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Weechat

2015-07-15T18:24:41Z

Moju:

Once upon a time there was BitchX. Then there was Irssi. Now there is Weechat. More and more people are switching over to Weechat from Irssi, probably coz the colours make IRC easier to read and follow. Problem is, for the Irssi user, Weechat may be a tad confusing.

Weechat documentation can be tricky to follow, so this page is an attempt to make simple those bizarre and abstract commands.

== Running Weechat ==

Dregin is a big Weechat fanboi. And as such, he has his own special builds designed for Redbrick. Azazel is the current login machine, dregin has compiled a version of Weechat that runs on azazel:

/home/associat/d/dregin/root_azazel/bin/weechat-curses

Copy and paste that into your terminal command line, hit enter, and give yourself a pat on the back.

== Compiling Weechat ==
You can run
~edu/compileweechat
or
git clone https://github.com/weechat/weechat
cd weechat
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME -DENABLE_NLS=OFF
make
make install
echo '*/upgrade ~/bin/weechat' > `find ~/.weechat -name "weechat_fifo_*"`
rm -rf ~/weechat

==Customising Weechat ==
Weechat can be very basic when you first run it so here are some conf files to set it up with.
cp ~edu/wcconf/* ~/.weechat/
you need to set your nick for the server
vim ~/.weechat/irc.conf
change “nicks” field to your username

== Basic use ==

=== Connecting to a server and channel ===

When you hit 'chat' on Redbrick, you start Irssi, you're automatically connected to a server, then you're joined to Redbrick's #lobby. This all happens behind the scenes, and with Weechat, you need to do this manually. Fear not: it's easy.

When you start Weechat, you won't get connected to a server or channel. To connect to Redbrick's IRC sever, type:

/connect irc.redbrick.dcu.ie

Then to join #lobby:

/join #lobby

As well as showing you how IRC clients (such as Weechat or Irssi or whatever) connect to stuff, this should also show you how to connect to other servers and channels outside of Redbrick.

To connect to any server, simply enter /connect <server_address>. You will probably be greeted with various messages and such from that server. To join a channel on that server, just type /join <channel_name>.

=== Navigation ===

Like Irssi, you can move between windows/buffers using Alt+<num>. You can also type /buffer <num> (similar to /win <num> in Irssi).
Unlike irssi you can do Alt+j then <num> to change to a number greather the 10 .

F5 and F6 move to the predecessing and successing buffer, respectively.

You can move buffers (chat windows) with /buffer move. In a channel, type:

/buffer move <num>

(where <num> is any number you want). That channel is now accessible at Alt+<num>

=== Changing between servers ===

Weechat will generally assume that whatever channel you're in, that's also the server you're operating on. So you can chat away as you wish and issue general commands.

However, for some commands, you will need to let Weechat know what server you're on.

Hit Alt+1. This will bring you to your status window. Along the bottom you will see the time, number of channels, the server you're connect to, as well as other channel stuff.

Press Ctrl+x. If you're connected to multiple servers, the ''server'' section will change, telling you which server Weechat is connect to. So now you can issue commands to that server (such as /nick) without affecting other servers.

For example, I am currently connected to irc.redbrick.dcu.ie and to irc.starchat.net. If I hit Ctrl-x I can switch to StarChat, and change my nickname there without it affecting Redbrick's IRC.

== Mobile ==

weechat has a mobile app you can get from the [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubergeek42.WeechatAndroid google play store] or from the [https://github.com/ubergeek42/weechat-android github].
Before we set up the app we need to go too weechat on the terminal and type in:
/relay add weechat 1337
then we need to set the password
/set relay.network.password "your-secret-password"

now on the Phone launch the app and in settings
In connection settings
Relay host: localhost
Relay Port: 1337 (choose your own port)
Relay password: your-secret-password
Connect type: SSH tunnel
then in SSH Tunnel settings
SSH host: redbrick.dcu.ie
SSH username: your username
SSH port: 22
if you have an ssh key add the route to the key on your phone in SSH Private key file and put the passphrase in the SSH password/key passphrase box, if you dont just put your password in there

== Special commands ==

=== Keybinds ===

Keybinds are handy, especially if you have over 10 channels open. I use Alt+<num> to get to channels, but clearly this only works from 1 up to 0 (on a keyboard). So for channels in higher numbers, you can ''bind'' keys: i.e. Alt+q gets me to channel 11; Alt+y gets me to channel 16.

/key bind meta-q /buffer 11

"Key" and "bind" are self-explanatory. "Meta" is Weechat's word for Alt (so meta-q is the same as Alt+q). /buffer 11 is the command that's executed once meta-q (Alt-q) is typed.

You can build up these to meta-w, meta-e, meta-r for buffer 2, buffer 3, buffer 4, etc etc.

Of course, you can bind any key combo to any weechat command; it's not necessary to make them Alt+<num> commands.

'''Note:''' Watch out for caps lock if you're keybinding. If you bind Alt+y to a command, Alt+Y won't work (unless you bind that separately). If you find your binds aren't working, check your caps.

