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Redbrick Companies

2010-01-22T18:14:17Z

Halenger: Updating Demonware brickies.

[[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.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.terminalfour.com Terminalfour] - Enterprise Content Management: [[User:Piero|piero]].
* [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.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]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Af666x|af666x]].
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]].

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.amazon.com Amazon] - [[User:Pixies|pixies]], [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]], [[User:Jerry|jerry]], [[User:Marvin|marvin]], [[User:Singer|singer]].
* [http://www.accenture.ie Accenture] - IT Consultancy: [[User:Tuama|tuama]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Kpodesta|kpodesta]].
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Stark|stark]], [[User:svan|svan]] and [[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]].
* [http://www.ericsson.com Ericsson] - Telecommunications: [[User:dec|dec]].
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:pooka|pooka]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]], [[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]].
* [http://www.thus.net THUS]: [[User:homerj|homerj]]
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]].
* [http://hosting.digiweb.ie Digiweb]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [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.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]], [[User:smudger|smudger]], [[User:merchelo|merchelo]]
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].
* [http://www.itconvergence.com IT Convergence] - Oracle Consulting, Staffing, Education, Remote Support and Hosting Services. [[User:mark|mark]]
* [http://www.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://w4.siemens.de/ct/en/home/index.html Siemens] - R & D Medical Imaging: [[User:MLynch|mlynch]].
* [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare] - Network Software for Computer Games: [[User:Atlas|atlas]], [[User:Halenger|halenger]], [[User:Prolix|prolix]] and [[User:Phaxx|phaxx]].
* [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo] - Not google: [[User:nareik|nareik]]

Redbrick Companies

2009-03-04T11:26:10Z

Halenger: Moving company --- Kerna -> Demonware

[[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.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.terminalfour.com Terminalfour] - Enterprise Content Management: [[User:Piero|piero]].
* [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.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]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Af666x|af666x]].
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]].

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.amazon.com Amazon] - [[User:Pixies|pixies]], [[User:Grimnar|grimnar]], [[User:Jerry|jerry]], [[User:Marvin|marvin]], [[User:Singer|singer]].
* [http://www.accenture.ie Accenture] - IT Consultancy: [[User:Tuama|tuama]].
* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Kpodesta|kpodesta]].
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Stark|stark]] and [[User:Prolix|prolix]].
* [http://www.pharmaplaz.com Pharmaplaz] - Pharmaceuticals: [[User:kyper|kyper]].
* [http://www.ericsson.com Ericsson] - Telecommunications: [[User:dec|dec]].
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:pooka|pooka]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]], [[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]].
* [http://www.joost.com Joost]: [[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]].
* [http://www.thus.net THUS]: [[User:homerj|homerj]]
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]].
* [http://hosting.digiweb.ie Digiweb]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [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.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]], [[User:smudger|smudger]], [[User:merchelo|merchelo]]
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].
* [http://www.itconvergence.com IT Convergence] - Oracle Consulting, Staffing, Education, Remote Support and Hosting Services. [[User:mark|mark]]
* [http://www.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://w4.siemens.de/ct/en/home/index.html Siemens] - R & D Medical Imaging: [[User:MLynch|mlynch]].
* [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare] - Network Software for Computer Games: [[User:Atlas|atlas]], [[User:Halenger|halenger]].
* [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo] - Not google: [[User:nareik|nareik]]

Redbrick Companies

2007-07-03T16:11:16Z

Halenger:

[[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.vade.ie Vade] - Web Hosting & Development: [[User:kyper|kyper]], [[User:phreak|phreak]] and [[User:ryaner|ryaner]].
* [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.terminalfour.com Terminalfour] - Enterprise Content Management: [[User:Piero|piero]].
* [http://www.digitalrights.ie Digital Rights Ireland] - Online Lobby and Activism group. [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]]
* [http://www.techphreek.com TechPhreek!] - Consumer electronics dealership. [[User:lithium|lithium]]
* [http://1timetracking.com Time Warden Ltd.] - Time management solutions [[User:jeebers|jeebers]].

==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]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Af666x|af666x]].

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Kpodesta|kpodesta]].
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Stark|stark]], [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Prolix|prolix]].
* [http://www.elan.com Elan] - Pharmaceuticals: [[User:kyper|kyper]].
* [http://www.ericsson.com Ericsson] - Telecommunications: [[User:dec|dec]].
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:pooka|pooka]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]], [[User:usal|usal]] and [[User:magluby|magluby]].
* [http://www.heanet.ie HEAnet]: [[User:cns|cns]], [[User:singer|singer]], [[User:orly|orly]], [[User:Rob|rob]], [[User:esoteric|esoteric]], [[User:Bass|bass]] and [[User:atlas|atlas]].
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:grimnar|grimnar]].
* [http://www.thus.net THUS]: [[User:homerj|homerj]]
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]].
* [http://hosting.digiweb.ie Digiweb]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [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.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]], [[User:smudger|smudger]].
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].
* [http://www.tgpublishing.net/ TG Publishing] - Toms Hardware Guide, etc: [[User:werdz|werdz]].
* [http://www.itconvergence.com IT Convergence] - Oracle Consulting, Staffing, Education, Remote Support and Hosting Services. [[User:mark|mark]]
* [http://www.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://w4.siemens.de/ct/en/home/index.html Siemens] - R & D Medical Imaging: [[User:MLynch|mlynch]].

Digital SLR Cameras

2006-12-21T14:19:31Z

Halenger: Minor edit to my previously added Ken Rockwell bashing.

