Scene: In the kitchen, eating steamed clams, surfing the net, writing email, and listening to Jerry Garcia on the laptop -- the songs are actually on a 60 Gig USB drive on the computer in the den, and being played over wireless (although you'd never know).
This is all new to me (wireless connectivity to the net and LAN) -- especially streaming data from a disk on one computer to an application on another, The beautiful part about this is that I didn't have to do any configuration -- just opened my laptop looked to see what computers were available in the area (one mouse click) . I found two computers, selected one and its external HD (2 mouse clicks).Then I started a playlist of songs on the other computer with my Music Player program on the laptop (another 2 mouse clicks). No copying songs or playlists or nothin' -- just using the files as if they existed on the laptop. No proliferation of duplicate files! No real setup & no cleanup afterwards. Essentially the laptop has a hard disk that is logically as big as all the hard disks on on all the computers in the house-- and the application doesn't know (or care) where the files are. It's ridiculously easy! I am using a process called Zero Configuration Networking, described at: http://www.zeroconf.org/ What does this have to do with CF --- I don't know, maybe nothing, maybe a lot. Can I write some CF apps that take advantage of ZCN? I don't know! I am trying to expand my thinking to see what kind of a CF app could exploit this. An ideas? Dick ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