== Triggers ==

Triggers are the swiss army knife of weechat. They can replace a '''lot''' of scripts, and we're still finding things to turn into trigger

=== Turn any line with "nsfw" in it bright red ===
/trigger addreplace nsfw modifier weechat_print "${tg_notify} && ${tg_message_nocolor} =~ .*nsfw.*" "/(.*)/${tg_prefix}\t${color:red}!NSFW! ${tg_message}"
=== Make urls underlined and blue ===
/trigger addreplace url_color modifier "weechat_print" "${tg_tags} !~ irc_quit" ";[a-z]+://\S+;${color:32}${color:underline}${re:0}${color:-underline}${color:reset};" ""
=== Strip items such as buffer list and nick list from screen on smaller screens ===
/trigger addreplace resize_small_timestamp signal signal_sigwinch "${info:term_width} < 200" "" "/set weechat.look.buffer_time_format """
=== turn off nicklist on smaller screens ===
/trigger addreplace resize_big signal signal_sigwinch "${info:term_width} >= 100" "" "/bar show nicklist"
/trigger addreplace resize_small signal signal_sigwinch "${info:term_width} < 100" "" "/bar hide nicklist"
=== turn off buffer list on small screens ===
/trigger addreplace resize_small_buffer signal signal_sigwinch "${info:term_width} < 100" "" "/bar hide buffers"
/trigger addreplace resize_big_buffer signal signal_sigwinch "${info:term_width} >= 100" "" "/bar show buffers"

== Spell Checker ==

Weechat uses a handy aspell plugin to check your spelling. To enable it, either use iset or use
/set aspell.check.enabled on

Aspell has a few settings which you may find useful

/set aspell.check.real_time on
/set aspell.check.word_min_length 2
/set aspell.check.default_dict "en"
/set aspell.check.suggestions 3

Or alternatively if you use iset, search for aspell

The aspell plugin can also offer suggestions as of 0.4.0 and it can be added as an item to your status bar. The item should be added to weechat.bar.status.items. For instance:
/set weechat.bar.status.items "time |,buffer_number+:buffer_name+(buffer_modes)+ |,buffer_nicklist_count |,hotlist |,[aspell_suggest]

TimeLine2007

2010-04-28T11:54:47Z

Moju: /* September */

{{Timeline Years}}
[[Category: Redbrick History]]
==January==

==February==

14th - DCU RAG WEEK - Redbrick raises â‚¬283 for charity through phaxx getting hair straightened and receive getting his curled. Phaxx and receive after that afternoon headed off to the RAG week chapel to join together in holy matrimoney!!

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nahgoe/394566083/ atlas's pics]

[http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/ragweek07/ phaxx's pics]

if that wasn't enough heres video footage:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sv31MB6gQ video 1]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3mFKfQJnHc video 2]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQzjLreXTQ video 3]

16th - A group of 12 brickies attend Skynet's Open Source Conference, Skycon, at the University of Limerick.

==March==
12th-16th - Redbrick's Annual Tech Week was held. This year Redbrick joined forces with GameSoc, Debate Soc, FilmSoc, and AstroSoc to bring a week packed full of techie events from talks to debates and film showings!

19th - d_fens nearly took down deathray. Not that this was in any way a noteworthy event.

24th - Redbrick's annual WaveHunt competition takes place. Mythe-86 comes first and tnkrbell comes third for Redbrick

http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/tnkrbell/2007wavehunt/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nahgoe/sets/72157600026698372/

Enigma eats some disks, to general cursing from the admins.

Lil_cain, phaxx, and Art_wolf make known that they were behind the bed in the clubs and socs office, in Campus magazine.

==April==
1st - Atlas and phaxx decide to play quite the cruel April Fools joke on all the brickies. MOTD was changed to say that due to someone running torrents from /var/tmp/ that Redbrick has to shut down. Some brickies are just stupid and fell for it!

Admin: In order to comply with a DMCA takedown notice served on DCU,
Redbrick will be going offline indefinately as and from 00:00 this
coming Monday. Thank you all for your membership throughout the
years. We hope to return some time next year.

2nd - Rebrick Table Quiz held in the Old Bar. As usual there where winners, losers and also debates about questions! Check out gallery for pictures, theres plenty of them anyway!

-The winners were a bunch of Wafs from debate. The losers were me, johan, dahtac and revenant -lil_cain

3rd - The DCUSU Genereal Elections take place
Plenty of Brickies running for position on the SU exec for 2007/2008. Gizmo runs for president, but fails to be elected.

3 brickies compete for Computing and Engineering Convenor (landa2, cutiepie and mythe-86). Position eventually was won by landa2. Cutiepie comes in second.

The electoral committee was run by plenty of brickies namely receive, tnkrbell, johan, lil_cain, atlas.

5th - Dramabob elected chair of the SPC (for another year), lil_cain elected secretary, and johan elected ordinary member.

Also on the 5th the Rebrick Admin, Helpdesk and Webmaster tests are held. Lil_cain, werdz, johan and drag0n took the admin test while johan, castle, moju, revenant and lil_cain (again) took the Helpdesk test. D_fens took the Webmaster test.

