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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s did opine th=
usly:
>> > 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.
--=20
Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n
Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico