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This years trip from the Masters degree System and Network Engineering of the University of Amsterdam was to CERN, Geneva. I was really please that I could join on this trip because we were supposed to go here last year, though it got canceled. We’ve stayed in Geneva for 3,5 days. We went there to [...]

On September 6 – yes, my birthday – Karst Koymans, the founder of the masters degree I just finished, called. Unfortunately, he didn’t know it was my b-day. He told me that something happened to the father of Eelco Schatborn. Eelco would normally be teaching a course and be responsible for  the practical part of [...]

The final study update: I Passed the thesis which I described in the last post. My final grade: 8.

I figured that it was time to post an update on my MSc study progress. I have passed all my tests without any retries. I worked the whole month June on my end project together with Dick Visser. We did research on the topic “Car authentication” under supervision of KPMG (Hans IJkel, Stan Hegt and [...]

Since I will buy a new server soon I’m looking into some virtualization techniques. At the university we are currently using Xen and UML. For a university research project which I’m doing together with Dick Visser, we’ve installed a VMware ESXi server. We are going to install 10 xp machines on it and let some [...]

Hmm… For a subject of my master we had to play with virtualization apps like Xen and UML. I installed a Ubuntu box and a Windows 2003 box in Xen. I was testing network connectivity from my Windows box to its default gateway and guess what… It already knew I wanted to ping the gateway… [...]