I'd like to nominate Tridge, but not for his work on Samba specifically.
I was as Linux.conf.au and saw him sit down with a complete newbie who would have been maybe 17 years old. This guy was interested in writing some code for the AI competition that was running at the conference, but didn't seem to have much of a clue about how to start it off, let alone coding anything competetive.
Tridge, out of the blue began an informal AI 101 lesson in the courtyard. I sat in on it and can honestly say I learnt more about AI in 10 minutes with Tridge then I did in four years of a CS degree. His presentation of the material came so fluently, confidently and with a warm manner.
So, I nominate him for his *general* donation to the OS movement, and not for his Samba developments (though they are fantastic). It's because of people like him that others want to get involved and make a difference too, and that's the biggest influence we could ever want.
A friend of mine that I went through uni with works at Westnet (A relatively large, Perth-based ISP). Over a BBQ lunch the other day, he told of a story in which the support team received a snail mail with the envelope addressed to, get this, support@westnet.com.au.
And you guessed it, the return address was the customer's e-mail address. The note compained how their e-mail was not working.
Exactly this happened at a Pearl Jam concert my friend went to in Perth, Western Australia. I'm sure it happens all over the place.
Scary - I nearly typed "Perl Jam";)
The big man with an even bigger heart stepped up to the plate for the cause. My bid was $70, but I bet against myself raising it to $80.
After that I spent lunch talking to him about his satellite interests, which are pretty cool.
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Symbolic.
(The scientist character in NCIS, Abbey, also has a lot of SGI gear in her lab).
See for yourself tonight: http://www.mcc.murdoch.edu.au/pubtalk/2005/j_malco lm.html
I too have a friend with this viewpoint. I wonder...
It was something like:
echo clone | nc thunk.org 5000 > e2fsprogs.bk
Though I think I got his target filename wrong. You get the point.
I came across a Debian-based release just the other day called Black Rhino, though I've not tried it. I have an Xbox, so Debian x86 works fine.
I'd like to nominate Tridge, but not for his work on Samba specifically.
I was as Linux.conf.au and saw him sit down with a complete newbie who would have been maybe 17 years old. This guy was interested in writing some code for the AI competition that was running at the conference, but didn't seem to have much of a clue about how to start it off, let alone coding anything competetive.
Tridge, out of the blue began an informal AI 101 lesson in the courtyard. I sat in on it and can honestly say I learnt more about AI in 10 minutes with Tridge then I did in four years of a CS degree. His presentation of the material came so fluently, confidently and with a warm manner.
So, I nominate him for his *general* donation to the OS movement, and not for his Samba developments (though they are fantastic). It's because of people like him that others want to get involved and make a difference too, and that's the biggest influence we could ever want.
And you guessed it, the return address was the customer's e-mail address. The note compained how their e-mail was not working.
Exactly this happened at a Pearl Jam concert my friend went to in Perth, Western Australia. I'm sure it happens all over the place. Scary - I nearly typed "Perl Jam" ;)
The big man with an even bigger heart stepped up to the plate for the cause. My bid was $70, but I bet against myself raising it to $80. After that I spent lunch talking to him about his satellite interests, which are pretty cool.
They got my vote too.
Ah crap, that means I shouldn't have been having (supplying) beers with him on Sunday night ;)
Or if that fails, you could beat them with a length of pipe. Children learn respect for their parents that way also.
(Yes, this is Australian sarcasm at work). Respect can't be forced, or enforced by parents. Contempt and resentment can.