Benchmarking old crap

 Why not.

Number 1: Sharp Laptop

Basic stats:

• Name: Sharp Mebius Note PC-FJ30Z
  
• CPU: Intel Mobile Celeron 333 MHz
• RAM: 192 MB SDRAM 66MHZ
• GPU: Trident Cyber 9388 2MB
• Chipset: Intel 82440BX/2X
  
• HDD: 30 GB IDE
• OS: Windows98SE Japan (of course)
• CDROM: Matshita UJDA130
• Keyboard: 106-Key Japanese
  
• Audio: ESS  ES1978 Maestro-2E PCI Audio
  
• Modem: Internal 55.6kbs
  
• Network: PCMCIA
• PLANEX FW-300TX Fast-Ethernet
  
• Screen: 800x600 TFT
  
• Bios Date: 1999-04-09
• External Ports:
• USB 1.0 1x
• Floppy
• IR
• PS/2
• VGA
• Serial 1x
• LPT
• Modem
  

Results:

• DOS (in Windows box)
• in Windows
  
• PC Player 640x480 27.1
• Doom (HiRes) timed 2134 gametics in 1053 realtics
• Quake 640x480: 969 FRAMES 16.9 Seconds = 57.3 FPS
• in pure DOS
• Playhouse 163.1
• PC Player 640x480 21.1
• Doom: exactly the same as above
• Quake 640x480 58.0 FPS
• Sysinfo CPU Speed: 829.5
• Windows:
• PCMark 2002
• CPU score: 858
• other tests wouldn't run
• HWInfo
• CPU: 3453
• FPU: 3286
• MMX: 1660
• Memory: 139 MB/s
  

 Some Pictures:

New "Mac" VS "The Beast"

 Out of curiosity - how does my as cheap as possible "mac" compare to the 10 year old "beast". 

The beast:

CPU: Intel Xeon X5560

The "mac":

CPU: Intel Core i3-9100

I guess I should consider updating the beast :-) A nice AMD - maybe with 64 GB RAM for all those KVMs.

vagrant virtualbox libvirt vs me

A note about vagrant and virtualbox running on hyper-visors that run libvirt (KVM/qemu).

In my setup, I run libvirt on my workstation and run multiple KVMs.
For some tutorials, I needed to be able to run vagrant. Vagrant has a plugin for libvirt, but unfortunately it seems like almost no boxes (I was looking for bento-boxes) support the libvirt provider.

Since these boxes I need to run additionally for this tutorial are rather small and not very busy, I decided to run them without hardware acceleration. This has it's down-sides of course - SLOW, but I don't mind.

To tell vagrant that you do want to run the virtualbox provider without hardware acceleration add a section like this to your Vagrantfile:

 config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--hwvirtex", "off"]
 end

Changing SIM card on NTT DOCOMO

Quick note on changing/activating a new SIM card on NTT Docomo...

...  when switching to a new phone

So I changed my "Smart Phone" from nasty domestic to nasty Korean brand.
I ordered everything through the Docomo Online shop, which was a challenge by itself (J-IT Mess).
 The new phone arrived with a new SIM in the right physical form factor (Nano), I thought there would be some kind of automatic or semi-automatic switch-over, but apparently that was not the case.
 I tried my luck reading through the instructions on how to do this online, but I could not get this figured out. I cannot see any point in the "Online Contract Change" or however one would translate this.

After calling support, all that needed to be done was:

1. Call 1580 from the new phone (which has the new SIM inserted obviously).
2. Then enter the Network-Anshin-Bango followed by #-sign. 
3. Then confirm with '1' and '#' and voila - done. 

Beats me, why they do not put that in the huge mess of various instructions.
So maybe this helps somebody.

joining mov files from the dash-cam

joining mov files from drive recorder

Note to my self - to join mov files from my drive recorder use ffmpeg like so:

1. Create a text file with the imput files like so:

   file 'REC_20150429_162028A.mov'
   file 'REC_20150429_162228A.mov'
   ...

2. run ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -f concat -i input.txt -c copy output.mp4