Spam I am (part II)

[j4]

Another spam:

Good afternoon, I have a good software

What good software do you have?

And if anybody knows of any good freeware/shareware/cheap software for doing shiny graphs/charts/etc on Mac OS X or Linux, that would be particularly useful right now.

Comments

[djw.livejournal.com]

I have a 3-stage implicit Runge-Kutta solver that conserves my Hamiltonian to nearly machine precision for a Very Long Time.

Not shiny: gnuplot
Shiny: xmgrace
Can be good: latex-beamer with gnuplot as a backend

[emperor]

I get pretty good results with gnuplot these days, although the interface "Could Be Better"

[djw.livejournal.com]

And by latex-beamer, of course, I meant tikz. I blame early-onset Knuth disease.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

And if anybody knows of any good freeware/shareware/cheap software for doing shiny graphs/charts/etc on Mac OS X or Linux, that would be particularly useful right now.

Would this (http://www.graphsketcher.com/) be any use to you?

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

Favourite bit of software: Bibble Pro (http://www.bibblelabs.com/)

Lovely bit of cross-platform software for RAW image processing and workflow.


Can't help on the graphing/charting front, though.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Graphing:

http://plot.micw.eu/ (free) was quite nice last time I used it, but that was aaaaages ago; I'm using matplotlib to plot stuff for work, but that's a programming library. I quite like gnuplot, but it's cryptic as all hell.

Flot (http://code.google.com/p/flot) is alright if you need to do stuff on the Web. The YUI graphing thing's meant to be good too.

Good software: um, Textmate (finally won me away from Emacs)... Twitteriffic's quite nice. Most of the new software I use is web stuff these days, thinking about it. Started using Omnigraffle, it's nice, but it's hardly new. :)

[sparrowsion]

Textmate is so good I paid for it.

I recently used gnuplot for the first time (for doing quick & dirty scatter graphs—the program also outputs detailed information which gets fed into Mathematica, but that's not my concern). It's not so much cryptic as … retro. There's just something about that reminds me of working with mainframes and time-sharing systems.

[oinomel71.livejournal.com]

I have some audio editing software which is brilliant, except that it has a minor bug which stops it from upscaling the pitch of the human voice to extreme levels.

I can't speak highly enough of it.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Badum-tsch!

[reddragdiva]

Pretty mainstream, but Firefox 3 is just a ridiculously vast improvement on Firefox 2. I've been using it the nightlies for the past four months with great joy.

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

I do graphs on Linux these days with R (http://www.r-project.org/), which is actually statistical software but seems to have expanded, amoeba-like, to do more or less anything.

I used to use the pgplot perl interface, which was slightly less good (but still got the job done, &c.)

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

You see for ordinary joes like me, I have no idea beyond 'it works'.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

/Applications/Utilities/Grapher on Macs is nice enough if you mean graphing functions (rather than sets of data you already have).

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

I used Grace back when I was a Real Scientist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(plotting_tool)

[lnr]

My current favourite good software is the version of minesweeper from Simon's puzzle collection. How sad is that?

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

I did just write something about Mobilescrobbler and Scrivener, but I switched tabs in Firefox to check something, it moved my focus out of the text area, and when I pressed delete took me back one page in my history and lost everything I typed.

So Mobilescrobbler (last.fm for the iphone and ipod touch) and Scrivener (editor that forces you to concentrate on writing) and definitely not firefox.

[barnacle.livejournal.com]

Some of our live sites use graphication (http://www.aeracode.org/projects/graphication/), which is the code behind LastGraph (http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org/). In fact, there's going to be a talk at OGN7 (http://oxford.geeknights.net/2008/jun-25th/) about the very stuff. We've integrated it with Django, but it's really pure python, I think, and can be used separately.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Nice! Seriously, if your code for this is available anywhere, I'm very, very interested (wearing my work hat). The Django integration doubly so...

[bjh21.livejournal.com]

tcpdump and strace are my friends.

[vatine]

DynaMIPS and Dynagen. DynaMIPS is virtualised Ciswco hardware, Dynagen lets you use DynaMIPS as a hypervisor and run lots of Ciscos on your desktop. Then all one needs is IOS images.

Emacs+SLIME+SBCL. They are my toys. Funfunfun. It may end up with server and network monitoring software, one day.

I usually use either gnuplot or hand-written graphing code (for when gnuplot doesn't do what I want) to graph stuff. Mostly the hand-written graphing is related to above-alluded-to network/server monitoring software.

[rmc28]

I like my home accounting software: Personal Accountz. It does what I need it to do, does it quite well, and runs on Ubuntu.

[abi]

My latest spam says "Guts refuelling". I think you should do a post about that one.

[arron-shutt.livejournal.com]

MCNPX and Geant4 is very nice. And I have the visualisation packages for those so you can do some very nice pictures of problems as I'm building or evaluating them..

Just in case you were wondering, this is what those two programs actually do..!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCNP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geant4