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t the Seybold Publishing 97 conference in San Francisco in September, Microsoft chairman Bill ates outlined his vision of a "Web lifestyle" that would see people using the World Wide Web for entertainment, shopping, banking, communications, ,~ n e ws and other information gathering. G ates predicted that t hi s l i festyle will b e achieved when So percent of Americans are using the Web in the manner he outlined. He said that would happen in ten years. However, according to recent Iigures on the rate of growth of Internet and Web usage in ter nationally,Gates maysoon have to be downgraded from visionary to realist.

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ing, non-virtual network of family, friends and colleagues. I led such a blissful, non-wired existence myself until two years ago. I had heard whispers of the existence of this parallel, virtual universe but paid it no mind. In hindsight, I can see that it would have made a difference, nothing dramatic, just tweaking things a little in my favour. Before moving back to Vancouver two and a half years ago, I was living in St. John' s, Nfld., a rather, ahem, isolated location. Had I an email connection, I would have had daily contact with family and friends in Vancouver and all stops in between, and I might saved a few bucks on phone bills. Now that I'm back in Vancouver and have email, I frequently hear

my entertainment from the Web, however. A lot of the interactive action appears to be gaming related and I just don't Iit the young male tar-

get demographic.

In this issue If you do fit this demographic you' ll be interested in our game coverage this month. It gts in with the Internet focus of this issue, as our game boy, Mare Saltzman, documents the top Io gaming-related Web

two Vancouver developers, Multiactive Technologies (see page sz) and

Family Ware International (see page iS), are designing innovative educational Web sites and services that are already being used in B.C.

schools. Paul Angyal also offers some advice on picking an Internet service provider for those about to take the plunge into online life

(see page z9). We atso review a key tool for connection: the modem. Although the

variety of Internet access modes is broadening — including cable, satellite, and more recently successful high-speed transmission via existing power lines in the United Kingdom — most people still use q modem. Lynn Greiner tests the latest S6K models (see page to).

Winning words As well, in our attempt to find out what you think, we are running a contest this month. The task: in zoo words or less tell us what you love or hate about the Internet. The prize: the new Canadian Geographic CDROM — and the winner will get it just in time for Christmas. Tum to page 34 for details and to page to page z6 for examples of love/hate tales from the Net. And though there may not be a reward attached, if there is anything else you love or hate, let us know what you think about that too.

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Showing that to other Win9S users gets an interesting reaction.

Keep up the good work! Todd Wongkee

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Unux lain speaks Glad to see a Linux set of articles (" What is Linux?" October issue). IVe had various versions of Linux for a number of years now, to play with in my spare time. Originally it was a challenge just to get everything installed and working: X, telnet, PPP, and so forth. But the latest versions are so simple to install that the challenge has left. I installed Slackware 3.z faster than I installed Win9SI I even have an Icon on my Win9S desktop that I can dick, and it causes a Win9S shutdown, and up comes Linux.

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to start with, and I refuse to pay a setup fee.

This to me is just money grabbing and you get nothing for it. The other problem I have

with this is that if their service sucks, you are Editor's note: eriteare running the second out that money-they will not retund you. I part af the article on Llnux in this issue. have lost a lot of money this way. Check out page 3z So that's it-I would be interested in what you or your readers have to say. Oh, one last ISP quest thing. Is there a regulatory board for ISPs? What does it take to find a good !SP? I have Corey Reeve had five in the last year or so, and for one Editor's n ote: Pe r fect ti m ing, Ca rey. reason or another I have got rid of them. Hopefully, our tntemet issue will help you One of my big issues are with newsgroups. out! Our /lrst feature this month is on choos-

All I ever hear is, "Oh yes we have the best ing an internet service provider. feeds with over 3o,ooo groups." That's all fine and dandy, but if there are no articles in these groups. they are useless, and this is what I am Ilnding. My second problem is with unlimited ser-

vice.Recently Ihave been using the Internet

Kudos for Kevin I thoroughly enjoy your [Kevin Lingetd's] OS/z Ready column in the Computer Player! Also,I

enjoythe "YouAsked Us..."column. Thanks for

quite a bit and need this service, but I am also on a limited budget. What I seem to find here is that most ISPs have a three-hour limit

the good work and keep it up! These columns are the main reason I look for this paper. Being a reseller, I get alot of free publications sent to me as well as alot of email subscriptions etc.

