels, don't jam on the brakes as hard as you can. If travelling particularly fast, shove your arse up and over the back of the seat, moving your weight over the back of the bike, this will prevent you flying forward.

Be particularly careful in wet weather, skidding on your front brakes is remarkably scary.

Check your brake pads regularly enough, if you head a scraping sound from em when you brake, make sure you change them quickly. You might have worn the pad away and the metal underneath is shredding your wheel rim to pieces.

===Traffic Lights===
Various Gurus differ on traffic lights. At a dangerous junction, where it is difficult for a cyclist to get in the correct lane, it can sometimes be safer to move out while the light is red so as to get ahead of the waiting cars.

In general I obey all junction traffic lights, but tend to go through pedestrian lights. This is illegal of course, you are required to obey all lights. A number of traffic light junctions (in Dublin anyway) now have cyclist zones in front of the traffic that lets you be in front of where cars are (supposed to) stop, these let you legally be ahead of the traffic.

===Wheelies===
Wheelies are extremely cool and must be performed in front of lots of people for the best effect. To achieve wheelie perfection, one must practise on a green area. Concrete areas can result in broken arses. To capture your wheelie fame for all to behold, ensure that you have a friend along with some sort of camera shooting skills. Perform wheelie, record result and bask in adulation. This may in fact not be a good cycle practise.

==Routes==
Getting to and from DCU from various locations can be easier and safer by going via certain routes. A map showing routes and times around Dublin in general is available at http://273k.net/cycling/googlemaps_times.html created by and copyright of Robert Fitzsimons.

Another good link is http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/
Its very handy for route planning and figuring out your distances in advance. Yahoo Maps now has updated maps of dublin, and it's route planner can do a similar service.

If you're into leisure or training in dublin, this guy has a great collection of routes in and around Dublin on his [[http://www.routeslip.com/user/dickobrien RouteSlip page]]. There is also the more general page at [[http://www.routeslip.com/discover/Ireland/Dublin RouteSlip Dublin]]

===DCU into the City Center (O'Connell Street)===
*Leave via the Ballymun Road entrance, and go down the Ballymun Road.
*At the junction of Griffith Avenue and Ballymun road, go straight on. If the traffic is stopped at this point, move into the righthand lane, out of the cycle lane, otherwise when the lights change you will get stuck on the inside of car or buses turning left.
*Go straight on, down Mobhi Hill, and move back into the cycle lane, keep an eye on the left behind you, cars don't turn to the left sometimes and can surprise you.
*Go past HomeFarm road and down to the bottom of Mobhi Hill. At the bottom turn left onto Botanic Ave.
*Go all the way up Botanic road to the junction with upper Drumcondra road, staying in the middle in most places, as there is not enough room for cars to overtake, if there are oncoming cars.
*Get to the top of the queue, if the traffic lights are red. If you saw the lights turn red, then cross the road onto the path at Fagans and press for the pedestrian crossing. Cross the road when the green man arrives. This way you can get ahead of all the cars
*When on Drumcondra road, go to the left onto a slip road at the public toilets, this leads you onto a shared cycle path/footpath facility. Go to the end of this path, right up to the junction and back onto the main road.
* Stay in the bus lane and zoom along this road, making sure to move out occasionally when the road turns to the left, to ensure you don't get squashed.
*Turn left onto Parnell Square, go straight on and you are on O' Connell St.
*Stop somewhere for icecream after securely locking your bicycle.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=459587

===Dundrum to DCU===
For getting from Dundrum to DCU my route is

Dundrum -> Clonskeagh -> Ranelagh -> Canal -> Camden St -> Georges St -> Dame St -> Westmoreland St -> O Connell St -> Parnell St -> Nt Gt Neorges St -> MountJoy Square -> Belvedere Rd -> Dorset St -> Drumcondra -> Collins Avenue -> DCU
From Dundrum to Dame St and from Drumcondra to DCU there are reasonable cycle lanes.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=459481

===City Center to BlackRock/Dun Laoghaire===
Head out through Pearse St. & Grand Canal Dock, Over the canal and follow road round to the right. Take the left before "the big red pub" onto Pembroke st. out onto the beach road and straight along the strand road to merrion gates (Road crosses the dart line). From Merrion gates, theres a cycle lane until booterstown station, and then enter the park on the left... theres about a mile and a half of cycle lanes in the park away from the traffic. Exit the park in the SE corner and take the back path behind Blackrock station and then follow the road up into the town center. From there its a pretty much straight run down the coast road (by Seapoint, Salthill & Monkstown) to Dun Laoghaire.

===Rathfarnham to City Centre===
This way avoids alot of traffic lights and also alot of the heavy traffic on the canal. Sorry for the lack of roadnames, I'll update as I get to know more of them. From Rathfarnham, cycle past the river and up into Terenure. In Terenure take the right hand turn to go towards Rathgar (this is officially a No Right Turn but I've never had any trouble doing it). At Rathgar, take the road to the right of the Church. Keep cycling straight until you reach the first set of traffic lights and take the slip road to the left. Cycle on this road until you reach the shops. About halfway along the shops, there's a right hand turn. Go down this road and at the end of this road there should be a Church. Go around the Church and straight on until you reach the traffic lights. At the lights turn left onto Palmerston Road and keep straight until you reach the next lights. At these lights, turn right and this will bring you into Ranelagh. In Ranelagh, turn left at the traffic lights and head out of Ranelagh. Shortly after Ranelagh there's a right turn onto Northbrook Road, go down this road and this will take you onto Dartmouth Square. Go around this and this will bring you onto Leeson St Upper. Cycle down Lesson St and into the City Centre.

==Links==

===College Club===

http://cycling.redbrick.dcu.ie

The following set of links have been blatantly stolen from the [http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=410 Cycling] forum on http://www.boards.ie

===Shops===
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com - Northern Ireland, free delivery , decent enough.

http://ontrackdublin.com/ - Fixed gear and track specialists, Cook St.

http://www.evanscycles.com - UK

http://www.cyclesuperstore.ie - Ireland

http://www.cycleways.com - Ireland

===News & General===
http://www.irishcycling.com -Irish news

http://www.cyclingnews.com - World News

===Bike Reviews===
http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/ - all your MTB products & bikes reviewed

===D.I.Y Repair & Maintenance Tips===
http://www.parktool.com/repair_help/FAQindex.shtml

http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/fix/

http://www.sheldonbrown.com - Plenty of good advice on this site. Ignore the dodgy design and scary photos.

===Groups & Activists===
http://www.MTBIreland.com - MTB Ireland, forums here as well.

http://www.dublincycling.org

http://home.connect.ie/dcc/ - Dublin Cycling Campaign

http://www.madmtb.com - Mountain Biking Association of Dublin, based in Rathfarnham

Redbrick Companies

2015-11-27T11:41:14Z

Coconut:

[[Category:Jobs]]
Once upon a time there were a lot of former RedBrick people starting companies, particularly in the professional services area. Do any of these companies still exist and if so, where do I find them? -- [[User:Fergus|fergus]]

You can find them right here!

==In present operation==

* [http://www.V7.ie V7] - UX & App Development Consultancy: [[User:Taurus|Taurus]].
* [http://www.vade.ie Vade] - Web Hosting & Development: [[User:ryaner|ryaner]]. (Formerly [[User:kyper|kyper]], [[User:phreak|phreak]]).
* [http://www.jeebers.com Jeebers] - E-business solutions: [[User:Jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.cliste.net Cliste] - Consultancy: [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]] and [[User:X|x]].
* Beanbag Ltd - Consultancy: [[User:Shimoda|shimoda]].
* [http://www.digitalrights.ie Digital Rights Ireland] - Online Lobby and Activism group. [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]]
* [http://www.farrellscientific.com Farrell Scientific Consulting] - Consulting services in science. [[User:lithium|lithium]]
* [http://1timetracking.com Time Warden Ltd.] - Time management solutions [[User:jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com TerminalFOUR]: , [[User:Exzantia|exzantia]], [[User:Piero|piero]], [[User:Hauk|hauk]], [[User:Lithium|lithium]], [[User:Dragor|dragor]], [[User:Lebazzer|lebazzer]], [[User:tziegler|tziegler]]
* [http://www.gits.ie GITS ] - ICT Support and Consultancy: [[User:kyper|kyper]].

==Previous==

* Eolach - Open Source consulting: [[User:Hyper|hyper]], [[User:Thalia|thalia]] and [[User:Fergus|fergus]].
* [http://www.rfc-networks.ie RFC-Networks] - Web dev, hosting, consulting, open source: [[User:Phil|phil]], [[User:Mark|mark]] and [[User:Noelfitz|noelfitz]], [[User:Kinsey|kinsey]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Af666x|af666x]].
* [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare] - Network Software for Computer Games: [[User:Coconut|coconut]]
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Coconut|coconut]], [[User:D_fens|d_fens]], [[User:svan|svan]]
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Lil_cain|lil_cain]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com TerminalFOUR]: [[User:Binnceol|binnceol]], [[User:Phoenix|phoenix]], [[User:Dregin|dregin]], [[User:Chris|chris]], [[User:Winters|winters]], [[User:Haus|haus]], [[User:Creadak|creadak]].
* [https://google.com Google]: [[User:pooka|pooka]],

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.accenture.ie Accenture] - IT Consultancy: [[User:Tuama|tuama]].
* [http://aws.amazon.com Amazon] - [[User:Pixies|pixies]], [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]], [[User:Jerry|jerry]], [[User:Af666x|af666x]], [[User:Maiden|maiden]], [[User:Sonic|sonic]], [[User:Gliceas|gliceas]], [[User:Paddez|paddez]], [[User:Chris|chris]], [[User:Kylar|kylar]].
* [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare] - Network Software for Computer Games: [[User:Halenger|halenger]], [[User:Prolix|prolix]], [[User:Marvin|marvin]], [[User:Phaxx|phaxx]]
* [http://hosting.digiweb.ie Digiweb]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [http://www.ericsson.com Ericsson] - Telecommunications: [[User:dec|dec]].
* [http://www.facebook.com Facebook]: [[User:Atlas|atlas]], [[User:fun|fun]]
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]], [[User:Twiggy|twiggy]], [[User:usal|usal]] and [[User:magluby|magluby]].
* [http://www.heanet.ie HEAnet]: [[User:cns|cns]], [[User:orly|orly]], [[User:Rob|rob]], [[User:esoteric|esoteric]], [[User:Bass|bass]], [[User:tbolger|tbolger]], [[User:zergless|zergless]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]], [[User:smudger|smudger]], [[User:merchelo|merchelo]]
* [http://www.intercom.io Intercom]: [[User:Haus|haus]], [[User:moju|moju]], [[User:Singer|singer]]
* [http://www.itconvergence.com IT Convergence] - Oracle Consulting, Staffing, Education, Remote Support and Hosting Services. [[User:mark|mark]]
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Stark|stark]], [[User:svan|svan]]
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.nexala.com Nexala] - Train management software: [[User:werdz|werdz]]
* [http://www.rackspace.com Rackspace]: [[User:Lil_cain|lil_cain]]
* [http://www.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Johan|johan]], [[User:receive|receive]], [[User:gamma|gamma]]
* [http://w4.siemens.de/ct/en/home/index.html Siemens] - R & D Medical Imaging: [[User:MLynch|mlynch]].
* [http://www.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]], [[User:nemo|nemo]], [[User:anev|anev]].
* [http://s3group.com/ S3 (Sillicon and Software Systems)] (and no, it's not the video card makers) - Software and hardware services for Digital Media, Medical Systems, System IC and Network Processors: [[User:cammy|cammy]].
* [http://www.thus.net THUS]: [[User:homerj|homerj]]
* [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo] - Not google: [[User:nareik|nareik]]
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].

Redbrick Companies

2015-11-27T11:40:18Z

Coconut:

[[Category:Jobs]]
Once upon a time there were a lot of former RedBrick people starting companies, particularly in the professional services area. Do any of these companies still exist and if so, where do I find them? -- [[User:Fergus|fergus]]

You can find them right here!

==In present operation==

* [http://www.V7.ie V7] - UX & App Development Consultancy: [[User:Taurus|Taurus]].
* [http://www.vade.ie Vade] - Web Hosting & Development: [[User:ryaner|ryaner]]. (Formerly [[User:kyper|kyper]], [[User:phreak|phreak]]).
* [http://www.jeebers.com Jeebers] - E-business solutions: [[User:Jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.cliste.net Cliste] - Consultancy: [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]] and [[User:X|x]].
* Beanbag Ltd - Consultancy: [[User:Shimoda|shimoda]].
* [http://www.digitalrights.ie Digital Rights Ireland] - Online Lobby and Activism group. [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]]
* [http://www.farrellscientific.com Farrell Scientific Consulting] - Consulting services in science. [[User:lithium|lithium]]
* [http://1timetracking.com Time Warden Ltd.] - Time management solutions [[User:jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com TerminalFOUR]: , [[User:Exzantia|exzantia]], [[User:Piero|piero]], [[User:Hauk|hauk]], [[User:Lithium|lithium]], [[User:Dragor|dragor]], [[User:Lebazzer|lebazzer]], [[User:tziegler|tziegler]]
* [http://www.gits.ie GITS ] - ICT Support and Consultancy: [[User:kyper|kyper]].

==Previous==

* Eolach - Open Source consulting: [[User:Hyper|hyper]], [[User:Thalia|thalia]] and [[User:Fergus|fergus]].
* [http://www.rfc-networks.ie RFC-Networks] - Web dev, hosting, consulting, open source: [[User:Phil|phil]], [[User:Mark|mark]] and [[User:Noelfitz|noelfitz]], [[User:Kinsey|kinsey]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Af666x|af666x]].
* [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare] - Network Software for Computer Games: [[User:Coconut|coconut]]
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Lil_cain|lil_cain]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com TerminalFOUR]: [[User:Binnceol|binnceol]], [[User:Phoenix|phoenix]], [[User:Dregin|dregin]], [[User:Chris|chris]], [[User:Winters|winters]], [[User:Haus|haus]], [[User:Creadak|creadak]].
* [https://google.com Google]: [[User:pooka|pooka]],

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.accenture.ie Accenture] - IT Consultancy: [[User:Tuama|tuama]].
* [http://aws.amazon.com Amazon] - [[User:Pixies|pixies]], [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]], [[User:Jerry|jerry]], [[User:Af666x|af666x]], [[User:Maiden|maiden]], [[User:Sonic|sonic]], [[User:Gliceas|gliceas]], [[User:Paddez|paddez]], [[User:Chris|chris]], [[User:Kylar|kylar]].
* [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare] - Network Software for Computer Games: [[User:Halenger|halenger]], [[User:Prolix|prolix]], [[User:Marvin|marvin]], [[User:Phaxx|phaxx]]
* [http://hosting.digiweb.ie Digiweb]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [http://www.ericsson.com Ericsson] - Telecommunications: [[User:dec|dec]].
* [http://www.facebook.com Facebook]: [[User:Atlas|atlas]], [[User:fun|fun]]
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]], [[User:Twiggy|twiggy]], [[User:usal|usal]] and [[User:magluby|magluby]].
* [http://www.heanet.ie HEAnet]: [[User:cns|cns]], [[User:orly|orly]], [[User:Rob|rob]], [[User:esoteric|esoteric]], [[User:Bass|bass]], [[User:tbolger|tbolger]], [[User:zergless|zergless]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]], [[User:smudger|smudger]], [[User:merchelo|merchelo]]
* [http://www.intercom.io Intercom]: [[User:Haus|haus]], [[User:moju|moju]], [[User:Singer|singer]]
* [http://www.itconvergence.com IT Convergence] - Oracle Consulting, Staffing, Education, Remote Support and Hosting Services. [[User:mark|mark]]
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Stark|stark]], [[User:svan|svan]] (gone), [[User:coconut|coconut]] (gone)
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.nexala.com Nexala] - Train management software: [[User:werdz|werdz]]
* [http://www.rackspace.com Rackspace]: [[User:Lil_cain|lil_cain]]
* [http://www.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Johan|johan]], [[User:receive|receive]], [[User:gamma|gamma]]
* [http://w4.siemens.de/ct/en/home/index.html Siemens] - R & D Medical Imaging: [[User:MLynch|mlynch]].
* [http://www.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]], [[User:nemo|nemo]], [[User:anev|anev]].
* [http://s3group.com/ S3 (Sillicon and Software Systems)] (and no, it's not the video card makers) - Software and hardware services for Digital Media, Medical Systems, System IC and Network Processors: [[User:cammy|cammy]].
* [http://www.thus.net THUS]: [[User:homerj|homerj]]
* [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo] - Not google: [[User:nareik|nareik]]
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].

Redbrick Companies

2015-11-27T11:37:33Z

Coconut: /* Other companies brickies work for */

[[Category:Jobs]]
Once upon a time there were a lot of former RedBrick people starting companies, particularly in the professional services area. Do any of these companies still exist and if so, where do I find them? -- [[User:Fergus|fergus]]

You can find them right here!

==In present operation==

* [http://www.V7.ie V7] - UX & App Development Consultancy: [[User:Taurus|Taurus]].
* [http://www.vade.ie Vade] - Web Hosting & Development: [[User:ryaner|ryaner]]. (Formerly [[User:kyper|kyper]], [[User:phreak|phreak]]).
* [http://www.jeebers.com Jeebers] - E-business solutions: [[User:Jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.cliste.net Cliste] - Consultancy: [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]] and [[User:X|x]].
* Beanbag Ltd - Consultancy: [[User:Shimoda|shimoda]].
* [http://www.digitalrights.ie Digital Rights Ireland] - Online Lobby and Activism group. [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]]
* [http://www.farrellscientific.com Farrell Scientific Consulting] - Consulting services in science. [[User:lithium|lithium]]
* [http://1timetracking.com Time Warden Ltd.] - Time management solutions [[User:jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com TerminalFOUR]: , [[User:Exzantia|exzantia]], [[User:Piero|piero]], [[User:Hauk|hauk]], [[User:Lithium|lithium]], [[User:Dragor|dragor]], [[User:Lebazzer|lebazzer]], [[User:tziegler|tziegler]]
* [http://www.gits.ie GITS ] - ICT Support and Consultancy: [[User:kyper|kyper]].

==Previous==

* Eolach - Open Source consulting: [[User:Hyper|hyper]], [[User:Thalia|thalia]] and [[User:Fergus|fergus]].
* [http://www.rfc-networks.ie RFC-Networks] - Web dev, hosting, consulting, open source: [[User:Phil|phil]], [[User:Mark|mark]] and [[User:Noelfitz|noelfitz]], [[User:Kinsey|kinsey]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Af666x|af666x]].
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Lil_cain|lil_cain]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com TerminalFOUR]: [[User:Binnceol|binnceol]], [[User:Phoenix|phoenix]], [[User:Dregin|dregin]], [[User:Chris|chris]], [[User:Winters|winters]], [[User:Haus|haus]], [[User:Creadak|creadak]].
* [https://google.com Google]: [[User:pooka|pooka]],

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.accenture.ie Accenture] - IT Consultancy: [[User:Tuama|tuama]].
* [http://aws.amazon.com Amazon] - [[User:Pixies|pixies]], [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]], [[User:Jerry|jerry]], [[User:Af666x|af666x]], [[User:Maiden|maiden]], [[User:Sonic|sonic]], [[User:Gliceas|gliceas]], [[User:Paddez|paddez]], [[User:Chris|chris]], [[User:Kylar|kylar]].
* [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare] - Network Software for Computer Games: [[User:Halenger|halenger]], [[User:Prolix|prolix]], [[User:Marvin|marvin]], [[User:Phaxx|phaxx]], [[User:Coconut|coconut]] (gone)
* [http://hosting.digiweb.ie Digiweb]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [http://www.ericsson.com Ericsson] - Telecommunications: [[User:dec|dec]].
* [http://www.facebook.com Facebook]: [[User:Atlas|atlas]],[[User:fun|fun]]
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]], [[User:Twiggy|twiggy]], [[User:usal|usal]] and [[User:magluby|magluby]].
* [http://www.heanet.ie HEAnet]: [[User:cns|cns]], [[User:orly|orly]], [[User:Rob|rob]], [[User:esoteric|esoteric]], [[User:Bass|bass]], [[User:tbolger|tbolger]], [[User:zergless|zergless]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]], [[User:smudger|smudger]], [[User:merchelo|merchelo]]
* [http://www.intercom.io Intercom]: [[User:Haus|haus]], [[User:moju|moju]], [[User:Singer|singer]]
* [http://www.itconvergence.com IT Convergence] - Oracle Consulting, Staffing, Education, Remote Support and Hosting Services. [[User:mark|mark]]
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Stark|stark]], [[User:svan|svan]] (gone), [[User:coconut|coconut]] (gone)
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.nexala.com Nexala] - Train management software: [[User:werdz|werdz]]
* [http://www.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Johan|johan]], [[User:receive|receive]], [[User:gamma|gamma]]
* [http://w4.siemens.de/ct/en/home/index.html Siemens] - R & D Medical Imaging: [[User:MLynch|mlynch]].
* [http://www.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]], [[User:nemo|nemo]], [[User:anev|anev]].
* [http://s3group.com/ S3 (Sillicon and Software Systems)] (and no, it's not the video card makers) - Software and hardware services for Digital Media, Medical Systems, System IC and Network Processors: [[User:cammy|cammy]].
* [http://www.thus.net THUS]: [[User:homerj|homerj]]
* [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo] - Not google: [[User:nareik|nareik]]
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].

User:Coconut

2015-11-27T11:36:58Z

Coconut:

RedBrick is for spas.

Yours,

A RedBrick member for life.

User:Coconut

2015-11-27T11:36:50Z

Coconut:

RedBrick is for spas.

Yours,
A RedBrick member for life.

Redbrick Companies

2015-11-27T11:36:29Z

Coconut: /* Other companies brickies work for */

[[Category:Jobs]]
Once upon a time there were a lot of former RedBrick people starting companies, particularly in the professional services area. Do any of these companies still exist and if so, where do I find them? -- [[User:Fergus|fergus]]

You can find them right here!

==In present operation==

* [http://www.V7.ie V7] - UX & App Development Consultancy: [[User:Taurus|Taurus]].
* [http://www.vade.ie Vade] - Web Hosting & Development: [[User:ryaner|ryaner]]. (Formerly [[User:kyper|kyper]], [[User:phreak|phreak]]).
* [http://www.jeebers.com Jeebers] - E-business solutions: [[User:Jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.cliste.net Cliste] - Consultancy: [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]] and [[User:X|x]].
* Beanbag Ltd - Consultancy: [[User:Shimoda|shimoda]].
* [http://www.digitalrights.ie Digital Rights Ireland] - Online Lobby and Activism group. [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]]
* [http://www.farrellscientific.com Farrell Scientific Consulting] - Consulting services in science. [[User:lithium|lithium]]
* [http://1timetracking.com Time Warden Ltd.] - Time management solutions [[User:jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com TerminalFOUR]: , [[User:Exzantia|exzantia]], [[User:Piero|piero]], [[User:Hauk|hauk]], [[User:Lithium|lithium]], [[User:Dragor|dragor]], [[User:Lebazzer|lebazzer]], [[User:tziegler|tziegler]]
* [http://www.gits.ie GITS ] - ICT Support and Consultancy: [[User:kyper|kyper]].

