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Tom;
Not as satisfying? Well, you could always write the plugins too.
Of course :¬) I've been thinking about this a fair amount, lately; the amount of assumptions made in livecoding systems and how they speed up the performance while also limiting options. It's a bit of a trade.
Yeah, a wireless network. And for whatever reason (AirPort updates, OS X updates, variation in laptop hardware), timing issues got worse from the previous year. Actually, I don't know how this was solved in the end, because I think things had improved by the end (or maybe we stopped relying on the network so much and I didn't notice)...
You only mention aspects of OSX but I heard the exact same thing about trying to sync over a wireless network with Linux as a host. the OS may be a factor but from what I gather the phase of the moon and the proximity of any squirrels that might be around are also quite relevant in wireless network behaviour. I'm not at all sure how that would affect time server protocols; I can't imagine it helps. I think I might've simply used a switch and some CAT5 cables but then I would've lost out on the more organic strategies... Kas.