How did the awful term widgetry, as used in the Linuxgram article, come into wide use?
Outside of GUIs the term widget refers to a meta-thing. But widgetry is used to refer to concrete things: "SuSe Enterprise Server widgetry", "server blade widgetry".
What's wrong with "SuSe Enterprise Server software" and "server blade hardware"? Plus it doesn't reek of "ain't I clever" poserdom.
I knew a place that was naming it's Sun servers with names like:
nnn809dd0ce
nnn was an abreviation of the company name and 809fa0ce was the hostid of the box. The hostid is usually used as part of the system's ether address. So in this case why bother with hostnames or even IP addresses. Just using the ether address would eliminate layers of complexity!
I just sent Empower an email asking how they plan to handle licensing of the modifications of the GPLed Linux kernel. It will be intersting to see what the response will be.
As long as they're not violating the kernel license I might pick this up for my Palm. As someone else pointed out the cost of the Palm + Linux DA might be cheaper then one of the Linux dedicated PDAs.
Actually you'd want X for when these things are networked so that you could run the app somewhere else and display it on your iPaq, not that you'd want to do this as a matter of course.
GtkCE/QtCE/AthenaCE is what you'd want for PDA apps so that they play nice in a handheld environment. Bonus points for making it binary compatible with the "parent" widget set.
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How did the awful term widgetry, as used in the Linuxgram article, come into wide use?
Outside of GUIs the term widget refers to a meta-thing. But widgetry is used to refer to concrete things: "SuSe Enterprise Server widgetry", "server blade widgetry".
What's wrong with "SuSe Enterprise Server software" and "server blade hardware"? Plus it doesn't reek of "ain't I clever" poserdom.
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nnn809dd0ce
nnn was an abreviation of the company name and 809fa0ce was the hostid of the box. The hostid is usually used as part of the system's ether address. So in this case why bother with hostnames or even IP addresses. Just using the ether address would eliminate layers of complexity!
I just sent Empower an email asking how they plan to handle licensing of the modifications of the GPLed Linux kernel. It will be intersting to see what the response will be.
As long as they're not violating the kernel license I might pick this up for my Palm. As someone else pointed out the cost of the Palm + Linux DA might be cheaper then one of the Linux dedicated PDAs.
GtkCE/QtCE/AthenaCE is what you'd want for PDA apps so that they play nice in a handheld environment. Bonus points for making it binary compatible with the "parent" widget set.
I agree, I hate 'geek'. If someone wants to label