On 13 Mar 2013, at 23:47, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: > On 03/13/2013 03:18 PM, Ray Bellis wrote: >> On 13 Mar 2013, at 17:13, Ted Lemon <mel...@fugue.com> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 13, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: >>>> I don't have any statistics but it wouldn't shock me to hear that usb vs. >>>> networked printers are 10:1 more common. >>> It would shock me. Bonjour printing Just Works. >>> >> It's also the only way I know of to print from an iDevice. >> >> The 2.5 year old HP B110a printer I have at home has never been physically >> connected to a computer. >> >> It has "virtual USB" drivers for Windows, but for everything else it's >> DNS-SD.
> What I find most telling is that after 25 years, printers are still the > canonical > example of the "need" for SD. But printers have entire programs/wizards that > support their existence, so they're really lousy as a canonical example. It > would > be nice for things to attach themselves to my net and not require their awful > apps > to be installed. So you never use music collections on other devices, videos from a video server, or throw your laptop screen to a local plasma display for easy viewing by a group? Those are just typical examples of common uses. The problem though is that without manual intervention you only see the services in your local subnet. Our university pretty much only has networked printers now, as they're "managed" and thus need to be monitored by the contractor. My homenet has two networked printers; I don't want to rely on a specific host being up to be able to print. Tim _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