==Previous==

* Eolach - Open Source consulting: [[User:Hyper|hyper]], [[User:Thalia|thalia]] and [[User:Fergus|fergus]].
* [http://www.rfc-networks.ie RFC-Networks] - Web dev, hosting, consulting, open source: [[User:Phil|phil]], [[User:Mark|mark]] and [[User:Noelfitz|noelfitz]], [[User:Kinsey|kinsey]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Af666x|af666x]].
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Lil_cain|lil_cain]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com TerminalFOUR]: [[User:Binnceol|binnceol]], [[User:Phoenix|phoenix]], [[User:Dregin|dregin]], [[User:Chris|chris]], [[User:Winters|winters]], [[User:Haus|haus]], [[User:Creadak|creadak]].
* [https://google.com Google]: [[User:pooka|pooka]],

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.accenture.ie Accenture] - IT Consultancy: [[User:Tuama|tuama]].
* [http://aws.amazon.com Amazon] - [[User:Pixies|pixies]], [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]], [[User:Jerry|jerry]], [[User:Af666x|af666x]], [[User:Maiden|maiden]], [[User:Sonic|sonic]], [[User:Gliceas|gliceas]], [[User:Paddez|paddez]], [[User:Chris|chris]], [[User:Kylar|kylar]].
* [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare] - Network Software for Computer Games: [[User:Halenger|halenger]], [[User:Prolix|prolix]], [[User:Marvin|marvin]] and [[User:Phaxx|phaxx]].
* [http://hosting.digiweb.ie Digiweb]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [http://www.ericsson.com Ericsson] - Telecommunications: [[User:dec|dec]].
* [http://www.facebook.com Facebook]: [[User:Atlas|atlas]],[[User:fun|fun]]
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]], [[User:Twiggy|twiggy]], [[User:usal|usal]] and [[User:magluby|magluby]].
* [http://www.heanet.ie HEAnet]: [[User:cns|cns]], [[User:orly|orly]], [[User:Rob|rob]], [[User:esoteric|esoteric]], [[User:Bass|bass]], [[User:tbolger|tbolger]], [[User:zergless|zergless]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]], [[User:smudger|smudger]], [[User:merchelo|merchelo]]
* [http://www.intercom.io Intercom]: [[User:Haus|haus]], [[User:moju|moju]], [[User:Singer|singer]]
* [http://www.itconvergence.com IT Convergence] - Oracle Consulting, Staffing, Education, Remote Support and Hosting Services. [[User:mark|mark]]
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Stark|stark]], [[User:svan|svan]] (gone), [[User:coconut|coconut]] (gone)
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.nexala.com Nexala] - Train management software: [[User:werdz|werdz]]
* [http://www.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Johan|johan]], [[User:receive|receive]], [[User:gamma|gamma]]
* [http://w4.siemens.de/ct/en/home/index.html Siemens] - R & D Medical Imaging: [[User:MLynch|mlynch]].
* [http://www.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]].
* [http://s3group.com/ S3 (Sillicon and Software Systems)] (and no, it's not the video card makers) - Software and hardware services for Digital Media, Medical Systems, System IC and Network Processors: [[User:cammy|cammy]].
* [http://www.thus.net THUS]: [[User:homerj|homerj]]
* [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo] - Not google: [[User:nareik|nareik]]
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].

Committee

2010-10-15T13:16:43Z

Coconut: /* 2007/08 */ Retcon!

The name given to the leadership of Redbrick. Elected every year at the Annual General Meeting it is composed of 13 members: three admins, three helpdesk, Webmaster, a first year rep, a Secretary, PRO, Ents Officer, Treasurer and Chairperson. The First Year Rep is elected at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), usually held during Clubs & Socs Week at the start of October. You must be a first year member to run for this position. All members of the committee are given ops in #lobby while the admins, along with previous system administrators still in the root group, hold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_user root]. The webmaster may also hold root, upon passing a root competency test.

They are the Society's most popular target for abuse and insults and work tirelessly and without compensation for the Society they love so much. A list of past and present Committee members can be found at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/committee/

An alternative view of the Committee is that it is a collection of the power-mad, the arrogant, the popular and the insulting. All members have their own opinions on that matter but most will agree that without the Committee Redbrick would not be able to function, and for that, and perhaps that alone, they deserve thanks.

--Cain

Originally from the [[Encyclopedia]], updated by atlas and coconut

The committee can be contacted at: committee@redbrick.dcu.ie

Or, you can e-mail individual members via their RedBrick addresses.

=== 2010/11 (Current) ===
Chairperson
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Secretary
Nina Hanzlikova ( geekity )
Treasurer
Conor Forde ( fordy )
Events Officer
<s>Emma Gallagher ( emma )</s>
Aisling Mulholland ( crash )
Public Relations Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
First Year Representative
Dave Larkan ( tziegler )
Helpdesk
Shane Stacey ( isaac702 )
Paul Bunbury ( bunbun )
Webmaster
Craig Gavagan MacEntee ( creadak )
System Administrators
James Reilly ( fun )
Seamus Ronan ( train )
Austin Halpin ( haus )

=== 2009/10 ===
Chairperson
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Secretary
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Treasurer
Seán Hand ( revenant )
Events Officer
<del>Carri Fuery ( carri )</del>
Stephanie Coleman ( steph )
Public Relations Officer
Dan Fox ( maiden )
First Year Representative
David Glennon ( azrael )
Helpdesk
<del>Austin Halpin ( haus )</del>
Diarmaid McManus ( elephant )
Gautam Wadhwa ( gw )
Craig Gavagan MacEntee (credak)
Webmaster
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
System Administrators
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
<del>David Lynam ( coconut )</del>
Alan Breathnach ( sonic )
Andrew Martin (werdz)

=== 2008/09 ===
Chairperson
<del>Robert O'Reilly ( robby )</del>
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Secretary
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Treasurer
Leah Doyle ( bambi )
Events Officer
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Public Relations Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
<del>John Needham ( colossus )</del>
First Year Representative
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Helpdesk
<del>Seán Hand ( revenant )</del>
Séamus Ronan ( train )
<del>Gavin Tubritt ( gamblitis )</del>
Webmaster
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
System Administrators
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )

=== 2007/08 ===
Chairperson (also known as Failchair)
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Secretary
Kevin Fox ( undone )
Treasurer
<del>Ashley Samuel Dooley Martyn ( mythe )</del>
Events Officer
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Public Relations Officer
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Education Officers (also known as Helpdesk, also known as Faildesk)
Padraig O'Connor ( landa2 )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
David Lynam ( coconut )
<del>Matthew Barrington ( moju )</del>
<del>Declan Whelan ( castle )</del>
Webmaster
Richard Dalton ( d_fens )
System Administrators
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )
<del>Diarmuid Bourke ( drag0n )</del>

=== 2006/07 ===

Chairperson
Charlie Von Metzradt ( phaxx )
Secretary
Jessica Ni Chonchubhair ( jesjes )
Treasurer
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Public Relations Officer
<del>Padraig O'Connor ( landa2 )</del>
Damien Rathigan ( dano )
Events Officer
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Kevin Fox ( undone )
Simon Kilroy ( gizmo )
Diarmuid Bourke ( drag0n )
Webmaster
John Doyle ( art_wolf )
System Administrators
Sarunas Vancevicius ( svan )
Eoghan Gaffney ( atlas )
Stephen Doyle ( igy )

=== 2005/06 ===

Chairperson
Michelle Graham (drusilla)
Secretary
Dave Couse ( phreak )
Treasurer
Kenneth Barrett ( sionnach )
Public Relations Officer
Jessica Ni Chonchubhair ( jesjes )
Events Officer
Bernard McKeever ( dregin )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Stephen Doyle ( igy )
Simon Kilroy ( gizmo )
Graham Bishop ( winters )
Webmaster
Una Kehoe ( keloe )
System Administrators
Charlie Von Metzradt ( phaxx )
Eoghan Gaffney ( atlas )
Stephen Ryan ( ryaner )

=== 2004/05 ===

Chairperson
Michelle Graham (drusilla)
Secretary
Aisling Devlin ( aeris )
<del>Donal Mulligan ( thor )</del>
Treasurer
Charlene Barrett ( charlene )
Public Relations Officer
Martina Frain ( dramaq )
Events Officer
Mark Grenham ( kyper )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
John Doyle ( art_wolf )
<del>Una Kehoe ( keloe )</del>
Stephen Doyle ( igy )
Eoghan Gaffney ( atlas )
Webmaster
David Whelan ( biteme )
System Administrators
<del>Martin Clarke ( prolix )</del>
Charlie Von Metzradt ( phaxx )
Michael Dowling ( mickeyd )
Padraic Hallinan ( halenger )

=== 2003/04 ===

Chairperson
David Johnston ( emperor )
Secretary
Cillian Sharkey ( cns )
Treasurer
Seamus O'Toole ( mael )
<del>Grainne Sheerin ( dimples )</del>
Public Relations Officer
Aisling Devlin ( aeris )
Events Officer
Martina Frain ( dramaq )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Eoin Campbell ( cambo )
Una Kehoe ( keloe )
Sun Ning ( sunshine )
Webmaster
Declan McMullen ( skyhawk )
System Administrators
Martin Clarke ( prolix )
Dermot Duffy ( dizer )
Martin Harte ( tuama )

=== 2002/03 ===

Chairperson
Nikki Kenny ( kamili )
Secretary
Trevor Johnston ( trevj )
<del>Andrew MacCann ( montoya )</del>
Treasurer
Grainne Sheerin ( dimples )
<del>Neil Walsh ( marvin )</del>
Public Relations Officer
Shane Tallon ( del_boy )
Events Officer
Elaine Bannon (purdy)
<del>Carla Coleman</del>
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Eoin Campbell ( cambo )
Declan McMullen ( skyhawk )
Declan O'Neill ( dec )
<del>Mark Campbell</del>
Webmaster
David Johnston ( emperor )
System Administrators
Mark Dunne ( pixies )
Dermot Duffy ( dizer )
Cillian Sharkey ( cns )

=== 2001/02 ===

Chairperson
Donal Mulligan ( thor )
Secretary
Brian Banbrick ( moridin )
Treasurer
John Canavan ( tibor )
Public Relations Officer
Andrew MacCann ( montoya )
Events Officer
Micheal Glennon ( magluby )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Kevin Dermody ( esoteric )
Nikki Kenny ( kamili )
Neil Walsh ( marvin )
Webmaster
Colm MacCarthaigh ( colmmacc )
System Administrators
Philip Reynolds ( phil )
Mark Campbell ( mark )
Cillian Sharkey ( cns )

=== 2000/01 ===

Chairperson
Karl Podesta ( kpodesta )
Secretary
Brian Banbrick ( moridin )
Treasurer
Jonathan Lundberg ( spock )
Public Relations Officer
Kevin Cannon ( p )
Events Officer
John Canavan ( tibor )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Conor O'Kane ( cokane )
Mark Campbell ( mark )
Donal Hunt ( redgiant )
Webmaster
Barry O'Neill ( bubble )
System Administrators
Philip Reynolds ( phil )
Sarvesh Singh ( macbain )
Noel Fitzpatrick ( noelfitz )
Mark Dunne ( pixies )
Robert Crosbie ( bobb)

=== 1999/2000 ===

Chairperson
Jonathan Lundberg ( spock )
Secretary
Caroline Sheedy ( bootie )
Treasurer
Damien Martin ( otto )
Public Relations Officer
Julie Kerin ( julie )
Events Officer
Orla McGan ( orly )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Conor O'Kane ( cokane )
Nigel Parkes ( elmer )
Eileen Gavin ( munchkin )
Barry O'Neill ( bubble )
Webmaster
Karl Podesta ( kpodesta )
System Administrators
Adam Kelly ( cthulhu )
Hoi Chau Wong ( whc )
Robert Crosbie ( bobb)

=== 1998/99 ===

Chairperson
Justin Moran ( cain )
Secretary
Jonathan Lundberg ( spock )
Treasurer
Caroline Sheedy ( bootie )
Public Relations Officer/Events Officer
Cecily Murray ( celery )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Aoife Cahill ( ace )
Sarvesh Singh ( macbain )
Eoin McGrath ( bob )
Barry O'Neill ( bubble )
Webmaster
Brian Scanlan ( singer )
David Murphy ( drjolt )
System Administrators
Adam Kelly ( cthulhu )
John Looney ( valen )
Hoi Chau Wong ( whc )
Colin Whittaker ( grimnar)
John Bolger (jbolger )
Cian Synnott ( pooka )
Ka Chun Leung ( plop )

=== 1997/98 ===

Chairperson
Patrick Grant ( floppy )
Mike Bennett ( thalia )
Secretary
Jonathan Lundberg ( spock )
Treasurer
Aoife McGoveran ( hms )
Public Relations Officer
Dave O'Flynn ( firefly )
Events Officer
Kevin O'Donovan ( kod )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Daire McKenna ( fatwa )
Shane O'hUid ( wishkah )
John Barker ( barkerj )
Webmaster
Andrew Lawless ( andy )
System Administrators
Dermot Hanley ( wibble )
Ka Chun Leung ( plop )
David Murphy ( drjolt )

=== 1996/97 ===

Chairperson
Sean Cullen ( hyper )
Secretary
Dermot Hanley ( wibble )
Treasurer
Paraic O'Ceallaigh ( swipe )
Public Relations Officer
Michael McHugh ( sandman )
System Administrators
Fergus Donohue ( fergus )
David Murphy ( drjolt )

[[Category:Encyclopedia]]

Committee

2010-10-15T13:16:19Z

Coconut: /* 2009/10 */

The name given to the leadership of Redbrick. Elected every year at the Annual General Meeting it is composed of 13 members: three admins, three helpdesk, Webmaster, a first year rep, a Secretary, PRO, Ents Officer, Treasurer and Chairperson. The First Year Rep is elected at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), usually held during Clubs & Socs Week at the start of October. You must be a first year member to run for this position. All members of the committee are given ops in #lobby while the admins, along with previous system administrators still in the root group, hold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_user root]. The webmaster may also hold root, upon passing a root competency test.

They are the Society's most popular target for abuse and insults and work tirelessly and without compensation for the Society they love so much. A list of past and present Committee members can be found at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/committee/

An alternative view of the Committee is that it is a collection of the power-mad, the arrogant, the popular and the insulting. All members have their own opinions on that matter but most will agree that without the Committee Redbrick would not be able to function, and for that, and perhaps that alone, they deserve thanks.

--Cain

Originally from the [[Encyclopedia]], updated by atlas and coconut

The committee can be contacted at: committee@redbrick.dcu.ie

Or, you can e-mail individual members via their RedBrick addresses.

=== 2010/11 (Current) ===
Chairperson
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Secretary
Nina Hanzlikova ( geekity )
Treasurer
Conor Forde ( fordy )
Events Officer
<s>Emma Gallagher ( emma )</s>
Aisling Mulholland ( crash )
Public Relations Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
First Year Representative
Dave Larkan ( tziegler )
Helpdesk
Shane Stacey ( isaac702 )
Paul Bunbury ( bunbun )
Webmaster
Craig Gavagan MacEntee ( creadak )
System Administrators
James Reilly ( fun )
Seamus Ronan ( train )
Austin Halpin ( haus )

=== 2009/10 ===
Chairperson
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Secretary
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Treasurer
Seán Hand ( revenant )
Events Officer
<del>Carri Fuery ( carri )</del>
Stephanie Coleman ( steph )
Public Relations Officer
Dan Fox ( maiden )
First Year Representative
David Glennon ( azrael )
Helpdesk
<del>Austin Halpin ( haus )</del>
Diarmaid McManus ( elephant )
Gautam Wadhwa ( gw )
Craig Gavagan MacEntee (credak)
Webmaster
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
System Administrators
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
<del>David Lynam ( coconut )</del>
Alan Breathnach ( sonic )
Andrew Martin (werdz)

=== 2008/09 ===
Chairperson
<del>Robert O'Reilly ( robby )</del>
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Secretary
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Treasurer
Leah Doyle ( bambi )
Events Officer
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Public Relations Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
<del>John Needham ( colossus )</del>
First Year Representative
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Helpdesk
<del>Seán Hand ( revenant )</del>
Séamus Ronan ( train )
<del>Gavin Tubritt ( gamblitis )</del>
Webmaster
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
System Administrators
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )

=== 2007/08 ===
Chairperson (also known as Failchair)
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Secretary
Kevin Fox ( undone )
Treasurer
<del>Ashley Samuel Dooley Martyn ( mythe )</del>
Events Officer
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Public Relations Officer
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Education Officers (also known as Helpdesk, also known as Faildesk)
Padraig O'Connor ( landa2 )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
David Ó Laigheanáin ( coconut )
<del>Matthew Barrington ( moju )</del>
<del>Declan Whelan ( castle )</del>
Webmaster
Richard Dalton ( d_fens )
System Administrators
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )
<del>Diarmuid Bourke ( drag0n )</del>

=== 2006/07 ===

Chairperson
Charlie Von Metzradt ( phaxx )
Secretary
Jessica Ni Chonchubhair ( jesjes )
Treasurer
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Public Relations Officer
<del>Padraig O'Connor ( landa2 )</del>
Damien Rathigan ( dano )
Events Officer
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Kevin Fox ( undone )
Simon Kilroy ( gizmo )
Diarmuid Bourke ( drag0n )
Webmaster
John Doyle ( art_wolf )
System Administrators
Sarunas Vancevicius ( svan )
Eoghan Gaffney ( atlas )
Stephen Doyle ( igy )

=== 2005/06 ===

Chairperson
Michelle Graham (drusilla)
Secretary
Dave Couse ( phreak )
Treasurer
Kenneth Barrett ( sionnach )
Public Relations Officer
Jessica Ni Chonchubhair ( jesjes )
Events Officer
Bernard McKeever ( dregin )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Stephen Doyle ( igy )
Simon Kilroy ( gizmo )
Graham Bishop ( winters )
Webmaster
Una Kehoe ( keloe )
System Administrators
Charlie Von Metzradt ( phaxx )
Eoghan Gaffney ( atlas )
Stephen Ryan ( ryaner )

=== 2004/05 ===

Chairperson
Michelle Graham (drusilla)
Secretary
Aisling Devlin ( aeris )
<del>Donal Mulligan ( thor )</del>
Treasurer
Charlene Barrett ( charlene )
Public Relations Officer
Martina Frain ( dramaq )
Events Officer
Mark Grenham ( kyper )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
John Doyle ( art_wolf )
<del>Una Kehoe ( keloe )</del>
Stephen Doyle ( igy )
Eoghan Gaffney ( atlas )
Webmaster
David Whelan ( biteme )
System Administrators
<del>Martin Clarke ( prolix )</del>
Charlie Von Metzradt ( phaxx )
Michael Dowling ( mickeyd )
Padraic Hallinan ( halenger )

=== 2003/04 ===

Chairperson
David Johnston ( emperor )
Secretary
Cillian Sharkey ( cns )
Treasurer
Seamus O'Toole ( mael )
<del>Grainne Sheerin ( dimples )</del>
Public Relations Officer
Aisling Devlin ( aeris )
Events Officer
Martina Frain ( dramaq )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Eoin Campbell ( cambo )
Una Kehoe ( keloe )
Sun Ning ( sunshine )
Webmaster
Declan McMullen ( skyhawk )
System Administrators
Martin Clarke ( prolix )
Dermot Duffy ( dizer )
Martin Harte ( tuama )

=== 2002/03 ===

Chairperson
Nikki Kenny ( kamili )
Secretary
Trevor Johnston ( trevj )
<del>Andrew MacCann ( montoya )</del>
Treasurer
Grainne Sheerin ( dimples )
<del>Neil Walsh ( marvin )</del>
Public Relations Officer
Shane Tallon ( del_boy )
Events Officer
Elaine Bannon (purdy)
<del>Carla Coleman</del>
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Eoin Campbell ( cambo )
Declan McMullen ( skyhawk )
Declan O'Neill ( dec )
<del>Mark Campbell</del>
Webmaster
David Johnston ( emperor )
System Administrators
Mark Dunne ( pixies )
Dermot Duffy ( dizer )
Cillian Sharkey ( cns )

=== 2001/02 ===

Chairperson
Donal Mulligan ( thor )
Secretary
Brian Banbrick ( moridin )
Treasurer
John Canavan ( tibor )
Public Relations Officer
Andrew MacCann ( montoya )
Events Officer
Micheal Glennon ( magluby )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Kevin Dermody ( esoteric )
Nikki Kenny ( kamili )
Neil Walsh ( marvin )
Webmaster
Colm MacCarthaigh ( colmmacc )
System Administrators
Philip Reynolds ( phil )
Mark Campbell ( mark )
Cillian Sharkey ( cns )

=== 2000/01 ===

Chairperson
Karl Podesta ( kpodesta )
Secretary
Brian Banbrick ( moridin )
Treasurer
Jonathan Lundberg ( spock )
Public Relations Officer
Kevin Cannon ( p )
Events Officer
John Canavan ( tibor )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Conor O'Kane ( cokane )
Mark Campbell ( mark )
Donal Hunt ( redgiant )
Webmaster
Barry O'Neill ( bubble )
System Administrators
Philip Reynolds ( phil )
Sarvesh Singh ( macbain )
Noel Fitzpatrick ( noelfitz )
Mark Dunne ( pixies )
Robert Crosbie ( bobb)

=== 1999/2000 ===

Chairperson
Jonathan Lundberg ( spock )
Secretary
Caroline Sheedy ( bootie )
Treasurer
Damien Martin ( otto )
Public Relations Officer
Julie Kerin ( julie )
Events Officer
Orla McGan ( orly )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Conor O'Kane ( cokane )
Nigel Parkes ( elmer )
Eileen Gavin ( munchkin )
Barry O'Neill ( bubble )
Webmaster
Karl Podesta ( kpodesta )
System Administrators
Adam Kelly ( cthulhu )
Hoi Chau Wong ( whc )
Robert Crosbie ( bobb)

=== 1998/99 ===

Chairperson
Justin Moran ( cain )
Secretary
Jonathan Lundberg ( spock )
Treasurer
Caroline Sheedy ( bootie )
Public Relations Officer/Events Officer
Cecily Murray ( celery )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Aoife Cahill ( ace )
Sarvesh Singh ( macbain )
Eoin McGrath ( bob )
Barry O'Neill ( bubble )
Webmaster
Brian Scanlan ( singer )
David Murphy ( drjolt )
System Administrators
Adam Kelly ( cthulhu )
John Looney ( valen )
Hoi Chau Wong ( whc )
Colin Whittaker ( grimnar)
John Bolger (jbolger )
Cian Synnott ( pooka )
Ka Chun Leung ( plop )

=== 1997/98 ===

Chairperson
Patrick Grant ( floppy )
Mike Bennett ( thalia )
Secretary
Jonathan Lundberg ( spock )
Treasurer
Aoife McGoveran ( hms )
Public Relations Officer
Dave O'Flynn ( firefly )
Events Officer
Kevin O'Donovan ( kod )
Education Officers (helpdesk)
Daire McKenna ( fatwa )
Shane O'hUid ( wishkah )
John Barker ( barkerj )
Webmaster
Andrew Lawless ( andy )
System Administrators
Dermot Hanley ( wibble )
Ka Chun Leung ( plop )
David Murphy ( drjolt )

=== 1996/97 ===

Chairperson
Sean Cullen ( hyper )
Secretary
Dermot Hanley ( wibble )
Treasurer
Paraic O'Ceallaigh ( swipe )
Public Relations Officer
Michael McHugh ( sandman )
System Administrators
Fergus Donohue ( fergus )
David Murphy ( drjolt )

[[Category:Encyclopedia]]

Emo

2010-09-18T18:47:10Z

Coconut: /* undone */

After many users both laid claim to and denied their affiliation with the tag "emo", it has been decided that the wiki is the best Redbrick tool with which to lay the matter to rest. Here is a list of known emos on Redbrick and pics with which to both prove their "emoness" and identify/avoid them in the real world.

