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The Great S&V Consensus of 2k13

2013-10-23T10:00:12Z

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On a dark and dreary eve, the denizens of S&V doth decree that agreement has been reached:

Steak should be well done.

== GRAND ==

http://i.imgur.com/0KIZFfB.jpg

== NOT GRAND ==

http://i.imgur.com/kKx5wnD.jpg

* You can dress up a piece of shit anyway you want, but it's still a piece of shit.
* The above is a crime against the cow that sacrificed themselves for that steak.

Synergy

2007-12-11T14:08:18Z

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Synergy is a dynamic company that combines innovation with integration which helps it's customers to dominate areas of expertise. By this, Synergy provides it's 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.

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Spike

2007-05-01T10:13:55Z

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In 1997 a user by the name of Spike arrived on Redbrick. This writer cannot remember how Spike came to be on Redbrick for he was not, nor ever had been a student, but someone gave him a password and he was one of the best known Redbrick personalities and a [[Table]] regular.

Spike merits an entry in the [[Encyclopedia]] for the confused events surrounding his permanent [[DAFT|disuserment]] and the shutting down of Redbrick. What is beyond question is that Spike hacked files in other colleges, allegedly TCD and Glasgow. His carrying out of this deed was traced back to his Redbrick account and great was the wrath and anger of CSD who pulled the plug on Redbrick and threatened to close it down. As it was the system was shut down for three weeks and restored only with several conditions.

The exact series of events has always been a bone of contention with Spike claiming that it wasn't all his fault, a stance for which there was some support, and others claiming that he was solely responsible. As a result Spike was banned from Redbrick and DCU's environs by the [[Committee]].

At the time there was a great deal of anger towards Spike among the membership but time has healed many wounds though his name is still cursed by some of the older members.

--Cain

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Singer's kept a post from wibble from back in the day (well, over a year later, actually, but closer than today) when all this was happening, so here it is, in its entirety.

<pre>

Newsgroups: redbrick.babble
Subject: Re: Encyclopaedia, with missing facts...
Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:07:46 GMT
Organization: DCU Networking Society
Distribution: local
NNTP-Posting-Host: enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie
X-Trace: enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie 943481266 73677 136.206.15.5 (24 Nov 1999 22:07:46 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: committee@redbrick.dcu.ie
NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:07:46 GMT
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX)
Xref: enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie redbrick.babble:4852

On 22 Nov 1999 10:31:02 GMT, <wishkah@RedBrick.DCU.IE> wrote:
From: Shaun Neary <velocity@oceanfree.net>

>>Spike merits an entry in the Encyclopedia for the confused events surrounding
>>his permanent disuserment and the shutting down of Redbrick. What is beyond
>>question is that Spike hacked files in other colleges, ...
>
>Schnipped I was busted with a password file on a glasgow account, which was
>actually granted to me as I was doing work on their site. So again, yet
>another cockup on your story.

Shaun Neary was found with a cracked version of the password file belonging
to a TCD server. I'm not totally sure how he was tracked down but it came
from the fact that he was trading cracked passwords on IRC and somebody in
TCD heard about him, traced his logins back to Glasgow, whose admins went
ballistic they had somebody like him on their systems. They were upset at
being accused of harbouring a hacker and traced his logins back to DCU
whose admins (CSD) went ballastic in turn. Initally CSD didn't have a Shaun
Neary on their books and believed it to be an alias for another well-known
redbrick user. I recall setting them straight on this fact (otheriwse that
innocent student could have been kicked out of DCU) and disusered Spike.

>>allegedly TCD and Glasgow. His carrying out of this deed was traced back to
>>his Redbrick account and great was the wrath and anger of CSD who pulled the
>>plug on Redbrick and threatened to close it down. As it was the system was
>>shut down for three weeks and restored only with several conditions.
>
>Actually reliable resources point to the fact that it was electricians that
>cocked up and CSD shut down the wrong section down (CS labs) which shut down
>mother for a while, This was confirmed by Andy Lundberg himself. So fucking
>print that as well while you're at it..

Total bullshit... as you're expect from Shaun! Redbrick servers weren't
powered off during the "spike" incident, it's network access was cut. In
fact all out-bound telnet access from DCU was cut if I recall correctly.
Redbrick was previously abruptly powered down (un-plugged) at a different
time due to suspected "lab room exam cheating" via our chat system, and the
fact that CSD couldn't contact an admin@redbrick to do the job for them,
and they hadn't any account with sufficent privledges on redbrick to
shutdown the system properly.

Just setting some facts straight :]

Wibblbe an alias for another well-known
redbrick user. I recall setting them straight on this fact (otheriwse that
innocent student could have been kicked out of DCU) and disusered Spike.

>>allegedly TCD and Glasgow. His carrying out of this deed was traced back to
>>his Redbrick account and great was the wrath and anger of CSD who pulled the
>>plug on Redbrick and threatened to close it down. As it was the system was
>>shut down for three weeks and restored only with several conditions.
>
>Actually reliable resources point to the fact that it was electricians that
>cocked up and CSD shut down the wrong section down (CS labs) which shut down
>mother for a while, This was confirmed by Andy Lundberg himself. So fucking
>print that as well while you're at it..
Total bullshit... as you're expect from Shaun! Redbrick servers weren't
powered off during the "spike" incident, it's network access was cut. In
fact all out-bound telnet access from DCU was cut if I recall correctly.
Redbrick was previously abruptly powered down (un-plugged) at a different
time due to suspected "lab room exam cheating" via our chat system, and the
fact that CSD couldn't contact an admin@redbrick to do the job for them,
and they hadn't any account with sufficent privledges on redbrick to
shutdown the system properly.

Just setting some facts straight :]

Wibble

</pre>

--Emperor

Originally from the [[Encyclopedia]]

[[Category:Encyclopedia]]

User:Link

2007-05-01T10:09:32Z

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User:Coconut

2007-04-22T20:49:52Z

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That is Mr Link to you kiddy.

Redbrick Newsgroups

2007-04-22T20:48:26Z

Link: /* Links */

The Redbrick newsgroups, "the boards", are essentially an electronic bulletin board. People can post messages asking for help, talking about the latest news item, discussing computing or just generally ranting about anything at all. The newsgroups have remained highly active over the years, though they tend to be more popular among older generations of Brickies, while the younger, trendier crowd are more likely to hang out on [[IRC]].

== Accessing the boards ==
To gain access to the newsgroups, simply type "news" at the prompt.

Initially, you won't be subscribed to any of the newsgroups and your screen will be empty, so to see them hit L (shift + l) and then *, followed by return. This should display all of the boards.

The groups you are not subscribed to will be marked with U, which will be all of them if this is your first time. Move up and down the list to view the available groups. If you wish to subscribe to a group simply highlight the board and press the s key.

== Navigating ==
To navigate the groups use the up and down arrow keys. When you find a board that you want to read, hit the return key. You will then see a list of posts by other users. You can scroll up and down through the post with the u and d keys respectively.

