== Justin / cain ==

Illustrious Chairman, Justin/[[User: Cain|Cain]], originally joined redbrick to write an article
for An Tarbh.

Just to correct this. I initially joined because a cute girl in my class joined up. She never renewed after her first year as it happens. I was bored one day, logged on and thought to myself, 'I could write a poorly written and amateurish account of this evening's entertainment'. And so.... - Cain

===I was a BBS Virgin, by 'Caine'===

There are many despised sub-cultures clinging to existence on campus. From the
DBES to CS students, these groups, ostracised from normal society, carry on
their lives away from public scrutiny. One of these groups, perhaps the most
secretive of them all, are those whose only interaction with society is on the
BBS. I'm sure you've seen them, huddled over their monitors in the computer
rooms talking and laughing to themselves as they send off another hilarious
missive to their fellow nerds across campus. Therefore in the interests of
investigative journalism, and to alleviate the boredom of a rainy afternoon, I
donned the sobriquet 'Caine' and went undercover on the BBS to discover just
what it is that is so funny.

The first thing I noticed as I logged on was the warm reception I got.
Despite not knowing what was going on I was warmly welcomed into their society.
I spent the first few minutes in observation, trying to follow their
conversation, which seemed to centre on one user called 'Rabbit'. Bored to
tears I changed the topic to the proposed November 14 SU walkout in an effort
to find out if anybody was angry. Instead, I got an alternative plan that
the SU would do well to consider, "kidnap Danny O'Hare and hold him to
ransom".

It was at this stage that I was approached by another user, 'Thalia', with whom I spent the next fifteen minutes arguing about the Union and why it never did anything, etc. This conversation challenged my
perceptions that these people knew nothing about what happened outside of the
computer rooms as I was roundly thrashed before Thalia departed leaving me
alone as all others had voted with their e-mail and slipped away from politics
to another chat-room. Not knowing how anything worked, I spent the next five
minutes trying to find the group again, which leaves me to thank 'Dauphin' for
letting me in. Unfortunately, before I could press my advantage Dauphin had
been stolen away by Mulder, from the Grattan building so I didn't get to
experience what this cybersex is all about, but I did watch with interest as
Dauphin and Mulder fornicated like rabbits over the next few minutes.

Meanwhile a fight had broken out between Jacques and Ericc that seemed to be
covering up a mountain of sexual tension between them. Egged on, however by
Bernice and Poster, Jacques found it difficult to be honest with Erricc and
she took refuge in vague insinuations about the size of Ericc's equipment (
which is rather small by her accounts). In the end, of course, love won out and
in a bizarre menage a quartre with Poster, Bernice and Jacuques and with me
looking on interestedly, Ericc did the business and departed pronouncing
himself well satisfied with the nights work. Dauphin and Mulder continued to
exchange poetry and smoke the proverbial cigarette for the next few minutes
before they too departed leaving me alone with Poster, Jacques and Bernice.
Needless to say I quickly departed the hormone filled chat room and scurried
home.

So the $64,000 dollar question, does it beat the bar? On the downside there
is no alcohol, a point which cannot be under-emphasised, and it is very
difficult to meet members of the opposite sex for anything more than fevered
typing. On the upside the inhabitants are friendly and they talk the same
bullshit sober that most of us need alcohol to talk. They also talk about the
same things we do, politics, sex, genital size, Jacque's astonishing knowledge
of sexual innuendo and the power rangers. I would highly recommend a look if
any of the said topics interest you. But be warned, it may be sad but it is
addictive.
Thanks to everyone I mentioned in this article and the few I didn't.

Caine.

== Kevin / kevd ==

At phaxx's suggestion, Campus found a RedBrick virgin and asked them to join up and write about their experience. It was published in Campus, the weekly student's union magazine on April 9th, 2007.

=== Campus Dares You! (to use RedBrick) ===

There are a lot of fun or even scary things that you could be dared to do in life - a bungee jump, an open-mic night or even sword fighting - so when I was asked to live my life through redbrick for a few days I have to say I was hugely under whelmed.

First off, for me Redbrick in DCU meant the outer walls of Hampstead not a second dimension where computer students seem to spend all their time. Redbrick is in its own words: a computer network in DCU, run by students for the students.Basically, hundreds of students log on everyday to chat, put up pictures and podcasts and to have good gossip it appears.

Now its not that I'm a technophobe, I just get bored with the whole computer thing. My college house has a grand collection of a Nintendo 64, PS2, Wii and the latest addition of a PS3 but I'd be hard fought to get engrossed in any of them so starting out redbrick proved a bit of a logistical nightmare. To be honest I didnt even know what tbh meant.

