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6 From the Editor 8 Letters 146 The Last Byte Tech shock: Y2Kis upon us and Ihave no idea what'sgoing to happen

84 It's a snap! TCP lab peers down the lenses of the lotest digital cameras

86 Digital camera survey 90 Understanding digital camera storage options

99 Selling the electronic storefront 10 What's New

99 lAN Line:Sharing, ri ghts and permissions

54 Corel simplifies Linux experience

99 On the Go: Wireless email no longer a fantasy

65 Sperial delivery: Canada Post online 106 OS 9advances the Mac platform 19 Personal compufing's recent history

106 Linux Inside: Canadian open source projects

20 From Y1K to Y2K 1,000 years of computing

107 Canadian Linux Users' Exchange

(giveor take a few millennia) 24 A short history of computers 26 Information technology timeline

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115 Onlinebanking: How we got here 115 Weavingyour own Web site:Part 51 In-depth look at Coscoding Style Sheets: Part 9 115 Roots retailer digs into the Web

60 Ubi Soft's kinder, gentler games 135 Disneykeeps Nacs in mind with new Toy Story 2 activity.game titles

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122 Office Suite Training: Napping your data 122 Linux for Newbies Part 6: Basic security in Linux 122 IT Careers: tpeb development requires mixed skills 128 Top 10 computer books of 1999 132 The brain drain Focus onintemol culture keeps talented employees 134 Guides to ASP

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66 TV on PC: Converged graphics cards 66 Quicken: Best consumer software ever?

137 Narketpiace

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aesthetically andorgani- Comdex Vegas,an event that' s as zationaay. Thereare two loud and brash as the rity that hosts people who played key it. Many people who follow the per-

roles in this redesign sonal computer industry have been and they deserve to be sayingthatthe industry Lschanging, time to launch a redesign than with a p plauded for their contribution. and this was quite evident at this the January 2000 issue. Ncaa Pascal, one of thevery talented year's trade show. Ever sinceVolume I, No. I ma ed graphic artists working in our Microsoft is one of the few big PC off the presses in January 1987, T /tc T oronto ol6ce, designed the new technology companies that still Computer Paper has retained the TC Plogo. Ernie Stelzer, a member of exhibits at the show, and its sprawlsame basic logo. There have been the strong design ing partner pavilion is almost a show re6nements over the years, but t eam i n o u r in itself. But both Philips and the general designstayed the Vancouver Sony— companies known more for same. So, one of thelssllcs ' their consumer electronics than Ramping up we wrestled with was their p ure computing productscanadacomputes.corn whether we shouid staged huge and impressive displays change somethin of their own, right nein to With the objective of taking that had become Microsoft in the south The Computer Pane's online presence to the distinctive and recog hall of the Las Vcgas nex t level, we' ve been working for the past few months to nizable. Convention Center. prepare our new umbrella Web site, canadacnmputes.corn. In the cnd, And Creative Labs' It is thn new home of www.tcp.ca, whee you will nnd back dmided to go for it light-and-sound Issues of TCP and our other print publications. and about six e xt r a v a g a n z a But canadacomputes.corn will be mare than just an echivn months agin held sprawled acrossa sigof past issues. In the coming weeks and months, expect to gnd facelih, and what better

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The semi-annual Intel Devdoper Forums (IDFs), «urrently held twice a year in Palm Springs, Calif., have become doser to true "Industry" Devdoper Forums, and Intel and thousands of other PC product developers get much better every year at agreeing to technologystandards in advance of the rdease ofnew products. The result is that the PC is be«oming a much more stable professional appliance, and less of a hobbyist's tinker toy.

ntel engineer Marcian E. Huf designed the Intd 4004 pmcessor that same year, which combined many circuits and functions on one piece of silicon. On«e they had dcgvered the product to the Japanese customer, Intel execuuvcs sat back and realized that they hadjust given away something that might be extrcmdy valuable. As the Japanese company was in some economic diiE«ujties, Intel negotiated to buy back ag the rights to the 4004 chip and the integrated circuit concept,for the sum of 860,000.

