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Australian Open Source Awards
mge writes "Andrew Tridgell has won the Special Achievement Award for his work on Samba, the seamless file and print service for SMB/CIFS (Windows) clients, at the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group's inaugural Australian Open Source Awards. Aussie, Aussie, OI OI OI." And an "Oi, Oi" to you too.
Agreed! Now, I'm kinda surprised at the lack of general response to the article. There are always loads of people going for the throats of the Samba developers whenever they change something. Seems like we have a lot of people who are willing to take something for free and complain about it, but they aren't even willing to say thanks. THANKS Samba guys!
OK, a bit of Australian Culture 101:
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Homer, for a large number reasons, chants
USA, USA, USA!!!
Aussie Homer would chant Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!
and the crowd surrounding him (composed in their
majority by aussies) would reply with gusto,
a sharp "Oi Oi Oi!!!"
Try it for yourself.. at new years, cricket matches, the rubgy or even at a tennis match with
Leyton Hewitt. You will be surprised.
At to those comments as the USA being the best
country in the world.. it reminds me of a party
where someone made an off handed comment that
the best cheese was from Wiconsin..five french nationals turned around and shook their heads
in unison.. with the expression "You do not
have a clue of what you are talking about".
Cheers,
Aldo
Congratulations, Tridge!
I spoke with you at some length about the chess server you were modifying on FICS without having any idea how famous you were. I assumed you were just a random codemonkey in a sea of samba coders. Hehe.
Anyway, you're a good guy with people skills to match your coding skills, which is a rare thing in programmers. I'm happy to see you won this award.
Around 1999 when I was first learning Samba, I made a silly newbie error in smb.conf causing a misleading error message that lead me down a tortuous wrong path. I was desperate to meet an internal deadline which if missed would result in management choosing NT for our file server. With no luck on newsgroups, I wrote the Samba team and within hours got a personal response from "Tridge", who put it in the official FAQ that very same day. I was amazed. And of course the error message was fixed in the next version.