9th - An attempt is made to rerun history when some randomer (kevd) from Campus (An Tarbh replacement) is invited to join RB, and write an article about it. He's generally lots less cool than cain.

10th - AGM held in QG13 at 6:30pm. All positions filled.

'''Chairperson:''' Andrew Harford (receive)

'''Secretary:''' Kevin Fox (undone)

'''Treasurer:''' Ashley Dooley Martyn (mythe-86)

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

'''Public Relations Officer:''' Damian Rhatigan (dano)

'''System Administrators:''' Cian Brennan (lil_cain), Andrew Martin (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

'''Webmaster:''' Richard Dalton (d_fens)

'''Education Officers:''' Matthew Barrington (MoJu), Declan Whelan (castle) & Eoghan Cotter (johan)

Lots of competition with receive, jesjes, and tnkrbell running for chair.

12th - Game Soc miss winning Best Society however they did walk away with Best Website. Gizmo, yrag45 and dramabob also win awards for Best 5 Individuals!

13th - Enigma is pronounced kinda dead by svan. Upon further consideration over the next few days, status is further downgraded to 'brain damaged with no chance of resuscitation'.

18th - The Bics happen in NUIG(Galway) and dramabob wins Best Society Individual!

==May==

==June==
7th - Access to Redbrick was cut off for two hours due to a UPS in CSD catching fire! "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn, Burn motherfucker burn!"

From the HEAnet ticket:

20070606 23:51 DCU report that the cause of outage was a small fire on
one of their UPS devices. They are currently waiting for the smoke to
clear, then they will bypass the device and restore power to the PoP.
This is estimated to happen before 01:00 on Thursday 7th June.

==July==

==August==
2nd - Redbrick cinema trip to see The Simpsons Movie. Most are unimpressed, and disappointed that the franchise they once loved has stooped to such disappointing levels. Others think it's great.

13th - New, yet-to-be-named (later named [[Minerva]]) Encom server arrives. Contains an 'assload' of storage - 8x500GB disks. Also has 6GB RAM and 2 dual-core Xeons. For some reason came with Ubuntu feisty desktop installed by default, and has lots of pretty blue lights.

==September==

The new Encom server goes through about a dozen names, before finally settling on minerva.redbrick.dcu.ie, which apparently is "horribly lame".

/webtree is moved to minerva. No one notices, or is told.

Moju resigns as helpdesk.

==October==
1st - Redbrick give computing students CDs to install java with classpaths and other difficult stuff set up. This is generally considered a good idea, until lots of them manage to break it.

2nd & 3rd - DCU Clubs and Socs days happen in the Hub. Final number of members not yet known.

Our treasurer (mythe) is told to step down by the SPC, as he is no longer a current student. Another Helpdesk member (castle) resigns.

/home is moved to Minerva. Mutt starts to take forever to open, and everything crashes on occasion.

11th - Redbrick Fresher's Ball held in Radio City. It features music from the band Futurism, with Redbrick member holysprt on bass. Games Soc also provide console gaming. Great night had by all.

18th - EGM held to replace Treasurer and 2 positions on Helpdesk. Treasurer position filled by Amy Corrigan (corriga6). Helpdesk got 2 new additions, namely Padraig O'Connor (landa2) and David Ã“ LaigheanÃ¡in (coconut). There were also three proposed constitutional changes. Only 2 of these however got passed, these being the addition of a First Year Rep to committee and making having to pass the Helpdesk test compulsory. The proposed change to reduce the number of Helpdesk/Education Officers from three to one was defeated.

22nd - Redbrick Monday night football starts up again. Everyone has fun and then heads to the bar afterwards. Several brickies participate in the Students' Union International Quiz on that night. Despite being handed an answer sheet accidentally by the quiz runners, Team Penis still manages to lose after a highly unfair final round that gives teams points for practical skills such as dancing and singing.

Some time in October as well, lil_cain also got rid of his long flowing locks and shaved his head. He also removes all traces of his manly beard, which causes widespread confusion as no-one has ever seen his face before. Shortly afterwards, undone follows suit and also gets a hair cut. Revenant talks about doing the same, but constantly chickens out.

werdz, receive and lil_cain clean out the server room, as the WEEE people are coming.

Further clearing out is done when Prodigy is donated to ITB, to serve as their main machine.

25th - Redbrick cinema trip to see "Black Sheep". Most of the moviegoers are amused, others are horrified. Everyone gets drunk in Fibbers afterwards for mythe-86's birthday.

Some time at the end of this month - lil_cain and receive collect a Sun Machine that gliceas kindly donated. In the absence of other names receive temporarily names it toaster.

==November==
5th & 6th - Several RBers graduate namely atlas, phaxx, igy, gizmo, art_wolf, scraib, lithium, dramabob, belleray, yrag45, boing, murdochm, werewulf, plus all the others we forgot.

Some random point between these dates - Redbrick take delivery of their new backup machine, which lil_cain decides to call severus.

28th - Free ice skating for RB members in RDS.

Also SU Sleepover in the HUB. Redbrick participate by providing the first Redbrick Internet Cafe. Other societies involved in the night were Games Soc, Style Soc, Fianna Fail, Debate Soc, Poker Soc, MPS, Art Soc, Drama and Film Soc.

