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post your "slocate mime.types" results.

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this is the result of what happens on my linux installation
when the following command is typed into a terminal
slocate mime.types
also - terminals are "xterm" "konsole" "gnome-terminal" "aterm" "eterm"

/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.7/mime.types
/usr/man/man5/mime.types.5.gz
/usr/doc/tin-1.8.2/mime.types
/usr/doc/cups-1.2.11/help/man-mime.types.html
/usr/doc/pine4.64/mime.types
/usr/share/lynx/lynx_doc/samples/mime.types

Linux system daemons

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"HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you. Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
-2001 A space odyssey

the irony in this is immense.

Hardware abstraction layer or hald is a program that automates the connection of devices to a linux computer.

here are the "pod bay" doors.
and to look for hal in ubuntu run "top" the program named hald is the
bot/daemon that controls the hardware interface.