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Hey is rather unique as instant messaging systems go. They're heavily customisable, highly personal and altogether different to [[IRC]] or the bigger instant messengers like MSN or AOL. They remain more popular among older generations of brickies but are still used by a lot of the newer ones too. Heys have a sense of humour all of their own and it is not uncommon for Redbrick users to make "heyfiles" which may contain humourous and/or incriminating heys. | Hey is rather unique as instant messaging systems go. They're heavily customisable, highly personal and altogether different to [[IRC]] or the bigger instant messengers like MSN or AOL. They remain more popular among older generations of brickies but are still used by a lot of the newer ones too. Heys have a sense of humour all of their own and it is not uncommon for Redbrick users to make "heyfiles" which may contain humourous and/or incriminating heys. | ||
= Tutorial = | = Tutorial = | ||
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=== Borders === | === Borders === | ||
One of the most common features of hey that Redbrick users customise is the appearance of the border around the | One of the most common features of hey that Redbrick users customise is the appearance of the border around the message. The default border when a user sends a hey looks like this: | ||
Message from undone@murphy on pts/489 at [ Fri 15/Dec/2006 19:32:12 GMT ] ... | Message from undone@murphy on pts/489 at [ Fri 15/Dec/2006 19:32:12 GMT ] ... | ||
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Now that you've learned all this, it's time to get heying! Of course, if you have anything you else you'd like to know about hey, just ask a member of [[Helpdesk]]. | Now that you've learned all this, it's time to get heying! Of course, if you have anything you else you'd like to know about hey, just ask a member of [[Helpdesk]]. | ||
= Redbrick Encyclopedia = | |||
When I was a lad, everyone used [[BBS]] chat. It was wonderful, it was great, it was amazing. I could go on about it forever, but I won't. If you knew someone was logged on, but they weren't in [[BBS]] chat, you would then use "write" to send a message to them. Nobody uses "write" any more, but trust me, it's very messy. Sometime back then, "hey" was discovered, and quickly, "write" was abandoned in favour of "hey" in sending a message to someone's screen. Soon thereafter, chat was taken away completely (excuse me a moment while I cry), and hey flourished. It hasn't looked back. You only need to check the process list (ps -af | grep hey) to see how popular this method of communication has become. | |||
So, if you're only new to Redbrick, and something like this comes up on your screen... | |||
Message from cain@mother on /dev/pts/6 at 14:56pm ... | |||
<nowiki>oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</nowiki> | |||
<nowiki>O Well Hello there little girl O</nowiki> | |||
<nowiki>oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</nowiki> | |||
...you know you've just been heyed (and in this case, [[stalked]]). This ain't no freakin' user manual, but to send a hey, type "hey {username}" and press enter. Type in your message, go to a new line, and press CTRL-D. | |||
--Spock | |||
Origionally from the [[Encyclopedia]] | |||
= Links = | = Links = | ||
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[http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/community/encyclopedia/?heading=h&file=heyfile.encyc Heyfiles at Redbrick Encyclopedia] - the entry about heyfiles, written by DoC. | [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/community/encyclopedia/?heading=h&file=heyfile.encyc Heyfiles at Redbrick Encyclopedia] - the entry about heyfiles, written by DoC. | ||
[[Category:Helpdesk]] | |||