==aisling==
[[image:aeris.jpg]]
03:20 < Aisling > but i feel emo
^^ Proof enough.

==atlas ==
[[Image:Atlas_emo.jpg]]

Although not showing some of the more classic emo signs this person never seems to be happy, and has almost never been recorded smiling. That, and his other somewhat "unusual" habits make him emo enough for this page.

Saturday, 25th Feb 2007, Doyles Pub
receive: this is ac/dc! enjoy yourself
atlas: I shall do no such thing

== bincheol ==
[[Image:emobinky.jpg]]
[[Image:Emo_binky.jpg]]

16:26 < binncheol > fightstar are EPCI.
16:26 < binncheol > EPIC. even
16:26 < binncheol > seriously one of my favourite bands right now.

[16:58:36] binncheol | 'everything is beautiful and nothing hurts'

Went to Taking Back Sunday - EMO!

== carri ==

16:03:36 < nanaki> carri: you have no heart
16:03:46 <@carri> No. BECAUSE YOU BROKE IT
16:03:48 <@carri> <cut>

carri ? I like taking back sunday.

== doc ==
[[Image:Emo_doc_grey.jpg]]

== dregin ==
[[Image:emo_dregin.JPG]]

'''BREAKING NEWS: '''Dregin just came out of the emo closet to Castle in #lobby. Check [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~dregin/emo_out.txt here] for proof.

There is also evidence of dregin's allegiance to the ultra-faggy ''straight edge'' trend.

13:06 < Attol> someone recently told me they'd gone straight edge, can't remember who
13:07 < Dregin> Attol: It WAS ME!

The proof is undeniable.

== emma ==

10:47 < emma> I hate everything :(

10:47 < emma> I'll just go cut my self

[[Image:Emmagingemo.jpg]]

If this isn't emo.... (also, she's 16 when this was taken.. JAILBAIT++;)

== exzantia ==
[[image:Emo_exzantia.jpg]]

==finch==
[[Image:Emo.jpg]]

== gizmo ==
[[Image:emo gizmo.jpg]]

gizmo's second baptism.

18:23:19 < g1zmo> I'm just an awesome guy
18:26:31 < g1zmo> jesus
18:26:36 < g1zmo> don't all rush to agree with me or anything
18:32:49 < g1zmo> ...
18:32:51 < g1zmo> I fucking hate you guys
18:32:57 < g1zmo> *cut*

== goldfish ==
[[Image:EmoGoldie.jpg]]

14:10 < go|dfish> LIFE IS FUCKING SHIT.
14:10 < joe5ie> an hero time.
14:11 < go|dfish> i hope my manager died in a plane crash on his way back from usa
14:11 < undone> emo|fish

22:35 < go|dfish> because life is shit?
22:35 < go|dfish> </emo>
22:35 < roro> how come??
22:35 < roro> stop being soo EMO

20:10:30 goldfish | i may have to end my life

== hauk ==

01:04:33 < HAUK> I want another life.
01:04:38 < HAUK> This one sucks.
01:04:41 < HAUK> *cut*

==haus==
Image says it all.

[[image:8323_178900470395_505410395_3857158_7804031_n.jpg]]

< haus> ;_;
< haus> I've been cut, cut deep

* haus gets his emo on
* haus - I'm Not Okay - MCR

< haus> He makes me want to cut other people
< elephant> for once

* haus thinks he needs a new blade

Text of http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~haus

Life.
It's all just one big fuck up really. People spend the majority of it looking for somebody else.
Like, what if you never do find that person who's supposed to make you happy? Do you die miserable?
Is anyone ever really always happy? Sure, I've been happy. But it never seems to last.
Happiness, building you up just to shatter it all down again when you won't see it coming since the beginning of time.
So what's the answer to avoid being shattered? Not letting anything external to your own body/mind.
That'll never work. You'll die alone like that.
But maybe it is better to die alone rather than just get hurt, over and over again.
I sure know I'm sick of being hurt, aren't you?

== lil_cain ==

[[Image:Lil cain emo.jpg]]

Recently spotted at the DCU Clubs & Socs Ball. Notice the anger expressed on his visage.

15:36 < lil_cain> hello great depression
15:37 < lil_cain> time to start stockpiling cigarettes, alchol, and razorblades me thinks

In Clubs and Socs: "I resign from life!"

EEEMMMOOOOO!!!!

== maK ==
[[Image:426404945a4491595700b660418857l.jpg]]
[19:12:26] maK | thisrbthingisreallyboring.
[19:13:07] maK | ilikeditatfirstbutnownoonetalknsaboutanythinelsebutinsults.

12:43 < maK> is this not hell already?
12:44 < maK> you cant feel pain when your dead.
12:44 < maK> death > life.
12:45 < maK> ;_;
12:45 < maK> *slit*

== marvin ==
[[Image:Marvin.jpg]]
[13:52:29] marvin | life is a heap of shit
[13:52:32] marvin | good riddance

== Merchelo ==

19:35 < Merchelo> it's true
19:35 < Merchelo> my friends call me lovely so i don't cut myself
19:35 < Merchelo> *cut*

== nemo ==
[14:08] * nemo prays for the sweet release of death.

His name even has the word "emo" in it. How much more evidence do you need?

==ornat==
[[Image:emo_ornat.jpg]]

Don't let this user's seemingly happy facade fool you, as this photo evidence proves her emoness. Also has a strange obsession with hugs.

==phaxx==
[[Image:DSC01727.jpg]]

Apart from the trademark frown, phaxx appears here to be taking an uncharacteristically feminine interest in hair, make-up and wearing womens clothing; all hallmarks of the emo.

==tiroskan==

In clubs and socs office: "I'm too tired for life ;_;"

== twiggy ==
[[Image:emo_twiggy.JPG]]
Likes to mention the war - emo.

[13:41:46] @twiggy | i wasn't about to suggest i was going to

[13:41:51] @twiggy | I'm clearly not welcome

[13:41:55] @Zyox | YEAH

[13:41:56] @twiggy | *cuts wrists*

[13:42:05] -*- twiggy cries emo tears

== undone ==
[[Image:Undone_emo.JPG]]

Photographical evidence of undone on the loose in the real world has proven hard to come by.
He has made it onto the list due to his constant claims to haircare prowess and threats to kill his parents in #lobby. Any better pictures may save the life of many an ill-educated DCU student should they approach him unaware of his "emoness" so, please act with the utmost urgency in passing these on.

coconut: Away cutting himself.

undone: i was just finding a razor

undone: gonna do it now

undone: liveblogging

== zero ==
[[Image:Emo_zero.jpg]]

WAF!

Note: zero is no longer a member of RedBrick due to his epic exam fail and subsequent dropping out. Fagwaffery.

== zyox ==
[[Image:ZyoxHair.jpg]]

Although many have long suspected zyox of being emo, evidence has only recently come to light:

14:05:01 < Zyox> pain is good
14:05:06 < Zyox> it reminds me im still alive
14:05:10 < Zyox> ;_;
14:05:12 < Zyox> *cut*

[[Category:Humour]]

Emo

2010-09-18T18:46:34Z

Coconut: /* undone */

After many users both laid claim to and denied their affiliation with the tag "emo", it has been decided that the wiki is the best Redbrick tool with which to lay the matter to rest. Here is a list of known emos on Redbrick and pics with which to both prove their "emoness" and identify/avoid them in the real world.

==aisling==
[[image:aeris.jpg]]
03:20 < Aisling > but i feel emo
^^ Proof enough.

==atlas ==
[[Image:Atlas_emo.jpg]]

Although not showing some of the more classic emo signs this person never seems to be happy, and has almost never been recorded smiling. That, and his other somewhat "unusual" habits make him emo enough for this page.

Saturday, 25th Feb 2007, Doyles Pub
receive: this is ac/dc! enjoy yourself
atlas: I shall do no such thing

== bincheol ==
[[Image:emobinky.jpg]]
[[Image:Emo_binky.jpg]]

16:26 < binncheol > fightstar are EPCI.
16:26 < binncheol > EPIC. even
16:26 < binncheol > seriously one of my favourite bands right now.

[16:58:36] binncheol | 'everything is beautiful and nothing hurts'

Went to Taking Back Sunday - EMO!

== carri ==

16:03:36 < nanaki> carri: you have no heart
16:03:46 <@carri> No. BECAUSE YOU BROKE IT
16:03:48 <@carri> <cut>

carri ? I like taking back sunday.

== doc ==
[[Image:Emo_doc_grey.jpg]]

== dregin ==
[[Image:emo_dregin.JPG]]

'''BREAKING NEWS: '''Dregin just came out of the emo closet to Castle in #lobby. Check [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~dregin/emo_out.txt here] for proof.

There is also evidence of dregin's allegiance to the ultra-faggy ''straight edge'' trend.

13:06 < Attol> someone recently told me they'd gone straight edge, can't remember who
13:07 < Dregin> Attol: It WAS ME!

The proof is undeniable.

== emma ==

10:47 < emma> I hate everything :(

10:47 < emma> I'll just go cut my self

[[Image:Emmagingemo.jpg]]

If this isn't emo.... (also, she's 16 when this was taken.. JAILBAIT++;)

== exzantia ==
[[image:Emo_exzantia.jpg]]

==finch==
[[Image:Emo.jpg]]

== gizmo ==
[[Image:emo gizmo.jpg]]

gizmo's second baptism.

18:23:19 < g1zmo> I'm just an awesome guy
18:26:31 < g1zmo> jesus
18:26:36 < g1zmo> don't all rush to agree with me or anything
18:32:49 < g1zmo> ...
18:32:51 < g1zmo> I fucking hate you guys
18:32:57 < g1zmo> *cut*

== goldfish ==
[[Image:EmoGoldie.jpg]]

14:10 < go|dfish> LIFE IS FUCKING SHIT.
14:10 < joe5ie> an hero time.
14:11 < go|dfish> i hope my manager died in a plane crash on his way back from usa
14:11 < undone> emo|fish

22:35 < go|dfish> because life is shit?
22:35 < go|dfish> </emo>
22:35 < roro> how come??
22:35 < roro> stop being soo EMO

20:10:30 goldfish | i may have to end my life

== hauk ==

01:04:33 < HAUK> I want another life.
01:04:38 < HAUK> This one sucks.
01:04:41 < HAUK> *cut*

==haus==
Image says it all.

[[image:8323_178900470395_505410395_3857158_7804031_n.jpg]]

< haus> ;_;
< haus> I've been cut, cut deep

* haus gets his emo on
* haus - I'm Not Okay - MCR

< haus> He makes me want to cut other people
< elephant> for once

* haus thinks he needs a new blade

Text of http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~haus

Life.
It's all just one big fuck up really. People spend the majority of it looking for somebody else.
Like, what if you never do find that person who's supposed to make you happy? Do you die miserable?
Is anyone ever really always happy? Sure, I've been happy. But it never seems to last.
Happiness, building you up just to shatter it all down again when you won't see it coming since the beginning of time.
So what's the answer to avoid being shattered? Not letting anything external to your own body/mind.
That'll never work. You'll die alone like that.
But maybe it is better to die alone rather than just get hurt, over and over again.
I sure know I'm sick of being hurt, aren't you?

== lil_cain ==

[[Image:Lil cain emo.jpg]]

Recently spotted at the DCU Clubs & Socs Ball. Notice the anger expressed on his visage.

15:36 < lil_cain> hello great depression
15:37 < lil_cain> time to start stockpiling cigarettes, alchol, and razorblades me thinks

In Clubs and Socs: "I resign from life!"

EEEMMMOOOOO!!!!

== maK ==
[[Image:426404945a4491595700b660418857l.jpg]]
[19:12:26] maK | thisrbthingisreallyboring.
[19:13:07] maK | ilikeditatfirstbutnownoonetalknsaboutanythinelsebutinsults.

12:43 < maK> is this not hell already?
12:44 < maK> you cant feel pain when your dead.
12:44 < maK> death > life.
12:45 < maK> ;_;
12:45 < maK> *slit*

== marvin ==
[[Image:Marvin.jpg]]
[13:52:29] marvin | life is a heap of shit
[13:52:32] marvin | good riddance

== Merchelo ==

19:35 < Merchelo> it's true
19:35 < Merchelo> my friends call me lovely so i don't cut myself
19:35 < Merchelo> *cut*

== nemo ==
[14:08] * nemo prays for the sweet release of death.

His name even has the word "emo" in it. How much more evidence do you need?

==ornat==
[[Image:emo_ornat.jpg]]

Don't let this user's seemingly happy facade fool you, as this photo evidence proves her emoness. Also has a strange obsession with hugs.

==phaxx==
[[Image:DSC01727.jpg]]

Apart from the trademark frown, phaxx appears here to be taking an uncharacteristically feminine interest in hair, make-up and wearing womens clothing; all hallmarks of the emo.

==tiroskan==

In clubs and socs office: "I'm too tired for life ;_;"

== twiggy ==
[[Image:emo_twiggy.JPG]]
Likes to mention the war - emo.

[13:41:46] @twiggy | i wasn't about to suggest i was going to

[13:41:51] @twiggy | I'm clearly not welcome

[13:41:55] @Zyox | YEAH

[13:41:56] @twiggy | *cuts wrists*

[13:42:05] -*- twiggy cries emo tears

== undone ==
[[Image:Undone_emo.JPG]]

Photographical evidence of undone on the loose in the real world has proven hard to come by.
He has made it onto the list due to his constant claims to haircare prowess and threats to kill his parents in #lobby. Any better pictures may save the life of many an ill-educated DCU student should they approach him unaware of his "emoness" so, please act with the utmost urgency in passing these on.

coconut: Away cutting himself.
undone: i was just finding a razor
undone: gonna do it now
undone: liveblogging

== zero ==
[[Image:Emo_zero.jpg]]

WAF!

Note: zero is no longer a member of RedBrick due to his epic exam fail and subsequent dropping out. Fagwaffery.

== zyox ==
[[Image:ZyoxHair.jpg]]

Although many have long suspected zyox of being emo, evidence has only recently come to light:

14:05:01 < Zyox> pain is good
14:05:06 < Zyox> it reminds me im still alive
14:05:10 < Zyox> ;_;
14:05:12 < Zyox> *cut*

[[Category:Humour]]

Committee Timeline

2010-06-07T14:14:08Z

Coconut: I never used my first name in Irish etc.

A visual overview of who did what, when.

This gets less accurate the further back you go in time - I was working off the [[Committee]] page, making guesses at who resigned, when. 2006 onwards should be fairly accurate (working from memory). Feel free to make any corrections (it's a pig of a table, though, so you might want to work on it offline, and abuse the Show Preview function a bit).

At the very least, it shows the sheer number of people (and man hours) who have been involved in running Redbrick at one point or another.

(Idea stolen from [https://wiki.skynet.ie/Committee/CommitteeThroughThe_Ages Skynet]).

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
! Semester !! Chairperson !! Secretary !! Treasurer !! Events Officer !! Public Relations Officer !! First Year Rep !! Helpdesk 1 !! Helpdesk 2 !! Helpdesk 3 !! Webmaster !! Admin 1 !! Admin 2 !! Admin 3
|-
| 1996 Q3
|rowspan="4" style="background:greenyellow"|Sean Cullen ([[User:hyper|hyper]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:orangered;color:white"|Dermot Hanley ([[User:wibble|wibble]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:darkslateblue;color:white"|Paraic O'Ceallaigh ([[User:swipe|swipe]])
|style="background:dimgray"|
|rowspan="4" style="background:gold"|Micheal McHugh ([[User:sandman|sandman]])
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|rowspan="8" style="background:red;color:white"|David Murphy ([[User:drjolt|drjolt]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:purple;color:white"|Fergus Donohue ([[User:fergus|fergus]])
|style="background:dimgray"|
|-
|1996 Q4
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|-
| 1997 Q1
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|-
|1997 Q2
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|-
| 1997 Q3
|rowspan="2" style="background:plum"|Patrick Gannt ([[User:floppy|floppy]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:skyblue"|Jonathan Lundberg ([[User:spock|spock]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightcyan"|Aoife McGoveran ([[User:hms|hms]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:brown;color:white"|Kevin O'Donovan ([[User:kod|kod]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:green;color:white"|Dave O'Flynn ([[User:firefly|firefly]])
|style="background:dimgray"|
|rowspan="4" style="background:peachpuff"|Daire McKenna ([[User:fatwa|fatwa]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:indigo;color:white"|Shane O'hUid ([[User:wishkah|wishkah]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:silver"|John Barker ([[User:barkerj|barkerj]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:orange"|Andrew Lawless ([[User:andy|andy]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:orangered;color:white"|Dermot Hanley ([[User:wibble|wibble]])
|rowspan="5" style="background:olive;color:white"|Ka Chun Leung ([[User:plop|plop]])
|-
|1997 Q4
|style="background:dimgray"|
|-
| 1998 Q1
|rowspan="2" style="background:lightpink"|Mike Bennett ([[User:thalia|thalia]])
|style="background:dimgray"|
|-
|1998 Q2
|style="background:dimgray"|
|-
| 1998 Q3
|rowspan="4" style="background:YellowGreen"| Justin Moran ([[User:cain|cain]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:greenyellow"|Caroline Sheedy ([[Username:bootie|bootie]])
|style="background:dimgray"|
|rowspan="4" style="background:yellow"|Cecily Murray ([[Username:celery|celery]])
|style="background:dimgray"|
|rowspan="2" style="background:RoyalBlue;color:white"|Aoife Cahill ([[Username:ace|ace]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:blue;color:white"|Barry O'Neill ([[User:bubble|bubble]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:plum"|Sarvesh Singh ([[User:macbain|macbain]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:red;color:white"|David Murphy ([[User:drjolt|drjolt]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:mediumspringgreen"|Cian Synnott ([[User:pooka|pooka]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:khaki"|Colin Whittaker ([[User:grimnar|grimnar]])
|-
|1998 Q4
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:tomato"|John Bolger ([[Username:jbolger|jbolger]])
|-
|1999 Q1
|style="background:dimgray"|
|style="background:dimgray"|
|rowspan="2" style="background:khaki"|Eoin McGrath ([[User:bob|bob]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:LightSteelBlue"|Brian Scanlan ([[User:singer|singer]])
|rowspan="6" style="background:Crimson;color:white"|Adam Kelly ([[User:cthulu|cthulu]])
|rowspan="6" style="background:peachpuff"|Hoi Chau Wong ([[User:whc|whc]])
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|1999 Q2
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|rowspan="4" style="background:skyblue"|Jonathan Lundberg ([[User:spock|spock]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:greenyellow"|Caroline Sheedy ([[User:bootie|bootie]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:orangered;color:white"|Damien Martin ([[User:otto|otto]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:khaki"|Orla McGan ([[User:orly|orly]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightpink"|Julie Kerin ([[User:julie|julie]])
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|rowspan="8" style="background:gold"|Conor O'Kane ([[Username:cokane|cokane]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:darkslateblue;color:white"|Nigel Parkes ([[Username:elmer|elmer]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:silver"|Karl Podesta ([[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:YellowGreen"|Robert Crosbie ([[Username:bobb|bobb]])
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|1999 Q4
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|2000 Q1
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|2000 Q2
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|2000 Q3
|rowspan="4" style="background:silver"|Karl Podesta ([[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:olive;color:white"|Brian Banbrick ([[User:moridin|moridin]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:skyblue"|Jonathan Lundberg ([[User:spock|spock]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:LightSteelBlue"|John Canavan ([[User:tibor|tibor]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:mediumspringgreen"|Kevin Cannon ([[User:p|p]])
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|rowspan="4" style="color:white;background:brown"|Mark Campbell ([[User:mark|mark]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightcyan"|Donal Hunt ([[User:redgiant|redgiant]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:blue;color:white"|Barry O'Neill ([[User:bubble|bubble]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:DarkRed;color:white"|Philip Reynolds ([[Username:phil|phil]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:plum"|Sarvesh Singh ([[Username:macbain|macbain]])
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|2000 Q4
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|rowspan="2" style="background:purple;color:white"|Mark Dunne ([[User:pixies|pixies]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:greenyellow"|Noel Fitzpatrick ([[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]])
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|2001 Q2
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|rowspan="4" style="background:peachpuff"|Donal Mulligan ([[User:thor|thor]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:LightSteelBlue"|John Canavan ([[User:tibor|tibor]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:orange"|Micheal Glennon ([[User:magluby|magluby]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:greenyellow"|Andrew MacCann ([[User:montoya|montoya]])
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|rowspan="4" style="background:Crimson;color:white"|Kevin Dermody ([[User:esoteric|esoteric]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightpink"|Nikki Kenny ([[User:kamili|kamili]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:RoyalBlue;color:white"|Neil Walsh ([[User:marvin|marvin]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:orangered;color:white"|Colm MacCarthaigh ([[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:DarkRed;color:white"|Philip Reynolds ([[Username:phil|phil]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:orange"|Cillian Sharkey ([[User:cns|cns]])
|rowspan="4" style="color:white;background:brown"|Mark Campbell ([[User:mark|mark]])
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|rowspan="2" style="background:greenyellow"|Andrew MacCann ([[User:montoya|montoya]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:RoyalBlue;color:white"|Neil Walsh ([[User:marvin|marvin]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:tomato"|Carla Coleman ([[User:angel|angel]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightcyan"|Shane Tallon ([[User:del_boy|del_boy]])
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|rowspan="8" style="background:aquamarine"|Eoin Campbell ([[User:cambo|cambo]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:red;color:white"|Declan McMullen ([[User:skyhawk|skyhawk]])
|rowspan="2" style="color:white;background:brown"|Mark Campbell ([[User:mark|mark]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:olive;color:white"|David Johnston ([[User:emperor|emperor]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:darkslateblue;color:white"|Dermot Duffy ([[User:dizer|dizer]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:purple;color:white"|Mark Dunne ([[User:pixies|pixies]])
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|rowspan="2" style="background:Crimson;color:white"|Trevor Johnston ([[User:trevj|trevj]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:khaki"|Grainne Sheerin ([[User:dimples|dimples]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:YellowGreen"|Elaine Bannon ([[User:purdy|purdy]])
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|rowspan="4" style="background:orange"|Cillian Sharkey ([[User:cns|cns]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:gold"|Martina Frain ([[User:dramaq|dramaq]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:RoyalBlue;color:white"|Aisling Devlin ([[User:aeris|aeris]])
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|rowspan="4" style="background:coral"|Sun Ning ([[User:sunshine|sunshine]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:red;color:white"|Declan McMullen ([[User:skyhawk|skyhawk]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:LightSteelBlue"|Martin Clarke ([[User:prolix|prolix]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:tomato"|Martin Harte ([[User:tuama|tuama]])
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|rowspan="2" style="background:peachpuff"|Donal Mulligan ([[User:thor|thor]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:DarkRed;color:white"|Charlene Barrett ([[User:charlene|charlene]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:green;color:white"|Mark Grenham ([[User:kyper|kyper]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:gold"|Martina Frain ([[User:dramaq|dramaq]])
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|rowspan="4" style="background:mediumspringgreen"|John Doyle ([[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:indigo;color:white"|Eoghan Gaffney ([[User:atlas|atlas]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:tomato"|David Whelan ([[User:biteme|biteme]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:plum"|Charlie Von Metzradt ([[User:phaxx|phaxx]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:Crimson;color:white"|Michael Dowling ([[User:mickeyd|mickeyd]])
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|rowspan="4" style="color:white;background:brown"|Kenneth Barrett ([[User:sionnach|sionnach]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightcyan"|Bernard McKeever ([[User:dregin|dregin]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightpink"|Jessica Ní Chonchubair ([[User:jesjes|jesjes]])
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|rowspan="8" style="background:darkslateblue;color:white"|Simon Kilroy ([[User:gizmo|gizmo]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:khaki"|Graham Bishop ([[User:winters|winters]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:skyblue"|Una Kehoe ([[User:keloe|keloe]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:indigo;color:white"|Eoghan Gaffney ([[User:atlas|atlas]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:DarkRed;color:white"|Stephen Ryan ([[User:ryaner|ryaner]])
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|rowspan="4" style="background:lightpink"|Jessica Ni Chonchubhair ([[User:jesjes|jesjes]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:red;color:white"|Andrew Harford ([[User:receive|receive]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:purple;color:white"|Kat Farrell ([[User:angelkat|angelkat]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:orange"|Padraig O'Connor ([[User:landa2|landa2]])
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|rowspan="4" style="background:greenyellow"|Kevin Fox ([[User:undone|undone]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:coral"|Diarmuid Bourke ([[User:drag0n|drag0n]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:mediumspringgreen"|John Doyle ([[User:art_wolf]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:RoyalBlue;color:white"|Sarunas Vancevicius ([[User:svan|svan]])
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| 2006 Q4
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| 2007 Q1
|rowspan="6" style="background:olive;color:white"|Damien Rhatigan ([[User:dano|dano]])
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|2007 Q3
|rowspan="4" style="background:red;color:white"|Andrew Harford ([[User:receive|receive]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:greenyellow"|Kevin Fox ([[User:undone|undone]])
|style="background:peachpuff"|Ashley Samuel Dooley Martyn ([[User:mythe|mythe]])
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|rowspan="2" style="background:lightcyan"|Matthew Barrington ([[User:moju|moju]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightsalmon"|Eoghan Cotter ([[User:johan|johan]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:YellowGreen"|Declan Whelan ([[User:castle|castle]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:silver"|Richard Dalton ([[User:d_fens|d_fens]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:gold"|Andrew Martin ([[User:werdz|werdz]])
|style="background:coral"|Diarmuid Bourke ([[User:drag0n|drag0n]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:skyblue"|Cian Brennan ([[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]])
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|2007 Q4
|rowspan="3" style="background:aquamarine"|Amy Corrigan ([[User:corriga6|corriga6]])
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|2008 Q1
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|rowspan="2" style="background:orange"|Padraig O'Connor ([[User:landa2|landa2]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:green;color:white"|David Lynam ([[User:coconut|coconut]])
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|style="background:coral"|Robert O'Reilly ([[User:robby|robby]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:olive;color:white"|Damien Rhatigan ([[User:dano|dano]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:plum"|Leah Doyle ([[User:bambi|bambi]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:blue;color:white"|Lotta Mikkonen ([[User:attol|attol]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:RoyalBlue;color:white"|John Needham ([[User:colossus|colossus]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:yellow"|Emma Gallagher ([[User:emma|emma]])
|rowspan="2" style="color:white;background:brown"|Sean Hand ([[User:revenant|revenant]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:orangered;color:white"|Séamus Ronan ([[User:train|train]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:peachpuff"|Gavin Tubritt ([[User:gamblitis|gamblitis]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:gold"|Andrew Martin ([[User:werdz|werdz]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:red;color:white"|Andrew Harford ([[User:receive|receive]])
|rowspan="8" style="background:lightsalmon"|Eoghan Cotter ([[User:johan|johan]])
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|2008 Q4
|rowspan="3" style="background:purple;color:white"|Kat Farrell ([[User:angelkat|angelkat]])
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|2009 Q1
|rowspan="2" style="background:khaki"|Carri Fuery ([[User:carri|carri]])
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|rowspan="4" style="background:blue;color:white"|Lotta Mikkonen ([[User:attol|attol]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:yellow"|Emma Gallagher ([[User:emma|emma]])
|rowspan="4" style="color:white;background:brown"|Sean Hand ([[User:revenant|revenant]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:khaki"|Carri Fuery ([[User:carri|carri]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:silver"|Dan Fox ([[User:maiden|maiden]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:greenyellow"|David Glennon ([[User:azrael|azrael]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:lightpink"|Austin Halpin ([[User:haus|haus]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:lightcyan"|Diarmaid McManus ([[User:elephant|elephant]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:mediumspringgreen"|Gautam Wadhwa ([[User:gw|gw]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:purple;color:white"|Kat Farrell ([[User:angelkat|angelkat]])
|style="background:green;color:white"|David Lynam ([[User:coconut|coconut]])
|rowspan="4" style="background:plum"|Alan Breathnach ([[User:sonic|sonic]])
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|2009 Q4
|rowspan="3" style="background:gold"|Andrew Martin ([[User:werdz|werdz]])
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|2010 Q1
|rowspan="2" style="background:coral"|Stephanie Coleman ([[User:steph|steph]])
|rowspan="2" style="background:darkslateblue;color:white"|Craig Gavagan MacEntee ([[User:credak|credak]])
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User:Coconut

