Charging Port Abnormalities Reminder

 My Zenfone4 showed CHARGING PORT ABNORMALITIES REMINDER without charging nor plugged cable.  It is still shown and annoying.

It may become when I have to purchase the new smartphone...

KNOPPIX 9.1 CD version

KNOPPIX is the very useful OS based on Debian linux, and can be run from live CD. However, recent versions of KNOPPIX became bigger more than 4GB needs DVD.  It can be installed on a USB flash media.

Easy2Boot is also very useful utility which can boot multiple OSs from ISO files stored in the single removal flash media.  But, recent KNOPPIXs were very difficult (not impossible) to be treated by E2B because KNOPPIX ISOs (>4GB) were not stored in the FAT32 drive of E2B.

In KNOPPIX 9.1, CD image is also released after several years !! It can become loaded by E2B.

KNOPPIX9.1 with E2B is the very powerful and portable tool for our computing life!! 

Wakayama ramen Ide shoten

 I traveled to Wakayama city in Japan and tried Wakayama ramen.

I went to Ide shoten which is very old and famous ramen restaurant in  Wakayama.

This ramen is Porky soup and soy sauce taste (Tonkotsu-shoyu) with many roasted pork slices. So good!!

But, the inside of this restaurant was very dirty.

Mauritius underwater waterfall from airplane

When I went to Mauritius, I could see it from Airplane.

Raspberry pi zero and USB3 memory stick

Raspberry pi Zero (Pi-Zero) may not be able to recognize USB3 devices because of a power shortage of USB port. My Extreme Pro USB3.0 stick (128G, SANDISK) is not recognized by Pi-Zero without using a self-powered USB hub. However, a self-powered USB hub is too inconvenience to carry due to a bulky AC adapter.

The "max_usb_current=1" in the /boot/config.txt, which changes the Maximum USB current to 1.2 A, is not effective for Pi-Zero

I am using "Double-Powered USB hub (USB-HUB227WH3, SANWA supply, JAPAN)" which I bought very long ago.

If the Red connector is connected to a USB port or a power adapter, electrical power of USB hub is overloaded above 1A, like a self-powered Hub.  It can also be used as a bus-powered hub without using the Red connector.

With the USB-OTG setting, My USB3.0 memory stick can be used in Pi-Zero by connecting the red connecter to a 1A power adapter only.

Needless to say, just USB2.0 speed.

HDMI to VGA Converter may become alternative of HDMI Display Emulator for headless PC

Most of stick PC including my Meegopad T-01 cannot be used without monitor (headless PC).  HDMI dummy plug (Display Emulator) must be necessary.

However,  HDMI to VGA Converter which is no use at present may become alternative of Display Emulator. I can access the monitor-less Meegopad T-01 by remote desktop with VGA converter.

Remote desktop on Ubuntu-Mate for Raspberry pi

The long-awaited Ubuntu-Mate 18.04 for Raspberry pi is disclosed !!

I immediately installed for my Raspberry pi3.

However, the remote desktop from windows (xRDP) does not work well but only shows black screen.

From web information, several configurations are required for xRDP on ubuntu-mate 18.04.

My setting for xRDP and more is below.

1.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

2. (not for xRDP)

sudo apt-get install hardinfo ntp cifs-utils

3.

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver xrdp

4. EDIT "/etc/xrdp/startwm.sh"

Insert below two lines 

             unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

             exec mate-session

before the line "test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession"

5. EDIT "/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config"

Add below to the last line

           allowed_users=anybody

           needs_root_rights=no

6. EDIT "/boot/config.txt" (not for xRDP)

Add below to the last line

           # turn power LED into heartbeat

           dtparam=pwr_led_trigger=heartbeat

7.

sudo reboot

Goethe Monument at Vienna

Last month, I traveled to Vienna.

The Goethe monument

He is listening something... 

Broken Leatherman Tread

Leatherman Tread is very cool. I found and bought it at last month. But I noticed my tread was already broken....

The "UNUSED" carbide glass breaker was left out without my noticing.  Too sad!!

Bose Bluetooth headset Battery replacement

The battery of my favorite Bose Bluetooth headset is almost dead!!

I replaced new battery bought at Akihabara.

New battery 3.7V 85mAh, originaly 90mAh

Disassemble headset

Notice two holding pins.

Lithium polymer battery must be soldered carefully.

My Bose headset becomes refleshed!!

Nov. 5. 2017 added

Dear many friends!!

Thank you for much comments. I'm sorry because my Bose headset has broken....

MHL adapter doesn't work on Zenfone2

I bought Zenfone2 4G model recently.  It's very cool !!
But, my MHL adapter didn't work.  It is also reproted here and here.

MX200 firmware update

A new firmware of MX200 SSD was released.

A system recovery image had been created, just in case.

Then, updated.

All existing data stored on SSD were preserved after updating.

Benchmarking by CrystalDiskMark version3 (MX200 500GB / mSATA3 / D54250WYKH).

The general performance seems to be inferior to the previous firmware?

Windows10 installed on Meegopad T01

Windows10 was released!!  I tried to install onto my Meegopad T01.

First, the upgrading from windows8.1 was performed.

About 2/3 of 32GB eMMC was used.

Display adapter and some devices were needed to be recognized manually as same as Windows 10TP.

Next, the clean instalation was done.  Windows10pro uses about 9GB of eMMC.

The volume label and the file index option couldn't be modified in windows10.  I wanted them but resulted in error.  However in Safe Mode, They can be modified.

SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Recently, I got SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 Flash Drive.

SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 Flash Drive (SDCZ88-128G)

and, SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive (SDCZ80-064G)

Benchmarking by CrystalDiskMark on my NUC USB3.0 (SDCZ88-128G)

The result of SDCZ80-064G as control

This is nothing but large storage capacity ?

New USB3.0 driver of D54250WYKH

I'm using Intel NUC D54250WYKH.  Recently, I found some new drivers were released on web site.
Today, I tried to install them in my machine.

At the time of USB3.0 driver (Version: 3.0.5.69), I uninstalled the old driver first and then installed the new one.  But, the SETUP showed a driver install error "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements.."

Why?  I tried to install this driver repeatedly or manually at the device maneger.  However, every usb devices became unrecognized completely because of my mistakes.  Neither USB keyboad nor USB mouse work in Windows, Oh my GOD!!
There is the warning message about this trouble on the Intel web.

USB mouse and keyboard were recovered by "Last Known Good Configuration (advanced)" option at the boot menu.

So, I gave up the new driver regretfully and installed the old driver again.  However, the same error message appeared in the old driver.  Why?? I had installed it previously and it worked well until just a while ago.
I considered and then remembered about BIOS update.

Downgrading BIOS from 0040 to 0035 was done.  And the new USB3.0 driver was re-tried.

Now, the installation was completed!!

The BIOS version 0040 may have bugs?

Belated CPU upgrade of DELL Inspiron 531s

I got a Athlon 64 X2 6000+ at the very low price of bargain corner.

I upgraded CPU in my DELL inspiron 5351s that Athlon 64 X2 5600+ was originally equipped.

It was very easy to assemble this machine.

Only 0.1 point up on the processor subscore.

This CPU upgrading improved performance a little dispite its power consumption (65W of Athlon X2 5600+ / 89W of Athlon X2 6000+).

  

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)