March 2001 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

RedBrick Talks - This Monday, 26th.
by Karl Podesta 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hi all, ============== RedBrick Talks =============== When? - This MONDAY 26th March: 6pm Where? - QG21, DCU Business School Who? 1. HEAnet Mike Norris, Dave Wilson, Ann Harding About HEAnet | Internet practicalities. 2. Spin Solutions Tom Murphy "Online Evolution, the last decade of the Irish Internet and the next". [ HEAnet ] These are the people that look after and provide DCU's connection to the internet. As well as doing the same for almost every other academic institution in Ireland. These people are real "networking" people, from physical routers to internet standard working groups, and the talk is an informative and interesting one to attend. [ Tom Murphy ] As head of the successful Spin Solutions and an active member of Irish web lists, Tom is one of the most respected and well known figures in the Irish Internet business. Tom will be taking a look at the past, present and future of the Irish Internet; with his charisma and background it should prove to be both entertaining and interesting. =============================================== Hope to see you all there, Monday at 6! :) Kp -- Karl Podesta Chairperson DCU Networking Society (RedBrick) http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie Ph: 086 8607441

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UNIX and Solaris tutorial
by Conor O' Kane 20 Mar '01

20 Mar '01

Hi, Following on from the good turnouts at the HTML tutorials over the last two weeks, Redbrick is holding a UNIX basics tutorial in LG25 of the Computer Applications building tonight at 6pm. We will show you how to do basic unix commands which can be used on redbrick or any other unix system as well as how to setup your Solaris account and to customise it with your own desktop. So that's Redbrick UNIX and Solaris Tutorial LG25 6pm Tonight (Tuesday) This tutorial is open to anyone (including non-School of Computer Applications students) and only very basic knowledge of computers is needed as people will be on hand to answer any questions you may have and go through the tutorial with you. Hope to see you there, Conor -- "A million monkeys at a million keyboards might eventually produce Shakespeare, but they are going to produce monkey porn sites first." -- Martin Bredeck, winner, Washington Post Style Invitational Week XXXIII (10-08-00)

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RedBrick's recent downtime
by Karl Podesta 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

Hi all, On behalf of all of us on committee, I'd like to apologise for RedBrick's recent spate of downtime in the last two weeks. More details about it are on the redbrick.announce newsgroup, (which is the place to look for any up-to-date announcements) but both cases of downtime were caused by unfortunate circumstances. Firstly, RedBrick experienced a severe disk crash, which wiped out our key system disk (with all the programs that essentially make RedBrick work) and which required a few days of flat out admin work for it to be painstakingly restored. The crash occurred during routine maintenance, and the cause of it is still unknown to the sysadmins working on it at the time. Also, RedBrick has been experiencing severe access problems since our physical move to the student centre which has been crippling in terms of maintaining your system. After the crash, the decision was forced to relocate the redbrick machines in the student centre ASAP to prevent future denials of access in times of crises and to have less strings attached when it comes to routine maintenance. This move has proved successful in those terms so far, but unfortunately resulted in in 2 days of downtime due to CSD having problems patching us into our new location. All in all, RedBrick is still a system with a >95% uptime record, and although we still unfortunately experience problems from time to time, often beyond our control (as I'm sure you'll appreciate happened in these circumstances), we are lucky to have a dedicated team of sysaminds and committee members who do their utmost in times of crises. Again, we can only apologise for the downtime, and hopefully it hasn't caused too much disruption with regards projects, mailing lists, announcements, etc. Kind Rgds, Kp -- Karl Podesta Chairperson DCU Networking Society (RedBrick) http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie Ph: 086 8607441

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HTML Tutorial (Learn to write your own webpage)
by Conor O' Kane 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Hi, Redbrick is holding a HTML tutorial next Tuesday the 6th of March in LG25 at 6pm. We will show you how to write a webpage and put it up on the web as well as answering any other questions you may have about redbrick. For first years as well this is a good chance to meet students from other years and to find out more about using redbrick in general. Hope to see you there, Conor -- "A million monkeys at a million keyboards might eventually produce Shakespeare, but they are going to produce monkey porn sites first." -- Martin Bredeck, winner, Washington Post Style Invitational Week XXXIII (10-08-00)

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