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About a month and a half ago, I noticed a thread at the Afterdawn.com forums where SuperTed is attempting to burn ripped GameCube images. Quite legal if you own the game, just another type of backup. I will continue to follow up on this thread.

As of today, (I assume his name is as such from his username ‘SuperTed’) Ted has made a small step in getting it to work properly and has the screen which shows what game is inserted telling him the game name is “@# ‘!”" (forget the first and last quotes).

What has been done is writing a mini DVD-R (of a certain brand, not sure which he stuck to) with a certain burner. The image of the GameCube disc, which was read off of the GameCube (using the PSO Load method (http://gcdev.net/ or .com or .org, can’t remember)), is also backwards. (this is due to the disc spinning ‘backwards’) So, the image is reversed byte-by-byte using an application and then burned to a DVD-R.

Check out the thread.

Still seems to me like stabbing in the dark, but we are getting closer.

This article is all about benchmarking multiple filesystems commonly used by *NIX (UNIX, Linux, BSD, etc.) users. He tests out EXT2, EXT3, Reiser FS (pronounced ‘raiser’, I think), JFS, and XFS.

I read a good deal of it and was equally surprised with the writer how horribly EXT3 performed on many tests. I’m not quite as surprised as the author that many large distributions use EXT3 by default (SuSE, Red Hat, Fedora (Red Hat or Fedora don’t even have Reiser FS options), Mandrake, College Linux, Debian, etc.), as it is said to be much more stable (and is older) than the other main filesystems.

Article.