On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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....
I remember getting rid of HAL in one weekend, from all my computers. It was a long weekend, but it was not as bad as getting rid of Qt from all the computers in my office some years ago. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
