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The rely good news is that, with an to help children as young as three begin to read and become corn- associate e4itor here in Vancouver we' ll have an opportunity to give 99 Atiaiitk Ave., Suite 4$, Toronto, ON M6K3!$ fortable with a keYboard, mouse and monitor. The boundaries are better coverage to computer-related 4evelopments an4 news in Pltaae,(416) S006818 Fax (416)S884110 beinS crashed at the other end of the aSe sPectrum too. CuriositY and British Co!umbia. To that en4, Iet us know what you think and what AIuvamuudSatas ~ Fk f Kauston,'fmnk&cpan.corn casern~ to l~ ab o ut P ssibgiues of comPutmg 8 not limited to you d hke to see covered In the C omput~ pl y I arsh Miller,maishaCotcpqn.corn the YounS. The most curious and enthusiastic attendee I saw at the For those of you who have enjoyed Mara's monthly observations Ottawa Computes! recent Comdex Canada 97 was in his 70s. We kePt crossing Paths as take heart, you can still rea4 her co!umn every month at the Toronso i260 St. PatrickSt, Siate 303 we travelled through the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and I wit- CompQs<>! Web site, just point your browser to http:ywww.torontoOttawa,,'Ontario KIN SKS nessed him trying out every new gadget, and having the details of computescofQ/ Tel:(60) 789$43l Fax! (613) 789-6433 every piece of software and hardware exphined to him. sa,:AovamsaeSatas Chris Cole, The definition of "ability" is also changing, thanks to new technoloMegan Johnston sales@ottawacampates.corn Associate editor gy. It is opening doors to people previously isolated by their handi(quebecMicro! megan!®tcp ca caps. In our guest column this month (page 35), author and business ,' j 360 Notre Dame O.Quite 103 Mentrial,+ H2Y 1T9 Tel; {$'l4) 843-4770 Fax: ($14) 843-3484 characters (based on a calculation of 1,623 x ally used by fllesg. Satas SteveGagne, ," l , ~<--,, "~g~Amremsmr, 4 x 1,024/ 2), in approximate agreement with hfr.!Sfarotcn Ss right Sn bls conclusions... ventes@quebecm icra.corn Mr. Zisman. cluster avasteSsa problem, and we all<even However, if the cluster size is 16 (1,024) I) need to double clmck oair math! P~ji,J Aaaur THECovfl characters, then 8,408 files waste 68,S78,336 Cheap Shnlg !' je s mifer Kanlon Scott used Photoshop 4.0 characters (based on a calculation of 8,408 x motion and paint filters and Adobe Illustrator I was interested in reading that digital cam6.0 tacreate this month's cover, which features 16 x 1,024 / 2), about half the 135 million Mr. eras are getting smaller and cheaper (Digital Lattarsaaissuesraisedin educational CD-ROMS that are reviewed Zisman indicates. camera survey, July issue). What I am not clear the paper or aeaarel in this issue. Similarly, a cluster size of 32 (1,024) charac- on is the operating cost or per-picture cost of campatar tepicsara ters and 10,000 6les waste 163,840,000 char- these systems. Am I correct that the cost is iaslcama.Pleasekabrief. CanadaComputer Paper Inc. acters (based on a calculation of 10,000 x 32 negligible, Le., sosmall as to be insignificant? Ia regret thatia e are unless otherwisespecified. x 1,024 / 2), about half the 320 million Mr. usable toInak apstaries If so, it woWdn't take rmmy snapshots to add Subscrlptlons: $29.95 (includesGST)ayear The Editor, Zisman indicates. orS49.90 (includesGST) 2years. fiom pastisseea. up to that US0199! CamputerPlayer! American subscriptions:USS75 I agree entirely with the main point of the suggestproducts. er salve Sincerely, CaeadaL'um pufas! Overseas subscriptions: CanS135 article, that waste should be minimized. I coraUaoarcampatarproblems. Franklin Wayne Foley, via email 8Cfdition Mall chequesand/or money orders Oala thoseiaith namesaad rect the examples only to strengthen the