I had my job interview on Wednesdays at Intersys IT in Twickenham and it worked out pretty good. My managing director Simon showed me the things I am going to do in the company for the next weeks. The people are very kind to me and I was very excited to start working in the company. „Intersys IT“ weiterlesen
An Internship for more than just brewing coffee
The past two days were packed with things to do at Twin.
Setting up new user accounts including mail, phone and database access,
installing and configuring graphics cards and dual monitor work places,
blacklisting IPs which where spamming the firewall,
getting acquainted with the old and the new internet security system,
a few minor things like swapping the CMOS batteries or replacing damaged keyboards,
as well as some organisational stuff.
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Officers in front of the house!
Today I had a normal day at work. I continued programming as the other days, ate something delicious for lunch and got home in time. But today, when I got home, some kids asked me: “Do you want to buy an egg for just 50p”. I was a bit confused and rejected their ‘offer’ (I also had no coins with me). When my host mom got home, she told me that the kids asked her if she had an egg for them.
The vault
The plan for today was so far to set up a server for testing purposes on a virtual machine (VMWare 15) running on Louis’ Tablet. For me to be able to connect from my laptop to open the Active Directory and add some group policies and other configuration Louis configured a port forwarding for port 3389 (RDP) on his Tablet.
Later, we did a testimonial setting up an old and unused tower pc (with Core i7 processor) of DocuLand to become a Windows server. To accomplish that we went for an extension of the RAM to 16 GB by adding the two RAM memory modules from a core i5 pc. After the normal start had failed we were trying to let the PC start with a Debian Linux based hypervisor when we realized no success either because of the BIOS built in network card which could not be detected by the hypervisor. A test with the core i5 pc did not work either because of the same issue. Due to that circumstance we needed to wait for our technical contact Rob to ask him for a dedicated network card.
In a conversation with our Chief we were told: In earlier times the rooms were used by two banks after each other. Hence behind the wall behind my desk there is an old vault. However, nobody is allowed to have a look behind the door because of classification of this building as a historical monument.
Furthermore, he described their plan to let the company grow. In that context a server is relevant for the company especially. But also a backup system is quite important for them.
Work, fish & chips
Today, in the morning as usual I went to my workplace, the Twin-School. When I arrived there, I started immediately with my task from the previous day. My colleague, the one who gave me the tasks wasn’t there when I arrived. Later when he showed up we had a little talk about the program.
Finally Working!
The last few days of my stay here in london have been spent just enjoying life. Most days Nickolas, Steven, and I have been going to a pub called „Ninth Life“. This place has a beer called „Lagunitas IPA“, which is a beer that originates out of the small town that I grew up in, Petaluma, California. Being in the UK, we have also been drinking Guinness here. They also have great chicken wings. I also recently got a hair cut at a barber called „Istanbul Barbershop“.
Our accommodation
Our wish for the internship abroad was to get the four of us into one accommodation. Fortunately this worked out. During our stay we live in 169 Ormeau Road. „Our accommodation“ weiterlesen
My first day at work
Today I went to the Twin-School again but this time the purpose was not to attend English lessons. Today I started with my internship. Finally, after 1 week we could start with the real deal. When I arrived there, my colleague explained me everything, every person there was super friendly to me.
What a day
Today was quite an eventful day. I had my interview at the company, where I have to work for the next 6 months and back home was a surprise awaiting for me. So let’s start from the beginning …
The first taste of whats to come
Yesterday some of us got our work placements, myself included.
I was to have my interview a bit later on the same day, for a position at TWIN (the agency in which we had our English course), in which i would be required to do quite a bit of programming. While in and of itself that would not be an issue, I really wanted this internship to give me the chance to further my English skills.
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