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124 Kirsten on Disney

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• FROM THE EDITOR Now what? Now that founder/editor Doug Alder, has moved on to other projects,TCPreaders might naturally wonder what's to come. You might be concerned that the new order will change the paper from something you like to something you don' t.

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In many ways, what The Computer Paperis going through is similar to what many of you in the workforce have experienced, or will experience in your own jobs. Companies bought and sold, management changes,reorganizations: these are the realities of company life in the '90s. But through it all, there's a commitment to the products and services that made the companies so attractive in the first place. in short, if you' ve been enjoying what you read in this publication, you can expect that to continue. Putting together a publication is very much a team effort, and TheComputerPaper's talent pool is still here. The first lust Is the deepest While I got my first real job as a computer journalist in Toronto in 1989, what set me on the quest for the ultimate computer was an experience right at the dawning of the IBM-PC era in the early '80s. I was living in Ottawa at the time, and was hired by a computer-aided design (CAD) firm to produce a corporate slide show. The CAD company wanted to publicize the fact that it had been contracted by IBM to design the layout of the main circuit board — what we now call the motherboard — for the original IBM-PC. The IBM-PC had just recently been launched,

0AIPIIICl PllPCI and was starting to generate some excitement. The CAD company wanted to capitalize on its involvement with this rising PC technology, and thereby drum up new business. I remember leaving one of the briefings with the company, firmly convinced that the PC was, indeed, the future. But I also remember the worried and slightly disappointed voice in the back of my mind. I'd recently spent $3,000 on an Apple j[ clone, and it was becoming, painfully clear that I'd bought yesterday's technology. In that respect, it seems little has changed. When we drop our precious cash on today's ultimate system, we often can't silence that little voice in the back our mind fretting about instant obsolescence. Instantly obsolete or not, I motored on with my Apple j [, mainly because could I afford to do little else. I added a device called a CP/M card, which allowed me to run real business applications like WordStar, dBaseand SuperCalc. And you know, I had tons of fun and learned much about computers with that relic. I even struggled through the opacities of dBase programming to create a pr'imitive inventory system for my wife's business. So by the time I jumped on the IBM-PC bandwagon a few yearslater, I had a pretty good understanding of how personal computers in general worked. If there's a lesson to be learned from my experience, it is this: it's easy to develop an inferiority complex, given the constant reminder that we no longer have the latest, greatest computer thing. However, we should remember the enjoyment and enrichment we can get from our personal computers — even old ones. Besides,even older computers can be enhanced. One of this month's features is on upgrading your computer. If you have a system that's three or four years old, you' ll be happy to know there are ways to preserve your investment for another few years. Rfgalaetalnlng the drool factor Of course, I'm not advocating a moratorium on PC development, or that we should stop lusting after the latest, greatest computer thing. One of the reasons I like working atThe ComputerPaper is because it's our job to seek out the latest computer things and then tell you about what they' re

really like behind the marketing glitter. As we technology writers and editors often say, it' s tough working in a toy store, but someone's gotta make the sacrifice. For example, as I write this, senior editor, Graeme Bennett is in San Francisco attending the Seybold Publishing 97 event. Seybold is one of the premiere showcasesfor the publishing industry, a place where computer hardware, software and online developers show off the latest tools of the trade. This year, Microsoft chief, Bill Gates, gave the first keynote address, and Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs is also scheduled to give a keynote. Expect a full report on Seybold in next month's issue. And speaking of trips, contributing editor, Geof Wheelwright just returned from the Microsoft Developers' Conference in San Diego. Among the big news coming from that event was the release of the first beta of Windows NT S.O. Contributing editor, Jeff Evans isalso dusting off his flight bag, as he is off to Montreal to attend the annual Comdex SCIB show, held this

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asked for the location, then the police can be notified. If they give a Web address or valid email, the ISP [Internet service providerj can be notified. Getting software which will remove some incoming mail is risky as well as hiding your real email address when posting. Most people who would like to answer a posting uses "reply" method. It may be better to keep getting spams and then keep a record of names, addressesand phone numbers. If you ever meet them or receive an application for employment or a,contract offer, you will know what try do! August Guillaume, via email A new TCP fan I picked up two free editions of The Computer Paperat an exhibit in Montreal recently; I must say I love it. I am starting out as an Internet consultant for beginners and I find that this paper and your Web site are the Only paper I should readinorderto be "connected" to pros and cons of equipment etc. Keep up the good work. I shall mention you when I go see a dealer for equipment assessment for upgrades and for new buys. H. Labreche, via email Thumbs down on student computer lab test I found your Back to School computer ratings almost nonsensical (see the Lab Test report "You

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Contact: LOOK40,Website: http//www.loak4u.corn/ Compnter recycllng milestone marirerl • VICTORIA, B.C. (NB) — The Computers for Schools program, set up in 1993 to refurbish used computers and donate them to Canadian schools, has plugged in its 4,000th used computer. Federal Minister of Industry John Manley joined B.C. Minister of Education, Skills and Training Paul Ramsey at a ceremony to mark the occasion. The two ministries set up the program In preliminary tests by TCP, the new mice with the BC Tel Pioneers, a group of British Columbia Telephone employees who volunteer enable much faster movements with less strain their time to repair and upgrade the computers. around large Web pages and other oversize screens than traditional mice. According to Juiie The VancouverFoundation and the two govemment ministries fund the pmgram, which they Goebel of Logitech, "Today's PC users are discovplan to continue next year with another $75,QQQ. ering a new level of computing productivity and Application kits for the program are available pleasure with the advent of wheel buttons and on the Web at htlp Jtwwet.schooiaat.ca/CFEepe, or by screen navigation options. We believe our execution of this technological breakthrough will set a calling 800465-7222. new standard by bringing its power to aII users of Relnventlng the mlcroisrocessor, P'art I: Windows 95 while offering a variety of choices in ISIN'a cofsfser standard ~On the heels of Intel's price and design." The MouseMan+, MouseMan Flash RAM announcement in September, IBM and FlrstMouse+ have approximate street prices announced a new microprocessor chip technolo- of SS4„$69, and $42„respectively.—JE gy that may have vastly greater signiBcance to the computing industry. After more than IQ years of CaniacL. Logitech, Tel: BN-231-7T17. intensive research and development, IBM daims Web site: http:iiwww.logiiech.corn to have developed a technology that allows a silicon wafer to be wired to its supporting structure Excite launches japanese search engine • using copper wires rather than aluminum. TOKYO (NB)= The Exdte Web search service has This, it turns out, is both more difficult and launched a new search engine for japanes eusers. more important than lt might first appear. Excite japan offers the user the abigty to search Aluminum is used for the wiring of chips because Enggsh or japanese language content in either it is easy to work wgh in tiny dimensions, and languageand launches as the company begins because it is relatively non-reactive with the offerin versions of the software to corporate materials in a silico~ chip. However, aluminum is users. Exdte japan can be found on theWorld Wide an inefficient conductor of electricity, resulting in higher power consumption, and its associated Web at httpl/jp.excite.corn and is the company's first entry into the ever more competitive search heat generation. This lower effidency is a considerable prob- engine market in japan, which in addition to the lem, especially in portable computers where high new Excite service, include Yahoo japan, Infoseek power consumption and the need to aggressively Japan and NITs Goo. Using technology developed by Xerox New cool processors are major barriers to portability. Copper has a much higher eNciency when con- Enterprise Company InXight Software, the Exdte ducting electricity, but it is hard to manipulate at searchengine has been localized foruse in Japan microscopic scales, and can react harmfully with and is now being offered to companies for use on

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Intel lsonzlles consnmer vMeoconferenclng camera and software • HI LLSBORO, Ore. (NB) — Intel Corp. took another step in the company's visual computing" strategy with the Intel

Create fz Share Camera Pack~ combination of hardware and software designed for general computer users. Create gr Share includes a color Intel PC camera, communications software, and video editing software, and intel's Video Phone with ProShare. Although Create R Share is optimized for intel's fastest microprocessors, Pentium with MMX Technology and Pentium Il, versions of Create fz Share are also available for systems powered by a 99 MHz or faster Pentium processor. A US$199 version features Intel's PC camera with universal serial bus (USB) connectlvity, which eliminates earlier parallel and serial port technology in personal computers (PCs). The PCI version is more appropriate for older PCs that have Pentium processors running at 9Q MHz and do not have a USB port. The version indudes a PCI add-in card that lets PC consumers record video from VCR and camcorder tapes. PCs that already indude factory-Installed Intel Video Phone software receive an upgrade through this version for use over both regular phone lines or the Internet The PCI version ships with a recommended US$299 price. In a third version, Create gr Share ships as a PCI Modem bundle, which is similar to the PCI version and indudes a high-performance 56Kbps modem. Designed for Pentium processor-based PCs that run at 90 MHz and higher, Intel's PCI Modern pack increases iive video quality and transmission speed of captured images. PCI Modem version ships with a US$399 recommended price. According to Intel, aII versions include an Intel's Guided Tour, Launcher and Gallery, Scene Recorder, PhotoEnhancer, NetCard for creating email postcards with pictures and sound, Kai's Power Goo for image morphing and Intel Video Phone. Company spokesperson, Kathy Melcher, told Newsbytes, "We have eliminated a lot of the problems users experienced trying to configure a desktop video camera. This is a consumer solution that makes visual computing more available to many users." Create R Share requires a multimedia PC with 16 MB of memory.— PatrickMcKenna Contact: intel Create & Share, Web site: httpilwww.intel.corn/creatashare

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Continued from page 12 m ation h ighway. Johnston c h aired t h e information Highway Advisory Council, which released its final report in September, Preparing Canada ForA Digital World. Johnston, a professor at McGill University's C entre for Medicine, Ethics and Law i n Montreal, will assist the minister and the govemment in areas such as electmnic commerce, Year 2000 problems, and other informationhighway-related matters, federal officials said.Grant Buckler

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clean before starting a new file, says Ralph: "This represents a new paradigm for end users that's as simple as rewriting on a floppy disk." Using HP's CD-RW disks inside the new CDWriter Plus drive, one can save Ales to disk, or drag-and-drop fmm Windows Explorer, just as though onewas using a fl oppy. And because of the higher volume capacity of

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â&#x20AC;˘ PROTECTINC YOUR COMPUTER ASSETS

Paranoid as you wanna I. Protecting your computer assets B Y JEFF E V A N S

Early one morning in 1985, someone threw a cement block through

the window of my wife' s computer typesetting company in Concord, I Ont. The thief climbed in through the shattered 5 l window and stole our two most valuable

I computers: a Compaq ~ portable PC and a new

vulnerability. In this article, I' ll to share my thoughts on s afe computing, mainly f ro m a smalloffice/home-office ( SOHO) p e rspective, although many of these principles apply to larger scale computing environments as well. I won't deal with methods of protecting against computer viruses, beyond recommending that you install an up-to-date virus

checker onto your computer as soon as you power it up the first time, and keep that virus checker running all the time that your computer is tumed on.

