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even more port challenged than before. Because the QuickCam doesn't have a pass-through, I have to disconnect it and reconnect the printer cable when I want to use the printer. And if I want to use the tablet that draws power from the keyboard, I have to disconnect the QuickCam. If I want to use any of the tablets, I have to dis-

Palm III handheld PC and an internal modem. There's nowhere else to plug any more devices into unless they have a SCSI interface. But of course, there are always more I suggested he experiment with them, since things you want to connect, and that's often Raven printers of that era were often re- achallenge. Inmycase, I wanted toconnect

connect either the mouse(and usethe tablet for navigation) or the Palm III sync cradle. Having too many devices and not enough ports is becoming a common problem as more of us begin to do more things with our computers. Just think of all the things we can hook up to our systemstoday:

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these problems. But one problem neither technology will solve is what to do with the tangle of cables behind the computer. Maybe we' ll need something like an advanced cordlefo technology before we can prune back the wire garden growing behind our PCs.

revision. I believe mainly that if some technology works well today, it will work even better tomorrow. For the most part I think this is true. The abundant

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20 rule: for example, 80 percent of required a serial connection. Another used your revenue comesfrom 20 percent of your an AC adapter, which connected to the customers; or 80 percent of your complaints tablet at the serial plug. The third also used come from 20 percent of your products.

the serial port, but drew its power from the Today, with Windows 98,once you've keyboard port, so it came with a Y-splitter loaded the appropriate Windows printer dri- that allowed the tablet and keyboard to ver, or modem or sound card, you have share the port. The QuickCam needed the accexs to that service from any Windows parallel port but also drew its power from application. With Plug and Play, device ser- the keyboard port, and also came with a Ysplitter. vices are largely automatic, As it stands now, only one of the tablets created problems during installation. The The wire garden During the past few weeks, I' ve been gener- PC wouldn't recognize it as a Plug and Play ally pleased, and somewhat amazed at the device, and the device would not show up

When it comes to futzing around with our PCs trying to get things to work, the same

rule fits: 80 percent of our aggravation comes from 20 percent of our devices and software. I don't know if anyone has sat down and tried to empirically test this rule, but true or not, it serves as a comforting reminder (or maybe illusion) that things are mostly OK.

amount of stuff you can hang off a PC. But when the computer wasrebooted. The other

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Comdex Canada West dlsalspoints I went to

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erage of industry developments. There seems to be growing interest in

sions) can run on that OS. Fraser Shaw

Linux these days, and I was wondering whether you'd consider doing an artide on ..And slseahlng of Unnx Linux for PowerPC and Intel, performance I just wanted to send a quick response to benchmarks, availability of software, and the your dedsion to support Linux in your pubpossibility of temporarily running non- lication (see "Solaris 7, Linux 2.2 alternatives Linux apps through emulators. I'm consider- to NT" i n t h e January 1999 issue). ing installing Linux on my PowerMac G3 but Congratulations! I' ve often wondered when the media was am reluctant to do so until my mainstay graphics applications (in my case, Mac ver- going to catch on to the fact that Linux is

demanding significant attention. As a test, try doing searches on the Web

and see how often Linux appears in whatever computer topic you are searching for. I' ve been a Linux user for years and have been disappointed to find so little common public knowledge of it. I hope that this decision is one youcan look back on with a gleam in your eye and the phrase "We did good" in your mouth. You did good! Andrew Sheppard

absence! This is extremely strange since

many of Symantec's products are very relevant to the upcoming YZK [Year 2000] problem! Corel again totally failed to appear for the fourth year in a row even though it is supposed to be fighting for its corporate life to maintain its small market share in office

suites and graphics products! Where was Dell Computer Inc., Epson, or any of the Richmond-based B.C. computer assembly companies like Peripheral Express? Microsoft made a very poor showing in the substantial lack of information in regards to "merging" Windows 98 with Windows

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Many of those who were at the Microsoft booth left. muttering about Microsoft wasting their valuable time by not providing the much needed answers over the future of Windows! This process has been three years in the making; why so little information? Who can afford $2,000 for Back Office and a further $2,500, for the NT network licences? The best software presentations were made by Adobe (of its excellent graphics software packages) and the Linux booth! Cognos made a simple presentation of its database software horrendously complicated and irrelevant to most small business operations!

The major exhibitors were still playing the corporate sector even though small business accounts for over 85 percent of all computer sales and support service customers as well as employment for the majority of computer operators and consultants in Canada! How many small businesses can afford a high-end $4,000 notebook from Toshiba and Panasonic, or a $5,000 media projector for business meetings? Then of course there is Canon's $40,000 color printing (copying)

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Teach your new iMac old tricks adjustable stand for the iMac and incorpo- speakers); a 400 dpi two-button iMouse; duced its Fresh BioDisplay CRT (cathode ray From Costa Mesa, Calif.-based CompuCable rates a swivel base. It also sports the same uMater, which is a USB-to-parallel port con- tube), calling it a "major breakthrough" in comes iDock, an eight-port hub that allows "Bondi-Blue" color as the iMac. The iDock verter; and USB-to-serial and USB-to-ADB CRT technology. SDD claims the display an iMac to connect with USB, non-USB, and

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and one ADB port, along with four USB CompuCable has other iMac accessories, ports. which it sells under the iPeripheral product Samsung claims CRT breakthrough The unit is designed to serve as an line. These include the iSpeaker (160W 3D Samsung Display Devices (SDD) has intro- to SDD, aging of the skin is "caused by highspeed heavy ions in dust colliding with the

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A second model designated L 440-B includes a detachable bay that clips to the bottom of the unit. The bay makes the com-

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vors," in a fashion comparable to the fragmentation of UNIX into a number of proprietary, incompatible v ersions. McNealy claimed Microsoft's actions in deviating from the official standard were more about diminishing Java's appeal as an alternative to the Microsoft Windows operating system, than

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Corel gets licence to Lamarr's image OTI'AWA (NB) — Corel Corp. and actress Hedy Leman announced they have settled a lawsuit filed against Corel by the actress last March. I.amarr was the embodiment of movie star success in the 1930s and 1940s but was far from being just another spoiled

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celebrity. Lamer is credited — and held patents — for technology that has become fundamental to today's wireless communications. She recently received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award for that early work

Ironically, artist John Corkery, using Corel's CorelDraw vector graphics program, created an image celebrating the early Lamarr and took Best of Show at the 1996 Corel World Design Contest. This gained the image widespread reproduction and Lamarr sued Corel to gain control of what was, after all, her personal image. Exact terms of the settlement were not disclosed but Corel says the actress has granted Corel a five-year exclusive licence to use the image. Look for her on Corel packaging.

Transparent expands language apps HOLLIS, N.H . ( N B) — Transparent Language, Inc. has added three new languages to its LanguageNow 7.0 upgrade, making 13 in all for the firm's language learning tool.

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Utilizing mpeg compression, a hard drive and the means to transfer music from a com-

puter, empeg Ltd, plans to provide people with up to 34 hours of non-stop music playback capability in its base unit..:,, Made to flit into a standard car stereo slot, the empeg-car is designed for easy removal-

handy both for security reasons and to update the. tunes from your PC. At the time of writing the empeg-car had not yet gone to manufacture, but the initial standard unit is planned.to come with a 2.1 GB hard drive, a RDS FM tuner, docking station, cables (USB

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Dolch Diablo: The computer that goes places I wouldn't want to Dolch Computer Systems, the makers of the least "me-too" portable PCs and flat-panel monitors on the market has announced the new Diablo series of flat-panel computers, designed for "harsh duty in explosion hazard zones," and other fun places. Offering up to 233 MHz Pentium processors and extra high intensity, daylight readable LCDs, the Diablo can function in impossible environments such as oil exploration (it meets industrial standards for protection against flying particles and water intrusion, of course). The Diablo brings new meaning to the phrase "cold boot," as it is rated for starting up at temperatures as cold as -40 C, using a special built-in electrical pre-heating system. According to company president Volker Dolch, "Not only will these systems run in hell, they will still be running when it freezes over." Also according to Dolch, his

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to the task. If they are intimately familiar with creating applications that can be used on desktop computers, then they will bring that familiarity and experience to the design of a converged

lot has been written about the "convergence" of personal computer

and telephone technology in the

past few years, but so far it seems that few really innovative devices have come from the marriage of these technologies. If you

phone/computer. None of this is to say that the Nokia 9000i is a perfect example of what can be achieved in a conver-

look at why more progress hasn't been made, it is probably because telecommunications companies and computer companies

gence product. There are lots of innovations that could â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and I am sure will â&#x20AC;&#x201D; be added to the design of successor products. A color screen, a Web browser that can more easily be

have each had a proprietary starting pointcomplete with a built-in bias â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on what the device should look like. For computer companies, the end-product of convergence has typically been something that runs Microsoft Windows, uses a processor from Intel and looks, acts and feels pretty much like any other PC. The only telephony functions in such machines are some form of phone dialer/address book and perhaps an application that allows you to send and receive faxes. In short, PC companies produce a PC that can do a bit of phoning. Telephone companies, meanwhile, aim to re-invent the

updated and expanded, beefier onboard applications and so on. But all of t hese improvements start from a base of something that is worth building on. As Apple fellow and computing pioneer Alan Kay is fond of saying, this kind of product is "good enough to criticize." It has enough existing good ideas that you can add to the mix in future versions, rather than junking what has already been produced and starting again. Of course, this is merely one opinion, The Nokia 9000i, selling for about $1,500, is not flying off the shelves and currently does not represent any kind of significant threat to the established order of either the computer or telecommunications industries. It could, however, be the Apple L'isa of a converged future. Those who have been involved with the computer industry

wheel around overgrown telephones. The typical "screenphone" from a telephone company uses a non-standard interface, provides some form of speed-dial directory, a Caller ID system, a Web browser and email system. The Internet screenphone announced by Alcatel at the giant CeBIT '98 computer trade show in Hanover, Germany last spring is a

good example of this approach. Alcatel designed its screenphone so users could

Built, but will they come? Ironically, there is a "Web phone" already in existence that

functions (including Caller ID, voicemail, Short Message for a long time may remember Apple's original graphical Service, speakerphone, call logging and call waiting). It also computer, released in 1983, which blazed a trail that was later

has a quite reasonable set of basic computing applications followed by the Apple Macintosh, the Commodore Amiga (such as a text-processor, contact management, Web browser, email applications, software to send and receive faxes, a calculator, music composition tool and an import/export tool for PC data). While the software built into this device is proprietary, it was designed by Geoworks, a very PC-savvy company that started life producing Macintosh-style interface applications for home computers, including the original Commodore 64 and the IBM PC. Geoworks' original graphical operating system software required far less in the way of computing power than its competitors (such as the early versions of Digital

seems to have taken a pretty good stab at properly merging Research's GEM and Microsoft Windows 1.0 through 3.0), telephony and computing capabilities in a single device that makes the best of both platforms. It is the Nokia 9000i Communicator, a handheld telephone/computer that first became available in 1997. This single device contains most common telephony

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simply plug it into the phone line, insert a "smart card" and begin using the built-in Web browser and email software. The company calls this the "plug 'n' surf" approach to screenphone design. While this style of device may be simple and easy to uselike a telephon~it does not allow the user to easily download and run the many new utilities, games and applications offered on the Internet for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh-based computers. And although it runs the pJava (personal Java) operating system (and should thus be able to use standard Java applets), it is not clear just what percentage of Java applications this device will be able to run when it starts shipping later this year.