==Basics==
Entry level cameras include the Canon EOS-350D (aka Digital Rebel XT), Nikon's D50 and the Olympus E-500. A lot of the comparisons at this stage are really like for like with it being down to personal choice of camera feels the best for you, or what interface you like more, and most importantly, battery life. Each have similar specs and their output quality is not something you will be limited to any time soon by the body itself, thus leaving some to say that another choice should be based on the number of available lenses and their cost. It is important to remember that even the top camera and lenses won't produce a top picture if you don't know how to use them properly.

==What manufacturer?==
You can't really go wrong with Nikon or Canon. There are a number of others out there too and more on the way. Olympus are good but are using a new format of sensor (four-thirds) and have a limited range of lenses available. Sigma have promised lenses but have yet to produce. Other 3rd party manufacturers (Tamron, Tokina) will hopefully follow suit in the near future. Sony are the new comers to the SLR business but their technology is re-badged Konica-Minolta who sold to them not too long ago. Sony and Pentax have a large range of lenses available to them, including 3rd party.

==Things to note when choosing==
* One of the most important things to realise is that the body is not as important as you may think. Buying a â‚¬5k camera body and putting a â‚¬200 lens on it is a) stupid, b) insulting to the camera and c) not going to get you shots much better than what you'd get on a â‚¬500 body.
* Glass is incredibly important. Keep this in mind when buying lenses. When your camera body dies or you decide to upgrade, the glass will be coming with you (unless you switch from Canon to Nikon, or similar).
* Package deals (body + lens) can be good starting points but if you are very interested in photography you will grow out of these.. Buy the best bit of glass you can afford.
* Wide range lenses, such as 18-200mm, do provide more choice without switching lenses, but they can over amplify and problems with the lens too. Two lenses to cover the range will normally give better quality, even if they cost a little more.
* Tripods/bipods/monopods do help a lot with giving better shots, especially when using zoom lenses. - A quick and dirty alternative is the [http://www.xs4all.nl/~wiskerke/artikelen/string.html string tripod]
* Polarising Filter is almost a must if you plan to shoot outside a lot, especially if near water or other 'shiny' surfaces.
* A large memory card is a must. You don't want to get stuck without for that "must-see" shot but if you run out of space, you run out of luck. The fastest card out there might seem like the best idea but don't blow your money as your camera might not be fast enough for it. Generally the highest up models are the ones that really test a memory card.

==Lens review sites==
* [http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_surv.html#top1 - BjÃ¸rn RÃ¸rslett, Nikon/Nikkor only (in general)]
* [http://www.bythom.com - Thom Hogan, another Nikonian]
* [http://www.imagepower.de - Michael Weber, yet again a Nikonian. Only a few items reviewed]
* [http://www.fredmiranda.com - Reviews of many items, all user reviews though - can be good, can be annoying]
* [http://www.photozone.de - Many lens reviews on different mounts, very good for 3rd party lenses and getting better all the time]

==Photography fora==
* [http://www.nikoncafe.com - Large community, quite friendly, lots of gearheads (can be a bad thing I guess) **]
* [http://www.cafecanon.com - Canon version of the above. Same people run it, smaller so far though.**]
* [http://www.nikonians.org - Yes, Nikon again. Pretty big, not the friendliest forum software though.***]
* [http://www.fredmiranda.com - General forum, no specific manufacturer. *]
* [http://www.dpreview.com/forums/ - Forums on every bloody camera you can imagine]

For sale sections:
* - no restrictions
** - requires 25 posts, or more
*** - requires silver membership or better (a fee is involved)

==Recommended Reading==
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0817463003/026-2539580-3034836?v=glance&n=266239&s=gateway&v=glance Understanding Exposure] - a nice not too technical book illustrating some good photography techniques

==Links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_SLR Wikipedia Digital SLR]
* [http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalcameras/cameras/0,39036184,40002103,00.htm CNET - Choosing a DSLR]
* [http://www.kenrockwell.com/ Ken Rockwell's site, some excellent articles ] Note: This guy should be taken with a huge chunk of salt. For lens reviews see above, generally ignore this guy.
* [http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ The Luminous Landscape]

==Podcasts==
* [http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/podcasts.php Martin Bailey] A Japan based photographer.

Digital SLR Cameras

2006-12-21T14:18:44Z

Halenger:

==Basics==
Entry level cameras include the Canon EOS-350D (aka Digital Rebel XT), Nikon's D50 and the Olympus E-500. A lot of the comparisons at this stage are really like for like with it being down to personal choice of camera feels the best for you, or what interface you like more, and most importantly, battery life. Each have similar specs and their output quality is not something you will be limited to any time soon by the body itself, thus leaving some to say that another choice should be based on the number of available lenses and their cost. It is important to remember that even the top camera and lenses won't produce a top picture if you don't know how to use them properly.

==What manufacturer?==
You can't really go wrong with Nikon or Canon. There are a number of others out there too and more on the way. Olympus are good but are using a new format of sensor (four-thirds) and have a limited range of lenses available. Sigma have promised lenses but have yet to produce. Other 3rd party manufacturers (Tamron, Tokina) will hopefully follow suit in the near future. Sony are the new comers to the SLR business but their technology is re-badged Konica-Minolta who sold to them not too long ago. Sony and Pentax have a large range of lenses available to them, including 3rd party.