2010-03-05T20:50:09Z

Coconut:

RedBrick is for spas.

Committee Timeline

2010-03-05T20:49:03Z

Coconut: Some people just can't get names right.

A visual overview of who did what, when.

(Idea stolen from [https://wiki.skynet.ie/Committee/CommitteeThroughThe_Ages Skynet]).

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
! Semester !! Chairperson !! Secretary !! Treasurer !! Events Officer !! Public Relations Officer !! First Year Rep !! Helpdesk 1 !! Helpdesk 2 !! Helpdesk 3 !! Webmaster !! Admin 1 !! Admin 2 !! Admin 3
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| 1996 H2
|rowspan="2"|Sean Cullen ([[User:hyper|hyper]])
|rowspan="2"|Dermot Hanley ([[User:wibble|wibble]])
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| Patrick Gannt ([[User:floppy|floppy]])
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| Mike Bennett ([[User:thalia|thalia]])

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|rowspan="2"|Jonathan Lundberg([[User:spock|spock]])
|rowspan="2"|Caroline Sheedy ([[User:bootie|bootie]])
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|rowspan="2"|Karl Podesta ([[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]])
|rowspan="4"|Brian Banbrick ([[User:moridin|moridin]])
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|rowspan="2"|David Johnston ([[User:emperor|emperor]])
|rowspan="2"|Cillian Sharkey ([[User:cns|cns]])
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|rowspan="4"|Michelle Graham ([[User:drusilla|drusilla]])
|Donal Mulligan ([[User:thor|thor]])
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|rowspan="2"|David Couse ([[User:phreak|phreak]])
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|rowspan="2"|Charlie Von Metzradt ([[User:phaxx|phaxx]])
|rowspan="2"|Jessica Ni Chonchubhair ([[User:jesjes|jesjes]])
|rowspan="2"|Andrew Harford ([[User:receive|receive]])
|rowspan="4"|Kat Farrell ([[User:angelkat|angelkat]])
|Padraig O'Connor ([[User:landa2|landa2]])
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|rowspan="2"|Kevin Fox ([[User:undone|undone]])
|rowspan="2"|Simon Kilroy ([[User:gizmo|gizmo]])
|rowspan="2"|Diarmuid Bourke ([[User:drag0n|drag0n]])
|rowspan="2"|John Doyle ([[User:art_wolf]])
|rowspan="2"|Sarunas Vancevicius ([[User:svan|svan]])

|rowspan="2"|Stephan Doyle ([[User:igy|igy]])
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| 2007 H1

|Damien Rhatigan ([[User:dano|dano]])
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| 2007 H2
|rowspan="2"|Andrew Harford ([[User:receive|receive]])
|rowspan="2"|Kevin Fox ([[User:undone|undone]])
|Ashley Samuel Dooley Martyn ([[User:mythe|mythe]])

|rowspan="2"|Damian Rhatigan ([[User:dano|dano]])
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|Matthew Barrington ([[User:moju|moju]])
|rowspan="2"|Eoghan Cotter ([[User:johan|johan]])
|Declan Whelan ([[User:castle|castle]])
|rowspan="2"|Richard Dalton ([[User:d_fens|d_fens]])
|rowspan="2"|Andrew Martin ([[User:werdz|werdz]])
|Diarmaid Bourke ([[User:drag0n|drag0n]])
|rowspan="4"|Cian Brennan ([[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]])
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| 2008 H1

|Amy Corrigan ([[User:corriga6|corriga6]])

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|David Lynam ([[User:coconut|coconut]])

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| 2008 H2
|rowspan="2"|Briefly: Robert O'Reilly ([[User:robby|robby]])
Kat Farrell ([[User:angelkat|angelkat]])
|rowspan="2"|Damien Rhatigan ([[User:dano|dano]])
|rowspan="2"|Leah Doyle ([[User:bambi|bambi]])
|rowspan="2"|Lotta Mikkonen ([[User:attol|attol]])
|John Needham ([[User:colossus|colossus]])
|rowspan="2"|Emma Gallagher ([[User:emma|emma]])
|Seán Hand ([[User:revenant|revenant]])
|rowspan="2"|Séamus Ronan ([[User:train|train]])
|Gavin Tubritt ([[User:gamblitis|gamblitis]])
|rowspan="2"|Andrew Martin ([[User:werdz|werdz]])
|rowspan="2"|Andrew Harford ([[User:receive|receive]])
|rowspan="4"|Eoghan Cotter ([[User:johan]])

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|Carri Fuery ([[User:carri|carri]])

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|rowspan="2"|Lotta Mikkonen ([[User:attol|attol]])
|rowspan="2"|Emma Gallagher ([[User:emma|emma]])
|rowspan="2"|Sean Hand ([[User:revenant|revenant]])
|Carri Fuery ([[User:carri|carri]])
|rowspan="2"|Dan Fox ([[User:maiden|maiden]])
|rowspan="2"|David Glennon ([[User:azrael|azrael]])
|Austin Halpin ([[User:haus|haus]])
|rowspan="2"|Diarmaid McManus ([[User:elephant|elephant]])
|rowspan="2"|Gautam Wadhwa ([[User:gw|gw]])
|rowspan="2"|Kat Farrell ([[User:angelkat|angelkat]])
|David Lynam ([[User:coconut|coconut]])

|rowspan="2"|Alan Walsh ([[User:sonic|sonic]])
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| 2010 H1

|Stephanie Coleman ([[User:steph|steph]])

|Craig Gavagan MacEntee ([[User:credak|credak]])

|Andrew Martin ([[User:werdz|werdz]])

|}

Template:MainPageAbout

2009-10-06T10:51:01Z

Coconut:

<div style="background:#f3f3f3">'''If you are new to RedBrick, please read our [[Intro|introduction]].'''

'''For help with the Kubuntu DVD you may have received, you can take a look at the [[RedBrick Kubuntu Manual|manual]].'''

This is the RedBrick wiki! The idea behind this site is that you - as a RedBrick member - maintain it. If there is something you'd like to see here, you add it. If you find something wrong, you correct it. It couldn't be easier. You can [[Special:Userlogin|log in]] with your username and password to edit and add pages.

There are currently [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles here, and it's a mixture of helpful hints, ridiculous rubbish and complete hilarity. To the right you will see several categories: if you are looking for help on how to do something, try '''How To''' and '''Helpdesk'''.</div>

RedBrick Kubuntu Manual

2009-10-05T18:26:40Z

Coconut:

Welcome to the RedBrick edition of Kubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope!

==Introduction==

Kubuntu is a variant of Ubuntu which uses the KDE desktop environment. Ubuntu has become popular in recent years, so you may have heard of
it before: it is a distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system. GNU/Linux is free software (free as in freedom; you can modify and redistribute
it at will) and is essentially a clone of the original Unix operating system. Confusing, isn't it? You don't have to know any of that, I was just
filling you in.

Building from the success of the last RedBrick Ubuntu release, we decided this year to make it easier to use and more accessible to new members who
may have never used a Unix-based system before. The switch to KDE should hopefully help people move away from Windows to free software.

If you are new to the non-Windows world, you may find this whole experience daunting to begin with. Don't worry, this operating system is very
user-friendly and as a member of RedBrick you'll have access to limitless assistance and tips on how to get comfortable with it.

==Getting started==

Please read the disclaimer at the end of this document.

If you feel confused or lost as to what to do, don't panic! You can ask for help at any time from RedBrick's [[helpdesk]].

We will be holding our annual [[Installfest]] around week 4 of semester one for anyone who would like to see how you can install, use and get the most from a GNU/Linux
operating system such as this one. Helpdesk and the system administrators will be there to help anyone who needs it. Keep an eye on your RedBrick e-mail
and the website (www.redbrick.dcu.ie) for updates on this event.

Place the DVD into your computer's DVD drive and switch it on. If your BIOS is set to boot from a disc, you will see a black screen with white text,
with

boot: _

at the end. If you wish to start the live session (meaning you can use the system without having to install it), just press enter.
To install, type "install" and press enter. Installation tips are provided further down.

==Live session==

[[Image:Kubuntudesktop.png|left|thumb|320px|The desktop]]

A live session loads the operating system directly from the DVD. This means you will make no changes to your hard disk. However, it also means that
nothing you do while using the live session will be saved following a reboot or shut-down; this includes documents, music and system settings, so
please ensure to back up anything important before shutting down.

The "Kubuntu" logo should appear on your screen above a progress bar. Please be patient; as optical discs are much slower to read from than hard
disks, this may take several minutes to load. When it does, you should be taken straight to the desktop, which comprises of:

===Widgets===

Also known as "plasmoids", these include the Desktop folder view, the taskbar among other things.

===Wallpaper===

Say hello. To the left, we have a gnu (wildebeest), mascot of the GNU Project. Beside him is Tux, the mascot of the Linux kernel. If you plan on staying part of the Unix world, you'll meet these lads quite often on your travels.

===Desktop===

This is the "bubble" at the top which contains icons.

'''Connect to RedBrick'''

Double-click this icon to get connected to RedBrick straight away!

'''Firefox Web Browser'''

The free, secure web browser which needs no introduction. Adobe Flash is pre-installed.

'''Kopete'''

Instant messaging client which supports MSN/WLM, AIM, ICQ and others. Includes "Off the Record" encryption.

'''KMail'''

The KDE mail client. You can configure this to use any address you like.

'''KTorrent'''

The KDE BitTorrent client. Download your ISOs (or whatever you like) with this handy tool.

'''Wastebin'''

Equivalent to the Recycle Bin in Windows. Deleted files/folders go here.

'''Amarok'''

Music player. Organise your playlists. Also supports portable players including Creative Zen and iPods.

'''VLC media player'''

The media player that plays almost everything, including DVDs, videos and music.

'''K3b'''

Create and edit DVDs and CDs.

'''GIMP Image Editor'''

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a free alternative to Photoshop.

'''Konsole'''

Terminal program. Use this for all your command-line needs.

'''Media player plasmoid'''

Allows you to control Amarok from your desktop.

===Taskbar===

'''Kickoff (K) button'''

Similar to the Start/Windows button, this allows you access to your programs, devices and network machines.

'''Home folder'''

Photos, music, videos and source code files. Store everything here.

'''Show desktop'''

Click to display the desktop by minimising all open windows. Click again to restore them.

'''Task manager'''

Displays all your open windows in a neat little row. Empty until you open something.

'''Desktop switcher'''

Too much clutter? Switch to another desktop to start afresh. Handy for dividing your tasks.

'''Plasma dashboard'''

Access all the Plasma widgets currently on display.

'''Attached devices'''

Show recently plugged in devices, including optical discs, USB drives etc.

'''System tray'''

Minimised programs and notifications will appear here. Also contains Klipper and Network manager by default.

'''Klipper'''

View and mess around with items you have copied to the clipboard.

'''Network manager'''

Edit network settings or connect to a particular wired/wireless network.

'''Weather'''

Shows the current weather in Dublin. Can be changed to a different location.

'''Clock'''

Gives you the time. Click to show a calendar with holidays which are observed in Ireland.

'''Desktop settings'''

Change desktop settings, add widgets and so on.

===The Internet===

Connecting to the Internet from DCU requires changing a setting which enables your computer to route traffic via the DCU proxy server.

Click the '''Kickoff (K) button''' -> '''Computer''' -> '''System Settings''' -> '''Network Settings''' -> '''Proxy'''.

If you select '''Use proxy configuration URL:''', the URL is: http://proxy.dcu.ie/proxy.pac
This may not work with some programs, so we recommend using "Manually specify the proxy settings", then '''Setup...'''

Enter for HTTP either: '''http://proxy.dcu.ie''' (port '''8080''') or '''http://proxy3.dcu.ie''' (port '''3128''')

Select '''Use the same proxy server for all protocols'''.

If this does not work, you may have to set proxies another way.

For Firefox:

[[Image:Firefoxproxy.png|left|thumb|320px|The desktop]]

You can also open Konsole from your desktop like so:

[[Image:Terminalproxy.png|left|thumb|320px|The desktop]]

To unset this:

unset http_proxy

==Installing to hard disk==

So, either you're ridding yourself of Windows or you want to install Kubuntu alongside Windows... either way, installing is the way to go.

You must understand that installing two operating systems alongside each other carries serious risk. If you do not know what you are doing, DO NOT
PROCEED ANY FURTHER. An improper installation could result in either or both systems becoming unusable and/or irrecoverable loss of data on the hard disk.

If you wish to erase Windows and replace it with Kubuntu, please back up any important documents or files before doing so.

Please CAREFULLY read the disclaimer at the end of this document before proceeding.

When you reach the

boot: _

screen, type "install" in and press enter.

You will be taken through the installation process, which will involve partitioning your hard disk.

Please see the following link for more information: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/117051

==Disclaimer==

RedBrick, its committee nor any of its individual members can be held responsible for any adverse effects which may arise for the use of this disc, nor for any advice
given on the operation or use of this disc or its operating system. We also cannot be held responsible for user error or negligence; installing an operating system and
partitioning a hard disk come with considerable risk, and require knowledge of the subject matter.

THIS KUBUNTU DVD IS SUPPLIED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, NOT EVEN IMPLIED WARRANTY.

File:Terminalproxy.png

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Coconut:

File:Firefoxproxy.png

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Coconut:

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Coconut:

RedBrick Kubuntu Manual

2009-10-05T17:51:08Z

Coconut: New page: Welcome to the RedBrick edition of Kubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope! ==Introduction== Kubuntu is a variant of Ubuntu which uses the KDE desktop environment. Ubuntu has become popular i...

Welcome to the RedBrick edition of Kubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope!

==Introduction==

Kubuntu is a variant of Ubuntu which uses the KDE desktop environment. Ubuntu has become popular in recent years, so you may have heard of
it before: it is a distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system. GNU/Linux is free software (free as in freedom; you can modify and redistribute
it at will) and is essentially a clone of the original Unix operating system. Confusing, isn't it? You don't have to know any of that, I was just
filling you in.

Building from the success of the last RedBrick Ubuntu release, we decided this year to make it easier to use and more accessible to new members who
may have never used a Unix-based system before. The switch to KDE should hopefully help people move away from Windows to free software.

If you are new to the non-Windows world, you may find this whole experience daunting to begin with. Don't worry, this operating system is very
user-friendly and as a member of RedBrick you'll have access to limitless assistance and tips on how to get comfortable with it.

==Getting started==

Please read the disclaimer at the end of this document.

If you feel confused or lost as to what to do, don't panic! You can ask for help at any time from RedBrick's [[helpdesk]].

We will be holding our annual [[Installfest]] around week 4 of semester one for anyone who would like to see how you can install, use and get the most from a GNU/Linux
operating system such as this one. Helpdesk and the system administrators will be there to help anyone who needs it. Keep an eye on your RedBrick e-mail
and the website (www.redbrick.dcu.ie) for updates on this event.

Place the DVD into your computer's DVD drive and switch it on. If your BIOS is set to boot from a disc, you will see a black screen with white text,
with

boot: _

at the end. If you wish to start the live session (meaning you can use the system without having to install it), just press enter.
To install, type "install" and press enter. Installation tips are provided further down.

==Live session==

A live session loads the operating system directly from the DVD. This means you will make no changes to your hard disk. However, it also means that
nothing you do while using the live session will be saved following a reboot or shut-down; this includes documents, music and system settings, so
please ensure to back up anything important before shutting down.

The "Kubuntu" logo should appear on your screen above a progress bar. Please be patient; as optical discs are much slower to read from than hard
disks, this may take several minutes to load. When it does, you should be taken straight to the desktop, which comprises of:

===Widgets===

Also known as "plasmoids", these include the Desktop folder view, the taskbar among other things.

===Wallpaper===
Say hello. To the left, we have a gnu (wildebeest), mascot of the GNU Project. Beside him is Tux, the mascot of the Linux kernel. If you plan on staying part of the Unix world, you'll meet these lads quite often on your travels.

===Desktop===

This is the "bubble" at the top which contains icons.

'''Connect to RedBrick'''

Double-click this icon to get connected to RedBrick straight away!

'''Firefox Web Browser'''

The free, secure web browser which needs no introduction. Adobe Flash is pre-installed.

'''Kopete'''

Instant messaging client which supports MSN/WLM, AIM, ICQ and others. Includes "Off the Record" encryption.

'''KMail'''

The KDE mail client. You can configure this to use any address you like.

'''KTorrent'''

The KDE BitTorrent client. Download your ISOs (or whatever you like) with this handy tool.

'''Wastebin'''

Equivalent to the Recycle Bin in Windows. Deleted files/folders go here.

'''Amarok'''

Music player. Organise your playlists. Also supports portable players including Creative Zen and iPods.

'''VLC media player'''

The media player that plays almost everything, including DVDs, videos and music.

'''K3b'''

Create and edit DVDs and CDs.

'''GIMP Image Editor'''

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a free alternative to Photoshop.

'''Konsole'''

Terminal program. Use this for all your command-line needs.

'''Media player plasmoid'''

Allows you to control Amarok from your desktop.

===Taskbar===

'''Kickoff (K) button'''

Similar to the Start/Windows button, this allows you access to your programs, devices and network machines.

'''Home folder'''

Photos, music, videos and source code files. Store everything here.

'''Show desktop'''

Click to display the desktop by minimising all open windows. Click again to restore them.

'''Task manager'''

Displays all your open windows in a neat little row. Empty until you open something.

'''Desktop switcher'''

Too much clutter? Switch to another desktop to start afresh. Handy for dividing your tasks.

'''Plasma dashboard'''

Access all the Plasma widgets currently on display.

'''Attached devices'''

Show recently plugged in devices, including optical discs, USB drives etc.

'''System tray'''

Minimised programs and notifications will appear here. Also contains Klipper and Network manager by default.

'''Klipper'''

View and mess around with items you have copied to the clipboard.

'''Network manager'''

Edit network settings or connect to a particular wired/wireless network.

'''Weather'''

Shows the current weather in Dublin. Can be changed to a different location.

'''Clock'''

Gives you the time. Click to show a calendar with holidays which are observed in Ireland.

'''Desktop settings'''

Change desktop settings, add widgets and so on.

===The Internet===

Connecting to the Internet from DCU requires changing a setting which enables your computer to route traffic via the DCU proxy server.

Click the '''Kickoff (K) button''' -> '''Computer''' -> '''System Settings''' -> '''Network Settings''' -> '''Proxy'''.

If you select '''Use proxy configuration URL:''', the URL is: http://proxy.dcu.ie/proxy.pac
This may not work with some programs, so we recommend using "Manually specify the proxy settings", then '''Setup...'''

