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January 2010

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Hoodies || Downtime || Bletchley || Techweek 2010
by Lotta Mikkonen 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hey, ==Hoodies== We are back on track with these! We've found another company to do these for us. The quote we received was €25 per hoodie, making them cheaper than the original price we had received from other companies. The hoodies are black with the logo on the chest, large logo on the back and the option to get your username embroidered on the arm. The logos are embroidered. We will start taking payment for these in week 1. You can pay with Paypal (remember to say what size hoodie you would like and what you would like on the sleeve) or you can give your order details and payment to a committee member at designated times. We will start taking orders at the first talk of the semester which will be "Real World Low level optimisation" presented by Colm McCarthaigh (colmmacc) on the 11th of February in QG22 (We'll send full details about this again in week 1's announce email). ===Notice of Planned Downtime=== We'll be unavailable next Tuesday from 6am till 8am (if anyone's crazy enough to be awake at that hour) due to ISS downtime. On the weekend of the 5/6/7th February the Redbrick Admin team will be moving all user files from their current location on Minerva to a new direct attached storage array that has been purchased with funds from the SPC (http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Worf) Redbrick will be offline for a few hours during this period as we move over user files and other data. While the exact time depends on when Estates and Security agree to let us in to the hub, it will likely start on Friday evening or Saturday morning. Updates will be posted to a temporary homepage and the redbrick twitter feed (@RedbrickDCU). All services (including logins and web hosting) will be affected by the outage. Once the new array is in place, there should be a huge improvement in file I/O speed, so things like website access, reading your mail, and using your redbrick account for development, etc, should be far faster. Talks ==Bletchley== A quick reminder that we'll be meeting up outside Starbucks at 6am. Starbucks is located upstairs in the foodhall in the departure area. Remember to read the baggage restrictions I emailed to everyone. My contact details are also in the other email so make sure to read it carefully! ==Techweek== Techweek is planned for week 5 this year so pencil this into your diaries. This is our biggest event of the year. A week of techy talks and events. There is bound to be something of interest for everyone! We'll be keeping you up to date with all the latest news on this. Five weeks to go! See you all next week! Lotta Redbrick Chairperson 09/10

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Week 1 || Hoodies || Bletchley || Botwars || Engineers Week
by Lotta Mikkonen 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Hello Brickies, Hope you've all enjoyed the holidays. We've a fair few announcements to make. This will be a busy spring! ==Week 1== Thursday 11th February at 7pm we will be holding our first talk of the semester. The title for this talk is "Real World Low level optimisation" and it will be presented by Colm McCarthaigh (colmmacc). This talk will cover optimisation and performance hacks that are rooted in low-level details of how systems work, but are also applicable and usable in high level programming languages such as Java and Python. Caching, pipelining and probing strategies, performance-oriented data-structure design and statistical profiling. But don't worry, each topic will be covered in plain language and explained from the ground up, and hopefully we'll have some fun along the way. We will be following this up with food and pints. (Venues TBC) ==Hoodies== Unfortunately due to issues with the hoodie companies we have had to postpone this hoodie order. We will be in touch as soon as we have something else sorted out. ==Bletchley Park Trip== This trip has now been booked. The dates for this trip are 1-3 of February. If you would like to fund your own travel and join us email attol(a)redbrick.dcu.ie for further information. ==NUIG CompSoc Botwars== Always wanted to try your hand at building your own fighting robot? Interested in robotics? http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/wiki/botwars/ This massive robotics event will be held in NUIG on the 5th and the 6th of February in NUI Galway. Competitions that are scheduled : Design Build, Code Challenge -This one day challenge requires you to use all your skill to design, construct and program a robot in less than a day! Intervarsity Wars -Challenge robots from other universities for a chance to win the grand prize. If you are interested in participating please reply to this email asap. If there are enough people interested we can see if we can get funding for this. ==TOG Engineering Workshops== TOG (www.tog.ie for more info) will be hosting a series of events for Engineers Week (8 - 14 February). There are events on each night of the week on many different topics. All of the weekday events are free but require pre booking. The weekend Workshop’s require a fee for participation. The workshops will cover topics such as amateur radio, soldering and robotics. For a full list of events see the following link. Engineers Week @ TOG 8 - 14 February. http://www.tog.ie/2010/01/engineers-week/ As always, if you have any suggestions about what you'd like to see a talk or workshop on or if you'd like to comment in general, please don't hesitate to email us. Best of luck in the exams! Lotta Redbrick Chair 09/10

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