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An anonymous victim told me this story of strife and suffering.

For mysterious reasons, most programs in her laptop (including, but not limited to Microsoft Office) worked fine while plugged in at the office, but they hung when trying to run them at home. After several perplexing months, the conclusion was that those programs didn’t work because they couldn’t find the network printer. The solution: to set a dummy printer such as PDFwriter as the default printer.

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I forgot to post about it, but my second paper in the Jorgensen lab was submitted last week:

Tubert-Brohman, I.; Guimarães, C. R. W.; Jorgensen, W. L. Extension of the PDDG/PM3 Semiempirical Molecular Orbital Method to Sulfur, Silicon, and Phosphorus. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, submitted.

Let’s see how it does…