Digitizor
digitizor.com · Group blog · on HN since 2010
Digitizor is a tech news site covering Linux, open source, Android, and Microsoft and Apple news.
What HN saysHN links it for reports like Linus Torvalds leaving GNOME for Xfce, GNOME removing window buttons, and Internet Explorer 9's SunSpider benchmark cheating.
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- 1Google Open Source Manager Says "Android Is The Linux Dream Come True"2 people · 40 points · first shared 2011 · 34 comments on HN
- 2Adobe Releases 64-bit Flash Player For Linux2 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Starting A Decentralized Peer2Peer-DNS2 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 4Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK Beta For Windows2 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 5Linus torvalds ditches gnome for xfce2 people · first shared 2012
- 6Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland1 people · 369 points · first shared 2010 · 154 comments on HN
- 7Richard Stallman: “Android Phones Do Not Respect Your Freedom”1 people · 192 points · first shared 2011 · 104 comments on HN
- 8Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery1 people · 141 points · first shared 2011 · 43 comments on HN
- 9Google Removes More Than 11 Million .co.cc Domains From Search Results1 people · 133 points · first shared 2011 · 83 comments on HN
- 1033 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org1 people · 101 points · first shared 2010 · 23 comments on HN
- 11Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM1 people · 89 points · first shared 2011 · 55 comments on HN
- 12Disqus Commenting System Goes Down; Leaves All Blogs Comment-Less1 people · 76 points · first shared 2012 · 29 comments on HN
- 13Fedora 16 To Use "Btrfs" Filesystem By Default1 people · 74 points · first shared 2011 · 27 comments on HN
- 14Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots Leaked1 people · 68 points · first shared 2011 · 90 comments on HN
- 15India’s Leading Payment Gateway “CCAvenue” Hacked by SQL Injection1 people · 68 points · first shared 2011 · 25 comments on HN
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thesuperbigfrog · 2022-07-31
>> Don't windows in GNOME have a minimize button by default? And then you use the overview to bring the window back if you want? Am I missing something?
No. By default there are no maximize and minimize buttons. They were explicitly removed:
https://digitizor.com/gnome-3-maximize-minimize-buttons/
You can add them back with gsettings changes or "tweaks":
https://trendoceans.com/how-to-get-minimize-and-maximize-button-in-gno…
jasonjayr · 2020-12-13
I don't want to leave my hearsay uncited, but try here:
https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logindsystemd-th…
Slightly more recently:
https://digitizor.com/gnome-linux-only/
This was an eternity ago in internet time, and I'm not all up and up on BSD development, but maybe enough folks are keeping it going on BSD nowadays?
jlebar · 2018-02-15
Yeah, even this footnote really oversells it imo. I have trouble imagining a person who would want the level of (non) protection delivered by this flag.
Kind of reminds me of https://digitizor.com/internet-explorer-9-caught-cheating-in-sunspider… (sorry for the non-primary source, the original blog post has since been taken down).
icebraining · 2013-04-25
Hosting DNS is already mostly distributed; that's not the hard part.
The difficulty is setting up a distributed system that can allocate domains and prevent others from tampering with the records (e.g., what if I reply to a query for gmail.com with my own IP, pointing to a phishing site?)
One possible solution is namecoin[1], which is based on bitcoin's proof-of-work protocol.
But TPB's influence is not so inadvertent: http://digitizor.com/2010/12/01/the-pirate-bay-co-founder-starting-a-p…
[1]: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
CrazedGeek · 2012-07-27
This is the (dead) G+ post by Linus that he refers to: http://digitizor.com/2011/08/04/linus-torvalds-ditches-gnome-for-xfce/
drieddust · 2011-10-04
kinect was the one of the first device to sucessfully use natural language processing for controllerless entertainment which already works pretty well in the context but MS never thought of probably extending and integrating the tech with other products.
http://digitizor.com/2011/06/17/microsoft-kinect-sdk-windows/
Strong point of MS was integration of different technologies but ever since Gates stopped taking interest in MS they have lost it.
Now they have uncapitalized half assed implementation of technology laying around in silos.
Note: I am well aware of when Gates stopped working with MS. Even before stopping to work, he stopped taking interest in MS's future vision atleast years before that.
glassx · 2011-07-20
That's what I've heard too. Also, according to this article, 70% of the laptops run OS X and 30% run Ubuntu. Most desktops are Linux, though.
http://digitizor.com/2011/07/12/google-android-linux-dream/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2755050
cancelbubble · 2010-12-02
A quick search gave me these 3 PHP solutions, http://digitizor.com/2010/12/01/stackoverflow-clone-php/
I thought Stack Overflow actually licensed their software where you can start your own Q&A site on whatever. Might be something to look into.
gioele · 2014-10-27
> what makes GTK a better goto choice in respect to other frameworks (QT, FOX, FLTK).
I do not have an answer but I would like to show a different angle to this question: why do Qt applications often feel overly complex and GTK applications are usually much simpler to use?
Concrete examples:
* Transmission ( https://www.transmissionbt.com/images/screenshots/GTK-Large.jpg ) vs. KTorrent ( https://www.kde.org/images/screenshots/ktorrent.png )
* Rhythmbox ( https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox/Screenshots?action=AttachFile&am… ) vs. Amarok ( https://amarok.kde.org/sites/amarok.kde.org/files/Amarok2.7screenie.pn… )
* Simple Scan ( http://i1-linux.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Simple-Scan-Ancell_1.… ) vs. Skanlite ( https://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/skanlite/main-w… )
* GNOME Maps ( http://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/maps-3.12-1150x863.png ) vs. Marble ( https://marble.kde.org/img/gallery/marble-desktop-atlas-distance-route… )
* Brasero ( http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse103/opensuse103_gnome_user… ) vs. K3b ( http://digitizor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/k3b-1-70-0.png )
* Shotwell ( http://ubuntuportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ubuntu-14.10-Shotwe… ) vs. Digikam ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/2603789332/ )
Please also compare the default theme for Gnome ( http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/files/2014/06/adwaita.png )…