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Week 4 - Linux Installfest || First Year Rep || Admin Training Slides
by Lotta Mikkonen 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

-Linux Installfest -First year rep elections -Admin Training Slides Week 4 is upon us! So, what do we have on offer? == Linux Installfest == Want to install Linux on your laptop but aren't quite sure of how to do this? We'll be giving a step-by-step tutorial this Tuesday from 4pm - 6pm. Pizza will of course be provided. Can't have you all going hungry now, can we? We will confirm the room tomorrow. Bring your laptop! Make sure to back up any important information before the event as there is always a small chance of something going wrong and your data being compromised. == First Year Rep Elections == Our EGM to elect a first year rep will be held this Wednesday at 2pm in Q121 (first floor of the business building). If you would like to run or have your say in electing our newest committee member (or if you're just a fan of free pizza) make sure to attend. We'll be heading to the Nubar to celebrate afterwards. == Admin Training Slides == If you missed admin training last week but are curious about what was covered, you can check out the slides at the following links: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~haus/Admin_Training_Week1.pdf http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~haus/Admin_Training_Week1.ppt So that's it for this week's news. Want a sneak peek at Week 5's calendar? We'll have a speaker from Symantec on Tuesday, and Thursday sees the return of admin training. Full details in next week's announce. Lotta (attol) Redbrick Secretary 2011/2012

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Downtime today: 18:00
by Austin Halpin 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hi, Our downtime will be commencing today at 18:00. We'll be back on monday! Cheers, Austin

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First Year Rep | Downtime
by Lotta Mikkonen 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hi everyone, -Admin Training - Introduction to Linux Administration -First Year Rep Elections -Downtime -Pints == Admin Training == Interested in learning how to admin a linux server? Or even just getting to know a little bit avout how linux actually works? This thursday sees the return of our admin training! It will be at 6pm in LG25 in the School of Computing. Our first session is titled "An Introduction To Linux Administration" Our admin team are going to walk you through linux from the very basics. They'll get you familiar with the linux command line, what various linux tools are used daily in system administration, and explain a bit about how linux ticks. Previous experience with linux is non-essential! Everyone has to start somewhere, our admins definitely did! There'll be pizza! == First Year Rep Elections == Want to join our committee? Each year we elect a first year rep. This is a great chance to get to have your say in the kinds of events we run, learn about the running of a society and get to know loads of new people. If you'd like to run for the position (or come along to vote) we'll be holding the EGM at 2pm on Wednesday 19th of October (so not this week, the one after). We'll be providing pizza. Feel free to reply to this email with any questions you may have about the position or the election process. == Downtime = There will be downtime from Friday 14/10 - Monday 17/10 for essential server mainentance and kernel updates. == Pints == We'll be heading to the Nubar to unwind after lectures this Monday (10/10) from 5pm. Come join us! Don't forget, you can also keep in touch with us through Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/) and Twitter (RedbrickDCU). Hope you all enjoy the weekend! Lotta (aka attol) Redbrick Secretary 2011/2012

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Freshers' Ball - Renewals - Thank you
by Lotta Mikkonen 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

-Freshers' Ball in association with DJ Soc -Account renewals -Thank you for your feedback ==Freshers' Ball== We will be holding our annual freshers' ball upstairs in Matt Weldon's, aka The Slipper, Ballymun Road. We'll be kicking off the festivities at 7pm with some drinks promotions (3 euro selected drinks), free finger food for everyone and our own custom Redbrick cocktail that has been created just for us! Everyone is welcome so come and catch up with old friends, meet new ones and party to the tunes provided by DCU's own DJ Soc! ==Account Renewals== Clubs and Socs Days are being held today (Tuesday 5th October) and tomorrow (Wednesday 6th October) in the Hub. Our table is situated conveniently just next to the NuBar, so pop over, get some sweets, hear aboout our plans for next year (because trust me, next year is going to be GOOD) and renew your account. The prices are €4 for members and € for associates. Other ways to pay : http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/joining . Remember to email us if you are paying by Paypal or bank transfer so that we know to renew your account. Need more incentive to join? Well, how about : we're getting a common room in association with Engineering Soc. Only members of either of those societies will get access. MaK has a trip abroad in the works, more varied talks aimed at various levels(admin training, career related talks, programming talks and workshops, mobile app development...). Plus, did I mention that there'll be sweets? The deadline for renewals is the Monday 7th of November. After that date all unrenewed accounts will be deactivated. ==Member Survey== Thank you to everyone who participated in our membership survey for this year. We got some very informative feedback and will make sure to take it into consideration when we start finalising this years' schedule. We're holding a planning meeting on Friday so if you would like to volunteer for a talk/workshop or would like to suggest a topic please reply to this email. More programming talks and workshops were requested by a lot of you so we'll be working to get more of those organised for you. Admin training was also a popular one so that won't be going anywhere. If at any point during the year you'd like to tell us what we're doing right, what we're doing wrong or what you'd like to see then don't hesitate to get in touch. You can poke us at boards.redbrick.dcu.ie, email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie, chat to us on IRC, add us on Facebook (just search for Redbrick) or follow us on Twitter (RedbrickDCU). Lotta (attol) Redbrick Secretary 2011/2012