==Things to note when choosing==
* One of the most important things to realise is that the body is not as important as you may think. Buying a â‚¬5k camera body and putting a â‚¬200 lens on it is a) stupid, b) insulting to the camera and c) not going to get you shots much better than what you'd get on a â‚¬500 body.
* Glass is incredibly important. Keep this in mind when buying lenses. When your camera body dies or you decide to upgrade, the glass will be coming with you (unless you switch from Canon to Nikon, or similar).
* Package deals (body + lens) can be good starting points but if you are very interested in photography you will grow out of these.. Buy the best bit of glass you can afford.
* Wide range lenses, such as 18-200mm, do provide more choice without switching lenses, but they can over amplify and problems with the lens too. Two lenses to cover the range will normally give better quality, even if they cost a little more.
* Tripods/bipods/monopods do help a lot with giving better shots, especially when using zoom lenses. - A quick and dirty alternative is the [http://www.xs4all.nl/~wiskerke/artikelen/string.html string tripod]
* Polarising Filter is almost a must if you plan to shoot outside a lot, especially if near water or other 'shiny' surfaces.
* A large memory card is a must. You don't want to get stuck without for that "must-see" shot but if you run out of space, you run out of luck. The fastest card out there might seem like the best idea but don't blow your money as your camera might not be fast enough for it. Generally the highest up models are the ones that really test a memory card.

==Lens review sites==
* [http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_surv.html#top1 - BjÃ¸rn RÃ¸rslett, Nikon/Nikkor only (in general)]
* [http://www.bythom.com - Thom Hogan, another Nikonian]
* [http://www.imagepower.de - Michael Weber, yet again a Nikonian. Only a few items reviewed]
* [http://www.fredmiranda.com - Reviews of many items, all user reviews though - can be good, can be annoying]
* [http://www.photozone.de - Many lens reviews on different mounts, very good for 3rd party lenses and getting better all the time]

==Photography fora==
* [http://www.nikoncafe.com - Large community, quite friendly, lots of gearheads (can be a bad thing I guess) **]
* [http://www.cafecanon.com - Canon version of the above. Same people run it, smaller so far though.**]
* [http://www.nikonians.org - Yes, Nikon again. Pretty big, not the friendliest forum software though.***]
* [http://www.fredmiranda.com - General forum, no specific manufacturer. *]
* [http://www.dpreview.com/forums/ - Forums on every bloody camera you can imagine]

For sale sections:
* - no restrictions
** - requires 25 posts, or more
*** - requires silver membership or better (a fee is involved)

==Recommended Reading==
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0817463003/026-2539580-3034836?v=glance&n=266239&s=gateway&v=glance Understanding Exposure] - a nice not too technical book illustrating some good photography techniques

==Links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_SLR Wikipedia Digital SLR]
* [http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalcameras/cameras/0,39036184,40002103,00.htm CNET - Choosing a DSLR]
* [http://www.kenrockwell.com/ Ken Rockwell's site, some excellent articles ] - Note: This guy should be taken with a huge chunk of salt. For lens reviews see above, generally ignore this guy.
* [http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ The Luminous Landscape]

==Podcasts==
* [http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/podcasts.php Martin Bailey] A Japan based photographer.

Redbrick Companies

2006-10-31T14:51:17Z

Halenger:

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.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://www.vade.ie Vade] - Web Hosting & Development: [[User:kyper|kyper]], [[User:phreak|phreak]] and [[User:ryaner|ryaner]].
* [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.terminalfour.com Terminal4] - Enterprise Content Management: [[User:Piero|piero]] and [[User:Bubble|bubble]].
* [http://www.digitalrights.ie Digital Rights Ireland] - Online Lobby and Activism group. [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]]
* [http://www.techphreek.com TechPhreek!] - Consumer electronics dealership. [[User:lithium|lithium]]
* [http://www.itconvergence.com IT Convergence] - Oracle Consulting, Staffing, Education, Remote Support and Hosting Services. [[User:mark|mark]]

==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]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]].

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Kpodesta|kpodesta]].
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications] - IT Security: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Rob|rob]], [[User:Stark|stark]], [[User:Halenger|halenger]] and [[User:Bass|bass]].
* [http://www.elan.com Elan] - Pharmaceuticals: [[User:kyper|kyper]].
* [http://www.ericsson.com Ericsson] - Telecommunications: [[User:dec|dec]].
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:pooka|pooka]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]], [[User:usal|usal]] and [[User:magluby|magluby]].
* [http://www.heanet.ie HEAnet]: [[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]], [[User:singer|singer]], [[User:orly|orly]] and [[User:lickylip|lickylip]].
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:homerj|homerj]] and [[User:grimnar|grimnar]].
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]].
* [http://www.hosting365.ie Hosting365]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [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.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]].
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].
* [http://www.tgpublishing.net/ TG Publishing] - Toms Hardware Guide, etc: [[User:werdz|werdz]].

Digital SLR Cameras

2006-08-16T09:10:17Z

Halenger: Lots of new URLs, some other tweaking and other stuff

==Basics==
Entry level cameras include the Canon EOS-350D (aka Digital Rebel XT), Nikon's D50 and the Olympus E-500. A lot of the comparisons at this stage are really like for like with it being down to personal choice of camera feels the best for you, or what interface you like more, and most importantly, battery life. Each have similar specs and their output quality is not something you will be limited to any time soon by the body itself, thus leaving some to say that another choice should be based on the number of available lenses and their cost. It is important to remember that even the top camera and lenses won't produce a top picture if you don't know how to use them properly.

==What manufacturer?==
You can't really go wrong with Nikon or Canon. There are a number of others out there too and more on the way. Olympus are good but are using a new format of sensor (four-thirds) and have a limited range of lenses available. Sigma have promised lenses but have yet to produce. Other 3rd party manufacturers (Tamron, Tokina) will hopefully follow suit in the near future. Sony are the new comers to the SLR business but their technology is re-badged Konica-Minolta who sold to them not too long ago. Sony and Pentax have a large range of lenses available to them, including 3rd party.

