HexWorkShop & Math @ Answers.com

I have been using our licensed copy of HexWorkShop to get down to the nitty gritty bitties at work for some time now. I love the UI look and feel and it has proved to be a very useful tool for looking at the bits of a file(s). You can flip data bits, evaluate highlighted data, poke data into locations at will, and best of all, search for byte/word patterns. If there is a better tool out there, I would love to hear about it. For now, this one does all that I need it to and more.

Another useful site, for all those that need to look at Mathematics on an extra special level, is the Answers.com math indexed site. It provides links to the wikipedia site when you select a topic as well. It may not be Wolfram, but it gives some easily digestible definitions to absorb at a glance. A real time killer when you need it.

Lately, I have been dealing with a plethora of large test data sets on the order of 15GB to 50+ GB file sizes for an in-house application, on which my team has been working. Multiple files with multiple record structures per file. The test runs are getting longer and longer time wise. I need to start poking around the internet to find out if anyone else has handled something similiar and what they did to speed up testing (if anything can be done).