On Tue 23 August 2011 15:50:24 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine thusly: > 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.
Come to my work place, I have the perfect task for you: to excise perl-5.8.0 from all the many machines it's on, plus the atrocious in-house coding using it that no-one left understands, and all running on hardware that no-one can replace. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
