Yesterday was yet another very busy day, it being the day that the 4th years had to hand their projects in (at 2pm).<\/p>\n
The day before I’d e-mailed them all telling them if they needed any assistance out of hours that they should phone me up on my mobile. None of them did so dispite a couple of them having problems with printers and software during the night.<\/p>\n
One of the problems was caused by LyX, the LaTeX based word processor deciding to send SIGHUP to the whole process group instead of just ghostscript after a picture was added to the document. Even after upgrade to the latest patchlevel it still did the same thing. So I hacked out all the kill() calls and got a version which worked well enough. Even though the 4th-year basically lost 8 hours of time she managed to get the project report in 3 hours late. As far as we are all aware, this was actually ok in the end, thankfully, seeing as the project is a third of the overall degree.<\/p>\n
On top of this fun was more fun with Word and coaxing the colour printer to keep working. Sometime in the night the printer lost a spring on a door so it no-longer keeps closed, but it’s not an important one. Over the last week it’s been well overworked!<\/p>\n
As for myself, I’m bored. At least the weather’s getting better this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday was yet another very busy day, it being the day that the 4th years had to hand their projects in (at 2pm). The day before I’d e-mailed them all telling them if they needed any assistance out of hours … Continue reading