Saturday 25.04.2015
On Saturday-morning I was shopping in the O‘ Connell Street.
Afterwards I eat a kebab there. The kebab in Dublin tastes very well but still different to Berlin.
Furthermore I was in the district of Temple Bar. I was in a Pub which has the same name like the district, the Temple Bar.
After it I was in diffrent shops near Temple Bar.
In the afternoon I visited other places of Dublin, for example the 3arena etc..
Friday 24.04.2015
First of all we had a conversation with our boss. We had to hold the conversation with him, because we thought that an dropbox is not the right solution for the company. So we had informed us about other Cloud-solutions.
Furthermore we connected the Server to an KVM-Switch and tried to get access to the servers.
In the evening we visited places at Dublin in the darkness. The pictures are better than words…
Monday at work we have the task to build a windows 7 install file included all current update. If you install a new Windows 7 system you have at least 150 important updates. To install a couple of pc it is still to cope to download this but when there are ten or more computers you get problems. So we build the ISO file to save the traffic and a lot of time. And in the next time we upgrade this windows 7 installation with extra drivers or other stuff but that is for the future…
This job take a lot of time. Two whole working days we spend on this to build it on different ways, testing which is the best of them and to try it on different hardware. The result is a windows 7 installation which take nearly the same time than a normal installation but within updates. It´s great and very adaptable.
On Saturday my girlfriend and I went to the O’Connell Street, the famous shopping area of Dublin. We have buy some souvenirs and a bit of other stuff like shoes. You can spend a lot of time at the O’Connell Street and the Henry Street. One the way back we see the Samuel Beckett Bridge. This bridge look like a harp. So that’s all for this week.
Last Friday we went to the headquarter of Facebook again to erase the hard drives. After work is done we had a tour through the house with an employee of the IT department. It was really nice but I can´t reveal details. Privacy, you understand. In the evening after work my girlfriend and I went to the sea. I don´t know there are ebb and flow so we have the luck and don´t see the water. Also a walk through the mud flat is very great.
On Wednesday and Thursday nothing really exciting has happened so I can tell you a little bit of my way to work. I´m housed in Lad Lane Apartments in the south of Dublin, like you see it at the map. I have to go to the industrial in the north of Dublin. So every working day I go a little bit more than 6 km to work and in the evening back. You think it is a long way? I think it is OK. You get used to it. The bus ticket is expensive, roughly 120€ a month. So I walk and safe money 😉
On Monday, the 13. April, my girlfriend visited me for 8 days. Of course I have to pick up my girlfriend from Airport. I mean it´s a foreign city in a foreign country. Her flight arrive round about 11.30 pm. It was not the best time I think but it was quite cheap. But now you see the problems and cost to reach the airport of Dublin and return to the city. There is only one special bus line to reach the airport. One trip costs round about 8, 50€. So the total costs amount to 25, 50€. Who cares? The flight was cheap.
On Tuesday after work we made a tour through the city and buy some foodstuffs. There are many impressions you can make in a foreign city in a foreign country. For example the driving on the other side, particularly by crossing the road. Even the buying of food and the cash up is very exciting the first time. You can scan your stuff alone without any personnel.
Tuesday 21.04.2015
On this day we installed local software on the computers of the existing test environment.
Afterwards we thought about to backup the existing data from the server which should be copied in the dropbox later.
First we needed access to the server. We checked the size of the data on the server and discussed which data are still used in the future. This took the rest of the day.
Enclosed a few more impressions from the location of my work…
Saturday 18.04.2015
On Saturday I met a friend in the City Centre who is also in Ireland at the moment.
First of all I have shown him the City Centre.
We visit various shops and in the evening we watched the film „Furious 7“ in the cinema.
Afterwards we were in Temple bar and visited different pubs.
Friday 17.04.2015
Our job of the last days was it to find a solution of the Cloud.
In the afternoon my colleague of the vocational school and I joined a gym near our work.
We have the possibility to use fitness devices, a swimming-pool and a sauna as well.
All in one, a good alternative after work.
