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Tridgell and Samba Recognized
An anonymous reader writes "It's official, Samba creator Andrew Tridgell is Australia's smartest man... in IT anyway. He's received Bulletin magazine's 'Smart 100' award for the IT sector. He's also written about how Samba came into being, which was basically because he was trying to avoid doing any real work on his PhD. He also tells us how he discovered Linux and why he believes Open Source Software is superior to proprietary code... He also talks about rsync and his plans for the future..."
A security hole saves the day? See? Microsoft really is shipping "features" with their hole-ridden software!
It's Pizzaware!
:-)
1.9. Pizza supply details
Those who have registered in the Samba survey as "Pizza Factory" will
already know this, but the rest may need some help. Andrew doesn't ask
for payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him pizza.
This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is twenty
thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.
Method 1: Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain
and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do,
which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza
one night, courtesy of someone in the US
Method 2: Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit
card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be
collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany
did this.
Method 3: Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has
no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely
useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has
from Germany
Method 4: Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional
flavours. It will probably get stuck in customs or torn apart by
hungry sniffer dogs but it will have been a noble gesture.
-- Samba FAQ
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I think that is common. Our LUG was founded and remains heavily influenced by this effect. Nice to know that so many are compelled to avoid their profs long enough to something useful
First entomology, then virology, and finally bioinformatics systems. Bugs follow me wherever I go.
What lies in future for RSYNC????
Last I heard, Justin Timberlake was considering staying with his solo career, but there's always hope for a reunion sometime down the road.
"Rock your boooooooody..."
Yes, the code is coming. But it takes time to write; give me a few months, ok?
Call it nsync!
Unable to read configuration file '/bigassraid/htdig//conf/14229.conf'
Geocrawler error message.
What I find really amusing is that this story hits Slashdot at about 2am Australian time (EST) and most likely will be off the page by the time most Australians wake up.
I'm only up because someone's machines in the US decided do some bungee jumping without the bungee.
...and probably Canberra's nicest. Not that there's a lot of competition.
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