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No interest (in retrospection and introspection)?

February 17, 2017 • 3 min read • Finland

No interest (in retrospection and introspection)?

There was much talk about last year's "changes" at the university.
Science good, coffee bad

January 26, 2017 • 2 min read • Vascular Biology

Science good, coffee bad

Last week I took part the Vascular Cell Biology Gordon Research Conference in Ventura (California).

December 23, 2016 • 1 min read • Technology

ScanSnap iX100 support for Linux

Under Ubuntu 16.04, the ScanSnap iX100 is not supported yet by the sane package.
Kapa HiFi excels, Phusion works sort-of, Q5 and Platinum SuperFi disappoint

December 2, 2016 • 2 min read • Proofreading DNA Polymerases

Kapa HiFi excels, Phusion works sort-of, Q5 and Platinum SuperFi disappoint

My last NEBuilder assembly got stuck because I couldn't get two of the PCR reactions to work.
1000 times too slow

December 1, 2016 • 3 min read • Finland

1000 times too slow

Helsinki University has outsourced parts of its IT infrastructure to Microsoft.

November 20, 2016 • 1 min read • Technology

Automated reinstall of software from package list

If I need to reinstall a Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux OS (or mirror a software selection to another machine), this is how it can be done.

November 15, 2016 • 1 min read • Technology

Temperature Sensors

https://my.wirelesstag.net/eth/signin.html

October 19, 2016 • 1 min read • Technology

Let’s encrypt duplicated my log files

I have not been keeping log files for my web server until the beginning of 2016, when I needed to trace access to certain files (I started to use awstats, mostly because I was familiar with it since I had used it years ago when my site was still running on a Red Hat server).
Key project funding

October 7, 2016 • 2 min read • Finland

Key project funding

This post is inspired by our recent success in the Key Project Funding call of the Academy of Finland.
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Biochemistry/Molecular biology researcher and teacher