the Auto Payment Calculator V1.0 Release
Copyright (C) 1997 Eric A. Griff
Auto Payment Calculator is a simple, xforms based, application for
use under the X-windows system, that calculates auto loan payments.
It is pretty straight forward. You enter the Principal (Amount),
Term (in months), and Rate, and then with either [RETURN]
(or [enter] or whatever your keyboard equivelent is), (ALT-C), or
clicking the calculate button; you will have the payment in months,
as well as number of weeks, and weekly payment.
You may also [TAB] through the Amount, Term, and Rate, as well as
hold down ALT and press the character in its Name that is underlined
to go do that function. As long as all three are filled in, you may
hit [ENTER] to Calculate right there. This makes it easy to cycle
quickly through numerous terms, amounts, and rates.
Fityk is a program for nonlinear fitting of analytical functions
(especially peak-shaped) to data (usually experimental data). There are
also people using it only to display data or to remove baseline from
data.
It is reported to be used in crystallography, chromatography,
photoluminescence, infrared and Raman spectroscopy and other fields.
Fityk knows about common peak-shaped functions (Gaussian, Lorentzian,
Voigt, Pearson VII, bifurcated Gaussian, EMG, Doniach-Sunjic, etc.) and
polynomials. It also supports user-defined functions.
Fityk offers intuitive graphical interface (and also command line
interface), variouse optimization methods (standard Marquardt
least-square algorithm, Genetic Algorithms, Nelder-Mead simplex),
equality constraints, modelling error of x coordinate of points (eg.
zero-shift of instrument), handling series of datasets, automation of
common tasks with scripts, and more.
PDL (``Perl Data Language'') gives standard perl the ability to
COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data
arrays which are the bread and butter of scientific computing.
The idea is to turn perl in to a free, array-oriented, numerical
language in the same sense as commerical packages like IDL and
MatLab. One can write simple perl expressions to manipulate entire
numerical arrays all at once. For example, using PDL the perl variable
$a can hold a 1024x1024 floating point image, it only takes 4Mb of
memory to store it and expressions like $a=sqrt($a)+2 would manipulate
the whole image in a few seconds.
A simple interactive shell (perldl) is provided for command line use
together with a module (PDL) for use in perl scripts.
Gri is a language for scientific graphics applications. By 'language' I mean
that it is a command-driven application, as opposed to a click/point
application. It is analogous to latex or tex, and shares the property that
extensive power is the reward for tolerating a modest learning curve. Gri
output is in industry-standard PostScript, suitable for incorporation in
documents prepared by various text processors. Gri can make x-y graphs,
contour-graphs, and image graphs. In addition to high-level capabilities, it
has enough low-level capabilities to allow users to achieve a high degree of
customization. Precise control is extended to all aspects of drawing, including
line-widths, colors, and fonts. Text includes a subset of the tex language, so
that it is easy to incorporate Greek letters and mathematical symbols in labels.
Ipopt (Interior Point OPTimizer, pronounced eye-pea-Opt) is a software
package for large-scale nonlinear optimization.
Ipopt is written in C++ and is released as open source code under the
Eclipse Public License (EPL). It is available from the COIN-OR
initiative. The code has been written by Carl Laird and Andreas Wchter,
who is the COIN project leader for Ipopt.
The Ipopt distribution can be used to generate a library that can be
linked to one's own C++, C, or Fortran code, as well as a solver
executable for the AMPL modeling environment. The package includes
interfaces to CUTEr optimization testing environment, as well as the
MATLAB and R programming environments. IPOPT can be used on Linux/UNIX,
Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
An excellent reference for this library can be found in:
Wachter and L. T. Biegler, On the Implementation of a Primal-Dual Interior
Point Filter Line Search Algorithm for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming,
Mathematical Programming 106(1), pp. 25-57, 2006
PLplot is a library of C functions that are useful for making scientific
plots from a program written in C, C++, or Fortran. The PLplot library
can be used to create standard x-y plots, semilog plots, log-log plots,
contour plots, 3D plots, mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. Multiple
graphs (of the same or different sizes) may be placed on a single page
with multiple lines in each graph. Different line styles, widths and
colors are supported. A virtually infinite number of distinct area fill
patterns may be used. There are almost 1000 characters in the extended
character set. This includes four different fonts, the Greek alphabet and
a host of mathematical, musical, and other symbols. The fonts can be
scaled to any desired size. A variety of output devices are supported and
new devices can be easily added by writing a small number of device
dependent routines.
"xtail" watches the growth of files. It's like running a "tail -f"
on a bunch of files at once.
You can specify both filenames and directories on the command line.
If you specify a directory, it watches all the files in that
directory. It will notice when new files are created (and start
watching them) or when old files are deleted (and stop watching
them).
This program is an oldie but goodie. It was posted to comp.sources.misc
in July 1989 (see ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume7/xtail.Z).
I remember posting an even earlier version to alt.sources. It has
been published in the O'Reilly & Associates "Unix Power Tools"
collection (book and CD-ROM). Over the years, some fly-by-night
organizations (such as the MIT X Consortium and SGI) have tried to
steal the "xtail" name. Don't be fooled! Insist on the original.
check_multi is kind of a wrapper plugin which takes benefit of the
Nagios 3.x capability to display multiple lines of plugin output.
It calls multiple child plugins and displays their output in the
long_plugin_output. A summary is given in the standard plugin output.
The child return code with the highest severity becomes the parent
(check_multi) plugin return code.
The configuration is very simple: a NRPE-stylish config file contains
a tag for each child plugin and then the check command line.
check_multi can cover complex Business Process Views - using a builtin
state evaluation mechanism. The second benefit is cluster monitoring
with no need for extra services. All you need is provided by check_multi.
LICENSE: GPL2 or later
This code forms a set of C++ libraries for multimedia streaming,
using open standard protocols (RTP/RTCP and RTSP). These libraries
- which can be compiled for Unix (including Linux and Mac OS X),
Windows, and QNX(and other POSIX-compliant systems) - can be used
to build streaming applications. The libraries are already being
used to implement applications such as "liveCaster" and "playRTPMPEG"
(for streaming MP3 audio using RTP/RTCP). The libraries can also
be used to stream, receive, and process MPEG video, and can easily be
extended to support additional (audio and/or video) codecs. They can
also be used to build basic RTSP clients and servers, and have been
used to add streaming support to existing media player applications,
such as "mplayer".
This module provides a WebDAV server. WebDAV stands for "Web-based
Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to
the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and
manage files on remote web servers.
Net::DAV::Server provides a WebDAV server and exports a filesystem for
you using the Filesys::Virtual suite of modules. If you simply want to
export a local filesystem, use Filesys::Virtual::Plain as above.
This module doesn't currently provide a full WebDAV implementation.
However, I am working through the WebDAV server protocol compliance
test suite (litmus, see http://www.webdav.org/neon/litmus/) and will
provide more compliance in future. The important thing is that it
supports cadaver and the Mac OS X Finder as clients.