How much should I care? A computer is just a machine. It probably

doesn't make much sense to cancel your personal life insurance to take out insurance on

the contents of your hard drive. And, "put them in a safe place" means

your PC, if you only use it for playing games. just that. Backups should be locked away in a You should start by making a risk assessment fire-resistant compartment, where f i res, of your situation, in terms of how badly dif-

floods and thieves are unlikely to find them.

ferent kinds of computer disasters such as theft or hard drive crashes could affect you, personally or financially. Is your computer essential to your education or your business? Who is legally respon-

Most people pay no attention to this advice, until they suffer a major loss of data. When you lose data, you may either have

sible for it, or who owns it? How much time

use a disk doctor program, such as the one in

to recreate it from scratch if possible, or try to "undelete" it if you accidentally deleted it, or

ÂŤ286 PC with all the

and money â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and changes to your lifestyleare you willing to devote to increasing your

~ company's current typesetting production jobs on its hard drive. This inddent almost I' put us out of business.

margin of safety? If you are planning to start have to turn over your hard drive to a profes-

e were not only novices at using computers and running our own company, but we were completely unprepared for this sort of incident. We had made every mistake in the book. . We had no burglar alarm. Our office had out-

- side windows through which any passerby could see computers in use. Our insurance

policy had such a high deductible that we weren't going to get any replacement computers from the insurer. The policy also had no "interruption of business" clause, so we had to pay our staff overtime out of our own pockets to re-create all the work that went out the window on the 286's hard drive (because these jobs had not been backed up and put in

' a safe place). There wasn't much we could say in our own defence, except that i t h a d n e ver occurred to us that another human being

would break into our place and steal from us. Duh. Since then, thinking about protecting the computer hardware and software that is essential to making our living has evolved into a kind of low-level background noise in our minds. We' re now always aware of the harm that could be caused to our family by a

similar disaster, and we try to minimize our

a business that will make use of a computer, include the costs of security, insurance, and

system maintenance in your budget. Acts of Cod and Rlurphy's law Murphy's Law states, "If anything can go wrong, it wilL" The law's first corollary is, "...and at the most inconvenient time." This

seems to apply with especial force to computers. The first rule is to remember that a computer's value is as an information tool, and even if that tool breaks or gets stolen, you still

want to save the information. The most common first line of defence in protecting your computer assets is to always, always, always make backups of your computer data, and

store them in a safe place. A decade ago, either floppy diskettes were used for making backups of small amounts of data, or tape drives were used to make backups of large amounts of information. These days, there is a host of new, alternative mass data storage technologies on the market, including Zip, Jaz, and Syguest cartridge drives, 120 MB LS-120 floppies, recordable CDs, and magneto-optical and CD/PD drives. Backup software such as the backup utilities in Symantec's Norton Utilities program

Norton Utilities, to salvage your files. If the lost data is extremely important, you inay

Workspace Computer systems can be fairly fragile if they are not treated with some common sense care. Try to reduce the amount of dust and

Warranties If a computer is essential to your business, you should buy from a vendor that offers a good warranty, including a loaner unit while your PC is in for repairs. Buy an extended

damage to a computer. A solution is to place a static free Plexiglas or plastic mat over the

warranty, to give onsite service, and extended coverage for the entire life of the computer.

repair. The brand name computer companies

Shop around for an insurance policy that will meet your needs. You may not have to look any farther than the company that currently insures your household or office contents, but it helps to get a couple of additional quotes.

such as IBM, Toshiba, Dell, and others are w orth c o n sidering b e cause o f th i s .

household or business insurance policies, but

Do business with a company that has good service, both online for advice, and onsite for

Remember, though, this higher level of service comes with a higher price tag.

Power bachup If the power goes off on your computer while it is saving a file to the hard disk, this can corrupt your drive, and prevent the computer

from booting up again. If an electrical power surge occurs (from a lightning strike close by,

approach of a thunderstorm, or if the lights

start flickering (always a good policy), a slight degree of protection can be obtained by using

torical library of backups, on separate tapes or cartridges, with several sequential versions of

monitor.

puter room, to avoid damage to diskettes and drives, and avoid eating, smoking or drinking around the computer, to avoid damaging the keyboard, exposed printer parts, or electrical connections. Static electricity, especially in a dry house in winter, can cause shocks and

of the backup. You may be faithfully backing up corrupted files and overwriting good, origwhen it is too late. You should maintain a his-

also keep your computer running during a complete power failure, using a battery backup that' ll give you several minutes to save your work and power down your PC and

they will try to retrieve your data. According to data recovery professionals, one complicating factor is that some consumer disk doctor software will actually trash files even more badly if they can't fix them.

backups is that users never check the quality inal files. You may only detect this problem

Power Conversion, Tripp-Lite and others. A good UPS will provide much better surge protection, and will

sional data recovery lab, where for a large fee smoke (such as cigarette smoke) in the com-

can make creating archives of your data near- or a problem with the town's electrical grid), ly automatic. However, some common sense it can bum out components of your PC. should be applied to your backup routine. Short of shutting off your computer at the For one thing, a common problem with

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rug at your computer workstation.

Insurance

Computers can be insured under general you should check carefully to make sure that your policy has a low deductible (the first portion of an insurance claim, usually.$500 or $1,000, is often not eligible for repayment), and that the policy offers full replacement with current technology, and a "cost of interruption of business" clause. In many cases, the additional cost of adding "riders" to a basic insurance policy to include these features is quite minimal.

You may be unpleasantly surprised to find that some companies will want to charge you a substantial premium for insuring a notebook computer, compared to a desktop PC, because of the higher loss rate for notebooks.

a power bar with a surge suppressor to supply your PC's power. A much higher degree of The price of human folly protection comes with using a good quality There's an old saying that most car acddents uninterrupted power supply (UPS) system, have a mechanical cause: the nut behind the from a manufacturer such as Best, OptiUPS, wheel. Many of the greatest reasons to

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• PROTECTING YOUR COMPUTER ASSETS worry about your coinputer assets relate to dangerous people, including yourself.

Reference books such as the IDG For Dummies line are a good way to begin to build

As a responsible person, you have to take control of protecting your computer, starhng

by learning to use it safely and correctly.

up your ability to safely upgrade and maintain your PC. Call upon an expert to help you if you' re not sure. Monitor your kids' or other

Don't move a desktop computer or its peripherals while they are powered up. Don't try to

family members' use of the computer, and help them leam how to use it properly.

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fix or modify your computer unless you have the training or experience to do so safely.

Perform routine maintenance tasks regularly, such as de-fragmenting the hard drive

If your PC is the basis of your business, you should consciously develop a security plan.

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McAfee VirusScan is perhaps the best known of the anti-virus tools. In July, 1997, the U.5. Department of Defence awarded a contract to McAfee Associates Inc. to supply anti-virus software to approximately two million seats. VirusScan versions 3.0 and newer have the

w o r k via modem, and we never could make it w o r k via our oNce's direct Internet connect i o n .Also, the program's US$49 purchase p r i ce indudes only one free update. Future u p d ates are U5$29.95 per year if downloaded, o r U 5 $99 per year on disk. A company

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ch ~ a ~ o < t ~ m s y« th a t it Is threats to system security and user privacy. n ow eamng th s disk fa ' is us u al y Norton Rife on the Web is touted as an

not clearung the disk at.all; it is merely cheeky ~easy-thyrse security product designed for Indiing it We found this statement always left us ®svidual > users as weII as for organ~ztions that wrth nagging msecu ty bou wh ' w as y utilize the- Internet for business purposes a omg ~ + c rea P oh em7 t ray seemed ~ijdemandsecurity for theirmission~caidata. t o suggest er

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Data File and Virus Engine option, and the yearly. Iicences. Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus ls ~ reveals a much more serious Problem. McAfee details and a free limited time tryout version areavaiiableat the Symantec Webslte. program downloaded a 4,286 KB file„ taking available for-evaiuatJ1on from the company's echni support n f hms that version 2 > ';~% .W~ . ' s i t."' ",~+' kY~ of' IrusScan oesn detect virus mfected @es over two hours at 28.8Kbps! We experienced W e b sitet 8~' Indeed, downloadable tryout versions of two failed downloads during our tests, which symantetdk .Norton Antivlrus 2,0 (often *-, coPied to a haid disk, even if the "check on most of the tools mentioned here are availr e f erred t o tt'-'~ass "NAV"), r'frplyROT 'and;;.> FIIe Modification t sk is acti e M cAfee sug +e" (like the McAf® ~d Nort n digests doing a manual scan to find infections Thunder® o f f edngn thundmhfee b ufxbied marche- cybusing thepreviousversion fvkMak which

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We tested version 7.65, which is available as a ~ virus:definitions, It downloaded an automatoccurred four times now. Cheyenne inocuian Js retail Product, and is also shiPPed as Part of -z Ic:..uPsdite vii the Internet in just over five!l,"-a fg» g~gggh ~~~$~g~gg~ identifying this as virus ZZ"II2." CyberMedia's First Aid 97. '-.Ih,l;..~k ~ mi nut e s ."'Ho wever, we found that NAV ~~, I SO I I E N I I I I III U l O U LIQII r ln response to this reader's roncems, we The FindVIrus utility took 803 seconds to j+ seemed to ' increase the likelihood . of:4 complete a deep scan of our 800 MB "c » ~,- windows 95 ld'Kerne132" errors Removing '' Sometimes, anti-virus software is too aggres- note that our web site's directory contains No sive in its endeavors to seek out and destmy j a va and does NOT contain any executable drive.The package's Quick Scan'm ode took <+ NAV from our system eliminated the non 65 seconds. A fuII check of ail files on our C;.~.fatal crashes that suddenly appeared after '." viral invaders. For example, a reader wrote us M i crosoft Windows or Macintosh code'or '

reCentiy tO tell uS that Our Web Site'S hOme Other eXeCutable COde Capable Of hOuSing a virus (and, indeed, is not served by a Windoxws ;.:.-;;::=~;; onds.. FindVIrus Indudes a compreherLsive ~v-'.«".4~exe are'®v'eral other w'orthy antI„virus .-, page contained a virus. It didn' t, but his anti"';@ .":-~-.", encymIoperhi': Qf:-.kno 0 tnStailing it. r ddgj~ „> . and D drlVeS (2.7 MS in, all) tOOk 3,447 SeC-5