and thenyou getdisconnected.Sure,you can

However, it's very refreshing to see a fairly well-

dial back in, but this is not what I am paying

balanced representation of OS/z, IBM, etc. in

for. I have also found that you get discon- the main stream computer press. I find many nected a lot in prime-time hours. I never had this problem with an hourly limited account. The last thing is price-most of these ISPs

want you to pay first and last month, plus a setup fee. I don't have $soo to toss around

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Unidentlcat twins There are two competing would-be standards in the 56K world: x2, from US Robotics ( 3Com), an d K 5 6 F lex, d e veloped b y Rockwell and Lucent. They are not compatible, so when you' re shopping for a 56K modem, be sure you' re buying the flavour supported by your ISP, and insist that your m odem of c h oice o f fers some sort o f upgrade path once a standard is decided upon. A flash upgrade is best — that means

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his term Bob Waugh's Grade 5 students have already learned about M onserrat's vo l c ano , A me l i a Earhart's female copycat, and discussed the pros and cons of the V-chip. Science has become exciting and current for his students with topics such as these through a' one-of-a-kind Internet-

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Q: ff this is a fif(ac column, why are you always downott Apple? A: I hope you don't object to the general tone of the column, as that's what a "rant" is meant to be. While just about everyone recognizes that the Mac technology is generally the best around, however, it"s the management of Apple that deserve to be the focus of my ranting. These folks have caused some big problems over the years and deserve to be skewered in the column.

Ct: If this is a Mac column, why are you always down on Micfosoft? A: Microsoft is integrally enmeshed with the Macintosh and has been since well — before the first Mac rolled off the assembly line. As any devoted Mac fan can tellyou,no othercompany has done so mu ch to damage Apple's long-term well being as has Microsoft. That said, there are probably very few companiesthat have done so much to help the Mac as Microsoft has done either. Q: Considering all the problems at Apple these days, should I wait to buy 8 Mac? A: No, if you find the Mac you want at a good price, you should buy lt without hesitation. Despite what you may hear in the popular press about the imminent demise of Apple, the company will be around for a long time. Besides, powerful forces In the industry are concerned about the company (and, more so, the Mac OS itself). Even If the company does go out of business or ls purchased by another company, your Mac will work for years and you' ll be able to find service for your Investment for much longer than you will probably own it.

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categorization and t ree/clustering views offered with the Internet's AltaVista). This means a quick learning curve lor Internet users, but it also means a clumsy help file, with tips hidden away on some godforsaken shady HyperText lane. Thank heavens a double click on a search file brings up Inso's Quick Viewer, so most popular file formats, including the latest from Microsoft, can be viewed quickly on screen. Whiriigllg In addition, one might quibble about the One day whiledoing some Web surfing, I response time of six to ten seconds per query noted AltaVista Search Personal edition was (versus the two to three seconds for Eclipse available as a free download. I decided to Find), but given that the index covers every give it a whirl. AltaVista is very fast — it tile on my machine and is seven times smallindexed 1.6 GB of files in ten minutes (160 er than Eclipse Find's, the search perforMB per minute vs. 2 MB per minute for mance is not bad. Eclipse Find) and the size of the index files The documentation is all electronic except were 8 MB (less than 0.1 percent of the files for a tiny crib sheet designed to fit in thc CDscanned vs. 18 percent for Eclipse Find). ROM jacket the software comes in. A 20 page AltaVista has its peculiarities, however. It getting-started guide would make the $79 must be run from a Web browser that sup- Canadian price a little easier to bear. But I portsJava applets.Popular browsers such as shouldn't complain. Now I regularly go surfN etscape Navigator 2.0 o r a b ove a n d ing to find all the riches squirreled away on Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 and above my own machine. + can be used to host AltaVista Personal. AltaVista Personal works just like t he Jacques Surveyer is a Web photographer; seek Internet version: nearly the same screen lay- and you will find him at jbsurv©inforamp.net out, controls, and output (but none of the new ready to answer your searching questions.

