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Among many other hundreds of books which I should be reading, this essential biochemistry seems to be one! Credit goes to Jukka Nurminen, our cross-business area collaborator for introducing the book. Though shalt be read, Mr. Biochemistry! The second book that Jukka introduced was Bioinformatics: sequence and genome analysis . Well, I was familiar with this book earlier; so this was a reminder for the relevance of this book to me, now more than ever!

For the last couple of days, my home computer with SolydXK was overheating. The situation was so bad that, by the time I can gain control of the machine, it gets so overheated that it shuts down automatically as the critical temperatures have reached. I initially suspected acpi_call (just a hunch, because I have set up the OS on this machine quite recently and haven't tweaked the system much yet, except turning off the discrete graphics card using acpi_call ). But removing the corresponding kernel module didn't do the trick. I booted into recovery mode, edited the /etc/rc.local to prevent loading the acpi_call kernel module and turning off the discrete graphics card. Although this sounds counter intuitive, because usually turning on the discrete graphics card causes the overheating, I saw some errors related to acpi_call during boot time too, which is why I targeted that first. But a reboot after exiting the recovery mode, now without acpi_call loaded, didn't prevent th...