Highlight the post you wish to read using the arrow keys and then hit return. You will now be able to read that user's post. To go back to the list of posts hit h. To back to the list of boards hit q.

You will notice that all responses to a particular topic appear under the heading for that topic. This series of messages is called a thread.

== Posting ==
On the main screen highlight the group you want to post to and press the p key. When asked if you want to post, press y. It will now display the name of the board you're post to, so hit return. The next option is to give your post a title. Make it as clear as possible. When you're done, press the return key.

Now your text editor will launch and you can type your post. When you are done, save the file in the usual manner. The default text editor is Nano, so this will be ctrl + x, and then y to save and quit.

You will be asked to confirm that you want to post, simply press y again.

== Replying/Following up ==
Replying to someone else's post is very straightforward. Whilst viewing the post, simply hit the f key. The options from there on are very similar to posting yourself, so simply follow the instructions as before.

If you wish to reply directly to the user by mail, hit the r key instead.

== Saving ==
When you are reading a posting, and you want to save it, hit the o key. You'll then be asked what filename you'd like to save it to. Simply enter where you would like the file to be saved and what you want it saved as i.e.

~/savedPost

Then just hit the return key and the post is saved.

== Crossposting ==
Sometimes you may want to post the same article to more than one newsgroup, because the article may be of interest to more than one audience or you want to get a wider response. If you simply post copies of the article in the usual way to each newsgroup, it not only takes more of your time but anyone subscribed to both groups sees the message twice, which can be pretty annoying. ;)

The crossposting mechanism allows you to post one copy of the article simultaneously to more than one newsgroup. With some newsreaders, including slrn, reading a crossposted article in one group marks it as read in the other groups, if you read more than one of the groups in question, you see the article only once. Crossposting is always preferable to making multiple separate identical postings.

To crosspost an article, start by posting as usual to one of the newsgroups in which you want the article to appear. Look at the headers of the article. For example the headers of this post are as follows:

Newsgroups: redbrick.babble
From: "Mr.Sephiroth" <Moridin@3l33t.RedBrick.cx>
Subject: Re: Website hosting
References: <slrnae2607.gus.henough@Prodigy.redbrick.dcu.ie>
Reply-To: moridin@redbrick.dcu.ie
Followup-To:

The top line, Newsgroups: specifies the groups that this message will get posted to. Now, suppose I want to post this both to redbrick.babble and redbrick.help. In that case the headers need to be amended to the following:

Newsgroups: redbrick.babble,redbrick.help
From: "Mr.Sephiroth" <Moridin@3l33t.RedBrick.cx>
Subject: Re: Website hosting
References: <slrnae2607.gus.henough@Prodigy.redbrick.dcu.ie>
Reply-To: moridin@redbrick.dcu.ie
Followup-To:

Now the message will go to redbrick.babble and redbrick.help. You need to make sure that there are no spaces between the names of the groups on the newsgroups line, i.e. it's just comma delimited.

Followup articles normally appear in the same newsgroups as the original article. The author of the followup article can change this by editing the Newsgroups: line in the header. The author of the original article can also change this, by editing the Followup-To: line, which is normally blank. If the Followup-To: line is not blank, all followup articles appear in the specified newsgroup.

This is commonly done in two situations. First, the author of the article may want to attract the attention of readers of several newsgroups, but then restrict any followup discussion to one newsgroup. For example, I'm going to set the follow-ups to this post to go to redbrick.help, as I'm being nice and helping you to understand stuff. ;)

Second, the author may want all responses to go directly to him/her via e-mail, so that he/she can prepare a summary of them to post later. Placing the word poster in the Followup-To: line accomplishes this.

Finally, here's the headers for this post after all my modifications to them:

Newsgroups: redbrick.babble,redbrick.help
From: "Mr.Sephiroth" <Moridin@3l33t.RedBrick.cx>
Subject: Re: Website hosting
References: <slrnae2607.gus.henough@Prodigy.redbrick.dcu.ie>
Reply-To: moridin@redbrick.dcu.ie
Followup-To: redbrick.help

Then you can continue to post as normal. :)

== Links ==
[https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~link/news/ Newsgroups] - link's web based version of the boards.

[[RBOnly:NewsgroupRSSFeed]] - access details for a RSS feed of the newsgroups

[[In_Jokes|In-Jokes]] - explanations of some of the common boards in-jokes.

[[Top_Ten_Redbrick_Arguments|Top Ten Arguments]] - a list of the most common debates.

[https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cammy/v/ Web Forums] - an online alternative to the boards.

[[Using the Boards with Thunderbird|Using the boards with Thunderbird]] - how to use the boards in Thunderbird.

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

RBOnly:NewsgroupRSSFeed

2007-04-22T20:44:06Z

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Rss feed of the last 5 days redbrick posts[http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~link/rss/groups.rss]

username : redbrick
password : masterpassword

User:Coconut

2007-02-14T10:42:38Z

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TimeLine2007

2007-02-02T20:55:27Z

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{{Timeline Years}}

==January==

==February==

2nd - Last ever post on cammy's alternative web boards

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TimeLine2007

2007-01-30T21:59:43Z

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==January==

19th - Last ever post on cammy's alternative web boards

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TimeLine2007

2007-01-11T16:05:05Z

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==January==

11th - Last ever post on cammy's alternative web boards

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TimeLine2006

2007-01-11T16:04:32Z

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{{Timeline Years}}

==January==

28th - David Murphy (drjolt) tragically died. David was a Redbrick founder, former committee member and a system administrator and he will be missed by all of Redbrick.

==February==

3rd - The Redbrick Wiki was defaced by spammers. The wiki was temporarily taken down.

6th - The Redbrick Wiki was restored.

25th - Short meetup in DCU to exchange old photos/posters/junk for potential anniversary collage/book. (singer, venus, kpodesta, drusilla, atlas, markpb, charlene)

==March==

(27th - 4th) Week 4 - Techweek. [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/community/events/posters/2005-2006/techweek.jpg Poster]

4th - [http://wavehunt.redbrick.dcu.ie Wavehunt 2] - [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~jesjes/WaveHunt2006RedbricksTechWeek/ Pictures]

11th - Collage of old posters & photos made in DCU by drusilla, atlas, markpb, charlene, shadow, kpodesta.

16th - Redbrick 10th birthday party. Bojangles nightclub, Harcourt st.

18th - Singer implements the newsgroups reorganisation (this had been proposed over a year ago, but was left unimplemented after there was no real feedback or suggestions). Surrounding the 10th birthday event there was some discussion on the boards about what could encourage new members on to redbrick, and the question of a newsgroups cleanup was again revisited, and singer acted on it! Boards were deleted & renamed!

29th - Colmmacc announces on the boards that Sun Microsystems are donating a T2000 server. (http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000), which will arrive in about a month's time.

