I'm tired and have a head ache...work related.

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...Or more usually the lecturers would tell you 3 days before the start of teaching that they simply must have this piece of software on the machines or the world will end, even though you gave them a deadline 8 weeks before for any software updated the build needed...

I know exactly what your talking about, bro. frustrating indeed.

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Ghost was a blessing every summer, squirt a fresh new build over and then watch as the clever little cunts buggered them all up in the first week of term...

You already know, so true.
I've these labs in various departments ready to roll, fresh slate, squeaky clean. Even so, before the first semester ends I'll be running myself crazy reimaging machines left and right.