BigAdmin Wins Nobel Prize!
At a party the other night in Stockholm, Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, raised a glass of champagne and shouted something that sounded a lot like this.....
BigAdmin er ond-good fun!
Since we don't speak Norwegian, we figured he was announcing that BigAdmin had won the Nobel Prize! Is that cool or what? We are pumped! (And suitably humbled.)
Our biggest fans, the Sikhs on the bus, are beside themselves and claim to have known all along.
Now, we're not sure exactly which Nobel Prize we won, but we're pretty sure it's the one awarded for the best translated docs. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Hiroko Matano and Yutaka Suzuki in Shinobu Matsuzuka's group from Sun's Tokyo office, BigAdmin has built up quite a collection of translated articles. They just finished publishing....
- 26 new French translations
- 13 new Japanese translations
- 26 new Korean translations
- 13 new Simplified Chinese translations
- 26 new Traditional Chinese translations
- 26 new Spanish translations
We are very, very sorry that we had no new Italian translations to post. Siamo molto dispiaciuti.
Hiroko and Yutaka have been experimenting with a combination of human-machine translation. We were surprised at how good the results were. Far better than machine translation alone, but quicker and cheaper than human translation alone. (You'll notice the disclaimer at the top of each article that has been partially translated by machine.)
By the way, we got a peek at the machine that did the translations, and it looks a lot like this all-aluminum 427 cu-in (7.0L) ZL1 V8 engine that debuted in the Corvettes and Chevys of 1969. It's rated at 430 hp and 450 lb.-ft. (610 Nm) of torque. For the full story about the revival of this monster machine, go to WardsAuto.com.
- Rick
Good luck finding 102 octane gasoline for the ZL 1! :-)
Posted by Ron Ten-Hove on October 09, 2009 at 04:24 PM CDT #
LOL, Ron. Oddly enough, there's a station up the road from me that sells it. I wound up putting it in my motorcycle by mistake!
Posted by Richard Ramsey on October 09, 2009 at 04:59 PM CDT #
Thank you so much for all your support and nice words but this is not how I expected to wake up this morning, especially after a three-day weekend in Japan.
I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee.
Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of the BigAdmin team's leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in Sun.
To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize, men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire System Admins world through their courageous pursuit of innovation.
But I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women and all Sun people want to build, a world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents.
And I know that throughout history the Nobel Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.
And that is why I will accept this award as a call to continuous action, a call for all system, network, data center, and storage administrators across the world to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.
Hiroko
Posted by Hiroko Matano on October 13, 2009 at 08:21 AM CDT #
i like this post!
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