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but it did not have the market clout or cash of Microsoft and eventually settled into niche markets. And one such market is in designing software that runs on mobile phones. The point of this little history lesson is that convergence products will probably succeed or fail based on the context

and, of course, Microsoft Windows itself. The Lisa was a critical success, but a commercial failure. And many of the ideas used in its design came from another grand flop, the Xerox Star, but they clearly captivated the imaginations of other hardware designers and ultimately computer users. One measure of the potential suggested by the Nokia 9000i is that every person who sees it seems to have a different idea of how it could be useful to them. Some people would like to have email that they can carry in their pocket, others like the idea of being able to send a fax from anywhere they happen to be. But all of them like the notion that these

functions are provided in a device they are already comfortable with: the mobile phone. So while it is not the ultimate in converged computer and telecommunications technologies, the Nokia 9000i points us in a direction that many will be following. The real question now is who the leaders will be. 0

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and use of the telephone. or years computers and telephones have attempted marriage, but aII too often the result has looked like a uruon of

tion of this partnership. You can actually use the Call Manager software to track incoming

Like the partners in most good marriages, and outgoing calls (the former requires a the PC and the telephone need to be able to Caller ID feature on your phone line), act as quickly hear the ones you really need —as operate independently of one another, yet be a voice mail system and even integrate with opposed to wading through several long more of the sum of their parts when they Microsoft Outlook to retrieve email messages chatty messages before you get to the one work together. using the telephone line. from your bank manager asking you to call This appears to have been the design phiWhen you dial into the Call Manager before 3 p.m, if you want your loan losophy behind the new Microsoft MP-900 from an ordinary phone (simply by calling approved.

convenience. Things are fine for the first little while as users merrily dial calls from their

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other line," while the phone claims "you be used in the same way you would use an incoming call displayed on the screen as over a phone line. only want me to get to the phone jack so you ordinary cordless phone. To that end, it ful- soon as the phone starts to ring. When you Overall, the MP-900 is a good first can send faxes and connect to the Interne."

fills the criteria of being able to operate inde-

are working to tight deadlines, it is helpful to

And all too scen the computer and the tele- pendently in the maniage of PC and comput- be able to discriminate between calls that phone stop talking to one another. But it doesn't have to be this way. Most

er. You do not have to be anywhere near your PC to use the MP-900, although you will

attempts to marry computers and PCs have experience greater benefit by doing so, failed in the past because they consider ways The same is true of the desktop PC por-

you really must answer and those that can wait until after you have met your deadline. I also apprc iated being able to work

bly be needed before,you can declare this through my voice mail messages in the order couple hitched for life.Q

a sono ersa Sy Ceof Wheelwright ll too often, integration of the telephone and the computer is represented as something that happens merely when telephony functions are added to a desktop computer or computing functions are built into a phone. More recently, of course, it has been represented as a melding

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attempt by Microsoft to marry the PC and the telephone. I am not convinced yet, however, that this marriage will last. A lot of counseling and further nurturing will proba-

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Windows NT operating system (the latest version of which has been dubbed Windows 2000). It comes bundled with Alti6en's Altiware software, which claims to be compliant with both the TAPI and MAPI program interface standards, so third-party software can be used to customize your phone system. And that customization is over and above the basic applications that come with the ditionally phone switches, voice mail and Phone Server can grow with a business with- system. Sayson includes PBX, automated computer networks are separatesystems attendant, automatic call distribution, voice that out a lot of additional investment. have to be connected by communications If you need more ports in the future, messaging, email server, networking, links and are expensive and hard to adminis- Sayson says you simply add another intranet/Internet "mixed media messaging,"

ter. Sayson also suggests that such systems Quantum board. Since the Quantum board is and TAPI 2,x service provider tools for interare difficult, if not impossible, to upgrade as both the switch and the voice interface, the a business grows and do not i n tegrate automated attendant (e.g., "Press 1 for sales, smoothly with the computer network. 2 for service" and so on) and voice mail feaAs you would expect, Sayson sells a sys- tures automatically grow with them. tem that claims to offer a solution to these And unlike some other PBX/voice mail

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where the Internet, fax, data or telephony modules are not visible. CP uses a familiar

According to the company, by June 1998, answering rnachine model to make it easier Communicate! Pro was the top-seffing retail telephony system in North America. A large

and quicker to use, but unlike any answering machine or phone I' ve ever seen, this one is

rate technology strategies. The ability offered by integrating phone operations on measure of the product's success is that it has to combine telephone and computer systems his or her PC. buried a great deal oi functional power under offers many potential time and money sav- The goal o f Mis s issauga-based 01 a deceptively simple and intuitive user intering improvements, including voice and fax Communique Lab Inc., when founded in face, employing an on-screen image of a feamessaging, caH tracking, and faxwn- 1992, was to make integrated communica- ture-packed telephone set to guide the user's deinand. These features are widely requested tions easy and accessible for ordinary com- activities. for call centm handling retail sales, busi- puter users. The first version of 01's integratCommunicate! Pro requires a Windows ness-to-business communications, and ser- ed communications software, Communicate, PC with a compatible voice/speakerphone vice/help desks. was launched in September 1996. The com- modem (either external or internal), with the

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The basic appeal of CP is its integration of features, which may be enough for many

CP'svirtual phone set allows you to log incoming and outgoing faxes and calls, and easily re-send communications from the log

In many cases, making customized selec- email and the Interne, I simply haven't had tions involves moving beyond the telephone occasion to use any of my old datacomm graphic to a requester window, but in most cases navigation is limited to one or two lev-

packages. As for the image editor, it would be

tions are accomplished by simple clicking or

have a need for that. Going to the next level of CP functionality involves l to set up and operate

useful for modifying bitmapped faxes and individuals or very small businesses to use book Sending faxes and emails (including els of requester windows, and most selec- scanned pages of text — but again, I rarely

for all contact management, faxing and messaging needs. There's a built-in contact manager utility, with user-definable phone books, sorting, querying and searching functions. It's less full featured and powerful than

voice mails) over the Internet and sending

pager messages are all well supported. dragging and dropping. Still, a careful readBroadcast messaging uses a relatively simple point and click method to attach multiple

ing of the manual will probably be required for the first few attempts.

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voice menus, and Internet email and a con-

recipients to an item (fax, email or voice) to Two slightly odd feature sets in this pro- nection to your Web browser of choice (CP Symantec Act!, for example, but it is simpler, be sent, and then puts in a queue and tries to gram are a data communications module has a couple of locations within the program more compact and may well be all many send it. and an image editor. Since the advent of that allow you to launch Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator). There's also an Internet Phone option, to allow users to make long-distance phone calls over the Internet, which we did not test. Altogether, installation of CP took about 20 minutes, and learning how to use its basic functions required a c o uple o f h o urs.

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both programs that Communicate! Pro is a better-integrated, more compact and more economical solution, especially if bringing telephone functions onto your PC is the u ser's main g oa L H a ving s ai d t h a t , Communicate! Pro doesn't match either Act! or WinFax Pro in terms of contact management or faxing features.

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OS, applications and data Once you have fixed your BIOS problems, or hopefully discovered that you have no BIOS problems, you need to look at the operating systems, software programs and data stored on your computer. A great site for checking the compliance of various software packages is at EDS's Web site http: //www.vendor2000.corn. This free site lists products by vendor so if you know who makes your software or operating system you can start here. can handle the leap year. Using the DATE Checking your applications and their command in DOS set the date to 2000, 02, data for Y2K problems is no easy task. There 29. If you are able to set this date then your are dozens of products on the market that computer will report the correct date and claim to do everything from compiling Just as critical are the spreadsheets and time to the operating system and various inventories to fixing the BIOS and date-relatdatabasesthat reside on the computers. If applications that may require it from then ed problems in spreadsheets and databases. I you do your own accounting,budgeting, on. But you should consider replacing this have reviewed about 10 of these products for sales or keep any records on your computers computer as soon as it is financially feasible my client. However, that review would take there is a chance these files may not function for you, or your company. up several more pages. After my lengthy properly, or be lost, when the new millenniIf these manual tests fail, all is not lost. search for a product that would help my um starts. But there are a lot of things you You may be able to get a BIOS upgrade from client deal with its Y2K survey, Check 2000 can do now to prevent this from happen- your computer manufacturer. Check its Web from Gr e enwich Me a n Tim e -UTA ing — and some of them are free, site. Or you can try off-the-shelf products like (http: //www.gmt-2000.corn) proved to be the Check 2000 or Norton 2000. They both offer best all-round product with Norton 2000,

BIOS check First, you should check the BIOS of all your

DOS prompt, CA, type DATE then type in a year 2000 date like 2000, 01, 15. If you have Windows 95 or 98, restart your computer in DOS mode. You can set the date within Windows but it is better to try this test at a true DOS prompt. Once you have set the new date, turn off your computer and restart it. If the new date is still there you will have to set the new century date only once in the year 2000. But you must also check that the BIOS

Most of the other vendors sent me evaluation copies of their products and left it at that. One of the hardest things to deal with' . when reviewing products are client's questions about the companies that make the products you are recommending. What kind of company are they? What level of support can we expect? How willing are they to work with customers to solve problems? Will they blame our technical difficulties on other vendors' products? When I' ve never worked with a company or its products before I ask myself these questions and others. My reputation rides on my successful analysis of a problem and likewise the success of my recommended solution. .

