blog.bocsite.com » Software http://blog.bocsite.com the blog of brendan o' ceallaigh Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:38:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 IT Admin http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/06/27/it-admin/ http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/06/27/it-admin/#comments Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:07:12 +0000 brenoc http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/06/27/it-admin/ That’s me. I am now looking after a nice little network and getting my head around a couple of new servers and some solutions that I haven’t worked with before. As the position is new there is not a lot of pressure, just a big backlog to work through. They have even asked me to fly down to one of our other offices to “advise” on their new network and say “Hi” to the folks. I will be doing this exactly 1 week after I started. How good is that?

The people I am working with are all very nice and I have to say that I am really enjoying it. There is a good atmosphere in the office. I am a little bamboozled by how many tasks I have on my “to do” list but as most are at the stage of “do when I get to it” its great, very little pressure.

I know that I am writing this after only my second day and therefore I’m still in the honeymoon period, but hey let me enjoy it ;-)

Oh and the outsourced IT guy that looked after the servers that was in today to do a brain dump to me was impressed that I was running the excellent Dapper Drake (Ubuntu/Gnome/Debian/Linux) on my recycled (Thanks Sharon) laptop at home. So my little geeky side even got a smile today.

]]> http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/06/27/it-admin/feed/ 0 And the box connects to the… http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/05/21/and-the-box-cconnects-to-the/ http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/05/21/and-the-box-cconnects-to-the/#comments Sun, 21 May 2006 18:42:50 +0000 brenoc http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/05/22/and-the-box-cconnects-to-the/ Laptop. My super sister donated an old laptop to me and I have wiped it and it is now a dual boot running Win 98SE and the excellent and easy to install for Linux n00bs like me Ubuntu ;-) .

I have learned a lot in the last 2 weeks and have most of the programmes, or even better open source or GPL versions, running under Ubuntu. All I’ll say folks is secure and virus free web browsing is at last in my grasp and mostly for free.

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To get the info just go to Matt’s excellent blog.

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