==Things to note when choosing==
* One of the most important things to realise is that the body is not as important as you may think. Buying a â‚¬5k camera body and putting a â‚¬200 lens on it is a) stupid, b) insulting to the camera and c) not going to get you shots much better than what you'd get on a â‚¬500 body.
* Glass is incredibly important. Keep this in mind when buying lenses. When your camera body dies or you decide to upgrade, the glass will be coming with you (unless you switch from Canon to Nikon, or similar).
* Package deals (body + lens) can be good starting points but if you are very interested in photography you will grow out of these.. Buy the best bit of glass you can afford.
* Wide range lenses, such as 18-200mm, do provide more choice without switching lenses, but they can over amplify and problems with the lens too. Two lenses to cover the range will normally give better quality, even if they cost a little more.
* Tripods/bipods/monopods do help a lot with giving better shots, especially when using zoom lenses.
* Polarising Filter is almost a must if you plan to shot outside a lot, especially if near water or other 'shiny' surfaces.
* A large memory card is a must. You don't want to get stuck without for that "must-see" shot but if you run out of space, you run out of luck. The fastest card out there might seem like the best idea but don't blow your money as your camera might not be fast enough for it. Generally the highest up models are the ones that really test a memory card.

==Lens review sites==
* [http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_surv.html#top1 - BjÃ¸rn RÃ¸rslett, Nikon/Nikkor only (in general)]
* [http://www.bythom.com - Thom Hogan, another Nikonian]
* [http://www.imagepower.de - Michael Weber, yet again a Nikonian. Only a few items reviewed]
* [http://www.fredmiranda.com - Reviews of many items, all user reviews though - can be good, can be annoying]
* [http://www.photozone.de - Many lens reviews on different mounts, very good for 3rd party lenses and getting better all the time]

==Photography fora==
* [http://www.nikoncafe.com - Large community, quite friendly, lots of gearheads (can be a bad thing I guess) **]
* [http://www.cafecanon.com - Canon version of the above. Same people run it, smaller so far though.**]
* [http://www.nikonians.org - Yes, Nikon again. Pretty big, not the friendliest forum software though.***]
* [http://www.fredmiranda.com - General forum, no specific manufacturer. *]

For sale sections:
* - no restrictions
** - requires 25 posts, or more
*** - requires silver membership or better (a fee is involved)

==Links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_SLR Wikipedia Digital SLR]
* [http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalcameras/cameras/0,39036184,40002103,00.htm CNET - Choosing a DSLR]

TimeLine2002

2005-10-11T15:11:37Z

Halenger:

==
==

[ January: ]

1st - Euro currency comes into circulation in Ireland.

[ February: ]

9th - Irish currency no longer legal tender.

18th - AIB moves from standalone building in front of the Physics building to a unit in the "Street" in the Henry Gratten building.

18th - Rag Week.
19th - Redbrick alt.Rag Ball in Mono.
Damien Rice and Kid Icarus play.

21st - Redbrick Radio mailing list setup to discuss having a streaming radio station on redbrick.

26th - Redbrick disables accounts which haven't been renewed.
There is debate over some of the accounts as they are believed to have been used by people who were neither past or present students or staff of DCU.

27th - Prodigy goes down due to hard SCSI errors generated apparently by the cdrom drive.

27th - Redbrick Radio begins test broadcast.

28th - CSD grants Redbrick permission to keep existing accounts which had been used by people who, ordinarily, would not be entitled to redbrick accounts.

[ March: ]

13th/14th - Students Union elections.

14th - The Xbox is launched in Europe.

15th - Sean Scally is elected President of DCU SU for the coming year.
Michael Moriarty is elected Vice President.

15th - redbrick.news.urls board created.

15th - My last day of lectures!!!

17th - redbrick.news.urls board deleted.
redbrick.agm board created.

22nd - Singer creates a new Yahoo group for when redbrick is offline.

29th - Redbrick is taken offline over Easter weekend for admin work.

[ April: ]

DCU plans to let go part-time lecturers in the School of Communications because of the budget cuts. However these lecturers taught 90% of the Multimedia course, thus DCU has massively restructured the course ("butchered" was a word used).

2nd - Redbrick is back online.

3rd - Students' Union holds a referendum on disaffiliating from USI. Students vote in favour of disaffiliation.

4th - Comment posted to the message board in the MUD by wishkah@rb.

5th - The Archery Club is co-founded by halenger@rb and holds its first training session.

16th - Helpdesk candidates' test.

17th - Admin candidates' test.

18th - Webmaster candidates' test.

18th - 207 users logged on simultaneously.

22th - c-hey 2.0 released by Colmmacc.

23rd - AGM.
Kamili is elected as chair. Colmmacc also ran and Azrael was also nominated.
Montoya is elected as secretary. Azrael was also nominated.
Marvin is elected as treasurer. Anakin also ran.
Angel is elected as ents officer. Egg also ran.
Del_boy is elected as PRO. Azrael and Magluby also ran.
Pixies, Dizer, and Cns are elected as admins. Trevj also ran.
Emperor is elected as webmaster. Nero and Entropy also ran.
Cambo, Skyhawk, and Mark are elected to helpdesk. A drunk Dec also ran.
There was a close vote in both ents and chair elections and recounts were done.
Cns was given an award for his work on committee over the year.
Some ammendments were passed, including one removing the entry which said that founder members should have free membership for life.
Shadow video-ed the AGM.
The post AGM bash was held in Pravda.

