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

|| Trip to 29C3 ||
by kylar 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

Hey all, We are in the process of planning a trip to the 29th Chaos Communication Conference (29C3) in Berlin, Germany this December. The event is scheduled for the 27th-30th of December and features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues. Another important part of the Congress is the hack center allowing room for around 600 people to operate their devices. The hack center and other areas of the Congress are connected to the Internet with a broadband connection. The hack center is considered a huge laboratory for operating and testing modern network technology and software. We are looking at prices and feasibility at the moment and would ask anyone who is interested in going to let us know. Once we have numbers, we can work out approximate number of people who will go, we can work out the costs of the trip. For more information on the contents of the conference or for videos of last year use the links below: C3 wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress Information on the organisers: Organiserhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club Videos from last year: http://www.youtube.com/28c3 If anyone has any other ideas for trips for next year let us know and we'll look into it. Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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Azazel Testing.
by Shane Stacey 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hi All, We are continuing the tests to get to the root cause of the issue that brought down Azazel Monday morning. To achieve this we will be unmounting /storage on all boxes and remounting it read only from backups. So we can test azazel with the perc attached. Logins will still be accepted during this time however you will be unable to modify your files. Mail will also be disabled. This will start at 8PM Tuesday. Apologies for the inconvenience. Redbrick Admins.

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Azazel Downtime - An Update.
by Shane Stacey 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hi, As was highlighted in our earlier announcement Azazel was reset earlier this morning. We are still trying to get to the root cause of this issue however for the moment to restore services to users we have changed login.redbrick and redbrick to point to at carbon. Due to this the RSA key fingerprint for these addresses will have changed to the following; 16:de:62:bc:b7:22:aa:38:c2:c7:e9:ae:fc:78:22:9c Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Redbrick Admin Team

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Unplanned Downtime - Azazel.
by Shane Stacey 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hi, As you may have noticed our login server, azazel, was reset early this morning. We are still not completely sure of what caused this and to ensure it does not happen again unexpectedly we need to take it down again later to perform diagnostics. We expect that we will be down from about 6:30/7 PM today (Monday 18th) and will try to restore services as soon as possible. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Redbrick Admin Team

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Hoodie Orders || Downtime || Connector Event
by kylar 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hey all there's a couple of important things to note this week: == Hoodie Orders == As you all know the details of the hoodie order were very difficult to pin down during the handover. At this point in time we would like to offer a refund of 25 euro to those who do not want to wait any longer. If you don't want a refund and simply want your hoodie, we assure you that we are still doing everything we can to track the details down so that we can investigate the overly long wait for the hoodies and ultimately get the hoodies to you. We would like to offer our apologies once again for the scarcity of information over the past few weeks. We will let you know what is happening, as it happens. == Downtime 5th of June == This coming Tuesday the 5th of June access to all Redbrick services will be unavailable as the admin team will be performing network maintainance and applying updates. Services will be unavailable from around 7pm onwards and we advise that you save any important material, and shut down any important processes well in advance of this time so that you don't lose any work. All screen sessions will be reset as a result of the downtime. The admin team apologise for any inconvenience caused. == Connector Event 13th/14th of July == Connector are organising a mini-startup weekend on Thursday the 13th and Friday 14th of July with DCU Ryan Academy. The event will run Thursday evening and all day Friday. We would like to encourage as many members as possible to attend these events as they are a great opportunity to network with like-minded people. Thursday evening will consist of talks from business and technical speakers, with pizza and beer afterwards. This will be a great opportunity to pitch network and pitch ideas to everyone you meet. Friday, all day, you will have the opportunity to work on your ideas with business mentors on hand to give you any guidance you need. There will be workshops in the morning and evening, an opportunity to pitch to investors and prizes for best ideas etc. Tickets are 20 euro (covers both days) with free food provided throughout. We will get you more information on this event as it comes. =========================================================== That's all for this week. Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/'13

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