30th - link logs into wiki as yaac123 and adds this to TimeLine2006 entry to confirm he is fully logged in

31st - wiki brought back online after some more hacking (anonymous editing had been disabled on it, but accounts could be created anonymously, which is how hackers got in).

==April==

11th - AGM held in QG13 at 7pm. All positions filled except for one admin. The new committee are:

'''Chairperson:''' Charlie Von Metzradt (phaxx)

'''Secretary:''' Jessica NÃ ChonchÃºbhair (jesjes)

'''Treasurer:''' Andrew Harford (receive)

'''Events:''' Kat Farrell (angelkat)

'''Public Relations Officer:''' Padraig O'Connor (landa2)

'''System Administrators:''' Eoghan Gaffney (atlas) & Sarunas Vancevicius (svan)

'''Webmaster:''' John Doyle (art_wolf)

'''Education Officers:''' Simon Kilroy (gizmo), Kevin Fox (undone) & Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

==May==

25th - phaxx orders people to update the scant timeline.

==June==

==July==

==August==
1st - [[Murphy]] (murphy.redbrick.dcu.ie) becomes the new login server

==September==

14th - joe5ie disusered for a period on one week for attempts to tell other users to run forkbombs, defacing the wiki.

23rd - receive notices that there is a timeline and adds stuff at phaxx's request

==October==

3rd & 4th - The 12th generation of brickies join at C&S days. Matthew Barrington (MoJu@Rb) is the first gen12 to appear in chat (he managed to get in weeks before the accounts were created), and seems to already be spending an obsssive length of time online.

10th - RedBrick freshers ball is held in the Vaults Night Club. Not many freshers actually turn up, most likely due to the storm conditions that night. Unusual amounts of lesbian activity entertain those that came though. - [http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/receive/ca2/rbfreshers/?g2_page=3m gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/receive/ca2/rbfreshers]

11th - EGM is held to elect the third admin position. Werdz, Abolo and Igy pass the test and run for the position. Igy was elected.

23rd - The new dell rack is installed in the server room and [[tolka]] is moved out - [http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/redbrickrackreplace/ gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/redbrickrackreplace/]

28th - receive wastes a large amount of time trying to put stuff in to the wiki, and finds himself still there at 4.30am

==November==

There was a lengthy discussion on the newsgroups (redbrick.babble) about "Redbrick 2.0", initiated by cammy (i.e. should Redbrick combine all it's different web services to make "Redbrick on the web" for our members, make things easier to use ala Bebo, should we get rid of the command line NNTP newsgroups). (Copy of the posting can be see on cammy's blog. [http://thedeadone.net/news/a-thought-exercise-redbrick-web-20/]) [https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cammy/v/ Redbrick web forums] were started as a web alternative (parallel?) to the newsgroups.

*Plans for Tech Week 2007 begin...

2nd - Halloween Party held (after Halloween of course) in Isaac Butt's opposite Busaras.

==December==

7th - Christmas Party held in The Slipper with Drama and Games Soc

Template:Timeline Years

2007-01-07T14:50:25Z

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Software on Redbrick

2006-08-03T21:04:28Z

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Software for and by Redbrick users: Put links on this page to software, scripts and/or utilites that are useful for Redbrick users.



* [http://thedeadone.net/?p=58 rbFriends]: rbFriends is a small java application to tell you who's logged on to Redbrick. Developed by [[User:Cammy|Cammy]]

* [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~shimoda/jobs.cgi Search four of the main Irish Jobs website]: Developed by [[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]].

* '''~link/bin/jey''' Prototype jabber hey.: Developed by [[User:Link|Link]].

* '''~shimoda/bin/whatsOnTv/whatsOnTv.pl''' A script which tells you whats currently on the terrestrial TV channels: Developed by [[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]].

* '''~shimoda/bin/whatsOnTv/movies.pl''' A script which tells you todays movies.: Developed by [[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]].

* '''~shimoda/bin/whatsOnTv/cinemaTimes.pl''' A script which tells you whats on in the cinema.: Developed by [[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]].

* '''~shimoda/bin/whatsOnTv/weather.pl''' Describes todays weather: Developed by [[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]].

* '''~shimoda/bin/websites/lahinch.pl''' Describes the current surfing conditions at Lahinch in Clare.: Developed by [[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]].

* '''~phaxx/whohey''' Describes which users are currently heying each other. Developed by [[User:Phaxx|Phaxx]].

* '''~phaxx/idlers''' Displays all the logged-in users in order of last activity, and colour-coded. Developed by [[User:Phaxx|Phaxx]].

* '''~plop/bin/posters''' A script that works out the top posters out of the posts that are currently available. Developed by [[User:Plop|Plop]].

* '''~plop/bin/nfind''' A utility for doing news searches. 'nfind -h for help' for help. Developed by [[User:Plop|Plop]].

* '''~shadow/map''' A map of computer labs at the DCU campus, highlighting where Redbrick users are logged in. Developed by [[User:Shadow|Shadow]].

* '''~awol/bin/ullf''' A little utility that lists the users from your =.friends= file that are online, if their messages are enabled and how long have they been idle. Developed by [[User:Colmmacc|Colmmacc]] and just simply compiled by [[User:Awol|Awol]]

* [http://www.thedeadone.net/software/MT-Close2 MT-Close2]: A plugin for the popular blogger software [http://www.movabletype.org Movable Type] that can close (and open) comments and trackbacks on multiple entries at a time. Useful for fighting "comment-spam". Developed by [[User:Cammy|].

* '''~cns/playpen/xe''' A currency converter. Developed by [[User:Cns|Cns]].

* '''~cns/playpen/testpattern''' displays all the colours you're ever likely to need inside a colour-supporting terminal. Developed by [[User:Cns|].

* '''~doc/bin/tinycreate.py''' creates a tinyurl and '''~doc/bin/tinyexpand.py''' expands one. Powered by [[User:Doc|Doc]].

* '''~doc/bin/docsult''' The original and best random insult generator on the planet. Powered by [[User:Doc|Doc]].

* '''~doc/bin/huskersult''' Heavily modified version of docsult dedicated to damning randomised Huskerdu-style putdowns. Powered by [[User:Doc|Doc]].

* '''~doc/bin/dart.pl''' Displays the Dart timetables. Powered by [[User:Doc|Doc]].

* '''~doc/bin/bus.pl''' Displays the Dublin bus timetables. Powered by [[User:Doc|Doc]].

* '''~cammy/bin/heyhere''' Enables 'mesg' on your current shell and disables it on all your other shells. Useful if you want to direct all hey messages to one specific shell. Created by [[User:Cammy|Cammy]]

* '''~jasper/scripts/256colors.pl''' Similar to testpattern, displays 256 colors and codes for terminals supporting them. Developed by [[User:Jasper|Jasper]].

* '''~jasper/scripts/cinema/listings''' script that lists all the movies showing in dublin cinemas. Terminal, XHTML and XML output options. Developed by [[User:Jasper|Jasper]].