[ May: ]

2nd - Colmmacc coins the phrase "Onionisms" to describe emperor's use of phrases which read like headlines from theonion.com

3rd - Shadow calculates the longest running threads that have occurred since March 2000. "FREE THE ODYSSEY ONE" is the longest thread with over 1000 posts.

3rd - The Gamecube is launched in Europe.

16th - redbrick.sex.minority.perversions is created after a suggestion by werewulf.

17th - Irish general election. First election to use electronic voting in some constituencies. Fianna Fail wins enough to form the next government.

19th - redbrick.sports.soccer.worldcup created.

20th - East Timor becomes the first new nation of the 21st century.

31st - World Cup in Japan and South Korea begins. Brazil won.

[ June: ]

6th - Ireland.com becomes a subscription service immediately reducing the number of posts to .news

11th - Marvin resigns from the Redbrick committee.

16th - An official web interface for reading some of the boards is put up on the website. However some members object to their posts being readable by anyone on the web.

[ July: ]

5th - colmmacc writes the Tardis which is designed to make long urls which are sometimes posted to the boards more presentable.

14th - Colmmacc mails the admin-discuss list to talk about implementing webmail on Redbrick. He has made it possible, but the solution required setting up various files which I for one (cokane) was too lazy to do.

19th - Competition is announced to design HTTP error pages for the Redbrick web server.

30th - USI organises a capitation march in the city centre in protest at the 69% rise in capitation fees.

[ August: ]

1st - Due to communication problems and a 3 month old "at" job, ents.dcu.ie is deleted.

13th - Redbrick.test has become a sort of extra .babble board. Jaydee and Deebee open their new "club" called t:Est on redbrick.test.

30th - Trip to London organised by Redbrick to see some computer game museum and get pissed. 11 people go in the end: Angel, Moridin, Montoya, Magluby, Vendetta, Belial, Thor, Sheila, Kamili, Goratrix, and Colmmacc.

31st - Google automatically redirects users to google.ie now.

[ September: ]

3rd - Cns sets up Redbrick fortune. The first quotes in it are from Pixies' Laws.

4th - Brickie Slack is arrested at 5am at Shannon airport with another man for painting anti-war slogans on an American military plane.

4th - The news server is down a lot because it is hosted on enigma and the RAID array is being setup on enigma causing a lot of downtime for it. Colmmacc sets up a temporary news server on prodigy late in the day.

11th - redbrick.committee newsgroup is setup for correspondance with the Redbrick committee.

14th - Eoin Dubsky(slack) has his picture on the front page of the Irish Times. There is an article inside about how a High Court judge supported his case against the government in court yesterday (Friday) the 13th.

15th - redbrick.egm is created for discussing the upcoming EGM.

23rd - New rules posted to the board in MUD

25th - lists.bugtraq is setup by bobb after a post to .suggestions.

26th - lists.bugtraq made read-only so ppl can't post to it and end up spamming the list.

[ October: ]

1st - Redbrick EGM in CG12 to elect a new treasurer. Dimples was elected treasurer.
An amendment to remove an amendment from the previous AGM about full minutes was passed after much discussion, as was an amendment about releasing minutes which was stricter than the removed one.

9th - Clubs and Socs day in DCU.
Redbrick has a higher ratio of renewals to new memberships this year. The main Redbrick stand is in the seminar room upstairs in the Hub.

11th - imurphy@rb is apparently the first 8th gen redbrick member to log on. Good for them!

11th - The admins change the slrn, mutt, and zsh setups slightly to make them more appealing to freshers.

15th - redbrick.computing.apple is setup after thayl gets an iBook.

16th - Redbrick Freshers' Event in Da2 on Wicklow St.
DJ [[Rbwiki_HomerJ|HomerJ]] plays downstairs while Pugwash and Veto Caul play upstairs.

19th - Second Nice referendum. The result is a Yes vote.

22nd - First Redbrick tutorial of the year in LG25 about the basics of using Redbrick.

[ November: ]

6th - intersocs.news, intersocs.suggestions, and intersocs.help created by Colmmacc.
These newsgroups are hosted by HEAnet (which has a number of brickies working there) as opposed to the old intersocs board(s) which was hosted by various netsocs at different times.

7th - [[Rbwiki_DrJolt|DrJolt]] asks Pooka to delete his account and he obliges. This ends an era of Drjolt on redbrick. Drjolt quit after much arguing about redbrick stuff on the boards.

7th - Post-Halloween event in [[Rbwiki_SoSuMe|SoSuMe]].

10th - Montoya resigns as secretary of Redbrick.

13th - Angel resigns as ents officer of Redbrick.

13th - Trinity netsoc members start posting to the intersocs boards.

20th - intersocs.general, intersocs.sex, intersocs.social, intersocs.computing.windows, intersocs.computing.unix, intersocs.tv, intersocs.music, intersocs.movies created.

21st - Mark resigns from Redbrick helpdesk.

27th - Intersocs event between Trinity and Redbrick in Da2. The Chalets, Capratone and Skylight play.

[ December: ]

2nd - Consumer boycott about price rises since the introduction of the Euro.

5th - Limerick netsoc, Skynet, start posting to intersocs boards.

5th - Redbrick EGM
gouki elected to secretary with one vote difference to trevj so a new EGM is called after alegations of voting slips of people who had left the room being used.
Purdy elected to ents.
Dec elected to helpdesk.

