November 2010 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

RedBrick Announce Week 10
by Nina Hanzlikova 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi all, Welcome to the ever so snowy week 10 RedBrick announce. Here's the stuff we have planned for this week. * Admin Training, Thursday 4th, 6pm, LG26. * DUCSS Contest, Friday 5th, 2pm, TCD. * Xmas party, Thursday 9th, 8pm, Slipper. == Admin Training == This weeks admin training will be on basic networking. The speaker for this session will be Cian Brennan (lil_cain) so come along and find out what the ins and outs of computer networks are about. == DUCSS Coding Contest == The DUCSS coding contest has been postponed to this Friday. This is promsing to be a great event with impressive prizes culminating in the Android tablet or Beagle board for the first place. If you'd like to enter a team for it, email the committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie and we can sort out the registration fee for you. More information on the contest can be found at http://hax.ducss.ie/comp.php . == Xmas Party == We will be holding our anual Xmas party next week in the Slipper with a number of other DCU societies. The usual shenanigans will ensue, with free food, mulled wine and a real life Santa, so you should definitely bookmark this date in your calendar. That's all for the announce this week, so enjoy the snow and see ya :) Nina (geekity) Hanzlikova RedBrick Secretary 2010-2011

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RedBrick week 9
by Nina Hanzlikova 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

Hi folks, Plenty to let everyone know about this week, so lets get cracking :) * Working with parallel clusters - John Looney (valen) Tuesday, 23rd, 6:30pm, LG26. * Buffer Overflow talk, networking tutorial, Sneakers movie, DUCSS Hacker Week, Wednesday, 24th, 6pm, TCD. * Admin training, scripting workshop, Thursday, 25th, 6pm LG26. * DUCSS Hacker Week social, Thursday, 25th, 7pm, Longstone. * Hacker Week Competition, DUCSS Hacker Week, Friday, 26th, 2pm, TCD. == Working With Parallel Clusters Talk == On Tuesday John Looney (valen) will take us through the ins and outs of parallel clusters. The talk will take place in LG26 at 6:30pm, so do come along. == Buffer Overflow, Networking tutorial, Sneakers movie == This week TCD's computing society DUCSS is hosting their Hacker Week http://hax.ducss.ie/index.php and we have been invited to their events. On Wednesday we'll be heading down to TCD to the Buffer Overflow security exploit talk, being done by Hugh Nowlan. Afterwards there will be the networking tutorial, hosted by DUCSS admin team, and the evening will conclude with showing of the film Sneakers. If you'd like to come as part of the larger Redbrick group, please email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. == Admin Training - Scripting Workshop == The admin training will be taking place on Thursday, in LG26 at 6pm. The admins will be coordinating a scripting workshop with hands on problems and participant-written solutions. == DUCSS Social == After admin training we will be heading to the DUCSS Hacker week social in Longstone for some intersoc festivities. == Hacker Week Competition == As part of the Hacker Week, DUCSS is organising a coding/hacking and problem solving competition. We will be heading down for this event, taking place on Friday fron 2pm, so if you'd like to come please email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie to let us know. That about wraps it up for now. Hope to see you at one of the events. Nina 'geekity' RedBrick secretary 2010-2011

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Admin training this evening
by Nina Hanzlikova 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi guys, Just quickly, the admin training is not going ahead this evening since it hasn't really been officially announced other than by word of mouth. The training will be moved to next Thursday, 6pm, LG26, with more details following later. Regards, Nina 'geekity' Hanzlikova Redbrick Secretary 2010-2011

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RedBrick Week 8 || Pooka's talks || Downtime || Open Days || Game On
by Nina Hanzlikova 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi everyone, Tis that time of the week again for an announce, and here is what's coming up: * Cian Synnott (pooka) talks on Thursday, 11th and Monday, 15th, 6pm LG26. * Downtime * Volunteer and projects for Open Days, 19th & 20th. * Game On, 22nd. == Cian Synnott talks == Cian Synnott (pooka) will be doing admin training talks this week. On Thursday (11th) we will be tackling processes and on Monday (15th) it will be filesystems. The talks are at usual times (6pm) in usual place (LG26), so come along. == Downtime == The Hub works are unfortunately still continuing and our power will be cut from Thursday (11th) evening (5:30pm) until Sunday. Unfortunately this means more downtime for us during this period. We apologise for the inconvenience. == Volunteers & Projects == DCU Open Day takes place on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th. RedBrick is helping out the school of computing and we will be showcasing some of our cooler programs and features. If you would like to help us by volunteering your coding projects or manpower please fire us off an e-mail and fun shall be had by all. == Game On == Our social on Monday 22nd will be to Game On. The cost is 5 euro and if you'd like to come just reply back to this e-mail. That should be it for now so in way of parting I shall leave you with a current youtube favourite of mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUjh4DE8FZA Nina 'geekity' Hanzlikova RedBrick secretary 2010-2011

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Downtime || Intersocs Drinks
by Austin Halpin 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi again, Just an update to yesterdays mail. ==Downtime Postponed== As some of you may have noticed, downtime hasn't happened as planned. This is due to estates not receiving the necessary equipment to perform their maintenance of the hub with on time, so they've told us the work will be happening next weekend. Apologies for any confusion. ==Intersocs Drinks== One thing that got left out of our announce yesterday was the intersocs event that's happening this weekend. Drinks will be taking place in the Longstone, on Townsend Street, at 7pm on Saturday Nov 6th. If anyone isn't sure where that is, you can see it here on google maps: http://tinyurl.com/intersocs-drinks That's it from us! Cheers, Austin Halpin (haus)

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Admin Training || Downtime || Bowling & Quazar || C&S Ball || Renewals
by Austin Halpin 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hi, Just a couple of quick announcements and reminders of past announcements! ==Admin Training Today! Scripting, 6pm , LG26== Today's admin training is on shell scripting. It's an introductory talk, so don't worry about your skill level. We'll be walking you through it all and giving help to anyone who needs it! You can learn how to write scripts to do a variety of tasks on linux. Some of them are actually useful to use, others are just neat tricks! ==Admin Training Next Week== Cian Synnott from google, AKA pooka@redbrick, will be presenting next weeks admin training on Thursday 11th November. He will be talking about processes. The way different operating systems deal with them, process lifecycle, kernel and user space and much more! This is a really interesting talk and one not to be missed! ==Downtime== Due to the ongoing maintenance in the hub, Redbrick will be offline again from 4.30pm Friday for the rest of the weekend. Due to this, we would like to remind anyone who has files that they need on Redbrick to copy them to their local machines as there'll be no access to them. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. ==C&S Ball tickets== The ball is taking place on Nov 17 in the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Tickets cost €40 each and include a 3 course meal. Anyone interested in attending mail committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie - tickets are limited so we're handing them out on a first come, first served basis! ==Bowling & Quazar== Redbrick is going bowling and to quazar! Monday the 8th November. It costs €10 and we're meeting in the hub at 6pm. Email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie if you're interested in coming along! ==Renewals== We'll be deactivating accounts on Monday, so anybody who hasn't renewed should do so soon or risk losing access to their account. You can contact the committee on rbcommittee(a)gmail.com for the duration of the downtime. That's all for now. Cheers, Austin Halpin (haus)

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