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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue 23 August 2011 15:50:24 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine thusly: |
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>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan McKinnon |
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> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine |
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> thusly: |
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>> >> > Now if it had similarities to say hal, I would instantly |
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>> >> > understand. But dbus is good and useful in all the ways |
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>> >> > that |
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>> >> > hal isn't. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> Wasn't. HAL is dead. From |
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>> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal |
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>> > |
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>> > Sadly, HAL is not yet dead. It lives still. |
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>> > |
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>> > It lives on the production database server I just happen to be |
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>> > rebooting as I type this (another story for another time) and |
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>> > will continue to live here for a very very long time indeed. |
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>> > |
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>> > Dale can confirm this. Dale will swear in a court of law with |
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>> > hand on bible than hal lives on in zombie form, infesting all |
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>> > the matter of his house and computers, infecting them with |
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>> > their undead zombieness. |
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>> > |
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>> > Ye gods, it's been a long hard day.... |
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>> |
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>> I remember getting rid of HAL in one weekend, from all my computers. |
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>> It was a long weekend, but it was not as bad as getting rid of Qt |
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>> from all the computers in my office some years ago. |
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> |
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> Come to my work place, I have the perfect task for you: |
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> |
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> to excise perl-5.8.0 from all the many machines it's on, plus the |
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> atrocious in-house coding using it that no-one left understands, and |
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> all running on hardware that no-one can replace. |
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Been there, done that. One of the reasons I got back to school to get |
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my Computer Science PhD. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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