11th - Redbrick Christmas event Held in Down Under at Major Tom's in association with Filmsoc, Dance Soc, Archery, Clubbers and DCUMac.

16th - redbrick.puns newsgroup is created after a suggestion by del_boy.

17th - Redbrick EGM
Trevj was elected secretary. No one else ran.

TimeLine2002

2005-10-11T15:10:53Z

Halenger:

==
==

[ January: ]

1st - Euro currency comes into circulation in Ireland.

[ February: ]

9th - Irish currency no longer legal tender.

18th - AIB moves from standalone building in front of the Physics building to a unit in the "Street" in the Henry Gratten building.

18th - Rag Week.
19th - Redbrick alt.Rag Ball in Mono.
Damien Rice and Kid Icarus play.

21st - Redbrick Radio mailing list setup to discuss having a streaming radio station on redbrick.

26th - Redbrick disables accounts which haven't been renewed.
There is debate over some of the accounts as they are believed to have been used by people who were neither past or present students or staff of DCU.

27th - Prodigy goes down due to hard SCSI errors generated apparently by the cdrom drive.

27th - Redbrick Radio begins test broadcast.

28th - CSD grants Redbrick permission to keep existing accounts which had been used by people who, ordinarily, would not be entitled to redbrick accounts.

[ March: ]

13th/14th - Students Union elections.

14th - The Xbox is launched in Europe.

15th - Sean Scally is elected President of DCU SU for the coming year.
Michael Moriarty is elected Vice President.

15th - redbrick.news.urls board created.

15th - My last day of lectures!!!

17th - redbrick.news.urls board deleted.
redbrick.agm board created.

22nd - Singer creates a new Yahoo group for when redbrick is offline.

29th - Redbrick is taken offline over Easter weekend for admin work.

[ April: ]

DCU plans to let go part-time lecturers in the School of Communications because of the budget cuts. However these lecturers taught 90% of the Multimedia course, thus DCU has massively restructured the course ("butchered" was a word used).

2nd - Redbrick is back online.

3rd - Students' Union holds a referendum on disaffiliating from USI. Students vote in favour of disaffiliation.

4th - Comment posted to the message board in the MUD by wishkah@rb.

5th - Archery club is co-founded by halenger@rb and holds its first training session.

16th - Helpdesk candidates' test.

17th - Admin candidates' test.

18th - Webmaster candidates' test.

18th - 207 users logged on simultaneously.

22th - c-hey 2.0 released by Colmmacc.

23rd - AGM.
Kamili is elected as chair. Colmmacc also ran and Azrael was also nominated.
Montoya is elected as secretary. Azrael was also nominated.
Marvin is elected as treasurer. Anakin also ran.
Angel is elected as ents officer. Egg also ran.
Del_boy is elected as PRO. Azrael and Magluby also ran.
Pixies, Dizer, and Cns are elected as admins. Trevj also ran.
Emperor is elected as webmaster. Nero and Entropy also ran.
Cambo, Skyhawk, and Mark are elected to helpdesk. A drunk Dec also ran.
There was a close vote in both ents and chair elections and recounts were done.
Cns was given an award for his work on committee over the year.
Some ammendments were passed, including one removing the entry which said that founder members should have free membership for life.
Shadow video-ed the AGM.
The post AGM bash was held in Pravda.

[ May: ]

2nd - Colmmacc coins the phrase "Onionisms" to describe emperor's use of phrases which read like headlines from theonion.com

3rd - Shadow calculates the longest running threads that have occurred since March 2000. "FREE THE ODYSSEY ONE" is the longest thread with over 1000 posts.

3rd - The Gamecube is launched in Europe.

16th - redbrick.sex.minority.perversions is created after a suggestion by werewulf.

17th - Irish general election. First election to use electronic voting in some constituencies. Fianna Fail wins enough to form the next government.

19th - redbrick.sports.soccer.worldcup created.

20th - East Timor becomes the first new nation of the 21st century.

31st - World Cup in Japan and South Korea begins. Brazil won.

[ June: ]

6th - Ireland.com becomes a subscription service immediately reducing the number of posts to .news

11th - Marvin resigns from the Redbrick committee.

16th - An official web interface for reading some of the boards is put up on the website. However some members object to their posts being readable by anyone on the web.

[ July: ]

5th - colmmacc writes the Tardis which is designed to make long urls which are sometimes posted to the boards more presentable.

14th - Colmmacc mails the admin-discuss list to talk about implementing webmail on Redbrick. He has made it possible, but the solution required setting up various files which I for one (cokane) was too lazy to do.

19th - Competition is announced to design HTTP error pages for the Redbrick web server.

30th - USI organises a capitation march in the city centre in protest at the 69% rise in capitation fees.

[ August: ]

1st - Due to communication problems and a 3 month old "at" job, ents.dcu.ie is deleted.

13th - Redbrick.test has become a sort of extra .babble board. Jaydee and Deebee open their new "club" called t:Est on redbrick.test.

30th - Trip to London organised by Redbrick to see some computer game museum and get pissed. 11 people go in the end: Angel, Moridin, Montoya, Magluby, Vendetta, Belial, Thor, Sheila, Kamili, Goratrix, and Colmmacc.

31st - Google automatically redirects users to google.ie now.

[ September: ]

3rd - Cns sets up Redbrick fortune. The first quotes in it are from Pixies' Laws.

4th - Brickie Slack is arrested at 5am at Shannon airport with another man for painting anti-war slogans on an American military plane.

4th - The news server is down a lot because it is hosted on enigma and the RAID array is being setup on enigma causing a lot of downtime for it. Colmmacc sets up a temporary news server on prodigy late in the day.

