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

Week 0 Announcements
by Nina Hanzlikova 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi all, As we're all getting back to our courses, there's a few announcements to take care of. Events We are sorry to announce that Emma has resigned her position as the Events Officer. We'd all like to thank her for all the hard work she's invested in Redbrick over the years, and wish her all the best in future. EGM Our EGM is to be held on Wednesday, 13th October at 2pm. The venue is yet to be confirmed. The open positions are treasurer, events, 3rd admin (will have to pass the admin test) and 1st year rep. If you are available, please come out and vote or run :) Admin Test The date for the admin test is as yet to be confirmed. For anyone wishing to prepare for this test, past exam papers can be found at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams/ There is also the trainee admin channel on IRC at #rbTraineeAdmins. Could anyone interested in taking the admin test please e-mail the admins (admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie)? Dublin Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Lastly, some of you may have heard of the Dublin Hacks and Hackers Hack Day, to be held on 16th of November. In their own words "Armed with their laptops and WIFI, journalists and developers will be put into teams of around four to develop their ideas, with the aim of finishing final projects that can be published and shared publicly. Each team will then present their project to the whole group. Overall winners will receive a prize at the end of the day." Redbrick has got a limited number of tickets for this event, so if you'd like to come along as part of the Redbrick team, email the committee (committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie) with your full name and class/company. More information about the Hack day can be found on http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/09/13/new-event-dublin-hacks-and-hackers-h… Hope everyone's enjoying the freshers week, and getting back into swing of things. Nina 'geekity' Hanzlikova Redbrick Secretary 2010-2011

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Downtime today
by James "Reggie" Reilly 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi all, We took Redbrick offline today due to a root exploit being released that we didn't want to be on the recieving end of. All someone had to do was to compile the code, run it and instant root shell, and I for one didn't want another great hack on my hands. If anyone is intersted the exploits are described in CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301. The kernels on affected machines are now patched. Regards, fun

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Downtime today
by James "Reggie" Reilly 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi all, We took Redbrick offline today due to a root exploit being released that we didn't want to be on the recieving end of. All someone had to do was to compile the code, run it and instant root shell, and I for one didn't want another great hack on my hands. If anyone is intersted the exploits are described in CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301. The kernels on affected machines are now patched. Regards, fun

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Morpheus Reboot
by James "Reggie" Reilly 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi all, Morpheus needs a kernel update, and thus it is necessary to reboot it for the change to take effect. We will be rebooting on Friday morning at 9am. Note that it is just Morpheus that we will be rebooting, screens etc. on other machines are safe. We apologise for the inconvenience. Regards, James Reilly

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Hoodies
by Nina Hanzlikova 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi all, So we finally have the hoodies we've been impatiently anticipating. For those of you who ordered them, they will be available for collection from 6pm tomorrow in the Nubar. There shall be drinks to celebrate so anyone else in the area is most welcome to drop by for a pint, a game of pool or a bit of banter. Happy September, Nina 'geekity' Hanzlikova Redbrick Secretary 2010/2011

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