Some time also in November Redbrick loses another committee member as drag0n steps down from systems admin.

==December==

2nd - Rsync runs backups onto severus for the first time.

5th - Cinema Trip to American Gangster.

6th - Christmas Party with Games Soc and Drama in the Slipper. Much Guitar Hero is had by all. Santa, who bears a striking similarity to dramabob, gives out lots of presents.

18th - The /b/tards of /rB/ laid down their lives for /rB/ to defeat the cancer that is killing redbrick. At exactly 9pm on the 18th, #lobby was raided, following that an epic raid on #intersocs and a minor raid on #foobar. Many /b/ruthas were b&, nevar forget them.
[[http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/The_Great_Lobby_Raid_Of_18/12/07]]

Rage

2010-03-05T00:48:30Z

Moju: added a more complete quote

Occassionaly, Redbrick users experience rage, or 'raeg' as it's known in leetspeak. This occurs when a user has so much built-up [[emo]] anger that even the slightest things cause them to break down into a steaming furnace of fury.

Such outbursts are often spotted on [[IRC]], but have been known to occur on the boards. A common cause of rage is shit trolling by another user and/or deep-rooted psychological problems. Nobody can be sure really; but then again, nobody cares.

== Identified causes of rage ==

*"Grand"
*Losing an EGM election before you ever log onto RB
*Vegetables
*Spaceflight industry
*lil_cain
*Gardening and general horticulture

== Examples of "teh raeg" ==

19:17 < LITHIUM> can helium form molecules?
19:18 < moju> yes
19:18 < LITHIUM> or is it naturally monatomic?
19:18 < moju> h2
19:18 < stolnart> LITHIUM: i assume so. can't every atom?
19:18 < LITHIUM> that's hydrogen moju
19:18 < andrew> heh
19:18 < moju> oh wait
19:18 < moju> helium
19:18 < moju> aye it is inert
19:18 < moju> or near a dammit
19:18 < moju> 2 electrons in outer shell etc
19:18 < LITHIUM> so it can form molecules?
19:19 < LITHIUM> i never did chemistry :(
19:19 < moju> Helium is the chemical element with atomic number 2, and is represented by the symbol He. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert monatomic gas that heads the noble gas group in the periodic table.
19:19 < moju> wiki it a hnady thing
19:19 < moju> you lazy fuck
19:19 < LITHIUM> i already looked at wiki
19:19 < moju> 19:18:09 < LITHIUM> or is it naturally monatomic?
19:19 < LITHIUM> CAN IT OR CAN IT NOT FORM MOLECULES
19:19 < moju> inert monatomic gas
19:19 < moju> yeah
19:19 < moju> read
19:19 < moju> you tard
19:20 < andrew> yea LITHIUM. no fucking asking questions.
19:20 < moju> oh
19:20 < moju> i have no objections to people asking questions
19:20 < moju> i just don't like LITHIUM
19:20 < LITHIUM> :(

22:49:40 maK | GTFO
22:51:01 maK | Anyone have a shotgun i can borrow?

[[Image:Rage.jpg]]

User:Moju

2007-07-16T15:45:34Z

Moju:

olololol

Htaccess

2007-06-04T20:31:07Z

Moju:

'''.htaccess'''

Redbrick's Webserver, apache, allows users to password protected certain sections of their websites via a method known as "htaccess".

This is done by creating a password file for authorized users and a .htaccess file in the directory which you would like to protect.

== Setting a password ==

The password file comes first. To create a htaccess password file and assign an authorized user to it type:

htpasswd -c ~/passwd username

You can give the password file any name you like, just substitute the name you choose for passwd above. In this tutorial, references to passwd mean your password file. The value of username is the name of the user that you wish to grant access to. After running this command, you will be prompted to enter a password. This is the password that will be used by that user to gain access.

To allow the server access to query this file you will need to change its file permissions. Type the following into your terminal:

chmod 755 ~/passwd

== Directory Creation ==

Next, you create a directory that will be protected by the password file you just made. For the tutorial, we will call this directory "secret", but you can call it whatever you want.

Type the following into your terminal:

mkdir ~/public_html/secret

Once again the correct permission must be set. Simply type the following into your terminal:

chmod 711 ~/public_html/secret

Now you're almost done.

== .htaccess file ==

With the password file and protected directory in place all that remains is the .htaccess file to tie it all together. The .htaccess file is what will tell the Webserver that the directory is password protected and requires authorisation.

Click [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/tutorials/htaccess/htaccess.txt here] for a sample .htaccess file

Change to your protected directory by typing:

cd ~/public_html/secret

Now type nano .htaccess to open the file in a text editor

Copy and paste the contents of the sample htaccess file into the editor, making the necessary modification to the AuthUserFile line, e.g.
AuthUserFile /home/member/g/gizmo/passwd

'''Note:''' keep the name of the file .htaccess - this is an actual file extension recognised by Apache and it must be used.

Lastly we need to set the permission on the file by typing:

chmod 644 .htaccess

== htaccess & pubcookie ==

You can use your htaccess file with the RedBrick pubcookie system. With this you can restrict access to redbrick members. See [[PubCookie on Redbrick]] for more.

