Excellent play of Hugh Laurie (Doctor House), terminology-enriched plots, and the style of “medical detective story” - all add up to an excellent viewing pleasure.

If you enjoyed Jeeves and Wooster - be sure to check House M.D.. It is completely different, but Hugh Laurie really excels in both.

Highly recommended!

There are several ways to do that, I’ll describe the one which worked for me. Please note, that printing from CLI has an advantage of being able to print out something at work from the comfort of your home and ssh (provided that the printer is on and is loaded with paper).

To extract a single page (or a range of pages), I used pdftops:
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For some period of time, I had to switch to my Windows installation when writing articles with references, because I keep my references database there and there is an extremely convenient add-on for MS Office to insert citations and format bibliography on the fly.

However, it is quite inconvenient to make/run programs/scripts under Linux, and then switch to Windows to describe the obtained results in the article-like form. Thus, I briefly investigated available citation managers for Linux.
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CLANS (CLuster ANalysis of Sequences).
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Non-coding RNAs: a new paradigm for gene regulation, to be held at 12 noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific, 4 p.m. GMT on Wednesday, October 22, 2008.

Register here.

Citation:

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are a large group of RNAs that are transcribed, but not translated into protein. They include well-characterized transfer RNAs and ribosomal RNAs, as well as newer and more elusive miRNAs which have been shown to play a crucial role in gene regulation. ncRNAs produce functional RNA molecules rather than encoding proteins and have been found to have roles in a plethora of cellular processes including transcriptional regulation, RNA processing and modification, mRNA stability, and even protein degradation. Even though a large number of genomes have been sequenced, the number and diversity of ncRNA-encoding genes is largely unknown. Many more ncRNAs have been discovered than were predicted, with recent transcriptomic and microarray studies suggesting that, for the mouse genome alone, there exists more than 30,000 long ncRNAs. The challenge now facing researchers is to determine the size of the full compliment of ncRNAs, as well as elucidate their function, particularly in disease. This online discussion will center on the different forms of ncRNAs, and the roles they may play in the biology and pathology of human disease.

During this webinar, the expert panel will:
• Provide a general introduction to the different types of non-coding RNAs
• Discuss how technologies for detecting and characterizing ncRNAs can be applied in disease research
• Share data on recent ncRNA studies
• Answer your questions live!

I love Debian, too.

Though I prefer ‘testing’ (which is currently codenamed Lenny) over ’stable’ (aka Etch).

If you get Segmentation fault when trying to run fgl_glxgears in your Debian desktop environment, most often this would mean that 3D acceleration isn’t enabled.

For the case of ATI (and ATI Mobility) Radeon series, the easiest procedure would be (doing all as root, or prepending sudo to all commands):

1. aptitude update, to ensure you’ve got the list of latest packages
2. aptitude install fglrx-driver fglrx-control fglrx-kernel-src, for the actual driver; I also installed fglrx-atieventsd and fglrx-glx (these are driver-recommended packages)
3. aptitude install module-assisstant, required for building the kernel module
4. module-assistant prepare, to verify that you have everything needed for the module build procedure
5. module-assistant update
6. module-assistant auto-install fglrx, to build and install the fglrx kernel module
7. depmod -a
8. modprobe fglrx, to load the fglrx kernel module
9. aticonfig ––initial, to configure ATI’s device section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (for more options, see aticonfig ––help)
10. reboot

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