Pepper Lunch Diner yodobashi AKIBA

Pepper Lunch is the fast food steakhouse from Japan.
A branch of Pepper Lunch Diner yodobashi AKIBA (japanese), where the cute waitresses dress like maids.

Juicy cut steak (1 lb.)

Trim Enabler cannot support miniPCI-e SSD with SATA2 adapter ?

KingSpec KSM-SMP.5-064MJ is a mini PCI-express type SSD (not mSATA) for some EeePC models.

Trim is also supported.

I tried to install KSM-SMP.5-064MJ into my imac with SATA2 adapter.  

I bought it via Amazon which brand or model number was unknown.

mini PCI-express to SATA adapter (left)

mSATA to SATA adaper (right)

Trim Enabler said "The patch is active but Trim is not working...." even if several rebootings were done.

On windows machine, Trim is supported through miniPCIe-SATA adapter.

And its speed was presented.

A issue of restoring Windows7 system image

I experienced the trouble when restoring Windows7 system image from external USB HDD.  At first, I hypothesized that USB3.0 drivers didn't work well.  However, from my some investgations, Windows7 system image recovery program might lose recovery images if multiple images (or different versions) were stored in "WindowsImageBackup"  folder of the same HDD.  I had stored Windows8.1 (x64, UEFI) image in that folder as well as Windows7 system image (x64, MBR).  After I moved my Windows8.1 system image to another folder, Windows7 recovery program could recgnize my system image properly.

Benchmark test of Windows7 on QEMU / PowerPC linux

At the request, benchmark tests were performed on QEMU-Windows7 on my PowerMac G5.
However, recent releases of PPC-ubuntu were so buggy that most of benchmarking tests became frozen before finishing.

At first, XBENCH score of my PowerMac G5 (2.0G Dualcore, late2005, GeForce6600LE) was shown.
Results 95.64
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Physical RAM 9216 MB
Model PowerMac11,2
Processor PowerPC G5x2 @ 2.00 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 1024K @ 2.00 GHz
Bus Frequency 1 GHz
Drive Type ST3250310AS ST3250310AS
CPU Test 120.88
GCD Loop 91.38 4.82 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 133.56 3.17 Gflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 263.29 10.49 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 106.01 3.50 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 103.06 17.95 Mops/sec
Thread Test 87.05
Computation 103.77 2.10 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 74.97 3.23 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 129.95
System 133.54
Allocate 195.34 717.36 Kalloc/sec
Fill 174.08 8464.22 MB/sec
Copy 86.19 1780.24 MB/sec
Stream 126.55
Copy 125.04 2582.70 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 122.30 2526.64 MB/sec [G5]
Add 127.96 2725.90 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 131.25 2807.67 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 140.32
Line 111.16 7.40 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 130.28 38.90 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 124.51 10.15 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 124.38 3.14 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 345.94 21.64 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 86.62
Spinning Squares 86.62 109.88 frames/sec
User Interface Test 122.17
Elements 122.17 560.71 refresh/sec
Disk Test 52.98
Sequential 137.98
Uncached Write 153.24 94.09 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 137.09 77.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 108.05 31.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 169.08 84.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 32.78
Uncached Write 10.70 1.13 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 85.85 27.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 95.67 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 155.33 28.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Next, the rarely finished result of HDBENCH (japanese) among numerous trials.  The settings were as follow;
           qemu-system-i386 -m 2047 -smp 2,cores=2,sockets=1,threads=1 -localtime -vga std -hda diskimage.qcow2

This is the result of EEEPC 4G-X (celeronM 630MHz, Memory 2GB, GPU Intel 910GML / Intel GMA900), as contorl.

Needless to say, the Windows7 virtual machine by QEMU-PPC linux is very slow.  

Added at 5/21/15

HTML5 benchmark test

(This result of HTML5 benchmark test is NOT comparable with HDBENCH)

Softbank 007z and C01HW don't have GSM mode ?

Recently, I traveled on business to Philadelphia, USA.  I brought my sim-unlocked 007z and C01HW, wifi mobile routers.  My 007z was flashed by 007z for BIZ firmware.  C01HW is a sim-free model originally outside Japan.  As far as I know, it was not obvious whether 007z and C01HW were usable in GSM area or not.  I tried them with T-mobile SIM.

T-mobile USA is using 3G of 1700/2100MHz (AWS), which is of course not supported by 007z nor C01HW.
Softbank 007z and C01HW recognized T-mobile sim but displayed "No Service".  I check every settings on the web-based utillities but they never connected T-mobile USA.  Therefore, it is supposed that 007z and C01HW don't support GSM mode as well as AWS.

My ISW13HT could connect T-Mobile USA at most EDGE speed.

Mavericks on iMac late 2006

In this time, Mavericks was installed on my iMac late2006 according to here.

Check the board-ID and compatible value.

For making an installation image, some files needed to be replaced or modified.  Because I made it from the bootable ISO image, some file permissions had to be changed by "sudo chflags -r nouchg [filename]".

Installing Mavericks.

Installation was failed on the final step but it did not matter.

Mavericks works fine on iMac late 2006.

In my case, a audio fix was needed.  I installed the latest VoodooHDA.pkg, executed Kext Utility.app, and rebooted.

Crucial MX200 SSD

I bought Crucial MX200 for my intel nuc D54250WYKH.

Installing on msata slot easily.

Then, I tried to clone my windows7 system from old SSD to new MX200 by using a system recovery on a windows installation disc from the system image in advance.  BUT, a windows installation disc was not able to recognize a USB3.0 HDD that stored my system image, even if USB3.0 driver was manually installed.  According to web infomations, USB2.0 storages are recommended for a system recovery, however, my NUC doesn't have USB2.0 ports but USB3.0 only.
I also used a windows8 installation disc which was said to support USB3.0 by default.  A system image recovering was started but stopped soon due to an error for mismatching windows version.
A system recovery couldn't also find my backup image although I connected the HDD which had been inside USB3.0 drive to SATA directly.  Finally, I created a backup image again on another USB2.0 HDD.  Nonetheless, the system recovery was still failed because of missing disk to restore in this time.  According to here, it was fixed by "clean" command on DISKPART.  Thus, my system cloning was completed and MX200 was resized.

Benchmarking by CrystalDiskMark (MX200 500GB / mSATA3 / D54250WYKH).