Admittedly, I had preconceptions of the type of people who sit around all day on what I would best describe as a super advanced and less colourful version of Bebo. I had images of a nerd.com style society where people discussed the finer points of Pythagoras' theorem while reflecting on some show about gigabytes they saw on the Discovery channel last night.

That was mistake number one. Mistake number two was not being armed with a pseudonym when the ever helpful Charlie in clubs and socs set up my account. Put on the stop I opted for kevd only later to discover that nobody operated under an identifiable name, instead choosing alter egos like phaxx, munky or duke. Nevertheless, I eventually logged onto Murphy, the central server where the action happens.

The busiest part of life on Redbrick is the chat room where people seem to stay all day discussing just about anything that crosses their minds and generally people have no problem speaking their minds. I'm guessing from a general reaction that my sudden presence on Redbrick caused a few to questions as to my motive, suggesting that as an online community it has a number of cliques and it wasn't long before I was told "Union hacks out". But people mostly just wanted to discuss dinner plans, the true meaning of OH (thats hydroxide not water as was established after some debate!) and even where to get fairtrade Easter eggs.

But if my couple of days of red- bricking have taught me anything its that redbrick is gossip central and has no shortage of bitchiness. At 1:24pm on Tuesday, theycould tell me that exactly 542 people had voted in the SU elections. Apparently, short skirts get votes, if the candidate is decent looking, because SU elections are according to redbrick a beauty contest. And if you've ever wondered what happened to former president Paul May I can officially tell you that he did the Blackrock triathlon in June last year, followed by the Chicago one in August and he spent New Years in Berlin. Bebo wouldnt have half of it!

However, while Redbrick does seem to be at the pulse of everything happening in DCU (as I write a discussion is brewing as to why Lord of the Rings music is playing in the Hub - "coz it's full of nerds") I do worry a little that many of its users have never heard of 3 euro Tuesday or Desperate Housewives. After several drinks in the Hub I discover that 53 people are still online at 4am in the morning. Most may not be active but they are still logged in - mistake number three.

Kevin Doyle, Victim

Articles about RedBrick

2007-04-15T12:39:29Z

Phaxx:

Justin's Article

2007-04-15T12:38:00Z

Phaxx: Justin's Article moved to Articles about RedBrick

#REDIRECT [[Articles about RedBrick]]

TimeLine2007

2007-04-14T22:39:42Z

Phaxx: /* 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 Brennan (lil_cain), Andrew Martin (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

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

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

==May==

==June==

==July==

==August==

==September==

==October==

==November==

==December==

Committee Changeover

2007-04-12T00:25:37Z

Phaxx:

=Committee Changeovers=

==Introduction==

This is a dummies guide and checklist for the admins outlining what needs to be done during the changeover from one committee to the next.

==The Changeover==

===Committee Group===

All members of the committee should be added to the committee group. This will allow them to read and edit the committee-owned documents.

root@deathray:/local/admin/scripts/rrs# '''./useradm convert'''
RETURN: use [default] given TAB: answer completion EOF: give empty answer

Enter username
[no default] >> '''$new_committee_member'''

Conversion usertype must be specified. List of valid usertypes:

member Normal member
associat Graduate/associate member
staff DCU staff member
committe Committee member or a position account
society DCU society
club DCU club
dcu DCU related account
projects RedBrick/DCU/Course project account
redbrick RedBrick related account
intersoc Account for society from another college
guest Guest account

Special committee positions (usertype is 'committe'):

admin Elected admin
helpdesk Elected helpdesk
webmaster Elected webmaster

Enter conversion usertype
(hints) [no default] >> '''committe'''

Enter who updated this user (give Unix username)
[root] >> '''atlas'''

User converted: $new_committee_member -> committe
Account converted: $new_committee_member -> committe
Subscribed: $new_committee_member@redbrick.dcu.ie

This changes the gidNumber of the user in LDAP to 100 (the committee group). It also subscribes the user to the committee mailing list. Do this for each of the new committee members.

===IRC===

====#rbcommittee====

Add each user to the #rbcommittee access list, with an access level of 40.

/msg chanserv access #rbcommittee add *!$new_committee_member@redbrick.dcu.ie 40

====#lobby====

Add each user to the #lobby access list, with a level of 10 (or 40 for admins).

/msg chanserv access #lobby add *!$new_committee_member@redbrick.dcu.ie 10

===Webmaster===

Add the webmaster to the <code>webgroup</code> group on the webserver (currently deathray.redbrick.dcu.ie). In <code>/etc/groups</code>, add the username to the end of the line beginning:

webgroup:x:1010:

Add the webmaster to the webmaster mailing list (webmaster <at> lists.redbrick.dcu.ie) at http://lists.redbrick.dcu.ie/mailman/admin/webmaster/

===Helpdesk===

Add each member to the helpdesk mailing lists (TODO, list all lists).