Treating V2K as a pro)ect Once you have used aproduct like Check 2000 to survey your PCs, you will have detailed reports and, hopefully, recommendations on what to do. If your Y2K effort is a large one you will need a plan. I suggest that any firm with more than

automatic BIOS fixes and you have nothing from Symantec, finishing a very close sec- three computers consider making its Y2K investigation a project, especially if it relies to lose by trying their solutions. Both ret l ond.

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for under $100. Software Testing Laboratory (NSTL) offers a However, while I have reviewed both free tool called YMARK2000. Industry and products, I have had no reason or chance to computer professionals around the world use test their BIOS fixes. Luckily the computers I it to certify the compliance of computer have tested for my clients already have Y2Khardware. Toshiba, ASUSTek, DELL and compliant BIOS chips. Your decision must be Packard Bell NEC are a few of the companies based on the level of risk to your business that have had their products certified by the represented by the failure of this computer NSTL. Youcan get a copy of YMARK2000 at to function properly in the year 2000. http: //www.neil.corn/html/netl~2k.html. It is also possible to get a BIOS chip There are other tools that perform the upgrade from a company like Unicore, which same BIOS tests. Symantec offers a free ver- offers MR. BIOS chip upgrades. MR. BIOS, as sion of its BIOS Test and Fix from Norton of revision 3.42, is supposedly YZK compli2000. I recommend YMARK2000 because of ant, but I have had no exposure to Unicore's its wide support and use in the industry, plus products so I can't recommend them. But NSTL isn't trying to sell you other services or you can get more details on the company's products. Web site at http: //www.unicore.corn.

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ers: its hardware, operating systems, software conduct business. Most of the Y2K Web sites offer their own layer, user data and the data exchange capabilities," notes Karl Feilder, chief executive of Greenwich Mean Time. Check 2000 comes in a client/server and PC version so is suitable for standalone and networked PCs. According to Trevor Nadeau, GMT-UTA's national manager for Canada, Check 2000's biggest selling point is its ability to determine Y2K compliance on all five levels of the problem. "Most products check the BIOS,

interpretation of the basic project' principles. One of the best Y2K plans I have found is from the Global Millennium Foundation

(http: //www.globalmf.org) Web site. I have para-

phrased the steps in this plan here: 1. Inventory: The inventory should be high level and focus on identifying items that are crucial to business survival. 2. Create plan: Using the inventory, determine which elements are the most critihave a database of compliant and non-comcal, which need to be replaced, which pliant software but don't consider user data need to be fixed, and which need further or the data exchange level." investigation. Regardless of strategy One of the things that impressed me choice, everything needs to be tested. more than the Check 2000 product itself was I am wary of any third-party software There are many companies offering add- Nadeau's willingness to help me during my 3. A'rrange resources: Funding and/or staffing need to be'arranged or approved. fixes for the BIOS. Not that they don't work, on cards that reportedly fix BIOS-related Y2K technical analysis of his products. He providIf existing staff do not have sufficient I' ve just never tested them and it's another problems; Unicore, Micro Firmware and ed me with a technical support contact, expertise, outside resources will have to MICRO2000 to name a few. However, I have other technical contacts that reviewed Check thing that can go wrong. be contracted. - For more information on this subject had no chance to review these products and 2000 and all the documentation I could han4. Execute and test: Focus on small work read the FAQ provided by the NSTL at since they only deal with the BIOS level of dle. units. These are easier to track and overhitp J/www.nstl.corn/himl/ymark2000 faq.html. the Y2K problem you may still need other Sadlythough, Nadeau was the only comall progress is maximized. If multiple If your BIOS isn't Y2K ready NFK sug- solutions to make your computers Y2K company representative who went to t h ese lengths to prove the viability of his product. Continued onpage 4$ gests you try a manual date setting. From the pliant.

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T ECH EN T E R P R I S E

ow secure is our networ ? Sy Ross RlacDonald

companies are creating dedicated informa- devastating impacts if stolen," Soper says. tion technology (IT) security positions

ecurity is a number one issue for employing experts specifically to evaluate anyone wanting to do e-businesselectronic commerce," says Phil

the risks involved, review and/or create security policy and to implement that policy for Soper, the general manager of systemsman- protecting the company's information assets. agement and networking services for IBM A recent Pricewaterhouse-Cooper study Global Services. Soper's group comprises of U.S. companies doing US$1 million to management consultants, technical archi- US$50 million worth of business annually tects and information technology (IT) spe- reveals that the fastest growing of those studcialists who collectively give sage advice on ied are those employing IT the most. Further, IT infrastructures and network security. when the chief executive officers of all surAs the Web gains importance as a vehicle veyed companies were asked what they saw for commerce, network security becomes a as the biggest barrier to increased adoption central concern. of IT, 84 percent cited security as the top con"It's something that has to be addressed if cern whereas a similar survey performed two we' re to take advantage of the explosive years earlier showed 77 percent of the chief growth of Internet-based business," says executives citing security concerns. Soper. "With all the new connec-

tivity between partners, suppliers and customers, there is increased exposure to risk because there' s potential exposure to breaches in security with every connection," according to Soper. The actual value of what is at

risk is hard to quantify because

"It's quite easy to see where money can be lost when trading information is acquired from a stock brokerage, for example, but how can you fi gure out a value when somebody' s personal medical information is exposed? "The economic valuemay be very low," he continues, "but the emotional value or legal value of such information is very high. And the organization that let that information be acquired can suffer extremely from the loss of public confidence. Governments in particular can't afford to have private citizens' data exposed, This is something we all hold very close to our hearts and we trust the governm ent to look after that kind of information." B.C. residents might find the latter a particularly salient point as they saw much news in the latter part of 1998 about the failure of a shredding sub-contractor to adequately secure and destroy sensitive governm ent p a perwork. O f

It's quite easy to see where money can be lost when trading information is acquired from a stock brokerage, for example, but how can you figure out a value when somebody's personal medical information is exposed?

greater concern, however,

native numbers using the same numbering scheme and try them all out with a war dialer. A good percentage of the resulting combinations actually worked and, through a flaw in the bank's security process, the thieves were able to extort funds. The thieves were based in Asia and the bank was in the U.S. and the money just flowed!"

Putting up a fence Business network policy tips from Soper include dividing a business into zones of security control — trusted, untrusted and semi-trusted — to which different levels of security apply. Trusted and semi-trusted zones would incorporate different passwords and access codes to individuals within the company whereas the untrusted zone addresses things like a company's intranet and remote dialing access, which require more stringent security like firewalls and data encryption. Another basic tip is to make sure any business partners with network access have the same type of defences in place. In terms of the costs involved, a simple rule is to determine whether the expenses related to security are greater than the value of what you' re trying to protect. There are security technologies available suited to even the smallest businesses that don't require a large capital outlay: "As long as these technologies are installed and implemented according to the manufacturer's dictates, they will provide the value. But all companies should treat network security not as a problem you react to.but as something preventative like any other kind of business

is that news of most netbreaches in network security do work security breaches not always directly involve never reaches the public. money. What many businesses "Organizations a nd have to consider right from the the people involved tend start is not the potential loss of corporate monies, but instead —Phil Soper,IBM Global Services to be very mum about security exposures for very the possible value of business understandable reasons," lost. "An important thing to realize is that says Soper. Financial data is one important category The solution to this growing problem lies of information, but other types of files can be security is a business issue, not a technology issue," says Soper."'Technology heightens in addressing the efficiency of a company's of equal concern. "Security risks come in a number of dif- the potential for exposure to risk but the vast security policy as well as the level of enforce- insurance," Soper warns. ferent forms," saysSoper. "Some of them are majority of security exposures come from ment. Often, for example, someone might Continued oa page$0 as simple as loss of reputation or a negative places that have been risks for some time. A simply call a technical support line saying reputation resulting from network security security policy shouldn't be looked at as a they' ve lost their password and quite readily breaches." negative thing. Rather, it is an enabler for get the information necessary to hack into Several examples of reputation loss have business in an increasingly connective com- the system despite a company policy in place against giving that type of "help." Another occurred in the United States, where compa- mercial community."

type of flawed policy occurswhen a compa-

ny Web pages have been hacked and links added that lead to "undesirable" places.

ornog raphy

These include gaming sites, p

sites and sites promoting racism. The resulting "loss of reputation" can lead directly to the loss of customers or even official complaints from more sensitive members of the public. Even more acute is the potential damage that can be incurred by large companies that retail exclusively online — Amazon.corn

Security is a business issue, not a technology issue — Phil Soper, IBM Global Services

