Stock software, trendlines

[Julius]

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 14:18 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:29:46 -0600 Mark <snark at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Because I am one tinfoil-hat-wearing, paranoid individual, I am a little
> > hesitant to show a lot of screenshots... as this is pretty detailed
> > financial information.
> > 
> > Cacti (for those not familiar with it) is a general purpose graphing
> > solution for graphing data over time.  Its primary purpose is to track
> > performance of networking gear.  But if you use it for that purpose and
> > actually hack on it a little, it becomes painfully obvious that you can
> > graph anything.  (I graph my tivo, my isp connection, financial stuff,
> > prepaid cell phone status, netflix usage... just to name a few.  No,
> > there is no good reason for most of that.)  You might have to add a
> > little "glue" to do what you want, but it is all very doable.
> 
> How different is Cacti from GNUPlot?
> 

Cacti is a user friendly version of MRTG, its used for various
network/computer statistics.
gnuplot on the other hand is just a plotting tool, for creating stock
graphs both offer you the same functionality. imho.

Julius