Tag: 2. Mai 2012

What to do after work?

Good evening,

as you can see I got a little question in my title.

So, what I do after work?

First of all I always go to the train station to take the DART or the Commuter back to Dublin. I kinda love my way to and from work because I always see the sea and sometimes those huge Stena Line ferries.

Today I went shopping with Josephine. No clothes by the way, just food. So we went to Tesco because it’s pretty cheap in there. I guess we managed to stay in Tesco for around 50 minutes. During that time we noticed that someone call out the daily clearance for each part of the store. When we were done in Tesco we noticed that it was already 19 o’clock. So we wanted to go out of the shopping mall to get the next Luas to our appartement but we got stopped by two security guys. They asked us if we wanted to go to the cars and we said „no“. They told us that there is only one exit left where we can leave the shopping mall. So they pointed on the north side of the shopping mall and we were like „f***, the Luas is on the south side“. So with full bags we walked the whole way from north to south of the building and in that time we missed 2 or 3 Luas trams.

After all we made us a nice dinner.

Greetings
Daniela

Our accommodation

Hi guys,

today I show you our accommodation in the „university court“. I live with Christian, Timo, Kevin, Roxana and my roommate Martin there.
The accommodation lies between 2 churches, but fortunately they seem do not to bell. 🙂
Cool too on our accommodation is, that I have only 10min footpath to my work.
In the next lines follow pictures from our accommodation.

Outside view of our accommodation

Our kitchen

Our living room (Of course, all with the laptop.)

Our small bathroom
One of our two bathroom

This was a small insight into our four walls. 😀

I think that I show pictures of my room and our view over the city in a later post.

Best regards from Belfast
Benjamin

An army of repeater

At the last days me and my coworker Jannik had been installing a lot of repeater. The configuration is not so easy, because the repeater can act as a bridge or an access point or both together and in combination with the repeater mode. So we tried a lot of modes for the repeater. All these repeater are connected with one WLAN-Modem. But the problem is that they can’t establish a wireless connection to the Modem – only if they are wired. But this makes no sense because you must have these two devices. Our mentor had the brilliant idea that we can remove the WLAN-Modem. And what happens? It works. So the configuration and testing of days was a waste of time.

But the only problem wasn’t the testing. The modem and the repeaters refuse the service at several times and we didn’t know why. Yeah, it’s technics.
But at the end we have configured an army of repeater.

Cisco Heaven

Yesterday my work day started with a visit at Translink’s „data center“ at Belfast Central Station.

They have servers …

server rack
Servers at Belfast Central Station

… networking equipment …

switches and cables
Some network equipment at Belfast Central Station

… and when it comes to structured cabling Translink strives for perfection! 😉

cabling
Structured cabling at Belfast Central Station

As you can see it’s rather a storeroom with a rack, some switches and an air conditioning system put in than a real data center.

I went there with my colleagues John and John, who both do most of the networking stuff at Translink. Why did we go there? The IS department just got a new redundant SAN system and plans are to move one part to Central Station to improve redundancy. To prepare this we met a network technician from Northgate (an IT service provider supporting Translink’s networking staff). He was introduced to Translink’s core network infrastructure with multiple sites connected via fibres and copper wires. After that he rushed through the core switch consoles, reviewed the configurations and presented some things that need to be changed in order to make the SAN replication work. We will get a full report soon.

The whole Translink data network is built on Cisco technology (as far as I know) so I hope there will be several opportunities to utilize my networking skills earned in the CCNA course in this (and coming) project(s).

Having a good time at „The Empire“

Hey folks,

last Sunday we met our English teacher, Mr.Schlenger in his hotel. He wanted to talk to us to figure out, if we feel comfortable in our apartments and in our placements. He mentioned that there is a live music act at „The Empire„, so we decided to go there and listen to the music after finishing the conversation about the apartments and placements.

The band was supposed to begin at 9 o’clock but started at about 10 o’clock..we did not really expect them to begin on time..but waiting was worth while! They played songs like „Purple Rain“, „Talkin‘ about a Revolution“ and many more..The way, the singer interpreted these songs was just amazing! For me, this evening was just a Bingo!

I hope that there are many more of these evenings, because that’s what music’s for..