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Building profiles in a thawspace would be a partial solution; it'd allow for shorter login times if people go back to the same computer. It'd be nice if we could pre-generate profiles for everybody, but the numbers don't work. Each profile runs to to about 100 MB each; We have 208 GB free on each lab machine; and about 15,000 potential users. So generating profiles for all of them -- assuming five minutes per profile -- would take 52 days of computing time at the beginning of each term, and require about 1.5 TB of space on each computer. I'm hoping somebody will know a nifty trick for slimming down what needs to be created, or making PaperCut load faster, or something. Will