The future of the PC In theage ofthe Internet,any device thatcan hook onto a network is a Network Computer. This indudes PCs with dial-up modems, cable modems, DSL modems, or Ethernet, Token Ring, or wirdcss networks It also indudtu any

Compugng gets pemonal Ratherthan regard the integrated circuit as a deviation from its core businms of building memory, Intel management had the foresight to see that the integrattxl circuit, the central pmcessing unit for a potentiagy ingnitc range of computing devices, should become the focusofthe company's ef forts.In shortorder, Intel developed the 8008, then the 8080 chips, just in time to seg the 8080 to a little company «agog MITS, which wanted to make do-it-

yourself computer kits for hobbyists. Two rather geekykids named Bill Gatesand Paul Allen wrote software for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer, which had been

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software to the fledgling micmcomputer market. Around the same time, two other kids in California were selling "blue box' devicesto allow users to steal telephone services. These one, and this attracted IBM's interest. Initially two pranksters, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, dedaring that there might be a market for got out of that line of work before being arrest- about 100,000 or so IBM PCs, IBM released its ed, and instead decided to build a personal Erst personal computer. Based on a licensed computer circuit board, which they called the version of Micmsoft's MS DOS operatingsysApple I. In April 1976, the circuit boards went tem, and an Intel 8088 processor, the IBM PC on sale in electronic Byte Shops, with the slo- lent a blue chip stamp of approval to the PC gan, "Byte into an Apple." The rest, of course, is market. history. Demand for the circuit boards was so Also, by providing a quasi-standard for the strong that Jobs and Wozniak rdessed a fully personal computer industry (" IBM compatiassembled personal computer system, the ble") without owning either the operating sysApple B. By 1978. they were even able to move tem (Microsoft DOS) or the CPU (Intel 8080, Apple's headquarters from the garage to a real 8088, 8286, etc.), IBM unwittingly made the offtce. IBM-compatible PC a viable mainstream Once a surprisingly vigorous marltet for productcat egory,whichit hadnohopcofconpersonal computers showed itself, many com- trolling. Hundreds of IBM-compatible PC panies jumped into the PC manufacturing makers jumped into the market, and fairly game. Toronto-based Commodore Business quickly, a few major vendors including

tenceon a monopoly overmanufacturing Mac compatible computers meant that ag the other PC makers in the world had to make something else, and for most of them, IBM compatible was the only game in town. One of thc worst things about the PC was that there reaUy were no Brm standards for basic items like graphics, sound, peripheral devices, networking or telecommunications. Addingany new hardware orsoftware to a system was an "advcntur«." Corporations that were pressured to gct PCs for their gexibility watched the total cost of ownership of these Uaky things go through the roof due to down time, training. maintenance and integration dUE«ujties. The two companies that were benegting most fmm the PC remained the two that had Machinesbriegy marketed a KIM kit comput- Compaq, Hewlett-Pa«hard. Packard Bell, Dell providedthe key hardware and software comer before releasing the Personal Ekctronic and Gateway achieved the status of brand ponents fmce the beginning: Microsoft and Transacmr (PET) PC, foffowal by the VIC 20 InteL Over time, they used their influence, in and thc Commodore 64. Texas Instruments subtle and not so subtle ways, to try to bring developed the TI 99 and Tandy Radio Shack The gokien age of the PC som«order to thc chaos of the PC. With plug theTRS 80 PC, and a variety of othercomput- Between the launch of the IBM PC in 1991. and play. Microsoft took a big step forward in ers from Kaypro, Atari, Timex/Sindair, Coleco, and the rise of the World Wide Web by about improving the user experience of adding new and others appeared at least bridly on the 1996,was a period of happy chaos in the PC hardware to a PC. Intel, for its part, waged an scene. market. In spite of the simple tarn that the endless diplomatic campaign across the indusBy the end of the 1970s, it was obvious that Apple Macintosh, Erst released in 1984, was try. attempting to assemble alliances and set the personal computing market was a viable manifestly superior to the PC, Apple's insis- standards for improving thc PC. THE ~

• Mjnjsturiangon: The guts of a PC keep shrinking, to thc point that the basic motherboard can fit in a slot in a monitor chassis, or beembedded in a car or a home appliance. This leads to the next area of probable lllnovaboll.

