April 2012 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

A few quick notices.
by kylar 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

Hey all, just a few things we want to run by you: --Paul's Memorial-- --Rewording of the Standing Orders/Rules and Regulations-- ============== --Paul's Memorial-- Just a quick reminder about Paul's memorial service in the Interfaith centre. It is being held at 4pm on Thursday the 3rd of May. If you have any photos of Paul's time in DCU please send them to us as soon as possible. --Rewording of the Standing Orders/Rules and Regulations-- We recently went over both the standing orders and the rules and regulations as on the old site. We found both documents to be very hard to read and as such have reworded anything which we felt was confusing. We feel that this will make them more accessible to our users. We have tried to make sure that our changes do not alter the meaning of any of the rules. Before these changes come into effect we wanted to run it by the members to make sure you are happy with any changes we have made. Both the old and new proposed rules, regulations and standing orders can be found at this link. https://docs.google.com/a/mail.dcu.ie/document/d/1pYnNMboAW8eifYJC1dYzoYOql… I have also attached them in a .txt format. ============================ Good luck again for everyone doing exams and thank you for helping to make this a great year for Redbrick. Your committee will be actively planning things over the summer so if you have any suggestions at all for next year send them on to us and we'll see what we can do. Have a great summer, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/'13.

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Carbon Upgrades
by Craig Gavagan 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Hi all, Just a quick email to let you know that carbon is going to be upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 at approximately midnight. We ask that anyone doing assignments or anything important please move your work to another server. Apologies for any inconvenience caused Regards -- Creadak Craig Gavagan MacEntee Redbrick System Administrator 2012/2013

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Memorial service update
by kylar 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Hey guys, There was a mix up in communication between ourselves and the InterFaith centre about the date of Paul's memorial, the service is being held on Thursday the 3rd of May. Apologies for the mix up, especially to our members who are arranging time off work to attend. Regards, Robert Devereux Redbrick Secretary 2012/'13

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Paul's Memorial Service
by kylar 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Hey all, we have some news for you regarding the upcoming memorial service for Paul Bunbury (bunbun). The service is being held in the Interfaith centre on campus. The service is being held at 4:00pm on the 4th of May. The Interfaith centre are open to any suggestions we have in order to make the service about Paul's time here in DCU. So if you have any suggestions please forward them on to us. They have also asked for singers from Redbrick to contact us and maybe sing the music at the service. If you would like to be involved in the singing/arranging of the music at the service please email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie as soon as you can. We also hope to present Paul's parents and brother with scrap books containing photos of Paul's time in DCU. If you have any photos at all that could be included in the scrap books please forward them on to us so that we can get working on them. If you wish to send photos/help out/ be involved in putting together the scrap books please email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. The deadline for submitting photos to us will be this Sunday as we will need to get started on the scrap books. At the service there will be an opportunity for members to share their memories of Paul with the room. We would encourage anyone who has any fond memories of Paul, to share them if they wish. Although remember they must be appropriate for the occasion as his parents and brother will be there. If you have any pieces of poetry, sayings, inspirational quotes or messages of hope that helped you through, what was, a dark time for all of us, they may also be shared at the service. Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/'13

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Week 12
by kylar 22 Apr '12

22 Apr '12

Hey guys, here's the announce for this week. --Pre-Exam Chillout Pints-- --Daniel Downtime-- --Moving Murphy-- Pre-Exam Pints ============ As the year is coming to a close we felt it was appropriate to get together and reflect on what has been a very eventful year for Redbrick. We're planning to head down to the NuBar for about 6:30 on Tuesday. It'll be a good chance to chill before the exams and reminisce about the past year. Daniel Downtime ======== This coming Friday (27th April) at approximately 3pm the admin team will be applying security updates to daniel our VM server. We recommend that you shut down your VMs before this so as to not lose any work. The admin team apologises for any inconvenience caused. Moving Murphy ============= The admin team are planning to move Murphy, the former web server, from our server room in the hub, to the basement in the Library. This will allow us to offer basic services like IRC etc, in the event that we lose power to the hub or if we need to bring the entire Redbrick server room down for an extended period of time. To faciliate this, Murphy will be taken offline this Friday during the updates so that the admin team can prepare the server before moving it to the basement. We recommend moving any scripts and programs you may be running to Morpheus or Azazel by Friday. Once again the admin team apologises for any inconveniences caused. ============== That's all for this week folks, but as the end of the year approaches we would like to thank all of our members for their participation throughout the year, after all, you are the driving force behind the society. We wish everyone good luck in their upcoming summer exams, and to our outgoing 4th years we wish good luck and every success in your future careers; we hope to see you return as associate members next year. Good luck all, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/'13.

