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Instant PhD in biotech

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek, Hardware

Ok, so here is a primer, also known as PhD in a blog entry:

Plasmid – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A plasmid is an extra-chromosomal DNA molecule separate from the chromosomal DNA which is capable of replicating independently of the chromosomal DNA.[1] In many cases, it is circular and double-stranded. Plasmids usually occur naturally in [...]

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Wiki markup

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek, Hardware

Each Wiki has a different shorthand for HTML unfortunately. Splitbrain does a good job of comparing them and they aren’t the same at all. Some relevant ones for Wikka Wiki are:
notextile..
//italic//
underline ##monospace##
deleted
~quoted text
source code——- Gives you a horizontal rule
http://tongfamily.com should work as a URL automatically
[[http://www.tongfamily.com Tongfamily]]
Then they are very smart on lists, so wikka wiki [...]

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Long Windows Shutdown and Startup Times

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Windows

Why does XP take so long to shutdown. Apparently, this is because during shutdown, Windows needs to make sure all user sessions are shutdown. They have a fix called UPHClean which

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ASUS M3p

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · ASUS M3p, Calvin

Dad gave me an old laptop to use. It is from 2004! So it needs lots of updating. First up is to get:

Java. So that I can write programs
Dr. Java. Which is a simple editor and program
Intel 2200 BG. I couldn’t connect to Apple’s latest Time Capsule and my drivers haven’t been in updated in [...]

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USB 2.0 vs. ExpressCard

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Hardware, MacBook Pro

The MacBook Pro’s have this strange slot called the ExpressCard 34. This is a narrow card than the PC Card or PCIMCIA card and I’ve never really had a use for it since USB 2.0 is 480Mbps so plenty fast considering most IDE hard disks only run at about that speed in real world throughput.
But, [...]

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