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{{Timeline Years}}
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[[Category: Redbrick History]]
[[Category: Redbrick History]]
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== January ==
== January ==
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*24th - It is pointed out in #lobby that Redbrick hasn't been rooted in years.
*24th - It is pointed out in #lobby that Redbrick hasn't been rooted in years.


*25th - Redbrick gets rooted. Elected root holders (three out of four of them on INTRA) cry.  
*25th - [[Great_Hack_of_2008|Redbrick gets rooted]]. Elected root holders (three out of four of them on INTRA) cry.  
** Decision taken to take redbrick offline at about 10am. Network is disconnected by taking down the interface connecting us to CSD on enzyme.
** Decision taken to take redbrick offline at about 10am. Network is disconnected by taking down the interface connecting us to CSD on enzyme.
** Root holders in DCU spend the day running between fourth year projects and looking through logs looking for evidence of the intrusion.
** Root holders in DCU spend the day running between fourth year projects and looking through logs looking for evidence of the intrusion.
** Reinstall begins later on, with the help of atlas. Minerva is reinstalled first, as it's needed for us to receive mail. First packages are installed again there by 9.50pm that night. The internet connection is switched back on and deathray is configured to receive and store mail by about 1am. Everything else remains unavailable, and the network is left in a rediculously complicated segregated state to stop anyone accessing anything.
** Reinstall begins later on, with the help of atlas. Minerva is reinstalled first, as it's needed for us to receive mail. First packages are installed again there by 9.50pm that night. The internet connection is switched back on and deathray is configured to receive and store mail by about 1am. Everything else remains unavailable, and the network is left in a rediculously complicated segregated state to stop anyone accessing anything.


== May ==
*16th - Redbrick chairperson, Robert "robby" O'Reilly, receives an email containing the Redbrick root password. He informs the committee of this, but then deletes the email.
*22nd - Robby is told to resign by lil_cain in Fibbers. "RESIGN!" soon becomes a popular catchphrase and a rallying cry for disgruntled members and/or trolls.
*23rd - Robby, the Redbrick chairperson, resigns from his position.
== June ==
*9th - Receive emails the Redbrick membership informing them of the recent events:
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:11:39 +0100
From: Andrew Harford <receive@redbrick.dcu.ie>
To: announce-redbrick@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie
Subject: [Announce-RedBrick] RedBrick Back Online, Chairperson Resigns
Reply-To: committee@redbrick.dcu.ie
Sender: announce-redbrick-bounces@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that RedBrick is back online following a disk
failure in our primary storage array (minerva) on Tuesday evening. No data
was lost, and the array was re-built sucessfully with a replacement disk.
We are planning to schedule downtime this Saturday to that will allow us
to reduce the number of disks in use on minerva, meaning there would be
spare disks available and installed in the event of future failures.
This work is dependant on re-installing severus, and creating a full backup
of minerva in advance. More detailed notice will be given via boards/motd
later in the week.
I must also take this opportunity to announce the resignation of our
chairperson, robby, and explain the circumtances leading up to this.
On Friday May 16th robby told the committee over irc that he had received
an email containing the root password that had been in use on minerva & murphy
when RedBrick was hacked.
Robby provided this password, but told us that he had deleted the email, which
was received from 10minutemail.com. Myself and the other admins found it
odd that someone would go to the relative trouble of sending mail via
this service, and that robby would delete this potential evidence.
The following Monday I emailed the committee, requesting that we hold an
emergency meeting to dicuss this email. Robby replied, saying he would
be unavailable for any meetings that week. Given that the semester was ending
and people would be gone home by the next week it was decided to hold the
meeting anyway, on the Thursday evening. This was the first meeting called
by anyone since before the network had been compromised.
At this meeting the committee decided that in robby's absence the only
course of action was to discuss the issue further over the email.
Late that night, cian, johan, werdz and I met robby in Fibbers. Cian, Johan and
I expressed our discontent with the situation by telling robby he should resign.
Whatever the circumstances, it was pretty unprofessional of us to have a go
in public like that, and we apologise for our actions.
The following afternoon dano mailed the committee outlining our conversation
about the email, and asking robby for more information. Robby replied to this
email with his resignation, citing the events of the previous night as his
primary reason.
An EGM will be held at the earliest oppertunity next semester to elect a new
chairperson, however the committee have not decided how best to fill this
position in the interim, and will be happy to take on board any suggestions
from members.
All the best,
andrew.
[http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055308210 Rabble ensues].


== September ==  
== September ==  
 
Redbrick returned to close to normal, except for murphy at some point at the start of this month


*29th Academic year starts back up.
*29th Academic year starts back up.
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CAIS and CASE are no longer streams of the CA course. Instead there are now two courses: Computer Applications (CASE) and Enterprise Computing (CAIS).
CAIS and CASE are no longer streams of the CA course. Instead there are now two courses: Computer Applications (CASE) and Enterprise Computing (CAIS).


For some reason EC does not actually require you to do programming and is considered a joke by many.
For some reason EC does not actually require you to do programming and is considered a joke by some of the snobbier members of Redbrick.


== October ==


== October ==
*7th & 8th - Clubs and Socs Day - The HUB gets taken over by freshers and not so fresh students. C&S day a chance for students to sign up for RB and any other society that takes their fancy.RedBrick were giving out Red Slushies to those who joined on the day(these seemed like a good idea, but tasted minging). According to an email from train on the 12th of Oct RB signed up a total of 224 members (this figure subject to change)


*8th EGM takes place.  
*8th EGM takes place.  
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   Kat Farrell (AngelKat) was elected with 29 votes. Kevin Lally
   Kat Farrell (AngelKat) was elected with 29 votes. Kevin Lally
   (kevinly) received 12 votes.
   (kevinly) received 12 votes.
 


*25th Intersocs paintballing event
* EGM also sees the sign up of those who are interested in a trip to Finland the home of attol and linux.
 
 
*Sometime before the 25th - Two of Redbrick's beloved Helpdesk team, Mr. Sean Hand and Mr. Gavin Tubritt, died in a mysterious fire in the server room, thus leaving the committee. The blaze is believe to have been caused by an overheated server catching fire, undoubtedly the result of bad adminning. Cian was unable for comment at the time of the tragedy, but there was a lovely smell of bacon in the server room afterwards. It is also revealed that Kevin Fox can't use bullet points in MediaWiki.
[this could be translated as gmblitis and revenant resigned. (Cian, now available for comment)]
 
*25th Intersocs paintballing event - Redbrick win at paintballing
 
==November==
 
*4th - Clubs and Societies Ball - The highlight of all soc heads calendar C&S ball this year in Citywest. Redbrick gentlemen don some suits while the ladies opt for the dresses. Great night had by all for those of who can remember.
 
*11th - werdz presents workshop "Web design for beginners".
 
*13th - Attol gets all those heading to Finland nice and excited about the trip
 
*14th - RB night out in the Woolshed
 
*29th - Intersocs night. Location Bull & Castle.
 
==December==
* 1st - Downtime from 5pm - 5:30pm. Kernel updates.
* 4th - Redbrick goes Ice Skating in the RDS [https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~angelkat/pics/skates.jpg pic].
* 11th - Christmas Party in the slipper with gamessoc, booksoc, strange things and some other randomers. Much booze and mincepies are had. Alan Keegan (SPC Chair) appears as Santa (Bob was unavailable)
 
* 16th - EGM held to elect new PRO, Carri is elected (landa2 also ran).
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