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  1. Re:"Denali" = anagram for "Denial" on "McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" · · Score: 1

    $ sudo apt-get install an
    $ an -wm6 denali
    nailed
    denial
    alined
    Daniel

    Fun fact - the original algorithm employed in this classic GNU tool was contributed by one Julian Assange. Check the manpage :-)

  2. Open source isn't the exception, it's the norm on UNC Scientists Open Source Their Genomic Research · · Score: 4, Informative

    I work in this field, and outside of the commercial pharma companies, the general rule is that all the data goes public and that all the code written is open source. All the big publicly funded agencies, and certainly all the research councils here in the UK, follow this principle. Admittedly some people do sit on the data a bit longer than they should before releasing it, but in principle it all goes public and freely available.

    Want to find open, public data in genomic science, or contribute to an open database? - fill your boots: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/...
    Want to find new open-source algorithms for genome analysis? There are so many it's hard to keep up - http://blends.debian.org/med/t...

    In the EU, there is so much data in public databases they had to start a pan-European effort called ELIXIR just to try and work out how they were going to handle all the data curation work.

    So, not to take anything away from this fine project, the idea that it's special because it's open source or because scientists are collaborating widely is just plain silly.

    TIM

  3. Re:Present user test? on The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed · · Score: 0

    One would assume that the administrator of a headless server is clued up enough to load their own key into UEFI and doesn't need this workaround in any case.

    TIM

  4. Good work... on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but where will I get all my v14gra now??

  5. Re:That's a shame on OSDL Denies Rewriting Kernel · · Score: 1, Funny

    Indeed - code rot is a well known phenomenon.

    If the kernel is not re-written soon, it will start slowing down and maybe break altogether!

    TIM

  6. Microsoft loves PNG - official! on What Is The Future of PNG? · · Score: 1

    I can't reccommend editing your HTML in MS Word 2000, but if you do then you will see that any images pasted into the document are converted to PNG when you save.

    TIM