Jason Maassen's Personal Page

Stuff I use daily

• Java 2 1.4.2 API
• The Register
• Freshmeat
• Slashdot
• Userfriendly
• Comics.com
• seti@home
• nu.nl (dutch webnews)
• rtlz.nl (dutch financial news)
• rtlnieuws.nl (dutch news)
• tweakers.net (pc hardware news)

Nice webcams

• Vrije Universiteit (Main building, looking north-west)
• Vrije Universiteit (Main building, looking south-west)
• Grote Markt Haarlem (Haarlem main square)

Search Engines

• Google
• Infoseek
• FTP search
• Citeseer citation search

Java Benchmarking Links

• Performance of Java versus C++
• The Java is Faster than C++ and C++ Sucks Unbiased Benchmark (well sometimes ;-)
• Linux Number Crunching (Java vs. Fortran and Intel C compilers)
• Performance comparison C++, C# and Java
• Some benchmarks (result is in Microsoft Word format)
• Nine Language Performance Roundup
• Binaries Vs Byte-Codes (old)

Other Java Links (this stuff is getting a bit old)

• Java 2 1.4.2 API
• Java 2 1.3 API
• Java 1.1 API
• IBM's JDK 1.30 for Linux
• IBM's Research RVM
• Sun's JIT Compilers
• OpenJIT
• TYA JIT
• Latte JIT
• Kaffe JIT
• Kissme JIT
• Shudo JIT
• Sable JVM
• ORP, Open Runtime Platform
• Taurus JVM
• GCJ (Gnu's native java compiler)
• Jolt (Bytecode to C translator)
• Toba (Java to C translator)
• Harissa (Bytecode to C translator)
• EDG (Java to C translator)
• Java Compiler Frontend
• Jasmin (Bytecode assembler)
• Lots of Java Links (Low level stuff)
• IBM's CJVM (Cluster aware JVM)
• Collection of Java Benchmarks
• Java Programming Resources -- Java, Java, and more Java
• JAMA: Java Matrix Package
• JavaDOS Main Page
• EuroTools Java Special Interest Group
• DOGMA (Distributed Object Group Metacomputing Architecture)
• Java for Scientific Computing
• HPJava Home Page
• Neural Networks with Java
• Newtonian Object Oriented Physics Engine
• Scientific Java simulations
• Java Thread Utils
• Java Signals
• Misc Java Tools

Conference/Workshop related

• LCR 2002
• Hotel Harrington
• IEEE Paper guidelines

If you're planning a trip...

... in Holland.

• NS (Dutch railways)
• 9292OV (Public transport information)

... in the Europe.

• Hostels in Europe

... in the US.

• SmartPages (The GoudenGids of the US)
• Bass Hotels (expensive hotels)
• Hotel Discount (cheaper hotels)
• Hotel reservations for San Francisco and Silicon Valley (works great!)

... or somewhere else.

• TimeOut

Want to go shopping ?

• Thinkgeek (cool stuff)
• BOL (books, cd's)
• Shop.nl (cd's, dvd's and more)
• Alternate (computer hardware)
• MyCom (computer hardware)
• Aanbiedingen in Amsterdam

Music

• Alanis Morissette
• Alanis Morissette Net
• Sarah McLachlan
• Transister
• Fiona Apple
• Nillson
• Anouk
• Patti Rothberg
• Jonatha Brooke
• Blof
• The ultimate band list

Digital Video

TV-Card Hardware

• Hauppage
• Anubis
• Aims Lab
• Miro
• Conextant (builds the bt8xx chips)
• Alternative BTTV drivers (windows)
• TV card reviews

TV-Card Software

• Tvtime (great tv-viewer for linux)
• Homebrew PVR project
• Zapping (gnome based)
• KDEtv (kde based)
• xawtv (the original tv application for linux)
• xawdecode
• fftv
• Linux Hollywood+ Driver
• Linux DV editing Software
• MPEG.ORG
• Linux VCR Software (old)
• BTTV drivers (old)

DVD Hardware

• Sigma Designs (Hollywood+ DVD decoders)
• Region-free DVD players
• More region-free DVD players
• Yamakawa (stand alone DVD/MP3 decoders)
• Raite FAQ page (same hardware as above)
• Comtronics (sells DVD/MP3 decoders)

DVD Software

• Misc. DVD info and links
• The Dutch DVD-site
• RoDisc
• Linux Hollywood+ Driver

Misc

• DivX
• Fiasco (fractal compression)

Digital Audio

• Lame MP3 encoder
• Ogg Vorbis
• Ogg Vorbis (another site)
• Ogg Vorbis decoder in Java (no joke!)
• Comparing quality
• MP3 Links
• Java MP3 Decoder

Scanner Software

• SANE scanner API

Psion

• FreePoc
• The Psion Series 5 Information Site
• Psion Infrared Communications Software
• Gameboy Emulator
• Psion Links
• File formats of the Psion 3
• arb's Psion Software
• Psion Series 5 Web Ring
• Psion 5 File Conversion
• Psion galore!

Digital Postcards

• CardCentral
• 1001 Postcards
• Amazon
• Hallmark
• Corbis
• Care2

Misc

• Official site of the Dutch Government

Buying or renting a house

• NVM
• NVM (regio haarlem)
• ERA
• Koophuis
• Woonkrant
• Digimmo
• Beukering Makelaardij
• huistekoop
• Mortgage calculation

Laptop

• Drivers for my laptop
• Drivers for my laptop (ftp site)
• Linux FAQ for Laptop
• Drivers for wireless lan card

PhD Related Links

• cJVM: parallel JVM that runs on a cluster.
• Titanium: explicitly parallel Java dialect.
• JavaParty: (more) transparent remote objects in Java.
• Do!: framework for parallel programming in Java
• DPJ: library for data parallel Java (mpi wrapper)
• Java//: group communication in Java
• NexusRMI: alternative RMI implementation
• mpiJava: Java bindings to mpi
• JOMP: OpenMP like directives for shared memory parallel Java
• HPJava page
• JavaGrande
• mobile java threads
• Kaffemik Java/DSM
• MPJ
• mpiJava
• JavaMPI

Web Mail

• Vrije Universiteit