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Andrew Tridgell Joins OSDL
rumba writes "OSDL announced today that
Andrew Tridgell, Samba developer, joins OSDL
as the lab's second appointed Fellow.
Tridgell will continue to lead global development work for the
Samba project."
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And it happened on his birthday! Happy Birthday AT!
TIAT
Since it appears the site is already bogged down.. Link
..that Samba will be integrated into the kernel?
I clicked on the OSDL link as soon as the item appeared on Slashdot (1 comment submitted) and the page gives out Zope error messages!
Wow!
Site slashdotted. Here is the complete article:
Site Error
An error was encountered while publishing this resource.
ZODB.POSException.ReadConflictError
Sorry, a site error occurred.
The proper phrase would be:
"I pity the foo that works for Tim Witham"
http://us1.samba.org/samba/news/announcements/#tri dge_osdl
First, Big Blue opens up 500 patents to OSS developers and OSS companies. Then we hear that Tridgell (the guy who makes Linux interoperate with Windows computers) gets a job at OSDL... is it just me or is something BIG about to go down?
;)
I smell trouble and it smells like Sun and MS
OSDL = Open Source Development Labs
See Wikipedia for more info
perfectly on topic -- tim witham runs the OSDL.
When you add a great new feature such as supporting Windows machine accounts on Samba make sure your user community is aware that it will completely screw up rights assignments on your servers as the new machine accounts get assigned to old user UIDs by winbind.
I just spent a harried morning resetting all files back to their correct owners and groups.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
Does this mean that I'll soon be able to drop in Samba as a replacement for an AD domain controller?
No? Damn. Oh well, good for him.
Kind of sucks to be a 'fellow', it sounds kind of silly and outdated. I'd rather be a 'guy' or a 'dude'.
Anyways, is AD Domain Controller support still on the roadmap for Samba 4? Are we close to production release yet?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
From the FINE article:
''Samba4 is reaching an important milestone as a complete re-write of the old Samba code with the ambitious goal to be able to become an Active Directory Domain Controller,'' Tridgell said.
Wait. Andrew *who*?
Oh, never mind...
I know what it's purpose is, who founded it, etc.
I'm wondering if it's an actual physical place. A place where Linus and Andrew are actually at. Or do they work at home from their underwear, and OSDL just sends them checks?
I just like imagining a giant room full of cubicles, with only two occupied, with little nametags saying "Linus" and "Andrew".
And Lumbergh coming buy every 45 minutes to say "Hmmmmmm.... You know what? I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday. Ok. Great. And we're putting cover sheets on all the kernel patches, ok? Great."
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Unless your defition of "the world" is "your parent's basement."
I would be very curious to know how the "slashdotting" phenomenon maps over time. As i'm not an intarweb elder, i don't know if sites would regularly get slashdotted in the yesteryears. If any veterans are reading, has this increased or decreased over the years?
Another thing is: assuming that the slashdotting is a prime moving internet force, why doesn't slashdot itself get recursively slashdotted, get recursively slashdotted, get recur.. never mind. I mean, what kind of hardware is it running on?
Sorry for the OT. I don't have any other way to ask the readers a question on slashdot itself. Come to think of it, a meta post on slashdot might be an excellent idea.
Oh, you work with AD networks? No wonder you're so bitter. And stupid.
They needed to force the software makers to make a alternative to all their software that is Posix/Linux compatible.
You don't go far enough, the government needs to sieze control of all software companies and return their assets to the proletariat. The greedy capitalists should be "tried" and shot for oppressing the honest working man for so many years.
It's not really surprising that Bill Gates equates anti-DRM folks with communism when people actually believe drivel like what the parent posted.
This guy rocks. Not just for samba but rsync, and lots of tivo stuff too. Unless I'm confusing him with someone else
Is *most* of the Samba code now being auto-generated? Last I heard it was at 40%.
Alexandre Julliard, of Wine fame, is rumored to be scheduled to join OSDL as a fellow in February. At that time OSDL, along with it's three fellows, Linus Torvalds, Andrew Tridgell, and Alexandre Julliard will announce a radically new direction for Linux, Samba, and Wine... to create Longhorn before Microsoft does.
Nice to see OSDL acknowledging Andrew's valuable contributions in this manner. On the SMB/CIFS front, I wonder how relevant it will be in a year or 3. With sharepoint becomming all the more popular, will people be using traditional file servers in a couple of years?
One of the many times whre one whish there was a moderation of "-1 Ignorant".