Website To-Do List

2006-05-31T23:24:41Z

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RedBrick's new website is incomplete. If you find any broken stuff, please add it to the list!

== To-Do ==

* Not all pages pass html validation [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/chat/ chat] [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/stats/ stats]
* Search results page look needs to be updated [http://www.google.com/u/redbrick?q=redbrick eg]
* Should the help tutorials be moved onto the wiki?
: ''Yes, helpdesk are already intending to do this and other things. Best to leave this item for them, they have Plans with a capital Pee.'' --[[User:Phaxx|Phaxx]] 15:03, 25 May 2006 (IST)
* http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie should be updated to match style of new site
: ''When I helped set it up I just linked to the main site's CSS and now thats gone with the new RB site so now it's broken.'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
::''All the origional CSS files are still in their origional location.'' [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* If the browser is resized down, the right panel (and, eventually, the middle) disappear down the page.
* Add pictures to the "chat", "boards", "putty" buttons at the top. Antialias the text in the buttons, it looks a bit rough.
: ''Plans are to fully integrate the site with a login - so when loged in it will display emails, how many people in chat, how many new posts to the boards etc.''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* The wiki should be a vhost - wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie instead of www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wiki/mw/
: ''This partially works, but all the links inside the wiki use the ugly ~wiki style.''
:: ''We tried to set this up initially but for some complicated reason couldn't. Not sure if this is a wish for the new redbrick site or the wiki. Is the wiki to be integrated more into the main redbrick site?'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
::: ''I just tried accessing the wiki via wiki.rb.dcu.ie/~wiki - It worked for the most part, but the pubcookie login wasn't having any effect. Had to go to www.rb.dcu.ie/~wiki to edit this. This may cause a problem. - [[user:werdz|werdz]]''
* Update pubcookie to match look of new website design
: ''Are you sure? A great many pages will send users to the pubcookie login page, from all sorts of different styles. Is there much point in making the pubcookie page match the style of just one of the sites?''
::''Yes,assuming the long term plan is for all official redbrick web services to use pub cookie and to look somewhat similar''
* Pubcookie enable webmails
: ''Been investigating this for awhile - problem is that it requires to combining the pubcookie login and webmail logins - pubcookie on its own cannot do this.''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Update webmails look to match look of new website design
* Add tab icon to squirrelmail
: ''Where?''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
:: ''No favicon.ico is set inside squirrelmail''
* that gradiant affect is annoying on the content pages.
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/sponsors/ links on right are for about
* Point web boards link to somewhere or remove [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
: ''web boards still 'linked' in quick links''

== Completed ==

When you complete an item, please move it here, and add your name!

* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/admins/hardware/ should be wikied. It'll be updated far more frequently if it is. [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/userfree/ doesnt work [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* "Dublin City University Networking Society" is in tiny writing, floating in space & consumed by those large shortcut buttons. The grey text doesn't make it anymore visible either! [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* /images/blank.gif is missing, ie6 has a nice red 'x' planted over the RB logo [[user:werdz|werdz]]
* A link to http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/disk/ should be removed, its revealing system and user information [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* The Boards button on the homepage should be changed to something that works while that system is being developed [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Roundcube image does not display fully on webmail front page [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Include wiki in the drop down list of things to search [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Change main picture, it's still advertising the 10th birthday [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Move the icons for the pubcookie page back into /images [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Move /chat from the old site to the new one. Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* Pubcookie enable chat. (mostly done already, related to above item) Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* Atm, KPMG logo is approx 24k (640width) image, though shrunk in the <img> tag. For efficiency it should/can be reduced to a <2k gif at the size it is to be displayed at (140px). -- [[user:werdz|werdz]]

Website To-Do List

2006-05-30T22:17:26Z

Link:

RedBrick's new website is incomplete. If you find any broken stuff, please add it to the list!

== To-Do ==

* Search results page look needs to be updated [http://www.google.com/u/redbrick?q=redbrick eg]
* Should the help tutorials be moved onto the wiki?
: ''Yes, helpdesk are already intending to do this and other things. Best to leave this item for them, they have Plans with a capital Pee.'' --[[User:Phaxx|Phaxx]] 15:03, 25 May 2006 (IST)
* http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie should be updated to match style of new site
: ''When I helped set it up I just linked to the main site's CSS and now thats gone with the new RB site so now it's broken.'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
::''All the origional CSS files are still in their origional location.'' [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* If the browser is resized down, the right panel (and, eventually, the middle) disappear down the page.
* Add pictures to the "chat", "boards", "putty" buttons at the top. Antialias the text in the buttons, it looks a bit rough.
: ''Plans are to fully integrate the site with a login - so when loged in it will display emails, how many people in chat, how many new posts to the boards etc.''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* The wiki should be a vhost - wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie instead of www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wiki/mw/
: ''This partially works, but all the links inside the wiki use the ugly ~wiki style.''
:: ''We tried to set this up initially but for some complicated reason couldn't. Not sure if this is a wish for the new redbrick site or the wiki. Is the wiki to be integrated more into the main redbrick site?'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
::: ''I just tried accessing the wiki via wiki.rb.dcu.ie/~wiki - It worked for the most part, but the pubcookie login wasn't having any effect. Had to go to www.rb.dcu.ie/~wiki to edit this. This may cause a problem. - [[user:werdz|werdz]]''
* Update pubcookie to match look of new website design
: ''Are you sure? A great many pages will send users to the pubcookie login page, from all sorts of different styles. Is there much point in making the pubcookie page match the style of just one of the sites?''
::''Yes,assuming the long term plan is for all official redbrick web services to use pub cookie and to look somewhat similar''
* Pubcookie enable webmails
: ''Been investigating this for awhile - problem is that it requires to combining the pubcookie login and webmail logins - pubcookie on its own cannot do this.''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Update webmails look to match look of new website design
* Add tab icon to squirrelmail
: ''Where?''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
:: ''No favicon.ico is set inside squirrelmail''
* that gradiant affect is annoying on the content pages.
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/sponsors/ links on right are for about
* Point web boards link to somewhere or remove [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
: ''web boards still 'linked' in quick links''

== Completed ==

When you complete an item, please move it here, and add your name!

* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/admins/hardware/ should be wikied. It'll be updated far more frequently if it is. [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/userfree/ doesnt work [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* "Dublin City University Networking Society" is in tiny writing, floating in space & consumed by those large shortcut buttons. The grey text doesn't make it anymore visible either! [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* /images/blank.gif is missing, ie6 has a nice red 'x' planted over the RB logo [[user:werdz|werdz]]
* A link to http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/disk/ should be removed, its revealing system and user information [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* The Boards button on the homepage should be changed to something that works while that system is being developed [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Roundcube image does not display fully on webmail front page [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Include wiki in the drop down list of things to search [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Change main picture, it's still advertising the 10th birthday [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Move the icons for the pubcookie page back into /images [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Move /chat from the old site to the new one. Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* Pubcookie enable chat. (mostly done already, related to above item) Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* Atm, KPMG logo is approx 24k (640width) image, though shrunk in the <img> tag. For efficiency it should/can be reduced to a <2k gif at the size it is to be displayed at (140px). -- [[user:werdz|werdz]]

Website To-Do List

2006-05-29T18:42:21Z

Link:

RedBrick's new website is incomplete. If you find any broken stuff, please add it to the list!