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know it's not fashionable to be happy about anything these days, so I'm going to complain about how much complaining I hear. Specifically,. can everyone collectively stop harping about the Internet, please? From "AOHell" to C!. "World Wide Wait." everyone has their own slur for something in the online universe. No, it's not, perfect, but it's still pretty amazing considering the short time it's been around and the low cost ol' usage. Simply put, it' s high time to recognize that the Internet is a cool technology. "Oh. I had to wait a whole minute for the 'yourlibraryhere.corn' site to load and then it told me it would take 12 minutes to download a file!" Tough! Just think about how long it would have taken you to get thai file if you couldn't use the Internet. When I needed some patent forms and information recently. I found the site and downloaded ihe 1'iles in a l e w m i nutes. Without the Internet, it would have required a flight to Washington, D.C., a drive around those cont'using streets, a search through the library stacks, lots of waiting in line for infortnation and copying, then the tlight back. Or I could have spent lots of time and money on the phone playing voice-mail tag, explaining to a hundred or so different people what I want, eventually maybe convincing them send me the 1'ile for a hefty shipping and handling charge. and then waiting several days tor delivery.

fyou've been anywhere on the planet this past year, you' re doubtless convinced that the entire world is permanently wired to the Web, video-conferencing online in real time, and connected at a million-or-so Kbps. W hen you logon, however, you can't find anything online except junk mail telling you hov; to GET RICH NOW. After your browser lreezes and your computer crashes. taking with it hours' worth of work, you realize it was all a dream — and not the good kind, either. Suggesting Internet t«chnology is robust enough 1'or business is a lot like comparing a sophisticated telephone switching network to two cans tied together with a piece of string. Intcmct email is unreliable and half thc Web sitci either don't exist or shouldn' t. Lots of time you can'teven log on because your wacko neighbour is downloading more porn or a new schematicdiagram for a nuclear bomh using "everyday household items." Right, as if your wacko neighbour has any of

Next complaint: You can't always gct o nline. M y a n swer'? Get over i i ! T h e Internet is a developing technology and the available bandwidth supply can't yct keep up with thedemand. Thousands of "rack andstack" modems arc heing added every hour to keep up with th» world' s Internet usage. Local POPs (points ol presence) are heing added every day by Internet service providcrs (ISPs). Anyway, if vou care so much conn«ciing all the time, you can always pay the price 1'or a dedicated T 1 line. Speaking of coit, I can't believe people complain that th« Internet is ton cxpcnsivc. For between $20 and $30 per month, you can get all the Internet access you v ant. This is about thc same price as telephone, cable TV, or cellular phone service, hut you gct the advantage of heing able to iend and receive communications anywhere in the world without long-distance charges.

Lost losers Speal'ing ol' d«livery, some Net newhies compl;iin about their email getting lost. Firit ot all, this is extremely rare unless a person mistypcs an email address. I 1'igure, if you can'i read over v hai you' ve typed, you don't dcicrve having your mail delivered. 11 you don't think the correct address mattcri i n t h e " r eal w o r ld," i r y s e nding voui' lil<)I"tgagc cheque io ihe w rong street

address a I'cw times. Second, I h;ivc as much diiliculty with Canada Post and FedEx as I do with the Internet. If a message is important and I don'I get a timely response, I track it. I call to make sure it arrived online, by mail, by courier, or by fax. Besides, usually if there is a problem with an email, the mail server tells me about it within a few minutes. I' ve never gotten that kind of service from any other message delivery service.