• New form faotorm Intel showed PCs at IDF that werc built into furniture (the ottoman PC), customized for certain demographic groups (the Barbie PC), and installed in applianc«s (thc kitchen PC). Colllplsgllg to go Both Microsoft chief cm«utive, Gates, and Intd executives cbim the personal computers of the future will be portable and personalized. The emphasis will be on computing that travels with the user, either in the form of portable devices, or a portable "personality," which allows the individual to automatically customize whatever connected «omputing device he or she comes in contact with. At the Comdex Fajj/99 conference held recently in las Vegas,several computing trends were in evidence. For one, asGates stated in his keynoteaddress,our user experiences of the

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From Y1K to Y2K A thousand years (give or take a few millennia) of computing Although by the year 1000 some parts of the Caliphate had become independent Islamic states, ag parts of the Islamic world still shared strong cultural, religious, trading and technological links. The Muslim Arabs had not conquered primitive peoples and brought civilization to them. On the contrary, although much of Western Europe was still attentpting to recover from the barbarian invasions that brought about the Dark Ages,the nations the Arabs conquered induded many of the most ancient civilized cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, and Persia Thc victories of Muslim Arab imperialism in the sixth and seventh centuries A.D. had given the Arabs ownership of the rich traditions of astronomy, mathematics and computing of

sharp stone, and over the period of an entire month, scratched the changing shape of the moon's phases onto a pitxe of bone. Thousands of years later, that bone with its carefully engravedrecord ofthe phasesofthe moon was unearthed,and eventually recognized for what it was — the earliest known expression of human astronomical observation. This ancient trace of mankind's obsession with time, counting, and symbolic representation of redity speaks of one of the fundamental characteristics of the human species. We are the apes that count. The built-in human ability to make symbols that stand for time. things, bdiefs and numbers, has allowed us to construct the intricate, interrdatel global

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and the knowledge systems that civilizations have developed through history have been central to their success or failure. Modern computing didn't spring out of nowhere. It is just thc mostrecent expression o(this basic aspectofbeing human. This article will look at how computing came into being, mainly over the last millennium, from the year I 000, to the year 2000 (although to understand this period, we wig also delve into prior civilizations).

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was usedremotely over telephone lines. With the beginning of World War II, computers became an important strategic weapon. In 1941, Konrad Zuse, a German engineer. had devdoped a computer caged the Z3 to design airplanes and missiles (the first of his Z machines was devdoped in 1936). The Allies spend much of the early part of the war trying to develop a comput-

200 years allo: thank Jacquard In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard loom, a machine that used punch cards to rreate patterns with fabric. In 1833, Charles Babbage, designed the Difference Engine (which he never «ompleted) and the Analytical Engine. Both were analogue machines, but the Analytical Engineused memory. aswelL A major advance in computing took place in 1880, when Herman Hogerith, an American inventor, adapted the Jacquard loom and Babbage's designs. creating a machine that would punch «ards using a mechanicalprocess. Data was aauaBy stored on the cards. A single punch on the card indicated a single nu mber,