11th - redbrick.committee newsgroup is setup for correspondance with the Redbrick committee.

14th - Eoin Dubsky(slack) has his picture on the front page of the Irish Times. There is an article inside about how a High Court judge supported his case against the government in court yesterday (Friday) the 13th.

15th - redbrick.egm is created for discussing the upcoming EGM.

23rd - New rules posted to the board in MUD

25th - lists.bugtraq is setup by bobb after a post to .suggestions.

26th - lists.bugtraq made read-only so ppl can't post to it and end up spamming the list.

[ October: ]

1st - Redbrick EGM in CG12 to elect a new treasurer. Dimples was elected treasurer.
An amendment to remove an amendment from the previous AGM about full minutes was passed after much discussion, as was an amendment about releasing minutes which was stricter than the removed one.

9th - Clubs and Socs day in DCU.
Redbrick has a higher ratio of renewals to new memberships this year. The main Redbrick stand is in the seminar room upstairs in the Hub.

11th - imurphy@rb is apparently the first 8th gen redbrick member to log on. Good for them!

11th - The admins change the slrn, mutt, and zsh setups slightly to make them more appealing to freshers.

15th - redbrick.computing.apple is setup after thayl gets an iBook.

16th - Redbrick Freshers' Event in Da2 on Wicklow St.
DJ [[Rbwiki_HomerJ|HomerJ]] plays downstairs while Pugwash and Veto Caul play upstairs.

19th - Second Nice referendum. The result is a Yes vote.

22nd - First Redbrick tutorial of the year in LG25 about the basics of using Redbrick.

[ November: ]

6th - intersocs.news, intersocs.suggestions, and intersocs.help created by Colmmacc.
These newsgroups are hosted by HEAnet (which has a number of brickies working there) as opposed to the old intersocs board(s) which was hosted by various netsocs at different times.

7th - [[Rbwiki_DrJolt|DrJolt]] asks Pooka to delete his account and he obliges. This ends an era of Drjolt on redbrick. Drjolt quit after much arguing about redbrick stuff on the boards.

7th - Post-Halloween event in [[Rbwiki_SoSuMe|SoSuMe]].

10th - Montoya resigns as secretary of Redbrick.

13th - Angel resigns as ents officer of Redbrick.

13th - Trinity netsoc members start posting to the intersocs boards.

20th - intersocs.general, intersocs.sex, intersocs.social, intersocs.computing.windows, intersocs.computing.unix, intersocs.tv, intersocs.music, intersocs.movies created.

21st - Mark resigns from Redbrick helpdesk.

27th - Intersocs event between Trinity and Redbrick in Da2. The Chalets, Capratone and Skylight play.

[ December: ]

2nd - Consumer boycott about price rises since the introduction of the Euro.

5th - Limerick netsoc, Skynet, start posting to intersocs boards.

5th - Redbrick EGM
gouki elected to secretary with one vote difference to trevj so a new EGM is called after alegations of voting slips of people who had left the room being used.
Purdy elected to ents.
Dec elected to helpdesk.

11th - Redbrick Christmas event Held in Down Under at Major Tom's in association with Filmsoc, Dance Soc, Archery, Clubbers and DCUMac.

16th - redbrick.puns newsgroup is created after a suggestion by del_boy.

17th - Redbrick EGM
Trevj was elected secretary. No one else ran.

TimeLine2001

2005-10-11T15:08:08Z

Halenger:

==
==

[ January: ]

Shadow starts his posting logs now that nntp-cache shows the username of the person that posted in the headers.

[ February: ]

18th - Doc leaves webgroup.

19th - Rag Week.
Redbrick along with the SPC and other volunteers again turned up very early in the morning to collect for charity. The collection was in aid of the Rape Crisis Centre and the Childrens' Hospital.
Cokane starts a postathon on the boards with Scrawny and gets disusered for an hour by bubble.

Dax.redbrick.dcu.is is setup as a machine for use by CTYI (Centre for Talented Youth in Ireland). This was one of the machines donated by the School of Computer Applications to Redbrick.

Foot and Mouth emerges in the UK for the first time in 20 years. Precautions are taken in the UK and Ireland which includes cancelling of unnecessary events.

A few days of downtime due to a corruption of the /usr disks. Replacement disks from the soon to be installed RAID array are used. It takes a while to get everything (website content, mailing lists, etc..) up and running again and some members become as grouchy as Oscar the Grouch.

Huh is written by Colmmacc and installed on the system. This program allows users to see the last five ppl that heyed them. Prior to this users had to just mass hey their friends asking who heyed or hey shadow and ask him to check his logs :o)

[ March: ]

6th - Redbrick begins weekly tutorials in LG25 of the CA Building.
The first two tutorials are about writing webpages in HTML and using FTP to upload them to redbrick. The third tutorial showed people how to setup Windowmaker and KDE on their Solaris accounts in CA, as well as giving a basic introduction to commandline UNIX.

9th - Galway trip was planned for this date but cancelled due to Foot and Mouth (and numbers).

13th - redbrick.test newsgroup is setup for a helpdesk tutorial.

Confirmed case of F&M in the Republic of Ireland, on the border between Louth and the North.

25th - Magluby introduces [[Rbwiki_OpBot|OpBot]] to Redbrick IRC. Previously he had been screening a chat session and manually logging stuff.

26th - Talks given about HEAnet by HEAnet ppl, and about the history of the internet in Ireland and where it's heading by Tom Murphy of Spin Solutions.

31st - redbrick.design is setup.