== Testing ==

To test if the directory is protected correctly, type its url into a browser, eg:

www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~username/secret

If all works correctly you should now be prompted for a username and password to gain access. If you'd like to give access to another user, this is easily done using a similar command syntax to before:

htpasswd ~/passwd username

You'll be prompted to enter the new password twice as you were before. Once entered, the new user is active immediately and can gain access to the protected directory.

As always, you can contact [[Helpdesk]] if you have any problems.

[[Category:Helpdesk]]

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2007-04-15T00:00:24Z

Moju: /* MoJu */

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



==[[User:AngelKat|AngelKat]]==

I wanted AngelEyes1 since its my nick everywhere else, but the dam 8 char rull and all. Drusilla actually picked it, she registered me with AngelKat. Dame her smart ways, I know, Ill make her watch mind numbing soaps so I can be the best hehe ;p

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

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

==[[User:atlas|atlas]]==

I originally handed in my student card, and said "Use my first name, please". I got an email later giving me my username as 'James' ( my middle name ). When I asked them to change, I decided to go with something a little cooler. I had been up for hours before that playing Mechwarrior somethingorother, and the Atlas mech was my favourite. I also, occasionally, feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders.

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

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

==[[User:cain|cain]]==

I always thought Cain got a raw deal. Firstborn son of Adam, built the first city on earth and he's remembered for allegedly killing his brother Abel though the evidence is, to put it mildly, unconvincing and God was clearly biased against him. When I joined Redbrick, Cain was gone so I got Caine, which was the spelling of the name in an RPG I played at the time. Dropped the 'e' in my second year.

==[[User:calyx|calyx]]==
Misread the name of a song. In a perfect world, I would have been calx.

==[[User:cambo|cambo]]==

An abbreviation of sorts on my surname (campbell)... original eh?

==[[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:coconut|coconut]]==

On Clubs and Socs day 2005 I was put on the spot while joining Redbrick. It went a little something like this.

Keeper of Membership (I forget who it was): "Okay, and pick a username." 
Me: "What... now?!" 
KoM: "Yes." 
Me: "Right now?!?" 
KoM: "Yes." 
Me: "Errr.." *looks down at the free chocolate being given away - notices the wrappers and ingredients* "Em.. coconut?" 
KoM: "kk lol" 
Me: "I'll change it later." 

That last part was, evidently, a lie.

==[[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]]==
I was assigned the username colmmacc for the purposes of my first ever internet account (and job), colmmacc@clubi.ie , way back when in 1995/6 (I think). Ever since, I've used it for all my accounts and it works at every domain on which I hold an account. Despite the huge coincidence, my username is fact not just a mere contracted concatonation of my real name "Colm MacCarthaigh", but is fact an acronym. It stands for "Colm's On-Line Memetic Mechanism [for] Accessing Complicated Computers".

==[[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:doc|DoC]]==
It's the initials of my real name. I've been called DoC in real life by friends, family, etc, for as long as I can remember.

==[[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:dregin|dregin]]==
The lead guitarist with the Backyard Babys' name is dregen[sic]. I took it and stuck an x on the end for a few years as a forum alias but then knocked off the x. tada!!

==[[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:fatwa|fatwa]]==

In first year, whilst learning to program, my friend Andrew wrote a program that printed out "That's a fatwa on you, mein freund".
I thought it was funny and it must have stuck in my head for redbrick registering. Also, it's short for "fat wanker".

==[[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:gavin|gavin]]==
I needed a username I wouldn't forget and seeing as Gavin was written on my underpants I decided to use that. Handy quinkadink that it is also my real name eh !

==[[User:gmblitis|gmblitis]]==
Would've been gamblitis but for those dam restrictions!so the idea came in the first place came from my unhealthy obsession with horses and cards!

==[[User:hauk|hauk]]==
Well, I got put on the spot when I first went to play UT in secondary school(We used to play it on the old shitty computers they had, at lunch time). So Dalamar from #intersocs, who was in my school, started to lose the plot with player12, and shouted at player12 to change his/her name. So I tried to think of a good name. And at the time I was reading Stormblade from the Dragonlance series, and Hauk was a ranger in that book. So I eh "temporarily" used the name.. It wasn't meant to stick! But I like it now ^_^

==[[User:hurl|hurl]]==
My second name is Hurrell and people cant pronouce it so I went by hurl. Turns out Hurrell was originally Hurl, you know, in the old country, so its my family name. No, I dont have a vomit fetish, but I'm always open to new experiences :P

==[[User:ian|ian]]==

Its my name JACKASS!

==[[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:keloe|keloe]]==

I wrote down kehoe, my surname and an old nickname, on the slip. However, due to my incapability to write h's correctly, the admins read it as keloe.

==[[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:lil_cain|lil_cain]]==

Wanted lil_cian, as he is the smaller Cian, it was mistyped.

==[[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:marvin|marvin]]==
There are three references here : Starvin Marvin from South Park, Marvin The Paranoid Android from Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy and Marvin the Martian from the Warner Bros cartoon. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which one was the greatest influence (hint: it wasn't Starvin Marvin).

