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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine 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 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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> Sadly, HAL is not yet dead. It lives still. |
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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 will |
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> continue to live here for a very very long time indeed. |
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> Dale can confirm this. Dale will swear in a court of law with hand on |
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> bible than hal lives on in zombie form, infesting all the matter of |
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> his house and computers, infecting them with 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 from |
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all the computers in my office some years ago. |
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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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