Pop up messages

[stealthmonkey]

hey so i am using a macbook pro, and i wanted to send a popup message to my brothers windows computer(vista). is there any way to do this via wifi?

 

[DaFlake]

Not really, not without having Windows loaded on your machine. If you had windows you could use NET SEND command to send a popup message but Mac doesn't have these commands.

 

[stealthmonkey]

There has to be a way haha. Ill find it eventually

 

[DaFlake]

Not without messaging software on both machines. I just got done writing software that will do this on a gov network across multiple devices. Sorry, it isn't possible.

 

[stealthmonkey]

what sort of software would i have to install

 

[DaFlake]

You would have to find some sort of messaging software and use it like instant messenger. The alert program that we wrote runs a service in the background that listens for incoming messages and then displays the message on the screen. We wrote it originally for Windows (where I work net send is disabled) and then had to write a mac and solaris module as well.

 

[cwa107]

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