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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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> >> 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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> 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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Come to my work place, I have the perfect task for you: |
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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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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