From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RC2HI-0000U6-U6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:43:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7D3021C0CE; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 04:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3B221C023 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 04:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.14] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5F4F237ADA for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:42:11 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1317962531; bh=NWmQcfod3dmXAyqHjFjdKFIMOQ6kNZnG0Mq07HqmVCM=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=IHkxx++v9rtU/GitTNZhsXjklMU8h2HZGqPEtjUCeyeU9UII0Th7AnYBagKGmdOU9 mu/f4NGhlkIBiVzzAF95QV6qw6V4DogdE3OSnCE/2deDLf8msEyFBWHrjlg8+buVQn XNIMxGUTwk7lvAkUX0mWJlcNStZ1f/QxmCErllU4= Message-ID: <4E8E8322.3060205@orlitzky.com> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:42:10 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110923 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: change and improvement References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111005162007.GA5820@badass.gateway.2wire.net> <20111005184721.01af0bda@toxic.dbnet> <201110060018.50015.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20111006102023.4471babe@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E0112.3010208@orlitzky.com> <20111006230040.04f9af0f@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E72B3.9070703@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0ded316616e905cf639d073f17471ca2 On 10/06/2011 11:39 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > >>> HAL... shudder. >>> >> >> Let's not get started on hal. Pardon me while I go pray to the > porcelain gods. :/ > > I'm really sorry, but I missed that show. I was in Ubuntu-land learning > not to tweak system behaviors. WTF was the deal with HAL? What was it > supposed to do? Why didn't it work? > >From the Wikipedia page, HAL in [Linux]: HAL became operational in Urbana, Illinois at the HAL Plant at the University of Illinois, where the ILLIAC computers were assembled. The film states that this occurred in 1992, while the book gives 1997 as HAL's birthyear. In [Linux], HAL begins to malfunction in subtle ways, and as a result, the decision is made to shut HAL down in order to prevent more serious malfunctions. The sequence of events and manner in which HAL is shut down differs between the novel and film versions of the story.