Is the name "Longhorn" trademarked by MS? If not, someone should come out with a version of Linux called "Longhorn Linux" and market it to all the usual Windows web sites. Note to Redhat/Suse, THIS is how you compete with Microsoft! It's called "barely ethical, definitely underhanded market manipulation" and you guys have to get good at it if you want to survive.
None of us believe this drivel. I'm leaning towards Troll myself. Come on, DECOMPILER??!!
From hell's heart I fstab at /dev/hdc
When is RMS scheduled to join?
Huh?
Are you implying that communists are dumb?
...the same people that Indonesia won't let land and occasionally blow out of the water if they think they can get away with it? The ones rich enough in their home countries to fall prey to the even greedier scamsters who put them on the rotten hulks they sail in the first place? The ones who sail off to save themselves, leaving so many of their countrymen to be murdered behind them? The same ones who import their native triads to Oz and ramp up our local crime rates? The same ones for whom Australia is the only country soft enough to ever let them land at all?
The issues are not as cut and dried as you hope.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
His house sports quite a whizz-bang coffee-maker. And a truly excellent wooden frog.
On a serious note, like Linus, I don't think he'll ever be short of a job or a dime. He could have anything delivered that takes his fancy. However, he also likes to exercise - which is great from our PoV since it keeps him alive and healthy for longer - and to cook.
However, the ways-to-send-pizza will be missed. If it could be automated, they could put it back as a "Send Pizza" button, which queues up pizzas across the world for when Samba developers want one. (-:
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Geezzzz... .au assessed NOT to be refugees get deported.
.au rules are less onerous than the UNHCR rules, so we are fairer then the UN.
.au has a very fair refugee program and a (increased) quota of refugees in our immigration program.
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aminorex: Get the bloody facts first you idiot!<flame state="off" />
We are allowed to deport illegal immigrants. Every nation has that option.
People comming illegally to
<flame state="on"
You want a signature? You can't handle a signature!!
From IMDB:
Edna 'E' Mode: It will be bold! Dramatic!
Bob Parr: Yeah!
Edna: Heroic!
Bob: Yeah. Something classic - like Dynaguy. Oh, he had a great look - the cape and the boots...
Edna: No capes! [Throws a wadded ball of paper at Bob's head]
Bob: Isn't that my decision?
Edna: Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids.
Bob: Listen 'E'...
Edna: November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved... when his cape snagged on a missile!
Bob: Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb...
Edna: Stratogirl! April 23rd, '57! Cape caught in a jet turbine!
Bob: E, you can't generalize about these things...
Edna: Metaman - express elevator! Dynaguy - snagged on takeoff! Splashdown - sucked into a vortex! NO CAPES!
I also like E doing "Fight! Win!".
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
I though that he was working for IBM like less than two years ago. Anyone know what are his achievements with the Big Blue?
Defition? Is that in the M$ dictionary? My gnome-dictionary doesn't have any such word in it.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
At least that what was written on the refridgerator in the CS common room at uni (ANU).
Tridge was held in high regard by all the students. Well grounded academically and socially.
The grandparent did not assert that Australia has reduced their refugee intake. Therefore, your flame is unwarranted.
The complaint against Australia's current refugee policy is that "boat people" are not even given the chance to apply for asylum as the boats are intercepted before they reach land as well as the government's attempt to excise islands from our migration zone (how does that work?). This makes a mockery of Australia's alleged lax refugee rules. Who cares how lax they are if you can't use them.
Is that like the European language test from the days of the White-Australia policy which existed as late as the 1960's (or maybe even 1970's?). For non-Australians, this is the test where all migrants had to speak in a European language. Seems racially unbiased right? Except that the testing officer might choose English for an "acceptable" migrant, and choose Yugoslavian (or another minor European language) for undesirables.
As for the allegations that Australian rules are less erronous than the UN, that may have been true a few years ago, but I pour scorn on that idea now. See the fate of some of the Nauru refugees which Australian nonetheless would not accept.
Finally, another complaint about Australian's refugee policy is that they are treated worst than criminals.
You deport Muslim converts to Christianity to certain death in Iran, and pregant Chinese women to certain forced abortion in China, and hold children in prisons in the desert separated from their families for years at a time. You're the descendents of a bunch of criminal transportees, and you really should be first against the wall when the eugenics campaign begins, because you're behaving like one would expect the descendents of murderous criminals to behave. Oh, and thank you for helping to kill a million innocent Iraqis too.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-