One of the unique kit in the SDCS which includes the Silhouette frame. Hence, there is no need to purchase the CS kit if you want to convert the Barbatos to use the Silhouette frame.
Continue readingBandai SDCS Gundam Barbatos Lupus Rex
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Kotobukiya DStyle Optimus Prime
So far this is the best DStyle kit I have ever, the Optimus Prime build is fun and the mouth piece is movable. The finish model is highly detailed and not lacking accessories. This kit was found to be packed on Christmas of 2014.
Continue readingKotobukiya DStyle ARX-7 Arbalest
An old kit which was first introduced in 2011, some stamp in the kit suggested that the kit was packed on 25th November 2011. This is a more primitive kit compared to most of the DStyle kit.
The most complicated part to build is the head unit.
Continue readingHow to upgrade an old laptop that is lagging
First assuming that compatible hardware is available, get compatible SODIMM RAM. and identify type of hard disk your laptop can use.
General idea, check the laptop user manual to identify what are the maximum RAM that are supported total, what are the maximum RAM supported in a slot. And importantly does the motherboard chipset of your laptop supports SODIMM that are different capacity. Clock speed as long as its higher than the laptop spec, the motherboard chipset will automatically tune the RAM Clock speed to match the maximum speed supported by the motherboard.
For context, the old laptop for upgrade is an Acer Aspire E5-475 which comes with 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD that has an Intel i5-7200U CPU at 2.5GHz.
Kotobukiya D-Style Chirico Red Shoulder Scope Dog Turbo Custom
ScopeDog Turbo Custom is one of the more complicated DStyle model kit line from Kotobukiya. The ScopeDog is based on the anime series Armored Trooper VOTOMS which was first aired in 1983. The series was created, to jump on the real robot genre in the early 1980s. Despite aged hand drawn animation, the story has a charm of its own, battle in the animation is brutal and it is in the league of its own.
This model kit despite being Deformed, manage the catch the aesthetics of the VOTOM real robot.
Continue readingMeasuring how much time vagrant up is using to complete orchestration
A little bit of effort to search the net and encountering the solution, powershell will is a simple way to measure time spent executing a command. In Linux environment, time command can be used, but in this post, it is limited to Windows environment.
Based on the conventional wisdom from the documentation of Measure-Command of powershell. The command would be as follows:
Measure-Command {vagrant up}However, by running the above powershell command, the output to the screen will be not available.
Hence, more searching in the internet (Source: time – Timing a command’s execution in PowerShell – Stack Overflow) leads to the complete command below:
Measure-Command {vagrant up|Out-Default}
Based on the previous post of the vagrant orchestration of GitLab, the orchestration takes about 50 minutes in my computer with timedotcom broadband connection.
Conclusion, measure-command is easy way but lack of detail such as time spent on CPU, IDLE time and network operations time. It will not be suitable for use if more details are needed.
How to use Hashicorp Vagrant to quickstart GitLab docker compose sample
The code of the project is available at chowkarmeng/vagrant_gitlab (github.com), the docker compose is based on the sample provided in GitLab Docker images | GitLab
The improvement done was to change the folder sync for virtual box into docker volumes.
First, git clone the repository https://github.com/chowkarmeng/vagrant_gitlab.git
The process will take hours depending on the speed of your computer and speed of your internet connection.
Continue readingBandai HG 1/60 ARX-7 Arbalest version I.V.
The plastic model kit is the rendition of ARX-7 Arbalest in the Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory. Despite a 1/60 scale, it is just a small model after build. The impressive aspect of this kit is that it has good articulations and high detail, as what is expected from a modern model kit produced by Bandai.
Continue readingUnboxing Metal Build ARX-8 Laevatein Version I.V.
It has been ages waiting for this product to be released by Bandai. Icing on the cake, Bandai just release this figure in its highly detailed and high-quality line collectible the Metal Build. Laevatein for fans of Full Metal Panic series knows it is a major upgrade of ARX-7 Arbalest after Sousuke defeated by Leonard.
It has some heft to the box and package, not overly complicated box art.
Nothing too fancy, from the back of the package, just overview of the Laevatein with accessories and how the base can be used as a weapon storage and display stand.
Continue readingMaking your windows RDP accessible from your home network
It is simple to make your computer in your home LAN accessible from internet.
The pre-requisite would be understanding how Network Address Translation works. To make the dynamic IP of ISP provide to your home internet access, feel free to research into finding Dynamic DNS providers. This will make it easier than using websites like whatismyip.com . And you just need to fire up the RDP client, and use the Dynamic DNS FQDN which will be always pointing to your static IP.
Depending on the network equipment used in your home or provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), you may need to look for NAT or in my case IPv4 port mapping.
The screenshot above, shows how to create a NAT mapping or a IPv4 port mapping for a computer with LAN IP, 192.168.100.12, take note that the port of RDP is 3389 and the protocol used is TCP. Hence, the internal port must be numbered 3389.
External port set to 3389 are for the sake of simplicity.
If there are more host in your LAN need to be accessible from the internet remotely using RDP, there is no need to change the default port of RDP of your host.
Instead, use the known port that is not blocked by your ISP. Example assuming that higher port numbers are not blocked by your ISP, you could use 13389, or 23389, or 33389 or 43389, or 53389 or 63389, as long as it is not more than 65535 or lesser than 1024. Those port number can be used as the External port number, while maintaining the internal port number to 3389.