Re: Draining the Swamp: A Technical User's Experience

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

> [1] For example, have you heard about Apple's ZeroConf initiative?
> This is a setup where computers connected on a private LAN that's not
> on the global Internet will automatically form their own private
> network with hostnames and everything, and publish their services. If
> you have ever been at a conference desperately trying to copy a file
> from one laptop to another with nothing to use but a crossover cable,
> you'll understand how much better this is than the current Linux
> approach to the problem. :-)

Microsoft already went that way (partly): Windows machine automatically
get an IP address when connected together without dhcp/wins server (in a
weird range, something like 164.128.x.x but I'm certainly wrong). I've
seen this on W98 machines, but didn't look at the protocol they used.

	Xav