Sat Sep 29 18:41:45 PDT 2007
New Release (3.1) of hmcclinic LaTeX Class
While helping one of the teams with
their Statement of Work, I discovered a
minor formatting issue with the
previous release of the
hmcclinic class. We
updated the class to correct some
issues with formatting Statements of
Work (which are based on the article
class) by making some command
definitions conditional on the type of
document. One of the commands I moved
was the redefinition of
\cleardoublepage; as a result, LaTeX
puts headers on what are meant to be
blank pages in Statements of Work. I
have now corrected that problem in the
class file, and made a new release,
3.1. of the hmcclinic
class.
Version 3.1 is now the default version on the math cluster machines; if you're typesetting your documents on one of our Linux machines, you do not have to do anything special to pick up the changes, just retypeset your document.
If you are typesetting on your own
machine, you will need to get the
latest version of the class file and
supporting files from
http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/support/tex/classes/hmcclinic/.
Mon Sep 10 16:12:25 PDT 2007
Mirrors Back
The second run of fsck
found no additional errors, so I'm
leaning toward believing that the
system is working again.
There may be some speed issues for a bit while the mirrors sync back up against upstream sources, but I hope they will resolve themselves within a day or so.
Mon Sep 10 15:46:22 PDT 2007
Mirrors Temporarily Offline
The mirrors we run at
yum.math.hmc.edu are
temporarily offline while I verify the
drives. I expect them to be available
again by the end of the day (2007
September 10).
I found some SCSI errors starting at noon on Saturday, 2007 September 8. The array utility claimed that the controller, drives, and array were all fine, but I noticed some performance issues that could be related to disk corruption and took the array offline to verify the file system. I have fixed problems found in the first run, and am doing another ``paranoia'' run for good measure.
Sorry for any inconvenience; the problems are also preventing me from moving forward with a number of my own projects, so fixing things is a very high priority.