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Good free software

Good free software

Good free software

(OP)
http://windirstat.info/ very pretty disk space analyser

Crimson Editor - Industrial strength text editor

Editpad - another good text editor

WinMerge - graphical text file comparison

CSDiff - text output text file comparison

Foxit - pdf reader

Pdfcreator - you guess

Cheers

Greg Locock

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RE: Good free software

Our guys tend to like nedit.  Although it's a UNIX application, there are Windows ports.  Given that editor choice is one of the most pervading arguments between uber-nerds of the software world, it's not surprising to find this mind boggling wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors
 

- Steve

RE: Good free software

windirstat

Neat, thanks for the pointer.

(Committed emacs user)

- Steve

RE: Good free software

good site for freeware

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www.freewarebox.com

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Forging     http://mech.e.tripod.com
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Ddraig Breuddwydia....www.tailofthedragon.com

RE: Good free software

FIREFOX
VMWARE SERVER
OPEN OFFICE
gadwin print screen

for others http://www.download.com is a good source.

RE: Good free software

How about good software for Linux (Ubuntu)?

RE: Good free software

sdz,

   xfig, galeon, khangman, vim, ...

   What do you want to do with the software?

               JHG

RE: Good free software

Quote:

What do you want to do with the software?

Compute PI to 100+ dp's of course, which I found easy this week using Maxima.

- Steve

RE: Good free software

But more seriously...

As a near 20-year Matlab-aholic, we had a network outage this week that killed my licence server.  I'm seeing how long I can use octave for my daily work (signal analysis mainly) before it runs out of steam.  It's doing very well so far - I've not even thought about restarting the ML licence server.

- Steve

RE: Good free software

(OP)
Don't you notice a HUGE speed difference? I can't remember what i was doing but for one built in function matlab was 20 times faster than octave.

That's a whinge, overall I am very impressed by Octave.

Cheers

Greg Locock

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RE: Good free software

I haven't really compared speeds yet.  Most of my stuff is blink-of-an-eye processing (diff/hilbert/cumsum/fft/logical/plot) of 1D signals.  Octave (and ML of course) can provide answers faster than I can ask the questions.

I am impressed too.

- Steve

RE: Good free software

Octave has no (proper) equivalent of xlsread.  Bummer, so I can't run some code created by a supplier.  Of well, at least 3.2.0 (for Windoze) is now up on the sourceforge web site.  Looks good so far.

- Steve

RE: Good free software

http://www.portableapps.com/ to get a good amount of free softwares (including firefox, thunderbird, notepad++, filezilla, gimp, openoffice, etc...) on a portable device such as an usb stick and use it everywhere whitout needing to install it.

Cyril Guichard
Defense Program Manager
Belgium

RE: Good free software

Why not install Cygwin on your PC? Then its possible to run Nedit and Perl for example. I use it since I really miss the good old days with Unix



Live Long and Prosper !

RE: Good free software

To contribute:
1)
Measures converter - Imperial units <--> Metric units (mm)
This application allow the conversion from a tenths of an inch in frational input (and output).
In addition You can solving the right triangle...:
http://www.tecnocentro.it/files/tc_mech_tools.zip

2)
This application is a database which gives immediate access to information regarding the sizes/dimensions of most of the fittings (butt weld) in use in industry (1/2"÷40" ASME and UNI); thus saving the user from having to consult any number of catalogues or tables; the aim of this application is to make available quickly these dimensions, applying the standard rules, by few choices of the user.
http://www.tecnocentro.it/files/Interactive_Fittings_Finder.zip

I hope they'll be useful!

Mauro - Tecnocentro eng srl

RE: Good free software

Is there a front end for Octave?

What about an Octave Simulink?

RE: Good free software

The front end for Octave is the good old command line.  Like Matlab.

The nearest I've seen for a Simulink-ish environment is Scilab/Scicos.  It may not look as silky as Simulink, but as well as the causal block modelling ability, it also supports Modelica.

- Steve

RE: Good free software

I saw that list on wikipedia but couldn't figure out which one to try.

Which one didn't work? I'll try to the other.
 

RE: Good free software

(OP)
http://www.antaeus-data.com/

Single purpose software. Plots x vs y for every channel in your data, can also stratify by attribute.

Warning, it does no stats, it is purely a visual tool. If you have lots of channels of data and don't know which ones are related, this is your program.

 

Cheers

Greg Locock

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