blog.bocsite.com » Up And Running 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 Should it stay or should it go? http://blog.bocsite.com/2009/06/17/should-it-stay-or-should-it-go/ http://blog.bocsite.com/2009/06/17/should-it-stay-or-should-it-go/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:36:57 +0000 brenoc http://blog.bocsite.com/2009/06/17/should-it-stay-or-should-it-go/ Simple question, should the blog stay or go?

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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 Job http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/06/25/job/ http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/06/25/job/#comments Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:30:47 +0000 brenoc http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/06/25/job/ Just a quick note to let you all know that I am now employed again!

I will be in charge of IT for a property development company based in Clonskeagh. I will be able to walk to work with Gwen and they seem like lovely people.

I’ll let you know how it goes. I start on Monday…
I am happy as Larry!

It was actually great because I got offered a few jobs at the same time and was able to choose my preference.

Cool eh?

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I also have an interview next Monday with a completely different company. Nice company and we’ll see how it goes.

I will keep you all posted ;-)

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For a sneak peak here is one of the shots of our apartment.
Our Place

]]> http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/05/24/little-update/feed/ 0 Broadband in a Box http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/05/22/broadband-in-a-box/ http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/05/22/broadband-in-a-box/#comments Mon, 22 May 2006 18:25:23 +0000 brenoc http://blog.bocsite.com/2006/05/22/broadband-in-a-box/ I went down to the shop the other day to buy some food for dinner and came home with broadband. Well Ireland certainly has changed.

What I got was a little box with a Clearwire wireless modem. You just plug this baby into your computer Ethernet port and away you go. From moment of purchase to surfing the net I’d say there was a very expectant 15 minutes.

The service has been good so far and for the ease of purchase, instant activation and setup I have to say the cost of Euro 30 per month for the first 6 months is fair. It will go up to Euro 40 per month after that. For my money I have an alleged 2MBPS connection and a 20GB download limit per month. This will drop back to 1MBPS and 10GB after the 6 months. I am also hoping that competition might mean that the playing filed might change.

If anyone that knows me is going to get Clearwire please let me know first because I can get a month rental for Euro 1 if I refer anyone ;-)

I’ll keep you posted as to how it goes…

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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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I will keep the world updated on my activities from here.

Slan go foil.

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