RE: [MLUG] Mac OS X Rendezvous now available for Linux, Windows

["F Vernon Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Macintosh reminds me of another company a few years ago, one that every one
likes to complain about their security.

Microsoft also made their OS versions easy, they made it where you could
identify things easily on the network and get your network up and running
quickly. The problem with that is it opened a wide range of security
problems. Macintosh is headed down the same road. You have already seen the
first Mac virus, and if Macintosh ever gets 90% of the market share, then
all of these things that are "long overdue" are going to come back and bite
you in the rear.

Take a look at Windows 2003 some time, Microsoft is starting (they have a
long way to go yet) to shut down all of these unnecessary services on a
clean install. Now all of a sudden here comes Macintosh with their "all
open" attitude. 

I don't like it, I don't like it at all, of course I am the anti-wireless
guy too, sue me.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan King
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:59 PM
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Subject: [MLUG] Mac OS X Rendezvous now available for Linux, Windows

So one of the cooler things about Mac OS X is that you can just plug
into a network (often wirelessly) and if you are allowed to, discover
and use all of the potentially interesting resources lying around your
subnet (printers, iTunes servers, etc.).  This ability, called
"Rendezvous" for marketing reasons, is really just an implementation
of the zeroconf protocol.  In theory, anybody else could do this, too.

Or, you could just wait for Apple to write the code for you and
release it as Open Source:

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/rendezvous/

Frankly, I'm a bit surprised they did this, but I guess it adds value
for some of their potential clients, so there you go.

jking
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