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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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Tridge!
To paraphrase Mr. T:
"I pity the fool that works for Tim Witham"
And it happened on his birthday! Happy Birthday AT!
TIAT
...where it rains 363 days of the year.
Soon the triumvirate will be complete...BWAHAHAHAHA!
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.
http://us1.samba.org/samba/news/announcements/#tri dge_osdl
can't compete with the uptime that Windows provides
Don't believe me, go consult Netcraft
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
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Kind of sucks to be a 'fellow', it sounds kind of silly and outdated.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!!!!
1. Develop a world-changing killer app.
2. Get invited to become an OSDL fellow.
3. ???
4. Profit!
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.
Linux is becoming easier to use with more distributions making the desktop their target but there is one problem and that is nearly 100 % of the software still out there being built just for Microsoft. The government did LITTLE to stop this monopoly . They needed to force the software makers to make a alternative to all their software that is Posix/Linux compatible .
Another IDEA would be for a DECOMPILER. IF there were really a good decompiler then you could run alot of windows software.
Wait. Andrew *who*?
Oh, never mind...
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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!!!!
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%.
World will 4ave
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
Huh?
Are you implying that communists are dumb?
Don't even talk to Australians, let alone do business with them, until they stop shipping people off to be murdered.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
...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
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?
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.