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Kid's series on German TV

March 5, 2010 • 2 min read • Technology

Kid’s series on German TV

The online offering from Germany’s public service broadcasters (i.e. ARD) for children (kinder.ard.de) is rather limited (although they do produce good children’s television).
Internet services of Finnish TV stations (YLE Areena & Katsomo)

March 4, 2010 • 4 min read • Finland

Internet services of Finnish TV stations (YLE Areena & Katsomo)

Apparently a significant number of people (I guess about 1-2% of the Finnish households) did not succumb to the political and advertisement pressure to upgrade their TV to receive digital broadcasts.

February 16, 2010 • 1 min read • Technology

Disk dumps (dd) and copying over the network (netcat)

On the receiving machine (disk sda MUST be unmounted, e.g.
VEGF-C/VEGFR-2 complex structure took 13 years to solve

February 3, 2010 • 1 min read • Science

VEGF-C/VEGFR-2 complex structure took 13 years to solve

Finally our paper was accepted for publication in PNAS (downloadable also from here).

December 26, 2009 • 1 min read • Technology

A permanent static route in Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10), Precise Pangolin (12.04) & Trusty Tahr (14.04)

To add a permanent static route to a Karmic Koala system with one NIC, you need to edit the/etc/network/interfaces file.
Recombinant proteins

September 25, 2009 • 2 min read • Proteins

Recombinant proteins

Need proteins and cannot buy them (not available, too expensive)? Ask us!
Growing tomatoes on a balcony in Finland

August 30, 2009 • 3 min read • Finland

Growing tomatoes on a balcony in Finland

We live in Helsinki, Finland.

August 24, 2009 • 1 min read • Technology

How to use jhead or exiftool to add a time stamp to a jpg image

If the jpg image doesn't have exif header you need to create it first:jhead -mkexifThen enter the time stamp data:jhead -ts2009:08:15-10:30:00Apart from jhead (http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/), there is another frequently used tool to edit exif data: exiftool (https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ).
Chicken embryo

August 18, 2009 • 1 min read • Science

Chicken embryo

Through a hole in the egg shell you can visually follow the complete chicken development.
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