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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. 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!".

  2. 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.

  3. 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!