Schlagwort: Nordirland

weekend report

hey all,

so that was a relaxing weekend!

On Friday the guys and I were in the pub again where we had a relaxing evening.

After I slept long on Saturday I worked a little bit on my new Linux machine! In the evening we played some rounds CS 1.5 and then we just hung around with some other guys from our house.

On Sunday I made some Linux stuff because I installed a Debian for me with the awesome windows manager that I used to show graphical windows and my shells! So I skript a little bit and edited some Config file´s.

Thats all from weekend! 

weekend retrospective

Hey,

as you can imagine my weekend was boring because I was ill and had to stay in the apartment.

It all started last week when I got a sore throat and then I got a cough!

Therefore I can not write that much today because I’ve done nothing but sleeping, watching movies and eating!

I can tell you that we have made boulettes with a cheese filling. That was awesome!

Sorry for that short post but I didn’t do more this weekend!

I will write more about this week in the following days!

 

Bank Holiday

Hey 🙂

this is a blog about Monday our free day.

On Monday I didn’t sleep that long, just until 11 o‘ clock :P. I couldn’t sleep that long because I had plans. We wanted to go up to the Cavehill and wanted to check out Belfast’s castle.

So at 12 o’clock Daniel, Clemens, Sean and I started walking in the direction of the mountains. The way up to the mountain is almost 10km long.

First we took a look at the castle. It is a small castle with a restaurant or something like that but we didn’t go inside. Outside was a little garden with nice flowers.

After a little break in the garden we started to go up. It took us about 45 min to go up because the hill is just 400 m high but it is a nice promotion and you get a very nice view over Belfast. See for yourself.

When we were up we had a large break and enjoyed the prospect.

So here are some pictures. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Incidentally, we had to walk the whole way back. We were back by 18 o’clock. My feet hurt and I needed a shower. 😀

Unfortunately I did not get the blog entry finished by Monday because I had an headaches in  the evening!

And on Sunday we had problems with the internet but now it works with the LAN cable! Tomorrow someone will be coming by to check the bad network here.

        

Yeah, it’s friday!

And again a week comes to an end.

There wasn’t anything new at work, just the same as the last days.

Today we had interesting weather:

In the morning we had a wonderful blue sky and no clouds. Then I thought, “wow what a wonderful day!”. When I looked out of the window one our later it rained and the sky was grey again. Half an hour later the sun was shining again. The whole day the weather changed in that way.

Our street has some similarities to a ghetto. The house next to ours‘ is abandoned. There some kids make fire and riot. So we often have the police in our street. On wednesday the fire brigade was in there as well, with two cars.

At the moment a crocodile sits next to me.

I think we want to go out in some minutes.

 

Here you can see some pictures from the sea.

 

sea

 

sea

Another day!

And the beautiful weather from Monday is over, at least it was yesterday and today. But my handy app says that the sun will shine again, even if it will only be 9 degrees. Today was a grey day and in the morning we had typical drizzle.

In the following day, there seem to be some events in Belfast. I think there is a marathon and the 400 years Belfast celebration! Probably they installed a lot of Mobil cameras for that occasion in Belfast.

Yesterday and today I have been working a lot on my Zabbix documentation and have fought with the items in Zabbix. I’ve got the feeling as if they do not like me. Furthermore I helped the guys one time more with some Mobil phone inventory.

This evening I requested my extended dates on Facebook and two hours later I got a mail with a download link over 76kb. I checked it out end saw that they lost so many thinks that I now requested all data over an E-Mail! I´m interested in what I get then but I think it will take a while!

I hope you have a great time back home.

You’ll hear from me again in two days. 🙂

 

Henrik

Weekend

On Friday we had a Party Day, friday evening after work we went to a pub with a dance floor upstairs. With us were two guys who flew with us. They are draftsmen from the Oszimt. The four Spanish guys who are living above us and two of the other computer scientists from the other apartment went with us. That was a very funny evening. But… I´m sorry for that but the Irish people are not the best dancers and unfortunately most girls are really not the prettiest. It is funny to watch them because the more they drink the funnier it is. As an example…One of my colleagues here lost his phone and an Irish girl stole his tiger costume tail. Yes that was our amusing Friday.

On Saturday I slept until 15 o’clock. Then after breakfast I took a shower and then we bought food. We had a very relaxed evening.

Today I stood up earlier 😀 After eating breakfast and helping my girlfriend with a computer problem I went jogging along a river which was very nice but pretty exhausting. Then we cleaned our apartment and now I write this blog. After that I will make myself something to eat.