== To-Do ==

* Should the help tutorials be moved onto the wiki?
: ''Yes, helpdesk are already intending to do this and other things. Best to leave this item for them, they have Plans with a capital Pee.'' --[[User:Phaxx|Phaxx]] 15:03, 25 May 2006 (IST)
* http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie should be updated to match style of new site
: ''When I helped set it up I just linked to the main site's CSS and now thats gone with the new RB site so now it's broken.'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
::''All the origional CSS files are still in their origional location.'' [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* If the browser is resized down, the right panel (and, eventually, the middle) disappear down the page.
* Add pictures to the "chat", "boards", "putty" buttons at the top. Antialias the text in the buttons, it looks a bit rough.
: ''Plans are to fully integrate the site with a login - so when loged in it will display emails, how many people in chat, how many new posts to the boards etc.''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* The wiki should be a vhost - wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie instead of www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wiki/mw/
: ''This partially works, but all the links inside the wiki use the ugly ~wiki style.''
:: ''We tried to set this up initially but for some complicated reason couldn't. Not sure if this is a wish for the new redbrick site or the wiki. Is the wiki to be integrated more into the main redbrick site?'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
::: ''I just tried accessing the wiki via wiki.rb.dcu.ie/~wiki - It worked for the most part, but the pubcookie login wasn't having any effect. Had to go to www.rb.dcu.ie/~wiki to edit this. This may cause a problem. - [[user:werdz|werdz]]''
* Update pubcookie to match look of new website design
: ''Are you sure? A great many pages will send users to the pubcookie login page, from all sorts of different styles. Is there much point in making the pubcookie page match the style of just one of the sites?''
::''Yes,assuming the long term plan is for all official redbrick web services to use pub cookie and to look somewhat similar''
* Pubcookie enable webmails
: ''Been investigating this for awhile - problem is that it requires to combining the pubcookie login and webmail logins - pubcookie on its own cannot do this.''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Update webmails look to match look of new website design
* Add tab icon to squirrelmail
: ''Where?''[[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
:: ''No favicon.ico is set inside squirrelmail''
* that gradiant affect is annoying on the content pages.
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/sponsors/ links on right are for about
* Point web boards link to somewhere or remove [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
: ''web boards still 'linked' in quick links''

== Completed ==

When you complete an item, please move it here, and add your name!

* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/admins/hardware/ should be wikied. It'll be updated far more frequently if it is. [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/userfree/ doesnt work [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* "Dublin City University Networking Society" is in tiny writing, floating in space & consumed by those large shortcut buttons. The grey text doesn't make it anymore visible either! [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* /images/blank.gif is missing, ie6 has a nice red 'x' planted over the RB logo [[user:werdz|werdz]]
* A link to http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/disk/ should be removed, its revealing system and user information [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* The Boards button on the homepage should be changed to something that works while that system is being developed [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Roundcube image does not display fully on webmail front page [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Include wiki in the drop down list of things to search [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Change main picture, it's still advertising the 10th birthday [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Move the icons for the pubcookie page back into /images [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Move /chat from the old site to the new one. Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* Pubcookie enable chat. (mostly done already, related to above item) Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* Atm, KPMG logo is approx 24k (640width) image, though shrunk in the <img> tag. For efficiency it should/can be reduced to a <2k gif at the size it is to be displayed at (140px). -- [[user:werdz|werdz]]

Website To-Do List

2006-05-25T12:45:11Z

Link:

RedBrick's new website is incomplete. If you find any broken stuff, please add it to the list!

== To-Do ==

* Should the help tutorials be moved onto the wiki?
* Include wiki in the drop down list of things to search
* A link to http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie
* http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie should be updated to match style of new site
: ''When I helped set it up I just linked to the main site's CSS and now thats gone with the new RB site so now it's broken.'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
* Atm, KPMG logo is approx 24k (640width) image, though shrunk in the <img> tag. For efficiency it should/can be reduced to a <2k gif at the size it is to be displayed at (140px).
* If the browser is resized down, the right panel (and, eventually, the middle) disappear down the page.
* "Dublin City University Networking Society" is in tiny writing, floating in space & consumed by those large shortcut buttons. The grey text doesn't make it anymore visible either!
* Change main picture, it's still advertising the 10th birthday
* Add pictures to the "chat", "boards", "putty" buttons at the top
* The wiki should be a vhost - wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie instead of www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wiki/mw/
: ''This partially works, but all the links inside the wiki use the ugly ~wiki style.''
:: ''We tried to set this up initially but for some complicated reason couldn't. Not sure if this is a wish for the new redbrick site or the wiki. Is the wiki to be integrated more into the main redbrick site?'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
* Update pubcookie to match look of new website design
: ''Are you sure? A great many pages will send users to the pubcookie login page, from all sorts of different styles. Is there much point in making the pubcookie page match the style of just one of the sites?''
::''Yes,assuming the long term plan is for all official redbrick web services to use pub cookie and to look somewhat similar''
* Point web boards link to somewhere or remove
* Roundcube image does not display fully on webmail front page
* Pubcookie enable webmails
* Update webmails look to match look of new website design
* Add tab icon to squirrelmail
* The Boards button on the homepage should be changed to something that works while that system is being developed
* that gradiant affect is annoying on the content pages.
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/disk/ should be removed, its revealing system and user information
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/userfree/ doesnt work
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/sponsors/ links on right are for about
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/admins/hardware/ should be wikied. It'll be updated far more frequently if it is.

== Completed ==

When you complete an item, please move it here, and add your name!

* Move the icons for the pubcookie page back into /images [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Move /chat from the old site to the new one. Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* Pubcookie enable chat. (mostly done already, related to above item) Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]

Website To-Do List

2006-05-25T09:32:14Z

Link:

RedBrick's new website is incomplete. If you find any broken stuff, please add it to the list!

