Hello everyone,

well the weekend is over and it’s time to write about it, if you read it or not is entirely up to you.

As I wrote in my previous entry I went on a bus tour to the Giant’s Causeway with the guys from apartment nbr. 2. We met at 8:45 outside of our apartments and headed to the office of Allen’s Tours where our bus was supposed to leave at 9:30. We where advised to arrive 20 min. prior to the time of departure and we did but as it turned out we could have easily  turned up at 9:45 as bus left at 10 because we had to wait for stragglers.
After we picked up a few other passengers at their hotels our driver introduced himself as Ian and told us he will be talking most of time while we are our way to the destination.
I was thinking „Yeah you will probably just point out points of interest along the way“ but I was wrong, he literally talked the whole time, told us about the history of the towns and places we passed and gave anecdotes to noteworthy sites, like the haunted hotel or the dead mans hole. The craziest thing was that it never got boring he did it in way that kept it interesting the whole time. I was surprised to hear how many Germans where involved in the history of Northern Ireland with building a castle here and a  village there.
Only on the way back from Giant’s Causeway Ian kept quiet because we took the motorway back to Belfast, not the coastal road we took before, and there wasn’t much to tell but still he was a great tour guide and I think everyone on the bus agreed with me.
OK enough of our bus driver and more about the tour itself!
As I already mentioned the tour took the scenic coastal road to Giant’s Causeway with a few stops in between and a visit to the Bushmills distillery on the way back.
The first stop was shortly after leaving Belfast we stopped at Carrickfergus Castle, which was build by a German-ish guy in twelfth century. After 20 minutes of looking around and taking photos we journeyed on.

After an hour we stopped at Carnlough harbor for a quick breather.

Another hour later we arrived at Carrick-a-Rede and its famous rope bridge that I, obviously, crossed  but I admit was a little frightened because we had very strong wind, something around 40 miles per hour,but still it’s a beautiful area and truly worth seeing, especially with good weather.

While we are at the topic, our weather this day was kinda mixed, on one hand we had sunshine and , kinda, blue skies on the other hand it rained alot. We were lucky in the beginning as it only started raining when we boarded the bus again but once we arrived at the Giant’s Causeway the weather took a turn for the worse and it got much better shortly after we left Bushmills for Belfast.

A mere 15 minutes after we left Carrick-a-Rede we arrived at the Giant’s Causeway, we had to walk a little because we didn’t pay the „entrance fee“ (it was optional) and weren’t allowed to take the bus but it’s only a short walk, like 15 minutes or something.

I confess I was a little disappointed by the Giant’s Causeway, but this could be because the weather wasn’t exactly the best or the fact that the place was swarming with so many tourist that you had to look out where you put your feet. Don’t get me wrong it’s a beautiful place and worth seeing but I think it’s a bit oversold.
Oh and shortly after we left the Causeway my camera battery died and me, being stupid, forgot to pack my spare battery, so I wasn’t able to take pictures of out last stop at the Bushmills distillery. At the distillery we had the opportunity to take a look around at the visitors premises but couldn’t take a tour through the distillery. I bought myself a good whiskey which I will bring home as little souvenir for myself
We arrived in Belfast at around 7:00 pm and after we said our goodbyes and thanks to Ian we went for something to eat and back to the apartment.

On Sunday I basically didn’t do anything except for relax, going through the photos I took on the tour and watch anime on my laptop

I hope all of you enjoyed your weekend as much as I did.

 

Yours sincerely,

Tobias

Heyho,

 

today I went to the Cliffs of Moher. My plan was, to make a lot of photos, enjoy the day and go home with the good feeling, that I participated on one more tour.

Yeah… I don´t want to tell you that much about today. I think, one picture shows more than I could tell you.

So… I think, I show you the picture from a colleague, which was there one day before.

https://has-anyone-seen-nick.com/gute-aussichten/img_0761/

 

Yes, successful day!

 

cu next week.

 

 

Hey guys,

since start of this week Zabbix 2.0.6 is running the newest version. This has solved my old problems but also brought new.

