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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 be ere the set of sun. FIRST WITCH: Where the place? SECOND WITCH: On top of ...

I was recently informed by a third party that my co-supervisor has had constraints imposed upon them by an employer so that apparently they are only allowed to spend half an hour a week on me! I have a one hour meeting each fortnight, which translates to, you guessed it, half an hour a week. These meetings are held simultaneously with my main ...

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 window in front of the blue screen of death. Alas, yet again, something had caused my computer ...

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, so all up there would be about one computer-week of results. Unfortunately when I ...

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 there's not going to be an author's audio commentary). Anyway, the simulations I'm ...

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 it with a load of simulations yesterday. Just getting this web page to load took ages. ...

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 computer. This seemed to run fine and there did not appear to be any issues arising from me ...

Another exciting chapter in the saga of my office area. Voiceover: ''Previously...(dramatic pause)...on Simulation Break'' When we last left our intrepid researcher, he had been unceremoniously made to pack up his simulations from the computer lab, just so Lord Super Visor (yes, he really does go around wearing an enormous hat consisting of a ...

An update to my earlier entry on access to the computer lab. The lock on the door has been replaced and a swipe card system is being installed. Apparently, my supervisor (and the cleaner, or janitor as they say here) is the only person who now has access to this lab. It would have been nice if he had told me he was planning this. I had to ask him ...

I have yet another grizzle (yes the amount of complaining I do does seem to increase with the amount of time I've spent writing). I'm running some simulations to include in my thesis as a type of back-up evidence. The simulations are being run on a computer, and it's the only computer in the room. There's really nothing else in the room except ...