{"id":2114,"date":"2013-04-12T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2013-04-14T20:57:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:57:24","slug":"the-first-few-days-at-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/2013\/04\/12\/the-first-few-days-at-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The first few days at the Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello &lt;insert your name here&gt;,<\/p>\n<p>it is now Friday evening and the first days of work at the NMNI (National Museums of Norther Ireland) are over. As most of you can probably guess I am working in the IT-Department of the NMNI which only consists of Gordon, Robin, Graham and Keith, who only does audio and video related work.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4378px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img96\/934\/sam7011s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img96\/934\/sam7011s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4378\" height=\"2464\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where to now?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My first thought, when I heard I was going to work at a Museum, was &lt;sarcasm&gt;&#8220;Great working at the Museum can only mean first level support.&#8220;&lt;\/sarcasm&gt; but as it turns out a was so far off. The thing is the IT-Department is responsible for everything inside the NMNI which is , even if it is only remotely, related to Computers, Networks, Server and etc.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4378px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img15\/4449\/sam7006u.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img15\/4449\/sam7006u.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4378\" height=\"2464\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cute IT deparment, isn&#039;t it?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The department is situated in Cultra, which is located near Hollywood (yes there is a town outside Belfast called Hollywood ;)), and I have to take the train to work. It is a really convenient way to work, I get on the train at Botanic (5 minute walk from the apartment) and get of at Cultra.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 5472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img716\/3903\/sam7003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img716\/3903\/sam7003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3080\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Platformview from Botnic railroad station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday I had my first workday which basically meant to be introduced to everyone, setting up my work place and getting to know the place and everything. On Wednesday and Thursday I tried to get hang of how things work and trying to understand the infrastructure of the NMNI. Besides that I got to work with DrayTek SOHO VPN-routers which I will implement in the following few weeks, the goal is to achieve a VPN connection between Cultra and Armagh (70 miles outside of Belfast).<br \/>\nToday I met with Graham and worked at the Ulster Museum until noon because we some had some tickets to attend to, e.g some hotdesk PCs weren&#8217;t supposed to be working (as it turned out they worked perfectly fine).\u00a0 After that we went back to Cultra and had to sit out the 2 hour server shutdown because of maintenance at the SAN arrays.<\/p>\n<p>All in all it is a I can say I got lucky with my placement, I really like the familiar atmosphere and that my workplace is surrounded by green is a nice bonus.<\/p>\n<p>And if someone is curios the weather in Belfast is a nice british grey with hints of rain \ud83d\ude09 And if you will excuse me now I have a beer to attend to \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely<\/p>\n<p>Tobias<\/p>\n<p>P.S I will try to post new blog entries every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, if anyone cares ;p<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 5472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img16\/5968\/sam7028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img16\/5968\/sam7028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3080\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small sign of spring \ud83d\ude00<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello &lt;insert your name here&gt;, it is now Friday evening and the first days of work at the NMNI (National Museums of Norther Ireland) are over. As most of you can probably guess I am working in the IT-Department of the NMNI which only consists of Gordon, Robin, Graham and Keith, who only does audio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/2013\/04\/12\/the-first-few-days-at-the-museum\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eThe first few days at the Museum\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[166,1199,5524],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-belfast","tag-first-day-at-work","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}