(books), or Egghead (computer equipment), for example — for whom even minor security Inside job problems can lead to untold losses. Such com- It turns out that the largest area of risk is panies are vulnerable even to rumors or per- rooted in a firm's own employees. In the ceptions of smmity problems, because they same PricewaterhouseCooper study cited can be just as damaging to the public trust as above, it was shown that the largest group of security exposures originated with employany genuine compromise of the system. A recent study by the Computer Security ees authorized to access sensitive informaInstitute showed an increase in network tion. The second largest group involved security breaches despite increasingly sophis- unauthorized employees, while former ticated prevention technology. Soper esti- employees comprised the third largest group. mates that approximately 64 percent of peo- Collectively, these three groups accounted ple directly involved in network security for 75 percent of all network security breachreported at least one breach of their system es. Only the remaining 25 percent could be in 1997 — a significant increase over 1996 attributed to hackers. "If you look at many of the companies for numbers, and with a greater monetary lossas whom security is very important — things like welL telecommunications companies, health organizations, government agendes, financial New career track

ny issues network authorization codes. with so many characters or in such volume that employees write them on a sticky-note and paste them to their monitors. Soper has a litany of these types of security risks even where solid security policies are already in place: "IT departments have been known to turn off virus scanners or suggest that users do so during peak periods because of the resulting increase in system performance. That's a very short sighted and dangerous thing to do. "Elsewhere, I recall a company that had one of the best network security policies I'd ever seen„" he says. "But it wasn't ever audit-

comm ercially

Network security - check list

Informatforr assetprotIler An inventory of a company's critical information assets

and summary of security requirements. Security health check:.A review thatidentifies strengths and weaknesses in an organization's IT security controls. Security process ussesmrent: Identifies strengths and weaknesses in an organization's IT security processes.' Application. security assessment: The evaluation of'security functions in applications newly introduced to the network, and identification of any modifications

required to comply. with security policy. assessraent:Evaluating

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Network

brought his own modem to work and hooked it up to the Internet at his desk. The IT department didn't know about this

internalnetwoiks. System secrrriry assessment: Identifies

because the employee simply neglected to tell anyone and a hacker was able to access the system through that modem by a ran-

dom hit from a war dialer [automatic dialers that systematically dial every possiblecombination of phone number digits]. "Another interesting case involved a flnancial institution in the U.S. that had an

image of one of their credit cards on their Web site, It was an actual credit card but cre-

the types of information ated as an inactive dummy. What these One notable manifestation of the rise in con- institutions etc.— cems about network security is that many being protected vary widely but can have thieves did was create a whole bunch of alter-

the security:,controls implemented for -

the vulnerabilities that might exist on key, internal operating system platforms. Site security assessment: An in-depth review of the site security controls and

processes within an organization. Intnaet. secunty' rrssessmerrt,A comp're'hensive review of the overall network ,:design to determine how effectively it iso-

lates.: untrusted, outside. networks fmm gaining acceN to internal trusted net.works and systems. -Source:IBM "

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use note oo can cure stic ers oc Iy Ceof Wheelwright ew is not always better. While that sentiment may be treasured by collectors and students of antiquity, it has rarely been popular in the digital world, where last year's technology is always seen as being inferior to what you can buy this

year, In my continuing seaKh for the perfect mobile work tools, however, I recently discovered that sometimes an older computer could offer a better solution than a new one. The p facing me was simple. After a lot of travel with all kinds of brand-new, fully loaded $10,000 notebook computers — and a variety of different handheld systems and portable phones — I' ve conduded that I really do need to take some form of notebook computer with me when I travel. I have tried travelling without a notebook computer and relying instead on the

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tion would run somewhere around $2,000. While I was going through this process, I happened to stop in at a local used comput-

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top system. But, in the end, it was only a partial solution because it did not support trans- priced from around $500, fer of files or allow me to cut and paste anyI initially dismissed the idea'of a used thing other than simple text. It was also notebcek computer. Knowing how hard I

cations that I typicafly nm and realized that the Syquest Sparq drive I use on my desktop computer for backing up files could easily be attached to any notebook computer with a parallel port. I came up with the idea of copying the data from my application CDs onto the 1 MB Sparq drive so I could install them on a notebook that didn't have a CDROM drive. With that research done, I went ahead

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So I reached the conclusion that I do when I have traveled with them, I imhgine need a machine that I can take on the road that all "pre-owned" systems must have sufthat is capable of running my own basic fered the same fate. But curiosity (and a suite of applications (this includes Windows quickglance at my bank balance) convinced 98, Microsoft Office 97, pcAnywhere 8.0 and me that I owed it to myself to look harder at Internet Explorer along with data transfer this option. I went back to the used computer shop software for my handheld computer and my digital camera). And that means having and asked the salesperson to let me look at some form of traditional notebook comput- an NEC Versa 4050C that was on sale for er. $580. I switched it on, looked it over and Then came the problem of how topayfor began to think this machine might just do it. Most of the notebooks I' ve tested over the the trick It came with 16 MB of RAM, a 10.1past year were in the $5,000 to $10,000 inch color, TIT active-matrix display, two PC range. After some careful reflection, I deter- Card slots and an 850 MB hard disk. And mined that all I really needed was a Pentium- that was about it — no user manual, no box, based system, along with a fast modem, I no carrying case and, most importantly, no concluded that anything else could be done warranty. I also noticed the tiny LCD status remotely via a pcAnywhere connection to panel above the keyboard didn't work and my desktop PC. that it only came with a 3.5-inch floppy I scouted throughThe Computer Paper and drive and no CD-ROM drive.

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n the January issue ofTCP, I described an inexpensive method (using Winoate proxy server software) of providing Internet services to an entire office with a single account an d c o nnection. The approach used was independent of the means of connecting to th e I nternet, Everything is faster and more expensive when you' re sharing a Tl line as opposed to a 28.8Kbps modem, but otherwise things work in much the same way under boih setups, What kind of performance can you expect from either of these systems? The answer is not precise and depends on the kind of browsing being done. There doesn' t seem to be any overhead associated with the Winaate pr o x y ser v e r sol u t ion (http:ltwwat.wingate.corn), so the performance with one concurrent user should be the same as without WinGate. Make note of what you are doing the next time you browse the Web. You' re not constantly requesting data from the Web. In

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ferring data at any instant. Thus, in a typical browsing scenario, most users will report satisfactory performance. They will be unaware . of the number of other active users. I installed a 64Kbps ISDN connection in an office with 40 users almost two years ago, and they still don't feel the need to upgrade. In another office, with 19 users and a 28,8Kbps modem, users still consider their system adequate after a year of use. In both situations, there are seldom more than two concurrent users, and never more than five (WinGate sees to that). Also, and this is significant, file downloads during business hours are extremely rare. File downloads impose a different kind of fact, you' re reading and thinking more often load than browsing. If a single user initiates a than requesting data from a Web server. Let' s large file download, then for the entire periassume five users are browsing the Web (but od of the transfer, the capacity of the modem not downloading files) through WinGate. is reduced for all other users. A flle download The probabilities of the situation make it is a steady stream of bytes. If you are browsunlikely that more than two or three users ing while a large flle isdownloading, you will will be contending for bandwidth at the be aware of it as page loading becomes very same time. That may happen, but it is much sluggish. With two or three concurrent more likely that only one of the five is trans- downloads, most people will exit their

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computer (typically the Psion Series 5) and a digital camera. The little "road warrior" kit supplies me with the ability to send and receive faxes, email and digital pictures while I am on the move. Pll report back on my future adventures. 0

to Internet: Part II browser and try again later. Although the Web is an important resource, email is the killer Internet application. How does WinGate handle email? If there is no mail server on the LAN (local area network), the mail client goes through Winoate to check for mail on the ISP's (Internet service provider's) server. If you use Microsoft Outlook Express, for example, you must enter the IP address or the name of the Winoate machine in the SMTP and POP3 server fields. Under account name, enter username¹pop3server where pop3server is the name or IP address of your ISP's POP3 Mail Server. The @ symbol is used instead of the more coinmon (a symbol. The configuration of other mail clients like Netscape Mail or Eudora is similar. Once this is accomplished, you can check for mail either manually or automatically. Either way, Winoate handles the connection. In actual use, this is fairly easy and convenient, but installing a mail server on the LAN leads to better results. I' ve used MDaemon, but other fine choices indude; Lotus Domino Mail Server, Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise, SL Mail, and Post. Office. A good mail server like MDaemon

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gle account. This process is entirely legal, and works weII in practice, but is not supported by all ISPs, for obvious reasons. (I will elaborate on this method in my next column.) We haven't discussed security, but fortunately it is fairly easy to use Wincate to secure your LAN from external attack. Security is serious, so count on devoting at least an hour or two to the study of alternative methods. Initially, you could simply bind all Winoate services to particular inter-

faces (Ethernet cards) by IP address. Since you will probably use IP addresses for your Ethernet cards like 192.168.0.1, which can' t exist on the Internet, this will limit access to WinGate services to your LAN users, and effectively keep intruders out. MidPoint Gateway 3.1, WinProxy, and more expensive products from Microsoft, Novell and Netscape are alternatives to W inGate. At C o mdex Fall 1 9 9 8 i n November, I was given a demonstration of the aVirt Gateway Suite, an integrated einail, proxy, and firewall solution, from aVirt, a

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others. Okidata also offers a five-year warranty on the printheads. The Okipage Sc series printers offer true usinesses are just discovering the bene-

fits of color printing according to Okidata's Lon Campbell, who was in

expanded to a maximum of 80 MB RAM, and a 600-sheet letter/legal paper capacity. In its campaign to win over business customers, 600x600 dpi (dots per inch) resolution. They Okidata offers toll-free customer support 24 come with 32 M B Ram, which can be hours a day, seven days a week. And, accord-

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By Creeme Bennett

Apple unveils funky new G3s,

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early January, Apple's "iCEO" (interim hief executive officer) Steve Jobs pleased Apple fans and industry observers

and fruit flavored iMacs

with the news that the iMac has not only been the bestselling PC in United States during the last few months, but Apple is set to announce its fifth consecutive profitable quarter. Jobs also made some new product announcements to the packed house at Moscone Center.

Rage 128 graphics chip, 16 MB of graphics memory, up to 100 GB of internal hard disk storage (!) and stylish, but to our eyes slightly garish, plas-

Jobs demonstrated the 400 MHz 63's speed by comparing it to the fastest 450 MHz Pentium 11 PC from Compaq. The Mac was well over twice as fast in a number of benchrnarks and real-world tests. Jobs also delighted the crowd with a v i deo spoofing HAL9000 from the movie 2001p A Space Odyssey, in which HAL is so jealous of the superior speed of the 63, he self destructs. The new G3s, according to Jobs, are also the most expandable «omputers Apple has ever released, despite the fact that they lack ser-

ial ports and a floppy drive. Even SCSI is gone from the motherboard, 'and is available only as a

US$49 aden PCI card. The key t o th e e xpandability i s t h e USB (universal serial bus), similar to that found on the iMac„plus a pair of connectors you might not have seen before: FireWire. A high-speed FireWire port, or IEEE 1394, as it is known in techie circles, allows up to 63 devices to be cormected at the blazing speed of 400 Mbit/sec. (UltraWide SCSI 2 yields a

maximum of 80 Mbits/sec throughput). Combined with a pair of onboard USB ports (which, with expansion hubs, can accommo-

date up to 127 USBdevices), the new 63s are indeed highly expandable, and easier than ever to configure, thanks to the dynamic device driver configuration and plug-andplay installation o f U SB and F ireWire devices. The new 63s are easier to upgrade, too,

Store's 10 million hits per day), and a version of WebObjectsactive server technology, which was acquired when Apple bought NeXT back in 1996. Full implementations of BSD 4,4 Unix and Java round out Mac OS X Server, which Jobs said will be priced at US$995.