case. isfegan Johnston n plies! Ynur assumption (payable to Canada Computer Paper Inc.! to: 485 Carrell Street a-iaaa or snail-mail The correct numbers in the second two exam- shat the operating cost is negligible is correct, Computer Player! Suite S03, aNrasseswill bepubashe4. ples may noi be as large as Mr. Zisman said, but because chere are n o c onsumables — ze. 425 CarrallStieet, Suite503,Vancower, K V6$68 Vancouver.BC tettars maabeedited for they are still big. f'ilrN — u!Stb digital pliosograplw (Tkere Ss, of Canadian Publication Mail Sales V08 SI3 spaca ar content. David P. Maroun Product Agreementt1 70 437 course, the cost of batteries, but this Ss also cclett ersotcpaa.caia Alan Zismari mplfesr David Naroun ls she case u!Stb fdm-based photography), For Printed in Canada absolutely correct... be caught me iri a math some Chgitul cameras, ersra memory /n varISSN 1188-9462 Cluster size OoesNot Compute mistake (atid me, a math teacher sri my day ious forms can be purchased, bls eaeri thisss Alan Zisman's article, ComputerPlayer! is distributed free through hundreds of stores 8i street boxes around the "Waste not, want not," in job!). f sgspecs I neglected the last step, divsd- viewable. The more stgntlcarit consfderatlon Greater Vancouver area. tng by std However, the reality, at least ots at tbss point lri the development of dlgftcsl your July 1997 discusses an my hard drfr!e, fs uorse than theffgures cor- stlt/ photography Is quulflyAt the coessimer important issue: the waste The publisherreservesthe nght to refusesexist, racist, or otheriviseoffensiveadvertisiriq. The publisher ahoreserves ley level, glimoutput stN has the edge — for nota ri.ctly estimated by llfr. Naroutc fri fuct, Sb of disk space caused by the nght to bethefirialjudge of wlet is apprapriaie. are doser to my (snconect) math — fn fact, large cluster sizes. 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students receive lessons by email. They also use email to ask questions, submit assignments, receive feedback on assignments, and to communicate with other students. While I'm located in Toronto, the world has become my classroom. I have conducted courses for students in Vancouver, Calgary, Barrie, Orillia, Toronto. Ohio, California, Jamaica,and South Africa. ese days, the Internet is being used for The only pre-requisites for the courses are more than sending email, searching for the desire to write and the ability to send and i nformation, o r s h o p , s h o p , shopping. receive email. Each course module includes Increasingly, it is becoming an interactive Going Mainstream lecture notes, research and writing exercises, After running a few private courses suctraining medium. and assignments students submit by email for As soineone with 15 years experience cessfully, I contacted the continuingMucafeedback. This is similar to in-class situations, teaching writing and communications cours- tion division of Georgian College (a commuwhere instructors use a variety of techniques nity college located in Barrie, Ont.) and asked es, and as someone interested in technology (lectures, exercises, assignments and feeda nd communications, I w o ndered if t h e administrators if they wanted to make my back) to keep courses interesting. courses part of t h eir c ontinuing-education Internet could actually replace the classroom. College students have set course start dates So I converted my in-class creative writing, program. They did, and since last fall I have and have to complete courses within a set conducted online training for over SO private freelance writing, and media-release writing period of time (about 12 weeks), but private courses to cyber lessons — complete with lec- and college continuingwducation students. students can start courses any time and work

