Yesterday was the last day at work. This day started not so good because I was tired from the last days. So I went to the busstation and was surprised how few people want to go to the university. At work Damian had the task for us to gather some information about outdoor Access Points. He want to establish a wireless connection for the medical devices at a field. He don’t know how big the field is, so it can be between a little court and a big soccer field. So we gave him the information and he left the work. Because Jannik and me had no other work to do we decided to go home. At the way back home we stopped for a little shopping tour. But it was a disaster. I found nothing to buy. But more on that later.
At the evening my roommates and myself went to the Botanic Inn, a popular pub for young people. After I entered the room a smell of piss crawled into my nose. But we decided to stay and hoped it would be better. It was actually better because the door at the smoker room opend very often and this „room“ was only a door outside. After two Budweiser for myself and one more or less for the other we went cheerfully back home.
Monat: Mai 2012
Second week at work
Hi guys,
yes, the week is done, and I tell you today, what happened on my work.
On Tuesday have I got my new PC, now I can faster work :mrgreen:. The true reason was, that I have stole a other employee his desk.
So, I have on Tuesday and Wednesday my PC set up. Now can I work with Linux (XUbuntu in detail), that is very good.
TGIF
I’m really looking forward to enjoying the weekend, so I think this picture best illustrates what I feel like. 😉
Yesterday I was given the task to document the MAC addresses of the devices that are connected to ten of Translink’s Cisco Catalyst 2950 access layer switches at Milewater Road. It took me about an hour with some e-mailing and surfing in between. Not a very interesting task, but at least some work on consoles of Cisco devices. 🙂
Now I’m keeping myself busy with documenting Mateusz’s business intelligence application again and waiting for the end of the work day at 2 o’clock …
The last days of this week…
It’s just few days ago, were i prepared my virtual machine on a HyperV-Server and wiki system for my developing of a new sharepoint website, now i worked with my own designed theme for this website and did some fine tuning of the stylesheets. On wednesday mornings, i and my supervisor visited the headquarter of Volunteer Now in the center of Belfast and i took some pictures of the office and some ones of the server room, where we did some support services. Well, you will see that this isn’t as structured as a profit oriented company, but it’s very amazing to see how this kind of non-profit organisation growth so large and has so many powerful infrastructure. Well, here are some pictures of this headquarter…
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.
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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 …
… networking equipment …
… and when it comes to structured cabling Translink strives for perfection! 😉
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..
While walking down the streets…
Everyday and every afternoon, i walking down the streets from my workplacement to my apartment, sometimes like monday, i saw some nice buildings in very nice sunshine, so i have took my smartphone and took some nice pictures along the streets…
