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From: Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:12:15
Message-Id: 1995250.X4Qa81L72q@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd by Dale
1 On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:15:01 PM Dale wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine thusly:
4 > >>> Now if it had similarities to say hal, I would instantly
5 > >>> understand. But dbus is good and useful in all the ways that
6 > >>> hal isn't.
7 > >>
8 > >> Wasn't. HAL is dead. From
9 > >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal
10 > >
11 > > Sadly, HAL is not yet dead. It lives still.
12 > >
13 > > It lives on the production database server I just happen to be
14 > > rebooting as I type this (another story for another time) and will
15 > > continue to live here for a very very long time indeed.
16 > >
17 > > Dale can confirm this. Dale will swear in a court of law with hand on
18 > > bible than hal lives on in zombie form, infesting all the matter of
19 > > his house and computers, infecting them with their undead zombieness.
20 > >
21 > > Ye gods, it's been a long hard day....
22 >
23 > Not here. I shot hal with a silver bullet and drove a stake into it a
24 > long time ago. If that thing even twitches, I'll go Navy Seals on it.
25 > O_O Man I love the 2nd amendment we have. ;-) Even the NSA wouldn't
26 > be able to bring that back.
27
28 I'm missing the exorcism in there, it's probably still floating around as a
29 non-corporeal lifeform causing all kinds of strange issues....
30
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32 Joost