Tag: 6. Mai 2012

My first week at ECIT Institute

Working in this institute is quite awesome! My colleagues are polite, attentive and benevolent, my supervisor is such a funny guy; we guffaw every morning about his jokes. But if he needs to be the boss, you will respect him and you know that he is the boss. I am really grateful for having my placement at ECIT Institute, I had to choose on which areas I want to improve my knowledge and they do absolutely everything to realize my wishes and needs! It’s absolutely brilliant and I don’t tire of saying “thank you very much”. For example, they allocate me my own Cisco lab for two weeks and I am allowed to implement a site to site VPN in my own testing network. It’s just out of this world. Besides my chosen projects I am responsible for doing the daily service support and that really improves my English skills. It’s great, that’s what I am here for. So in my opinion I really found the pot of gold, my heartfelt thanks to Kevin Shine who arranged this placement for me.

Office
Titanic Dock

ECIT Institute

Something about ECIT Institute: As I told you in an elder entry the Institute is located on the Queens Island next to the Titanic dock and its pump house. So the view is great but from the technician view, the things they develop are equal the sights. I am not allowed to talk about details but they develop chips for European Space Agency (ESA), they develop battle dresses for army which are able to acquire the vital signs of the soldier in the battle, his position and all these data are encrypted broadcasted to the headquarter. Also they develop chips for virus behaviour detection and how to eliminate them before they infect the system. It was more than interesting to see these things. I am really happy to have the opportunity to see these things.

ECIT

Our coast trip

Hey!

During the last week, Tobi, Tim, Oli and me decided to hire a car for the weekend and see something of Northern Ireland’s beautiful landscape. Saturday, Tim and Oli got the car — which was advertised as a VW Passat on the website and turned out to be a Vauxhall Zafira — and picked up Tobi and me. We used the chance to go to a Lidl, which is some miles away from our apartment.

Today, our journey brought us to Giant’s Causeway, the Bushmill Distillery, and the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge. We took a lot of pictures, unfortunately I can’t upload all of them, but here are at least some of them. We used the selftimer to take one of the pictures..We put my camera and Tim’s on the roof of the car and after taking the photo, I took my cam back into the car..Tim did not..so his camera had some fresh air for about one mile..We looked very surprised when we got out of the car and spotted Tim’s camera..

The impressions were just amazing..So have a look…

Giant's Causeway
Standing on some stones
again Giant's Causeway
Bushmills Distillery
At Carrick-A-Rede Rope Bridge
In front of the coast

A little project

During this week  I spend some time on configuring workstations for the NIPACS project, which was introduced in 2009. NIPACS means Northern Ireland Picture Archiving Communications System and enables hospitals to view digital medical patient data like MRTs on the computer and save it centrally in two data centers within Belfast. The advantage which comes with this technology is that medical patient data can be accessed by every hospital in Northern Ireland. The diagnostic workstations use very powerful hardware, meaning two Quad Core processors and 12 GB of RAM. Furthermore two high-definition displays of EIZO are used to view the medical pictures.

On Friday I got a little project. I have to set up a ESXi Hypervisor and configure a small Windows domain, including a Windows domain controller, a Microsoft SQL Server and some Windows Vista / Windows 7 clients. ESXi is already installed and the virtual machines have to be installed next week.

Friday and Saturday…

Hey guys,
it was so amazing the last week, but every will ending on every sunday midnight. On friday, i have begun to build some alternative designs with CSS & Co. for our Sharepoint at my work and i have included some new extensions to the new Wikisystem for all guides and howto’s. Now the weekend have begun and some festivals started up at friday, but i didn’t want to go to those festivals. I love the quietness to do something like projects in my community. On the next weekend, we have booked a tour to the sight „gaints causeway“, i think, it will be a nice tour. A few hours ago, i have reactivated my facebook account to promote a little more for community and my projects in this community. But sometimes, i think, i will publish some nice pictures of belfast and so on. Well have a nice weekend @all….