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Company in 1896. It eventually joined two other companies to become the CalculatingTabulating-Recording (C-T-R) company in 1 914, and i n 1 924, i t was renamed while gmuping of International Business Machines (IBM). two pun «hes punch cards were a central part of «omputdenoted a letter. ing in the 1960s and 1970s. For those of us old With this mahod, enough to remember. the utility companies up to 80 variations usal to mail punch cards that served as bills to could be generataL consulners. H oBerith won a The 1930s ushered in the Atanasoff-Berry contract to com- Computer, now known as the ABC, which was p ute t h e U. S . devdopcd at lowe State University from 1936 Census. Using pre- to 1942. It contained the ele«tronic arithmetic vious methods, the unit and regcnaativc, cydic memory —contask was estimated cepts that would later appear in moremodern to take 10 years. but computea. In 1937 George Stibitz was workwith Hogerith's ma«bine, it took only six ing at the Bell Tdephone Laboratories where weeks. he constructed a nlay-driven arithmetic unit. From there, he built several varieties of relay machines that were eventually usal in World 100 years soot the seeds of IBM ln the wake of his succ«sswith thc U S. Census, War ll. In 1939, Stibim designed an electroHogerith founded the Tabulating Machine magactic relay calculator that solved the com-

SanoEaoallmrl mat IhaSml mmpulnf masm. tions in your car to the chips ia mundane devices like yow toaster. Computers have be«erne a part of our busy lives to the degreethatthey are easily taken forgrantaL Where did they come from? Some have suggcstcd that this technology wasstolen from aliens, but the truth is actually much doser to home. To properly appreciate the origins of the computer, one has to go back some 5,000 ytnrs to ancient China. which is gencragy acknowl-

er to decrypt German messages. In 1943. the British Bnagy created such a device, which wss dubbed tbe Colossus. The Allies built several more machines to assist in their D-Day planning. The systans were available in time for

the Normandy landings, making a signigcant contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Outside of the war, the Colossus contributed little to the computer industry for nvo reasons: it was only deignal to de«rypt secret masages,and its adstence remained secret for many dccadcs after the war. In 1944, Howard H. Aiken, a Harvard engineer worhng with IBM, developed a completdy electmnic calculator. The purpose of thc machine was to compute ballistic charts for the navy and mathematical tables, much like Babbage's Ditference Engine. The machine was huge —half the length of a footbag field with roughly 800 km (500 miles) of wiring. The Harvard-IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator Mark I or ASCC, used Continued on page 30

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1020 1833 1834

cation, divisionandexlmction of squareroots. Luigi Galvani's experiments ineleclrophysiolopyindicate electricity plays arole in living nervoussyslams. JosephMari eJacquard's"pmprammable"punchcard

1020 1930 1932 1933 1936

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J. LogicBairdtransmits television image. Electromechanicalanaloguecomputer Intepraphby Dr. VannevarBush. Dere kLehmefs"number-sieve"analyzes3,000numbem per second tofind primenumbers. Vladimir Zworykin inventscathoderaytube, precursor to TV and monitor screens. First TV station, WGYin Schenectady. N.Y.

NorbertWeinerpromotes concept of dipital computers. HomerDudley invenlsVoder electronic talking machine. Alan Turing writesOn Computable Numbers, develops concept of a computer called the Turing Machine.

KonradZusedevelops Zmachinecomputers in NaziGermany.

winning World War II. Norbert Weiner does research into study of humanand

First handheldcalculalore, from Hewlett-PaclwrdandTexas

1972

instruments. First email program developed by RayTomlinson of BBNfor use on ARPANE T.

commercial. 1905

The term "vapourware" is invented to describe the common

1906

practice oftagdnpabout andpromoting non-existent computer preducts. Microsoft goespubgc: stockprice rises steadily. eventually

1988

makes Bill Gates III world's richest man. Robert Mome, Jr.sends e "worm" onto the Internet,which

Transistor invented at Sell Labs (enabling replacement of

vacuumtubes). ENIACcompulen begun in 1943 for artillery baliisgc research,

weighe d 30tonsandcontained 10,000vacuum tubes.

infantsmorethan 6,000computers. Morris is trackeddown, tried, convicted and sentenced to probation, community

Adg Byron

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ThomasEdison invents workableelectric lighL

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Herman Hogarith invenls and uses labulatinp machine to 1948 1949 1951

IBM 604 electronic calculator.

