In its early stages (07-MAR-2013), allows papers to be written in LaTeX or
markdown, figures to be added, and version control, collaboration,
to be done online. I have not tried this yet.
More of a mathematical Object Oriented simulation and equation solving environment than a symbolic maths package. GNU GPL Free Software.
SMath Studio - a non-pay apparently Non-Free-Software program for symbolic maths.
it has HTTPS access to an SVN repository but the certificates are invalid,
and it is Russian. I don't know what to make of this program,
especailly since
the information about the licence is well hidden. According to
Wikipedia, it has a Creative
Commons Attributions-No-Derivs licence, and is very like
MathCad.
A GPL "system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical
expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series,
Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of
linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices,
and tensors", to quote the home page. A Windows version is available. There
is also useful information on the Wikipedia page about it.
There is a Wikipedia page about this,
which explains that it is designed for higher level maths such as matrices,
optimisation, calculus and statistics.
GPL, combining many things under Python, aiming to give an
alternative to Maple and Matlab. No native port for Windows for the latest versions. Use virtualisation instead.
Axiom, a modified-BSD-licenced computer algebra system.
This seems to lack a GUI at the moment. It has been forked to
OpenAxiom and FriCAS, both modified-BSD-licenced.
A modelling and simulation package. This can do mathematical and physical
modelling, as far as I can tell. I've not explored this in depth yet. There
is a tutorial
which seems very clear, though for those familiar
with simulation in other contexts it takes a while to get started.
showed up as [HN:8130149].
This is a tool for statistical manipulation of data formatted in columns
suitable for Unix sort. There are
examples
and a manual.
showed up as [HN:13751389].
It is a tool for processing CSV, TSV, JSON, etc files,
but not by index, by heading name instead.
It is similar to datamash above, but is
described as being more like awk, sed, grepcut with features of SQL and some stats.
FLTK is an LGPL'd C++ graphical user interface toolkit for X
(UNIX®), OpenGL, and WIN32 (Microsoft® Windows® NT 4.0, 95, or 98). There are
Python and Perl wrappers for it, too.
See also wxWindows.
This differs from circo which is part of graphviz; that arranges nodes and arcs into a circular layout. This does
use a circular layout, but can do histograms, networks of lines, ribbons of
varying thickness, and more, all with colour support. It is written in
Perl.
Includes anything to do with radio, EM simulation, as well
as EMC specific information. Also related would be
Scientific Computing with GNU/Linux which includes
a whole host of tools, which, whilst not EMC specific, are worth
knowing about.
http://www.pythonemproject.com has gone. See this forum posting for details, which refers to the cemtach site.
A project to produce several different EM codes in Numeric Python.
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, as it relies on Riemann solvers,which I have not explored. The link may be useful to me later and to others now.
A sketch program using Blob Trees (some kind of extension of
Metaballs). I have no information on the file formats for this
yet. Found on Wikipedia:3D Computer Graphics Software.
A system for creating films using game engines or similar
technology. See also machinima.com,
machinima.org.uk,
and moviestorm, a
system designed for creating machinima specifically.
This system has
a very intuitive interactive system for dealing with the graphical
objects themselves, for moving about in the space etc. It uses a
drag and drop system for creating the programs. The system was designed
for teaching about programming, there are
teaching materials avaiable
for the Alice 2 system and for
the Alice 3 system materials are under development. Alice 3 is
more geared towards OO programming and Java.
There are manuals in HTML, and PDF.
PgFoundry s the PostgreSQL Development Group's site for developing and publishing PostgreSQL-related software that is not part of the core product.
There is also the DMU based VRFY address checker, available off
my intranet page, and thus not available outside DMU.
Similarly we now have an aliases database.
is a link off
Chris Hand's old home page which has lots of good links.
He has a new home page now.
[He doesn't hyphenate technomadic, but I read it as
techno-mad-ic at first! :-) Maybe the ambiguity is deliberate?]
See also
PDABuzz and
handhelds.org and
(The old home page was here.)
Another compression program. Thanks to Axel Boldt (of Tkinfo fame) for telling me about this. There is a
US Mirror site, but it seems to be out of date.
See also Archive Compression Tests.
See also xz.
(Used to live
at arizona.edu.)
A utility for searching filesystems quickly. See also
Namazu which is based on Perl and is
used for text searches of the Ruby-Talk list.
The Free Software Foundation's compression program. There is an
MSDOS port
(UK copy)
of it available.
The main Gzip home page is at
http://www.gzip.org/.
See also xz.
The documentation about this package for hightlighting
programming languages is in German followed by English. It is
possible to do some of this using Vim,
#!/bin/sh
for f in $*
do
vim -f +"syn on" +"run! syntax/2html.vim" +"wq" +"q" $f
done
but I have found that since I use light text on a dark background
results are disappointing when printing.
A pretty standard means of distributing changes to text documents and source
code, and a utility for incorporating or backing out from these changes.
See also http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Making-Patches.html#Making%20Patches
for more info about this. On the subject of diffs, the program
meld looks useful as a visual diff tool,
a good replacement for the old ukctools vdiff program. It is a
Python program requiring GTK.
"PIKT® is a cross-categorical toolkit for
monitoring and
configuring systems, organizing system security, formatting
documents, assisting command-line work, and performing other
common systems administration tasks."
I have not tried this yet, but it looks interesting.
This is the GNU
version of the Tape ARchive utility, for
combining many files into one archive file,
not necessarily on tape.
The ManualFrench,
Irish
mirrors)
is available on-line.
See also: Star.
Mondo Rescue may also be
of interest.
A tool for scripting interaction on Windows, and will handle GUI events. There are various alternatives available based on Python, including pywinauto and
autopy which is cross
platform.
An FTP client for Unix with a friendlier user-interface, the
ability to get things from where the last failed attempt left off, bookmarks,
etc. There is also an ftp site.