TimeLine2010

January

• 20th - New direct attached storage array arrives. Named Worf, to get back at lil_cain for giving us 2 years of terribly named machines. Since it doesn't actually have a hostname, this won't matter though.
• 20th - B4 is "modified" to take extra serial ports. Pictures to be posted to seeifixedit.com soon. Still in infinitely better condition then the machine it's replacing (sprout).

February

• 1st - Redbrick Members go to England and find that everything is cheaper. (Case in point: Burger, chips and a Vodka + coke for £4.95)
• 2nd - Travelling members go to Bletchley Park and are amazed by the whole place, also Craig Gavagan Mac Entee ( credak ) discovers that Alan Turing was Gay. credak is interested enough to investigate more. Later that night, Brickies congregate in Craig's room and make enough noise to annoy an uppity German across the hall, Chris gets his hair straightened and has make up put on him.
• 3rd - Brickies return from England, flight is delayed by about a half hour due to delayed flight coming from Dublin.
• 5th - Redbrick goes down in order to move user files to the new faster storage array (Worf), logins return around 9 while web server remains down for a bit longer. Users gain more space for pronz files
• 16th - Lotta Mikkonnen (Attol), David Glennon (Azrael) and Craig Gavagan Mac Entee (Credak) man the Redbrick Refreshers Day table and attract ~6/7 new people. Credak voluntarily spends most of the day in the infamous brick mascot.
• 16th - Virtual machines are made available on a this-will-probably-asplode-at-any-moment-alpha basis. It rapidly begins asploding, but it's a huge step in the right direction.
• 20th - Linux is put back on Murphy. Redbrick is free from Solaris \o/
• 26th-28th - Redbrick visit Skynet to attend a series of talks. Speakers include Matt Zimmerman, David Coallier and Laura Czajkowski. Terran(Skynet) takes GW, Attol and Spanza on a tour of Limerick. Not much sleep is had on the nights due to partying and chatting. Tyrion(Skynet) abuses "Kevin". A random drunk dude who wandered into our booth in Costelloe's to have a nap. Maiden parties on down with Skynetters

March

• 2nd - Admin training for 2010 begins with a session on shell scripting presented by Andrew Harford.
• 8th - Start of Tech Week 2010:

 Monday, 1PM - Hackerspaces, Jeffrey Roe
 Monday, 8PM - Launch party, Nubar
 Tuesday, 6PM - Game Programming, Tom Cashman
 Tuesday, 7PM - Django, Eoghan Gaffney
 Tuesday, 8PM - Film, Strange Things
 Wednesday, 2PM - Past Multimedia Projects, Declan Tuite
 Wednesday, 4PM - Build Your Own PC, Sean Hand
 Wednesday, 5PM - QZar
 Thursday, 6PM - Sustainable Computing, Dave O'Connor, Google
 Thursday, 7PM - Ubuntu Ireland Community, Laura Czjakowski
 Thursday, 8PM - Strange Things Quiz
 Saturday - Robot Wars, NUIG