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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."
Go to hell and die. I hope you rendezvous your dick with my ass first, though!
Love,
The Homosexual Rainbow Representative of Butt Sex
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
Considering that MS is on a security campaign and this is as anti-security as you can get, I doub't they'll adopt it. They may rightly point out that it is a stupid concept in the face of ever growing security concerns, but that would be considered by you as B) I'm sure.
What a great thing to be able to have any stranger pop-over and hook up to your printer without you knowing it and print out whatever kind of crap. Or just waste your supplies. Make it wireless and even more fun can be had!
In this day and age, this is the stupidest thing imaginable. Apple and the WiFi people have completely ignored all the warnings and are working as hard as they can to make this an even less secure world than it is.
Course it "Easier" so 99% of the people will flock to it. Sad.
Contrary to popular belief, coding is not all free blow-jobs and beer. Those things cost MONEY!
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?
You can't get a wmv file to play on that PC you must be an asshole!!