Enter for HTTP either: '''http://proxy.dcu.ie''' (port '''8080''') or '''http://proxy3.dcu.ie''' (port '''3128''')

Select '''Use the same proxy server for all protocols'''.

==Installing to hard disk==

So, either you're ridding yourself of Windows or you want to install Kubuntu alongside Windows... either way, installing is the way to go.

You must understand that installing two operating systems alongside each other carries serious risk. If you do not know what you are doing, DO NOT
PROCEED ANY FURTHER. An improper installation could result in either or both systems becoming unusable and/or irrecoverable loss of data on the hard disk.

If you wish to erase Windows and replace it with Kubuntu, please back up any important documents or files before doing so.

Please CAREFULLY read the disclaimer at the end of this document before proceeding.

When you reach the

boot: _

screen, type "install" in and press enter.

You will be taken through the installation process, which will involve partitioning your hard disk.

Please see the following link for more information: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/117051

==Disclaimer==

RedBrick, its committee nor any of its individual members can be held responsible for any adverse effects which may arise for the use of this disc, nor for any advice
given on the operation or use of this disc or its operating system. We also cannot be held responsible for user error or negligence; installing an operating system and
partitioning a hard disk come with considerable risk, and require knowledge of the subject matter.

THIS KUBUNTU DVD IS SUPPLIED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, NOT EVEN IMPLIED WARRANTY.

Games

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Coconut: /* nethack */

Games available on RedBrick ([[minerva]]). These are all located in: /usr/games

To see what a game is about, execute the "man" command followed by the game's name. For example: man nethack

RedBrick also hosts other games on behalf of the DCU Games Society on their server [[blinky]].

==abe==
==adventure==
==airstrike==
==arithmetic==
==atc==
==backgammon==
===teachgammon===
Teaches you how to play backgammon. Useful, because I don't have a clue either.
==banner==
==battlestar==
==bcd==
==boggle==
==caesar==
==canfield==
The solitaire card game, canfield.
===cfscores===
Shows the database of high scores for canfield.
==countmail==
The countmail program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously. If it doesn't work for you, e-mail admins@redbrick.dcu.ie and annoy them.
==cribbage==
==dab==
==dopewars==

[[Image:400px-Stash3.jpg]]

In this game, you play a drug dealer, travelling between New York's five boroughs. You make money by buying selling a plethora of mind-altering substances.
It's all the fun of drug dealing '''without''' the legal repercussions!

==eboard==
===eboard-addtheme===
==fortune==
==gnuchess==
===gnuchessx===
Obsolete. Calls ''gnuchess xboard''

==gnugo==
==gnushogi==
==go-fish==
==gomoku==
==hack==
==hangman==
==hunt==
==lgeneral==
==mille==
==monop==
==morse==
==nethack==

NetHack is an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons simulator. (Read: NetHack is a game for when you have so few friends that you can't even muster up four people to pretend to be elves in some stupid dungeon). I like it though.

Players: [[User:gw|gw]] <s>is a fag</s> [[User:paraflux|paraflux]]

===nethack-console===

==netris==

Networked multiplayer version of tetris. You can play with anyone logged into RedBrick.

Players: [[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]] [[User:phaxx|phaxx]] [[User:train|train]]

===netris-sample-robot===

==number==
==petris==
==phantasia==
==pig==
==pom==
==ppt==
==primes==
==quiz==
==rain==
==random==
==robots==
==rot13==
==sail==
==snake==
==snscore==
==tetris-bsd==
==tf==
==tinymux-install==
==trek==
==typespeed==
==wargames==
==worm==

A clone of the game "Snake" which was created in the 1970s but popularised by the Nokia 3210 mobile phone (especially in Irish secondary schools!)

==worms==
==wtf==

Not really a game per se. Decodes [[Acronyms|acronyms]].

==wump==

RedBrick Ubuntu

2009-10-04T10:09:56Z

Coconut:

<div style="background:#f3f3f3; padding:0.2em 0.4em 0.2em 0.4em;">
This is a wiki page for all things related to the RedBrick Ubuntu release. If you have used this then you're encouraged to contribute - you can edit and add to these pages just by logging in with your RedBrick username and password.
</div>

== 2009 version ==

This time, we are using a modified version of Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

* KDE 4.3.1 with a shiny new colour scheme, so it resembles Windows.
* All software is up to date (as of 4th October 2009).
* Mozilla Firefox with Flash.
* Usual media codecs (support for MP3, DVD playback etc.)
* Desktop has been tweaked, including a new wallpaper and quick "Connect to RedBrick" icon.
* Java is installed with Console.class, robotworld.jar and graphics.jar.
* Comes with a short but handy user manual.

=== Couldn't get a copy of the CD ===

The DVD image will be available online once it has been released. The Windows Java installer is still available here: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~receive/java/java-installer.exe

== 2008 version ==

=== Linux ===

The CD is a modified version of the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) live CD. The main modifications are:
* All the software has been updated to the most recent version (as of Friday Oct 3rd 2008)
* Openoffice, media codecs and other software not normally on the disk has been included.
* OpenJDK 6 is included on this disk, as well as all the libraries used in first year java. These will be added to the default classpath.

=== Windows ===

When ran in windows the disk contains the sun java 6 installer, with modifications for first year java, as has been distributed by RedBrick in previous years. For instructions about how to use this installer see [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~receive/java/ www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~receive/java/]
You can also download the windows installer on it's own from this page.

=== Couldn't get a copy of the CD ===

The disk is avaliable as a 1.1GB dvd image from [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/downloads/ubuntu-redbrick-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso www.redbrick.dcu.ie/downloads]. For instructions about how to burn the image see [[Redbrick_Ubuntu_Burning|Burning the RedBrick Ubuntu image]].

If you have a slow internet connection, you'll probably want to download & burn the image in the labs.

You can also download the windows java installer without linux [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~receive/java/java-installer.exe here]. This is less than 100mb, and should download much faster.

==How to use the CD==

To use the Live Linux installation simply put the disk in your computer, and restart it. Most computers will automatically boot from the cd drive if a bootable disk is inserted, while others will require you to press a button such as F12 while the computer is turning on.

For more about how to use the live CD read [[RedBrick_Ubuntu_LiveCD|Using the RedBrick Ubuntu Live CD]]

'''Warning:''' The live CD is designed to be used without making any changes to your computer's hard drive, however it also comes with an option to permanently install ubuntu to your hard drive. This installation will involve making extra room on your hard drive for the installation, and should not be attempted without backing up all your important files and porn to an external drive or cd beforehand.

===Partitioning===

''This doesn't all apply to Apple Mac computers, as they use a newer, more advanced hard disk layout system and boot system.''

A hard disk on a PC needs to be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning partitioned] before any operating system can be run on it. This means that the OS must lay claim to an area of hard disk space before it can be used. On most laptops, windows has created partitions taking up the entire disk.

To work around this, the Ubuntu installer includes a tool to resize the existing Windows partitions to make space for it's own one. When asked about partitioning, select the "Manual" option. To use this, you need some unused space inside the Windows partition. There is also an element of risk with the resize operation (if the partition contains unforeseen errors, or if there's a power cut during install, data may be lost), so '''back up your Windows documents and files before letting the installer do this'''.

Additionally, if windows has created four or more partitions (as is the case with some Acer laptops, and possibly others), you may need to delete one to make it possible for Ubuntu to create it's own one. This limitation is due to the way PCs were designed way back in the 80s. If you want to delete a Windows partition, just make sure it's not the one containing the C: drive (you can usually tell by the size of each one), and copy files from it to another windows partition before proceeding.

On the off chance that you don't want Windows (or any of the documents or files created on windows) on your PC at all anymore, you can just delete all the existing partitions and let Ubuntu do it's own thing.

'''Partitioning is risky business, due mainly to the risk of data loss. If you have any questions, or you are not certain about any elements of it, please ask for help by asking in IRC, emailing helpdesk, or asking one of us in person at a tutorial.'''

==But, I already have Linux installed==

If you already have Linux installed then the live cd won't be of much use to you. To make the same changes to your linux installation read [[RedBrick_Ubuntu_DIY|How to set up java on your own linux]]

==How to get more help/information==

The main reason we chose ubuntu to build our live cd is it's reputation for being friendly to new users. In particluar the [http://ubuntuforums.org/ ubuntu forums] are very active and friendly towards new users. If you have a question about the java additions to the cd, you can also ask the [[Helpdesk]]

__NOTOC__

[[Category:RedBrick Ubuntu]]

Blinky

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Coconut:

{{Redbrick Hardware}}
__NOTOC__
'''Blinky ~ 136.206.15.40 ~ blinky.games.dcu.ie'''
== Details ==

<table>
<tr><td>Type:</td><td>Custom-built x86 gaming server</td></tr>
<tr><td>OS:</td><td>Ubuntu 8.04</td></tr>
<tr><td>CPU:</td><td>AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+</td></tr>
<tr><td>RAM:</td><td>2GB</td></tr>
<tr><td>Disk:</td><td>170GB hard disk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Drives:</td><td>DVD-RW</td></tr>
<tr><td>Network:</td><td>Onboard ethernet</td></tr>
<tr><td>Extras:</td><td>A little Inky badge stuck to the front.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The Name:</td><td>Co-named with one of Games Soc's two mascots, the other being Pac-Man.</td></tr>
</table>

== Description ==

DCU Games Society's gaming server. This machine is owned by Games Soc, but hosted in the RedBrick [[server room]] under the terms of an agreement between the two societies. You should join Games Soc because they're deadly.

The current root-holder is [[User:coconut|coconut]]. Previously [[User:phaxx|phaxx]], then [[User:werdz|werdz]].

'''NEEDS MORE TICKRATE!!!!11!'''

== Services ==

List of current servers running: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=1752.0

[[Category:Hardware]]

RedBrick Ubuntu

2009-09-28T12:29:42Z

Coconut:

<div style="background:#f3f3f3; padding:0.2em 0.4em 0.2em 0.4em;">
This is a wiki page for all things related to the RedBrick Ubuntu release. If you have used this then you're encouraged to contribute - you can edit and add to these pages just by logging in with your RedBrick username and password.
</div>

== 2009 version ==

This time, we are using a modified version of Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

* KDE4 with a shiny new colour scheme, so it resembles Windows.
* All software is up to date (as of ''insert date here once finalised'').
* Mozilla Firefox with Flash.
* Usual media codecs (support for MP3, DVD playback etc.)
* Desktop has been tweaked, including a new wallpaper and quick "Connect to RedBrick" icon.
* Java is installed with Console.class, robotworld.jar and graphics.jar.
* Comes with a complete user manual.

=== Couldn't get a copy of the CD ===

The DVD image will be available online once it has been released. The Windows Java installer is still available here: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~receive/java/java-installer.exe

== 2008 version ==

=== Linux ===

The CD is a modified version of the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) live CD. The main modifications are:
* All the software has been updated to the most recent version (as of Friday Oct 3rd 2008)
* Openoffice, media codecs and other software not normally on the disk has been included.
* OpenJDK 6 is included on this disk, as well as all the libraries used in first year java. These will be added to the default classpath.

=== Windows ===

When ran in windows the disk contains the sun java 6 installer, with modifications for first year java, as has been distributed by RedBrick in previous years. For instructions about how to use this installer see [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~receive/java/ www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~receive/java/]
You can also download the windows installer on it's own from this page.

=== Couldn't get a copy of the CD ===

The disk is avaliable as a 1.1GB dvd image from [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/downloads/ubuntu-redbrick-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso www.redbrick.dcu.ie/downloads]. For instructions about how to burn the image see [[Redbrick_Ubuntu_Burning|Burning the RedBrick Ubuntu image]].

If you have a slow internet connection, you'll probably want to download & burn the image in the labs.

You can also download the windows java installer without linux [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~receive/java/java-installer.exe here]. This is less than 100mb, and should download much faster.

==How to use the CD==

To use the Live Linux installation simply put the disk in your computer, and restart it. Most computers will automatically boot from the cd drive if a bootable disk is inserted, while others will require you to press a button such as F12 while the computer is turning on.

For more about how to use the live CD read [[RedBrick_Ubuntu_LiveCD|Using the RedBrick Ubuntu Live CD]]

'''Warning:''' The live CD is designed to be used without making any changes to your computer's hard drive, however it also comes with an option to permanently install ubuntu to your hard drive. This installation will involve making extra room on your hard drive for the installation, and should not be attempted without backing up all your important files and porn to an external drive or cd beforehand.

===Partitioning===

''This doesn't all apply to Apple Mac computers, as they use a newer, more advanced hard disk layout system and boot system.''

A hard disk on a PC needs to be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning partitioned] before any operating system can be run on it. This means that the OS must lay claim to an area of hard disk space before it can be used. On most laptops, windows has created partitions taking up the entire disk.

To work around this, the Ubuntu installer includes a tool to resize the existing Windows partitions to make space for it's own one. When asked about partitioning, select the "Manual" option. To use this, you need some unused space inside the Windows partition. There is also an element of risk with the resize operation (if the partition contains unforeseen errors, or if there's a power cut during install, data may be lost), so '''back up your Windows documents and files before letting the installer do this'''.

Additionally, if windows has created four or more partitions (as is the case with some Acer laptops, and possibly others), you may need to delete one to make it possible for Ubuntu to create it's own one. This limitation is due to the way PCs were designed way back in the 80s. If you want to delete a Windows partition, just make sure it's not the one containing the C: drive (you can usually tell by the size of each one), and copy files from it to another windows partition before proceeding.

On the off chance that you don't want Windows (or any of the documents or files created on windows) on your PC at all anymore, you can just delete all the existing partitions and let Ubuntu do it's own thing.

'''Partitioning is risky business, due mainly to the risk of data loss. If you have any questions, or you are not certain about any elements of it, please ask for help by asking in IRC, emailing helpdesk, or asking one of us in person at a tutorial.'''

==But, I already have Linux installed==

If you already have Linux installed then the live cd won't be of much use to you. To make the same changes to your linux installation read [[RedBrick_Ubuntu_DIY|How to set up java on your own linux]]

==How to get more help/information==

The main reason we chose ubuntu to build our live cd is it's reputation for being friendly to new users. In particluar the [http://ubuntuforums.org/ ubuntu forums] are very active and friendly towards new users. If you have a question about the java additions to the cd, you can also ask the [[Helpdesk]]

__NOTOC__

[[Category:RedBrick Ubuntu]]

User:MaK

2009-09-27T16:27:26Z

Coconut:

Since the original creation of this page, it has been decided that maK is, in fact, a great guy and IRC wouldn't be the same without him. Still, for the sake of history's cruel jokes...

[[Image:426404945a4491595700b660418857l.jpg]]

(disclaimer: original image obtained from his bebo profile)

maK. An enigma of sorts. A pretty cool guy - "trips balls" and doesn't afraid of David Sinclair.

Awarded "Single Biggest Provider of Lulz in 2008".

lmaolmaolmaolmaolmaolmao

Is apparently ultra-leet at Quake 3 but lost to both coconut and undone multiple times because they're great and Gamessoc never lose.
= Overusing Words =
Likes to use an ellipsis an awful lot. 
He joined 6 days ago, and since then, he's used the ellipsis 774 times. 
And Increasing. 

merchelo@minerva:~/irclogs/redbrick$ cat \#lobby.log | grep maK | grep '...' |wc -l 
774

Someday this will be over 9000. Someday.

maK also appears to have an ever-growing anal fixation, with 44 asses within the last 7 days: 

lithium@minerva ~> cat lobby* | grep -i "m.*k" | grep 'ass' | wc -l 
44

= LEADER OF THE REVOLOLTION! =

''/last lmao''

13:46 < maK> lmao 
13:48 < coconut> moju:omgwtfamazingidealmao
13:48 < coconut> lmaolmaolmaolmaolmao
13:54 < maK> im not..gammer lmao
13:54 < maK> lmao
13:54 < tnkrbell> TheChrisD: lmao tbh
13:57 < lithium> lmao
13:58 < lithium> lmao
14:00 < maK> lmao
14:24 < moju> lmao
14:36 < maK> lmao.
14:36 < Merchelo> lmao
14:43 < maK> they were probably football fans lmao
14:53 < Zyox> lmao etc................
15:02 < maK> lmao
15:09 < maK> train:lmao funny ass video
15:13 < Zyox> lmao.
15:18 < maK> lmao
15:21 < Dregin> I lmao'd
15:38 < phaxx> lmao
15:38 < coconut> lmao
15:39 < phaxx> lmao?
15:39 < coconut> lmao...
15:40 < coconut> lmao
15:42 < maK> creative genious lmao

Did we mention he hates Jews?

Loves drugs though (WHO DOESN'T?) and doesn't fear telling the cops (and everyone else) ''all'' about it!

He often imparts wisdom to us lowly folk

21:01 < MAaAK> you'd be very surprised if you met me 2 years ago..
21:02 < MAaAK> I was just another internet surfing, knowledge is power nerd
21:02 < MAaAK> like you
21:03 * hauk waits for the sun to creep over the hillside and turn him to stone.
21:04 < hauk> You'd be surprised if you had of met me 21 years ago...
21:04 < hauk> Goo goo
21:04 < hauk> Gaa gaa
21:04 < MAaAK> very humerous.
21:05 < MAaAK> all i'm saying, is i was like you, but iv moved on to something better.
21:05 < MAaAK> why, 2 years of drugs would probably do this to anyone

maK at a recent rally:

[[Image:19450420 Hitler 65bd awards HJ Iron Cross.jpg]]

User:MaK

2009-09-27T16:24:21Z

Coconut: Reverted edits by Macattac (Talk) to last version by Lithium

[[Image:426404945a4491595700b660418857l.jpg]]

(disclaimer: original image obtained from his bebo profile)

maK. An enigma of sorts. A pretty cool guy - "trips balls" and doesn't afraid of David Sinclair.

Awarded "Single Biggest Provider of Lulz in 2008".

lmaolmaolmaolmaolmaolmao

Is apparently ultra-leet at Quake 3 but lost to both coconut and undone multiple times because they're great and Gamessoc never lose.
= Overusing Words =
Likes to use an ellipsis an awful lot. 
He joined 6 days ago, and since then, he's used the ellipsis 774 times. 
And Increasing. 

merchelo@minerva:~/irclogs/redbrick$ cat \#lobby.log | grep maK | grep '...' |wc -l 
774

Someday this will be over 9000. Someday.

maK also appears to have an ever-growing anal fixation, with 44 asses within the last 7 days: 

lithium@minerva ~> cat lobby* | grep -i "m.*k" | grep 'ass' | wc -l 
44

= LEADER OF THE REVOLOLTION! =

''/last lmao''

13:46 < maK> lmao 
13:48 < coconut> moju:omgwtfamazingidealmao
13:48 < coconut> lmaolmaolmaolmaolmao
13:54 < maK> im not..gammer lmao
13:54 < maK> lmao
13:54 < tnkrbell> TheChrisD: lmao tbh
13:57 < lithium> lmao
13:58 < lithium> lmao
14:00 < maK> lmao
14:24 < moju> lmao
14:36 < maK> lmao.
14:36 < Merchelo> lmao
14:43 < maK> they were probably football fans lmao
14:53 < Zyox> lmao etc................
15:02 < maK> lmao
15:09 < maK> train:lmao funny ass video
15:13 < Zyox> lmao.
15:18 < maK> lmao
15:21 < Dregin> I lmao'd
15:38 < phaxx> lmao
15:38 < coconut> lmao
15:39 < phaxx> lmao?
15:39 < coconut> lmao...
15:40 < coconut> lmao
15:42 < maK> creative genious lmao

Did we mention he hates Jews?

Loves drugs though (WHO DOESN'T?) and doesn't fear telling the cops (and everyone else) ''all'' about it!

He often imparts wisdom to us lowly folk

21:01 < MAaAK> you'd be very surprised if you met me 2 years ago..
21:02 < MAaAK> I was just another internet surfing, knowledge is power nerd
21:02 < MAaAK> like you
21:03 * hauk waits for the sun to creep over the hillside and turn him to stone.
21:04 < hauk> You'd be surprised if you had of met me 21 years ago...
21:04 < hauk> Goo goo
21:04 < hauk> Gaa gaa
21:04 < MAaAK> very humerous.
21:05 < MAaAK> all i'm saying, is i was like you, but iv moved on to something better.
21:05 < MAaAK> why, 2 years of drugs would probably do this to anyone

maK at a recent rally:

[[Image:19450420 Hitler 65bd awards HJ Iron Cross.jpg]]

In Jokes

2009-09-27T16:19:53Z

Coconut: /* Origin */

With a strong community of posters to be found on Redbrick, it is inevitable that a number of in-jokes exist. Feel free to update and add to this list.

When adding a new in-joke, please keep the same format.

="Is this another one of those recursive wiki entries?"=

Recursive threads are one of the greatest tools of the users of the Redbrick newsgroups - To destroy a thread, merely ask is the thread recursive. Most Redbrick in-jokes have [[recursion]] at the core - recursion is the new lowest form of wit.

===Origin===

Digital media is prone to easy duplication, and the Redbrick newsgroups are no different. Recursive (i.e. repeatitive) newsgroup threads have existed for as long as I can remember, however however originally wrote "Is this another one of those recursive threads?" should probably be locked up for crimes against humanity.

===Added to list===

14 Jun 2005

=Finland has an Army?=

Well someone asks a question on the boards and then someone will respond with "Finland has an army?". It sometimes changed to fit in the context of the thread, for example on a thread discussing this wiki, [[User:Doc|Doc]] suggested the topic [[Finland Has An Army]].

Sometimes, someone will then ask, what is this "Finland has an Army?" shenanigans. This will prompt someone else to write a long description of the origin of the joke will then prompt someone else to reply with "Finland has an Army?"

This joke has taken on a life of its own. Some of members of Redbrick work in Google and they slipped in an ad to Google's ads: [http://thedeadone.net/?p=194 Redbrick has an Army?] In February 2009, 21 members and associates of Redbrick travelled to Finland. It was noted by a few of the group that there were, in fact, a high number of soldiers in gear compared to Ireland. At the airport in Tampere, Redbrick members were treated to two F18 fighter jets taking off. Finland surely does have an army.

<pre>
From: Disposable Teen <bosco@RedBrick.DCU.IE>
Newsgroups: redbrick.babble
Subject: Re: Internet addiction
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:25:51 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 Captain Olimar <myk@RedBrick.DCU.IE> wrote:
> From Ireland.com
>
> Helsinki: A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full
> term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the
> Finnish Defence Forces announced yesterday.
>
> Doctors found that the young men miss their computers too much to cope
> with their compulsory six months in the forces.
>
> "For people who play (Internet) games all night and don't have any
> friends, don't have any hobbies, to come into the army is a very big
> shock," said Commander-Captain Jyrki Kivela at the military conscription
> unit.
>
> "They get sent home for three years and after that they have to come
> back and we ask if they are okay ... they will have had time to grow
> up."
>
> "We are very proud of our Finnish men. Eighty-two per cent of all
> Finnish men manage their whole military service," Commander Kivela
> added.
>
>

Finland has an army?

</pre>

===Origin===

Somebody posted a news story about people escaping Finland's conscription by being addicted to the internet. This made them unsuitable for military service.

Somebody followed up to this with "Finland has an army?". I don't think this was repeated too much, but the response, "They held back the Russians in World War 2" - and one million and five variants - was soon posted, by one million and size people eager to demonstrate their sexy historical knowledge. They were so eager, they didn't check to see if anybody else had posted something similar. After a while, people started posting it ironically, to demonstrate that people should check threads before posting.

