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Tridgell and Samba Recognized

Posted by michael on from the pat-on-the-back dept.

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..."

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  1. RSYNC by bodin · · Score: 5, Informative

    And the reason we should _LOVE_ Andrew is not only samba (I mean, this is just a thing needed to be interopable with *that* OS), but a totally different thing.

    RSYNC

    Those having read his papers about the rsync protocol or attending one of Andrews seminars in the subject will definitively agree.

    I hope a lot of you use rsync. It's a wonderful piece of software.

  2. Re:Those Aussies love their outlaws by Stonent1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    the biggest Australian movie star got his fame as a V-8 driving ex-cop loner with a sawed off shotgun

    Who incidentally was born in upstate NY and lived there until he was 12.

  3. Re:Those Aussies love their outlaws by Trigun · · Score: 2, Informative

    The criminals and ne're-do-wells were mostly comprised of people who couldn't afford to pay the exhorbanant taxes, or 'stole the kings deer' by illegally hunting to feed their family. Any real criminal minds were hanged or otherwise killed.

    Although 'Crocidile Dundee 1-3' Should be a crime in my book, the vast majority of Australians (and their ancestors) are in fact innocent, and not of criminal genetic stock.

    Trolls, like Religion, dissappear when the truth comes to light.

  4. Samba tutorials by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's are a couple of Samba tutorials for ya'll to chew on: This tutorial shows you how to configure Samba as the primary domain controller, and this tutorial shows you how to turn a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. Configure LDAP to serve as a user authentication source for Samba, and you've got a one-two punch.

    1. Re:Samba tutorials by Bombcar · · Score: 2, Informative

      Don't forget the Biggest HOWTO in Samba history: Samba 3.0.0 HOWTO Read, and if you have questions or suggestions for improvements, please send them to JHT (the author).

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      Fellowship 9/11
  5. Don't forget his work Hacking TiVos! by jkeegan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course from a hacking standpoint, many of us have Tridge to thank for his work on the TivoNet card. That brought ethernet access to the TiVo, and his later work on video extraction made great use of the bandwidth. :)

    Thanks, Tridge!

    Of course, he's given credit in the book Hacking TiVo. :)

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    ..Jeff Keegan
    seven syllables explain TiVo: kee gan dot org slash ti vo