However, there is another way, at least when it comes to RDP support. You can either pay £34 per user or £670 per “socket” (which has quite a convoluted definition). This is fine until you want to use the server in production: as the PUEL only covers you for personal use and evaluation, you must purchase licenses. The conventional wisdom when running a headless server with VirtualBox is that you need to install this proprietary extension pack from Oracle. However, there is one wrinkle when it comes to using it for server consolidation: the proprietary RDP/USB2 extension pack. VirtualBox is one of the easiest to use, most featureful programs available in this space and with the ability to run on many different OSes on hardware with or without VM extensions, it is also one of the most popular. The various competing virtualisation products have reached a level of maturity where they can be reliably used for server consolidation. These days, virtualisation is all the rage.

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Recent Projects at the Image Bioinformatics Research Group in Oxford.

SQuirreL SQL: a nice database GUI frontend for Ubuntu.

Handling Failures and Rerunning Tasks in Sun Grid Engine Array Jobs.

How to build MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu Precise (pre-release).

RDP VirtualBox without the proprietary Oracle extension pack.

A tour of some VCF Visualisation software.

Load data from a VCF file into numpy arrays.falciparum reference genome 3D7 version 2 to version 3 Malaria Drug Resistance and Genomics Animation.

Benchmarking HDF5 for storing and accessing large arrays of genotype data.