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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.
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!
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.
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!".
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.
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.
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and, It's pronounced ('Ozzee' like 'Mozzie') NOT ('orsie' like 'horsey')
-james
ps. thanks andrew. Samba is *SO* cool!
...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
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.