Fimt chessplayinp computer, byClaudeShannon of MIT. Univac I computerdevelopedfor general businesscomput. Iiig.

1952

Automagctelephoneswitch makestelephonenetworks feasiFlemingValvevacuumtube invented.

TheWorld WideWeb. inventedby Bemers-Leeand others, is freely released byCERNto the world. and becomes the technology standard that allows the Web to become aglobal

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serviceandatine. Tim Bemem-Leeandother at the CERNresearch facility in Genevadevelop HTML,a multimedia hypertext authorlng languagebased on SGMI. for communicalinp over a network with other researchers.

processU.S.censusdata Hiscompanyeventuallybecomes

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referred to asBooleanalgebra, andbasis for binary information languapes.

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Intel 0740"computer on a chip." SteveJobsandSlaveWozniak form Apple Computer Company,releaseApple 1 computer. Apple It, first PCwith colour graphics, $1,290. TRS-00microcomputer,SKS ofRAM.$000. Commodore, acompany foundedin Toronto. releases PersonalElectranicTmnsactor (PET)computer. CompuServeonline service launched.

second,$2,665. U.S.government anti-trust suit against IBM withdrawn after 13 yearsof INgation.

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wires.

Paul Nipkow'smechanical scanninpdisk, a fomrunner ol video. Invengonof photoelectric cags, whichgenerateelectricity

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grad studentStevesepovin andothers.

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Colossusdigital computer (for World WarII codebreaking). GmceHoppercoinsword "bup" for a problemin a computer system(in this lirsl instance,a deadmoth in a computer cabinet).

becomesstandard for

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Time-sharingnetworkadcomputing. First communicationssategites launchedinto geo-synchronous orbit: eventually becomea global communicationsnet-

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bers with zeros and ones,

Irmislsiols. integrated circuits from Falrchild.

machinecommunicagonsandcontrol systems, invents tenn

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addinpmachine. GeorgeBootsinvents system of representinpnum-

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awarded to BSN.

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a singlebinary numbersequence.

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1972

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"cybernetics" to describehiswork.

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Altair and KIM.

does researchinto breakingGerman encrypgonsystem, developscomputing devicesfor codebreak- ~t ing. Playsma(or perl in 1940

John McCarthy coins the tenn "aigficial intelligence."

work. 1962

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U.S. government files anti-trust suit against IBM.

CharlesXavier Thomasimients practical, mass-preduced mechanicalcalculator. JohannSeebeckdiscovemIhermoslectridty principle whereby healcanbe used to generate electrical current. CharlesBabbage'sDifferenceEnplne. a workable mechanical computer (nevercompleted). AdaByron. Countessof Lovelace.perhapsthefirst womancomputer programDifferenceEngine.

1837

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Gotltried von Leibnitz invents Liebnilz Wheel to do multipli-

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1,00 0-500 BeadandwireabacusinEgypt,China.

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1921

to homeusers for $19.05.

NationalCashRegister (NCR) controls 95 percent of world

cashrepister markeLis prosecutedbyU.S. government on

1954 1956

U.S. governmentanti-trust suit against IBM(over 90percent marketsharein iabulaling machines). Fori mnpragremminplanguagedeveloped. GENIAC,an"electrical brain construcgonIdt computer said

1994

communicationsmedium. MercAndreesonand others developMosaic, agraphical user interlacebrowser for the World WideWeb. PizzaHutbepins selling pbzas onthe internet via its Web page. Nelscape,foundedin April 1994, mleasesNelscape Navigator server inDecember.Anearly exampleof Internet SpeedNavigator Personal Edition browser Isreleasedin June1905.