==[[User:mo|mo]]==
Due to my considerable soccer talent, I was nicknamed "mo" after Mo Johnston, the scottish football hero.

==[[User:MoJu|MoJu]]==
It's in a similar vein to HoJu(Homer Junior) from the Simpsons. Given to me by a someone on a forum after they saw a picture of me and thought I was someone named Mordeth. So they suggested Mordeth Junior which was then condensed to MoJu. I then adopted it as my second online nick.

==[[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:nit|niT]]==
Originally my name was a combination of many words that described me, and was dreamt up whilst I was at college in Aylesbury. It all started when I got a demo copy of Diablo from my cousin in Singapore, and us lads built our first LAN at my mate Dave's house. We also played Carmegeddon, the Star Wars game and Quake 2 (of which my mate Dave had a 600mhz processor and TWO 3dfx cards linked up in parallell - he was our God). It was necessary for me to have a character name in Diablo so I chose Nitsuj Buaya Chen, the latter two meaning 'Crocadile man that snaps up ladies' (in Singapore slang) and monkey (as my star sign is golden monkey). I later joined a CS clan called Black Legion and people naturally shortened my name down to nit. At that time I also had a friend who was called 'kippy' in real life and online, so I started using nit in real life too. Later I joined a 'talker' called theManor which was a twin site to the LambdaMoo, there was a guy there who set it all up and went by the nick 'beN', he and girlfriend sadly died in a car accident and so manor spods paid tribute but capitalising the final letter of their nick, hence why I use niT.

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

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

==[[User:ornat|ornat]]==

You'd have to ask my parents that question. Ornat is my real name, and unlike popular belief, no, I am not a guy!

==[[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:phaxx|phaxx]]==

Originally from the character Lord Fax in the book [http://www.google.com/search?q=dragonriders+of+pern Dragonriders Of Pern] by Anne McCaffrey. I used Lord_Fax in [http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm MS Comic Chat] for a while. I saw somebody using a 'ph' instead of an 'f', and thought, in that usual 13-year-old way, OMGZ COOL, and promptly became LordPhaxx.
I was LordPhaxx for a few years, until until around 16 when I met a bunch of other Irish nerds one afternoon. [[User:jerry|jerry]] was among them, and commented, "With a name like LordPhaxx, I expected you to be taller."

So er, I dropped the pretentious 'Lord', and I've been 'phaxx' ever since.

See, nothing to do with fax machines! :)

==[[User:receive|receive]]==

It was Michelle Smith (swallow) that dragged me along to sign up during first year, so I'd handed over my 4euro before I'd begun to think of a username, so I turned and said "Shit, Michelle, what will I pick?" and she suggested "receive" because it went so well with swallow. Stupidly I agreed, and it stuck (after we found a spell checker to check how to spell it that is), so i never changed it to anything better. Ironically, i never have been at the receiving end of swallows abilities.

==[[User:r0b|r0b]]==
Rob is my name *shock* *gasp* rob was taken so used r0b instead. Amazing story tbh

==[[User:robby|robby]]==

its short for robert...thats cool no?

==[[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:scraib|scraib]]==

I'm from Kilkenny and 'ScrÃ¡ib' is the Irish for 'Cat-Scratch'! 'Tis a very GAA name, but to be honest I could never play hurling so I picked it really cause it sounded cool...

==[[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:spanner|spanner]]==

In fact eeh! picked it out during the hay days of eeh gift grub and in fairness now sometimes im a bit of a spanner.

==[[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:Taurus|Taurus]]==

It is my star sign, so I just went with that. Sounds cool enough. :-)

==[[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

==[[User:tnkrbell|tnkrbell]]==

As a kid my dad used to always call me Belle.When I got older and after many trips to Disney I took a loving to the mischiefious tinkerbell from Peter Pan. Tinkerbell though was too long so JesJes decided on tnkrbell instead.

==[[User:undone|undone]] ==

Couldn't think of anything on Clubs & Socs day, so for about 2 days my username was my actual name. Then I picked this, because of the Weezer song, but also because I think it's a nice word.

==[[User:werdz|werdz]]==

A long time ago in a net cafe far, far away, a sexy asian friend by the name of quank said "Hey Andrew, stop using the name andrew in CS. Use werdna instead. It's andrew only backwards!" - That lasted about five minutes until people got bored trying to pronounce it ("OMG! WERDNA! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!") and just started shouting werdz instead ("OMG! WERDZ! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!"). And that's my life story up until this point.

==[[User:wilburt|wilburt]]==

Long story, guys i used to know named me Wilburtino, i didnt really like it cos they were muppets. However, it grew on me over time. Wanted Wilburtino or Will as my username but they wouldnt let me :( so wilburt was the only one left. Like all rb usernames i think, they are spur of the moment. (or admin mistakes)

TimeLine2007

2007-04-10T20:09:38Z

Moju: /* April */

{{Timeline Years}}

==January==

==February==

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

16th - A group of 12 brickies attend Skynet's Open Source Conference, Skycon, at the University of Limerick.