== To-Do ==

* A link to http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie
* http://planet.redbrick.dcu.ie should be updated to match style of new site
: ''When I helped set it up I just linked to the main site's CSS and now thats gone with the new RB site so now it's broken.'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
* Atm, KPMG logo is approx 24k (640width) image, though shrunk in the <img> tag. For efficiency it should/can be reduced to a <2k gif at the size it is to be displayed at (140px).
* If the browser is resized down, the right panel (and, eventually, the middle) disappear down the page.
* "Dublin City University Networking Society" is in tiny writing, floating in space & consumed by those large shortcut buttons. The grey text doesn't make it anymore visible either!
* Change main picture, it's still advertising the 10th birthday
* Add pictures to the "chat", "boards", "putty" buttons at the top
* The wiki should be a vhost - wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie instead of www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wiki/mw/
: ''This partially works, but all the links inside the wiki use the ugly ~wiki style.''
:: ''We tried to set this up initially but for some complicated reason couldn't. Not sure if this is a wish for the new redbrick site or the wiki. Is the wiki to be integrated more into the main redbrick site?'' --[[User:Cammy|The Dead One]] 10:30, 25 May 2006 (IST)
* Update pubcookie to match look of new website design
: ''Are you sure? A great many pages will send users to the pubcookie login page, from all sorts of different styles. Is there much point in making the pubcookie page match the style of just one of the sites?''
::''Yes,assuming the long term plan is for all redbrick web services to use pub cookie and to look somewhat similar''
* Point web boards link to somewhere or remove
* Roundcube image does not display fully on webmail front page
* Pubcookie enable webmails
* Update webmails look to match look of new website design
* Add tab icon to squirrelmail
* The Boards button on the homepage should be changed to something that works while that system is being developed
* that gradiant affect is annoying on the content pages.
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/disk/ should be removed, its revealing system and user information
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/userfree/ doesnt work
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/sponsors/ links on right are for about
* http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/admins/hardware/ should be wikied. It'll be updated far more frequently if it is.

== Completed ==

When you complete an item, please move it here, and add your name!

* Move the icons for the pubcookie page back into /images [[user:art_wolf|art_wolf]]
* Move /chat from the old site to the new one. Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* Pubcookie enable chat. (mostly done already, related to above item) Claimed by: [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]

Website To-Do List

2006-05-24T16:03:20Z

Link:

RedBrick's new website is incomplete. If you find any broken stuff, please add it to the list!

* Change main picture, it's still advertising the 10th birthday
* Add pictures to the "chat", "boards", "putty" buttons at the top
* Move the icons for the pubcookie page back into /images
* Move /chat from the old site to the new one - phaxx is handling this.
* The wiki should be a vhost - wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie instead of www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wiki/mw/
* Update pubcookie to match look of new website design
* Pubcookie enable chat
* Point web boards link to somewhere or remove
* Roundcube image does not display fully on webmail front page
* Pubcookie enable webmails
* Update webmails look to match look of new website design
* Add tab icon to squirrelmail

User:Igy

2006-04-23T02:51:50Z

Link:

== Stats ==
'''Real Name''' : ''Stephen Doyle''

'''RedBrick involvement''' : ''2004 - 2005 Helpdesk, 2005 - 2006 Helpdesk ''

'''Picture:'''
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~igy/photos/ParisAmsterdamFeb2006/640/Feb%202006%20-%20Amsterdam%20+%20Paris%20223.jpg

'''Homepage:''' [http://igy.be igy.be]

User talk:Link

2006-04-23T02:47:28Z

Link:

TimeLine1996

2006-03-30T20:07:30Z

Link:

{{Timeline Years}}

==Pre-History==

In October of 1995 a group of friends started the ball rolling on the idea of a computer network in DCU, run by students for the students. Starting out with a battered 386 PC with 8 MB of RAM(dubbed Nurse), bits of borrowed memory, their own cash, and a lot of luck, they went about organising the D.C.U Networking society. The initial build of the Nurse was performed on an 800MB hard drive (the first RB disk) in DrJolt's home computer on February 4th, 1996. Once recognised as a society, they were allowed to setup a temporary home for the server in the Computer Applications facility, going online in the postgrad area on March 5th, 1996 as dcuns.compapp.dcu.ie. Later, the society received its own subnet and subdomain of dcu.ie from the Computer Services Department.

Having decided to try for an alternative to 'dcuns' as the domain name, 'RedBrick' was selected, [[Rbwiki_DrJolt|DrJolt]]'s suggestion being inspired by the diverse and exciting architecture of DCU (at that time, most permanent structures in DCU were built of red brick). They were also able to find physical accomodation (the CA department being unwilling to extend the temporary arrangements) in which to store Nurse, under a desk in QG07. Nurse went online as Nurse.RedBrick.dcu.ie on April 9th, 1996.

==April==

The DCU Networking Society is founded.

9th - nurse.redbrick.dcu.ie goes officially online 

The primary application on Redbrick for members was the BBS (Bulletin Board System(. The BBS ran on top of a shell and featured chat and newsgroups. The BBS software Redbrick used was called Eagle BBS. The Babble newsgroup was created this month.

 This is the `dmesg` output of an early boot of Nurse.
<pre>
FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Apr 26 10:54:02 BST 1996
root@Nurse.RedBrick.DCU.IE:/usr/src/sys/compile/NURSEP5
CPU: 60-MHz Pentium 510\60 (Pentium-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x517 Stepping=7
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,PSE,MCE,CX8,APIC>
real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
avail memory = 63287296 (61804K bytes)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
scprobe: keyboard RESET failed fe
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <12 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 5 on isa
ed0: address 00:c0:df:47:63:d2, type NE2000 (16 bit)
psm0 not found at 0x60
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
pca0 on motherboard
pca0: PC speaker audio driver
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM TRB850A>, multi-block-8
wd0: 810MB (1660176 sectors), 1647 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <ST32140A>, multi-block-32
wd1: 2015MB (4127760 sectors), 4095 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 not found at 0x170
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Probing for devices on the PCI bus:
chip0 <Intel 82434LX (Mercury) PCI cache memory controller> rev 3 on pci0:0
chip1 <Intel 82378ZB PCI-ISA bridge> rev 3 on pci0:2
changing root device to wd0a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted.
in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 2400
in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 1600
in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 1066
in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 710
pid 23316: cgiemail.cgi: uid 65534: exited on signal 11
pid 23581: cgiemail.cgi: uid 65534: exited on signal 11
</pre>


==May==
==June==
==July==
==August==
==September==

The second generation of brickies appeared. The BBS was still available.

===Founding committee===

* Chair: Hyper
* Secretary: Wibble
* Treasurer: Swipe
* PRO/Ents: Sandman
* Systems Administrators: Drjolt and Fergus

Two 4.6 gig disks added to Nurse to replace burned out disks. After a "misunderstanding" with CSD, Redbrick's full external access was removed.

==October==

The first Redbrick event took place on October 17th. It was orgainsed over chat by a number of members who had never met in real life. Bernice, [[User:Cammy|Cammy]], Dauphin, Soma, Erricc and Jacques met up and went to Fibbers.

'''Trivia''': this was the first time Cammy and Dauphin physically met. Currently (2006) they are married and have a 2 year old little girl but only Cammy is still a member of Redbrick.

Sometime around now [[User:Cain|cain]] wrote [[Justin's Article|this article]] for An Tarbh about Redbrick.

==November==

26th - First ever Intersocs event called "The First Fiddle" in the Mean Fiddler. Poster for the event is [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~awol/phtml/timeline/docs/fiddler.doc here].