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work was MSIE 3.0 under Windows 3.1." evidence that it is a virus. The only page on our The message continued. "I am unable to s i t e that is exactly 1,920 bytes long is a plain a l b eit t imewonsuming, updates low false identify the exact file because inocuian imme- t ext file called "index. html" and I can assure a l a rm potential and near-perfect detection. diateiy rendered it unusable. jWe have found r e aders that a plain text file is too small to D r . Solomon's FindVirus was the lowest pro- ln ml» « b e» e x t remely aggressive anti- h o use a virus and no virus exists that disguise f i le of the virus tools. It worked quietly in the viral package.] However, I can tell you that the i t self as a plain text file. In cases like this, it is the anti-virus software background and never annoyed us. The . j o"enrfgng@e aPPears to be 1.920 bytes jong. a st he best bet for PC users (Windows 3~ 95

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and Power Macintoshes. Both of these titles allow you, with the right CD-ROM and CD-R hardware, to copy a

disc as easily as you might dupe a floppy. The potential for illegal use aside, this is very useful for security purposes. Interestingly, the Corel title only supports this function if your CD-ROM source drive is connected via SCSI.We had a EIDE CD-ROM drive that didn't work — rats! When a SCSI unit was connected, CD Creator 2 automati-

cally conflgtued it and made a successful copy the first time. The Windows-based CD Creator's interface is better than that of Toast on the Mac, but that's not to say Toast is a slouch. Toast allows Mac users to drag and

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The up-andhomlng CD-R technology is "packet-writing" that allows you to write to a CD-R disc as if it was a giant floppy drive. Only the JVC supported this packet-writing

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JVC unit could only write a disc at 1x speeds with Corel CD Creator, although it should have been able to handle Zx writing. The HP successfully handled 2x writing on both

severe probleins with this software, as noted below. Another thing to look for in CD-R drives

Windows and Mac. We found a super-high performance PCI,

is a large buffer. As mennoned above, the JVC does not support the RAM buffer function in

SCSI adapters and high-powered coinputers to be unnecessary. We burned discs reliably on an old 68030-based Mac, and on a PC with

Toast on certain Macs, which essentially crippled it in our PowerBook test. On the PC, the

an. old ISA-bus Adaptec 1542CF SCSI interface. We'd recommend an Adaptec card for PC-based systems. Corel's software recommends particular setups for various recorders

and hard disk setups — some of which may require two SCSI interfaces.

Choose a Windows CD-R authoring package that supports the ~'Joliet" formatMicrosoft's Windows 95 and NT CDFS stan-

dard for long filenames — as long filenam support is in cr e asingly i mp o r ta Interestingly — and probably not coinciden tally — Toast's "Allow Mac filenames" optio for IS09660 discs creates a disc with long file names that work perfectly on both Mac an Win9$ systeins. Macs, of course, come with internal SCS

and long filenames as standard features. V had great success using Miramar's MacLA Connect Mac/PC networking utility to mov

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killer feature. Nearly everyone's got a CD ROM drive at this point, so we don't have to lug a drive around — just a few discs. For authors who need to record both Ma

and PC discs, Toast and a Mac is the best CD R solution going. The Toast software can even write "hybrid" discs — with part of the disc

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• PROTECTINC YOUR COMPUTER ASSETS Recordable @Os Continuedfrom page 98 we strongly recommend against using it, at least in its 2.01 incarnation. While we think the software has enormous potential (it

makes a CD-R behave like a giant floppy drive), we' ve noticed similar problems on all threesystems we tested the 2.01 version of the software on, and the problems are just too

serious — and too consistent —to assume they software, either!), and had difflcuities reading are just random glitches. Test the CD-R the discs weburned after finalizing them. All Extensions if you must, but read McFadden's of these problemswere repeatable, and at this FAQwarning... andbackupyour systemfirst. point we' re gun-shy of even using the discs The version(s) we tested disabled my other we created with the software (you have to run CD-ROM drive, messed up the Eject function the "Unlock" software to read them). of our removable media drives, had problems (Andy McFadden's CD-R FAQ site makes after installing the unlock CD software (and some very alarming comments about the JVC didn't provide an uninstall option for this drive, citing "serious flaws." Our test unit had

the 1.51 Armware McFadden refers to in additional comments, posted at ftp://ftp.net-

com.corn/pub/fa/fadden/jvc-prob.txt.) In our tests, these flaws (and they truly were serious) vanished as soon as we stopped using the supplied CD-R Extensions software and switched to Corel CD Creator 2. The JVC 2010 proved to be a disappointment when we connected it to a PowerBook, as well. The Toast software that works so weU with many other drives supports the JVC unit, but limitations of the hardware do not allow Toast to turn on its RAM cache on cer-

tain Mac models (wenoticed problems only on one of three tested Mac system~it was the only one without an FPU). Without the RAM cache, we were unable to successfully write a disc "on the fly," even when dropping down to 1x write speeds. The HP and Pinnade drives, according to the readme Ale, support the RAM cache. Astarte's Web site

(http://www.astarte.de)lists other drives incapable of supporting Toast's RAM cache. The latest version of Toast, 3.5.1, supports direct audio CD to CD-R recording, allowing the

creation of custom music CDs. Other than that, it strongly resembles its predecessor. In short, we would name Toast (recently

purchased byAdaptec from its German developer Astarte) as the best CD-R authoring software. It runs only on Macintosh. On the PC, we prefer Corel's CD Creator 2 or Nero from Germany's Ahead Software. Nero is gaining acclaim as undoubtedly the best value in CD-R b software for Windows 3,x, Win95 and NT. It allows you to rewrite directories on the fly, making previously recorded CD-R files or directories invis-

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S FOCUS ON HANDHELDS

ava in your pocket S Y GEO F W H E E L W R I G H T

computer users could run over the Internet, .Oracle's Network Computer incorporated).

gest that personal productivity applications

support will still be required. It would still support Java "applets" (miniature applications) but would be limited in performance and inemory capacity. As a result, developers of the spedfication suggests this device would be more dependent on a network connection, but would still offer some limited functions

(word processor, spreadsheet, graphics), tele-

when disconnected.

phony, email, paging, collaborative applica-

Finally, the third type of Mobile NC device being proposed is a very basic messaging, paging, telephony device that has a focus on keeping the mobile professional in touch with the office. Limited or basic browser support would be required for usability and to provide a common subset of functions across all Mobile NC devices. It is the "professional assistant" style of device that Sun expects to be produced first.

while Orade Corporation chief executive offi-

Backers of this specification have suggest-

andheld computers have not been the

cer Larry Ellison also decided it could form

'devices you would ordinarily think about using to run Sun Microsystems' popular Java programming environment for

ed it may be appropriate for a wide range of

the basis of a whole new computing platform the Network Computer. Once computer manufacturers turned their minds to the idea of devices that would use the power of the Internet to allow software to run over the World Wide Web, a few more options came to mind. One of these was

the Internet. But there appears to be increasing interest in doing just that — and new handheld computers are being designed for this purpose. While it is true that both World Wide Web browsing and email functions can already be carried out on some handheld systemsincluding many Windows CK-based systems, Psion's Series 3c range «nd Japanese notebook computer giant Toshiba's recently introduced Libretto 50CT Windows 95-based, 810 g (1.8 lb.) "sub-notebook" system — it is not an ideal

the Java-based handheld computer. Skeptics initially dismissed the idea, since one of the guiding principles of the original Network Computer concept was that most processing would be done remotely over a network or the Internet. A handheld computer that was to be used in a mobile setting was not thought to be easily capable of fitting into such a model, as

way of running Java. Only the Toshiba system (which is simply a making a connection to the Internet or an physically small Intel Pentium-based computer

of6ce network would be difficult or expensive.

and is thus capable of running any Java software that can run on a similarly powered desktop PC) really makes the cut. And all the abovementioned systems are based on the notion of using existing software environments to run applications (Windows CE, Psion's EPOC operating system on the Series 3 and Windows 95 on the Toshiba) rather than Java.

Java beyond the Net Sun Microsystems wants to change that. S ince Sun first introduced Java for t h e Internet almost three years ago, there has been strong and active speculation about the other t h ings yo u c o ul d d o wi t h i t .

Getting personal According to Sun Microsystems Canada's Java specialist, Christy Wyatt, the big opportunity for development of handheld devices is around an implementation of Java known as PersonalJava. It will run in 2 MB to 4 MB of

memory space (many handhelds today come standard with up to 8 MB) and Wyatt says PersonalJava is currently under evaluation by many companies as a platform for running

handheld systems upon. She says one of the most crucial adjuncts to PersonalJava may be the Mobile Network Computer Reference Specification currently

Programmers quickly discovered that you

being implemented by supporters of the

could use it to write software that desktop

Network Computer (including Sun and

mobile devices, including handheld PCs,

smart phones„ lowland laptops and personal information managers (PIMs). They also sug-

tions (video or data conferencing), Internet and Intranet access would all be at home on such devices.

Three flavors of )ava NCs The Network Computer (NC) group envisions three classes of mobile Network Computer devices running Java. The first is called the "professional assistant," which is planned as a

device fully capable of supporting "rich" Java content so that it could run even complex Java software. The group suggests that this device must be able to run in a disconnected mode" and support "replication" with the host server for file or application updates.

This simply means copies of files could be kept locally on the handheld so they could be used without sustaining a cc nnection to the network. The professional assistant NC device would also need database access, mail, printing, directory service, management, access to existing enterprise applications (for example,

3270 mainframe terminal emulation), security, and Web browsing. The second type of mobile NC device is planned as something that will have less functions than the professional assistant and focus primarily on being an information access device. Web browsing and basic email

Flying with a handheld BY G E OF W H E E L W R I G H T

or most mobile computer systems, the real "make or break" test of the system is how well it performs when

you are sitting in an economy-dass seat on a commercial flight — about where I am as I write this. This is especially true

for handheld computers, which carry with them a whole new set of expectations and responsibilities that go well beyond what you would demand from the average notebook computer.

Dozens of issues come up when you start using a handheld computer during a

stand. End of battery life problem, Handheld computers aiso use a lot less power than notebook computers and you can realistically expect them to be able to run for a couple of weeks with

moderate use before you need to replace the batteries. There are a couple of

move your computer out of the way quickly enough when the person sitting next to you spills their drink in your direction" test. If your handheld computer is too big or awkward to move quickly, you had better make sure that it

is waterproof.

caveats, however, that relate to how you

Now comes the part where they "dim

use your handheld. If you use a backlight much of the time — or run a PC Card

the cabin lights." If you do not have backlighting on your handheld — or the

modem often — your battery will drain a

use of that backlighting sucks up so much battery power that it makes little sense to use it — then dimmed cabin lights could mean the end of your in-

lot more quickly. Anyway, back to the airline seat. The next big test handheld computers face on a plane is the elbow room test: can you

flight computing experience.

flight. The first — and most obvious — Is battery life. There is nothing more disheartening than suddenly finding that the

reasonably use the keyboard on your handheld while sitting in a plane seat,

power runs out 10 minutes after takeoff.

selfishly over the armrests?

