I found a fun little website to make fake diplomas. This struck my funny bone.

I hung it in my office next to my Bachelors degree in Computer Science and waited for someone to read it. It is the gift that keeps on giving.

I’m taking a graduate course in computer networking at Georgia Tech. The tools they are asking us to use are all open source and allow for some pretty interesting projects.

One such tool is the Mininet software that allows for building realistic virtual networks with real switches, routers and applications running on a single system. We are using a virtual machine that contains a copy of the Linux operating system and the virtual networking software. So far we are encountering minor issues with the OS and VM software.

How many memes can you stack?

One of this issues I ran into with bouncing between VMware Player 6.0.3 and my VMware ESXi 5.5u1 server is the hardware level of the virtual machines. ESXi 5.5 without the vSphere licence will not manage the newer virtualHW.version = “10″ virtual machines.