==December==

Christmas Party in the Jolly Beggarman pub in Artane.
Thayl had to go to hospital after falling off a telephone box after closing time.

User talk:Link

2006-03-30T08:58:06Z

Link:

test

foo

User talk:Link

2006-03-29T21:17:19Z

Link:

test

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2006-02-25T02:36:25Z

Link:

Feel free to add an an entry about your username below!



==[[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]]==

Cool picture I have hanging up. Have had it for ages and its by Art Wolfe.

==[[User:bilco|bilco]]==

Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit

==[[User:cammy|cammy]]==

I was using it as a web handle long before I joined Redbrick. It comes from the name of one of my first roleplaying characters that wasn't just a bunch of stats. The name for that roleplaying character though, came from the computer game Streetfighter 2.

Well actually cammy was my second choice. I would have liked to use The_Dead_One but that exceeds the 8 character limit.

==[[User:cooker3|cooker3]]==
It is my username for the lab machines in the CA building, it's not to do with an obcession with cookers!

==[[User:david|david]]==
The year that I joined DCU Hasselhoff was given a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. With all the new challenges in my life at that time I found that he was someone I could look up to. I could admire his achievements. He was like an uncle to me. I grew up on Kinght Rider and am looking forward to the new movie coming out this year. And then when I got a little older and started noticing girls I got interested in Baywatch. I wanted to be the stud that he was on that show. Appropriately in 2000 when I joined redbrick he released one of his many hit albums in Germany - "The Magic Colleciton". So I chose david as my redbrick username because ... well actually its not that interesting really, its my name in real life.

==[[User:drag0n|drag0n]]==
Friends in college said that I needed a nickname, probably because they're too lazy to say my full name "Diarmuid" and I find "Diarm" quite creepy, so basically, "dragon" popped into their heads and it stuck! I used be called siphi (for no particular reason, it was a random name I was known by onli ne), then changed to drag0n (with a zero). The zero is because the user "dragon" is allready taken on rb. But everyone loved the new name so I added the zero. If you hey the other dragon, you generally get a confused hey in response, so I generally have heys disabled. anyways...

==[[User:drusilla|drusilla]]==
My nick was surprisingly enough, from the character on Buffy! Friends of mine in second year of school gave it to me when they noticed the similarities between myself and the insane vampire. Funnily, dru was my second nick on RedBrick, before that I was zerocool

==[[User:elmer|elmer]]==
My username came from my first ever email address(elmer@clubi.ie) which i chose based on the looney tunes character elmer fudd

==[[User:exzantia|exzantia]]==
As many, many people have pointed out, my name seems like a random string of letters, and it kinda is... When I was signing up for a Yahoo mail account in '98 everything I tried was already taken. I was not having under-scores or numbers so I decided to come up with something that would always be available! I thus far have succeeded.

==[[User:fox_chic|fox_chic]]==

Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :)

==[[User:gizmo|gizmo]]==
My nick came from a combination of thinking gizmo was a pretty cool name due to that little flurry critter in Gremlins and also cns putting me on the spot on Clubs And Socs day when I first joined so that I couldn't think of anything else. Strange, but true.

==[[User:jesjes|jesjes]]==
My name is Jessica. And people from home call me Jesi, and at some stage during sixth year I decided I much more liked Jess. So when I got THE INTERNETS, I just called myself jesjes. It stuck.

==[[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]]==

Because that's my real name. I thought Redbrick was some email yoke - all else fails, I was getting a decent email address.

==[[User:lithium|lithium]]==

Coz I like the sound of it. And coz it goes crazy when you put it in water. And not because of the Nirvana song.

==[[User:macbain|macbain]]==
He wanted the username 'mcbain' but Karlos (mcbain) got it before him. Being original, Sarv decided that macbain would do instead, so he could forever confuse new users between himself and Karl.

==[[User:montoya|montoya]]==

The name is that of a character from the book "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. The specific character is Inigo Montoya, a Spanish swordsman out for revenge against a 6-fingered man who killed Inigo's father.

==[[User:moridin|moridin]]==

The most evil and therefore cool character in a series of books that I was reading. Said series of books has since degenerated into a mush of crap writing. Boo.

==[[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]]==

8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.)

==[[User:p|p]]==

Back the old days of IOL/Indigo's IRC servers I used a variety of names, which all began with the letter p. Eventually, I ditched the different nicknames and used ^P^. Redbrick doesn't support weird characters though, so now it's just p. It also happens to be my middle initial.

==[[User:sandman|sandman]]==

I didn't. It was assigned on the basis that a) I was asleep and b) I read comics, didn't I? Ironically, I hadn't read much Sandman at the time.

==[[User:shimoda|shimoda]]==

It was a character in a book (Illusions by Richard Bach) I read during my formative years. Another rb user thought the description of the protagonist was suited to me so I nabbed the name.

==[[User:singer|singer]]==

I was a singer in a band. The guitarist mocked me for being the singer by calling me "singer". The nickname stuck. Non-Redbrick people address me as singer! My 2nd choice username was "scano".

==[[User:spock|spock]]==

I chose spock because I had no idea that it would follow me around for at least the next 10 years.
I didn't even know what Redbrick was when I was joining, and when I had a membership form thrust
in my face by Hyper on Freshers day 1996, we had three preferences for username. I put down "spock" as my first preference. It wasn't taken, and that is how I didn't end up with the username "data", or "benji".

==[[User:svan|svan]]==

Sarunas Vancevicius. First letter of name, then first 3 letters from surname.

==[[User:thedara|thedara]]==

My nick was given to me years before redbrick on irc (irc.phishy.net) I was the first person some americans had met called Dara and they
found that interesting for some reason or other and hence I became thedara.
On redbrick irc i'm known as Darz0re, It was a in-joke at the time when myself and dizer stuck z0re at the end of out names
hence thez0rekorp.com and z0re.org

Timeline

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''"Ecquando Vigilo"''

This is a rough timeline for different events on redbrick, relating to redbrick, or in DCU, from the time of redbrick's inception in 1996.

{{Timeline Years}}

This was started by Cokane and then taken over by Awol -- JohnDoyle - 21 Jul 2005

User talk:Link

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Template:Timeline Years

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Redbrick Wishlist

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This is Redbrick wishlist of projects that could do with coding.