The great thing about handheld computers — and where they beat notebook hands down, so to speak — is that the bat-

The second part of this is the "would you like your dinner now?" test, which requires that your handheld computer be

tery-life problem can generally be com-

designed integigently enough that you can snap it shut when your dinner (or

you haven't zipped up the bag properly„ A good handheld should be designed

pletely avoided with a little forward plan-

ning.

without having your elbows protrude

Last, but not least, your handhel'd needs to be able to survive an ungraceful

exit from the plane. If you end up hurriedly grabbing up all the stuff you have taken out during the flight and stuffing it quickly into yourcarry' bag, and then find that your handheld falls out because it needs to be able to survive that fall.

You see, most handheld computers

whatever that airline meal is) arrives. This also needs to happen without you

operate on a couple of (or, at most, four)

losing all your data or severely delaying

like a cockroach — able to be stomped on, beaten up and generally mistreated in all

AA batteries, which can be purchased at almost any airport gift shop or news-

service to other passengers. Follow this test with the "can you

weather without dying or getting squished, 9

"We need to work out how to operate in a discormected mode and how to deal with a need to cache [i.e., temporarily store] applications and how they reconnect," explained Wyatt, "'We also need to work on infrared standards for transfemng data." Wyatt says the first of these devices (probably in the professional assistant category) will come out in six to 12 months. She also

suggested the most interesting developments may not be around a device that combines the functions of today's laptop computers in a handheld form. "I'rn not even sure that is the right model (for Java-based mobile devices)," Wyatt explains. "The interesting stuff will be sliding in the back door. It will be things like the Java-enabled cell phones that can connect to applications which would push information to them on a wireless network." 0

gllh NIIIIIIIS P-elIVI,

forgesyletafoedevices NB — Sun Microsystems has Rnaiized its Personal Java (Pjava), and plans to offer Lucent, Microware, and a long list

of newly named partners the option of integrating either Java or P-java into real-time operating systems (RTOS) for

devices like pagers, cellular phones, Web phones, and set top boxes. Sun execs describe P-java, Embedded java (E-java), and JavaCard as "subsets" of java, designed to meet the needs of spedfic markets. P-java is aimed at devices with "sophisticated displays," whereas E-java is for de~lees with character displays, or no displays. Sun's newiy named partners in the RTOS space indude Chorus, Lucent, Microware, Geoworks, Mlcrotek, QNX,

Acorn, and Wind River. Sun recently announced plans to acquire Chorus, a company that counts jazz, aJava-based OS for embedded systems, among its products. Together, the

newly announced partners represent "more than half the commercial market for RTOS," contended Tim Beyers ofSun. Sun intends to participate in the RTOS market through

Chorus, but also to offer a "level playing field" to partners, according to the Sun officials. Spokespeople from Chorus, Geotek, Lucent, Microware, and Microtek pointed to design wins in the P-Java device market. Microware, for instance, has signed deals to package its RTOS in network PCs from lBM; cellular phones from

Nortel and Ericsson; and set top boxes to be deployed by Hong Kong Telecom, said a company representative. CI Contact: Relatedinformation abtiut Java isavailable at the Sun Web site: http: //wew.sun.corn .

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The perfect handheld computer: - I'm still searching BV GEOF WHEELWRIGHT

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The best I have seen so far for this is the Palm IrDA — specification for infrared wireless com- Pilot. While Windows CE is not bad for thismunications), but what I am really after is a and Psion is a bit "hit and miss" — none of the machine that lets me browse the Web and current available options are ideal They check my email without having to plug in either rely on a proprietary "cradle" for data power-sucking PC Card modems or fiddle transfer, a serial cable or an infrared link around with awkward connections between (which means you need infrared on your cell phones and handheld PCs. desktop computer as well if you are to share The closest I have seen to this ideal is a data with it). In the long term, infrared data Windows CE handheld equipped with transfer would seem to be the best option, Burnaby, B.C.-based Infowave's Windows CE but it would have to be more universally wireless email system, While I am generally offered as a desktop option first. not an enthusiastic supporter of Windows Finally, my wish list for the perfect PDA CE systems, the ability to wirelessly send would also have to include a really great Web and receive electronic mail is hugely appeal- browser that could handle all the standard ing. Infowave uses wireless mobile data browser eplug-inse I am likely to want to technology to transfer electronic mail in use — including streaming video, audio and much the same way as a pager, so messages Java applets. Right now, the only handheld are received automatically without you hav- computer I can think of that could come ing to use a phone line to log onto some close to meeting this — and most of the other email system. criteria on t h i s l i st — is Toshiba's nifty The next great innovation Pd like to see Libretto. in my perfect PDA is a hassle-free way of synOf course, the Libretto is not a handheld

fact, a fully functioning notebook computer that has been engineered down to nearhandheld size. As a Pentium-based sub-notebook that runs Windows 95, provides 16 MB of RAM, 800 MB of storage and weighs in at a mere 81'0 g (1.8 lb.), the Libretto definitely outshines almost any other handheld system you could think of. I did find the keyboard a little tight, the battery life a little short and regretted that Toshiba was unable to include a keyboard connector as a standard option on this machine. But right now it is the only handheld I know of that will run everything froin RealVideo to Java to ActiveX controls — and that is a pretty strong argument in favor of forgiving its few short-

turers have now standardized on the Infrared Data Association — commonly know as

y perfect personal digital assistant (PDA) would not be hugely different from the Psion Series 5 handheld computer I am using right now. The Psion has aquite reasonable sculpted keyboard, a screen with backlighting that allows me to see my text full width, and it runs on two AA batteries. Even better, it provides software that is

fully featured and stable — yet not so bloated that it negatively impacts on the performance of the machine. I am not hugely concerned about whether or not it has a pen interface (the Series 5 does allow pen input, but does not require it), although heing able to sketch out something on the screen is fun now and then. Having said all that, the Psion Series 5 is still not my perfect PDA. To begin with, it

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Windows CE HPCs show signs of life B Y GEO F W H E E L W R I G H T indows CE finally came into its own this summer. After a flurry of announcements and new product shipments last year, the response to CE appeared to have underwhelmed those who were expected to use these machines, Microsoft i s s e t t o s h o r tl y r e lease Mndows CE 2.0, however, and backing for the handheld computer platform appears stronger than ever, Despite some initial disappointment, it looks like Microsoft is committed to getting things right. At M i c rosoft's r e cent P r o fessional Developers' Conference (PDC) in San Diego, for example, attendees were offered Compaq's PC Companion (with 4 M B o f RAM) for US$200 and were promised that they would be able to upgrade to Version 2.0 of the CE operating system in November, The machines

were snapped up by many of the more than 6,000 developers attending the conference and youcan expect a number'ofthese people to start writing CE applications as they settle down with their new machines. More solid evidence of a commitment to CE came in mid-September with Sharp's announcement that it would move into the CE market before the end of the year. Sharp has been one of the top three handheld computer makers for years, and its plans to produce a CE system is big news. And it is Microsoft's big corporate customer base that is motivating Sharp to do this. "We believe Windows CE is creating a new category of mobile products by addressing the needs of the corporate user familiar with t h e W i n d ows D S e n v ironment," explained Ted Rozylowicz, vice-president of Sharp's U.S. Mobile and Home O ffice Equipment Division. " The addition of a Windows CE line builds on Sharp's strategy to offer a variety of handheld products to meet

ln fact, the big question for potential users of CE machines is whether they should buy a CE system now and upgrade the operating system hen Windows CE 2.0 comes out or wait until new systems are released that take full advan-

tage of the new CE specification. Microsoft is working with all existing manufacturers of Windows CE-based systems to ensure "smooth upgrades" for owners of version 1.0 systems. Microsoft expects that

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There are three snaln schools of thonght regarding upgrades: 1) Faster Is always better 2) The applkation is everything g) If It aln't broke, don't fix lt.

camp tend to understand that the fastest computer in the world is of no use unless it

decry such actions, we applaud those able to resist the marketing machines of Microsoft,

addresses your needs. These people (a group

Intel, et al., who are constantly reminding us

in which we like to count ourselves) take a more holistic view of computers, understand-

that our investments are yesterday's news. However, we encourage these people-

ing that a productivity gain can offen be bet-

and other users — to pursue at least one

ter accomplished by working smarter, not

upgrade-related activity. Please take the time and make the intellectual investment to upgrade your skills periodically. More than anything, today's — or even yesterday's —systems and software almost always have the potential to make a task more efficien„ if we just knew the tricks and shortcuts. Similarly, the "just say no" crowd should not shirk its duty to keep its hithful workhors-

just faster. Thus„an upgrade to a more recent ost people we talk to seem to be pri-

version of one's chosen productivity applica-

marily focused on the speed issue-

tions and operating system can yield benefits

usually, because their computers have Men far enough behind the technological curve that they are, indeed, much slower than current models. The good news is that a speed boost type of upgrade is generally very easy to i results in little if any incompatibility, and doesn't cost much. The bad news is that, for many users, the speed boosts aren't dramatic. A 200 MHz Pentium with MMX, for example, isn't twice as fast as a 100 MHz inodel — it is more like 50 percent

mplem ent,

faster, on average. For example, Intel's benchmarks (and, you can be sure they are picking the most favorable possible sets of tests) show that you

will only get a speed gain of 53 to 75 percent from an OverDrive CPU that is supposedly "twice as fast," e.g., when upgrading a 75 MHz Pentium to an MMX Overdrive at 150 MHz, or a 90 MHz Pentium to an MMX OverDrive at 180 MHz.

In short, don't expect your system's performance to double. Other bottlenecks (pri-

marily related to the bus speed) hinder the performance potential of this upgrade and, indeed, of current PC architectures in gener-

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thatgo farbeyond mere clock speed enhance-

ments. The good news is that today's software is easier and more powerful than ever and software upgrades are available to registered owners of previous versions at substantial discounts over the cost of the original package.

The bad news is that "upgrades'" usually require more RAM and/or disk space and may cause some degree of incompatibility with

lxerd you type on, and the desk you work at.

Ergonomics' are an important, but often overlooked, part of the computer environment. We often hear Mac owners defensively their systems need fewer upgrades or otherwise fare better over the long term.