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number of examples of why this was Studio Displays three internal hard drives anu sockets for up

Along with the new 6 3s, Jobs introduced a trio of Apple monitors, including a 17-inch DiamondTron model priced at US$499, a 21-inch Trinitron model priced at US$1,499, and a "reskinned" 15inch Apple Studio Display active-matrix flatpanel display at a ne w l ower price of US$1,099. The CRT models featured iMaclike blue-and-white plastics, with a unusual tripod base. Jobs said the 21-inch inch model featured "magic circuitry" that continually compensates for changes in the display,

to 1 GB of RAM. Also standard, is 100 Mbit Ethernet. Although Jobs didn't mention it, the new desktops include the Apple Desktop Bus port found on current models, which should help solve some of the problems iMac users have found running certain dongleprotected programs. Standard Apple mice and keyboards, of course, can also be connected via ADB. Apple says there will keeping colors properly calibrated. be four standard models Mac OS jfServer of the new G3, plus a number of built-to- Jobs stunned the crowd when he brought out order options, includ- a rack of 49 iMacs and displayed different ing DVD-RAM drives, gigabit E t hernet, and up to three 36 GB IBM drives.

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western r egional m a nager K e n Fordham, the new G3s will range in price from the "mid$2,000s to about $5,000." Check the A p p l e S t o r e on l i n e at

httpJ/www.store. apple.corn for more details on the new G3 desktop models. Fire Wired FlreWire, as Jobs noted, is ideally suited for digital

video and high-capacity storage. In f act, Appl

e showed digital cameras from Canon, Nikon and Sony with built-in FireWire ports and demonstrated a real-time digital video stream on the screen of a

via a dever (and lockable) door on the side of 63 PowerMac direct from the Sony the case that drops the entire motherboard

Server. Mac OS X Server, says Apple, is ln beta now and will ship in February. The platform is based not on Mac OS underpinnings, but on Mach. According to Apple, Mac OS X Server allows Macintosh clients to "Netboot" — starting up and accessing applications from a server, even if the client computers don't have their own internal hard drives. The product also includes Apache Web server (which

tics, with "63" emblazoned across the side in huge letters, protruding handles on all four comers, and the same sort of translucent blue and white polycarbonate

plastics that made the iMac an eyewatcher.

video served from — surprise —a Mac OS X

Apple says it uses to handle the Apple

New 63 Power Mec deslrtop models Previously code-named Yosemite, the new G3 models feature G3 processors from Motorola and IBM (not Intel, as Jobs stated) with speeds up to 400 MHz, a 100 MHz bus, ATI's hot new

digital videos running — seemingly flawlessly — on all of them at the same time, with the

camera. Better still, by connecting a second

out into the open, revealing 3 PCI slots, one FireWire-equipped Mac, the video appears on oddball 66 MHz PCI slot, space for up to its monitor, too.

good news. OpenGL is an industry standard 3D API now used by nearly aII mainstream operating

systems (including Windows 95, 98 and Nf, BeOS, a number of Unix-based workstations

and, ln a future incarnation, the Mac OS) to provide the underpinnings'that allow real-

time shaded displays of 3D graphics such as those used in highwnd 3D engineering and design applications. But 3D graphics are increasingly important to c onsumers, too. Why? Games. Indeed, Jobs and Apple product marketing vice-president Phil Schiller demonstrated the 63's graphics performance the way most of us do: with a game. Playing Dark Vengeance, the 400 MHz 63 displayed frame rates that were about 20 percent faster than those of the fastest 450 MHz Pentium 11 PC with a $200 add-on Voodoo2 card. Jobs said Apple is committed to games ina big way, and he brought

John Carmack, co-founder of id software, onstage to demonstrate the prowess of the new G3 systems' ATI Rage 128 graphics chip at handling the demands of id's next-generation game graphics. Carmack said he was onstage because Apple had "finally gotten its act together" and d e m onstrated, apparently for the first t ime i n p u b lic, i d 's p

forthcoming g a m e, Quake Arena, and said developers licensing id's

s oftware e n gin e wi l l essentially ttet a Mae port for free, noting that only about 15KB of code in the product i s Ma c -specific. Quake Arena, says Carmack, is due for public beta some time in March.

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drop in price, although Apple Canada didn' t have speciflcs.) Apple said the new iMacs, like the monitors and new G3s, are shipping

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available on the Mac first, and the Mac only. Microsoft also updated Outlook Express for Mac and announced MacTopia,a new Macspecific section on Microsoft's Web site at that can print any Web page properly. The http: //www.microsoft,corn/mac. As Henry Norr notes in his report on new release also has full integration with the

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from Microsoft, most notably an impressive new version of Internet Explorer for Mac. Dubbed IE4.5, the new release launches

thumbnail images to images from Web pages none is likely to affect more Mac users than the release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer as they are dragged to the desktop. 4.5 and Outlook Express 4.5. 0 All t hese features, Microsoft's Ben

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SerloIIs display anomalies On the downside, the All-in-Wonder -.like ATI's other cards based on the Rage Pro chipset — is not a good choice for 3D gaming. As our image quality tests reveal, there are clearly visible texture-map artifacts and MIPmap anomalies, Also, garnes show grainy images due to lack of trilinear filtering and full-scene antialiasing. Thus, most games have image quality problems and suffer poor performance with the Rage Pro, The company's relatively poor OpenGL driver is also a liability for garners and 3D buffs. Benchmark scores for this card were the lowest of all cards tested here: the PCI version rated 246; the AGP version scored 536 in 3DMark99 tests, A so-called "Turbo" driver released in mid-1998 improved performance on some tests, particularly the not-highly regarded Winbench98. Even with this driver, the Rage Pro is considerably slower than the TNT in most benchmarks, rating a 317 in our BAPCo test. AVI and MPEG-1 playback perforinance, however, is excellent. Two-dimensional graphics performance in desktop publishing applications was also above average. (See the AOpen review below for more details.) To its credit, extensive color correction and desktop configuration features are included, A Inenu-tray icon and Display Properties tabs provide access to various features. And, despite the fact that the beta OpenGL driver exhibited some problems, it improved performance significantly in applications using that API. We tested the lonsdale b37x beta version of an Open GL installable dient driver for ATI Rage Pro with mixed results. The driver increased frame rates by 50 percent over Microsoft's non-accelerated software driver, but we experienced a significant number o' f crashes in Windows 98's iexplore.exe that vanished after removing the update. A newer driver (dated Dec. 8, 1998) is now available at httpi/www.atitech,corn/betadN/index.htmk The All-in-Wonder Pro includes TV and S-video out, Dolby Digital out (optional), video capture, closed caption keyword search/capture, TV Magazine mode (captures closed caption text and periodic images, and formats them as RTF documents), audio pass-through, and comes bundled with a decent software s election, i n c l uding Macromedia Director 5.0, MGI VideoWave 1.5, and the racing game Formula 1. The All-in-Wonder Pro is a good 2D card, a versatile multimedia solution, but a poor 3D card.

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Based on the Riva TNT chip, Diamond's card was the speedchamp in our tests. However, leading-edge performance comes with some bleeding-edge caveats. We experienced compatibility problems on two of three systems tested, and we were completely unsuccessful in getting any TNT card to work properly under NT 5.0 on our AX59Pro (Socket 7) test system,although others report that the NT

4.0 driver can be used. On some of the systems we used to test the Viper 550, a problem occurred when running a program that utilizes Direct3D. or OpenGL, such as a 3D game. The program froze after a few seconds and remained frozen for about 10 seconds, after which it would briefly unlock for a split second. It then repeated this pattern, forcing a reset. In other words, no matter what Direct3D garne or OpenGL game was accessed, it would always freeze after a few seconds. In what is apparently a separate problem, the high heat levels generated by the TNT chip can cause problems on some TNT-based cards that are not fan or heat-sink cooled, such as the Viper 550. The Canopus Spectra 2500 provides an onboard, self-powered fan, while the Graphics Blaster TNT includes a heat sink, We noticed a few other problems, too. There was noticeable image distortion (jittery edges on images) when video output was routed through a Creative Labs Encore DVD decoder card and a Voodoo2 add-on accelerator card. (No visible distortion was noted when these cards were not present.) - The card does not work properly unless an IRQ 'is allocated for VGA in the PC's BIOS — an issue the manual neglects to mention. Although th e d r ivers are easily installed, system lockups occurred periodically o n t w o o f o u r te s t p l a tforms (SuperMicro Pentium II and AOpen Super 7 motherboards) when 3D f eatures were accessed using August '98 or October '98 drivers.Many other users have reported similar problems on Usenet. (There was no information on t his problem at the NVidia or Diamond Web sites, however a troubleshooting article at http: //www.cetinc.corn/hardware/arti-

cles/graphics/video trouble. html provides useful tips.) The original August '98 driver did not work with AMD K6-2 or Socket 7 boards based on the ALi chipset (and removing the driver apparently trashed the registry on one of our test systems!), however both are addressed by the October '98 update from

http: //www.diam ondmm.corn. Meanwhile, as noted in a review on

http: //anandtech.corn, VIA recently released version 2.9 of its AGP GART drivers, which addresses most of the comp atibility issues with that chipset. These drivers can be found at http: //www.via.corn.tw. However, despite the fact that the card worked correctly on all BX motherboards we tested it with, it has widely documented problems with many Super 7 boards and some LX boards,and we encountered a bug when uninstalling it. The August '98 Diamond driver disabled our Windows 98 Display Properties dialogue after uninstaliing the driver. Re-instafling Windows didn't fix this problem, nor did running the System File Checker. The Diamond driver'is, by default, configured to pop up when the right mouse button is dicked on the desktop, which has the potential to confuse those who access the standard Windows 95, 98 or NT Display Properties in this fashion. Minor texture-map and alpha-channel anomalies (textures flashing about over the rendered visuals) were noted with the packaged drivers, which also produced slightly incorrect MIP-mapping. However, these issues are addressed by updated drivers that can be downloaded. Anisotropic filtering, provided by the TNT hardware, is turned off by default in the Diamond driver software, although it can be tumed on

