{"id":529,"date":"2008-06-05T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/live-mesh-because-i-can\/"},"modified":"2013-03-14T22:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T07:29:24","slug":"live-mesh-because-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/live-mesh-because-i-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Mesh: &#8230;because I can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure you already fell in love with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesh.com\/Welcome\/Welcome.aspx\">Live Mesh<\/a>: I know I did.<\/p>\n<p>Today I did a little experiment, which probably shows how desperately I need to go in vacation ASAP: I wanted to do a mega-remote session that would go through pretty much all the physical machines I am using there days. The sequence is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>laptop in the living room<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211;&gt; Media Center in the den<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211;&gt;laptop on my desk at work<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211;&gt;UMPC in the living room<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211;&gt;desktop at work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apart from the first leg, done via remote desktop, all the connections were done via live mesh. That&#8217;s 5 PC deep: can you do better? I dare you, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s people working on more PCs out there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, the last step in the chain (the tiny miniature of my desktop at work) was still fairly responsive! Picture follows:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/image_591e9a77-a6e4-49a5-9bdc-f95ddfc200ec.png\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p>All those nested realities reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_R._Hofstadter\">Hofstadter<\/a> and his discussions about recursion in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0465026567\">GEB<\/a>: and pronto, here&#8217;s there&#8217;s the integrated cam in the UMPC put to good use for giving some recursive depth \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/image_02d2876d-b517-45bd-a87f-88051fdb86e9.png\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure you already fell in love with Live Mesh: I know I did. Today I did a little experiment, which probably shows how desperately I need to go in vacation ASAP: I wanted to do a mega-remote session that would go through pretty much all the physical machines I am using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-useless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}