Since then, "Finland has an army?" and "held back the russians in world war 2" in a response have come to mean "This has already been said". Constant reposting of the same answer in various slightly different (or implausibly identical) forms is a variant of this injoke - the Nebuchadnezzar joke below is an example. Likewise, expect the current topic to be incorporated: "Google has a Finland?" - "Held back the Matrix in world war 2".

===Added to list===

16 May 2005

=The Nebuchadnezzar=

Often used in response to obvious questions or lingustic related questions. Someone replies with a post saying "The name of the ship was the Nebuchadnezzar. It was the ship in the Matrix".

===Origin===

[http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~spock Spock] started this one off. He asked a seemingly simple question. He wanted to know if anyone knew a word he had heard which he attempted to spell it phonetically. This provoked a huge amount of responses as people replied saying it was the Nebuchadnezzar. And so an in-joke was born.

===Added to list===

16 May 2005

=FREE SHERRO!!!=

Often said ironically by older members to indicate that they are being intentionally loud and/or obnoxious.

===Origin===

Sometime in 1997, a user named sherro was DisUsered for being an ass (as a lot of users were wont to be). This then caused a torrent of calls from his friends to re-enable his account. These took the form of the words 'FREE SHERRO!!!' in almost every form NewsGroups, emails to committee, spamming in ItchyNuts and such). It's been verified that the call was also scrawled as graffitti in some of DCUs toilets.

Since then, FREE SHERRO!!! has been used as a statement to indicate that the sayer is being ironically loud and obnoxious. Nobody younger then about 4th gen ever really gets this.

===Added to list===

23 June 2005

=tbh=

Stands for "to be honest". Gives a cheesy superiority to the person who says it. Usually said when trying to be authoritative about something, or when telling off someone for being stupid. e.g. "You suck tbh", "Gaming is deadly tbh".

===Origin===

Mid-late 2004, originated with zyox who overused it.

===Added to list===

23 June 2005

=Cammy's Law=

As any Redbrick discussion about religion or religion and science grows longer, the probability of a comparison to relativism approaches one.

===Origin===

See [[Cammy's Law|the article]] for more.

===Added to list===

28 March 2005

=Batman Movies=

A movie title, quote, plot summary or tag-line has the main character (or a some other element) replaced with Batman. Subsequent posters followup with more examples of "Batman Movies".

> > Batman sees dead people.
>
> "Batman freaked out, joined the army... now he's a professional killer."

There's something about Batman.

===Origin===

It originated on the redbrick.movies board and went on for quite a bit. It resurfaced again in May 2006 on a discussion about what the longest thread on the boards and so it is now an official a Redbrick in-joke.

===Added to list===

10 May 2006

=RESIIIIIIIII...GN=

===Origin===

When [[User:robby|robby]] was elected chair of RedBrick at the 2008 AGM, certain elected rootholders at the time began drunkenly hassling him in [[Fibbers]]. Legend has it that the cry "RESIIIIIGN" was said to have been uttered by [[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]]. It is now shouted at committee members when they do something wrong, or in an attempt to demotivate them.

===Added to list===

27 September 2009

[[Category:Humour]]
[[Category:Redbrick History]]
[[Category:Community]]

In Jokes

2009-09-27T16:19:09Z

Coconut:

With a strong community of posters to be found on Redbrick, it is inevitable that a number of in-jokes exist. Feel free to update and add to this list.

When adding a new in-joke, please keep the same format.

="Is this another one of those recursive wiki entries?"=

Recursive threads are one of the greatest tools of the users of the Redbrick newsgroups - To destroy a thread, merely ask is the thread recursive. Most Redbrick in-jokes have [[recursion]] at the core - recursion is the new lowest form of wit.

===Origin===

Digital media is prone to easy duplication, and the Redbrick newsgroups are no different. Recursive (i.e. repeatitive) newsgroup threads have existed for as long as I can remember, however however originally wrote "Is this another one of those recursive threads?" should probably be locked up for crimes against humanity.

===Added to list===

14 Jun 2005

=Finland has an Army?=

Well someone asks a question on the boards and then someone will respond with "Finland has an army?". It sometimes changed to fit in the context of the thread, for example on a thread discussing this wiki, [[User:Doc|Doc]] suggested the topic [[Finland Has An Army]].

Sometimes, someone will then ask, what is this "Finland has an Army?" shenanigans. This will prompt someone else to write a long description of the origin of the joke will then prompt someone else to reply with "Finland has an Army?"

This joke has taken on a life of its own. Some of members of Redbrick work in Google and they slipped in an ad to Google's ads: [http://thedeadone.net/?p=194 Redbrick has an Army?] In February 2009, 21 members and associates of Redbrick travelled to Finland. It was noted by a few of the group that there were, in fact, a high number of soldiers in gear compared to Ireland. At the airport in Tampere, Redbrick members were treated to two F18 fighter jets taking off. Finland surely does have an army.

<pre>
From: Disposable Teen <bosco@RedBrick.DCU.IE>
Newsgroups: redbrick.babble
Subject: Re: Internet addiction
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:25:51 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 Captain Olimar <myk@RedBrick.DCU.IE> wrote:
> From Ireland.com
>
> Helsinki: A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full
> term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the
> Finnish Defence Forces announced yesterday.
>
> Doctors found that the young men miss their computers too much to cope
> with their compulsory six months in the forces.
>
> "For people who play (Internet) games all night and don't have any
> friends, don't have any hobbies, to come into the army is a very big
> shock," said Commander-Captain Jyrki Kivela at the military conscription
> unit.
>
> "They get sent home for three years and after that they have to come
> back and we ask if they are okay ... they will have had time to grow
> up."
>
> "We are very proud of our Finnish men. Eighty-two per cent of all
> Finnish men manage their whole military service," Commander Kivela
> added.
>
>

Finland has an army?

</pre>

===Origin===

Somebody posted a news story about people escaping Finland's conscription by being addicted to the internet. This made them unsuitable for military service.

Somebody followed up to this with "Finland has an army?". I don't think this was repeated too much, but the response, "They held back the Russians in World War 2" - and one million and five variants - was soon posted, by one million and size people eager to demonstrate their sexy historical knowledge. They were so eager, they didn't check to see if anybody else had posted something similar. After a while, people started posting it ironically, to demonstrate that people should check threads before posting.

Since then, "Finland has an army?" and "held back the russians in world war 2" in a response have come to mean "This has already been said". Constant reposting of the same answer in various slightly different (or implausibly identical) forms is a variant of this injoke - the Nebuchadnezzar joke below is an example. Likewise, expect the current topic to be incorporated: "Google has a Finland?" - "Held back the Matrix in world war 2".

===Added to list===

16 May 2005

=The Nebuchadnezzar=

Often used in response to obvious questions or lingustic related questions. Someone replies with a post saying "The name of the ship was the Nebuchadnezzar. It was the ship in the Matrix".

===Origin===

[http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~spock Spock] started this one off. He asked a seemingly simple question. He wanted to know if anyone knew a word he had heard which he attempted to spell it phonetically. This provoked a huge amount of responses as people replied saying it was the Nebuchadnezzar. And so an in-joke was born.

===Added to list===

16 May 2005

=FREE SHERRO!!!=

Often said ironically by older members to indicate that they are being intentionally loud and/or obnoxious.

===Origin===

Sometime in 1997, a user named sherro was DisUsered for being an ass (as a lot of users were wont to be). This then caused a torrent of calls from his friends to re-enable his account. These took the form of the words 'FREE SHERRO!!!' in almost every form NewsGroups, emails to committee, spamming in ItchyNuts and such). It's been verified that the call was also scrawled as graffitti in some of DCUs toilets.

Since then, FREE SHERRO!!! has been used as a statement to indicate that the sayer is being ironically loud and obnoxious. Nobody younger then about 4th gen ever really gets this.

===Added to list===

23 June 2005

=tbh=

Stands for "to be honest". Gives a cheesy superiority to the person who says it. Usually said when trying to be authoritative about something, or when telling off someone for being stupid. e.g. "You suck tbh", "Gaming is deadly tbh".

===Origin===

Mid-late 2004, originated with zyox who overused it.

===Added to list===

23 June 2005

=Cammy's Law=

As any Redbrick discussion about religion or religion and science grows longer, the probability of a comparison to relativism approaches one.

===Origin===

See [[Cammy's Law|the article]] for more.

===Added to list===

28 March 2005

=Batman Movies=

A movie title, quote, plot summary or tag-line has the main character (or a some other element) replaced with Batman. Subsequent posters followup with more examples of "Batman Movies".

> > Batman sees dead people.
>
> "Batman freaked out, joined the army... now he's a professional killer."

There's something about Batman.

===Origin===

It originated on the redbrick.movies board and went on for quite a bit. It resurfaced again in May 2006 on a discussion about what the longest thread on the boards and so it is now an official a Redbrick in-joke.

===Added to list===

10 May 2006

=RESIIIIIIIII...GN=

===Origin===

When [[User:robby|robby]] was elected chair of RedBrick at the 2008 AGM, certain elected rootholders at the time began drunkenly hassling him in [[Fibbers]]. The cry "RESIIIIIGN" was uttered by a trashed [[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]]. It is now shouted at committee members when they do something wrong, or in an attempt to demotivate them.

===Added to list===

27 September 2009

[[Category:Humour]]
[[Category:Redbrick History]]
[[Category:Community]]

Synergy

2009-09-27T16:12:33Z

Coconut:

'''Synergy''' (or '''synergie''' in ''Failchairspeak'') is a dynamic company that combines innovation with integration which helps its customers to dominate areas of expertise. By this, Synergy provides its customers with the edge that wins the business.

Since 1991, Synergy Integration Ltd. is the leading company in Israel for interoperability and a variety of simulation technologies. Synergy is actively promoting innovative concepts within IMOD and all related industries. The concepts include the Live Virtual Constructive training and convergence of battle command with modeling and simulation. Synergy also promotes the use of standards and encourages maximal use of commercial-off-the-shelf components.

[[Category:Spam]]
[[Category:Humour]]

Bash

2009-09-27T16:10:15Z

Coconut:

== Bourne-again shell ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash bash] is the name of a free Unix shell written for the GNU Project. It can be used instead of the [[zsh]] shell (which is the default on RedBrick). E-mail [[helpdesk]].

== bash.redbrick.dcu.ie ==
[http://bash.redbrick.dcu.ie RedBrick bash] is a rip-off of [http://www.bash.org/ bash.org]. Here you can submit quotes from IRC or anywhere RedBrick-related which you consider funny.

[[Category:Humour]]

Bash

2009-09-27T16:09:06Z

Coconut:

== Bourne-again shell ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash bash] is the name of a free Unix shell written for the GNU Project. It can be used instead of the [[zsh shell]] (which is the default on RedBrick). E-mail [[helpdesk]].

== bash.redbrick.dcu.ie ==
[http://bash.redbrick.dcu.ie RedBrick bash] is a rip-off of [http://www.bash.org/ bash.org]. Here you can submit quotes from IRC or anywhere RedBrick-related which you consider funny.

Bash

2009-09-27T16:08:52Z

Coconut: New page: == Bourne-again shell == [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash bash] is the name of a free Unix shell written for the GNU Project. It can be used instead of the zsh shell (which is the de...

== Bourne-again shell ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash bash] is the name of a free Unix shell written for the GNU Project. It can be used instead of the [[zsh shell]] (which is the default on RedBrick). E-mail [[helpdesk]].

== bash.redbrick.dcu.ie ==
[http://bash.redbrick.dcu.ie RedBrick bash] is a rip-off of [[http://www.bash.org/ bash.org]]. Here you can submit quotes from IRC or anywhere RedBrick-related which you consider funny.

Template:RecentUpdates

2009-09-27T15:17:22Z

Coconut:

'''Recently [[Special:RecentChanges|Updated Pages]]:'''<div style="font-size: 10px">{{Special:RecentChanges/5,hideminor}}
</div>

Template:RecentUpdates

2009-09-27T15:15:56Z

Coconut:

'''Recently [[Special:RecentChanges|Updated Pages]]:'''<div style="font-size: 10px">
{{Special:RecentChanges/5,hideminor}}
</div>

Connect

2009-09-27T14:29:48Z

Coconut: /* WHERE ARE MY LOGIN DETAILS? */

== WHERE ARE MY LOGIN DETAILS? ==

Student members will receive their password in their '''DCU e-mail inbox'''. Other members will receive it to whatever address they have supplied us with.

== Web browser ==
=== Anyterm ===

You can log in to RedBrick quickly and easily via your web browser! Just click [https://anyterm.redbrick.dcu.ie here]. The instructions under "After connecting" will apply to this.

== Windows ==
=== PuTTY ===

To connect to RedBrick on Windows, you'll need a program called PuTTY. It implements SSH (Secure Shell), which is a way of remotely controlling your acccount on our machines as though you were sitting at them.

Download putty.exe from [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/downloads/putty.exe here].

Open it up and click the RedBrick! button.

[[Image:Putty_configuration.png]]

Enter your username.

If you enter your username incorrectly and press enter, you'll have to close the window and start again. We didn't come up with this idea!

See "After connecting" below.

=== Within DCU ===

Something to note if you're logging in using the computing labs' (and I assume other buildings') computers: all of the machines in DCU are in a state of deep freeze, this means that anything that you do will be competely "forgotten" when the machine is turned off. This means that all the software on the machines will not change, so any changes to settings will not be saved.

When PuTTy was installed, our own version with the "RedBrick!" button was not used, instead you'll have to type
login.redbrick.dcu.ie
into the "Host Name (or IP address)" bar in PuTTY and click on Open. You may then be asked about changed RSA keys, to which you should click "Yes" and then you can log in.

Also, the character encoding is wrong; it should be UTF-8. To change this go to Window -> Translation -> Received data assumed to be in which character set: and choose UTF-8

Alternatively, you could try installing PuTTy on your H:/ drive where it will remain saved after you log off.

=== Note about copy/paste with PuTTY ===

By default, PuTTY has highlighting as copy and right click as paste. This leads many people who try to copy and paste for the first time to copy the same link into chat several times, here's how to do it properly:

[[Image:Puttyhl2.jpg]]

If you wanted to highlight the url to the RedBrick website all you do is simple click and drag over it to highlight it (it'll look like this:)

[[Image:Puttyhl.jpg]]

And that's it copied, you can now go to your web browser and ctrl + v or right click and paste like you would normally.

If you want to paste some copied text into chat, all you simply have to do is right click.

== RedBrick Ubuntu ==

Use the "Connect to RedBrick" icon on your desktop. Alternatively, you can follow the below instructions.

== Other Unix (GNU/Linux, Mac OS, BSD, Solaris) ==

Open a terminal/console and type
ssh username@login.redbrick.dcu.ie
Replace ''username'' with yours.
This will work on the version of SuSE installed in the labs.

== After connecting ==

You should get something like this.

[[Image:Login1.jpg]]

Only instead of "newb" as used here, you insert your own username (note: if you make a spelling mistake with your username with PuTTY and press return, you will have to close PuTTY and start all over again because PuTTY is weird like that). After you press return you will then be asked for your account password like so:

[[Image:Login2.jpg]]

Remember: don't worry that nothing comes up when you type your password in; it's a Unix thing and the password is still being entered.

And that's it! You're officially on RedBrick, congratulations. It should look something like this:

[[Image:Login3.jpg]]

This is called the '''shell''', although you will hear people refer to it as a '''console''' or '''terminal''' also. A shell interprets commands that you enter, similarly to MS-DOS or cmd.exe on Windows. The default shell is '''zsh'''. If you want to change this, please ask [[helpdesk]] to explain how and the potential complications that may arise.

Now, I'm sure you're wondering about all the fun things you can get up to. Well to start with you could try typing "help" to give a brief list of available commands:

[[Image:Help.jpg]]

Fun times.

The best step would probably be to type chat.

[[Image:Login4.jpg]]

....and hit enter. This will cause this to appear:

[[Image:Login5.jpg]]

You've come so far in such a short space of time. It's time to move on to the [[IRC]] wiki page.

== See Also==
[http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.54/htmldoc/ PuTTY Manual] - A more indepth tutorial on how to use PuTTY

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

Connect

2009-09-27T14:29:18Z

Coconut:

== WHERE ARE MY LOGIN DETAILS? ==

Student members will receive their password in their '''DCU e-mail inbox'''. Other members will receive it to whatever address they have supplied us.

== Web browser ==
=== Anyterm ===

You can log in to RedBrick quickly and easily via your web browser! Just click [https://anyterm.redbrick.dcu.ie here]. The instructions under "After connecting" will apply to this.

== Windows ==
=== PuTTY ===

To connect to RedBrick on Windows, you'll need a program called PuTTY. It implements SSH (Secure Shell), which is a way of remotely controlling your acccount on our machines as though you were sitting at them.

Download putty.exe from [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/downloads/putty.exe here].

Open it up and click the RedBrick! button.

[[Image:Putty_configuration.png]]

Enter your username.

If you enter your username incorrectly and press enter, you'll have to close the window and start again. We didn't come up with this idea!

See "After connecting" below.

=== Within DCU ===

Something to note if you're logging in using the computing labs' (and I assume other buildings') computers: all of the machines in DCU are in a state of deep freeze, this means that anything that you do will be competely "forgotten" when the machine is turned off. This means that all the software on the machines will not change, so any changes to settings will not be saved.

When PuTTy was installed, our own version with the "RedBrick!" button was not used, instead you'll have to type
login.redbrick.dcu.ie
into the "Host Name (or IP address)" bar in PuTTY and click on Open. You may then be asked about changed RSA keys, to which you should click "Yes" and then you can log in.

Also, the character encoding is wrong; it should be UTF-8. To change this go to Window -> Translation -> Received data assumed to be in which character set: and choose UTF-8

Alternatively, you could try installing PuTTy on your H:/ drive where it will remain saved after you log off.

=== Note about copy/paste with PuTTY ===

By default, PuTTY has highlighting as copy and right click as paste. This leads many people who try to copy and paste for the first time to copy the same link into chat several times, here's how to do it properly:

[[Image:Puttyhl2.jpg]]

If you wanted to highlight the url to the RedBrick website all you do is simple click and drag over it to highlight it (it'll look like this:)

[[Image:Puttyhl.jpg]]

And that's it copied, you can now go to your web browser and ctrl + v or right click and paste like you would normally.

If you want to paste some copied text into chat, all you simply have to do is right click.

== RedBrick Ubuntu ==

Use the "Connect to RedBrick" icon on your desktop. Alternatively, you can follow the below instructions.

== Other Unix (GNU/Linux, Mac OS, BSD, Solaris) ==

Open a terminal/console and type
ssh username@login.redbrick.dcu.ie
Replace ''username'' with yours.
This will work on the version of SuSE installed in the labs.

== After connecting ==

You should get something like this.

[[Image:Login1.jpg]]

Only instead of "newb" as used here, you insert your own username (note: if you make a spelling mistake with your username with PuTTY and press return, you will have to close PuTTY and start all over again because PuTTY is weird like that). After you press return you will then be asked for your account password like so:

[[Image:Login2.jpg]]

Remember: don't worry that nothing comes up when you type your password in; it's a Unix thing and the password is still being entered.

And that's it! You're officially on RedBrick, congratulations. It should look something like this:

[[Image:Login3.jpg]]

This is called the '''shell''', although you will hear people refer to it as a '''console''' or '''terminal''' also. A shell interprets commands that you enter, similarly to MS-DOS or cmd.exe on Windows. The default shell is '''zsh'''. If you want to change this, please ask [[helpdesk]] to explain how and the potential complications that may arise.

Now, I'm sure you're wondering about all the fun things you can get up to. Well to start with you could try typing "help" to give a brief list of available commands:

[[Image:Help.jpg]]

Fun times.

The best step would probably be to type chat.

[[Image:Login4.jpg]]

....and hit enter. This will cause this to appear:

[[Image:Login5.jpg]]

You've come so far in such a short space of time. It's time to move on to the [[IRC]] wiki page.

== See Also==
[http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.54/htmldoc/ PuTTY Manual] - A more indepth tutorial on how to use PuTTY

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

Intro

2009-09-27T12:13:08Z

Coconut:

'''Welcome to Redbrick!'''

This is a brief introduction to some of the more common services available to you now that you have a Redbrick account. For more detailed tutorials on the services mentioned, simply follow the links provided, or visit the [[Helpdesk]] page!

== What is RedBrick? ==

This article is also found [[Articles_about_RedBrick|here]].

"What is RedBrick?" - this is the age-old query which has plagued the DCU Networking Society for years. RedBrick is such a diverse society that a million monkeys working on a million typewriters for a million years might reproduce the works of Shakespeare, but they'll never come up with a concise explanation as to what RedBrick is.

Simply put, RedBrick is a rather big social society with a slant on computers and technology. We host a plethora of techy events designed to entertain and educate anyone and everyone, including cinema trips, pub nights and tutorials and workshops on programming, web design and graphic design. Expect to see the return of the annual RedBrick Freshers' Ball (booze! booze! booze!) and the table quiz; last year, the quiz saw members having prizes practically thrown at them, with Sega Mega Drives, portable hard drives, Lucky Charms cereal and plenty of spot prizes being won. We also raffled off a brand new Eee PC laptop.

At the start of 2009, over twenty Brickies went to Finland - birthplace of the Linux kernel - to mess about in massive technology museums, employ stealth and cunning in a battle to snow each other into our cabins and feast on reindeer and mead in a Viking restaurant (all while being quite drunk).

RedBrick isn't just about events though; we are lucky enough to own our own servers on which we host the services used daily by our members: IRC (Internet Relay Chat - our most popular service, as it's great for putting off assignments until the last minute, waffling about whatever's on your mind and meeting new people),webspace (host your own website with massive amounts of storage space), forums/message boards, the photo gallery and your own @redbrick.dcu.ie e-mail address. We also have our own wiki site (wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie), where all members can create/edit/vandalise pages on whatever you feel like. You can access all of these services from any computer connected to the Internet.

Networking societies are to be found all over the country, and RedBrick - as part of the Intersocs network - is often found mingling with other nerds from Trinity, DIT, NUI Maynooth and University of Limerick, both at Intersocs events and in the IRC channel.

So, if you want to make new friends, talk about anything that's on your mind, or just get twisted because you have nothing better to do with your time, RedBrick has something to offer you.

== RedBrick's servers ==
When you connect to RedBrick, you are creating a remote connection to our servers, most likely [[minerva]] (the main login machine). This uses SSH, or Secure Shell, to encrypt data and allow you to use your user account as though you were sitting at the actual machine. [[Connect|Click here to get connected to RedBrick.]]

Our servers all run Unix-like operating systems, the most common being Ubuntu (a distribution of GNU/Linux). There is no graphical interface and everything is done by keyboard. There are plans for a Windows machine to facilitate .NET and other such development, which should be available soon.

For more information on the machines, please see the [[Redbrick_Hardware|inventory]].

== Chat ==
One of the most common ways for Redbrick members to stay in touch is through Chat, or [[IRC]] (Internet Relay Chat). IRC basically lets you chat with a lot of different people at the same time.

To begin using chat, simply type 'chat' into your terminal. There are lots of different chatrooms, or "channels" on Redbrick, the default one being #lobby. There is also a WebChat client available, so you can talk to your friends on Redbrick through your browser. [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/chat/ www.redbrick.dcu.ie/chat/]

You can get more info about chat and its different commands and features by visiting the [[IRC]] page.