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Like most claims, this one contains a grain of

excellent ratings in all categories. Of course,

you can still spend $12,000 for a wicked-fast Mac (or PC), and expect to get several years of

for step-by-step instructions on installing and

useful life, but for many people, it might be better to buy a $3,MO computer and not expect it to last as long. And, despite what the sellers of $12,000

configuring Win95.)

computers might tell you, three or four grand

truth, but in inany ways it is based on history, not reality. And, considering that a to~f-

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the-line 1990<ra Mac Ilfx cost about $12,000 (without a monitor or even a keyboard!), you The third category of users stoutly resist had better hope these machines had a bit a change, sometimes for fear of breaking a sys- staying power. Unfortunately, anyone who tem that works, sometimes because the new bought one of these machines now finds version offers few compelling new features - that: -

Those in tlie "application is everything"

true for first-generation Power Macs as early as next year, the myth of Mac longevity starts

97 issue, in which Apple was rated as having the highest overall sattsl'action rating (91 percent) when compared to other companies. Following Apple were Dell, Gateway 2000, IBM, Compaq,AST, and Packard Sell. In overall price/performance ratings, Apple topped the list, with very good to

while upgrade for the vast majority of PC users, although avid game players with a boot DOS and Win95 for maximum 100 percent c o m patibility. (Setting u p a DOS/Windows 3.1 PC to dual boot Win95 is

In addition, if we consider that all of these

points, except the last one, will be also be

GsLsirnier Reports magazine noted in its Sept.

oM version handy, just in case. It has been

advised to configure their systein to dual-

rentlowland Mac; e) and there are no motherboard upgrades available.

system in better working order, and increase

our experience that Windows 95 is a worth-

large collection of DOS-based games are

Mac OS; c) the PCI expansion cards available for curr ent Macs are incompatible with t h e NuSus slots it used; d) it was about 10 times as slow as the cur-

es in top form. We like to think of computers as to fall apart. However, Macs have tended to we do our cars: a relpiiar tune up can keep the fare well in customer satisfaction surveys, as overall satlshction and reliability. And, another way to keep "old faithful in working order is to remember th» human part of the equation: consider upgrading the chair you sit in, the key-

your existing data. It is prudent to keep your

than is used in current machines; b) it no longer runs the latest version of the

in other words, little benefit, Rather than

a) it used a completely different kind of RAM

buys a lot of computer these days.

Why spend more7 For some, it's the raw l performance. For others, it is the allure of deluxe quality many of these top-of-the-line Contiriued on page54

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1 x or 2x 0?-ROM drive

Sx or better. We recommend 12x.

8 MB or less RAM

1 6 Ms or more (Most dealers will install it for you. ) We recommend 32 MS for Win95; 64 MB for NT

$6 per MS

Better overall performance, especially under Windows 95, NT or Macintosh.

A nearly fuii hard drive

A second hard drive or removable media storage device. We recommend keeping at least 10 per«ent of the space free an your hard drive.

Hard drives: about I'I QOper CB Removable storage: 15-25 cents/MS

8reathing room and backups.

A 486 Or earlier model of PC

A Pentiumwapable motherboard and Pentium or K6 processor. We recommend a 166 MHz or better CPU with MMX support.

JSQO, give or take a few hundred dollars Faster overallperformance, compatibility with PCl depending on speed and features. expansion options, Plug and play, etc.

A slow video card, or one supporting 256 colors or less

An accelerated video card with at least 2 MB of video RAM. S'l00to 5300 We recommend a card with support for MPEGplayback.

Easter screen redraws, better depiction of graphics, higher resolutions, less screen flicker.

A sound card without "wavetabie" audio.

A Sound Siaster 32 or better <ard. We recommend «hecking compatibility with games, etc, Other brands are also avai1able for under $100.

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Wavetable upgrades for better Mlol and game music playback; improved compatibility with titles.

A BIOS incompatible with the "Year 2000' bug.

5oftware that won't fail as a iesuit of Rawed programming

See the latest information at http: //www.tcp.ca/gsb/PC/y2k.html

Correct handling of the transition between 1999 and the year 2000.

A Poor-quality monitor, especially those lacking diginil controls.

A 15" or better monitor witii a Tiinitron-type tUbe or other high-quality display.

15" = $506 17 = $1,000 19' = $1,500

Crisp graphics, less eyestrain, more accurate color.

A blacked-white

A color inkjet, laser. Orother. Consult your dealer to determine the most appropriate choice for your needs

$200 and up. Also consider cost Of consumables in your calculations.

Better quahty pnnted images color images.

14.4Kbps or slower modem.

28.8Kbps or better modem. Check vith your ISP to determine the standards supported. We recommend a 33.6Kbpsmodem up9radeabieto 56Kbps.

$75 Up.

Paster Internet or online access.

Interest in graphics

A color scanner or digital camera. We recommend a flatbed scanner with a SCSI interface.

$300 up

Capture and edit color images; scanrier can also turn printed pages into editabie text.

A sore "mouse hand

Graphics tablet, tradball or other comfortable pointing device.

$50 up

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A 90 MHz or slower Pentium PC.

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• UPCRADING YOUR COMPUTER

Notebook upgrades and expandabili New CPUs, expansion technology add years of usefulnessand versatility to pricey portables B Y ROSS M A C D O N A L D

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• UPCRADINC YOUR COMPUTER Noteboolt upgrades aud expendability Continuedfrom page $7

notebook owners: "What people should look at with an upgrade is what a new comparable machine would cost them. Our rule of thumb is to try and keep the cost of an upgrade below half the cost of a new computer. That' s sort of the breaking point to determine whether an upgrade is economically viable." 'He says the upgrades to 486 machines are restricted by the 33 MHz bus, "but, in most cases, we can bring that machine up to performing like a 133 MHz machine with a Sx86. That's a significant enough improvement to be worth the cost. But that's also the limit for those machines — we can't get them to run above 133 iMHz]." Still, with costs hovering around $1,000 for a combination 133 MHz Sx86 CPU and 1 GB hard drive, the prospect of upgrading and

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of people will find it far more economical to get a CPU upgrade than buy a new machine because CPU speed constitutes the essential difference between older and newer Pentium machines," he says. "There's a certain percentage of users that always want to try and keep up with the latest and best and fastest technology. They' re the ones prepared to buy

Gitt says notebook purchasers have to carefully look at the upgradability of any machine they' re now thinking of buying because, even though notebook manufacturers often tout that ability as a selling feature, "they don't offer the upgrade modules for very long or they won't be very high perfor-

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highest upgrade level possible for any of us who aren't willing to ditch our faithful old notebooks despite their comparative sluggishness with the passage of time. Continued on page62

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only a year and a half ago." Knight says the company is anticipating a bit of a shift toward newer notebooks, "with the Pentium upgrades that we' ll be offering near the end of this year. All Pentium machines

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ly witnessed a proliferation of devices that plug into our COM ports, multiple levels of docking station design and notebooks with more designs that incorporate proprietary

notebook becauseyou can put a CD-ROM drive, or a floppy drive, or a second battery or a second hard drive into them. That versatility

devices that plug into your PC slots and COM ports. "In fact, you will actually see more devices heing offered for expansion bays," he

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DVD players, all of which will increase the flexibility of the notebook even more." A logical condusion, then, is that manufacturers would make all their notebooks with expansion bays in order to best accommodate the widest range of potential customers. But, of course, they don' t. According to Dubois, that' s because many entry-level buyers are intimidated or "put off' by removable components. "Also, a lot of notebook users travel a lot and they want to reduce the number of components they have to take with them — floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, second battery, AC adapter — one of their major complaints is hav-

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standard OverDrive) Processor — if your sys-

your PC, installing power connectors, setting jumpers and so on. You' ll probably need your system's motherboard manual, too. In the big scheme of things, installing the CPU Energizer is easier than adding a second internal hard drive, more difficult than

tem is even compatible with these options (ours wasn' t). In other words, the average user

Not quite by the book

installing RAM, and marginally trickier than

and fan, insert the assembly into the CPU array of wires snaking around the CPU

According to the instructions included with

socket and reseat the ZIF lever.

should probably have a dealer or the office computer expert install it.

the package, the basic steps are simple. On power-up, you should be up and run• Ma ke sure your system's clock is set to 66 ning. Unfortunately, it didn't work that way MHz. in our tests. • Pu ll out the old CPU (a trivial task if your On our system, everything went well until motherboard's CPU socket inclu'des a we restarted the computer. The first time we zero-insertion-force "lever" ). restarted, the computer didn't boot at all. • Connect the power leads to the Energizer One of the power connectors terminating the Energizer had slipped backward in its plastic sheath when we plugged it into our system,

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our original configuration still worked. We thin called the company for technical support and faxed them pertinent pages of our motherboard manual. They made numerous suggestions (insert several days worth of unsuccessful upgrade attempts here), but

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page. At the Intel site, we found information that suggested that a BIOS incompatibility might be our problem and a downloadable "BIOS Compatibility Test" more or less confirmed it. The page included a link to our motherboard manufacturer's Web site, where BIOS upgrades and instructions on the procedure were available. After yet another false start (our Soyo motherboard needed two more jumpers to be set in order to allow its Flash BIOS to be reprogrammed), we successfully reprogrammed the Continued onpage 72

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Continued from page70 BIOS. For us, this was also more than a little

somewhat disconcerted by bogus Windows 95 messages that informed us that we had no

stressful, as of course, without a working

mouse connected and had no floppy drive, We needed to re-specify COM ports, boot

Drum roll, please On power-up, we were greeted by a new—and

device order and enable the floppy drive controller in the BIOS. We then powered down,

very encouraging — BIOS message. This time, it stated we had a 200 MHz Pentium with MMX, Even better, it booted properly and

BIOS, the computer wouldn't work at all. (The Award BIOS updater, like most similar utilities, allows you to back up your existing BIOS

code — a step we'd deflnitely recommend.) To our considerable relief, the system still

switched all the jumpers and connected the wires (again!) and gave the CPU Energizer

another try, promising ourselves this would really, really be our last attempt.

When we d i scussed our f i n dings with Paradon, the company said its discussion with

AMD and Intel suggested that approximately 90 percent of systems do not require a BIOS update t o r u n t h e M MX pr o cessors. Apparently, our machine was the only one out of more than 500 with Energizers installed where the CPU did not work out of the box.

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able to tell the difference in actual use. As you might expect, both MMX upgrades provided a signiflcant improvement (Intel says 54 to 75 percent gains may be expected from 75 MHz Pentium and 90 MHz Pentiumbased systems) over the original, non-accelerated CPUs. Thus, we recommend the CPU Energizer for 75 MHZ or 90 MHz Pentium owners who favor speed above all else, and the Intel OverDrive processor with MMX technology for those who like their upgrades as conve-

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before an MMX upgrade is possible.