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'mcoNSEX "The advances in the PC and the advances in the Internet, and perhaps most importantly theadvances in software are going to create an amazing new tool — a tool that brings together aU the good things that we think about in a new world of communications," said Gates at the Sunday evening keynote address, which kicked 05 the Comdex/Fag 'yy trade show herc in mid-November. "It wiU be different than huw we think

about the Internet or the PC today." Gates took the audience through a histiiry lesson on the PC industry, pointing out thc tension between "big iron" centralized computing and the personal computer model ol' processing power distributed across multiple desktops.He then applied the big box versus PC debate to his personal Web vision. The growth of PC penetration in the home (more than 50 percent of U.S.homes now have a PC, according to his statistics) has spawned an industry of innovators. Add the Internet phenomenon on top of that, and "you get something that even surprises the people whose job it is to make projections about what is going to happen. So, the PC has gone to new heights, and I believe, wiU continue to do so." In the future, said Gates, Web surfers won' t have to deal with lnt«met content through pre-

organized screens. Extensible markup language (or XM I a tagg)ng schema rdated to standardized general markup language, or SGMI that treats content information and content presentation information separately) is the key to aUowing information to be customized at a

toag of the user' sdevices,from a standard PC to a Web TV, to smartphoncs to — as Gates demonstrated — asman automobile. With everything going through the lntcrnct, this will of course, demand reliability and seal. ability on an ever increasing magnitude. In the past, Gates said, scalability was often thought about in terms of hardware —adding more or bigger iron to thc problem. However, scalability is also a software issue, and in fact, managing the scale and reliability is fundamentally,4 software problem, according to Gates. He said Windows 2000 (the long-awaited update of the Windows NT network OS) would be a key to software sea)ability. To igustrate this, Gaies demonstrated how the sog. ware redistributed and balanced the load across a Web site's remaining server~ when one server failed. u

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Mike Dickson, Corel's project development manager, says Wine is a reimplementaion of the WIN32 library set that allowed Coral developers to either create a binary port to run pre«ompiled Windows applications in Linux through the transpon layer of Wine, or to use a secondary port to compile direcUy against Wine's WIN32 implementation to create a native Linux code. "The main benefit of Wine is that you are able to take an existing application and move it to another operating system with a minimum of recompile and a minimum oi' trouble," Dickson says."This lets you have the same look and feel , the same feature set,and the same binary compatibility and file formats." This preservation of the look and feel of commercially available office and productivity suites (such as Corel's applications) when moved over to Linux will be an imponant fa«tor in making Linux a viable desktop OSpeople want to use what is familiar.

thing." Another company that is working dosely with Corelis epax.corn Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif.-based developer of popular faxing and massaging solutions for the desktop. "The idea is that if you bring out a new desktop, you want to make sure key applications and services are available to the user to make it competitive," says Michael Crandeg, vice-presi dent ofeFaxxom. "[Coreljgave us a call and identified eFax as a strategic opportunity to support faxing and other unified messaging services that we are working toward in the desktop environment." Crandeg adds that the inclusion of fax and massagingservices should make Linus more appealing to everyday consumers who want prepackaged and preloaded solutions, much in the same way Windows og'ers a variety of preinstagal productivity solutions with its desktop OS.

"People don't want to come into something and wonder what is GIMP [GNV Image Manipulation Program. a Linux imaging

