Monat: Mai 2012

The Hike

Last sunday I used the perfect weather to make a hiking tour. After the long tour from the day before to the Giant’s Causeway I was tired and the sunburn ached too. But I had to use the last sunny days. So I decided to went to the Mountain Divis, where I was already. In a group of four we took a taxi to the bottom of the mountain, because we needed the power for the climb 🙂
This time we reached the peak of the mountain at 450 metres. The view over Belfast is perfect and the sun burns not so hot, because there is a heavy wind. At this point there is a broadcasting station of BBC. And we’ve seen a group of horses. I don’t know, if they are wild and what they doing at the top of the mountain.
To climb down from the top was very exciting too. We had to climb over barb wire fence and slid down through thorny bushes. At the way back we’ve also seen two police officers which searched some bad people. I don’t know more but I wondered why a helicopter flew a long time over us.
After this exciting trip we bought a ice cream and went back with a taxi directly to the KFC, where we had a big dinner.

The horses
Barb wire fence

New Week @ VolunteerNow

Hi everybody,
one of our last weeks at Belfast are been started, but it was not so much happened in the first days of this week. Well, we just went back to our old stuff of project and it’s only some new tasks for my Sharepoint project. My new tast is to design the new layout of the Sharepoint website with new webparts. This will be happened by Visual Webparts in Visual Studio 2010, so it will be programmed in C# and the .NET Framework 3.5, but I am looking very interesting forward to the next week, because we will get a new member for our team, it’s a apprentice, too. He coming from Spain and he has the same certificate like us, he succeded the CCNA certification, too. Therefore, I think that’s will be very interesting and I will get a nice chance to contact a new guy. However, I am hopefully looking forward to a successfull ending of our practical training.

Yours faithfully,
Rico Meehs

Short story: the supermarket

I went to Mark & Spencer’s to buy my lunch. In the supermarket I was thinking of buying some more stuff for the evening so I keept my eyes open. Suddenly an old lady stopped me and asked for help. She told me that she got a message on her mobile phone from someone and don’t know how to open it. She was kind of excited because she thought that someone from her family wrote her. When I opened the message I noticed that it is just junkmail from O2 so I told her to delete them. When she saw that there were more messages she asked me if these aren’t from her family. I opened the next one and again junkmail. So I asked her if it’s a new mobile phone and she told me that she just bought it. Afterwards I explained her that it is normal for new phones. In the end she was really happy that someone helped her.

Outdoor WLAN #Update

As I told in my last post, Jannik, Damien and myself installed the outdoor WLAN. At the end of last week we get the right cable for the outdoor antenna. So we connected the access point with the fondly called fluoroscent lamp. But nothing happend. Even if we stood near to the antenna, the signal was very weak and if we went away from the antenna the signal was lost. Overall a depressing test, because the signal with the 1.5 metre antenna is lower as the ten times smaller indoor antenna. So Jannik and me began to troubleshoot the problem: cross tests, resets, configure, gathering solutions… Until now we’re not really sure what the problem is. I think the antenna and the access point are faulty. Maybe we would have spent more money to the devices. This are the cheapest devices that we had found, because Damien wanted it so. Now he will contact the distributor and maybe we get a new device. Let’s see what’s next.

Nerdy evenings

Last weekend, Oli, Tim, Tobias and I decided to watch a 13 year old film..Matrix. After all this years, this film is still just amazing. I’ve already seen it many years ago but I forgot many things so it was a good thing, watching this film again. I think I annoyed the others because I could not wait and asked them 20 questions during the first 5 minutes. But they told me that all my questions would be answered by the film and they were right. Yesterday we watched the second film, Matrix Reloaded and today we will watch the last one, Matrix Revolutions. So we experienced a decade of Sci-Fi history in a few days.

 

Still doing the same

Unfortunately I’m still spending time on configuring Windows System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM). This piece of software just seems to be so slow! It feels like it takes ages for the software to recognize any changes I configure. The second problem is that Matt has just little time to help me, because there are just so many other things he has to do. So I also spend a lot of time on waiting. The next step will be to configure this SCCM environment in the NIPACS domain.

There is a song, its title sounds in this situation so frustrating and true at once..Maybe Tomorrow..

Whatever… I just called „The Titanic Museum“…

Last sunday was a nice day to go to the Titanic Museum. We have booked our tickets online and started at 1.20 pm with a nice lunch before…^^ So, we have fetched our tickets from the museum and went in them at 1.40 pm. Well, it was nice to see how the history of Belfast has changed the industry in Belfast. We have saw a lot of history facts about Belfast which was shown with a great variety. One of them was a nice documentary shown which was like a little cinema and you had the possibilty to discover all items which were founded at this discovery. While I walked through the labyrinth of the history, I have lost my roommates…^^ …only Marco and me were left over. After we arrived the end of this museum, we got very hungry and went at home, but we did a stop at our favourite cinema and found a nice location with so very tasty pizzas. Well, the price was bearable and I would recommend this nice location. It’s the Pizza Hut at the Odyssey Cinema with nice service. Well, we have took again some nice pictures, but this once I will post only the link to the complete list by way of variety. Here we go!

Friday Night

Friday night, we had the idea to check out Robinsons Bars, because I figured out, that there should have been a band playing Irish folk music, but after 10 minutes, we decided to leave this pub, because people were kind of strange and there was a strange atmosphere. The weater was fine so we decided to take the chance and get some sun at Filthy McNasty’s. Unfortunately there was no live music but nevertheless it was a nice evening.