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Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows

Posted by timothy on from the it's-french-so-it-sounds-sexy dept.

mblase writes "Apple released yesterday a developers preview of their Rendezvous technology for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Java. Rendezvous is an open protocol which uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically find each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers." Reader xxdarkxxmatterxx adds a link to a story at Macworld about the release."

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  1. This is great! by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I don't have to switch to a Mac to have a machine that "just works" on my company's mostly-Mac network!

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    1. Re:This is great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Quiet, fool! Before they get wise!

  2. Pseudocode for accomplishing this by Atario · · Score: 5, Funny

    for A = 0 to 255
    for B = 0 to 255
    for C = 0 to 255
    for D = 0 to 255
    ping A.B.C.D
    if (there was a response) then store A.B.C.D in list Q
    next
    next
    next
    next
    print list Q

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    1. Re:Pseudocode for accomplishing this by JohnFromCanada · · Score: 5, Funny

      "for A = 0 to 255 . . . ."

      How many script kiddies do you think are going to copy that code and try to compile or execute it?

    2. Re:Pseudocode for accomplishing this by bsd4me · · Score: 4, Funny

      You forgot to initialize Q to a null list...

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      (S(SKK)(SKK))(S(SKK)(SKK))

    3. Re:Pseudocode for accomplishing this by bbh · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sweet! Where do I get a pseudocode compiler! :P

      bbh

    4. Re:Pseudocode for accomplishing this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or what, he'll get a pseudocode compiler error? Will his pseudocode have a memory leak or a security hole or something?

    5. Re:Pseudocode for accomplishing this by Mateito · · Score: 3, Funny

      This is slashdot.

      Why didn't you write it in obfuscated perl? :)

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    6. Re:Pseudocode for accomplishing this by thechao · · Score: 2, Funny

      You could at least have made it IPv6 compliant...

    7. Re:Pseudocode for accomplishing this by schon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why didn't you write it in obfuscated perl?

      Wait, wait, wait...

      There's such a thing as unobfuscated perl? Or were you being redundant on purpose? :o)

  3. Gotta love that.... by FatSean · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...Standards based computing! Pfft. Hmmmm..how many RFCs address this issue?

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  4. It's all fun and games... by GillBates0 · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...until they decide to meet and gang up against us. Oh yeah, I think we all know how it goes from there...downhill all the way.

    I'll be brushing up on my bullet dodging and slo-mo skills and suggest all of you do too.

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    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  5. I've found it! by daringone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sweet! My PC just found my Microwave!!!

    /home/daringone#setmwave 1m

    Microwave set to 1 minute

    /home/daringone#startmwave

    Your food is cooking.

    /home/daringone#

    Your food is done.

    /home/daringone#

    1. Re:I've found it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      don't try to cook popcorn this way...

      you might get a kernel dump!

      *runs away*

  6. Re:Everything working together? by mikrorechner · · Score: 2, Funny
    The only stuff I want to have interconnect is my stuff to my other stuff, not your stuff to my stuff.
    Man, that really doesn't belong here, you know...
    I'd rather see a simple-to-config protocol than a zero-config autodiscovery protocol.
    Oh wait, you're talking about computer stuff? Well... never mind, then.
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  7. Re:For all those that keep asking..... by Dirk+Pitt · · Score: 4, Funny
    Um...

    willfully subsidizing these kinds of projects

    Do you have trouble dealing in the abstract?

  8. Re:Apple intruding on MS's territory? by outZider · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Apple's track record in that field as of late hasn't been too great either."

    Yeah, because that one security flaw sure was a bitch.

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    - oZ
    // i am here.
  9. Re:For all those that keep asking..... by jeremyp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because Rendezvous is currently next to useless in the situation I find myself in where none of the other computers on the network support it.

    If it were adopted for Linux and especially Windows I could finally see if it is any good.

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  10. Re:Apple intruding on MS's territory? by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    grr, use preview carefully!

    Or use it carelessly, and double your karma!

  11. Re:WOW! by metalligoth · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's cute for little networks that consist of an apple, a printer and an ipod, but it doesn't scale well

    It scales great. I tried the iChat beta when it first came out, and it has Rendevous. I was at Eastern Michigan University, in my girlfriend's dorm. The public beta just came out an hour before, and a girl from across campus popped on my iChat Rendevous window.

    My g/f hopped on her iMac. We tried to organize a threesome, but the girl from across campus wasn't up for it. Ah well, at least we all had a good conversation about Apple and their cool technology.