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Anyway, the information available on the Weh isn't that great. There's no easy way of figuring out th» 1'acts 1'rom the factoids; the Ne w mafh opinions from ihe ramblings, or separating I n reality. however. it's expensive to gct nn ihc wheat from the «half, as it werc. ihe Net.You have to buy the computer system; get a fast modem; purchase the browsAd nauseam er software and maybe an email package it' 11' ynu'vc been online tor more than a few y o u r ISP dncsn'i bundle them in with your week»,you've probably realized v;hat passes Internet access; and learn liow to uic every1'or content is mo itthing — noi an easy task considering hov ly adveriiiing. "user tricndly" everything is these day». In most Whe n you add up all ihi», it probably costi cases, you a 1'ew bucks for every message you send. Yet, everyone says it's cheap. Must he the new math. So far, I'vc talked about thc high cost ol' the Internet, the douhtlulness ol' it» * information, and ih» unrcliahili(y ol' '-=i ti message delivery. I g ucsi t h» only thin • lett to complain;ihoui

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have to go to extreme lengths to find anything of value. It's like going to a public library and finding all the books tossed into a big pile on the floor without their covers. Somewhere in this mountain of uncategorized material is the information you want. The question is "where?" Now in the "olden" days ol hooks, publishing c ompanies would h i r e w r i ters renowned for their expertise. Editors would be employed who understood thc subject mauer and could correct or vet anything questionable. Now, anybody who can gctto a computer terminal can claim expertise online. No fuss. no muss — and no diploma. either. The technology cheerleaders will tell you the Internet is the least expensive way of reaching out and learning about our world. Unt'ortunately, most people use thc Internet to send those tiresome "thought-you' dfind-this-funny" emails io t heir f r iends,

In i h< >rt. there ii nunc, fust about anybody can rcail your m ail — Irom ou r b oi s w h o has a legal right to read every P~ ema i l yo u i cnd (it' you uie your business account), to the thousands of hackerswho seem to have no time to get a real job but have all the time in the world to break into your Internet accounts and order late-night pizzas. I'd love to wax philosophic some more, but I think I see my wacko neighbour at my front door carrying a big silver box. I' ll let you know if I think it's funny, 4

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Phone tag Sprint Canada promises The Most Online will be as simple to use as the telephone. The company says instructional materials are written in plain language, and single integrated invoicing is available for customers who also use Sprint's long-distance telephone service. The service is available in English and French, although help desk service is available in other languages, including Cantonese and Mandarin. "The Internet is still largely an English vehicle,*' Hagan says. "We' ll develop additional languages as we see the opportunity to do so.... We' re not addressing the total market right now." Hagan says The Most Online is a wholly Canadian service unrelated to Sprint Internet Passport, the service Sprint Communications Co. launched in the United States in August 1996. Sprint Canada is»wned by Call-Net E nterprises I nc., a Canadi a n Telecommunications holding company, and is only affiliated with its U.S. namesake through a strategic alliance. "We started at ground zero, talking to Canadians to come up with the strategy,"

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, part one: CONFIG.SYS

REM out the line IFS=C:iOS2~,HPFS.IFS. If you do have HPFS drives, play with the CACHE parameter. The maximum amount is zogBKB (2 MB), and I r ecommend a minimum of 512KB. The more RAM you have, the larger this number should be.

BASEDEV=IBM2 FLPYADD

with 386 or 486 chips, keep this at t he default of 3.

Tip 8 If you only want programs that are in your startup folder to run when you boot your machine (and not programs that were also running when you exited OS/2), add the line SET RES TARTOB!ECTS= STARTUPFOLDERSONLY to the end of your CONFIG.SYS.

Tip S Increase the initial size of your swapper file to the value it becomes during normal use. Check its size in your iosz'system directory (file is Tip 2 SWAPPER.DAT) when you are If you spend most of your time downloading o nline, wit h y o u r w o r d files from the Internet or have lots of back- processor open, and your CD ground disk I/O, change your disk priority. music playing.Then change Change t h e l i n e t o be PRI O RITY the value in your CONFIG.SYS DISK IO = YES. to reflect this. I have SWAPPATH= C:'iOS2'CSYSTEM zo48 12288 for a default swapper Tip 3 Your FAT partition cache is set with the line size of sz MB on my noteDISKCACHE=5>2 (or whatever value you set). book. If you only have FAT partitions, set this to be about zori8 (if you have at least t6 MB of Tip 6 RAM). Unlike HPFS cache, this parameter can If you do a lot of printing be up to szr MB! For a mixed HPFS/FAT system, and your sound card is not try coze for both HPFS and FAT cache. Again, on IRQ 7, ad d t h e / I RQ experiment! (the "D" value you may see in switch to the l ine your CONFIG.SYS is for a default of so percent BASEDEV=PRINTos.SYS to of RAM. I do not recommend this value). change from polled printing to IRQ printing.