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From Davidson fr Associates. Contact: 800-5457677. Price: 540 (Mega Math Blaster is $50). The latest release of the Blaster series, this dis centers around Bl ter,a spaceshipth t allows children to collect, sort. and categorize items as t ey trave t r ough sPace. i me a t children four to seven years old, Sc ience Blaster Jr. includes graphics, animation, and music in an amusing journey through science. Children can sing along with Blaster songs, interact with delightful characters, play games, and earn certificates. Some of the experiments chil-

th delightful characters and engaging interactivity, one of t h e b e st spelling, drawing letters,and rhyming simple advantages the computer can offer wards. pooh, who recently celebrated his 70th children is a lesson that is so fun they want to anniversary, is as endearing as ever. learn. So keep the likes, dislikes, and educae Interactive Alphabet tional abilities of your child in nund, and read From Hoffman + Associate.Contact:888-464t e o a w ing reviews or tips on some off the h 5652. Pnce: 522.99. hah«st «dumbo~ C D. ROm ~ ab l e( note F ~ y, a C o rel CD- R OM t h at i s f un, exc it ing gi i s st d t a d and designed to take advantage af some of the benefits of m ultimedia. Now owned by From Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Contact: Hoffman + Associates (although o u sstill ' bearin earing suring ~arious animals to under800-899-0431. Price: S45-$49. the Corel logo), The interactive Alphabet is a stand size relationships, and mixGather'round.girls and boys,'cause if you' re charming multimedia alphabet where goofy ing colors to understand color thebetw etween the ages of three and six you can join characters — including a happy space creature, ory. Children mill also learn about Pooh and his friends to play games, color,lis- a dancing reptile, and a sheep on snowanimals and plants, historical scientific ten to music, match cartoons, earn certificates. shoes — introduce children ages three to seven discoveries, weather and seasons, and the and read letters addressed to you. to letters and words. properties of sound. lf yau enjoy this title con Set in the lQQ Acre Wcxid, learning activities The child can choose the letters they wish s ider Meg Math Bl -ter,mhch ~ p~ md c s are centered around stories where children to learn about, can hear a story and watch a resources for parents. can interact mith A.A. Milne's characters.And fun animation sequence packed with words when the child has successfully accomplished starting with the chosen letter, and can pick How Would You Survtve? a task,he or she is rewarded with songs and letter-related words to hear and view addi- From Grolier Interactive. Contact: 203-797-3530. Price: U5$24.99. prizes. tional animations. Children can listen to narraT he only CD-ROM to e ver c r ash my Oozing with charm,and offering three levels tion or read to themselves, and can click on Pentium, How Would You Survive is one part of difficulty and clues to help your child, individual words to hear pronunciations. picture book with a primitive animation and Ready to Read with Pooh provides nine fun Focussingon Soowords,the progiamis«asy activities designed to teach and reinforce to learn, engaging, and full of visual and audi- slide show, and one part question-and-answer basic language skills, such as the alphabet torycandy.But with,forexample,noanimated quiz. Offering a comprehensive look into the lives of ancient Egyptians, Vikings, and Aztecs, upper and lower case letters,phanics writing to teach your child how to mrite let- How Would You Survive — designed for chil-

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Inconsistent For consistency, Compton's gets a failing grade. In the asteroid section, it clalnis that Ceres is 930 km in diameter (the value now believed to be fairly accurate), but in a section titled "Earth: Soine facts about space," Ceres is

listed at 1,023 km across (a figure that comes from 1979 data!). In the article about Juno, it claims some 1,600 asteroids are known, but the asteroid section says at least 3,000 have been catalogued.Both are outdated — 6,000 would be a better figure. While Compton's does include a Web site link for more information on asteroids. the entry itself is the briefest and least useful of the four encyclopedias. Other articles are similarly brief; the one on Giuseppe Piazzi, who in 1801 discovered the first asteroid, is less than 10 words!

complete, As for Ceres, it adopts a diameter in between the figures listed in Compton's: 970 km. The number of known asteroids is given the appropriate figure of 6,000, but it ptesents both theories for the origin of asteroids as equally likely. In fact, one of the theories was discounted by most astronomers a century ago. Piazzi does not rate a separate artide in World Book. Especially disappointing from a multimedia standpoint is the fact that neither Compton's nor World Book contains any photographs of asteroids. Neither makes an attempt at incorporating anything but text and tables of data. Grave Mistakes Another worrisome aspect of all the encyIncredibly. the bibliography in the solar snclopedias is that none of the "facts" are refertem article lists no books more recent than enced. With the power of CD-ROMs, it should l990. and it actua!iy has the audacity to say be a simple matter to link every pertinent scithe article was reviewed by an astronomer entific fact to th e source being used, thus who has been dead since 1973! Dr. Helen allowing students or researchers to check out Hogg, Canada's most famous astronoiner, is or quote the source. listed as living, even though she died several Encarta is even worse than Compton's. years ago. While the bibliography in Compton's is outWorld Book is o nly a l i t tle b etter than dated, it is better than Encarta's, which lists no Compton's. It t o o l i s t s H o g g a s l i v i n g, books under astronomy more recent than although its entry on her life is much more 1988. Here we find that Ceres has ballooned