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area where the Cyrix processorsare lacking is in floating point performance. Intel's Pentium and Pentium II processors offer considerably higher performance, required for 3D

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AMD has also been busy over the past little while, putting the finishing touches on its new K6 processor. It, too, features a 64 KB Level-1 cache (also called primary cache), never keep up with. MMX technology, and a superscalar architecWhen intel first launched its Pentium ture similar to Intel's new processors. The K6 processor in the spring of 1993, it offered 386 is home to an incredible 8.8 million transisusers a great reason to upgrade their tors — 1.3 million more than are found in machines. Many were far more eager to Intel's Pentium ll. Running at 233 MHz on a upgrade from a 386 to the new Pentium 66 MHz bus, the K6-233 is also very dose rather than going one step up to a 486. And when it comes to benchmarks with Intel"s 233 likewise, those who invested a fair bit .of MHz Pentium II processor, although its floatmoney into the new line of 486 DX2 ing point is not as advanced as the intel machines in the fall of '92 were reluctant to processors. There is a trade off made hereupgrade to the Pentium processor upon its you get the processor for around half of what release less than one year later. This was espe- you would pay for a Pentium II at 233 MHz, cially true when word got around about the but you aren't getting the same level of perfloating point flaw in the chip. formance when it comes to floating point calThe next generation of Pentium Pro culations. processors was even more out of the question, With both of tliese very capable procesespecially considering its seemingly astro- sors now shipping, the consumer once again

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of the matter is that the Pentium II is a great performer, and offers several improvements over both the Pentium and Pentium Pro. . One of the things about the Pentium II that will appeal to many is its ability to handle 16-bit code quickly and efficiently —something the Pentium Pro was lacking. Although

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mance graphics, especially 3D graphics. The idea behind AGP is to deliver workstation quality graphics and speed to the home computer. In its most basic state, you

replace the PCI bus, as it is in every way different from it. The AGP port operates at 66 MHz, versus the PCI bus at 33 MHz. At this speed, the PCI

will see a new slot next to your PCI slots, similar in size and shape, although com-

bus is limited to data transfer rates of up to 133 MB/s, whereas AGP has a peak transfer

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rate of 528 MB/s with a technique called sidebanding, and the help of pipelining. Perhaps the greatest thing about AGP, aside from its

designed strictly for graphic controllers, nothing more, nothing less. It's not going to

obvious speed, is the way it handles video

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other components that could weigh it down, such as is the case with current PCI video cards. At the time of this writing, both ATI and

Matrox have only engineering samples of these cards, but they are expected to be shipping later this fall. However, we did receive an

AGP Number Nine Revolution graphics card but haven't yet tested it with an AGP motherboard. Don't be too quick to jump on the AGP bandwagon„however, because there is virtually no support for it at this time. The upcoming Windows 98 (now delayed until next May) and NT 5.0 are both scheduled to have full support for AGP. In the meantime, an AGP card will give

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The video card in this machine was an S3 Trio64 V2 with 2 MB of DRAM on board. This meant we had to test this machine in a 16-bit

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A package of game demos is also provided,

IBM The new PC 300XL from IBM makes use of the new 266 MHz Pentium II processor on a 440FX motherboard, and comes standard with 32 MB of EDO RAM. The model sent to us for testing, however, was equipped with an additional 64 MB, bringing the total up to 96 MB.

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er and ecologically unsound. The cheapest disposal method, dumping, left intellectual property in the open almost for the taking. "If you' re a truck driver going to the dump with a load of unopened software, what would you dor" Beschen asks. By recyding the floppies, GreenDisk establishes a controlled procedure for destroying intellectual property that provides a verifiable audit traiL GreenDisk's success in redirecting obsolete software on diskette is such that Beschen

proudly daims he knows of no company, presently disposing of diskettes like garbage, And it's not just diskettes he recycles; the entire package, from shrink wrap to manual, is reborn to new use, with the exception of only

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• SOFTWARE

Microsoft rolls out NT 5 beta B Y GEO F W H E E L W R I G H T

International Data Corporation, one of the keys to the success of Windows NT 5.0 will be

with reduced cost of ownership, at the earliest possible time." Microsoft said it ex pectsto continue

impact of the new release is expected to be

in how it reduces computing costs. "It means particularly important. "Windows NT 5.0 is

SAN DIEGO, Calif.— Microsoft took a major step toward the evolution of its Windows NT "industrial grade" computer operating system in late September, announcing the first beta pre-release versions of Microsoft Windows NT S erver version 5, 0 a n d W i n d ows N T Workstation 5.0 operating systems. Copies of the software were handed out to the 6,200 developers in attendance at M i crosoft's Professional Developers Conference here, and to key corporate customers and 200,000 developers. The software, which will not be generally available until 1998, promises to reduce the cost of o wnership when managing

that at a time when information technology resources are being squeezed and reduced in

many companies, NT 5,0 will enable a smaller number of system administrators to do more work and take care of more users," she said. For developers of products used in corporations — such as SAP, which is a leading play-

strong growth of its corporate computer oper-

the most significant operating system release ever for us as developers," said SAP vice-president, Karl Heinz Hess. "With all of the rich services that it delivers, from transactioning to scalable directory services, we can build more powerful applications much more quickly. Our customers will benefit from getting new application functionality, together

ating system sales. The company reported that shipments of Windows NT Workstation have increased by 177 percent annually since its release and that in the past six months, computer makers have more than doubled the number of machines on which they preinstall Windows NT Workstation. 0

Micrnsnlt exjilninsWinIii linlnjj NB — Microsoft's announced delay of a next version'of the its Windows operating system, Windows 98, may have shocked Wall Street, but Microsoft says the decision to delay does not mean the company is ha~ing problems developing the product. "First, we want to say Windows 98 never had a promised shipping date of February, 1998. We always said we planned to ship Windows 98 in the first quarter of 1998. Now, we are saying we will ship Windows 98 sometime in the second calendar quarter of 1998

Windows 98 will ship as an upgrade to Windows 95 and Windows 3.x," continued the spokesperson. 'What we are saying is that we have delayed the Windows 95 upgrade until we have completed the Windows 3.x upgrade, so they can both ship at the same time. Originally, the Win 95 upgrade was going to ship before the Win 3.x upgrade." Asked if beta testing of the Windows 95 upgrade uncovered problems that contributed to

announcement does not reflect problems with the development of Windows 98." Computer industry analyst and publisher of the California TechnologyStock Letter, Michael Murphy, agreed, "I think Microsoft delayed Windows 98 for the reasons they stated. They want to kill off Windows 3.x. By combining both upgrades to ship at the same time, they have a better chance of accomplishing that goal." He continued, "In the long run, they want the delay, the spokesperson replied, "No, that is to kill off Windows 95 also, but I think that will not that situation. We are pleased with the come with a next version of the Windows oper(by june 30)," a company spokesperson told progress of the Win 95 upgrade and we have not ating system, which will be an integration of a been confronted by any problem which would standard desktop version of Windows and "Secondly, it is important to understand cause a delay, We want our users to know this Windows NT." — PatrickMcKenna

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The snowbird lifes le ered how you a re going t o spend your retirement

one's retirement years. It could enhance the quality of one's life immeasurably. About two-thirds of Snowbirds leave Canada for the United States or Mexico in late October or

years? Have y o ur

early November and return sometime before

t hought a b out t h e retirement lifestyle of being a S n o wbird? Maybe your parents or relatives already are Snowbirds. At this time

the end of April. The other third prefer to wait until January and stay in the South for up to three months. Snowbirds can therefore have the best of both worlds, enjoying the benefits of both countries during various seasons of the year that are optimal for a wide range of outdoor activities, Living in the south during the winter can also be very affordable. In fact, you may find that you come out ahead financiaily. This is because of the savings from the lower cost of

we you consid-

of year, many people fantasize about planning for and enjoying the Snowbird lifestyle. T he thought of spending up t o s i x

months a year in a warm and sunny U.S.

winter months. Even taking into account the cost of your out-of-country emergency medical insurance, you could be breaking even or paying just a bit more than you would if you stayed at home in Canada all winter. It is this type of attractive economic reality that is also a contributing factor to the decision of many to winter in warmer climes. As a Canadian Snowbird, there are many matters to deal with when you are spending up to six months in the United States or Mexico, You must consider issues such as family, friends, finances, fluctuations in currency exchange rates, investments, taxes, immigration, customs, housing, travel, safety

living in the U.S, or Mexico. You can rent a

VVIth proper planning, the Snowbird

in your pad lease fee. In addition, you are saving money on heating costs at home in Canada during the

lating, satisfying, and enjoyable experience of

ious needs. More information about the Snowbird lifestyle is available in the second edition of my book, TIIe Canadian Snowbird Guide: Everything YouNeed to Know About Living Parttime in the USAand Mexico. 3 Oouglae Gray, LL.B. formerIy a practicing lawyer, is now aVancouver-based speaker.columnistand author of 15 beetselling business and personal

and security, and medical and other types of

Sunbelt state or Mexico, during Canada's cold winter is becoming more appealing to millions of Canadian retirees. This trend is increasing every year, as Canada's population ages, and baby boomers start taking early retirement by choice or circumstance. Many Snowbirds are as young as S0. Because Canadians are living longer and staying healthier, retirement could last 30 years. That is why many Canadians choose to spend part or all of the winter months in a warmer climate, hence the term "Snowbirds." lifestyle can provide the most active, stimu-

Having said al l t h at, t h e Snowbird lifestyle is not for everyone. It is just another retirement option. It is wise to try it for a month or so by renting, In other words, evolve into the lifestyle in a step-by-step fashion to see if you like it and it meets your var-

finance books,plus areal estateInvestment software

insurance. You also need to give thought to such important matters as money management, financial planning, wills, estate planning, and the need for reliable professionals and other advisors. There is a n i n c reasing number o f Canadians who prefer to spend the winter months in various parts of Mexico. Mexico is rich with culture and diversity, and over one million Canadian tourists visit Mexico every year. There are several locations in Mexico that are popular retirement communities for Canadian and American part-time or fulltime residents.

mobile home/RV pad for a smail amount, starting at about US$200 per month, based on a 12-month lease. You can buy a used mobile home (fixed in place) in a park for US$5,000 and up that could Ineet your needs. There are some good bargains, especially at the end of the season in April. IAIhen you amortize that cost over 10 or more years, it

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Mortal Kombat and Celestial Works Copyright in compilations and joint works B Y BRA D L E Y j .

