On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:15:01 PM Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine thusly: > >>> Now if it had similarities to say hal, I would instantly > >>> understand. But dbus is good and useful in all the ways that > >>> hal isn't. > >> > >> Wasn't. HAL is dead. From > >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal > > > > Sadly, HAL is not yet dead. It lives still. > > > > It lives on the production database server I just happen to be > > rebooting as I type this (another story for another time) and will > > continue to live here for a very very long time indeed. > > > > Dale can confirm this. Dale will swear in a court of law with hand on > > bible than hal lives on in zombie form, infesting all the matter of > > his house and computers, infecting them with their undead zombieness. > > > > Ye gods, it's been a long hard day.... > > Not here. I shot hal with a silver bullet and drove a stake into it a > long time ago. If that thing even twitches, I'll go Navy Seals on it. > O_O Man I love the 2nd amendment we have. ;-) Even the NSA wouldn't > be able to bring that back.
I'm missing the exorcism in there, it's probably still floating around as a non-corporeal lifeform causing all kinds of strange issues.... -- Joost