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Week 11
by kylar 14 Apr '12

14 Apr '12

Hey all not much to report on this week, except the BEST EVENT EVER! --Annual Redbrick Table Quiz-- This week we are hosting one of the most anticipated events of the year the annual Redbrick table quiz. It will take place on Tuesday the 17th of April in the NuBar. Sign ups are from 6:30 and we hope to kick off the quiz at about 7:00 sharp. Teams should consist of four people, and the fee per person is 3 euro (12 euro per team). We are encouraging everyone to participate, even people who aren't members of Redbrick so bring along ALL the people! If a few pints isn't enough of a reason to convince them, check out our amazing prizes which are up for grabs We have prizes for each member of the winning teams: 1st Place: 1 TB External Hard Drives 2nd Place: Nerf Disc Guns 3rd Place: Bacon Popcorn Our big raffle prize this year is an Asus 11.6" notebook with 320GB hard drive 4GB of RAM and dual core processor with HDMI out, worth over 350 euro and we will also have small spot prizes on the night. The quiz is a great way to relieve that pre-exam stress, we'll all have a few pints and the craic will be ninety!! See you all on Tuesday!(or else) Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/'13.

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[Announce-Redbrick] Week 10
by kylar 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

Hey all we've got some really interesting things on this week and a few little updates too! --Society Awards Update-- --Facebook Talk-- --Annual Redbrick Table Quiz-- --Society Awards Update-- Just a quick update for anyone that didn't know, the DCU Society Awards we held last Wednesday night. One of the highlights of the night was Redbrick being shortlisted for the best society award. It was very close however in the end Dance Soc won. This was a great result for Redbrick, hopefully next year we can go the whole way and make Redbrick best society 2012-'13. --Facebook talk-- Wednesday 11th at 5pm. This week in coordination with the school of computing, we have organised a talk from Ryan Mack a Senior Engineer from Facebook in the U.S. His talk is being held in HG 23 in the Nursing Building on Wednesday the 11th at 5pm. It will detail the development and implementation of Timeline and recent Photo-related projects on the site. Also present will be Ruth McIntyre representing Facebook's university recruiting team so its a good time to make connections as well as learning something new. --Annual Redbrick Table Quiz-- We were originally aiming for next week (week10) but due to a mix up the quiz has been pushed back to Week 11. There will be amazingly wonderful prizes up for grabs, -see the list below- and to those who have enquired, the questions will be a mix of general knowledge and some techy stuff too! Our apologies for the quiz being delayed, we know you’re all eager to relieve some end of year stress with pints and a 'bitta craic', but do not fear we'll keep you posted. 1st place: External Hard drives, of some sort to be confirmed. 2nd place : Nerf guns. 3rd place: Bacon popcorn. There will also be a raffle prize of an Asus notebook worth over 350 euro and and we'll have a few other spot prizes on the night. That's all for this week, Regards, Robert Devereux. Redbrick Secrectary.

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Azazel Reboot
by Craig Gavagan 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi all, Just a reminder that Azazel will reboot itself in the near future and when it does the admin team will be running diagnostics to get a clearer explanation of why the recurring reboots are happening. This means that azazel will be down for a couple hours after it reboots. We apologise for the inconvenience and recommend that if any users are doing important work that they move it off Redbrick before Azazel reboots. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Regards -- Creadak Craig Gavagan MacEntee Redbrick System Administrator 2012/2013

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