Add each member to the LDAP helpdesk group:

root@deathray:~# '''ldapmodify -D cn=root,ou=ldap,o=redbrick -x -y /etc/ldap.secret'''
'''dn: cn=helpdesk,ou=groups,o=redbrick'''
'''changetype: modify'''
'''add: memberUid'''
'''memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member1'''
'''memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member2'''
'''memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member3'''
modifying entry "cn=helpdesk,ou=groups,o=redbrick"

(Bold text is what the user types.)

===Admins===

The tricky ones...

Add each member to the admin mailing lists (rb-admins and elected-admins).

Add each member to the LDAP root group:

root@deathray:~# '''ldapmodify -D cn=root,ou=ldap,o=redbrick -x -y /etc/ldap.secret'''
'''dn: cn=root,ou=groups,o=redbrick'''
'''changetype: modify'''
'''add: memberUid'''
'''memberUid: $new_admin_member1'''
'''memberUid: $new_admin_member2'''
'''memberUid: $new_admin_member3'''
modifying entry "cn=root,ou=groups,o=redbrick"

(Bold text is what the user types.)

Give each member a local account (in /etc/passwd) on each machine (TODO, document this, if necessary).

Committee Changeover

2007-04-12T00:21:54Z

Phaxx:

=Committee Changeovers=

==Introduction==

This is a dummies guide and checklist for the admins outlining what needs to be done during the changeover from one committee to the next.

==The Changeover==

===Committee Group===

All members of the committee should be added to the committee group. This will allow them to read and edit the committee-owned documents.

root@deathray:/local/admin/scripts/rrs# ./useradm convert
RETURN: use [default] given TAB: answer completion EOF: give empty answer

Enter username
[no default] >> $new_committee_member

Conversion usertype must be specified. List of valid usertypes:

member Normal member
associat Graduate/associate member
staff DCU staff member
committe Committee member or a position account
society DCU society
club DCU club
dcu DCU related account
projects RedBrick/DCU/Course project account
redbrick RedBrick related account
intersoc Account for society from another college
guest Guest account

Special committee positions (usertype is 'committe'):

admin Elected admin
helpdesk Elected helpdesk
webmaster Elected webmaster

Enter conversion usertype
(hints) [no default] >> committe

Enter who updated this user (give Unix username)
[root] >> atlas

User converted: $new_committee_member -> committe
Account converted: $new_committee_member -> committe
Subscribed: $new_committee_member@redbrick.dcu.ie

This changes the gidNumber of the user in LDAP to 100 (the committee group). It also subscribes the user to the committee mailing list. Do this for each of the new committee members.

===IRC===

====#rbcommittee====

Add each user to the #rbcommittee access list, with an access level of 40.

/msg chanserv access #rbcommittee add *!$new_committee_member@redbrick.dcu.ie 40

====#lobby====

Add each user to the #lobby access list, with a level of 10 (or 40 for admins).

/msg chanserv access #lobby add *!$new_committee_member@redbrick.dcu.ie 10

===Webmaster===

Add the webmaster to the <code>webgroup</code> group on the webserver (currently deathray.redbrick.dcu.ie). In <code>/etc/groups</code>, add the username to the end of the line beginning:

webgroup:x:1010:

Add the webmaster to the webmaster mailing list (webmaster <at> lists.redbrick.dcu.ie) at http://lists.redbrick.dcu.ie/mailman/admin/webmaster/

===Helpdesk===

Add each member to the helpdesk mailing lists (TODO, list all lists).

Add each member to the LDAP helpdesk group:

root@deathray:~# ldapmodify -D cn=root,ou=ldap,o=redbrick -x -y /etc/ldap.secret
dn: cn=helpdesk,ou=groups,o=redbrick
changetype: modify
add: memberUid
memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member1
memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member2
memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member3
modifying entry "cn=helpdesk,ou=groups,o=redbrick"

===Admins===

The tricky ones...

Add each member to the admin mailing lists (rb-admins and elected-admins).

Add each member to the LDAP root group:

root@deathray:~# '''ldapmodify -D cn=root,ou=ldap,o=redbrick -x -y /etc/ldap.secret'''
'''dn: cn=root,ou=groups,o=redbrick
changetype: modify
add: memberUid
memberUid: $new_admin_member1
memberUid: $new_admin_member2
memberUid: $new_admin_member3'''
modifying entry "cn=root,ou=groups,o=redbrick"

Give each member a local account (in /etc/passwd) on each machine (TODO, document this, if necessary).

