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Interview with Andrew Tridgell

Posted by michael on from the sharing-made-easy dept.

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes "See here for a *great* interview with tridge. My favourite quote: 'In 50 years' time I doubt anyone would have ever heard of Samba, but they'll probably be using rsync in one way or another,' Tridgell says. Cheers, Jeremy."

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  1. Good article, but don't let RMS read it!!! by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny
    Tridge's software, Samba, lets Torvald's free operating system Linux co-exist with Bill Gates' Windows.

    Hear that "whirr"? That's Stallman spinning in his grave, and he's not even dead yet!

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  2. wasn't one of the developers by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    for rsync suppose to go to the space station?

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    1. Re:wasn't one of the developers by maelstrom · · Score: 3, Funny

      Damn I am a nerd. I didn't get the joke at all, I started thinking that yes, rsync would make sense on space missions as the bandwidth to space as well as the propogation delay would necesitate having something like rsync for data transfers.

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    2. Re:wasn't one of the developers by glassware · · Score: 3, Funny

      I would wager I am a bigger nerd. At the moment I am reading this article, I am working on a product called "space station", and I am in fact using rsync to send our weekly batch up to the production server. For a minute I thought the original message came from my lead developer.

      How's that for a coincidence?

  3. More Important Question by Raul654 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long until someone patents it as a device for fixing Windows security problems?

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    1. Re:More Important Question by Jason+Earl · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm bookmarking your post as prior art.

  4. Re:In 50 years, I doubt many will know what Unix i by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 3, Funny

    This totally ignores a more urgent problem than Y2K. I like to call it the "Y10K" problem. Since no one is preparing for it, when the year 9999 rolls around, we are going to have major problems. You see, they only updated most date fields with 4 digits, not nearly enough just a few millenia from now. And I dare you to suggest "they certainly won't be using the same computers they're using now!". That's what they said last time. Worse, all the copies of COBOL for Dummies and The Complete Idiot's Guide to COBOL will have long since rotted.

    If I were you, I'd start stocking up on canned food, and non-electronic forms of currency like rolls of toilet paper.

  5. rsync by dnoyeb · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have never heard of rsync, but I have a samba PDC in my basement. I'm not any hotrod Linux hacker or anything. My wife asked me how come she didnt see the same favorites on both computers?

    I made it so.
    I'm a good husband.

    Besides, these things are not just toys right? It was damn easy. Buying as much as an NT server still costs no less than $500 on ebay. samba cost about 5 minutes in FTP to get the latest for RedHat. On my K6-233 Asus tx97x its flawless. Flawless i say.

    Ramble on.

    Everytime I login I feel a little geekdom. Everytime my wife *doesen't* complain about the computer I feel like THE MAN. You see in my house I am Bill Gates. If windows breaks, I get the blame. If Linux is too confusing, I get the blame. So what we have here is the best of both worlds. BTW, i used to get pissed at the IT department for taking so long to launch new OSes. Now I am about to take XP off my computer because its loosing faxes and the printer dont work on it, etc... Its affecting my love life ;)