This are my notes in the fields of computer science and technology. Everything is written with ABSOLUTE NO WARRANTY of fitness for any purpose. Of course, feel free to comment anything.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

ssh autocompletion in tcsh

I wrote the following for my .tcshrc to get some autocompletion for ssh.
set hostlist=(`cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | cut -f 1 -d ',' | uniq`)
complete ssh 'p/1/$hostlist/' 'p/2/c/'

Saturday, December 12, 2009

TestDisk

Hard disk failure recovery tool; tries to repair partition tables, boot sectors, MBR; allows to read and copy files from lost partitions; an undelete feature is also included.

Homepage: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Developer: Christophe Grenier
Version: 6.11 (April 19, 2009)
License: open source free software
Platform: Linux/Windows/Mac

Friday, December 11, 2009

Inkscape

Vector graphics program, similar to commercial packages like Adobe Illustrator, with advanced editing features and importing/exporting in a lot of different formats (e.g. PDF). The native format is the open format SGV.

Homepage: http://www.inkscape.org/
Developer: The Inkscape Team
Version: 0.47 (November 21, 2009)
License: open source free software
Platform: Linux/Windows/Mac

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Former molecular biologist and web developer (Rails) and currently research scientist in bioinformatics.