Headphones

2007-04-11T23:08:42Z

Phaxx: /* Big headphones that won't fit into your pocket */

==Suggestions from Redbrick people about headphones==

===Replacement earplugs for iPod/iRiver type devices===

Doc:
I like My Sennheiser MX400s. Got them in HMV, if I recall. They're not green,
though.

Barry:
Sennheiser MX400.. again, and again... ;)

Marvin:
Sony Fontopia earplugs. 50 euro from the Sony Centre but worth every cent.

Jammy:
Etymotic ER 6 or ER4s. No doubt
Koss portapro (they hook on your ears)

Czarak:
Sony MDR-EX51LP Fontopia Headphones

Pixies:
Sennheiser PX100

Seamusmc:
Shure E2c

===Big headphones that won't fit into your pocket===

Dizer:
Sennheiser 580
Sennheiser 280

Jammy:
Senn 280 pro
Sony 7516
Ultrasone 650

Czarak:
AKG K271

Homerj:
Beyerdynamic DT250s
Sennheiser HD595

Kane:
Sony 7506s, senn 280 pros or k271

Calyx:
Sennheiser PMX40s, small-ish on-ear wrap arounds - about e35 - really great sound though

phaxx:
Bose Around-ear headphones. ("Triport") - Around 150 euro, but very comfortable.

===Shops that sell headphones online===

http://www.veronica.co.uk/

http://askdirect.co.uk

http://meier-audio.de

http://jigsaw24.com

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/

New Banner 2007

2007-03-05T22:35:03Z

Phaxx: /* The end of the banner */

===The end of the banner===

At the [http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/rbfreshers06/ 2006 freshers event], the canvas RedBrick banner was tied to railings outside the venue. It started raining, and we didn't think to take in the banner! It got sticky, the letters peeled off, the ink ran, and pretty soon we had a mess. To make matters worse, we folded it, leaving ink where ink shouldn't be.

===What the banner looks like now===

[[Image:ruinedredbrickbanner.jpg]]

===Design us a new banner!===

The RedBrick banner is important, we use it at many events every year. We need a new one, and we also need designs for a new one!

In a few weeks, we'll pick a design from this page, and get it printed.

===How to submit a banner design===
* Upload your image to the wiki with the [[Special:Upload]] page.
* Edit this page (use the "edit" link at the top!) and add your image to the bottom

===Uploaded images===
* None yet!

New Banner 2007

2007-03-05T22:34:04Z

Phaxx: /* Uploaded images */

===The end of the banner===

At the freshers' event in 2006, the canvas RedBrick banner was tied to railings outside the venue. It started raining, and we didn't think to take in the banner! It got sticky, the letters peeled off, the ink ran, and pretty soon we had a mess. To make matters worse, we folded it, leaving ink where ink shouldn't be.

===What the banner looks like now===

[[Image:ruinedredbrickbanner.jpg]]

===Design us a new banner!===

The RedBrick banner is important, we use it at many events every year. We need a new one, and we also need designs for a new one!

In a few weeks, we'll pick a design from this page, and get it printed.

===How to submit a banner design===
* Upload your image to the wiki with the [[Special:Upload]] page.
* Edit this page (use the "edit" link at the top!) and add your image to the bottom

===Uploaded images===
* None yet!

New Banner 2007

2007-03-05T22:33:54Z

Phaxx: /* How to submit a banner design */

New Banner 2007

2007-03-05T22:33:33Z

Phaxx:

===The end of the banner===

At the freshers' event in 2006, the canvas RedBrick banner was tied to railings outside the venue. It started raining, and we didn't think to take in the banner! It got sticky, the letters peeled off, the ink ran, and pretty soon we had a mess. To make matters worse, we folded it, leaving ink where ink shouldn't be.

===What the banner looks like now===

[[Image:ruinedredbrickbanner.jpg]]

===Design us a new banner!===

The RedBrick banner is important, we use it at many events every year. We need a new one, and we also need designs for a new one!

In a few weeks, we'll pick a design from this page, and get it printed.

===How to submit a banner design===

* Upload your image to the wiki with the [[Special:Upload]] page.
* Edit this page (use the "edit" link at the top!) and add your image to the bottom

===Uploaded images===

2006-05-24T19:06:46Z

Phaxx:

Website To-Do List

2006-05-24T19:06:00Z

Phaxx:

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. [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* 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 ''(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?)''
* Pubcookie enable chat. (mostly done already, related to above item) [[user:phaxx|phaxx]]
* 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.

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2006-05-24T15:45:30Z

Phaxx: /* phaxx */

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: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: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: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: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: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: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)

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2006-05-24T15:44:39Z

Phaxx:

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: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: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: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: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. [[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: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: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)

User:Phaxx

2006-05-24T14:57:26Z

Phaxx:

waf!

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2006-05-24T14:56:52Z

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2006-05-24T14:53:05Z

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