==Replacement for hey==

* Er, without some kind of requirements, it's hard to understand why this is needed? What are you thinking of here? -- [[User:Pooka|Pooka]]
* How about "Addition" to hey, or an alternative framework to allow heys to be sent to different places (web, MSN/AIM window) -- [[User:Kpodesta|Kpodesta]]
* Maybe build it on top of jabber then we could hey people on other servers/networks (including google talk etc ) -- [[User:kyper|kyper]]

==Web boards==

* Currently under development by [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~art_wolf/rb/FUDforum2 art_wolf] (PHP), [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~link/news link] (perl) and [[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]] (Java). -- JohnDoyle - 20 Jul 2005

====features of links [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~link/news RedbrickNews]====
*threading
*ability to view only unread posts in group
*ability to view all posts in group
*two way sync of read posts (post read on web marked as read in slrn,posts read in slrn marked read on web)
*displays only groups you are subscribed to in slrn
*basic rot13 support
*article posting
*article canceling
*newsgroup search (support [http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html lucene] syntax)

Useful features implemented upon request to [[link]]

==Simple interface to Redbrick==

* For instance Flin/Flash or a seperate app, in java or c++. Shimoda suggested an app and have tabs to chat, the boards, heys etc. -- JohnDoyle - 20 Jul 2005
* If there's going to be a seperate app it should not be in favour of flin/flash but a seperate interface, again. I think a full web solution would cover a GUI but if people are interested in a seperate GUI then fire ahead with it. More options == better in the end of the day. -- [[User:Halenger|Halenger]]

Coders on Redbrick

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Below is a list of users and their relevant language competencies. Feel free to add an an entry about yourself.



==[[User:bilco|bilco]]==

Java, PL/SQL, JSP

==[[User:cammy|cammy]]==

Java, C, Perl, C++, Javascript, PHP (and a sprinkling of Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Python)

==[[User:drag0n|drag0n]]==

Java, PHP, Prolog, Haskell and bits of C, C++ and JavaScript.

==[[User:halenger|halenger]]==

Python, Java, some PHP/C/C++

==[[User:jasper|jasper]]==

VB6, VB.NET, Java, C++, C#, PHP, ASP, JSP, JS, XSLT

==[[User:kyper|kyper]]==

BASIC (QBasic, FreeBASIC, VB6 VB .NET), Java, C/C++/Obj-C, PHP and ASP

==[[User:link|link]]==

C, Java, Perl, Tcl

==[[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]]==

Java, C++.

==[[User:phase|phase]]==

VB6, VB.NET, Java, PHP, ASP, T-SQL

==[[User:redgiant|redgiant]]==

C, C++, perl, php, python, ASP

Coders on Redbrick

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Link: order users by name

Below is a list of users and their relevant language competencies. Feel free to add an an entry about yourself.



==[[User:bilco|bilco]]==

Java, PL/SQL, JSP

==[[User:cammy|cammy]]==

Java, C, Perl, C++, Javascript, PHP (and a sprinkling of Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Python)

==[[User:drag0n|drag0n]]==

Java, PHP, Prolog, Haskell and bits of C, C++ and JavaScript.

==[[User:halenger|halenger]]==

Python, Java, some PHP/C/C++

==[[User:jasper|jasper]]==

VB6, VB.NET, Java, C++, C#, PHP, ASP, JSP, JS, XSLT

==[[User:kyper|kyper]]==

BASIC (QBasic, FreeBASIC, VB6 VB .NET), Java, C/C++/Obj-C, PHP and ASP

==[[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]]==

Java, C++.

==[[User:phase|phase]]==

VB6, VB.NET, Java, PHP, ASP, T-SQL

==[[User:redgiant|redgiant]]==

C, C++, perl, php, python, ASP

User talk:Link

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testing

TimeLine1998

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Link: remove pointless

{{Timeline Years}}

==January==
Redbrick's machine "mother" goes live.
Members need new passwords for their accounts on this system. 

DCU Bar closes due to staff problems (staff were caught drinking after hours
or resigned or something).

==February==
12th - Mother goes online and members log on for first time to mother. 

It's officially decided to allow members to have multiple accounts.

23rd - Rag Week. 
24th - Redbrick hires a bouncy castle for DCU. 

28th - First Redbrick baby is born to wibble and sarah. 
His name is Michael. 
==March==

7th - Shadowmap is written and used. 

16th - Sherro gets disusered, prompting the "FREE SHERRO!" thread on the
newsgroups. 

19th - Social in Isolde's Tower. 

Pictures from the event are [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~venus/tower/ here]. 

27th (ish) - "Spike" happens. Redbrick goes offline for 3 weeks. Redbrick loses
outbound access to everything, including tolka and all other DCU servers. When
Redbrick came back up, Itchy NUTS was gone forever.

31st - AGM. 
Cain is elected as chair. 
Spock is elected as secretary. 
Bootie is elected as treasurer. 

Celery is elected as PRO/ents officer. 
Ace, Macbain, and Bob are elected as helpdesk. 
Pooka, Plop and Valen are elected as admins. 
Drjolt is elected as webmaster. 

==April==

6th (19:41) - Redbrick shut down by CSD for "taking up too much network bandwidth". 
This [http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~itg/board_html/Redbrick/ board] was setup around that time
and was used a bit while redbrick was down.

15th - Night in the Funnel in associate with Atmosphere Music Soc. 
Music by Kid Icarus, Muse, and Stocious. 
Poster is attached [docs/funnel.doc here]. 
This nightclub was on Sir John Rogerson's Quay but is closed since 1999. 

28th (18:22) - Redbrick is back up, and ppl can log on again.

==May==

==June==

Perlhey was originally written by afrodite's brother in TCD. Cthulhu added features like
titles, borders, success messages etc. when he was in first year (i.e. sometime around now).
C-hey was written after perl hey this year. 

Also CSD took down rbhouse and so hey became popular as a way of communicating for freshers
and older users. hey was popular before this, but with no chat program, hey was now the only
way to communicate with other users.

25th - Windows 98 launched. 

==July==

Plop resigns from committee for personal reasons.


==August==


Eircell(later Vodafone) and Digifone(later O2) allowed their users to send text messages
to phones on each others' networks sometime this year.

==September==

The Fourth generation of brickies arrives in DCU. 

New res is opened about nowish. 

Google was launched this month.

==October==


6th - Freshers' Event in the Mean Fiddler. 
Kid Icarus played. DJ Thayl did the dj thing. 

Redbrick is now the largest society on campus for the first time. 

22nd - Kachun(plop) incident happened (see [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/community/encyclopedia/?heading=p&file=plop.encyc encyclopedia]). 

28th - Intersocs event in Break For The Border. 

In association with TCD and UCD Netsocs. 

Pooka resigns as admin. 
Bob resigns from helpdesk. 


==November==


EGM. 
spinal (John Bolger) and grimnar (Colin Whittaker) were elected as admins. 
singer (Brian Scanlan) was elected as webmaster. 

bubble (Barry O' Neill) was elected to helpdesk. 
tibor and p sat the test but never ran for election. 

12th - Bacchus social. 
Pictures from the event are [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~elmer/pics.html here]. 

Business school maps added to Shadowmap. 

26th - Games night.



==December==



9th - Night in the Bar. 

16th - Christmas party in the Castle Inn. 
Free pizza for all and with Santa in da house! 
Pictures from the event are [http://web.archive.org/web/20011007150200/enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie/~thayl/usal.html here].