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The Dutch student Danny Groenewegen and Pieter Lange wrote for her master’s thesis the “Extended DNSSec Validator” to check with the Firefox users the idea for the identity of visited Web pages.

The addon from knocks whether a site is secured DNSSec, whether that is a proof of the website operator alleged assignment of domain names and IP address is authentic. There looks to whether there are corresponding certificates. The result is the Firefox in its identity-icon display.

The addon was created as part of a research project at the NLnet Foundation, denied holding the two Dutch students at the University of Amsterdam, her master’s thesis. The NLnet Foundation last year set up fund in which they will promote further development of the DNSSEC. The resulting extension with the fragile version of Summer “12:42 Alpha” and runs only on Firefox 4, which is still in beta status. The authors also because they understand rather than proof of concept. Your software, the authors present only on their website https: / / os3sec.org download the. They want, they write, a number of fix bugs before putting them on the official Mozilla add-on page load. The GPLv3-licensed code it is on github .

In DNSSec created a name service as the Denic a cryptographic certificate (TLD) certificate for a top-level domain, in the case of Denic for. “De”. The owner of a domain can be from TLD operator cryptographically confirm that he actually owns the domain. This evidence he can in the form of a TLD certificate store on its DNS server. A DNS request may have grossly simplified three states: a) DNSSEC moderately all right, b) we have unfortunately no DNSSec c) Alarm: DNSsec says, there’s something strange. The Firefox Extension that builds a) b) c) decision in the browser and displays a color code, which was the result of the DNSSEC validation.
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The free GUI toolkit GTK + is available in version 3.0.

In addition to a thorough cleanup of the stock code, the developers of Gtk + (GIMP Toolkit) have also introduced innovations. This druchgehende the use of Cairo is part of the Drawing. The obsolete X11 drawing API has disappeared.

In addition, the toolkit is now Xinput 2 (XI2) and can therefore deal with several pointing devices and keyboards. For this integration, Matthias Clasen thanks in his blog entry for the release
From the same developer is also a new theming API, the Gtk + applications by using CSS syntax including animated transitions embellished.
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Global Scale Technologies has announced a new plug with the dream Plug-computer that will operate with a power consumption of 5 watts. Like the other plug-based computer from Global Scale and the Dream plug on Marvell’s Sheeva platform, which consists of a clocked at 1200 MHz ARMv5 processor and multiple interfaces.

The Dream of the equipment is similar to plug her the guru Plug Server Plus. But other than that he does not need a fan, can accommodate microSD cards instead of the faster SD cards and has a microphone input and an audio output.

The little computer has access to 512 MB of DDR2 RAM and features a 2 MB flash memory, which is mounted on the motherboard and contains the boot loader submarine. An operating system and user data can be stored on a MicroSD card installed internally, with a capacity of 1 GB or on an external storage medium.
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Published a set of patches to support hardware-accelerated video adapters series Radeon HD 6000. The code is based on working hours, made for a series of Evergreen. Switching between modes is now only works through KMS, 3D acceleration works partly through the Mesa, in part – through Gallium3D. Implemented acceleration X-Video.

Patches for Mesa entered in the release 7.10, patches for the DRM will be included in the core of 02/06/1938. The driver does not support Radeon HD 6900.

The manufacturer has updated its Compulab miniature computers: As Fit-PC2i he brings with stronger hardware and new features.

The fanless computer with the dimensions 11.5 x 10.1 x 2.7 cm and a power consumption of 8 watts is used mainly for industrial applications. The wishes of this group of customers can boot according to the new model of mini-SD card and can be a LAN wake up from standby mode. In addition, the unit now has an Atom Z550 processor, 2 GHz and 2 GB of DDR2-533 RAM.
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That 2010 is the year of 3D is now out of question. The largest TV makers have launched the first models capable of displaying content in three dimensions, just in time for the start of the World Cup and South Africa in June last year, Nintendo has unveiled its new handheld console can display 3D images without having to wear glasses. It is now the turn of Hasbro, in a lecture yesterday revealed its intention to sell My3D by next spring.

This is an accessory design that closely resembles the stereo viewer View-Master invented in the late 30s, with a slot to be used on the iPhone (or iPod touch) and two lenses through which to look, designed to bring all also the potential of 3D on mobile devices from Apple.
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Very good at all. Today I will make a brief post of a new product that has come into my hands a few days ago and on which I have spent a little time to do some tests. You know that whenever I can share here in my blog things (which in my opinion) could be interesting.

The product that I will discuss is called DPC (or Cellular Development Platform for those who like me do not like the cold too short). A team of the company Multitech .
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I was visiting a friend of mine, Dennis Jensen, while I was in Florianopolis, Brazil. During my visit I started telling Dennis about the period of 1975 to 1978 when some people were building computers from kits by soldering integrated circuits with hand soldering irons to the printed circuit boards. Many of my friends computer built these types of kits, including me.

I remember one kit in particular, purchased by my supervisor at Aetna Life and Casualty, where the directions on how to assemble the system often did not match the circuit diagram, and neither matched the holes in the printed circuit board. This led to some late-night head-banging, trying to figure out Which of the three compoents was right. Typically “the hole” won out, but sometimes it was a close race.
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A computer consists of an assembly of devices. In order to control each of its devices, the operating system needs a software interface between it and the material, called driver for each program to the operating system to manage hardware.

The driver’s role is to play the intermediary between the system and expansion cards or external devices, …

Drivers are developed by manufacturers of equipment to which they correspond. However, although your equipment (hardware) does not change (no mutant), it is possible that the hardware manufacturer provides few months later a new version of the driver and its easy to get windows driver updates.

Indeed, software has constantly bugs (software errors), or they can sometimes only be detected after a test with a large number of people and manufacturers rarely have time to pursue this type of testing . In addition to the evolution of materials sometimes a material that is compatible with “all” existing devices become incompatible with a type of equipment after its appearance or its evolution.

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We continue with the curiosities. In this case, the construction of a cluster “home.” A cluster is a set of systems that operate as if it were a single computer. How to build your own cluster without facing a huge financial outlay? In this blog shows how, with a little imagination and knowledge, systems GNU / Linux and a little tinkering, you can build a joint network of systems without spending much money.

Obviously, not everyone needs to gather as much computing power for everyday tasks but we must carry out tasks usually demand a lot of computing power, a cluster may be an optimal solution.

How much can cost a cluster? “Thousands and thousands of dollars? Perhaps, but obscuredclarity “only” have paid $ 2,550.11 for mounting. At current exchange rates is less than 1,900 euros. Let’s see:
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