Tip 9 If you are using TCP/IP for O S/ 2 or the Internet Access Kit and

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Macintosh. To solve this problem, simply look to see if all the fonts used by your docvments are installed and available to your application software. If any font is not there, install it or change thefont in your document to something you have. Some application software programs such as Adobe PageMaker and Quark XPress are able to generate a list of all fonts used within a given docvment. This is especially helpful if you take your pnnt job to a third-party service bureau to pnnt. Second,your document may contain an EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) graphic that was created using a font not installed in your System. Thiscan happen with some types of

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programs will alert you to the Iact that a needed font is "missing" and recommend a substitute for yov. Desktop publishing (DTP) programs, for example, usually do this and even give you the choice of whether or not the font substitution is permanent or just temporary. It may be possible to use an EPS-based drawing program such as Adobe illustrator to convert the text string to a graphic outline of the font. That way, you don't need to actually have the fontinstalled in order to use it-at least for the short run. Finally, if you' re using an Apple bit-mapped font and have "font substitution" tumed on in the print dialogue box, you might get strange results. Speclfically, if you have a PostScnpt laser printer and you are using New York, for example, your Mac will attempt to print out a close approximation of Palatino (a PostScript savvy font) and n ot N ew Y ork. Similarly, Geneva will print ovt an odd-looking version of Helvetica, and so on. To lix this problem, remember to format your documents in the fonts designed for your printerin this case, a PostScript laser printer. Fonts that have city names (such as Geneva, London, Toronto or

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c ont i n u e d f r o m p a g e 4 5 to the same thing? Or, is 386 HPFS the new and improved HPFS? What is the difference, if there is a difference, and where can I get more information? Mike Kevin Linfield responds: HPFS is 05 / z ' s High Performance File System and as you have already noticed, there are two versions of it. OS/z Client (Warp and Warp Connect) use an older, i6-bit version of the file system that was designed for 05/2 t.z and is best for a client machine. The maximum disk cache underthis version of HPFS is z AfB. Warp Server uses an enhanced 3z-bit HPFS system designed for server applications (it includesuser-access settings) and you can use a lot more disk cache (I believe up to 6rr MB). Although it is possible to run 386HPFS under client OS/z (if you have an extra Warp Server or LAN Server licence), IBM does not recommend it du e t o t h e a d ditional overhead. People on the Internet have reported only a small (z per cent) improvement when using 386HPFS under Warp Client.

Wipe the slate clean Q; How on earth do I get OS/2 to do a real format of the hard drive during OS/2 installation for HPFS? The FASTFORMAT default just doesn't do it for me. I don't care how long it takes, I just want a clean hard drive for my OS/2

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Boot-disk camp Q: Can I boot basically any operating system that fits onto just one Roppy using this "boot DOS from A:"option? Thanks in advance. Ronald Kevin Linfield responds: While you can run many different operating systems through OS/z's Boot from drive A:, you cannot boot any protected-mode operating systems, such as Linux or Windows NT. You can, however, boot various flavours of DOS (inclvding Windows 5r5's DOS) and even some variations of UNIX, including Minix. Disappearing megs Q: About threeweeks ago, both of my computers, a 486/66 and a p86/33 with a gig hard drive I bought crashed on the same day. There was no virus. I fixed my q86/66 by using FDISK, and my p86/33s original hard drive using DOS 6.22 disks.A problem I encountered while trying to restore my 486/33's gig hard drive was that when I used FDISK, it restored only x27 of the x,ooo MB. When I displayed the hard drive, there was only 127. I'm looking for a way to get the other 9oo MB. Please help. K. Cheung Alan Zisman replies: Sounds like a very bad day! The reality is that hard drives crash (I lost one over the summer, as well! Keep repeating "Back up frequently... back up frequently..."). It sounds like you' re having the problem you describe because older PC computers are

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