==March==

24th - Redbricks annual WaveHunt competition takes place. Mythe-86 comes first and tnkrbell comes third for Redbrick

http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/tnkrbell/2007wavehunt/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nahgoe/sets/72157600026698372/

==April==

10th - AGM held in QG13 at 6:30pm. All positions filled.

'''Chairperson:''' Andrew Harford(receive)

'''Secretary:''' Kevin Fox (undone)

'''Treasurer:''' Ashley Dooley Martyn (mythe-86)

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

'''Public Relations Officer:''' Damian Rhatigan (dano)

'''System Administrators:''' Cian something (lil_cain), Andrew something (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

'''Webmaster:''' Richard something (d_fens)

'''Education Officers:''' Matthew Barrington (MoJu), Declan Whelan (castle) & Eoin something (johan)

==May==

==June==

==July==

==August==

==September==

==October==

==November==

==December==

TimeLine2007

2007-04-10T20:08:37Z

Moju: /* April */

{{Timeline Years}}

==January==

==February==

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

16th - A group of 12 brickies attend Skynet's Open Source Conference, Skycon, at the University of Limerick.

==March==

24th - Redbricks annual WaveHunt competition takes place. Mythe-86 comes first and tnkrbell comes third for Redbrick

http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/tnkrbell/2007wavehunt/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nahgoe/sets/72157600026698372/

==April==

10th - AGM held in QG13 at 6:30pm. All positions filled.

'Chairperson:' Andrew Harford(receive)

'Secretary:' Kevin Fox (undone)

'Treasurer:' Ashley Dooley Martyn (mythe-86)

'Events:' Kat Farrell (angelkat)

'Public Relations Officer:' Damian Rhatigan (dano)

'System Administrators:' Cian something (lil_cain), Andrew something (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

'Webmaster:' Richard something (d_fens)

'Education Officers:' Matthew Barrington (MoJu), Declan Whelan (castle) & Eoin something (johan)

==May==

==June==

==July==

==August==

==September==

==October==

==November==

==December==

TimeLine2007

2007-04-10T20:08:10Z

Moju: /* April */

{{Timeline Years}}

==January==

==February==

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

16th - A group of 12 brickies attend Skynet's Open Source Conference, Skycon, at the University of Limerick.

==March==

24th - Redbricks annual WaveHunt competition takes place. Mythe-86 comes first and tnkrbell comes third for Redbrick

http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/tnkrbell/2007wavehunt/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nahgoe/sets/72157600026698372/

==April==

10th - AGM held in QG13 at 6:30pm. All positions filled. The new committee are:

'Chairperson:' Andrew Harford(receive)

'Secretary:' Kevin Fox (undone)

'Treasurer:' Ashley Dooley Martyn (mythe-86)

'Events:' Kat Farrell (angelkat)

'Public Relations Officer:' Damian Rhatigan (dano)

'System Administrators:' Cian something (lil_cain), Andrew something (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

'Webmaster:' Richard something (d_fens)

'Education Officers:' Matthew Barrington (MoJu), Declan Whelan (castle) & Eoin something (johan)

==May==

==June==

==July==

==August==

==September==

==October==

==November==

==December==

TimeLine2007

2007-04-10T20:04:39Z

Moju:

{{Timeline Years}}

==January==

==February==

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

16th - A group of 12 brickies attend Skynet's Open Source Conference, Skycon, at the University of Limerick.

==March==

24th - Redbricks annual WaveHunt competition takes place. Mythe-86 comes first and tnkrbell comes third for Redbrick

http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/tnkrbell/2007wavehunt/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nahgoe/sets/72157600026698372/

==April==

10th - AGM held in QG13 at 6:30pm. All positions filled. The new committee are:

'''Chairperson:''' Andrew Harford(receive)

'''Secretary:''' Kevin Fox (undone)

'''Treasurer:''' Ashley Dooley Martyn (mythe-86)

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

'''Public Relations Officer:''' Damian Rhatigan (dano)

'''System Administrators:''' Cian something (lil_cain), Andrew something (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

'''Webmaster:''' Richard something (d_fens)

'''Education Officers:''' Matthew Barrington (MoJu), Declan Whelan (castle) & Eoin something (johan)

==May==

==June==

==July==

==August==

==September==

==October==

==November==

==December==

TimeLine2006

2007-03-26T11:45:05Z

Moju: /* October */

{{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. MoJu 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

User:MoJu

2006-11-20T20:54:31Z

Moju:

Does CA.
Likes music.

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2006-11-20T20:52:49Z

Moju:

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:atlas|atlas]]==

I originally handed in my student card, and said "Use my first name, please". I got an email later giving me my username as 'James' ( my middle name ). When I asked them to change, I decided to go with something a little cooler. I had been up for hours before that playing Mechwarrior somethingorother, and the Atlas mech was my favourite. I also, occasionally, feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders.

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

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

==[[User:cain|cain]]==

I always thought Cain got a raw deal. Firstborn son of Adam, built the first city on earth and he's remembered for allegedly killing his brother Abel though the evidence is, to put it mildly, unconvincing and God was clearly biased against him. When I joined Redbrick, Cain was gone so I got Caine, which was the spelling of the name in an RPG I played at the time. Dropped the 'e' in my second year.

