On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Been there, done that. One of the reasons I got back to school to get my Computer Science PhD. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
