Packages for Ubuntu and Bioconductor

Bioconductor is a set of packages for R which facilitate processing biological data in a number of forms. I use R/Bioconductor quite a bit under Ubuntu, and when I install a new copy somewhere, I always have to go through dependency hell trying to remember everything I have to install through Synaptic before the various Bioconductor packages will compile. So, here is a list of what I had to install this time:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk libgtk2.0-dev graphviz-dev libgtk1.2-dev curl ggobi libxml2-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgd2-xpm-dev libmysqlclient15-dev

Install all of these (and their dependencies), and your life should be easier. (Note, I have multiverse, universe, and restricted turned on in /etc/apt/sources.list).

Google KNOWS!

I noticed an interesting phenomenon the other day. I usually have GAIM running under Linux, on my laptop, while often my Gmail account is logged in on my desktop. Strangely, when I get messages on googletalk, they seem to somewhat randomly appear on one or the other computer, but not both. Soon it became clear that if I used the desktop, messages would quickly start going to the desktop. If I used the laptop, the messages would just as quickly start going there.
After independently verifying this behavior with a friend of mine, I believe that Google has a full tracking system set up. They KNOW every time you touch your computer (GoogleTalk monitors mouse/keyboard input apparently), as does Gmail loaded in Firefox. Do they log this demographic information back home for future use? Who knows.. but I'll sleep better knowing that Google knows I've quit for the night.