Author: markus

No more spilled coffee

Have you ever seen the magic a steadycam can do for your video footage? Now there’s the same kind of magic… for your coffee!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-yOJ5cDtA]

You can get your own SpillNot Mug Holder at ThinkGeek for about $14. Thank you, gravity! :)

BBC cuteness overload

With Ooh’s and Ahh’s galore this video clip collection celebrates a world of adorable animal babies. Fluffy chicks, cute cubs and playful pups have the power to melt even the most hard-hearted human. Yet just because they are cute doesn’t mean they have life their own way. It takes a lot of determination, resourcefulness and even the odd helping hand to grow up in today’s world!

Pwn’ing the 99 percent

Quick summary: 99% of those 99 percent appear to be… just a tiny little bit… retarded.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGL-Ex1CD1c]

Last week, Reason.tv followed investment guru, radio show host, and unflappable defender of capitalism Peter Schiff as he spent three hours among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.

An unapologetic member of “the 1 Percent,” Schiff argued with all comers for the better part of an afternoon.

Schiff is no ordinary observer. As the prinicipal of the financial firm Euro Pacific Capital, he’s a full-fledged and unapologetic member of “the 1 Percent.” As an outspoken radio show host and commentator, he not only predicted the housing crash and financial crisis, he railed bank and auto-sector bailouts as they were happening. Schiff believes that capitalism offers is the only hope for young, frustrated people to have a vibrant and prosperous future. So he went to Occupy Wall Street to engage and debate the protesters.

Touring the Occupy Wall Street scene in New York with a sign that read “I Am the 1%, Let’s Talk,” Schiff spent more than three hours on the scene, explaining the difference between cronyism and capitalism, bailouts and balance sheets, and more.

“The regulation we want is the market,” said Schiff. “That’s what works.”

Schiff describes himself as “sympathetic” to the plight of the OWS protesters, but thinks their anger is misdirected at legitimate business interests and should be better at the White House, Congress, the Federal Reserve, and the crony capitalists they’ve bailed out.

PositiveSSL not working with Android?

Namecheap currently offers one of the most affordable ways to get a (not self-signed) SSL cert to use with your web-/mailserver – the only drawback being, that it isn’t signed by a CA Root, but through some subsidiaries, which means you’ll also have to install a supplied CA bundle on the server or else you’ll get a bunch of SSL errors.

With dovecot as POP/IMAP server, that’s actually quite easy – just put all the certs in single file, starting with your servers cert and followed by the three certs supplied by Namecheap/Comodo.

This should work fine with most mail clients, like Thunderbird or Evolution. The cert also worked with Apache for HTTPS. But for some reason, it didn’t work with my Android mail app.

Turns out, Android can be quite picky about the order of the cert chain…

#~$ echo|openssl s_client -connect yourserver.tld:993
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=3 /C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=PositiveSSL/CN=yourserver.tld
   i:/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=Comodo CA Limited/CN=PositiveSSL CA
 1 s:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root
   i:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root
 2 s:/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=Comodo CA Limited/CN=PositiveSSL CA
   i:/C=US/ST=UT/L=Salt Lake City/O=The USERTRUST Network/OU=http://www.usertrust.com/CN=UTN-USERFirst-Hardware
 3 s:/C=US/ST=UT/L=Salt Lake City/O=The USERTRUST Network/OU=http://www.usertrust.com/CN=UTN-USERFirst-Hardware
   i:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root

If the certs are in any other order, Android threw an error. So your cert file should contain (again: in that order):

  1. Your Cert as supplied by Namecheap/Comodo/…
  2. PositiveSSLCA.crt
  3. UTNAddTrustServerCA.crt
  4. AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt

So you think know how to ride a bike…

Unless you can do it like this guy, you don’t…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShbC5yVqOdI]

Industrial Revolutions is the amazing new film from street trials riding star Danny Macaskill. Filmed and edited for Channel 4 ‘s documentary Concrete Circus.

Industrial Revolutions sees Danny take his incredible bike skills into an industrial train yard and some derelict buildings.’ Filmed in the beautiful Scottish countryside Danny Macaskill’s latest film was directed by Stu Thomson (Cut Media/MTBcut) for Channel 4’s documentary Concrete Circus.

www.CutMedia.com
www.DannyMacaskill.com

Music is ‘The Wolves’ by Ben Howard courtesy of Universal Island Records