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Rendezvous, Microsoft And Apple
serendigital writes "MacCentral reports that a BusinessWeek article entitled: 'A Rendezvous with Redmond?' has -- with Rendezvous -- created an actual threat to Microsoft. As reported by MacCentral, it's interesting to note that BusinesWeek's 'Byte of the Apple' columnist Charles Haddad is on temporary leave and this article was written by a substitute columnist."
Yep I can see it now, people will hear about this and run out and by a 3000$ grapefruit flavored pc because they can't click the button on their computer the runs the network setup wizard in XP. hmmm...I don't think so. So apparently to get an article posted it has to be anti- microsoft, because lord knows their is no pro microsoft news that might be important to hear.
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
were they looking at their computer or could they see it in their mind with the amazing super Apple technology. Oh wait, ummm...I can walk into our whole facility with a laptop and connect to any computer with an open share, holy crap what kind of software did I do this with, oh no, oh no, it was XP aaaagggghhhhhh....this must be a bad dream, only Mac can do this amazing feat of science and technology. Slashdot must have really needed some filler today.
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
Seriously... the weakest point of any network is its users. Give your users enough rope, and they will hang themselves. However, when they hang themselves, it's up to the Sys admins to come to the rescue.
This is why lockdowns exist. They keep Joe User from randomly changing settings he doesn't understand, and accessing files he's not supposed to access.
As a sys admin, I DO NOT WANT random people being able to print to my printers just because they have a wireless card. The article mentions that they "don't even need to be on the network". So, lemme get this straight - any shmoe with a Rendezvous-enabled Mac can print to my printer, without getting permission? Even, say, somebody sitting outside the building?
This may be nice in a home environment, but I don't see how this is anything but a threat to business security. I have never read about rendezvous anywhere besides this article, so perhaps there's some administrative stuff I don't know about. For now, though, I think I'll stick with having a secure network. You want to print to the office printer? Call me first. How hard is that?