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Hey! As a many of you know the Seshan.XYZ Server is a PowerMac G5 running Ubuntu Server 16.04 (which happens to be the last version of Ubuntu that Canonical provides PowerPC support for). Seshan.XYZ Server… the side panel has since been cleaned. When I bought this G5 originally it didn’t have a HDD, and so I just picked out a random SATA HDD that I had lying around. It was some random 80GB 7200RPM drive, and was fairly old since it was pulled out of a P4 OptiPlex....

For those running HTPC, a lot of you probably know about the youtube.com/tv Web UI (also known as Leanback). If you don’t know, Leanback is a fully featured YouTube experience designed for… well TVs and Remotes. It also bundles other nice TV features like the ability to “cast” to the TV. And all it needs is a browsers! Sadly it appears Google is not longer letting normal browsers access YouTube TV… but there is a solution!...

If you’ve tried to install Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11), and potentially other versions of OS X… you’ll run into a problem. As it turns out, the certificates used to sign the OS X installer images stopped being valid sometime in 2019. And since these are older OS installers, Apple never renewed the certificates. Thankfully, there is an easy solution. All you need to do is set go to “Utilities” in the installer, select the Terminal, set the date to something before the certificates expired, and then reboot and try again....

After playing with some old Macs in my Computer Engineering class, I had a itch to play with some classic Mac OS on some of my own Macs. Sadly, the only PowerPC Mac I have is a 12″ PowerBook G4. It’s an awesome machine, but it’s too new to support OS 9. Or atleast I thought… Thanks to various community efforts (OS 9 still has quite the following even after Apple introduced OS X), OS 9 can boot on all sorts of newer PowerPC Apple hardware!...

Considering that I was born in (and still live in) Ontario, I’ve always been interested in the various services, infrastructure, etc, that keep our province ticking. In particular, Ontario’s energy generation is actually quite nice. If you take a look at the page I embedded above, you’ll be able to see a live breakdown of where Ontario’s energy is being produced from. If you take a look at the percentages, you’ll notice that it’ll be anywhere from 85-90% clean energy!...