Schlagwort: Belfast

Extending the Cisco Heaven

Another project I’m currently working on is the rollout of Cisco routers at Translink’s depots and garages, which are connected to the corporate network via ATM. At the moment these branch offices all use the standard all-in-one devices provided by the ISP. These devices unfortunately do not support advanced networking functions like VLANs, DHCP forwarding or routing protocols, which are needed for centralized network management. So that’s why they evaluate the Cisco router rollout.

After doing some internet research I configured my test device, a brand new Cisco 887VA, for PPP over ATM. After a failed test last week and a refinment of the configuration I successfully tested the setup at a train station near my office on Wednesday.

Cisco 887VA-SEC-K9
Cisco 887VA-SEC-K9

Let us have a nice long weekend…!

Hey guys,
our last two weeks have been started and we have just two weekends for some nice adventures. Well, my week was pretty nice where I met a new guy at Volunteer Now. He come from Spain and is working as developer, too. He work with me and Kevin together on the same projects and hope, it will be a nice end of our internship. But I still working on the same project and develope the Visual Webparts for our Sharepoint Server and it will be never boring with this team where it’s sometimes funny with those irish people… ^^ This long weekend, I will go with Kevin to the cinema to watch the new film „MiB3“, but at first we go to some other sights or events. Well, I think it will be very funny and it’s nice to see same other sights outside of belfast. Let us what will be happened on this long weekend… 🙂

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!

Enjoy the Saturday… Chill out @ Botanic Gardens

Yeah, the saturday was pretty nice and it was almost funny like every week in Belfast. We were walked to the Botanic Gardens with my roommates and with a lot of sunshine, but it was sometimes too much, because we went through some glasshouses and it was very hot with so damp air. When we reached the exit to go outside from one of this glasshouse, the air around us feel like so cold, but it wasn’t cold, it was only the great difference between those temperatures. However it was pretty nice and there were so much people, it was like a open-air swimming pool in Germany, but there wasn’t any kind of this one. That was so crazy, but pretty cool. Well, we have decided to chill out a little bit in this park and took some pictures. „Enjoy the Saturday… Chill out @ Botanic Gardens“ weiterlesen

The fifth week will be ended, but what coming at last weeks? It will be seen.

Hi guys,
it’s me again, our fifth week will be end and it was a really nice one, of course the weather had a good timing to be a beautyfull sunny week. At the last three days of the working week, it was very relaxed and have a nice introducing by Kevin in the programming languages ASP.NET & C# for developing webpages, because I want to use this languages for developing project in my community, too. At the beginning of this week, it was something happend in my project at my work, of course there was a some upgrading problemes on Microsoft Dynamics Server, but I have solved this problemes with manually upgrade steps and now I working for the last steps to finish this project. Well, the week was really funny and interesting. At last one, I have got new contacts at Volunteer Now which I like to hold above this nice work placement at Belfast. By the way, I think you have enjoyed this week, too.

Active Directory Upgrade

This week I was introduced to another project at Translink: Plans are to upgrade the Active Directory infrastructure from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2. The project is realized in cooperation with the IT service provider Northgate.

One principal reason for running this project is that another project depends on this Active Directory upgrade: the migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.

A project assistant from Northgate came to the office to talk with my colleagues and me about the hardware (physical and virtual) and software requirements as well as the necessary network (re)structuring.

Uplifting vocals

Every Wednesday is a great musician named Mark Graham playing at Filthy MacNasty’s. Rene, Tim and I were at his last to gigs and listened to him.  He is a singer/songwriter based in Lisburn and he is enchanting crowds with his heart-stopping, uplifting, easy going style of music. At night-time his job is being a musician playing at pubs and weddings, but his day job is writing songs.  His Music is inspired by McCartney, Lennon and Hendrix. It is a rally good feeling to listen to him and to see how enthusiastic he is about music. But the most impressive thing about him as an musician is that he don’t need a band behind him, just him and his guitar, that is all what he need to sound as great as he do.  I really like people like him, because they make our lives for a few hours easier and a bit stress less.

Mark Graham @ Filthy MacNasty's

So see you on Wednesday at Filthy MacNasty’s 10.00 pm, have a pint and enjoy.

Just a little barbecue on the beach…

Just one post ago, I have told about me and Kevin that we were did something together on the last weekend, so met us near my living place on the Corperated Street and started to go to the Odyssey Cinema, because we wanted to play bowling and some other crazy games. It was really funny and we have so many laughed. We have played bowling and pool billiard with me, Kevin and his brother. After a long time at this place, we went to a little pub and have little small talk. The most of this topics were about movies, games and some other IT-topics like Android Systems and Linux. This encounter was so very funny and I would prefer to do it again. On sunday, me and my roommates have decided to do a little barbecue on the beach. Well, it was a bad idea, because the weather wasn’t the best one and the beach… Let us talk about another topic…^^ The steak what we wanted to grill was good, but the grill was just a little bucket…^^ But my pictures can talk more about them than I can never do it.

„Just a little barbecue on the beach…“ weiterlesen