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something like this: http://homepage2.nifty.com/ztath/starthp/subpage11 .html

It's...a bit of a tribute. Some of the best code I've ever seen -- brilliant, mind-bogglingly cool stuff -- comes out of Japan.

OK, so maybe it's a bit of an ego trip to lump myself in with these guys...but it's Open Source, BSD stuff; if I was getting paid to write it I'd probably have to name it something like "NetXPress Pro Enterprise Edition". Since it's free, I get to call it whatever I like :-)

What code impresses me? Off the top of my head:


Gogo, world's fastest MP3 encoder.

PVNation. You really want to hear the output of Shapee.

So, that's the story.

--Dan

NP-hard maybe, but damn these players make tetris look easy!

These are from Tetris the Grandmasters 2 Plus arcade machine playing on Death mode.

At least there's an end to Death mode. :p

http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/dea th_800.mpg http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/Dea th-Gm02.mpg http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/Dea th-Gm05.mpg

NP-hard maybe, but damn these players make tetris look easy!

These are from Tetris the Grandmasters 2 Plus arcade machine playing on Death mode.

At least there's an end to Death mode. :p

http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/dea th_800.mpg http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/Dea th-Gm02.mpg http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/Dea th-Gm05.mpg

NP-hard maybe, but damn these players make tetris look easy!

These are from Tetris the Grandmasters 2 Plus arcade machine playing on Death mode.

At least there's an end to Death mode. :p

http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/dea th_800.mpg http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/Dea th-Gm02.mpg http://homepage2.nifty.com/arika_download/mpeg/Dea th-Gm05.mpg

As an example, see here - this photo was taken in November 1945, several months after the bomb was dropped, and you can see that there's nothing standing.

I was looking at the Fujitsu Lifebook P-2040 for some time, which also has the 800 Mhz Transmeta processor. Here are some benchmarks for it:

http://www.leog.net/_fujp/00000040.htm

and there's a Japanese site as well:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/DS1/LOOX/index.html

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/body?wb_url=http %3A%2F%2Fhomepage2.nifty.com%2FDS1%2FLOOX%2F003.ht ml&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2 (translated version)

Basically, it's roughly equivalent to a 600 Mhz PIII laptop. Enough processing power to view fairly high bitrate DIVX encodes and to software DVD playback. The Code Morphing is roughly analagous to Java's JITC - my firsthand experience on the Fujitsu is that the initial loading of apps is slow, but once they start going they run fine.

To answer your question, PS2 Linux is first booted from the PS2 DVD-Rom. It is then set up on the PS2 HDD, and the last step is to copy the PS2 boot files to a PS2 memory card to make a bootable memory card. For more info, visit this thread at Gamedev.net that I had with someone. Gamedev Also, visit this for detailed PS2 Linux info. You will want to translate it, unless you understand japanese. Japanese PS2 Linux

You should visit the japanese sites about the playstation (they are a thousand times more interesting than this article). whis is a copy of old japanese sites .... even if you dont undertand a bit of japanes , the will be truly interesting.
this showing the installation(lloks familiar?)
the same process
a session playing with sony's demos
a page with lots of links
Playstation linux user group

You should visit the japanese sites about the playstation (they are a thousand times more interesting than this article). whis is a copy of old japanese sites .... even if you dont undertand a bit of japanes , the will be truly interesting.
this showing the installation(lloks familiar?)
the same process
a session playing with sony's demos
a page with lots of links
Playstation linux user group

You should visit the japanese sites about the playstation (they are a thousand times more interesting than this article). whis is a copy of old japanese sites .... even if you dont undertand a bit of japanes , the will be truly interesting.
this showing the installation(lloks familiar?)
the same process
a session playing with sony's demos
a page with lots of links
Playstation linux user group

PC ownership is MUCH lower in Japan than in other nations because many Japanese don't have the space for a PC in their homes

Well, you can blame Apple for not making a PowerPC followup to their Color Classic. Back in the day when the classic-format Macintosh was actually a fairly well powered machine, the Mac ruled Japan. Now that Apple no longer makes a compact Mac, and the Japanese see the alternatives, I think they are more inclined to sit this out. The Mac's Kanji support is still better than Windows' support for Kanji, although who knows if Kanjitalk exists in MacOS X. There are whole groups of people in Japan who are dedicated to hot-rodding Color Classics...here's a link to The Club For Creating The Strongest Color Classic, a place where Japanese computer geeks trade ideas for souping up Color Classics. And on the PC side there's always Sony's VAIO offerings, which seem to do a hell of a lot better in Japan than in the US.

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I'll bite.

You will always have one additional feature -- the source.

For a real-world example I present the commercial PKZip and the GPL'd zip/unzip package. Both are vitually identical. Both are "free" to use for non-commercial purposes. Yet I always use zip/unzip, rather than PKZip. Why? Because I have the source and I can use it if I need to.

No, I'm no programmer. I can tweak Makefiles and the compilation process, however. So for CPU-intensive apps like compression, encryption, raytracing (povray), I go the extra mile to use pgcc to compile with insane optimizations (I used the optimizations found in the GOGO mp3 encoder makefile) to wring every last bit of performace from my 700MHz Athlon.

In my mind, if all things are equal between 2 products, then having the source to one will make it better.

GOGO is based on LAME, and optimized in assembler (x86) for encoding and using SMP, even on my old P166 i have a x2 ratio, it means encoding a 6 minutes song take 3 minutes, not bad. BTW it exists for Linux, BeOS, OS/2, and Windows. You can get it here
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Best encoder: gogo, or if you're not on x86, try lame.
Best ripper: cdparanoia.

I may be a little bit biased on the frontend market, but as the author of abcde I highly recommend it. :)