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If Shakespeare was around today...
30 July 07 01:54 PM | wayne.griffiths | 6 Comments   
Act I, Scene i. Thunder and lightning. Enter three holograms of witches. FIRST WITCH: When shall that screen come again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH: Before the simulation's done Then the battle's lost, not won. THIRD WITCH: That will Read More...
That Blue Screen of Death Strikes Again
19 February 07 11:20 AM | wayne.griffiths | 6 Comments   
I arrived at my desk this morning full of enthusiasm after a great weekend spent completely ignoring my thesis. I recalled that I had set more simulations running last Friday. I eagerly switched on my monitor, only to be confronted with the small login Read More...
MATLAB 2, Me 0.5
29 January 07 03:26 PM | wayne.griffiths | 2 Comments   
Last Thursday evening, I left my office happy in the knowledge that I had set up MATLAB simulations to run over the long weekend and I thought I had timed it fairly well so that I would see the results sometime this (Monday) morning. I was using two computers, Read More...
Full Circle
22 January 07 11:59 AM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
As you might have gathered from reading some of my previous posts, I'm doing some simulations to back up my arguments in my thesis. They're not the purpose of the thesis, but they can I suppose be likened to the bonus features on a DVD (although regrettably Read More...
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MATLAB 1, Me 0.5
05 January 07 10:22 AM | wayne.griffiths | 1 Comments   
I've decided to give myself half a point in my battle with MATLAB (program used for doing stuff with matrices; I use it to carry out simulations of my work) as I found a small hole in its armour. My computer has been running so slowly ever since I burdened Read More...
MATLAB 1, Me 0
04 January 07 07:12 AM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
In order to capitalise on the lack of computer use over the Xmas break, I popped in to my office a couple of days after I returned home to Perth so I could run some more simulations on the unused machines. I first set up some of the tasks to run on my Read More...