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Matrox's PowerDesk software is provided for desktop display and color management. Additional software is provided for video capture, editing and output tasks. Some tasks, such as changing refresh rates, are cumbersome, however. The supplied video capture software supports standard video for The most egregious display error occurred Windows applications (induding Premiere, during the section of the 3DMark99 demo in and Media Studio Pro), performs an array of which a series of concentric squares pulsate tests, and makes suggestions to help you and twirl on screen. The PA70 displayed a properly configure your monitor, TV, hard horrible mess completely unlike the image drive, etc. that was supposed to be there. Even the Rage Pro, which also showed severe display anomalies during this test, was mostly correct. The second problem, as shown in our image quality tests, was a lack of proper transparency in the Game ¹I t est. Other transparency values looked correct though, and MIP-mapping and subpixel accuracy was superior to all other cards tested. Interestingly, our tests of desktop publishing a nd gra p h ic s ap p l i cations (PageMaker, CorelDraw) and desktop presentation applications (Lotus FreeLance) showed that the Rage Pro, which the Savage3D trounced in 3D tests, slightly outperformed the card here. With a 3DMark99 score of 975 (on the 150 MHz Pentium), the Savage3D was just behind the TNT cards, scoring just 2.5 percent lower than the Creative Labs Graphics Riva TNT. Sale Price Composite and TV output are provided, Simultaneous output to CRT and TV is possible.Like the Rage 128, the S3 Savage 3D features superior DVD playback capabilities by -Intel Celeron-300A Mhz CPU providing motion compensation and hard-440LX ATX Motherboard/AGP ware sub-picture blending. -32MB 16$pin SDRAIN

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end (350 MHz Pentium II) 3DMark99 tests. For comparison, on the low-end 150 MHz Pentium-based system we also ran our tests on, this card rated an even 1000. Like other TNT-based cards, it requires an IRQ and comes with good OpenGL ICD drivers.

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ence drivers). No color correction features are provided in the reference driver; however, an Oct. 5, '98 update on the Creative Labs site adds Colorific support for the Exxtreme. The 2D performance of the Permedia 2 is good, although AVI and MPEG playback is only fair. Although all of these cards score Ulead's Web site at http: //www.ulead.corn). low in 3DMark99 tests (the Darius LE scored Although the VE version lacks the Character 603), the Permedia 2 fared exceptionally Generator and a few other features found in well in OpenGL and ViewPerf CDRS-03 tests, the full version, it is both faster and in many where it outperformed the TNT in many ways more capable than Adobe Premiere. respects. In short, the Permedia 2 is optiP articularly impressive is t h e "Instant mized for OpenGL, not for games. Preview" function — a vast improvement Permedia 2 cards with 4 MB or 8 MB of over Premiere 5.1's sluggish rendering. video memory are among the most inexpenA coupon that comes with the Marvel box sive and cost-effective OpenGL accelerators can be sent in for a copy of Avid Cinema, available. another video-editing package. Any one of the Permedia 2-based cards listed here would make an excellent choice for a Windows NT system (we tested these cards successfully on Windows NT 5.0 too), or for those users who don't plan to play many games. Note, however, that 4 MB cards such as The Graphics Blaster TNT is a fairly bare- the Graphics Blaster Exxtreme Value

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no special features and only a heat sink for cooling. The driver is supplied with anisotropic filtering that is turned off by default, and the 3Deep and Colorific drivers that ship with the company's Banshee product. The Colorific utility provides superior color correction features via a procedure in which you select a series onscreen images to assist the system in building a color calibration profile for your particular monitor. The utility automatically updates the built-in ICC in Windows 98. Meanwhile, the 3Deep driver provides a cutesy interface for tweaking display settings in games, etc. It

value/) offer only 256 colors double-buffered, o r 6 5 ,000 c o l or s s i n gle-buffered a t 1,280x1,024. An 8 MB version (which we' d

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Permedia 2's 3D performance in Open GL

card does not work properly unless an IRQ is applications was very good — the best of all allocated for VGA in the PC's BIOS. The driver supports multi-displays in Window 98.

chipsets tested here. The OpenGL ICD drivers nicely accelerate both full-screen and

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sional lockups). The 3Dfx OpenGL ICD is weak compared to that provided by most of its competitors, It only accelerates a few full-screen games and even then not as quickly as TNT, Savage 3D, Rage 128 or Permedia 2-based cards. The Banshee scored an impressive 1029 in our 3DMark tests on th e 150 MHz Pentium. This PCI card performed comparably with TNT-based competitors in 16-bit graphics mode (the maximum allowed by Other than 3Dfx's lighter than usual (but the Voodoo2 chip) at just over half the price! customizable) gamma defaults, image quality This is especially remarkable, considering the was excellent — better than that of TNT or Banshee we tested was a PCI model, while Savage3D-based cards. Gamma defaults were the TNT cards were AGP-based. Unreal time lighter than usual, with some banding in demo frame rates were just 1 fps (frames per multitextured alpha blends, due to the chip's second) slower than those of the TNT. 16-bit rendering. The 3DMark 99 texture resNo other problems were noted, with the olution test yielded lower than expected exception of the lack of support for 24- and bitmap resolution. In other tests, however, 32-bit 3D rendering — an issue we think is image quality relative to the reference images overrated in general. Indeed, the proprietary was excellent: a little better than the TNT in Glide API used by t h e V oodoo2-based some regards, and a little worse in others. Banshee is arguably the best supported API in In a basic configuration, we noted no the 3D games market at the moment. In problems. However, the card provides no short, it is an excellent choice for garners. support for dual displays if the Banshee is the Like the company's TNT-based product, primary adapter. It is i ncompatible with the Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee is a basic hardware MPEG-2 decoders such as Creative implementation: just a video out. It's worth mentioning the colordisplay Labs Encore DVD, and our tests revealed that its Open GL support is very limited (fulllimitations of the Voodoo or Voodoo2 cards. screen only, e.g., Quake, Quake II, Hexen II). These chips can display a maximum of 16-bit We alsohad some problems on a Socket 7 color during 3D acceleration. (The 3Dfx Web test system getting the card to properly site describes it as "24-bit color dithering to install its Glide (the proprietary API used by native 16-bit RGB, with 16-bit color 'expanthe Voodoo-series cards) drivers. sion' to display near 24-bit quality.") Some of The Banshee's control panel provides a today's texture-intensive games, which pile number of customizable features, induding layer upon layer of transparencies onto the gamma correction, MP-map dithering and a screen, can result in a dithered or banded disnumber of G l ide/OpenGL configuration play that points to the advantages of chips options, plus an option to overciock the card's such as the G200, TNT or, especially, the Rage 3D hardware (which we found caused occa- 128 that can display 24- or 32-bit color. The Continued from page 76 ed. The drivers worked well under Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 and NT 5.0, although graphics fidelity suffered in some games.

Rage 128 is already earning acclaim for its abil- V oodoo2. Yet, for sheer value and unsurpassed ity to handle truexolor displays while main- compatibility with the bulk of today's 3D taining frame rates comparable to t h e g a mes, it's hard to knock the Voodoo Banshee.

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A picture is worth 1,000 pictures Continuedfrom page $0 also do some minor editing of individual images. The Get Photo screen is more trouble than it should be. Selecting the images for an album is just a matter of picking them out of a standard file dialog or snagging them from a TWAIN device, but heaven forbid you should try to f ind a specific image for any reason. While the thumbnails are displayed in alphabetical order, it's hard to search visually, as the slider bar doesn't quite function l ike a standard Windows slider — clicking above or below the slider doesn't nudge it up or down, it causes the slider to jump to your pointer. That makes it all to easy to accidentally lose your place. Once you' ve created your albums and at least picked the image for the montage, you can go to the Build Montage screen, stopping along the way to edit your picture if you' re so inclined. From there, you choose the albums you want to use (up to five of your own albums, plus any of ArcSoft's CD-ROM collections). You can give each collection a priority level from one to three; an album with a level of three indicates PhotoMontage should give the highest preference to pictures from that album. A tip: resize and crop large images beforehand, or PhotoMontage will crop them for you, possibly in ways you don' t like. After choosing your settings (the numb er of m i cro-images, how o f ten t h ey should repeat, captions, etc.) and getting one last chance to pick a treasure or signature image, all you have to do is click Okay and wait. ArcSoft recommends a 486 system with 32 MB of RAM as the minimum to run this p rogram. My system, with a 2 3 3 M H z Pentium CPU and 64 MB of RAM, put a medium-sized image (4,080x3,161 pixels) together from 996 files with limited repetition in about 50 seconds. At first I wasn' t too impressed — the image looked rather coarse. But when I stood back from my monitor, I was stunned at how much of the original image was preserved. Naturally, some of the details were lost, but Rob Silvers probably won't b e m aking any $75,000 paychecks for this sort of thing

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image collection. Being a suspicious sort, I cranked every setting to its absolute minimum, and still got the warning. Then I deselected all of my personal albums, and chose to only use images from the CDROM collection. Despite the CD-ROM having even fewer images than my albums, I got no warning. Out of curiosity, I created the same picture using only ArcSoft's sample collection, and the resulting montage actually did look better. (I also noticed that few of my

albums checked, the maximum number allowed. With a total of 996 images, I figured I had enough for a good-sized picture. However, when I clicked on Okay, I was warned that I "may need more collections

to build a high quality montage." Of course that meant using a commercial

choose more and better images for my

images cover the spectrum of colors and shapes better, allowing PhotoMontage to create more accurate composites. Maybe it was blind luck. Whatever the case, ArcSoft could have been more honest in its warning: users don't need "more collections," they need ArcSoft collections. If I wanted to make a gift out of a mont age — ArcSoft's Web site allows you t o order posters made from the montages you create — I'd be willing to put in the time to

albums. Unfortunately, by capping the number of personal albums allowed in favor of ArcSoft's own image collections, I w as robbed of that choice. I can't say I'm very happy about that, no matter how nifty the software is, 0

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moves into enterprise and school markets). A gigabyte of compressed reference works fits into about 200 MB of hard drive space. The X -Portal user interface is added to t h e Internet Explorer browser screen, in the form of a search window on the left hand side of the browser window. When you type in a search query, the XPortal software makes an educated guess, based on probabilities of word context, and begins to fire the highest quality matches it can find onto the X-Portal window. Initially,

X-Portal consists of a CD-ROM loaded with a range of 22 electronic reference works, and a software utility that works inside a

Web browser (Microsoft's Internet Explorer for Windows version is the first available, to be followed by Netscape Navigator for Windows and Apple Mac versions).

