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September 08, 2004

#brand and #utwente

So to preserve some history for prosperity...
As most people reading this probably know, on 20th of november in 2002 the Networks Operation Center of the University Twente burned down. In the wake of this event, the entire internet connection and LAN network was disabled. Students set to work immediatly to bring their beloved network back online, taking over services as DHCP, WWW, and most importantly IRC, to bring back some form of communication again.
Of course our old #snt channel was working up untill then, but with so much work needing to be done, we couldn't be bothered by non-snt members who weren't really working on any network systems..

At that time (hours after the fire started) #brand (#fire in english) was born and loads of not regulars started joining this channel on IRC to exchange information etc etc.
The channel became really popular and wasn't gonna die. It went on as a new 'general' university channel named #utwente.
Today I suddenly wondered how this channel got started exactly and my friend 'ascent' sent me his #brand irclogs which I had lost myself. Some excerpts will follow

Time of Conception of #utwente: 22-11-2002 13:50
* HCl vindt nog steeds dat een globaal c'net irc kanaal best een goed id is
< dj|term> is goed, als alles weer een beetje goed is doen we wel #utwente op IRCnet goed?
< HCl> dj|term: bijvoorbeeld
< FizzGig> indeed

Date of Birth #utwente: 23-11-2002 00:17
00:15:56 <@tsd> er wordt gewerkt aan een nieuwe irc server, daarom zal deze tijdelijke irc server dalijk alleen nog bereikbaar zijn op 'cugel.student.utwente.nl', en niet meer 'irc.snt.utwente.nl'
00:16:28 < zielknijp> moet er niet gewerkt worden aan een nieuwe mailserver? :-)
00:16:47 <@tsd> dus als je op deze server/dit channel wilt blijven, even host 'cugel.student.utwente.nl' gebruiken :)
00:16:56 < Remco> tsd: komt er op snt dan ook weer een #brand? ;-)
00:17:04 < FizzGig> #utwente lijkt me
00:17:07 < oediv> is wel een hit he
00:17:07 < HCl> mmhmm
00:17:13 < HCl> #brand lijkt me een goed id
00:17:17 < Wh|teRuss> :)
00:17:18 < HCl> gewoon een globaal utwente kanaal
00:17:19 < Wh|teRuss> gewoon joine
00:17:24 < Wh|teRuss> :)
00:17:28 < Wh|teRuss> utwente kanaal rockt

....... .....

00:20:03 <@tsd> 'irc.snt.utwente.nl' gaat mogelijk weer linken met ircnet.. #brand op ircnet is op t moment door een viertal onbekenden in gebruik, dus als je op ircnet zelf verder wilt, moeten jullie even een ander kanaal uitkiezen.. :)
00:20:17 < Wh|teRuss> --> You are now talking on #utwente
00:20:17 < Wh|teRuss> --- Topic for #utwente is Fire in the datacenter of University of Twente in the Netherlands
00:20:21 < Wh|teRuss> :)

What is remarkable is that all the people participating in this chat are all still #utwente regulars. dj|term would be me of course.

P.S. Some unrelated chatter was removed.

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Website quality

As a true Netizen I so hate these "it looks good who cares if it's valid sites"....
A couple more examples:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.basketbuilders.nl%2F
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyradio.nl%2Findex.aspx

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Busy Busy Busy

So I haven't been around much. Many people noticed I guess, especially my IRC friends from #utwente, #videolan and #matroska. So I'll tell you what the critical point is at the moment. I'm gearing up towards handing over my treasurer duties to someone else and this is keeping me very busy. The important date is 22 september, and hopefully I'll have a lot more time then to catch up on lots of VideoLAN, SNT, SideQuest and school stuff. I leave you with this thought.

"...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do
not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out
about them."
Osama Bin Laden .

There aught to be limits to freedom!"
George Bush.

Which one scares you more?

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