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B Y JEAN A L L E N - I K E S O N The back-to-school routine ls habit. The kids come and go speaking of Michelangelo, decimals and adverbs. All is well until they come sliding in with that first report card. You can tell by their faces that a few minor adjustments need to be made. Or

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Tyiie like pro a Read, Write and Type From: Learning Company Price: $55

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Each modality, hearing, seeing and doing, reinforces what they Slam Dunk Typing are learning. From: Creative Wonders Jumpstart Typing i s the Price: $32.99 newest in the Jumpstart series of Typing Tutor Deluxe curriculum-based software (availFrom: Individual Software a ble for W i n dows 3.1/95 o r Price: $39.95 Macintosh). Like many educationThe three-R's of education al titles, it is built around a comhave a new sibling that is an petitive kill-and-drill t ype game. *Mane~ ~ Ca essential skill in the computKids must sharpen their typing erized world of today: typskills to win an Olympicing. Ten-finger typing skills are , style competition. There essential for productivity, whether are games to suppleyour child is 10 or 25. Like it or not, ment the instructional hunt and p eck j ust i sn't g ood drills with lots of hype enough anymore. and graphics. It begins Five years of age is not too early with a speed test and to start on the path to mastering the then concentrates on a standard ".+:.'> few letters at a time QWERTY k e y board. Children this young can learn keyc ; „ , until speed is achieved boarding skills with clever programs with each set. The like Read, Write and Type (available basics look similar to for Windows or Macintosh). It teaches what typing teachers used to beat out with a children to type as they learn letter recognimetronome, tion and reading skills — it even slips in some Mario Teaches Typing 2 (for Windows 3.1/95 phonics exercises. With this program, they or Macintosh) uses keys to navigate Mario hear the letter or word„see it on the screen through a video game-type format. It is easy keyboard and type it on their own keyboard. to get Into — a feature teachers with limited

classroom time will appreciate. First, children are presented with a dancing keyboard with animated sequences to demonstrate finger positioning. Then, they start practicing four keys: each stroke hops and bops Mario along. Two cartoon hands illustrate which finger needs to be used and if too many mistakes are made, Mario repeats the exercise. Otherwise it is on to the next exercise. After these are completed, students move on to customized levels of typing practice. This program intertwines game and practice rather than flipping back and forth between the two. Teachers should like this direct approach. Brainstorm rates it for ages 6 to 10, but older kids probably need more practice typing words. However, this is a good place to start. Slam Dun k T y p in g f r o m C r e ative Wonders (for Windows 3.1/95 or Macintosh) uses a basketball game format. This is a slick and well-designed tutorial with loads of avenues for variety and honing skills. Children can spend as much time as they like working on four-key combinations or move to three higher levels that use the entire keyboard, or on to typing several paragraphs at a time with speed tests. After initial practice Cont/arced onpage 12dI

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• TRENM llortal Komhat and Celestial lhtorhs ' Continued from page 101 authorizing the use of their performances for coin-operated arcade games, an d assigned the copyright in the performances to the game creators. The success of the arcade games led to home video, home computer and handheld game versions,

which were not expressly covered by the performers" agreements. The new game versions were based upon the same software as the arcade version. The performers were asked to sign new agreements authorizing the use of t heir

performances for the non-arcade versions of the game. They refused, and sued for alleged unauthorized use of their personas

and performances. The performers argued, among other things, that they were coowners of the copyright in the non-arcade game software on the basis that the software was a joint work created by the performers (contributing their performances and choreographic works) and the software

engineers.

authorship in the game software. The court concluded that the performers' images and movements were transitory contributions to the work, and were not sufficient copyrightable contributions to give rise to copyright ownership in the game software. In the result, the court dismissed the performers'

claims.

human beings, and therefore lacks the requi-

As with other types of copyrightable

site ingredient of human creativity to constitute a copyrightable work. The court agreed that copyright laws were not intended to protect divine creations, and therefore the individual papers themselves might not be copyrightable. Nevertheless, the court held that notwithstanding the claimed non-human origin of

works, copyright in a joint work can be

The tlrantla Iooh case

the papers, the book as a whole was copyright

The june 1997 decision in Urantia Fourrdatiou v. Maafrerra involved claims of ownership of the Urantia Book, a collection of 196 distinct papers claimed to be authored by nonhuman celestial beings and transcribed, compiled and collected by human followers. The parties to the dispute claimed that the book contains the teachings of celestial beings (such as the Divine Counselor and the Chief of the Archangels of Nebadon), who transmitted their teachings by answering questions posed by groups of followers through a human medium. This process resulted in the creation of the 196 papers, which were then arranged into

protected as a compilation, because human creativity was involved in the selection and arrangement of the papers into the book. The court indicated that had the defendant copied only one of the papers, there might not have been a copyright infringement. However, since the defendant copied all of the papers as compiled in the book, the defendant was liable for copyright infringement.

assigned in whole or i n p art by written assignment. Also, as with other works, moral rights in a joint work cannot be assigned, but they can be waived in whole or in part.

Accordingly, where a work may result from a collaborative effort, proper agreements covering all intellectual property rights, prepared with the benefit of legal advice, are

appropriate. 0 Bradley J. Freedman is e trial lawyer with the Vancouver Iaw firm Ladner Downs. Hie preferred areas of practice include intellectual praperty Iaw and commercial litigation. He can be reached byemail at bfreedman@ladner.corn. This article is of a general nature, and cannot be regarded as legal advice.

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The court rejecied the performers' arguments, and held that there was no requisite common intention to create a joint work. In support of this finding, the court noted that book. The defendant, an avid reader of the the game company's software engineers wrote . book, began to make and distribute verbatim the software used in all versions of the games, copies of the entire text of the book The and decided what portions of the performers' Urantia Foundation sued, claiming copyright performances would be incorporated into the infringement. games. The court held that the agreements The defendant argued there was no valid signed by each of the performers were incon- copyright in the book, becauseit embodies sistent with a common intention of joint the works of celestial beings rather than

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eventhecompanies developing management tools in big, fancy boxes are pretty much winging it. That is to say that while your idea

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agement or containing the thing. It just grows. The results of this lack of management show in the pages. There isn't any real cohesive look or feel to the site: My brain is organized enough that there aren't any dead ends, but there is a whole lot that could be better and link rot is starting to set in on some of my

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lacking a computer science degree and a note from their mother. Let's look at some of the options and see how they stack up. Reniember, though, that this little round up of products is not really meant to compare one against the other. At present, Web site management software remains very different from one package to the next.

MicrosoftFrontPage Platform: Windows 95 & NT System requirements: 486 or higher processor, 8 MB of RAM (16 MB onNT), 30 MB of hard disk space requirements, CD-ROMdrive for installation. Web site: http: //www,microsoft.corn Price: $209 Microsoft FrontPage brings an almost holistic

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HTML editor of your choice: unlike version 1 that came bundled with a hopelessly lame editor. That means you can use the Web site management to its full potential, while working with an editor that you like and know. At present, if you happen to know and like Adobe's WYSIWYG editor, PageMiil, life is easier, because you can download the full SiteMill program from the Adobe Web site for free. The same is true for registered users of SiteMill 1.0. And free, no matter how you package it, is a very good price. SiteMill lets you look at your whole Web site in one graphical view, in much the same way FrontPage does. From that overview, it' s possible to repair frayed and damaged links; find errors in your site, and correct them semi-automatically. You can see where your outside links go, and even deliver your whole site to your Internet service provider (ISP) with a single click.

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If you are a new user, and are not accustomed to tweaking your configuration or registry, or if you have exotic software and peripherals, you may want to wait a few weeks until the final code for Explorer 4,0 is shipped. One of our testers encountered i ncreasingly serious crashes until i t became necessary to uninstall Explorer 4.0 altogether — this person is not terribly eager to re-install it again, Others have had positive experiences, but simply don't like the browser-style interface (the changes take some getting used to, especially in the File Explorer where files tend to open when you click on them once, making moving or copying them a bit of a headache).

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t's browser wars time again. Seems like every few months the gladiators suit up to do battle. While each browser has its cheering section, most of us sit in the middle of the fray, bewildered by the features and cheices, waiting in vain for one combatant to emerge as the clear winner. Of course, once the dust clears, both have their share of medals — kudos granted from this magazine or that Web sit(. leaving us as confused as ever.

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Communicator/Navigator is the clear choice for the power-user with some spare change to pay the licensing fee, and Explorer wins with those of us with shallow packets who need a helping hand more aften. It wouldn't be fair to express a preference myself, as I think most folks will end up upgrading or sticking with their current browser because they are already used to It. Some will simply download both and switch between them until they establish a preference by force of habit. Both are still in the beta-debug phase, and there is no killer application that makes either browser a "have to have" at the expense of the other. Both offer excellent value, and both promise to be around for a while ... at least until the next grudge-match in the upgrade cycle.

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BY KEITH SCHENGILI- RDBERTS There's plenty you-can do with HTML tables ln addition to simply holding lists of items ln them. Bilany Web designers use tables ln ways never originally envisioned, but almost impossible to achieve by any other

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Web pages. There are two different approaches to creating a multi-column display using HTML tables: either create a Web page consisting of two table data cells where all of the contents are arranged in two long columns, or create a table that displays its content in various cells. The second approach is really a variant of the first, and both have their specific uses on a

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Bosnia in August brought Rutherford and Diana together. (You may recall the footage and interviews with Ken, a double, below-knee amputee who guided Diana around Bosnia.) The Web has also played a pivotal role in how some of Diana's "causes" communicate their needs, particularly groups that are trying to raise awareness about the plight of landmine victims. By disseminating this information though the Web, it may have easily brought the landmine issue to the world' s attention far more quickly than by conventional media. The Web circumvented traditional broadcast media and brought the Iandmine issue into world consciousness. Anti-landmine activists around the world recognized the importance of the Web and email early on. In doing so, information on the landmine issue was immediately available to everyone, particularly the traditional media as Diana's sojourn to Angola caught world attention. As a recent example, Mines Action Canada (MAC) used its listserv mailing list to distribute up-to-date information on the Oslo conference on landmines. For me as an independent writer, there is no better source of information than the horse's mouth. Email provides a medium through which we don't have to deal with overworked editors or compete with the latest baseball scores. The Net will no doubt be heavily used to funnel information as Ottawa becomes the focus of world attention in December for the signing of the world treaty on landmines.

e vast majority of Canadians were deeply saddened by the recent death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Although only a minority of us had actually met Diana, most of us felt her loss through the very media that supposedly contributed to her unfortunate death. However, for a considerable number of us, we expressed the loss of Diana through the Internet. The death of Diana is probably the most significant event the Web has yet experienced. The number of Web pages that popped up in tribute to her was amazing. I held back the September edition of Amputation — an online magazine for amputees I started in June 1996 — for 24 hours in order to write a tribute to the princess. The Royal Web site (http: //www.royal.gov.uk) received over 13.8 million hits in one week, with 350,000 people sending condolences through an online form. With so many people connecting to the Royal Family through its Web page, we expressed ourselves in a way previously unheard of. One cannot help feeling that the Web played an important role — 13.8 million hits in a week is a staggering amount of bandwidth. This "connection" between the user and the Royals proved to be an incredible tool for expressing grief, especially for those of us outside Great Britain.

