On Monday 10 December 2007, cothrige wrote: > Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I won't start commenting on all this HAL, udev and similar > > bullshit. > > I agree about HAL, and the thing really just makes me nervous. I was > apparently right too, because when I turned it off via update-rc.d, > my box started singing about somebody named Daisy.
Odd. Mine just said, "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." Personally, I just wish someone would have picked a different name. I forgot whether it was an Ubuntu or Debian (not Stable) box I had set up would not let me have a user named "hal" because of HAL. That gets frustrating since that's what I use as my username on most of my own systems. It's frustrating to not be able to use one's own name. And, to be honest, I don't like seeing people talking about how much they hate HAL. ;-) > The one I really don't understand though is avahi. I kept seeing > this in my ps output and really had no idea at all what it was. I > tried to find out, but couldn't. Did the CIA write this thing? > Finally I turned it off too, and nothing exploded so far. But, just > what is all this stuff anyway? Personally, I thought avahi was some > sort of fruity shampoo my wife uses. A quick Wikipedia search (found it on my first try) gave me this: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_%28software%29> A Google search turned up 47,000 hits. "Apt-cache search avahi" returned 34 packages on my Ubuntu Fiesty workstation. (I didn't try it on my Debian servers, I figure the point has been made.) Hal (Who even has his name on his license, Virginia plates "HAL 9000".) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