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New Site | Membership Survey
by Lotta Mikkonen 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Welcome back to DCU! We hope you're all feeling refreshed and are ready for an action packed year of Redbrick activities! ==http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie== The new Redbrick site is up and ready for you to explore. And we need you to do just that. We're delighted with the new site as we hope you are too, but it's not finished yet. We have big plans to integrate a new events system as well as some other cool new features which we'll be talking about over the next few weeks. In the mean time, please explore the new site and report anything that seems a bit borked to our webmaster VadimCK. Link for feedback : http://bit.ly/qkBikM ==Membership Survey== We want to make sure that this is Redbrick's best year yet. To reach that goal we need your help. Why not let us know what you would like to see from Redbrick. Talks on specific languages? More social nights? New services? We're currently setting up our calendar for next year so if you'd like to request a certain talk or workshop just let us know and we'll see what we can do. We're hoping to offer a larger variety of techy talks this year so all suggestions are welcomed. The survey can be found here : http://svy.mk/qr2jWM That's it for now, Lotta (attol) Redbrick Secretary - 2011/2012

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Re: [Announce-RedBrick] Outages
by Austin Halpin 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hi all, Estates and their electricians have finally decided to turn us back on! All previously unavailable servers and services (I.E. carbon and daniel(VMs)) are now back and available for use. Cheers, Austin

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Outages
by Austin Halpin 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Hi, As some of you may have noticed we had an outage late on Saturday night until Sunday afternoon. This was unplanned and was caused by issues with our power source. Our switch lost power which is why we lost external access. Until we get the affected power source fixed we won't be offering "non-essential" services - i.e. The Redbrick VM service and carbon, our dev server, is also offline until then. We'll do our best to keep everything as close to normal as possible and hope to get our power sorted as quick as we can. Cheers, Austin

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Facebook Tech Night and BBQ
by Lotta Mikkonen 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hey everyone, Facebook sent us the following mail and we thought it may be of interest to you guys. "Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at Facebook? Now is your chance to find out! We’re hosting a night of technology fun in early August at Facebook’s EMEA HQ. Think you’ve got what it takes to impress our engineering experts with your tech know-how? Show off your skills at our Table Quiz and be in with a chance to win some cool prizes! After the quiz, we'll light the grills and get you fired up about our newest tech developments at Facebook Dublin. Be our guest for a rooftop BBQ and meet the people behind our Engineering, Developer Relations and Risk teams. While this is not primarily a recruitment event, there are some opportunities available on our teams. If you’d like to learn more and register your interest in attending the event, please forward your current CV to siobhan.golden(a)fb.com. Space is limited, so don’t hesitate, sign up today! For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/facebookdublintech." If you see an event that may be of interest to our members let us know. Hope you're all enjoying your summer! Lotta Mikkonen (attol) RedBrick Secretary 2011/2012

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Murphy and Daniel downtime.
by Austin Halpin 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

Hi all, Just a quick mail to let you all know that murphy and daniel will be briefly unavailable tomorrow evening at 19:15. This means that the website, user webspaces and user VMs will be unavailable for a short period of time. It also means that after they come back online you'll need to manually start any VMs you need to use from the web interface. Cheers, Austin Halpin (haus)

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Downtime
by Austin Halpin 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hi all, We'll be applying some kernel updates to our Ubuntu 10.04 machines from 19:15 12/07 so there'll be some brief downtime on those machines. Primary services will also be affected during this period. Regards, Austin Halpin (haus)

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