Raising awareness My respect and interest in Diana increased dramatically when she became involved in th e landmine issue. Her involvement and obvious feeling for landmine survivors touched me as a person with an amputation, I was in love with the woman from then on. My indirect connection to Diana was through the Web. The very first issue of my online magazine featured an article by Celina Tuttle of Mines Action Canada. This topic was addressed again in other issues: in january 97, I feat ured an interview with Ken Rutherford of t h e Landmine Survivors Network; and in May an article on Diana's visit to Angola, using images captured from the BBC documentary to supplement the text. Diana's visit to

Changing lives The result of the landmine issue being called to i ntern ational attention has been a positive for the survivors of landmine explosions. Angola has a population of 30 million, most of whom don't have phones, let alone computers. Yet, because we in the developed nations are in immediate contact, we can encourage others to give to charities that try to improve the quality of life for the average Angolan amputee. Angola has the highest population of amputees in the

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starting to close due to the consciousness-raising combination of Diana's visit and the Web and email. Amputees in other nations, such as Bosnia, Cambodia and Vietnam, are also beginning to see positive results, for which the Net played a contributing role. But we still have such a long way to go.

Cosssumer activism The Internet is also playing a significant role

in how amputees in North America now discuss issues that were previously reserved for annual meetings or chance meetings on the street. As an industry, the North American prosthetics business lies somewhere between a

doctor's office and a bicyde repair shop. It is, for the most part, self-regulated. In the United States — where it does $1 billion of business annually — you do not have to be legally "certified" in order to practice. Consumer activism within the industry has been traditionally restricted to national organizations such the Amputee Coalition of America IACA) national confereno.. The ACA has only existed since 1982 and no consumer-based organization currently exists in Canada. However, even the ACA is heavily dependent on funding from the industry in order to function. Even with the growth of the Internet, it is rare — outside of a prosthetic facility — for amputees to meet. Even within a prosthetic facility amputees are often located in cubicles or private waiting rooms, away from the other

amputees. Internet mailing lists and Web pages are starting to play a more and more significant

role in uniting amputees and raising consumer rights issues. Amputees who would have never communicated with each other finally have the opportunity to share ideas, concerns and complaints about the prosthetics industry and state of the technology in generaL With email providing a forum for discussion,we have found some very common and sometimes disturbing issues. For example in the United States one can pay up to $40,000 for a prosthesis that might cost $10,000 in Canada. We have found that some people have flown across a whole continent to

receive almost exactly the same care and pros-

thetic limb they could have received at a facility 20 minutes from their own front door! We have found new amputees are particularly vulnerable when the only information they are receiving on their choices is the advertising campaigns of leading prosthetic makers and clinics, While national chains may have some merit in the fast food business, too often national chains in the prosthetic industry leave the consumer broke and without a suitable prosthetic limb. Since September 1994, t h e o r i ginal amputee listserv at St. Johns University in New York has been a forum for amputees world wide to compare and contrast their experiences. That list has since diversified into three other amputee oriented lists, each with their own particular personality and charm. Today the St. Johns list has 300 members in approximately 25 nations. It continues to act a s a communications tool no t o nl y f o r Continued on page 121

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within the first table data element and the content in the second. Each row contains two table data elements, of which the first cell in each row makes a column that is180 pixels wide. Using this structure, the subject heading will always appear alongside the content it prefaces. To add some further refinement, add <TR VALIGN=TOP> to force the subject heading (and the content alongside it) to appear at the top of the table cell.

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ty &nbsp that equals the width you desire. This is trickier and less precise, since the size

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and was sending messages to the list just a few hours after surgery. The support he rec'eived was staggering, it is doubtful any amputee had

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dence high. The number of amputee-oriented Web

pages has also increased significantly. The diversity of amputee-oriented subjects shines through in the Web pages. There are a number of Web sites that cater to those with a "sexual" interest in amputees, legitimately excused as "social groups" and "pen-pal clubs." For the most part, though, the existing amputee Web pages contribute positively to increasing the quality of life for amputees. The Amputee Web site, based in Vancouver, is one that reflects the subject matter of the St. Johns list. IRC is

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Kirsten on Disney

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faster than many adults and she gets bored easily, She gives Hercules Animated Storybook four out of five, which is high praise indeed. She should know, she plays a lot of computer games. I give it four and a half out of five and here's why. Disney Interactive has six Animated S t o r y Bo o k ti tl e s : 101 Dalmatians, Hunchback, Pocahontas, Toy Story, Winnie the Pooh and Lion King. Lion King was the first and although it was visually beautiful, I didn't like it. My review was published in The Computer Paper, in June '95 (Kirsten, then four, thought it was soso). After a half a dozen tries, Disney is getting it right. The Animated Story Books re-

tell successful movies as a series of a dozen, or so, scenes.

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of the endplate on each, and a pair of angle

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and an only marginally attractive and very sexist championship celebration further hampered my enjoyment. However, it must also be mentioned that XCar has some very definite upsides. Most critically, the game comes with a ton of userdefined options, meaning it can become almost anything you want. I found that by turning "steering help"

turns and the track's pair of straights.

rience the fruits of their labor at one of four test tracks. And for the truly obsessed, XCar

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speed if your rig doesn't meet those requirements. In either case, that exquisite look of Grand Prix II or the flat-out beauty of Need

prototype" cars: closed-cockpit, closednological envelope. As in the real world, XCar's sports prototypes don't fall under the

drive a clean lap on anything but straightaways or the few wide corners in the game,

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suddenly the game doesn't seem so bad.

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when Apple stock jumped sharply at the good news). Jobs has an almost mythical status within the Mac-using community, and his presence is a big boost towards maintaining confidence in the Mac plitform. Although his appointment is a necessary concession to an untidy reality at Apple, it places additional pressure on Jobs to work miracles in the shert term, and may make the search for a permanent CEO more difficult, as any would-be replacement for Jobs will have to deal with the shadow he casts over the company that has become his once more.

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price of $7,699). In spite of Apple's well publicized difficulties, Apple Canada claims to be experiencing

some very encouraging trends, with its share of the Canadian computer market remaining

above seven percent (compared to six percent in the United States), and continuing strong sales into the graphics, education and home computer markets. Mac OS 8 sold over 1.2 rnillion copies worldwide in its first two weeks, indicating strong acceptance by Mac users. ln conversation with Adobe Canada's head Burton Robson, TCP learned that

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clones. "We were getting US$50 to US$100 per seat from each clone sell," said Jobs. After looking at the cost of research and development, he said it was costing Apple several hundred dollars per seat to subsidize each clone.

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with than the "people at Apple." IB , according to Anderson„never got a Mac done business off the ground, Umax now has a license to sell existing Mac dones with Mac OS 8 until July, 1998. Power Computing, similar to Motorola, wiII sell Mac dones until Dec. 31.

Hinting at what could turn into a fire sale,

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News Aash: Phone corn an e aten co r n u t e r . wo of the most irritating innovations in this Canadian's life in the '90s are people calling me at home trying to get me to switch my l ong d i stance p h o n e provider, and an evere scalating monthly bi ll for "info se r v ices":

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I can publish my own personal Web page to people around the world. Behjnd the scenes, there's a ferocious war going on, between the traditional giants of telecommunications, and a host of computer geek upstarts. And, as in any war, it's the dviTians (you and me) who will pay the costs and live with the consequences.

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modems to it. This hostiTity to computer competition to the phone actuafiy Giused severe damage to thecompe titivepositions of Japan and Germany, since it stifled the growth of a "computer culture of millions of self-teaching, creative computer users. The obvious advantages of BBSing induded the abiTity to post messages without needing the recipient to be present, sharing mes-

communicate aH kinds of information (text, software programs, pictures, music) instead of just the spoken word. But the real advantage was that it created a demand for a universal, user friendly, high-speed computer network. The World Wide Web was the result.

Colng digital: Let a hundred flowers bloosn It became obvious by the late 1980s that personal computers were here to stay as a crucial

partof telecommunications. However, the phone system wasn't necessarily the ideal medium for this new age. The phonesystem has a lot of limitations: it is a giant, bureaucratic organization that, if l eft t o i t self, moves very slowly, and it has a heap of old technology strung across the country, that is expensive and difficult to update aH at once. Certainly, it moved more slowly than the computer industry. The advent of cheap

computer networking tedmology and computer digital audio in the 1980s suddenly created a rival communications industry that was outside both g and telco control. Any fool could see that many things could be done cheaper and better with the new digital computer technologies than with the old analog phone system, and lots of fools tried to do it. A rapidly growing number of Fortime 1000 companies„ for reasons ranging from a desire to save money, to linking worldwide operations, to increasing security, began to bring voice and data network-

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emerged: computer networks began to incorporate telephone functions, while the telephone system adopted computer networking technology. That brings us to where we are today: a jumble of competing visions, technologies and allianc~ Network integrators are continuing to skim off a lot of the telephone companies' largest and most lucrative customers by offering "computer/telephony integration"

(TCI) as part of a network solution. Even individuals running their home offices are putting voice mail, phone and even switchboard functions onto their computers.

The Internet isbeing used to evade Iong distance phone charges by using Internet phone software to create digital voice connections worldwide. The phone companies stiH have some advantages, induding a huge revenue stream from the phone lines that still reach into most homes and offices, and an infrastructure that is more complete and reliable than any of their competitors'.

Fibre in the shy At the recent CBTA networking and telecom show in Toronto, an upstart Canadian com-

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as "a competifive alternative to cable and local telecommunications broadband services." According to Connexus chief executive officer, Hill Dunbar, "we can be your

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from Motorola, Power Computing, and others," Staten said, which "will inevitably cost Apple a few points of market share in the third and fourth quarters." According to t h e s tudy, Apple "has admitted defeat to the Intel PC market and is now moving to protect and preserve what it views as its only remaining strongholdspublishing and K-12 education. Staten and Reynolds said they do not believe Apple products will continue to succeed in the higher education markets. The study also notes Apple's move to

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