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true essence of the Knowledge Age: vital and happy human beings. In order to be happy, people of all ages need to feel they have control over, and responsibility for, their destinies. Technology provides us with an important means of liberating ourselves from the chains of our industrial past, Look at the choices adultsnow have inhow they work. Many people are creating new work portfolios that combine a variety of working relationships. For example, one person may simultaneously do contract work with one company, have a parttime employment relationship with another, while also doing volunteer work, and taking a course or program of study. People are also carrying out their work in multiple locations, enabled by technology — they are no longer tied to an office. These are the changing realities of our world of work, and most young people wouldn't want it any other way. This portfolio gives them the freedom and tools to grow and unleash their full potential.

portfolio approach to learning? Just imagine the incredible human beings that would emerge from a learning system that honoured our diversity and aII our intelligences equally — including our musical, visual, natural i,'as in nature), and spiritual talents. Just think about the kind of people who would grow from a philosophy that truly respected exploration and playfor allages,as an authentic means of learning. I saw this ideology of learning at the Bloorview MacMillan Centre. This marvellous place serves children and young adults with disabilities or complex long-term needs, such as cerebral palsy. muscular dystrophy, amputations, and head injuries. The centre is setting the pace for learning in the new millennium. It starts with adults and children being AH reators in learning. In the new Computer Camp, for instance, campers learn about information technology in a fun environment that includes such activities as crafts, art, and outings, which are all carefully crafted play. The campers determine what they want to learn, and the counsellors design How are we preparing ourselves and our the activities based on daily feedback from the children for this reality? What if we liberated kids. our children and helped them devdop this The Cosmic Bird Feeder, for example, inte-

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Can Boot Manager tame Wln95? Q: How do I install Windows 95 with OS/2's Boot Manager? I have to start using Win95 at work, so I want to have it at home, too. But it took six tries, a few hard-disk reformats. and six months to get Win95 working on my son's machine. I don't w ant t o r i sk m y O S/2 machine unless I know I can safely have multiboot capability. Thanks for any help. Joe Kevin Linfield responds: Fortunately for all OS/2 users, Boot ilfanager works with (as far as I k n ow) a l l o t her operating systems, including those from /yiicrosoft. I Personally have installed DOS 5.0, DOS 6.2, IVtndows 95, Windows NT, and L INUX w i th B oot /ifanager over the years. Tbe trick ts to install Boot Itfanager first (on a blank hard drive if possible), then install any I>ficrosoft operating system. Note that all Microsoft operating systenzs will disable Soot Manager, butyou can easily re-enable it by booting from your OS/2 d i sks ( i n s tallation d i s ks or y o u r

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Fixpak fidgeting Q: I read your article about the first Fixpak that IBM has brought out for Merlin. I applied this Fixpak, and then my machine could not boot anymore due to a problem with one of the new DLLs. I booted to the command prompt and replaced the offending DLL (PMWPDLL) with the old version, after which everything has been working line. I'm a little confused now, though. Is this normal and should I ~orry about this giving me problems in the future? Joris Kevin Linfield responds: What you did was perfect for your situation. Although Fixpak I patches many problems and annoyances uii lb OS/2, it does add some dgPculttes of its ou in. Since it inakes a backup of all of the old files fin the IARCHIVE dhrectory), i f a user

knou's what fil e is causing problems, they can simply replace the "new" file with the older one.Rumors abound about another Fixpak being released this summer, and. it might be out by the lime you read this.