[ April: ]

2nd - Redbrick gives a Macromedia Flash and SQL tutorial in LG25.

7th - [[Rbwiki_OpBot|OpBot]] becomes [[Rbwiki_StopGap|StopGap]].

9th - Redbrick gives PHP tutorial in LG25.

11th - redbrick.karl.and.sheila is setup.
Kpodesta and Sheila frequently had their own threads (or threads they made their own) on the boards so after many calls from Odyssey of "Get a room", Drjolt gave them the next best thing, their own board.

11th - redbrick.odyssey is setup.
Many ppl had suggested over the years that Odyssey get his own board. Drjolt finally imprisoned him in his own board. He wasn't able to post to any other board bar this one.

17th - AGM.
Thor is elected as chair.
Moridin is elected as secretary.
Tibor is elected treasurer.
Magluby is elected ents officer.
Montoya is elected as PRO.
Phil, Mark, and Cns are elected as admins.
Colmmacc is elected as webmaster.
Esoteric, Marvin, and Kamili are elected to helpdesk.

17th - Redbrick anniversary/post-AGM event in Conways of Parnell St.
Some of the founders and members from years past turn up.
Table quiz is held and a birthday cake is served.
Afterwards a few hardy souls retire to downstairs part of Bacchus (Aquarium).
Pictures from the event are here.

19th - Redbrick wins Best Society award at the DCU Clubs & Societies awards.
Kpodesta wins Best Individual.

20th - Redbrick wins Best Society award at the BIC awards (held in DCU).

23rd - redbrick.karl.and.sheila and redbrick.odyssey groups deleted.

25th - A Sun E450, sponsored by Sun and given to Redbrick, arrived in DCU.

25th - redbrick.computing.security created.

26th - The E450 (called Pleasenameme) goes online.

[ May: ]

15th - redbrick.history created.

17th - redbrick.computing.programming.help created.
redbrick.computing.programming.discuss is created.
redbrick.computing.unix.newbie created.

21st - The Taoiseach of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, comes to DCU to talk about the work done by Redbrick, after we won the BICS award and got the Sun E450 sponsorship.
He also comes for the launch of DCU's strategic plan but Redbrick had him booked to come first :o)
The Taoiseach referred to a [[Rbwiki_BrickNews|BrickNews]] post by [[Rbwiki_DoC|DoC]], saying 'beer is what redbrick's all about!'. The non-drinking [[Rbwiki_DoC|DoC]] curses the non-existence of a sarcastic smiley.

26/27th - redbrick.computing.programming is removed.

31st - Redbrick holds Internet workshop for classes of local primary school children in LG25.

[ June: ]

1st - redbrick.computing.history created.

1st - The internet workshops for school children continue on the 1st, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and the 21st of this month.

15th - Access to tolka finally ends and students must use camac.

30th - First proper meeting of the cluster group project that Redbrick is doing for CA.

[ July: ]

12th - redbrick.bigbrother created. Applications to play Redbrick Big Brother are invited.
20th - 6 Redbrick members enter the Big Brother board.
They are david, emperor, huey, redgiant, shadow, and thayl.

23rd - redbrick.bigbrother.diaryroom.username boards are added for each contestant.
redbrick.bigbrother.diaryroom board is removed.

[ August: ]

17th - Shadow wins Redbrick Big Brother.

22nd - redbrick.shopping newsgroup added.
redbrick.bigbrother boards removed (except for .discuss)

29th - redbrick.muppet created so brickies can bitch about people :o)

[ September: ]

11th - Hijackers crash planes into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
Redbrick IRC log from that day.

14th - The Gamecube is launched in Japan

26th - Mary Harney, Tanaiste, formally opens the INVENT building in DCU.

[ October: ]

4th - redbrick.things.we.learn is created after a suggestion by valen.

10th - Clubs and Societies day in DCU.
Redbrick sign up about 750 people on the day and an estimated 85-90% of them are freshers. The Green Party Society is founded this year.

11th - An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, officially opens the Hub, despite it being "opened" by Tom from the first Big Brother last year. Shane [[Rbwiki_McGowan|McGowan]] and the Popes play at the "Grand Grand opening of the Hub". Attendance at the event is low.

15th - The new login server Prodigy comes online.
The seventh generation of brickies log on for the first time.

15th - Redbrick Freshers event in the Temple Bar Music Centre.
Turn and Bijou play followed by a dj.

16th - First redbrick tutorial of the year held in LG25.
Freshers are shown how to use redbrick's basic facilities such as chat.
25th - redbrick.music.making board is created after a suggestion by thayl.
25th - Windows XP launched.

[ November: ]

8th - The [[Rbwiki_XboX|XboX]] is launched in the USA

14th - redbrick.nokia-effin-game board recreated.

11th - The Gameboy Advance is launched in the USA.

18th - The Gamecube is launched int the USA.

20th - Bubble leaves webgroup, and Emperor joins webgroup.

26th - Helpdesk gives a tutorial in LG25 on Flash. P gives the talk.
Kamili's dog is finally put into web form at the tutorial

[ December: ]

13th - Redbrick Christmas event in association with [[Rbwiki_FilmSoc|FilmSoc]] and DCU Martial Arts Club held in [[Rbwiki_SoSuMe|SoSuMe]]
Poster for the event is here.

Talk:TimeLine2001

2005-10-11T15:06:55Z

Halenger:

Unfortunately neither the Archery Club nor Amnesty International Society were set up in 2001. :) <BR>
They were both setup in early 2002. --[[User:Halenger|Halenger]] 16:06, 11 Oct 2005 (IST)