== E-mail ==
When you join Redbrick, you get your own email account, your address being <username>@redbrick.dcu.ie.

By default, your mail will be forwarded to your DCU account, so that you won't miss any mails. To turn this off, type "noforward" in your terminal.

Redbrick has a variety of different ways in which you can read and send mail. By typing "email" in your terminal, you can use the Mutt client to check your mail, but there is also a client available if you'd prefer to read email in your browser. It is called Squirrelmail. This can be accessed by pointing your browser at [http://webmail.redbrick.dcu.ie webmail.redbrick.dcu.ie].

== Newsgroups ==
The [[Redbrick Newsgroups]] (the boards) are a place for our members to exchange views, seek help or generally rant about anything they want. The default news reader on Redbrick is called slrn. To start it simply type "news" or "slrn" into your terminal. With slrn you can read and post to all of the Redbrick Newsgroups plus some Intersocs Newsgroups.

The boards can also be read using [[Using the Boards with Thunderbird|Thunderbird]].

== Redbrick Software ==
RedBrick has a vast array of software installed on the system that was written by our members. As you gain more experience using your account, you will come across a lot of the programs out there.

One of the most used of these programs is [[rbusers]]. If you type "rbusers" into your terminal, you will see a list of users currently logged on. [[Hey]] is a way for Redbrick users to send instant messages to each other's terminals. Heys are heavily customisable and there are lots of different ways to use it. See the [http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Hey#Tutorial tutorial] for more information. The list of user written software is endless and you will come across loads of them on your travels.

=== Games ===
RedBrick is host to a variety of games, which are listed [[Games|here]].

== Unix ==
RedBrick's operating system of choice is Unix. As explained earlier, Ubuntu GNU/Linux is the most common, used by our [[minerva|login]], [[morpheus|primary]] and [[deathray|secondary services]] machines. In the Windows point-and-click world, don't let a command line usage put you off; once you get comfortable you'll be amazed how much you can accomplish in a command line Unix environment. A standard user only need a very basic knowledge to gain usage from their Redbrick account. For a starting point and a guide to some of the more common commands, see the [[Unix Intro|introduction to Unix]].

== Changing your password ==
When you first join RedBrick, your assigned password will probably be some ugly, difficult to remember assortment of characters and numbers. Thankfully you can quite easily change it, and here's how.

When you first log in you'll be greeted with a black screen with your username and the time. All you have to do is type "passwd" like so:

[[Image:Password1.jpg]]

and hit enter. Now you have to enter your current (soon to be old) password.

[[Image:Password2.jpg]]

Almost finished now, I told you it was easy. You'll be asked what you want your new password to be, like this:

[[Image:Password3.jpg]]

you'll have to enter it twice, just for comparisons sake, to make sure you've typed it correctly.

After you've done that, that's it! You're done.

[[Image:Password4.jpg]]

Make sure to remember this password, but if you forget it's not a big deal, you'll just have to e-mail the admins and ask them nicely to reset it for you.

==Changing finger information==

Finger information is what people see when they "finger" you, this shows your username as well as your real name. At first, your real name and username will both be set to the same thing. Basically, this name is used when posting to the news boards and when e-mailing. If you'd like to change what it says, this is how:

At the prompt, type chfn like so:

[[Image:chfn1.jpg]]

and hit return. Next it'll ask for your password, just type it in the same as you would when logging in

[[Image:chfn2.jpg]]

Now you can set your name to whatever you want, it can include capital letters and spaces

[[Image:chfn3.jpg]]

After you've entered it in, hit return until it exits. It should look like this:

[[Image:chfn4.jpg]]

And you're done. As it says, this may take effect instantly or in ten minutes, but it will change.

== More ==
For a list of the main features at any time, type "help" into your terminal. Remember that you can always ask the Redbrick [[Helpdesk]] questions if you have any problems or need assistance. Once you are comfortable with the general setup of your account and the system take a look at the other tutorials to learn a little more and improve your use of Redbrick.

Good luck, and enjoy your Redbrick experience!

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

Articles about RedBrick

2009-09-27T12:11:32Z

Coconut:

== coconut ==

=== What is RedBrick? ===

Full version of Campus article from September 2009.

"What is RedBrick?" - this is the age-old query which has plagued the
DCU Networking Society for years. RedBrick is such a diverse society
that a million monkeys working on a million typewriters for a million
years might reproduce the works of Shakespeare, but they'll never come
up with a concise explanation as to what RedBrick is.

Simply put, RedBrick is a rather big social society with a slant on
computers and technology. We host a plethora of techy events designed to
entertain and educate anyone and everyone, including cinema trips, pub nights and
tutorials and workshops on programming, web design and graphic design.
Expect to see the return of the annual RedBrick Freshers'
Ball (booze! booze! booze!) and the table quiz; last year, the quiz saw
members having prizes practically thrown at them, with Sega Mega Drives,
portable hard drives, Lucky Charms cereal and plenty of spot prizes
being won. We also raffled off a brand new Eee PC laptop.

At the start of 2009, over twenty Brickies went to Finland - birthplace
of the Linux kernel - to mess about in massive technology museums,
employ stealth and cunning in a battle to snow each other into our cabins and feast on
reindeer and mead in a Viking restaurant (all while being quite
drunk).

RedBrick isn't just about events though; we are lucky enough to own our
own servers on which we host the services used daily by our members:
IRC (Internet Relay Chat - our most popular service, as it's great for
putting off assignments until the last minute, waffling about whatever's on
your mind and meeting new people),webspace (host your own website with massive
amounts of storage space), forums/message boards, the photo gallery and your
own @redbrick.dcu.ie e-mail address. We also have our own wiki site (wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie),
where all members can create/edit/vandalise pages on whatever you feel
like. You can access all of these services from any computer connected
to the Internet.

Networking societies are to be found all over the country, and RedBrick
- as part of the Intersocs network - is often found mingling with other nerds from
Trinity, DIT, NUI Maynooth and University of Limerick, both at Intersocs
events and in the IRC channel.

So, if you want to make new friends, talk about anything that's on your mind, or just get twisted because you have nothing better to do with your time, RedBrick has something to offer you.

== Justin / cain ==

Illustrious Chairman, Justin/[[User: Cain|Cain]], originally joined redbrick to write an article
for An Tarbh.

Just to correct this. I initially joined because a cute girl in my class joined up. She never renewed after her first year as it happens. I was bored one day, logged on and thought to myself, 'I could write a poorly written and amateurish account of this evening's entertainment'. And so.... - Cain

===I was a BBS Virgin, by 'Caine'===

There are many despised sub-cultures clinging to existence on campus. From the
DBES to CS students, these groups, ostracised from normal society, carry on
their lives away from public scrutiny. One of these groups, perhaps the most
secretive of them all, are those whose only interaction with society is on the
BBS. I'm sure you've seen them, huddled over their monitors in the computer
rooms talking and laughing to themselves as they send off another hilarious
missive to their fellow nerds across campus. Therefore in the interests of
investigative journalism, and to alleviate the boredom of a rainy afternoon, I
donned the sobriquet 'Caine' and went undercover on the BBS to discover just
what it is that is so funny.

The first thing I noticed as I logged on was the warm reception I got.
Despite not knowing what was going on I was warmly welcomed into their society.
I spent the first few minutes in observation, trying to follow their
conversation, which seemed to centre on one user called 'Rabbit'. Bored to
tears I changed the topic to the proposed November 14 SU walkout in an effort
to find out if anybody was angry. Instead, I got an alternative plan that
the SU would do well to consider, "kidnap Danny O'Hare and hold him to
ransom".

It was at this stage that I was approached by another user, 'Thalia', with whom I spent the next fifteen minutes arguing about the Union and why it never did anything, etc. This conversation challenged my
perceptions that these people knew nothing about what happened outside of the
computer rooms as I was roundly thrashed before Thalia departed leaving me
alone as all others had voted with their e-mail and slipped away from politics
to another chat-room. Not knowing how anything worked, I spent the next five
minutes trying to find the group again, which leaves me to thank 'Dauphin' for
letting me in. Unfortunately, before I could press my advantage Dauphin had
been stolen away by Mulder, from the Grattan building so I didn't get to
experience what this cybersex is all about, but I did watch with interest as
Dauphin and Mulder fornicated like rabbits over the next few minutes.

Meanwhile a fight had broken out between Jacques and Ericc that seemed to be
covering up a mountain of sexual tension between them. Egged on, however by
Bernice and Poster, Jacques found it difficult to be honest with Erricc and
she took refuge in vague insinuations about the size of Ericc's equipment (
which is rather small by her accounts). In the end, of course, love won out and
in a bizarre menage a quartre with Poster, Bernice and Jacuques and with me
looking on interestedly, Ericc did the business and departed pronouncing
himself well satisfied with the nights work. Dauphin and Mulder continued to
exchange poetry and smoke the proverbial cigarette for the next few minutes
before they too departed leaving me alone with Poster, Jacques and Bernice.
Needless to say I quickly departed the hormone filled chat room and scurried
home.

So the $64,000 dollar question, does it beat the bar? On the downside there
is no alcohol, a point which cannot be under-emphasised, and it is very
difficult to meet members of the opposite sex for anything more than fevered
typing. On the upside the inhabitants are friendly and they talk the same
bullshit sober that most of us need alcohol to talk. They also talk about the
same things we do, politics, sex, genital size, Jacque's astonishing knowledge
of sexual innuendo and the power rangers. I would highly recommend a look if
any of the said topics interest you. But be warned, it may be sad but it is
addictive.
Thanks to everyone I mentioned in this article and the few I didn't.

Caine.

== Kevin / kevd ==

At phaxx's suggestion, Campus (the weekly students' union magazine) found a RedBrick virgin and asked them to join up and write about their experience. It was published on April 9th, 2007.

=== Campus Dares You! (to use RedBrick) ===

[[Image:Campus_kevd_article.png|right|300px]]

There are a lot of fun or even scary things that you could be dared to do in life - a bungee jump, an open-mic night or even sword fighting - so when I was asked to live my life through redbrick for a few days I have to say I was hugely under whelmed.

First off, for me Redbrick in DCU meant the outer walls of Hampstead not a second dimension where computer students seem to spend all their time. Redbrick is in its own words: a computer network in DCU, run by students for the students.Basically, hundreds of students log on everyday to chat, put up pictures and podcasts and to have good gossip it appears.

Now its not that I'm a technophobe, I just get bored with the whole computer thing. My college house has a grand collection of a Nintendo 64, PS2, Wii and the latest addition of a PS3 but I'd be hard fought to get engrossed in any of them so starting out redbrick proved a bit of a logistical nightmare. To be honest I didnt even know what tbh meant.

Admittedly, I had preconceptions of the type of people who sit around all day on what I would best describe as a super advanced and less colourful version of Bebo. I had images of a nerd.com style society where people discussed the finer points of Pythagoras' theorem while reflecting on some show about gigabytes they saw on the Discovery channel last night.

That was mistake number one. Mistake number two was not being armed with a pseudonym when the ever helpful Charlie in clubs and socs set up my account. Put on the stop I opted for kevd only later to discover that nobody operated under an identifiable name, instead choosing alter egos like phaxx, munky or duke. Nevertheless, I eventually logged onto Murphy, the central server where the action happens.

The busiest part of life on Redbrick is the chat room where people seem to stay all day discussing just about anything that crosses their minds and generally people have no problem speaking their minds. I'm guessing from a general reaction that my sudden presence on Redbrick caused a few to questions as to my motive, suggesting that as an online community it has a number of cliques and it wasn't long before I was told "Union hacks out". But people mostly just wanted to discuss dinner plans, the true meaning of OH (thats hydroxide not water as was established after some debate!) and even where to get fairtrade Easter eggs.

But if my couple of days of red- bricking have taught me anything its that redbrick is gossip central and has no shortage of bitchiness. At 1:24pm on Tuesday, theycould tell me that exactly 542 people had voted in the SU elections. Apparently, short skirts get votes, if the candidate is decent looking, because SU elections are according to redbrick a beauty contest. And if you've ever wondered what happened to former president Paul May I can officially tell you that he did the Blackrock triathlon in June last year, followed by the Chicago one in August and he spent New Years in Berlin. Bebo wouldnt have half of it!

However, while Redbrick does seem to be at the pulse of everything happening in DCU (as I write a discussion is brewing as to why Lord of the Rings music is playing in the Hub - "coz it's full of nerds") I do worry a little that many of its users have never heard of 3 euro Tuesday or Desperate Housewives. After several drinks in the Hub I discover that 53 people are still online at 4am in the morning. Most may not be active but they are still logged in - mistake number three.

Kevin Doyle, Victim

[[Category:Redbrick History]]

Articles about RedBrick

2009-09-27T12:11:20Z

Coconut:

== coconut ==

=== What is RedBrick? ==

Full version of Campus article from September 2009.

"What is RedBrick?" - this is the age-old query which has plagued the
DCU Networking Society for years. RedBrick is such a diverse society
that a million monkeys working on a million typewriters for a million
years might reproduce the works of Shakespeare, but they'll never come
up with a concise explanation as to what RedBrick is.

Simply put, RedBrick is a rather big social society with a slant on
computers and technology. We host a plethora of techy events designed to
entertain and educate anyone and everyone, including cinema trips, pub nights and
tutorials and workshops on programming, web design and graphic design.
Expect to see the return of the annual RedBrick Freshers'
Ball (booze! booze! booze!) and the table quiz; last year, the quiz saw
members having prizes practically thrown at them, with Sega Mega Drives,
portable hard drives, Lucky Charms cereal and plenty of spot prizes
being won. We also raffled off a brand new Eee PC laptop.

At the start of 2009, over twenty Brickies went to Finland - birthplace
of the Linux kernel - to mess about in massive technology museums,
employ stealth and cunning in a battle to snow each other into our cabins and feast on
reindeer and mead in a Viking restaurant (all while being quite
drunk).

RedBrick isn't just about events though; we are lucky enough to own our
own servers on which we host the services used daily by our members:
IRC (Internet Relay Chat - our most popular service, as it's great for
putting off assignments until the last minute, waffling about whatever's on
your mind and meeting new people),webspace (host your own website with massive
amounts of storage space), forums/message boards, the photo gallery and your
own @redbrick.dcu.ie e-mail address. We also have our own wiki site (wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie),
where all members can create/edit/vandalise pages on whatever you feel
like. You can access all of these services from any computer connected
to the Internet.

Networking societies are to be found all over the country, and RedBrick
- as part of the Intersocs network - is often found mingling with other nerds from
Trinity, DIT, NUI Maynooth and University of Limerick, both at Intersocs
events and in the IRC channel.

So, if you want to make new friends, talk about anything that's on your mind, or just get twisted because you have nothing better to do with your time, RedBrick has something to offer you.

== Justin / cain ==

Illustrious Chairman, Justin/[[User: Cain|Cain]], originally joined redbrick to write an article
for An Tarbh.

Just to correct this. I initially joined because a cute girl in my class joined up. She never renewed after her first year as it happens. I was bored one day, logged on and thought to myself, 'I could write a poorly written and amateurish account of this evening's entertainment'. And so.... - Cain

===I was a BBS Virgin, by 'Caine'===

There are many despised sub-cultures clinging to existence on campus. From the
DBES to CS students, these groups, ostracised from normal society, carry on
their lives away from public scrutiny. One of these groups, perhaps the most
secretive of them all, are those whose only interaction with society is on the
BBS. I'm sure you've seen them, huddled over their monitors in the computer
rooms talking and laughing to themselves as they send off another hilarious
missive to their fellow nerds across campus. Therefore in the interests of
investigative journalism, and to alleviate the boredom of a rainy afternoon, I
donned the sobriquet 'Caine' and went undercover on the BBS to discover just
what it is that is so funny.

The first thing I noticed as I logged on was the warm reception I got.
Despite not knowing what was going on I was warmly welcomed into their society.
I spent the first few minutes in observation, trying to follow their
conversation, which seemed to centre on one user called 'Rabbit'. Bored to
tears I changed the topic to the proposed November 14 SU walkout in an effort
to find out if anybody was angry. Instead, I got an alternative plan that
the SU would do well to consider, "kidnap Danny O'Hare and hold him to
ransom".

It was at this stage that I was approached by another user, 'Thalia', with whom I spent the next fifteen minutes arguing about the Union and why it never did anything, etc. This conversation challenged my
perceptions that these people knew nothing about what happened outside of the
computer rooms as I was roundly thrashed before Thalia departed leaving me
alone as all others had voted with their e-mail and slipped away from politics
to another chat-room. Not knowing how anything worked, I spent the next five
minutes trying to find the group again, which leaves me to thank 'Dauphin' for
letting me in. Unfortunately, before I could press my advantage Dauphin had
been stolen away by Mulder, from the Grattan building so I didn't get to
experience what this cybersex is all about, but I did watch with interest as
Dauphin and Mulder fornicated like rabbits over the next few minutes.

Meanwhile a fight had broken out between Jacques and Ericc that seemed to be
covering up a mountain of sexual tension between them. Egged on, however by
Bernice and Poster, Jacques found it difficult to be honest with Erricc and
she took refuge in vague insinuations about the size of Ericc's equipment (
which is rather small by her accounts). In the end, of course, love won out and
in a bizarre menage a quartre with Poster, Bernice and Jacuques and with me
looking on interestedly, Ericc did the business and departed pronouncing
himself well satisfied with the nights work. Dauphin and Mulder continued to
exchange poetry and smoke the proverbial cigarette for the next few minutes
before they too departed leaving me alone with Poster, Jacques and Bernice.
Needless to say I quickly departed the hormone filled chat room and scurried
home.

So the $64,000 dollar question, does it beat the bar? On the downside there
is no alcohol, a point which cannot be under-emphasised, and it is very
difficult to meet members of the opposite sex for anything more than fevered
typing. On the upside the inhabitants are friendly and they talk the same
bullshit sober that most of us need alcohol to talk. They also talk about the
same things we do, politics, sex, genital size, Jacque's astonishing knowledge
of sexual innuendo and the power rangers. I would highly recommend a look if
any of the said topics interest you. But be warned, it may be sad but it is
addictive.
Thanks to everyone I mentioned in this article and the few I didn't.

Caine.

== Kevin / kevd ==

At phaxx's suggestion, Campus (the weekly students' union magazine) found a RedBrick virgin and asked them to join up and write about their experience. It was published on April 9th, 2007.

=== Campus Dares You! (to use RedBrick) ===

[[Image:Campus_kevd_article.png|right|300px]]

There are a lot of fun or even scary things that you could be dared to do in life - a bungee jump, an open-mic night or even sword fighting - so when I was asked to live my life through redbrick for a few days I have to say I was hugely under whelmed.

First off, for me Redbrick in DCU meant the outer walls of Hampstead not a second dimension where computer students seem to spend all their time. Redbrick is in its own words: a computer network in DCU, run by students for the students.Basically, hundreds of students log on everyday to chat, put up pictures and podcasts and to have good gossip it appears.

Now its not that I'm a technophobe, I just get bored with the whole computer thing. My college house has a grand collection of a Nintendo 64, PS2, Wii and the latest addition of a PS3 but I'd be hard fought to get engrossed in any of them so starting out redbrick proved a bit of a logistical nightmare. To be honest I didnt even know what tbh meant.

Admittedly, I had preconceptions of the type of people who sit around all day on what I would best describe as a super advanced and less colourful version of Bebo. I had images of a nerd.com style society where people discussed the finer points of Pythagoras' theorem while reflecting on some show about gigabytes they saw on the Discovery channel last night.

That was mistake number one. Mistake number two was not being armed with a pseudonym when the ever helpful Charlie in clubs and socs set up my account. Put on the stop I opted for kevd only later to discover that nobody operated under an identifiable name, instead choosing alter egos like phaxx, munky or duke. Nevertheless, I eventually logged onto Murphy, the central server where the action happens.

The busiest part of life on Redbrick is the chat room where people seem to stay all day discussing just about anything that crosses their minds and generally people have no problem speaking their minds. I'm guessing from a general reaction that my sudden presence on Redbrick caused a few to questions as to my motive, suggesting that as an online community it has a number of cliques and it wasn't long before I was told "Union hacks out". But people mostly just wanted to discuss dinner plans, the true meaning of OH (thats hydroxide not water as was established after some debate!) and even where to get fairtrade Easter eggs.

But if my couple of days of red- bricking have taught me anything its that redbrick is gossip central and has no shortage of bitchiness. At 1:24pm on Tuesday, theycould tell me that exactly 542 people had voted in the SU elections. Apparently, short skirts get votes, if the candidate is decent looking, because SU elections are according to redbrick a beauty contest. And if you've ever wondered what happened to former president Paul May I can officially tell you that he did the Blackrock triathlon in June last year, followed by the Chicago one in August and he spent New Years in Berlin. Bebo wouldnt have half of it!

However, while Redbrick does seem to be at the pulse of everything happening in DCU (as I write a discussion is brewing as to why Lord of the Rings music is playing in the Hub - "coz it's full of nerds") I do worry a little that many of its users have never heard of 3 euro Tuesday or Desperate Housewives. After several drinks in the Hub I discover that 53 people are still online at 4am in the morning. Most may not be active but they are still logged in - mistake number three.

Kevin Doyle, Victim

[[Category:Redbrick History]]

Connect

2009-09-27T11:58:27Z

Coconut:

== Web browser ==
=== Anyterm ===

You can log in to RedBrick quickly and easily via your web browser! Just click [https://anyterm.redbrick.dcu.ie here]. The instructions under "After connecting" will apply to this.

== Windows ==
=== PuTTY ===

To connect to RedBrick on Windows, you'll need a program called PuTTY. It implements SSH (Secure Shell), which is a way of remotely controlling your acccount on our machines as though you were sitting at them.

Download putty.exe from [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/downloads/putty.exe here].

Open it up and click the RedBrick! button.

[[Image:Putty_configuration.png]]

Enter your username.

If you enter your username incorrectly and press enter, you'll have to close the window and start again. We didn't come up with this idea!

See "After connecting" below.

=== Within DCU ===

Something to note if you're logging in using the computing labs' (and I assume other buildings') computers: all of the machines in DCU are in a state of deep freeze, this means that anything that you do will be competely "forgotten" when the machine is turned off. This means that all the software on the machines will not change, so any changes to settings will not be saved.

When PuTTy was installed, our own version with the "RedBrick!" button was not used, instead you'll have to type
login.redbrick.dcu.ie
into the "Host Name (or IP address)" bar in PuTTY and click on Open. You may then be asked about changed RSA keys, to which you should click "Yes" and then you can log in.

Also, the character encoding is wrong; it should be UTF-8. To change this go to Window -> Translation -> Received data assumed to be in which character set: and choose UTF-8

Alternatively, you could try installing PuTTy on your H:/ drive where it will remain saved after you log off.

=== Note about copy/paste with PuTTY ===

By default, PuTTY has highlighting as copy and right click as paste. This leads many people who try to copy and paste for the first time to copy the same link into chat several times, here's how to do it properly:

[[Image:Puttyhl2.jpg]]

If you wanted to highlight the url to the RedBrick website all you do is simple click and drag over it to highlight it (it'll look like this:)

[[Image:Puttyhl.jpg]]

And that's it copied, you can now go to your web browser and ctrl + v or right click and paste like you would normally.

If you want to paste some copied text into chat, all you simply have to do is right click.

== RedBrick Ubuntu ==

Use the "Connect to RedBrick" icon on your desktop. Alternatively, you can follow the below instructions.

== Other Unix (GNU/Linux, Mac OS, BSD, Solaris) ==

Open a terminal/console and type
ssh username@login.redbrick.dcu.ie
Replace ''username'' with yours.
This will work on the version of SuSE installed in the labs.