Out of the box is designed to run The basic X-Portal system

from an individual PC user's hard drive (networked versions are feasible, as the product

the responses come from the reference library on the user's hard drive, but X-Portal also goes out onto the Interne, and searches

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hasgone from 44 percent of software in use

in 1995,to 42 pement In 1996, and 39 percent in 1997.

Risen believes some of this decline is due to the educational efforts that the software nobody paid for g still have three copies utility for the Amiga called Pageflipper, which nearly everybody used, and nearly in the original shrinkwrap, Bob — it wasn't industry has engaged in recently. Some of it is also due to enforcement efforts, including

me stealing them!). Bob eventually went

copy typesetting software.

back to his teaching career, afteryears of warnings to software thieves, and occasional developing high quality, popular software civil or criminal prosecution of thieves.

To ensure that I didn't cheat and copy the software to more than one computer, our MS DOSwo m p atible PagePlanner typesetting software needed a hardware device, called a "dongle," to be attached to the user's PC in order to operate. Being active in the

Eisen also admitted that some of the decline may be related to the demise of the floppy disk as the basic medium for software publishing, and its replacement by the CD-ROM. Not everyone has a CD-ROM burne, but almost every PC user has a flop-

that people preferred to steal rather than buy. So I never really bought the idea that software theft is a " v ictimless criine." A series of recent announcements f r o m t he Can a d ian Association Against Software Theft (CAAST) and Microsoft Canada brought the issue of software theft to the forefront of my thoughts„and I felt I g sho u l d write this article to outline th e ' current s i tuation regarding software theft in our country.

e arly desktop publish- g f ing and computer graphics community Jk of the mid-1980s, I knew a lot of starving artists, students and just plain scofflaws who routinely c heated

software publishers by accumulating and using a complete library of unlicensed software. The Amiga computer, in p asticular, seemed to be a hotbed of illegal software copying. I knew a Canadian Amiga software developer named Bob Maludzinski who produced a great animation playback

py drive. In general, corporate software users are much more careful about abiding by software copyright rules, out of fear of legal hazards of software theft, and better copy protection schemes have also had a role to play. However that 39 percent Sgure for illegal software use still indicates a long way to go, according to Risen.

A little aatlenallzatfon is a waanahefad thln9 People steal software because it means they

Coed news and had news Onthe positive side, software theft seems to have been undergoing a slow but steady decline in ment years. A ccording t o

don"t have to pay for it, even though it is as

much of a crime as stealing a computer from a store. The justilcations are many:

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INy cheatin' heart . Continued from page$8 2. I want to try it before buying, so I don' t get stuck with a software "lemon." 3. Everybody does it. Why should I be the only sucker who pays? 4. I don't have the money to buy it even if I wanted to. 5. I'm not hurting anyone. 6. It's nobody's business. 7. Information wants to be free! 8. I won't get caught.

To respond: 1. Bill Gates won't starve because of software piracy, but many other people involved in the legitimate software industry, including small software developers, legitimate computer hardware and software resellers, legitimate business software users (who have to compete with cheating companies), and recipients of social programs (whose programs are denied any share of tax revenues that aren't paid on software that is stolen) are all injured to some degree.

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amounts of money out of legitimate workers' pockets into their own, and making Canada a poorer place for it. 6. Is it anybody's business if someone climbs in your window and steals your computer? What's different about stealing software? 7. Yes, information is free in terms of public d i scussion and free speech. Copyrighted software is created through great expenditure of effort and money, and those who go to that trouble and expense deserve payment for their work. 8. Not getting caught is not the same thing as being in the right. And, if you need technical support to solve a problem right before a crucial deadline, your thriftiness in avoiding paying for software (and not qualifying for upgrades or support) may turn out to be a very poor decision. Aside from individuals knowingly copying or receiving pirated software, a serious problem that obviously harms innocent victims is the phenomenon of software counterfeiting. Eisen claims 47 percent of "channel piracy," illegal software supplied by computer vendors to customers, is in the form of software that has been manufactured and packaged by criminals to look like legitimate software. In this case, the damage to thecustomer is obvious. After paying for the phony product, he or she discovers there is no way to get upgrades or technical support from the software publisher. INicrosoft gets Into the act Microsoft has decided to supplement the enforcement activities of local police, the RCMP and CAAST, by conducting its own program of investigating reported piracy and counterfeiting, and launching civil actions against violators. In November, Microsoft Canada announced legal action

against four Montreal area computer vendors whom it accused of distributing unlicensed software. Sweeps against copyright violators in o t her Canadian cities are expected during 1999. E isen claims Microsoft is not out t o harass the individual PC owner: "We' ve never prosecuted a home PC user, and I don' t know if we ever will — however, the RCMP have confronted people burningCD-ROMs [making copies of CD-ROMs with a drive called a 'burner] in their basement and distributing them on a significant scale." Eisen says, "It's unfortunate that Microsoft Canada has had to get directly involved, but from a resource standpoint the RCMP simply don' t have the resources to do everything that they would want to." Eisen believes the statistics on the scale of software theft are reasonably accurate, and that Microsoft, as the leading brand name and the publisher of many of the most popular software titles, is particularly vulnerable. "We aren't so naive as to think that we' ll ever eradicate software piracy, but we are confident that we will significantly reduce it...as more people understand the risks and the costs, the rate will continue to decline in 1999." 0 CAASTTel: 800-263-9700, http: //www.caast.org Microsoft, http: //www.microsoft.corn/canada/piracy Put some variety Into Your Searching NB — This is a great site to check out if you enjoy surfing the Web or are not satisfied with current search engines. This site contains suggestions for many offbeat and little-known search engines that offer all sorts of neat functions and specialized searches. Even experienced users could find a lot of interest here. http: //www.teleporf.corn/-lensman/roadless.htm

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The package consists of a tiny Sony digital video camera with b u ilt-in m icrophone and PCI video capture card, plus software for recording and compressing the video files to a size easier to transmit over regular phone lines, and required cables. Installation of the Fun Mail system on a 200 MHz Pentium MMX-based PC was truly plug and play, consisting of following the simple instructions, Inserting the capture card into a PCI expansion slot and installing the software according to the prompts on t h e c omputer screen. Once installed, the recording software offered a simple set of on-screen controls to record, compress, save and send email segments. In addition to using the included Sony video camera, we experimented with capturing and compressing video footage from a VCR by plugging in the audio and v ideo outputs from th e VCR into t h e ports on the Fun Mail capture card. The quality of the videotape capture was not as good as that from the camera, due to the degradation of a copied tape, but it was not bad. Installation and training took about 35 minutes, and from then on creating video clips rapidly became quite routine. FunMail is easy enough for kids to use with minimal training, and even adults can probably figure it out eventually. Some experimentation with lighting and ensuring that people being videotaped are properly located within the camera's field of view is definitely advised. The quality of the captured and compressed video, despite up to 250:I compression, is quite good, and generally quite a bit better than realtime home PC videoconferencing systems we' ve tried. Continued on page 101

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Diamond Multimedia's MP3 player a challenger in the portable sound market Iy Neith SchengiR-Roberts remember the feeling of freedom that I got with my first Sony Walkman in the mid'80s. It was great but had its drawbacks: it gobbled batteries and tapes were occasionally munched by the machine. A few years later, I got my first portable CD player, which offered crystal<lear sound, but still had an appetite for batteries and was prone to skipping.

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a parallel cable connector and cable, audio utility software, a CD-ROM containing more than 100 MP3-based music files and a single 1.5-volt AA alkaline battery, which is rated for 12 hours of playback. The headphones are nothing special, and it would be worth investing in a decent pair (if you don't already own some) if you purchase a Rio. The sampler disc contains largely unsigned artists, many of which are worth a listen, but you are likely to get most of your MP3 files from either your own CD collection or via the Net. The thin PC Card parallel cable has a pass-through connector so you can use the parallel port for other peripherals. The software installation was smooth and effortless, and required just under 9 MB of hard drive space. The software includes MusicMatch Jukebox, a good, fast professional MP3 creator, that allows you to access an online database of thousands of CD track listings. Once you have selected the MP3 files you want to load into your Rio, you simply start the Rio Manager, then drag and drop the files onto the transfer program. The interface is a bit kludgy — it is not obvious that you can transfer files to the Rio from the playlist section — but once you know how it is a breeze. Unlike CD and tape players, the Rio sound didn't skip or wow. During my tests of the Rio, I spent a lot of time travelling and the playback never deviated a beat from the original tune. Since it is so compact, it easily fits into a pocket, or clips to your belt.