56K7 Not possible! Q: I just bought a US Robotics 56Kbps modem, but the maximum speed I can reach is 31.2 Kbps! First I t h ought it was my modem, but when I brought my computer to my ISP (they have crystal-clear phone lines), I connected and got speeds up to 45 Kbps! What can I do to make my phone lines better (or what can I ask the phone company to do)? Alan Zisman responds: Surprise! You' ve discovered the norinal behaviour for a socatled 56Kbps modem. Government regulations, ln both theUS.and Canada, about the amount of voltage allowed on a so-called plain old telephone servtce p'OTS) line limits these to

53 Kbps at best. In tbe real uorki, this is rarely attained. Instead, speeds in the 45-49 Kbps are more likely. And as soon as there' s any noise on the lines, performance drops down to standard 33.6 Kbps — or slower. That's for downloads only. Uploads are ltmited to 33.6 Kbps at best, Finally, there are currently two competing standards for 56Kbps modenrs, and you need thesame standard as your Inter~et serviceprovider.Since you' ve gota US Robotics modem, use it with a telecom program to phone USR's tollfree line-test number (888-

877-9248$ to see if your phone line u ill support higher speeds.

Don't scan me Q: When I lose power (electricity goes out, and so on), Win95 SR2 boots up to a SCANDISK prompt, telling me I might have errors and to "Press any key to Continue."Is there any way to bypass this? I can not be at home every time we lose power. Alan Zisman responds: it's not a bug...it's a feature. Tbe neivest i ersion of Windows 95, sowalled OEM Service Release 2 ('aka Win 95b) automatically urants to run SCANDISK if the system restarts without having gone through tbe of/fetal Shut Down procedure. In this u ay, it attempts to check for and repair any ftle-system damage caused by the shut dnu n. Iou can turn this og if yo u w ant. Like most of Win95's bootfeatures, it's controlled by the texl system fli MSDOS.SYS. You can edit this file in DOS Edtt or Notepad, but you' ll have to turn off its read-only and hidden atlrlbutes first, Then, add a line to the (options/ section reading 'AutoScan=o" (no quotesof courxeg. Save,and restore the readonly and bidden altributes.

Duplex Dilemma Q: Hi Alan. I was wondering about the Internet Phone program I got in a "communication" CD-ROM that came with my modem. Upon installing it, I don't fully understand what is Full/Half duplex and how can I change

it.And is it really true that I can talk to people over the Net like over the phone? Alex Alan Zisman responds: Yes, you can use tbe Internetas a sort-of long~tstance phone; you and tbe other party need to be on the Net at the same time,and you need to contact via a server that supports your sojheare. You' ll probably find it sonreu~bat awkward to use, and lou fldelity — but the price is right! In order to do this, you need a sound card that supports full-duplex — that means it can access its input and output stages at tbe same time; otherwise, you' re limited to tbe kind of commu~ication we associate with early radio — one person talk'ing, the other listening, then reversing roles. Most recent sound cards support full duplex, but not all do, and in many (such as the popular Sound Blaster 16$you have to specifically turn it on, using, for example, tbe Windows 95 Control Panel.

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tations, the flexible and sophisticated software application has been used in the remote control of submarines and other submersives and is being used with robotic manipulators for the Canadian Space Agency. The Smart Pump robot has been under development for the past 3.5 years and is currently being tested in Shell stations in Sacramento, Calif. Following testing, Shell will seek approval from regulatory agencies, then will move into

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by Alen ThINaitS h, the delightful sounds of a Iongdistance cycling tour! The hum of tires on a good road surface. The "snick" of a clean-shifting derailleur. The crackle and hiss of a high-speed cellular modem...

What's that? How on earth did the modem get in there? Well, if you'd been with me on the TechNoinad Tour — a 1,800 km solo cycling trip through Ontario, Quebec, and New York State — the modem sound would

It was a wonderful combination of hightech content and low-tech context. The cell phone would beep,the modem craCkl, all those messages would come pouring in, seemingly from the ether itself, while I watched a g reat blue h eron tiptoeing have been a daily occurrence. As would the through the seeds in an inlet off the St. sight of a palsntop computer and a cell lawrence River, or listened to the cry of a phone lying on picnic tables at wiiderness loon as it skinuned a wilderness lake in the cam~ites and scenic lookouts. The tour was an excellent test of mobile Continuedon page $$

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