== After connecting ==

You should get something like this.

[[Image:Login1.jpg]]

Only instead of "newb" as used here, you insert your own username (note: if you make a spelling mistake with your username with PuTTY and press return, you will have to close PuTTY and start all over again because PuTTY is weird like that). After you press return you will then be asked for your account password like so:

[[Image:Login2.jpg]]

Remember: don't worry that nothing comes up when you type your password in; it's a Unix thing and the password is still being entered.

And that's it! You're officially on RedBrick, congratulations. It should look something like this:

[[Image:Login3.jpg]]

This is called the '''shell''', although you will hear people refer to it as a '''console''' or '''terminal''' also. A shell interprets commands that you enter, similarly to MS-DOS or cmd.exe on Windows. The default shell is '''zsh'''. If you want to change this, please ask [[helpdesk]] to explain how and the potential complications that may arise.

Now, I'm sure you're wondering about all the fun things you can get up to. Well to start with you could try typing "help" to give a brief list of available commands:

[[Image:Help.jpg]]

Fun times.

The best step would probably be to type chat.

[[Image:Login4.jpg]]

....and hit enter. This will cause this to appear:

[[Image:Login5.jpg]]

You've come so far in such a short space of time. It's time to move on to the [[IRC]] wiki page.

== See Also==
[http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.54/htmldoc/ PuTTY Manual] - A more indepth tutorial on how to use PuTTY

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

Connect

2009-09-27T11:55:20Z

Coconut:

== Web browser ==
=== Anyterm ===

You can log in to RedBrick quickly and easily via your web browser! Just click [https://anyterm.redbrick.dcu.ie here]. The instructions under "After connecting" will apply to this.

== Windows ==
=== PuTTY ===

To connect to RedBrick on Windows, you'll need a program called PuTTY. It implements SSH (Secure Shell), which is a way of remotely controlling your acccount on our machines as though you were sitting at them.

Download putty.exe from [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/downloads/putty.exe here].

Open it up and click the RedBrick! button.

[[Image:Putty_configuration.png]]

Enter your username.

If you enter your username incorrectly and press enter, you'll have to close the window and start again. We didn't come up with this idea!

See "After connecting" below.

=== Within DCU ===

Something to note if you're logging in using the computing labs' (and I assume other buildings') computers: all of the machines in DCU are in a state of deep freeze, this means that anything that you do will be competely "forgotten" when the machine is turned off. This means that all the software on the machines will not change, so any changes to settings will not be saved.

When PuTTy was installed, our own version with the "RedBrick!" button was not used, instead you'll have to type "login.redbrick.dcu.ie" into the "Host Name (or IP address)" bar in PuTTY and click on Open. You may then be asked about changed RSA keys, to which you should click "Yes" and then you can log in.

Also, the character encoding is wrong; it should be UTF-8. To change this go to Window -> Translation -> Received data assumed to be in which character set: and choose UTF-8

Alternatively, you could try installing PuTTy on your H:/ drive where it will remain saved after you log off.

=== Note about copy/paste with PuTTY ===

By default, PuTTY has highlighting as copy and right click as paste. This leads many people who try to copy and paste for the first time to copy the same link into chat several times, here's how to do it properly:

[[Image:Puttyhl2.jpg]]

If you wanted to highlight the url to the RedBrick website all you do is simple click and drag over it to highlight it (it'll look like this:)

[[Image:Puttyhl.jpg]]

And that's it copied, you can now go to your web browser and ctrl + v or right click and paste like you would normally.

If you want to paste some copied text into chat, all you simply have to do is right click.

== RedBrick Ubuntu ==

Use the "Connect to RedBrick" icon on your desktop. Alternatively, you can follow the below instructions.

== Other Unix (GNU/Linux, Mac OS, BSD, Solaris) ==

Open a terminal/console and type "ssh login.redbrick.dcu.ie". This will work on the version of SuSE installed in the labs.

== After connecting ==

You should get something like this.

[[Image:Login1.jpg]]

Only instead of "newb" as used here, you insert your own username (note: if you make a spelling mistake with your username with PuTTY and press return, you will have to close PuTTY and start all over again because PuTTY is weird like that). After you press return you will then be asked for your account password like so:

[[Image:Login2.jpg]]

Remember: don't worry that nothing comes up when you type your password in; it's a Unix thing and the password is still being entered.

And that's it! You're officially on RedBrick, congratulations. It should look something like this:

[[Image:Login3.jpg]]

This is called the '''shell''', although you will hear people refer to it as a '''console''' or '''terminal''' also. A shell interprets commands that you enter, similarly to MS-DOS or cmd.exe on Windows. The default shell is '''zsh'''. If you want to change this, please ask [[helpdesk]] to explain how and the potential complications that may arise.

Now, I'm sure you're wondering about all the fun things you can get up to. Well to start with you could try typing "help" to give a brief list of available commands:

[[Image:Help.jpg]]

Fun times.

The best step would probably be to type chat.

[[Image:Login4.jpg]]

....and hit enter. This will cause this to appear:

[[Image:Login5.jpg]]

You've come so far in such a short space of time. It's time to move on to the [[IRC]] wiki page.

== See Also==
[http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.54/htmldoc/ PuTTY Manual] - A more indepth tutorial on how to use PuTTY

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

Redbrick Hardware

2009-09-25T10:34:45Z

Coconut: /* Former machines */

This is a list of all hardware hosted or owned and run by RedBrick, renowned for its vast array of idiotic and/or meaningless names.

NOTE: this inventory is always incomplete.

== Main servers ==

* [[Carbon]]
* [[Deathray]]
* [[Murphy]]
* [[Minerva]]
* [[Morpheus]]

== Backup Servers ==

* [[Severus]]
* [[Thunder]]
* [[Sprout]]

== VM Servers ==

* [[Daniel]]
* [[Cynic]]

== Games Soc ==

* [[Blinky]]

== Desktop Machines ==

* [[Ceiling Cat]]
* [[Lightning]]
* [[Coke (Computer)|Coke]]

== Former machines ==

* [[Asplodey]]
* [[Enigma]]
* [[Fap]]
* [[Laser]]
* [[Nanny]]
* [[Mother]]
* [[Nurse]]
* [[Obelisk]]
* [[Prodigy]]
* [[Playpen]]
* [[Telstar]] (formerly Burner)
* [[Tolka]]
* [[Troublegum]]
* [[Welmar]]

== Other Equipment ==

* [[Hadron]]
* [[Enzyme]]
* [[The Monolith]] (retired)
* [[The Docolith]] (retired)
* [[The Dellith]] x3
* [[APC UPS]]

== Accessories ==

Cables

* 2 x Internal SCSI LVD multimode terminators [one used in enigma array]
* 1 x Internal SCSI LVD cable; 8 connectors [used in enigma raid array]
* 1 x Internal SCSI SE terminator
* 2 x External SCSI VHCDI <-> HD68 cable [one used in enigma array]
* 1 x External SCSI HD68 cable [used for DLT]
* 1 x External SCSI HD68 terminator [used for DLT]
* 1 x PS/2 splitter cable [primarily for shrapnel]

Adaptors

* 1 x SCA <-> SCSI
* 1 x External HD68 SCSI <-> Internal HD68 SCSI [used in enigma raid array]
* 1 x 13W3 <-> VGA [plugged into nanny but unused]

Tools

* Set of screwdrivers
* Leatherman kit
* Electrostatic wrist strap

== Stuff We Don't Have, But Would Like, Or Need to Buy More Of ==

* Apparently nothing!

[[Category:Hardware]]

[[Category:Projects]]

Committee

2009-09-25T10:30:25Z

Coconut:

Committee

2009-09-25T10:30:00Z

Coconut:

The name given to the leadership of Redbrick. Elected every year at the Annual General Meeting it is composed of 13 members: three admins, three helpdesk, Webmaster, a first year rep, a Secretary, PRO, Ents Officer, Treasurer and Chairperson. All members of the committee are given ops in #lobby while the admins, along with previous system administrators still in the root group, hold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_user root]. The webmaster may also hold root, upon passing a root competency test.

They are the Society's most popular target for abuse and insults and work tirelessly and without compensation for the Society they love so much. A list of past and present Committee members can be found at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/committee/

An alternative view of the Committee is that it is a collection of the power-mad, the arrogant, the popular and the insulting. All members have their own opinions on that matter but most will agree that without the Committee Redbrick would not be able to function, and for that, and perhaps that alone, they deserve thanks.

--Cain

Originally from the [[Encyclopedia]], updated by atlas

The First Year Rep is elected at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), usually held during Clubs & Socs Week at the start of October. You must be a first year member to run for this position.

The committee can be contacted at: committee@redbrick.dcu.ie

Or, you can e-mail individual members via their RedBrick addresses.

=== 2009/10 (Current) ===
Chairperson
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Secretary
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Treasurer
Seán Hand ( revenant )
Events Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
Public Relations Officer
Dan Fox ( maiden )
First Year Representative
None ( to be elected )
Helpdesk
Austin Halpin ( haus )
Diarmaid McManus ( elephant )
Gautam Wadhwa ( gw )
Webmaster
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
System Administrators
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
David Ó Laigheanáin ( coconut )
Alan Walsh ( sonic )

=== 2008/09 ===
Chairperson
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Secretary
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Treasurer
Leah Doyle ( bambi )
Events Officer
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Public Relations Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
<del>John Needham ( colossus )</del>
First Year Representative
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Helpdesk
<del>Seán Hand ( revenant )</del>
Séamus Ronan ( train )
<del>Gavin Tubritt ( gamblitis )</del>
Webmaster
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
System Administrators
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )

=== 2007/08 ===
Chairperson (also known as Failchair)
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Secretary
Kevin Fox ( undone )
Events Officer
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Public Relations Officer
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Education Officers (also known as Helpdesk, also known as Faildesk)
PÃ¡draig O'Connor ( landa2 )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
David Ó Laigheanáin ( coconut )
Webmaster
Richard Dalton ( d_fens )
System Administrators
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )

[[Category:Encyclopedia]]

Connect

2009-09-25T10:26:35Z

Coconut: /* After connecting */

== Windows ==
=== PuTTY ===

To connect to RedBrick on Windows, you'll need a program called PuTTY. It implements SSH (Secure Shell), which is a way of remotely controlling your acccount on our machines as though you were sitting at them.

Download putty.exe from [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/downloads/putty.exe here].

Open it up and click the RedBrick! button.

[[Image:Putty_configuration.png]]

Enter your username.

If you enter your username incorrectly and press enter, you'll have to close the window and start again. We didn't come up with this idea!

See "After connecting" below.

=== Within DCU ===

Something to note if you're logging in using the computing labs' (and I assume other buildings') computers: all of the machines in DCU are in a state of deep freeze, this means that anything that you do will be competely "forgotten" when the machine is turned off. This means that all the software on the machines will not change, so any changes to settings will not be saved.

When PuTTy was installed, our own version with the "RedBrick!" button was not used, instead you'll have to type "login.redbrick.dcu.ie" into the "Host Name (or IP address)" bar in PuTTY and click on Open. You may then be asked about changed RSA keys, to which you should click "Yes" and then you can log in.

Also, the character encoding is wrong; it should be UTF-8. To change this go to Window -> Translation -> Received data assumed to be in which character set: and choose UTF-8

Alternatively, you could try installing PuTTy on your H:/ drive where it will remain saved after you log off.

=== Note about copy/paste with PuTTY ===

By default, PuTTY has highlighting as copy and right click as paste. This leads many people who try to copy and paste for the first time to copy the same link into chat several times, here's how to do it properly:

[[Image:Puttyhl2.jpg]]

If you wanted to highlight the url to the RedBrick website all you do is simple click and drag over it to highlight it (it'll look like this:)

[[Image:Puttyhl.jpg]]

And that's it copied, you can now go to your web browser and ctrl + v or right click and paste like you would normally.

If you want to paste some copied text into chat, all you simply have to do is right click.

== RedBrick Ubuntu ==

Use the "Connect to RedBrick" icon on your desktop. Alternatively, you can follow the below instructions.

== Other Unix (GNU/Linux, Mac OS, BSD, Solaris) ==

Open a terminal/console and type "ssh login.redbrick.dcu.ie". This will work on the version of SuSE installed in the labs.

== After connecting ==

You should get something like this.

[[Image:Login1.jpg]]

Only instead of "newb" as used here, you insert your own username (note: if you make a spelling mistake with your username with PuTTY and press return, you will have to close PuTTY and start all over again because PuTTY is weird like that). After you press return you will then be asked for your account password like so:

[[Image:Login2.jpg]]

Remember: don't worry that nothing comes up when you type your password in; it's a Unix thing and the password is still being entered.

And that's it! You're officially on RedBrick, congratulations. It should look something like this:

[[Image:Login3.jpg]]

This is called the '''shell''', although you will hear people refer to it as a '''console''' or '''terminal''' also. A shell interprets commands that you enter, similarly to MS-DOS or cmd.exe on Windows. The default shell is '''zsh'''. If you want to change this, please ask [[helpdesk]] to explain how and the potential complications that may arise.

Now, I'm sure you're wondering about all the fun things you can get up to. Well to start with you could try typing "help" to give a brief list of available commands:

[[Image:Help.jpg]]

Fun times.

The best step would probably be to type chat.

[[Image:Login4.jpg]]

....and hit enter. This will cause this to appear:

[[Image:Login5.jpg]]

You've come so far in such a short space of time. It's time to move on to the [[IRC]] wiki page.

== See Also==
[http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.54/htmldoc/ PuTTY Manual] - A more indepth tutorial on how to use PuTTY

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

Intro

2009-09-25T10:20:14Z

Coconut: /* RedBrick's servers */

'''Welcome to Redbrick!'''

This is a brief introduction to some of the more common services available to you now that you have a Redbrick account. For more detailed tutorials on the services mentioned, simply follow the links provided, or visit the [[Helpdesk]] page!

== RedBrick's servers ==
When you connect to RedBrick, you are creating a remote connection to our servers, most likely [[minerva]] (the main login machine). This uses SSH, or Secure Shell, to encrypt data and allow you to use your user account as though you were sitting at the actual machine. [[Connect|Click here to get connected to RedBrick.]]

Our servers all run Unix-like operating systems, the most common being Ubuntu (a distribution of GNU/Linux). There is no graphical interface and everything is done by keyboard. There are plans for a Windows machine to facilitate .NET and other such development, which should be available soon.

For more information on the machines, please see the [[Redbrick_Hardware|inventory]].

== Chat ==
One of the most common ways for Redbrick members to stay in touch is through Chat, or [[IRC]] (Internet Relay Chat). IRC basically lets you chat with a lot of different people at the same time.

To begin using chat, simply type 'chat' into your terminal. There are lots of different chatrooms, or "channels" on Redbrick, the default one being #lobby. There is also a WebChat client available, so you can talk to your friends on Redbrick through your browser. [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/chat/ www.redbrick.dcu.ie/chat/]

You can get more info about chat and its different commands and features by visiting the [[IRC]] page.

== E-mail ==
When you join Redbrick, you get your own email account, your address being <username>@redbrick.dcu.ie.

By default, your mail will be forwarded to your DCU account, so that you won't miss any mails. To turn this off, type "noforward" in your terminal.

Redbrick has a variety of different ways in which you can read and send mail. By typing "email" in your terminal, you can use the Mutt client to check your mail, but there is also a client available if you'd prefer to read email in your browser. It is called Squirrelmail. This can be accessed by pointing your browser at [http://webmail.redbrick.dcu.ie webmail.redbrick.dcu.ie].

== Newsgroups ==
The [[Redbrick Newsgroups]] (the boards) are a place for our members to exchange views, seek help or generally rant about anything they want. The default news reader on Redbrick is called slrn. To start it simply type "news" or "slrn" into your terminal. With slrn you can read and post to all of the Redbrick Newsgroups plus some Intersocs Newsgroups.

The boards can also be read using [[Using the Boards with Thunderbird|Thunderbird]].

== Redbrick Software ==
RedBrick has a vast array of software installed on the system that was written by our members. As you gain more experience using your account, you will come across a lot of the programs out there.

One of the most used of these programs is [[rbusers]]. If you type "rbusers" into your terminal, you will see a list of users currently logged on. [[Hey]] is a way for Redbrick users to send instant messages to each other's terminals. Heys are heavily customisable and there are lots of different ways to use it. See the [http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Hey#Tutorial tutorial] for more information. The list of user written software is endless and you will come across loads of them on your travels.

=== Games ===
RedBrick is host to a variety of games, which are listed [[Games|here]].

== Unix ==
RedBrick's operating system of choice is Unix. As explained earlier, Ubuntu GNU/Linux is the most common, used by our [[minerva|login]], [[morpheus|primary]] and [[deathray|secondary services]] machines. In the Windows point-and-click world, don't let a command line usage put you off; once you get comfortable you'll be amazed how much you can accomplish in a command line Unix environment. A standard user only need a very basic knowledge to gain usage from their Redbrick account. For a starting point and a guide to some of the more common commands, see the [[Unix Intro|introduction to Unix]].

== Changing your password ==
When you first join RedBrick, your assigned password will probably be some ugly, difficult to remember assortment of characters and numbers. Thankfully you can quite easily change it, and here's how.

When you first log in you'll be greeted with a black screen with your username and the time. All you have to do is type "passwd" like so:

[[Image:Password1.jpg]]

and hit enter. Now you have to enter your current (soon to be old) password.

[[Image:Password2.jpg]]

Almost finished now, I told you it was easy. You'll be asked what you want your new password to be, like this:

[[Image:Password3.jpg]]

you'll have to enter it twice, just for comparisons sake, to make sure you've typed it correctly.

After you've done that, that's it! You're done.

[[Image:Password4.jpg]]

Make sure to remember this password, but if you forget it's not a big deal, you'll just have to e-mail the admins and ask them nicely to reset it for you.

==Changing finger information==

Finger information is what people see when they "finger" you, this shows your username as well as your real name. At first, your real name and username will both be set to the same thing. Basically, this name is used when posting to the news boards and when e-mailing. If you'd like to change what it says, this is how:

At the prompt, type chfn like so:

[[Image:chfn1.jpg]]

and hit return. Next it'll ask for your password, just type it in the same as you would when logging in

[[Image:chfn2.jpg]]

Now you can set your name to whatever you want, it can include capital letters and spaces

[[Image:chfn3.jpg]]

After you've entered it in, hit return until it exits. It should look like this:

[[Image:chfn4.jpg]]

And you're done. As it says, this may take effect instantly or in ten minutes, but it will change.

== More ==
For a list of the main features at any time, type "help" into your terminal. Remember that you can always ask the Redbrick [[Helpdesk]] questions if you have any problems or need assistance. Once you are comfortable with the general setup of your account and the system take a look at the other tutorials to learn a little more and improve your use of Redbrick.

Good luck, and enjoy your Redbrick experience!

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

Games

2009-09-25T10:07:49Z

Coconut:

Games available on RedBrick ([[minerva]]). These are all located in: /usr/games

To see what a game is about, execute the "man" command followed by the game's name. For example: man nethack

RedBrick also hosts other games on behalf of the DCU Games Society on their server [[blinky]].

==abe==
==adventure==
==airstrike==
==arithmetic==
==atc==
==backgammon==
===teachgammon===
Teaches you how to play backgammon. Useful, because I don't have a clue either.
==banner==
==battlestar==
==bcd==
==boggle==
==caesar==
==canfield==
The solitaire card game, canfield.
===cfscores===
Shows the database of high scores for canfield.
==countmail==
The countmail program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously. If it doesn't work for you, e-mail admins@redbrick.dcu.ie and annoy them.
==cribbage==
==dab==
==dopewars==

[[Image:400px-Stash3.jpg]]

In this game, you play a drug dealer, travelling between New York's five boroughs. You make money by buying selling a plethora of mind-altering substances.
It's all the fun of drug dealing '''without''' the legal repercussions!

==eboard==
===eboard-addtheme===
==fortune==
==gnuchess==
===gnuchessx===
Obsolete. Calls ''gnuchess xboard''

==gnugo==
==gnushogi==
==go-fish==
==gomoku==
==hack==
==hangman==
==hunt==
==lgeneral==
==mille==
==monop==
==morse==
==nethack==

NetHack is an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons simulator. (Read: NetHack is a game for when you have so few friends that you can't even muster up four people to pretend to be elves in some stupid dungeon). I like it though.

Players: [[User:gw|gw]] <s>is a fag</s>

===nethack-console===

==netris==

Networked multiplayer version of tetris. You can play with anyone logged into RedBrick.

Players: [[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]] [[User:phaxx|phaxx]] [[User:train|train]]

===netris-sample-robot===

==number==
==petris==
==phantasia==
==pig==
==pom==
==ppt==
==primes==
==quiz==
==rain==
==random==
==robots==
==rot13==
==sail==
==snake==
==snscore==
==tetris-bsd==
==tf==
==tinymux-install==
==trek==
==typespeed==
==wargames==
==worm==

A clone of the game "Snake" which was created in the 1970s but popularised by the Nokia 3210 mobile phone (especially in Irish secondary schools!)

==worms==
==wtf==

Not really a game per se. Decodes [[Acronyms|acronyms]].

==wump==

Games

2009-09-25T10:04:58Z

Coconut:

Games available on RedBrick ([[minerva]]). These are all located in: /usr/games

To see what a game is about, execute the "man" command followed by the game's name. For example: man nethack

RedBrick also hosts other games on behalf of the DCU Games Society on their server [[blinky]].

==abe==
==adventure==
==airstrike==
==arithmetic==
==atc==
==backgammon==
===teachgammon===
Teaches you how to play backgammon. Useful, because I don't have a clue either.
==banner==
==battlestar==
==bcd==
==boggle==
==caesar==
==canfield==
The solitaire card game, canfield.
===cfscores===
Shows the database of high scores for canfield.
==countmail==
The countmail program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously. If it doesn't work for you, e-mail admins@redbrick.dcu.ie and annoy them.
==cribbage==
==dab==
==dopewars==

[[Image:400px-Stash3.jpg]]

In this game, you play a drug dealer, travelling between New York's five boroughs. You make money by buying selling a plethora of mind-altering substances.
It's all the fun of drug dealing '''without''' the legal repercussions!

==eboard==
===eboard-addtheme===
==fortune==
==gnuchess==
==gnuchessx==
==gnugo==
==gnushogi==
==go-fish==
==gomoku==
==hack==
==hangman==
==hunt==
==lgeneral==
==mille==
==monop==
==morse==
==nethack==

NetHack is an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons simulator. (Read: NetHack is a game for when you have so few friends that you can't even muster up four people to pretend to be elves in some stupid dungeon). I like it though.

Players: [[User:gw|gw]] <s>is a fag</s>

===nethack-console===

==netris==

Networked multiplayer version of tetris. You can play with anyone logged into RedBrick.

Players: [[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]] [[User:phaxx|phaxx]] [[User:train|train]]

===netris-sample-robot===

==number==
==petris==
==phantasia==
==pig==
==pom==
==ppt==
==primes==
==quiz==
==rain==
==random==
==robots==
==rot13==
==sail==
==snake==
==snscore==
==tetris-bsd==
==tf==
==tinymux-install==
==trek==
==typespeed==
==wargames==
==worm==

A clone of the game "Snake" which was created in the 1970s but popularised by the Nokia 3210 mobile phone (especially in Irish secondary schools!)

==worms==
==wtf==

Not really a game per se. Decodes [[Acronyms|acronyms]].

==wump==