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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.
Does this mean 0i Oi Oi = 21?
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
Samba is great stuff... Congrats Andrew!
But a dingo ate my project!
I bet the Bloomin Onion that the winner gets is mighty tasty, too.
for making my life easier, saving me money, earning me new clients, and pissing off Microsoft in the bargain.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
How happy they will be
Well, we got you to read Slashdot didn't we?
So somehow it does matter
Oh you USian brutes! You are going to make me cry! I am a European fag and have feelings and cry very often! Don't you know what is happening to the endangered one eyed purple people eater? They are facing extinction in the Siberian Rain Forest! You USians have such horrible news coverage! You have plenty of news about your 250+ million person country but you have horrid new coverage of the important eastern european country of Bashkortostan! Those four million neanderthals deserve as much news coverage as your country. I bet after you attack Iraq (you barbarians!) you'll attack the Bashkortosans just because your president can't pronounce their country's name.
Thank you, Thank you. I'll be here all week.
I use Samba daily it home and at work. Of course it means something to me, Troll.
Brilliant .. well deservered to all the team
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!
The problem with awards, especcialy first anual awards, is who is the compitition. Austrilia and Samba come to mind instantly. Nothing else though. I fear that next year they will either have to give Samba an award (or a key developer), or give it to something less deserving.
There are thousands of open source projects (look on sourceforge sometime, some even have code). Most are not going anywhere, and are of little use to the average person (or even /. reader).
So the question is what is next? Good for them if they find enough austrilian programers in various projects to keep giving menaingful awards. I suspect they will have trouble though.
I'm not sure whether the samba teams greatest contribution is to open source or to the smb protocol itself. The one thing that is for sure is that without samba it would be much harder to produce a viable migration path away from M$. The way samba is progressing I wonder how many organisations will continue to operate samba servers long after they have purged M$ from their networks?
My favourite samba feature - vfs modules!
"Linux is a serious competitor"
- Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Microsoft Corp.
Andrew is not just a coder, he is truly inspiring.
I have sat with him going over some of his code-
syntax colouring, that lego feeling, elegance.
He was the one who really taught me about programming in c;
how effortless it can be.
A simple idea: ccache
A deeper idea: genstruct
May he win many more awards!
OK, a bit of Australian Culture 101:
.
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.
the contest was sponsored by company called Silicon Breeze, they also have a shop that sells Linux jewellery. I quess now you can show others that open source can make you rich (if you sell tux jewellery :)
"Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!" is the Australian catchcry/warcry.
Try it. Go into a crowded area which could possibly have Australians (say, a large shopping centre). Yell out "Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!".
I can almost guarantee that you will get back the response "Oi! Oi! Oi!".
For more than a second I sat bewildered at the thought that the "Australian Open" and "The Source Awards" had anything to do with each other. It must be all the tennis I'm watching lately.
Andy
Congrats Tridg
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.
Congrats Andrew Was the award only for samba or was it also for all work he completed as part of the samba team? After reading this forum not logged in, I can see I have my threshold said to +2, damn there are some idiots on slashdot
Everyone is stupid, it is just the degree that varies
Or even avoid the trap of using 'of' instead of 'have'.
- 'action' is not a verb
I can't resist the obvious: Naaaaaaaaah.
You wrote it wrong.
The whole point is aussie aussie aussie. oi oi oi.
The stupid chant that us Australians have become famous for when we stole it from somewhere else originally anyhow.
Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
There are quite a number of australians that are being misrepresented here. I'm talking about the ones who cringe with national embarrassment every time some loudmoth attention seeking jerk jumps up and screams 'Aussie ...etc' at the top of their lungs.
;}
and, It's pronounced ('Ozzee' like 'Mozzie') NOT ('orsie' like 'horsey')
-james
ps. thanks andrew. Samba is *SO* cool!
Samba was a lifesaver to me as I migrated my home network from windows to linux, as i needed one M$ machine on the lan. Now that i don't run windows anymore, i still have a samba machine, so my parent's can use my printer. I would have to say that Samba has been one of the most important apps i have ever used! I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the samba project, for making my life easier!
What? Me? Worry?
embarassing?! hardly! :D
How to speak Australian I personally nominate Kazaa!
And thats pronounced: Ozzie. NOT Ossie.
...the list goes on.
:-)
The quick and the dead, in this world, and we're the quick. Even the overdone unions, the mighty US dollar, and braindead pollies can't keep us down... sorry, but you're talking about "God's own country" here. Even I've contributed to a project or two and I'm only Lord Muck. (-:
Bigger than Texas. Many, many times bigger... with better radar, smarter rockets and our own space program of sorts.
Surprise! Not everything in the world happens in the USA. And did I mention that we have the most dangerous collection of wildlife in the world? (-: Not even including the crocodiles?
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Well it MIGHT be embarresing if it was written correctly. Yelling Aussie Aussie will probably get you an ostrich :P
*writing with my thumbnail dipped in tar*
Speaking of samba, i must thank the samba team for releasing such a great product. I was able to sync ALL the accounts on our school network (i'm in high school) which was hosted in a (god forbid ;-p!) win2k AD server. Without it i might be trying to hack account syncronization between linux and NT boxes, which would be really a great hassle. So far it has been working great, and has worked flawlessly for about a month.
;-p
oi oi Samba!
Don't quote me on this.
You can't even create an account and log in, your opinion is shit.
There is a good reason, my boss pays me to get the job done quickly, and Samba installed within 10 minutes.
My boss likes money, you see. There hasn't been a problem with Samba yet, so if he can save the time for me to read the manuals for (insert unknown network system here) then that is money in his pocket.
As far as home.. I copy a few files now and then. I really don't care if it's more efficient. Horribly inferior or not, what advantages would MARS give me?