Usually I’m using self-signed HTTPs certificates on my servers which causes all browser to complain about a potential security risk, which is basically a good idea. Though I always felt that the HTTP/s warning of chromiums location bar is somehow exaggerated (striked out https with a thick red line) it’s nothing compared to what the latest chromium build shows you — that’s more than just ridiculous:
From the Sport1 Live Ticker:
Source: http://ticker.sport1.de/liveticker/fussball/wm/sport1.de/index.html#/2,2,2010,5,11418/
Honestly, I doubt that New Zealand lost against New Zealand during the FIFA World Cup in 1982. The “Kiwis” lost against: Soviet Union, Brasil and Scotland (Wikipedia: New Zealand National Football Team).
Today, Amorphis released a trailer of the long awaited “Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes” Live-DVD:
Can’t await to get that piece!
Holy Shit! Actually I’m not that much into classical metal music, but this really kicks ass:
Amazing! 10 Genres of Metal in 3 Minutes by Raz Ben Ari:
中国摇滚乐 (China Rocks). As you can probably assume this part of my Asian Metal Bands-series is about chinese bands. Why do they rock? China has a pretty large rock/metal scene and slowly their are finding to an own identity
In the previous part of the series, I complained a bit about the fact that it was difficult to choose just a few bands from all those great bands, but I can assure you, in case of the chinese bands that task was even harder.
The foundational line up of China’s first Metal Core Band Ego Fall came from the former inner Mongolian Grunge band called Subconscious (潜意识 QianYiShi) which was found back in 2000.
One year later, a new vocalist and a guitarist came into the band and led the music changed more towards metal style. In the beginning of 2004 the band name was officially changed to Against Me, and the music tend more into power metal. 2005 the initial vocalist and guitarist returned and brought their Melodic Death Metal influences into band. Now with two shouters on stage they also let different elements like industrial, NuMetal etc. flow into their music and mix it all up into nowadays Metal Core Style.
Up to date they released one album “Spirit of Mongolia” (2008) as Ego Fall.
The Rule in Troubled Times from Spirit of Mongolia
The 14th April 2010 is a raven-hued day for me as well as for the music scene in general and the metal scene in particular. It’s the day on which Peter Steele, the lead singer, bassist and composer of the Gothic Metal band Type O Negative had succumbed to a heart attack at an age of 48 years.
The death news has been confirmed by fellow bandmate Kenny Hickey and also by Fuse Host Mistress Juliya and Revolver’s editor in chief Brandon Geist who posted messages on their twitter.
There have been rumours about Peter Steeles death in 2005, as Type O Negative announced the reputed demise of their singer on the bands homepage. The hoax also included the cause of death: heart attack. It must be irony of fate that Peter Steele succumbed to a heart attack now, but I’m pretty sure that Peter would like that kind of humour and would laughing his ass off.
In April 2007, Pete revealed that he had embraced the Roman Catholic faith after many years of atheism. In an interview with U.S. metal magazine Decibel, he said:
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realise my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what’s after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it’s a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can’t believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.
The very first time I heardt about Type O Negative was in 1993 as the video of ‘Christian Woman’ has been presented during the legendary MTV show Headbangers Ball. The song got me from the very first moment and so I bought their album ‘Bloody Kisses’ – and in the end I’m owning all of their records.
I became a real fan of Peter Steele and Type O Negative in particular, and I’ve been always drooling over their next release. Unfortunately I did not have the chance to see them live on stage, and I’m sad that I won’t have that chance anymore.
My heart, support and thoughts are with his family, Kenny Hickey, Josh Silver and John Kelly. I wish you will have the strength to tide over those dark and bad times.
Steele’s death is a serious loss to music and he would be remembered for his notable contribution to the world of music.
Rest in Peace, Peter. Thanks for the gifts you left behind. We will miss you.
Welcome to the second article of my Asian Metal Bands-series. In this part I will cover the metal scene of (South) Korea and it was really a hard task to break all those great bands down to a few.
Oathean is a korean melodic black metal band that has been formed 1993 originally under the name Odin, but changed their name three years later after a short hiatus.
Neither their lyrical themes are subject to satanism or anti-christianity nor they are using corpsepaint which is actually typical for black metal bands. Their lyrics mainly deal with depression and sadness and they incorporate influences of folk metal as well as korean world music with the use of traditional korean instruments.
Since their name change, Oathean has released five albums: “The Eyes of Tremendous Sorrow” (1998), “Ten Days in Lachrymation” (2001), “The Last Desperate 10 Years as Ever” (2003, containing the 1997 demo and remastered old songs), “Fading Away into the Grave of Nothingness” (2004), “The Eyes of Tremendous Sorrow + As a Solitary Tree Against the Sky” (2005, containing five new songs and the first album) and “Regarding All the Sadness of the World” (2008).
Cruel Sadness from Regarding All the Sadness of the World:
Configuring my Palm Pre to use IMAP over SSL with a self-signed certificate really drove me nuts and it took some time to figure out how it works. Sadly the Pre just complains about an invalid certificate instead of offering an accept dialog.
Nevertheless, self-signed certificates are working with the Pre, it’s just a bit more work. Here’s a simple step-by-step guide how to achieve that.
The Certificate Manager of the Palm Pre only accepts DER encoded X509 certificates, so we need to convert our PEM to DER. The simplest way to achive that, is using OpenSSL.
1 | $ openssl x509 -outform der -in certificate.pem -out certificate.der |
Now you need to plug your Pre to your computer and copy the DER file to any folder on your Pre.
Follow those steps to open the very good hidden Certificate Manager of the Palm Pre:
On the bottom left you will see the add icon, simply tip on it and choose the above mentioned file.
That’s it!