TimeLine2004
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2004
[ January: ]
31st - Services are gradually moved off prodigy,
and onto deathray
[ February: ]
9th - Redbrick Alt.Rag Ball was held in Isaac Butt's.
Performances from Wolfhead and MC Dice.
As always [images/04/feb/altRagBall somebody] had to bring a [images/04/feb/altRagBall camera.]
25th - RedBrick Talk
Where: QG15
Talks: "GNU/Linux & the new battles of the Free Software Movement" by Ciarán O'Riordan. 2-3pm
"RedBrick and IPv6" by Colm MacCarthaigh (colmmacc @ rb). 3-4pm
[docs/04/feb/rb-talk/emperor "Digital Video Backup"] by David johnston (emperor @ rb). 4-5pm
27th - SSH login banner is introduced.
____ ____ _ _ _ _ ____ | _ / ___| | | | | / ___| Dublin City | | | | | | | | | | \___ University | |_| | |___| |_| | | |___) | Networking |____/ \____|\___/|_| \_|____/ Society. Debian GNU 3.0 Carbon - [[Rbwiki_RedBrick|RedBrick]] login machine.
[ March: ]
24th - Date for Redbrick A.G.M is announced. It will take place on the 20th
of April.
[ April: ]
13th - Helpdesk exam @7:30pm
art_wolf 65%
atlas 60%
firefly 25%
thedara 46%
Exam 2004
14th - Dizer announces email riedundancy, between deathray & prodigy.
Webmaster Test @5pm
mickeyd: 52%
biteme: 44%
Exam 2004
Answers
Redbrick Table Quiz
Location: Old Bar
Time: 8pm
Prizes: 1st: 4 Portable T.V's, 2nd: 4 DVD Players, 3rd: 4 WebCams
QuizEmperor: Emperor
1st Place: Wibble@rb, plop@rb, sandman@rb, sandman@rb's girlfriend
2nd Place: Postgrad Journos(Who had won both the drama soc & postgrad quizzes)
3rd Place: Singer@rb, bob@rb, una, bootie@rb
15 - Admin Exam @8pm
Phaxx 61%
Mickeyd 59%
Halenger 49%
2004 Exam
Answers
20th - Redbrick A.G.M
Chair: Drusilla
Secretary: Thor
Treasurer: Charlene
Events: Kyper
PRO: Dramaq
Webmaster: Biteme
Helpdesk: Keloe Art_wolf Atlas
Admins: Prolix Phaxx Mickeyd
The A.G.M was held in QG15 at 8pm.
[ May: ]
17th - Summer Exams Started
19th - Redbrick got a network upgrade for the server room with the addition of a new 100Mb/s
fibre link instead of the 10Mb/s link they had been limited to since moving to the server room.
This stopped the lag experienced during peak usage.
[ June: ]
30th - Dcu.ie went down due to a serious hardware failure and perhaps because people
were constantly hitting the refresh key in the hope that results would be released a day early
[ July: ]
1st - Results were issued, early for once.
[ August: ]
4th - In a followup to a post on redbrick.babble about Internet addiction in the Finnish army, bosco asks "Finland has an army?"
[ September: ]
[ October: ]
6/7th - Clubs & Socs Days
For the first time there were two Clubs & Socs Days.
For the first year also, students now paid clubs/societies but went to a central point to register all their choices.
11th - First generaton 10 to log in: cult
First generation 10 to use chat: jesjes [*]
[*] Through a tunnel using prodigy and mirc some days before getting an account. Let that be a lesson to future title contenders
14th - Redbrick Freshers Ball
Venue: Turks Head
Music: Oldspoon Conspiracy + House DJ
Pictures: [images/04/oct/rbFreshersBall/art_wolf (Art_wolf's)]
16th - First post to Redbrick boards using sms was posted by Redgiant.
For a little [docs/04/oct/16/slrn-post_Redgiant_background.txt background] on how it happened read
[docs/04/oct/16/slrn-post_Redgiant_background.txt this]
and for the actual
[docs/04/oct/16/first_sms_post.txt first post] read
[docs/04/oct/16/first_sms_post.txt this]
[ November: ]
[ December: ]
13th - Christmas Ball
Venue: New Bar/Venue @ 7pm
Charity event in association with Snowboarding/LGBT and Music Soc.
Santa included.
Pictures: [images/04/dec/xmasball/igy (Igy's)]
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