Its week 9 in DCU, two events happening this week. Tomorrow Tuesday 1st April redbricks annual table quiz will be held in the old bar as usual. So obviously redbrick are opening the old bar on 3euro Tuesday YAY. Registration for the quiz will start at half six, and quiz to start promptly at seven. Entry into the quiz cost 4euro. The writers of the quiz this year include emperor, lil_cian, undone and receive.(Now you know who to go bug for answers.) Our host this year will be none other then Alfa, students union president. Where raffling of an EEE PC.

Also this Thursday the AGM will be held. Come along and have your say in who will look after the running of redbrick next year. Positions up for grabs.

Chairperson.
Secretary
Treasurer
Public relations officer
Events Officer
3 Education Officer (An exam must be sat passedbefore a person is eligible to run for this position).
3 Admins(An exam must be sat and passed before a person is eligible to run for this position.)

Hope to see as many of you there as possible.

kat

We have all been so busy of late organizing tech week, admins playing with serverz and our daily task of going to college that the blog is not that up to date. I haven’t even had time to write a half decent post. So due to the fact I can’t sleep and its around 3 in the morning I kinda don’t have an excuse now, dang.

So its week four, which means Tech Week. If your new to DCU, or haven”t been able to get involved before basically, <robbed> Tech Week has been run by various societies throughout DCU since 2004. Aimed at promoting the use and awareness of technologies, both current and upcoming, it has always been a huge success with events ranging from debates about Bebo and Myspace to Photoshop tutorials to in-depth industry talks given by leading games companies. Due to the wide range of events should mean that no matter where your interests lie, there should be something to catch your attention </robbed>.

This Monday we held a launch party for the week. Cheese and wine reception I hear you query? That would have been nice for a few minutes I guess, but RedBrick kinda went out on this one, we reopened the old bar, had food of course, Futurisum played and we had none other then DJ Brian \o/. A third of all the money collected will be going to DCU’s RAG week fund.

The install fest I can honestly say went better then any of us thought it would. We where expecting maybe five people tbh, then we walk into the seminar room to find the coaches full of people. First thought that crossed our mind was “Oh fuck we need more CDs!”. So after the frantic burning, and receive’s epic quest to find fully functional tables everything ran smoothly. When it came time for the boring part of sitting there and waiting for ubuntu to install we had pizza LOTS and I mean LOTS of pizza, I is still fulls.

Tomorrow should be a very interesting day, DemonWare are back again (Hope they bring more T-Shirts!). Then Gamessoc are doing a demonstration on how to build a PC, then we finish of the day with a talk from Colm MacCarthaigh, a redbrick associate giving a talk on, well redbrick

For a full list of details for whats going on and any random pictures taken, Visit techweek.dcu.ie .

Kat

Well, Andrew’s been annoying me to write something for in or around two weeks now, so I felt that exam out of the way, I should probably write something.

So, in the past couple of weeks, we’ve finally got fed up of email opening slowly, and come up with a solution. Those of you who want stuff *quick* we’re reusing the old /webtree on deathray as /fast-storage. If you want space on it, drop the admins an email (or reply to this in .committee) and we’ll add you, it’s currently using 300MB quotas, and you can keep your space on /storage as well :).

In other things, I finally got backups to mount on carbon (previously, they’d only been on severus, although they did exist), and set up one week incremental backups, rather than the single copy we’d had up until now. I’ve updated bind, to add minerva.internal, since receive pointed out that it wasn’t there. Werdz has apparently found a fix for mysql on murphy, so the move over there should *hopefully* proceed in the semi-near future. We’ve started looking at upgrading deathray and carbon as well, since Sarge is getting dangerously close to the end of it’s support cycle.

Anyway, good luck to everyone with exams still coming up.

Just thought I’d write a little about what we have planned for the next semester in the way of workshops (It’s not an excuse to put off studying, really)

The first workshop of the year will be on the Thursday of week 2, a “re-introduction to RedBrick”, following on from the Second Clubs & Socs day on the Wednesday.

Week 4 workshops will be part of Techweek including Photoshop and out Linux Installfest while week 6 will be all about programming on RedBrick.

Workshops in weeks 8 and 10 will feature an advanced unix session - setting up mutt, screen and these other things we (read: I) couldn’t live without and a session on Web Design. The order of the last two will depend heavily on the the deadline for the first year ca webdesign project.

Anyone who’s been to the homepage in the last few days will also (maybe) have noticed changes to the community sidebar on the right side. Along with the gallery applet that was introduced late last year we’ve now integrated feeds through wigitize.com for updates to this blog, and recent wiki changes. It’s just a small change, but it’s a nice step towards integrating all our webstuff around that page. Next semester we’ll be getting back to the development of a standards compliant homepage, and polishing off the web boards.

–andrew