Tag: 2. Mai 2013

Hey guys

On Monday we had one of the wonderful Irish days. When I stood at the bus stop the sun was shining while I had to protect myself from the hail. That’s Ireland!

At work there were problems with Zabbix! Now I have found out that the version I used had a problem with a PHP file. An error in the file should be converted to a string and that didn’t work. Then I found out that in a new version the problem isn’t existing. But when I wanted to update it, the data base and a PHP file did not survive the update process. So I had some more errorsL. And it isn’t so easy to uninstall Zabbix because it’s not a normal packet that you can easily uninstall with one command. You have to remove a lot of directories and by that the operating system was broken. So I set up a new Debian VM and tomorrow I will have to test the new version.

On Wednesday Mrs Neumann and Mr Bavar visited me and we had a very nice conversation about my project.

Hey, I think I should name all my titles like this. It’s so incredible creative… No.

My Brother asked me, if I had no bank holiday yesterday. No, I hadn’t. Why? Well, there is a day which is equivalent to the first of May in Germany. This day is the first Monday in May. The first of may has nearly international historical reasons, but the UK and Ireland thought, that it would be a bad idea to have a bank holiday in the middle of the week.

The economy is served better with a non-work Monday after a weekend, than with a non-work day in the middle of the week. So I think, this is really smart.

I was asked how it works with the understanding. Yes, I really have to say: Bad. Really bad. Usually you should be able to speak or understand English in a few weaks. But this is not going to happen. I had ever problems with the understanding of English and it’s much more worse with the irish dialect.

I have to ask everytime at least once, if they could be so kind to repeat what they asked.

Though their dialect is quite useful. For example: They do not pronounce a “s” when they say “th”. Usually they say “I tink so” or “Tanks” instead of “I think so” or “Thanks”. I never liked the “s” anyway so I am using this part of their dialect too.

 

That’s it for today.