Monthly Archives: August 2005

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Work has been good. Its been getting better and better since we moved into the new offices. There are a few odds and ends to tie up there which were/are annoying. The bin people forgot to send us our bins for the first 6 weeks … rather annoying/smelly. We had arranged with a guy to come and build shelves who has ret to come and make them.

I’ve got some new toys in the office and in our .NL facility to play with recently. Various bits n bobs like cisco switchs, apc masterswitchs etc. Most if not all can be controlled by the new noc management software we started using the in the past few months. The last build of it has been fairly useable and as such I have started to add all the servers from dublin/ams into it. A daunting task it is because there are close to 600 IP’s to manually assign to customers/servers.

We’ve been working on the whole vps product aswell, I will hopefully be able to write something that will compare Xen vs UML in the coming weeks in terms of stability, scalability, ease of management etc

sweden!

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Just a few weeks ago I went to visit Sue in sweden. It had been 6 long weeks since we had seen each other. I tell you it was no easy 6 weeks. Besides that it was also the first time I’ve flown anywhere on my own. To make myself feel even more stressed I had to get two flights to get there and two flights to get back. It was actually fairly plesant. I got tickets via flynordic.com – round trip cost me 288 euro in vat + taxes.

Sweden is a fantastic country. Despite it being 1000′s of miles away and mostly north of Ireland it was actually warmer there than Ireland was when I left. It was also bright .. very bright .. infact it was bright more than 20 hours a day.

The food was good (if expensive), drink was also expensive. Tried some local beers/ale’s. Lets just say they didn’t go down very well. Most european beers were similarly priced to Dublin. Guinneass was about € 6.50 .. but who would drink guinness in sweden? :) Vodka and other spirits were where it hurt to go out, it was € 7.50 for a vodka with any mixer.

The actual landscape, the buildings, road ways etc were all fantastic to look at. Hugely different to anything I’ve ever seen before (first hand). People cycle everywhere. We cycled to a close by lake and to shops etc. It is pretty hilly as you would imagine and my assed was well sore from the saddle.

For those of you who like the cinema etc, some poeple like to visit the cinema while on holidays if for nothing else but to meet people, in sweden they show the films in English with Swedish subtitles. Handy, but the odd guy/gal who can read fairly fast sometimes burst outloud before the actor actually says the funny saying/scentence etc.