However until I reinstalled and reconfigured the Zabbix server it took a lot of time and nerves but someone has to do that.

Further I installed a Mail server on the Zabbix server a Postfix and a dovecot mail server. I want t0 use Posrfix at a SNMP server and dovecot as an POP3 server. I do this because I want to send notification mails when Zabbix discover s a problem. The Zabbix can’t work with Exchange server which is already in the network here,because you can’t configure mail settings like an auto identification and so on!

So I work with the dame long config files of the mail servers and try to find the right place and commandos.

At the moment I have a big fight with a cold so I must take things easier, drink a lot of hot tee and eat a lot of sore throat sweets. On Thursday I was sent back home then because my colleagues said I didn’t look  good. So I was at home on Friday. That’s sucks a little bit because until now I had to stay in the apartment. But still right now I don’t feel really better. This is also the reason why this blog entry comes that late.

Even a retrospective on the last weekend!(3-5.5)

So we did the same like last weekend Party (this time in another house) and there were people from the UK, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Hong Kong! And  on the other days we had a LAN Party and did the things you just do on weekends.

see you!

 

Heyho,

what shall I tell you, what do you want to hear from me?

I think I show you a new friend of mine:

Her name is just Cat and she always follows me. Of course she wants to be petted.^^

Really, she´s the star of this BnB! Even if my allergy is killing me after I touched her but okay. She is so incredible fluffy!

Tomorrow I have a free day, that means I will do exactly NOTHING. Sleep long, eat, sleep, go to the toilet, eat and sleep again. Maybe I will learn a little bit about scripting with Powershell. I found out how incredible useful it can be if you have to administer several Users. One of my irish colleagues uses SVN for his work with Visual Studio, and he (that means me) has to backup the repository in case of a crash of the harddrive.

Some of you may chip in with „Why didn´t you use svnsync?“. Well, to use svnsync you have to setup two repositories. That means, you have to setup a second server or client or whatever. We don´t want to install this on our server, so we had to find another option.

I wrote a small batch-Script that saves his files to our Server. I know, it´s not much, but it´s nice to say „Hey, this is my script!“. Yes, I know too that Powershell and Batch are different things, but now I want to learn more about scripting and I think, that Powershell is the best and most useful thing to learn for an administrator.

I am sorry that there was no information on ireland today, but everyone here writes about his workplace (maybe they do not do enough interesting things here in ireland? )so I decided to do this too.

There will be some more information about Ireland on sunday. I will go to the cliffs of moher.

 

cu!

 

Hey,

As you may know (if not go and read previous blogs!) we had to spend the extended weekend differently that we previously intended. So instead of driving to the cliff of moher we spend the Sunday looking around Trinity College, the beautiful park I mentioned before, as well as the second visit in Howths, which I also mentioned before. I’d like to go into a bit more detail about this as I just mentioned it in one sentence, as I mentioned before. (HA try to get that paragraph by reading it only once!)

 

 

So first I headed to the shopping street right behind the Trinity College just to see if I could find anything tempting. On this way (and later on as well) I noticed the street musicians. They are extremely talented (German street musicians suck compared to these. Yes I did not write „are bad“ because that expression would be too weak). Just to get you definetly confused about what happened at which time, on our way home Erik and I stood by a few musicians and listened to them. I even considered to purchase one of their CDs.

 

 

 

After my not so great „shopping tour“, where I did not afford anything, I met again with the Trinity College group just there. Its a lovely place and I would like to study there. I would spend a lot of time on the campus rather than at home I guess.

 

 

On Monday we had our second visit to Howths, this time a bit earlier. While we waited for the „Nick-group“ to arrive we enjoied the low tide and walked a bit on the sand. Erik was complaining about getting wet feet all the time. (HAHA, go buy decent shoes!) As Nick, Felix and Mike arrived we got lunch nearby and headed to the quite highest place reachable.

 

 

 

It was a decent weekend and I feel that I used my time splendidly.

Next entrys will be about the cliffs and the Celtic tour i guess. Until then!

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