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The chief disadvantage of the Rio is that it can only play about 30 minutes of musicabout eight to ten pop songs. The Rio comes standard with 32 MB of RAM, and at typical MP3 compression, this means about I MB per minute of sound. The sampling rate can be reduced, but this lowers the fidelity. If you cut the sampling rate in half — to get about an hour' s worth of music — the audio quality is similar to that of AM radio. The Rio's half-hour of playback seems rather skimpy compared to the 90 minutes of music you can fit on a tape, or the 72 minutes on a CD. I suspect Diamond will be doing a brisk trade on flash card upgrades for the Rio (16 MB flash memory cards are currently available, but 32 MB cards in the works). With CD and cassette players you simply pop in a new disc or tape when you tire of a sound. But the Rio is less flexible. New files have to be downloaded onto a Rio, meaning most users have to make a pit-stop at their PC to get fresh tunes. Its dependence on the PC automatically excludes a significant portion of th e population from using the device, unlike tape and CD players. The Rio, and th e devices that will undoubtedly follow it, will pose a real challenge to manufacturers of portable CD and cassette players. It's hard to beat a device that

more. An EQ button provides different play- is so small, easy to use and delivers great back modes optimized for the type of music being played, emphasizing the highs for classical music, and the bass for rock music. The RioPMP 300 comes with headphones,

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models appeared with color screens, or in larger cases with nearly full-size keyboards. Express from other units we' ve seen. The

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battery holder, which runs along the back edge of the cbrnputer, folds down to reveal full-size parallel and VG A p o rts. The Express includes support for some HP LaserJet and DeskJet, Epson Stylus and LG printers. Most other handheld devices included oniy a p roprietary serial connector used prirnarily for linking with a d esktop c o m puter, s o these ports will add to the overall functionality o f t h e m a c hine. When folded down, the battery pod also serves to elevate the back of the unit so t he key b oard is at a n angle many typists prefer. Two other nice touches are the indusion of a built-in V.90-

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applications and are probably all most users will need. Anyone who wants more powerful applications or a different set of applications will likely opt for a mini-notebook that uses Windows 98 and is capable of running any Windows appUcation.

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Ultimate Per4mer —the first FF wheel ever produced — is based on an early version of Immersion's firmware and software, meaning it just isn't capable of producing some of the cool effects evident in other units. In the end, just two systems packed enough punch and enough qualityto warrant recommendation, and quickie reviews of these units follow. First though, is a brief rundown of a few important FFgeneralities — information that applies to every FF racing rig ever constructed.

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wheel and pedal controller units that have • FF sensations are generated only by the A joy to behold and a joy to hold, the desksteering wheel. Pedals remain as they top steering unit of Logitech's WingMan been developed for this category. Why car racing? It would seem the Powers That Be always have been — without electro- Formula Force has obviously been designed realized radng is a natural flt. Think about it. Driving a car through rutted roadways and high-speed turns with not one, but two hands on the controller — could there be anything so befitting this new technology? Yet all FF steering wheels are not created equaL I had the chance to test drive five of them, and the quality ranges from danged impressive right on down to quite frightful. Guillemot Inc,'s Race Leader 3D Force Feedback wheel and pedal set, for instance, felt small, weak and cheaply constructed. With desk clamps that fell out during use, a broken switch on my test unit and problematic installation/setup, it was the worst of the bunch. Microsoft's SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel fared marginally better, scoring extra points for its mounting system, a quick release lever that allows you to afflx or detach the unit in less than five seconds. Marvelous! Yet the Microsoft-generated FF sensations — this is the only rig here that doesn't use Immersion-based protocol — felt

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mechanical sensation and good or bad depending on the quality and design of the unit. • One of the chief reasons FF driving isn' t where it could be — or will be in the next year or two — has nothing to do with the wheel manufacturers. Instead, and as alluded to earlier, game developers apparently haven't been spending enough effort to properly incorporate the technology supplied to thetn. Two games that have managedtobuck the trend and succeed in this respect are Ubi Soft's Fl Racing Simulation and Electronic Arts' Need For Speed III, and word is that many more are coming down the pipeline, reflecting the sudden surge in this form of racing peripheral. • As FF trends change and improvements are made, there's a good possibility you' ll have to shell out even more dollars on new hardware. You see, sometimes it' s not just the software that changes but the chips inside the wheel too. So, you must by people who know their racing. From its either a) be satisfied with the current high-contrast red color scheme (which state of the art, b) look into upgradable contrasts so nicely against the

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our kids are tired of math drills and reading games. The great Canadian winter still hangs outside, dreary and cold. If you have to listen to repetitious Nintendo 64 game music with smash-'em-up .crescendos one more time, you' ll lose it. Help is at hand! Kid Pilot and Creatures 2 are two games that will end the misery. Both are fun, stimulating and non-violent games that offer new and creative play for the five years and older set — girls and boys. These games also offer subtle educational enhancements.

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always at hand, however, in the form of Penwick, an animated penguin who provides advice along the way. On their way to becoming flying aces, kids can earn their bronze, silver and gold flying wings and certificates. They can also create and print pages for their souvenir picture book of locations they have flown over and include flight notes, as well as pictures of airplanes.

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included. A few international cities, including some in Canada, might have made for a better view. Perhaps in Kid Pilot 2?

as eating, and complex behaviors such as speech using the "learning computer." This latter skill will aid you in caring for your

creature. Then you can simply say "Karen [or Creatures 2 From: Mindscape/TLC Tel: 617-761-3000, http: //www.creatures.mindscape.corn Requires: Windows 95/98, 166 MHzPentium PC, 300 MB hard drive space; Direct-X drivers Street price: $39

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repopulating. As there are some written components to this game, such as referring to help or hints, and typing out new words, it is probably best suited for players eight years and older. The game requires some careful thought, plan-

Kid Pilot is rated for children ages five to 10, but even my 12-year-old enjoyed playing it. Pilot is the first realistic flight simulator for young kids. It has the same "feel" as the flight simulators that have been around for years for teens and adults. Kid Pilot flies kids over 3D, photorealistic landscapes that include dozens of U.S. cities and landmarks, and they navigate using a

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ers are advised to hatch one at a time, as singles are easier to deal with! I can believe this as the creatures are constantly on the move and need your guidance. And they don' t always pay attention to what you offer them, nor do they always behave in the manner you expect. But there are a few solutions to this: wave an object in front of them or if they still refuse to pay attention, then "slap" them with the cursor and repeat the waving

functional instrument panel includes gauges that indicate speed, altitude and direction. But players have to be careful: just as in adult flight simulators, they can crash! Help is

and time of day. During flights, kids are given "facts" about that cities they are flying over — unfortunately, for Canadians, only U.S. cities are

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gent downward motion designed for sitting in front of a PC, their throw is quite small and resistance extremely light. And that makes for lots of accidental triggering, a horrible thing to encounter in the midst

A nd t h a t , p e r h aps a t t r i butable t o Logitech's cable drive mechanism, is a blast of reality when it hits at just the right time. Overall, the WingMan offers subtle and relatively authentic feedback and moves smoothly from effect to effect, though the

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feel and perfectly angled placement, the small, thick and slightly squared WingMan wheel is a pure delight. Equally delightful of racing. are the rear-mounted dual shifter paddies,

large enough for easy access during any turn and sporting an audible click when depressed. The pedals, unfortunately, aren't cut from the same cloth, Though affixed to a base that offers plenty of room for even the biggest feet and featuring an intelli-

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rect behavior is rewarded with tickling.

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seemingly smallish motor doesn't pump out the G-forces as well as some of the stronger units. As a controller for non-FF

include a doubling of the play area, new applets such as the Neuroscience Kit and the Object Injector, and a global weather systems indicator that gives the wind characteristics, temperatures and seasonal weather patterns. You can also add new lobe and neurotransmitters to potentially increase the intelligence of the creatures. All this is important if your new population is to survive and build a peaceful existence. The ultimate goal is to fin the genetic splicing machine and rid Albia of the vicious Grendels who threaten your creaAll in all, a sensible choice for light-footed FF racers who favor accuracy over power and appreciate a dynamic look.

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games, meanwhile, the WingMan has no peer among this group and can certainly If flashy, compact design is your thing you be favorably compared with any wheel, FF could probably do better elsewhere, but for or not, on the market.

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eOtlt StO lo 1H PlOl'e5 (Translation: studies develop into habits) By Ross IgfacDonald

aving been a wildlife biologist in a

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dream is of a world with relatively small numbers of huge, centralized UNIX "big iron" database servers and mainframe computers serving up data and software to end users equipped with any kind of computing device. The competing Microsoft vision foresees a wide spectrum of Web servers, scaling from huge mainframes down to millions of tiny, decentralized Windows NT servers in individual small offices and even family homes. Centralized UNIX vs. decentralized Windows NT. How smart do the electronic brains that the Internet runs on have to become to be ideally suited to either vision? Will it make any difference to the aver-

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Bll Brother,little Brother This, then, is where the question of big server or little server matters to computer users.

Just as the desktop PC gave us flexibility and choice, admittedly at the cost of lower reliability and more complexity than a dumb terminal, the small server giveseven small companies and individuals the ability to store, manage, and distribute their data locally, rather than depending on a largenetworking service. In some cases, Ellison's model does make more sense. His disparaging comments about the silliness of receptionists managing the network server may simply be true, if unkind. Ellison predicted that as an alternative to small NT servers, small- and mediumwize businessesmay turn to a growing market for outsourcing network service pioviders catering to such businesses. At the time this column was being written, Netcom

Canada, a major Internet service provider ESP) announced t Fall Comdex 1998, Microsoft's Sill Gates and Oracle's that it is starting to provide server management services to Larry Eilison, two titans of the contemporary comput- Canadian businesses. Netcom will either accept customers' er industry, squared off to pitch what seems, on the servers on its premises, handling high-speed connectivity surface, to be two diametrically opposed views of the future and system maintenance, or Netcom will host clients' dataof computing. Gates pronounced that Microsoft's goal was bases on its UNIX servers. "simplified" computing, a concept exemplified by StorageTek, a firm specializing in data storage technology, Microsoft's new SQL 7.0, the latest version of the Windows will store users' data on its servers, giving small businessesa database server, which features self-training and self-repair reliable alternative to risking critical data on a small computfeatures designed to make such systemsmuch more reliable, er system.

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Gates admitted that everything to do with personal computing is still more complicated and unreliable than it should be, and for computing to become truly pervasive, all tasks, from hooking up a printer, to configuring and maintaining a network server, will have to become radically simpler.

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of the NI'server operating system, then another way around the problem would be to either improve NT or use some other operating systein on inexpensive Intel-based servers. Novell would tend to agree with that suggestion, recommending its NetWare products. The dark horse contender in the battle between UNIX

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