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"oh no I have so many amazing tools to choose from?", I use puppet at the moment. Any of them will make your deploy/config life great.

Nice! I had read something similar for a wood workshop here: http://woodgears.ca/dust/air_cleaner.html Seems to be quite effective. Also, if you're into woodworking, woodgears is p…

https://banyan.co/ collaboration for scientists on OSX

A good version exists here: http://www.planetmule.com/

http://prserve.com is quite good.

Sparkfun also has an exceptional write up on how to get into the microamp ballpark: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/309 The article's try and see approach is very detailed and a …

Thin clients ride again. How much will Dell charge to run your instances?

Use an open format and learn to love the bomb? Districts probably aren't going to care, as they are looking for a cheaper way to stay current. I recognize the prices are not as goo…

The point is to look at genomic variations across the entirety of the human genome, not so much to match genomic variation to phenotype. What you're saying makes sense, but I think…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Genomes_Project Here's the project explanation, but the data itself is 1000 complete (hopefully!) genome sequences. The hope is to find the varian…

Depends, there are several sequencing technologies and they all have strengths/weaknesses. At my job, we use 454 sequencing from Roche and since it relies on PCR it has problems wi…

The real reason for a lot of this is personalized medicine, or rather more specific medicine. A gene translocation or even a SNP may be able to differentiate cancer types and chang…