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Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, Samba author and recipient of the mantle for Australia's "smartest man in IT", tells how Samba was nearly named Salmonberry, and what the SMB 2 protocol can do.
Linus Torvalds is the star guest at Australia's annual Linux conference. ZDNet.com.au once again took a video crew to Melbourne in January and caught up with the man behind Linux.
Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff
Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007.
Academic says the operating systems of the future will be called Windows and Linux, no matter what they look like.
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, Samba author and recipient of the mantle for Australia's "smartest man in IT", tells how Samba was nearly named Salmonberry, and what the SMB 2 protocol can do.
Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.
Businesses don't share information on cyberattacks, making it almost impossible to assess risk.
What do you call it when the military carry guns with no bullets? Security guru, Bruce Schneier, calls it "security theatre".
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