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Australian Open Source Awards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oi-oi dept.

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.

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  1. I would've won... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    But a dingo ate my project!

    I bet the Bloomin Onion that the winner gets is mighty tasty, too.

  2. Re:God bless him and every one of the Samba team.. by vsprintf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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!

  3. Re:OI! by tdelaney · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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!".

  4. My experience by ortholattice · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  5. Re:Oi Oi Oi by G-funk · · Score: 4, Funny
    Try it for yourself.. at new years, cricket matches, the rubgy or even at a tennis match with
    Leyton Hewitt. You will be surprised.     .... When somebody like me throws a can of XXXX at your head. We are so very sick to death of hearing that stupid chant.

    And we all know the appropriate things to chant at a cricket match:
    • "HOWZAT!!!"
    • "Come on Aussie come on!"
    • "Bowling shane!" (and of course, "Bowling Warney, feeling horny")
    • "Ooh ah, Glen McGrath"

    Yelling any of these is perfectly acceptable.
    --
    Send lawyers, guns, and money!