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On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:15:01 PM Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon 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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> >> |
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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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> > Ye gods, it's been a long hard day.... |
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> Not here. I shot hal with a silver bullet and drove a stake into it a |
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> long time ago. If that thing even twitches, I'll go Navy Seals on it. |
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> O_O Man I love the 2nd amendment we have. ;-) Even the NSA wouldn't |
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> be able to bring that back. |
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I'm missing the exorcism in there, it's probably still floating around as a |
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non-corporeal lifeform causing all kinds of strange issues.... |
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Joost |