KMail has always problems with multiple smtp servers. As a solution I installed sendmail. Then I just created a new outgoing mailserver and selected the sendmail option. No further configuration was necessary and it seems to work.

I am trying to use EMBOSS for the assembly of vector sequences. Long time ago, I used the CGC seqed program for this purpose and at the moment I use the Gene Construction Kit. EMBOSS doesn't have a straight equivalent for seqed and one has to use a bunch of other tools to replace its functionality. Look at this comparison between CGC and EMBOSS.

The perl script /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat does it, but you need BackupPC installed for this purpose. There is a standalone frontend for the compression libraries available called Zzzz... made by the same guy who is behind mplayer.

Usually you change the default runlevel by editing /etc/inittab. However, sometimes you boot into runlevel 3 (e.g. by selecting safe mode from the grub menu) and then want to change to runlevel 5. This you accomplish with the command: telinit 5

I am missing from Suse Linux 9 a nice GUI that collects ALL system services with the options "start", "stop" and "start on every system boot". RedHat 9 has something like that. There is Yast2, but under the services, netatalk is not even listed. To boot netatalk during system boot, I just create manually a link: cd /etc/init.d/rc5.d sudo ln -s ../atalk S22atalk After rebooting (and to my surprise) my computer froze. No Ctrl-Alt-F2, no access via ssh; the only rescue being the physical reboot button button (something I am only used to from my Macintosh times).