SSD upgrade of iMac late 2006

SSD upgrading was perfomed on My iMac late 2006 according to IFIXIT's guide.

I replaced HDD by mSATA SSD 32G with mSATA-SATA converter.

Moreover, internal cleaning was done.

Installing Mavericks.

Commemorative Coins for the 50th Anniversary of the Shinkansen

I got the commemorative coins for the 50th anniversary of the Shinkansen (新幹線, bullet train).

They are the five kinds of 100 JPY coins. The details in here (japanese).

Ubuntu MATE on INTEL-iMac late 2006

I tried to install Ubuntu-MATE 14.04 (ubuntu-mate-14.04.2-LTS-desktop-amd64+mac.iso) on my iMac late2006 (core2duo 2.16GHz), which had been retired recently.
Ubuntu was installed with pure EFI booting instead of Bootcamp because OSX was no longer used.  Unlike the case of PPC-Mac, the installation was easily done.

But, the long-time whiteout screen appears before booting when turn on the power.  According to here,  this boot delay occurs when installed by Mac-EFI mode.  Immediately, I tried to remove the boot delay by this instruction.

However, I couldn't run efibootmgr because "modprobe efivars" was never effected.

Next, I tried easyUEFI on bootable windowsPE, but the bootable disk created by easyUEFI didn't boot on my iMac. 

The Bootcamp mode (MBR) rather than EFI mode seems to be troubleless when using ubuntu on Intel-Mac.

JAL sky wifi in the domestic flight

JAL sky wifi provides the fared internet connection service in the domestic flight of Japan.  It also provides some free video entertainments including anime, sport, comedy, etc.

I enjoyed free videos very much during the flight.

Dazaifu Tenmangu

Dazaifu Tenmangu at Fukuoka, Japan, enshrining the God of literature or scholarship.

Umegaemochi (梅ヶ枝餅), the baked rice-cake sweets, are very popular local foods.  The fleshly baked ones are delicious due to hotness and scroch.

McDonald's breakfast

Japanese McDonald's breakfast menu "Pancake meal set".

The strawberry pie for a limited time.

Lubuntu 14.04.2 for PowerPC

I installed the second point release of lubuntu 14.04.2 cleanly on my powermac G5 (2.0G Dualcore, late2005, GeForce6600LE).  After installation, the openbox syntax error was shown.

On investigation, "lubuntu-rc.xml" file was missing on the specified location.  I copied this file from live CD to the specified location, then it works fine (till now ?).

On live CD

sudo cp /home/lubuntu/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml /media/lubuntu/[installed drive]/home/[username]/.config/openbox/

In addition, the yaboot parameter "nouveau.noaccel=1" was needed for 3.16.0-30 kernel (the original installed kernel of lubuntu 14.04.2), but unneceessary in updated 3.16.0-33 kernel, and the sound problem must be fixed manually in the same way as lubuntu 15.04.