Kategorie: Allgemein

Moving monday

Hello everybody!

Today Max, Tim and I had to swap the PCs from one trainings room in our main building with the PCs from a trainings room from another building at the opposite site of Belfast. We also had to swap the monitors, keyboards and mices which was completly senseless because the monitors where exactly the same and you could use the mices and keyboards everywhere. One thing that was kind of annoying was that we had to walk everytime but not with all the stuff because Peter drove it with his van but there wasn’t any place for 3 more people thats why we had to walk. Tomorrow we will have to set up those room because there was no time to do that today.

Awesome weekend

Hey everyone,

the weekend passed very fast. Angelo, Tobias, Paul, Joel, Maximilian and I had a raodtrip and discovered a lot of sights in Ireland and Northern Ireland. On Friday Angelo and I went to the Dublin Airport. We rented a car and drove to Derry in Northern Ireland. It took a few hours but we arrived our target without any issues.

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It was unfamiliar to drove on the left side of the road but Angelo had everything under control. Today we arrived Dublin in the late afternoon. I am very tired, it is nearly midnight hour because of this I will descrieb the procedure of our trip in the next blog entry.

Good night!

Yours George

Half Time over? … Half Life 3 confirmed!!!

Hello everybody!

Sorry for that terrible „pun“ in the title but I saw it and then I had to make this „Half Life 3“ reference. There are two thing I really miss here in Belfast. The first thing is my PC. I just need to play a triple A title right now but it is impossible to do so with those laptops but so atleast I can get up on all those indie titles I have on my steam account.

The second thing I really miss is my e.V. and all the people with it. When I am back I have to go to one of our regular fiday meetups again and hug all the people I haven’t seen for two months. Just sitting down with some guys and girls you know and talk about technicolor ponies.

I have no picture that would really fit but I have a picture of an irish pony.

Working with Peter

Hello everybody!

I know I talk al lot about this guy  named Peter but I have to say he is one of the nicest people I have ever met. I remeber that one time where this guy Toni was mad at us because we messed something up we didn’t know about and Peter tried everything to make him sure that we work correctly and do our tasks as it is told us. At one point I thought he is going to yell at him but right before that happened Toni gave in and apologised to us. I really love working with Peter because he tells us that we are good workers and have to start making things slower because we are to fast.

We all three hope that we can work all the time with Peter and they don’t send us to another building, also if that one guy Collins is also very nice but when we are with him he is doing all the work and we just staying right next to him and watching him do the work.

Just wait and hope for the best!

First part of the weekend

On Friday the spanish guys in the flat above us celebrated some kind of birthday party and they dressed really funny. Already in the afternoon it began to become louder in the house and until the evening there we’re many people around and they later started moving to Leveries. Toni, Eric, Max, Martin, Nick and me promised to join later and after spending some time with showing Toni the city and getting ready for the pub we decided to go out. Many people we’re on the streets and we had a talk with a few of them but unfortunately the pub was already closed for other guests than those who were already in and as most of the other pubs already we’re closing because of the curfew we went back to our flat and still had a good night. The saturday was quiet and mostly eventless.

Work week

This week was related to work as usual, Max, Eric and me had to check many monitors for their functionality and after that we again had to help Peter. He’s lately busy with moving around stuff because the people aren’t agreeing with each other where the stuff should be put, so in one case we already moved the same equipment three times, and now it’s in its original place but better sorted. While switching between the different buildings we were moving many lockers, cupboards, PCs and other things which are needed in the other branches. Sadly the IT-department consists of so many people that we (most of the time) only get tasks like dismantling systems and rebuild them but all in all the work with Peter is funny and I like to help him.

the weekend in total

Hello everyone,

this weekend Toni visited us and we has showed him the capital of nothern ireland and it was very funny.
In the friday evening we wanted to go in a pub which is called Lavaris and is very near to our appartments. We wanted to play pool in the pub but we were to late and couldn’t go in, so we had to go to our apparments and wachted „Burn Notice“ and drunk some beer.
Today Eric cooked for us we had some chicken steaks with potatos and a source cream sauce and it tasted really good.
Now we had reached the half time of the work placement and the time run by very fast and I will enjoy the next 4 weeks.

Weekend with Toni

Hello everyone!

This week we have Toni visiting us. I am really happy about it because I really miss the other ones like George and Angelo and now we have Toni here and that is at least something. Together we went with Toni through Belfast and showed him some sights like the Albert Tower or the Victoria City Center. It was really fun the time with him, he told us a lot from his work and he also told us something about his host family in Dublin. Toni promised that he will come here more often because its more intresting here and so we are together.

Humpday

Hi there!

4 weeks have passed already and only 4 more weeks still to go. Actually I don’t really know about what I should write, because thanks to the weather we didn’t really do something. On Friday evening we celebrate the Father’s Day, because that’s not a holiday here. We wanted to go to a pub, but it was already to late, so we couldn’t get into. Our spanish upper tenants celebrated a bit too frisky, so they triggered the fire alarm of our house, luckily Leo and I could fix it somehow. Yesterday we watched some movies again and played games till 4 am in the moring, or so. So all in all a relaxed weekend.

the week in total

Hello everyone,

now we finished the short week of work because monday was a bank holiday and most of us had free time.
This week was exhausting for me but it still makes fun since the workmates are very nice.
At Wednesday I started to backup a fileserver to for backing up 400 GB. Until now only 180GB are transfered because the data is transfered over a WAN connecting. The system needs to be shut down so the data needs to be backupped.I started to write a short documentation about my project so my colleagues know what data is outsourced.

And like every friday there are a typical breakfast in the cantine which consits of beans soda, bread potato bread and sausages, it tastes really good and it is very cheap.