First Tasks!

After my  Debian VM has crashed and I had told my carer that my PC was to slow for a VM, he gave me a server. Then he told me to install a Windows server 2012 and put the VBox on it in order to install my Debian there. So I installed a windows server 2012 with a Raid 1 yesterday!

Today I installed the Debian and on that machine a Zabbix Monitoring Server. That was a little bit tricky but it worked. The following days I must setup the Zabbix server and must install the Zabbix agent. That could be tricky especially under the windows machine. But I hope it will be fine soon!

And I think I will make me a ciabatta with tomato and Mozzarella today. I am sure that will be awesome! 😀

A trip to the Village

Hello everyone,

as promised in one of my other entries here is Tuesdays Blog entry.

Yesterday, so Monday, I met with Keith at Ulster Museum, which is only a 10 minutes walk, to install 2 new UPS units into the local wiring center. But the whole process is harder then it seems, first there is thing with installing the support bars, which will support the weight of around 80-90 Kg per Unit. These things gave me more trouble then anything else this day because it’s a real hassle to install these things without hurting yourself or loosing half of the included installation material.
Installing the units into the wiring cabinets was the less complicated part, if you ignore the weight ;), but  wouldn’t it be boring if it ends there? 😀

Wiring and setting up the first unit was fairly easy, it’s basically just there to ensure that the servers for Window of the World (WoW in short :D) are backed up in case of a power outage. The second USP was supposed to relieve the HP USP from its duties, which turned out to be a miscommunication between us (Keith & me) and guys up in Cultra.
As the old USP was supporting the backup servers we made sure that all secondary power was coming from one of the power blocks and every connection to the USP was interrupted, or so we thought.
After making sure that every thing was ready to to unplug the USP I pulled the power cord I pulled the plug and silence, I just killed the backup servers and 2 SAS arrays. As it turns out everything in this cabinet was running over this USP, including the power blocks 🙁 and the old USP wasn’t supposed to be replaced but instead supported by the new USP.
After getting our facts straight we rewired everything made sure that servers and all where running on both USPs and the day was over 🙂

I should mention that shutting down the servers has not caused any damage or harm to any innocent information units stored.

Today i was working back at Cultra and went up to Cultra Manor to help Graham with a ticket, shortly after that we went up to the village.
The village is part of the Folk Museum and was dissembled, at a place which name I have forgotten :P, and rebuild back at Cultra.
Again I help Graham with a few technical problems at the offices in the village, e.g. a printer which had to be reconfigured and it took us about an hour to fix the problem (printers a scheme by the devil to torture us I tell you ;))
The village is really beautiful place, it has old candy store, where you can buy actual candy (yay :D), a Post office, a Bank, a Cinema etc. Of course most of these things are just show cases but it’s still pretty impressive, there is even something like a hostel where school classes can spend the night.

A view at the village entrance
The old projector on display in the Cinema

 

And just to give you an impression of the weather we have here:

View from the train at the bay

I hope everyone of you, my readers, had a nice start into the week and I hope to write you more on Thursday.

 

Yours sincerely,

Tobaias

 

 

 

 

First weekend and first day of work!

On Friday we were the first time in our company. There we met all the employees. They are all very nice and it is a very familiar atmosphere because not more than 25 people work there. We all work there in one big office. Further they told us what kind of work we will do. We got our accounts and mail addresses and checked if everything worked.

This weekend we didn’t do anything interesting. We bought food, hung around, went into pubs and talked to the Spanish guy. And I noticed with shock that everything closes at 2 o’clock in the morning. After 2 o’clock when the bars and clubs were closed many funny drunken people were on the street of Belfast.

Here’s a picture of our street

and another from our apartment!

Today Monday was my first real working day. First I informed myself about Zabbix an open Source Monitoring tool that I later installed on their servers, but after a little while I helped the others checking whether the company’s Mobil phones have micro sim cards because they change the mobile telephone operator and get micro sim cards. That was cool because I had to go to everyone and ask them about their Company Mobile phone. That was good for me to improve my English.

Then I started to install a Linux VM to check how the Zabbix Server Work… no at first I  downloaded the Debian iso and that took a while because 200MB with under 200Kb\s took a while. The use of the VM is a little creepy because the pc had just 1GB RAM and I had to  close all applications to install the Linux. At the end of the day I had a running Linux and I’ll start the Server installing tomorrow.