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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..."
...about Linus Torvalds:
One of the most memorable parts of that evening was when my Linux NFS [Network File System] server died, to the point that the console seemed completely dead (the load of all those Doom WAD files obviously got to it). I was about to press reset when Linus stepped in and said he wanted to work out why it had crashed, so he could fix it. I then watched in complete amazement as Linus exploited a remote file truncation bug he knew about in the NFS server I was running which allowed him to peek into the proc filesystem on the apparently dead server and work out enough to find the bug. Up till then I had considered myself to be a pretty good programmer, and quite good at debugging system crashes, but that incident taught me that I would always be an also-ran who just isn't in the same league as
people like Linus.
This is from an interview here.
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i would have been nice to have more details on the future of RSYNC.w files.php?group_id=1148&release_id=276
and is using for synchronization.
RSYNC works on unix/linux
rsync worx on windows using cyygin.dll
Novell ported RSYNC to Netware http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/sho
So RSYNCS is definitely the product of choice for syncrhonization. What lies in future for RSYNC????
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
I went to SGI's "Linux University" a few years ago (back when they were saying, "We're about to release XFS for Linux, and here's why it's the best filesystem in the known universe"), and Jeremy Allison was one of the speakers. I enjoyed the session, and even got to talk to him for a few minutes afterwards.
One of the things that stuck with me was him expressing the hope that people would eventually stop using Samba because it would no longer be required. He regards SMB as an awful protocol, and isn't much for Windows as a desktop operating system either. I'm sure most software developers realize that their code, no matter how important now, will eventually fade away, but it's interesting to think of someone happily coding away and at the same time _hoping_ for the day when their primary project is no longer useful.
WMBC freeform/independent online radio.
You would really be "entitled" to bash rsync if you had come up with a superior implementation yourself, but I would hope you could at least point one out.
I come from an academic background, where it's perfectly acceptable to bash someone based on theory.
Yes, the code is coming. But it takes time to write; give me a few months, ok?
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
John Terpstra, co-founder of the Samba-Team, will be speaking at the Southern California Linux Expo on November 22nd at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. John will be giving an overview of Samba 3 including the ability to integrate into an Active Directory enviroment. Regular priced and student priced tickets giving full access to the event are still available. Free expo only tickets are also available using the "FREE" promotional code on the orders page. The Southern California Linux Expo is a non-profit event organized by LUG volunteers. [ Reply to This