==[[User:calyx|calyx]]==
Misread the name of a song. In a perfect world, I would have been calx.

==[[User:cambo|cambo]]==

An abbreviation of sorts on my surname (campbell)... original eh?

==[[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:doc|DoC]]==
It's the initials of my real name. I've been called DoC in real life by friends, family, etc, for as long as I can remember.

==[[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:fatwa|fatwa]]==

In first year, whilst learning to program, my friend Andrew wrote a program that printed out "That's a fatwa on you, mein freund".
I thought it was funny and it must have stuck in my head for redbrick registering. Also, it's short for "fat wanker".

==[[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:gavin|gavin]]==
I needed a username I wouldn't forget and seeing as Gavin was written on my underpants I decided to use that. Handy quinkadink that it is also my real name eh !

==[[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:keloe|keloe]]==

I wrote down kehoe, my surname and an old nickname, on the slip. However, due to my incapability to write h's correctly, the admins read it as keloe.

==[[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:marvin|marvin]]==
There are three references here : Starvin Marvin from South Park, Marvin The Paranoid Android from Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy and Marvin the Martian from the Warner Bros cartoon. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which one was the greatest influence (hint: it wasn't Starvin Marvin).

==[[User:mo|mo]]==
Due to my considerable soccer talent, I was nicknamed "mo" after Mo Johnston, the scottish football hero.

==[[User:MoJu|MoJu]]==
It's in a similar vein to HoJu(Homer Junior) from the Simpsons. Given to me by a someone on a forum after they saw a picture of me and thought I was the aforementioned Mordeth. So they suggested Mordeth Junior which was then condensed to MoJu. I then adopted it as my second online nick.

==[[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:nit|niT]]==
Originally my name was a combination of many words that described me, and was dreamt up whilst I was at college in Aylesbury. It all started when I got a demo copy of Diablo from my cousin in Singapore, and us lads built our first LAN at my mate Dave's house. We also played Carmegeddon, the Star Wars game and Quake 2 (of which my mate Dave had a 600mhz processor and TWO 3dfx cards linked up in parallell - he was our God). It was necessary for me to have a character name in Diablo so I chose Nitsuj Buaya Chen, the latter two meaning 'Crocadile man that snaps up ladies' (in Singapore slang) and monkey (as my star sign is golden monkey). I later joined a CS clan called Black Legion and people naturally shortened my name down to nit. At that time I also had a friend who was called 'kippy' in real life and online, so I started using nit in real life too. Later I joined a 'talker' called theManor which was a twin site to the LambdaMoo, there was a guy there who set it all up and went by the nick 'beN', he and girlfriend sadly died in a car accident and so manor spods paid tribute but capitalising the final letter of their nick, hence why I use niT.

==[[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:phaxx|phaxx]]==

Originally from the character Lord Fax in the book [http://www.google.com/search?q=dragonriders+of+pern Dragonriders Of Pern] by Anne McCaffrey. I used Lord_Fax in [http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm MS Comic Chat] for a while. I saw somebody using a 'ph' instead of an 'f', and thought, in that usual 13-year-old way, OMGZ COOL, and promptly became LordPhaxx.
I was LordPhaxx for a few years, until until around 16 when I met a bunch of other Irish nerds one afternoon. [[User:jerry|jerry]] was among them, and commented, "With a name like LordPhaxx, I expected you to be taller."

So er, I dropped the pretentious 'Lord', and I've been 'phaxx' ever since.

See, nothing to do with fax machines! :)

==[[User:receive|receive]]==

It was Michelle Smith (swallow) that dragged me along to sign up during first year, so I'd handed over my 4euro before I'd begun to think of a username, so I turned and said "Shit, Michelle, what will I pick?" and she suggested "receive" because it went so well with swallow. Stupidly I agreed, and it stuck (after we found a spell checker to check how to spell it that is), so i never changed it to anything better. Ironically, i never have been at the receiving end of swallows abilities.

==[[User:r0b|r0b]]==
Rob is my name *shock* *gasp* rob was taken so used r0b instead. Amazing story tbh

==[[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

==[[User:undone|undone]] ==

Couldn't think of anything on Clubs & Socs day, so for about 2 days my username was my actual name. Then I picked this, because of the Weezer song, but also because I think it's a nice word.

==[[User:werdz|werdz]]==

A long time ago in a net cafe far, far away, a sexy asian friend by the name of quank said "Hey Andrew, stop using the name andrew in CS. Use werdna instead. It's andrew only backwards!" - That lasted about five minutes until people got bored trying to pronounce it ("OMG! WERDNA! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!") and just started shouting werdz instead ("OMG! WERDZ! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!"). And that's my life story up until this point.

==[[User:wilburt|wilburt]]==

Long story, guys i used to know named me Wilburtino, i didnt really like it cos they were muppets. However, it grew on me over time. Wanted Wilburtino or Will as my username but they wouldnt let me :( so wilburt was the only one left. Like all rb usernames i think, they are spur of the moment. (or admin mistakes)