applicationj," says Eenoy Tamang, vice-presi-

dent of m arketing For Caldera Systems. "People don't know what it is and what they want is familiarity. "They want to make sure that what they are doing is not lost and there is not too much time spent on the learning curve. Corel entering in the marketplace is weU needed because it validates what we have been trying to do and it is the right strategy, which is needed to enable more people to access Linux on a friendlier level." Many argue that if Linux is to truly become a conunerciagy viable desktop alternative to Windows or Macintosh, PC vendors have to begin offering machines with the OS installed. So far, most PC hardware vendors have been contentto offer Linux on their server products. Companies like Caldera and Red Hat Software lnc., a Durham, N.C.-based Linux Others embrace user friendliness distrb iutor and developer, have agreements While Carel has been making a lot of noise with several manufanurers to put Linux on about its Linux OS, it is certainly not the only some oftheirservers. Caldera's Tamang says his company is in discompany trying to make Linux more userfriendly. Caldera Systems Inc., of Or«m, Utah, cussionswith several V.S.and overseas parthas been shipping its OpenLinus 2.3 to busi- ners to offer Linux with dual. boot capabilities nesses since September. It offers remote mass on commercial desktops, letting consumers installation features, Y2K compatibility and an flip between Linux and Windows. And Ottawa-based PC manufacturer Euroimproved Lizard (Linux's wizard) GVI for easier installation. The company also offers a vari- com is looking to offer dual-boot notebooks ety of office productivity solutions that aim to featuring Corel's Linux OS in the near future. Dale Windle, manager of technical operapreserve the functionality and familiarity that businessconsumers expectfrom commercially tions for Eurocom, would not go into specifics about the company's Linux plans, but would available products.

Mnux appgcetions At the same time, Corel also moved to add functionality to the Linux OS by partnering with several third-party developers to make available Linux-based productivity solutions and games. Draeker says he signed on to make Loki's Linux-based games available to Corel since he saw it as a natural fit between the two companies. "Loki and Coral are really two companies that are focused on Linux as a consumer desktop product," Draeker adds. "When they told

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t sho uldn' t seem so odd that computers and tclcvisions are convery'ng. Although television screens arc larger and cheaper and computer monitors have more pixels per inch and are capable of displaying higher quality images, both are cathode ray tube (CRT) display d«vices driven by a box full of dcctronics. So, on the surfirce. it seemswe've waited a long time for tbc kinds of fcatunn found oa graphics cards like the Matmx MsrvcL the ATI AU-lnWondcr and dw 3dfx TV. And tbe basic functionality ogmed by thesecards is just dw beynning of 8 rkh new fcauuc rct well soon enjoy.

One of the neat features of aa three cards reviewed here is their ability to display the output fmm your computer on a television scrccn using standard or high-quality S-Video connectors.And that's a minor feat compared to their abiTity to tune into !25 cbannds, rcconl and play television proyams, DVDs, and digitize vidmtapcs on your PC. Each of these cards starts as a top-of-thcline !6 MB 3D AGP graphics card and is loaded with software and ag the cables you'U ever ncrxL Together, theseelements create what graphics industry pundit lon Pcddic describes as thc virtual appliance —onc that combines the capabilities of a DVD player, video tuner and recorder,game console and Internet bnnvscr. This may be the natural evolution, as

a dedicated media-rich feature sct emerges, arid the nlllhl-Blllctioml PC — uddt its dlfUcult to learn and manage operating symcm-

fadesaway. Ifyou have a 350-plus MHz system, a.bee AGP slot. an older graphics card, you don' t own a VCR, are tcchnicaay minded and patient, then by aU means start converging. If you have a DVD drive and an older DVD decoder, you' ll scc a substantial improvement in picture quality with these cards. If you' re a tclcwebber who attempts to watch TV whik surgng the Web on your PC, these cards will really help you cut down on the neck strain. The 3dfx Voodoo3's FM tuner, thc Matrox Marvel's DualHesd capability, aad the ATI AUln-Wonder's instant replay are aa features that may push your must-have" buttorz Continued on pegr66

Getfunky with the 'disco' mouse ey Keith SohenyTi&oberts hen I fimt saw a prs-producComdex Canada this past summer,Iknew Ihad to getmy hands on one, both literally and figuatively. It may seem odd to getexcited abnut 8 mouse, but this is one funky device. The Mkxosoft IntelliMouse Expkxer iseasily one of the sleekest computerpsripheraIS-4 ranks near the top, right along with theiMac, for a~ ch ing design. Not only does it look grixwy, it's also a pretty good mouse. It mplaces the rubber ball used to direct a computer mouse wfih an optical sensor, which offms smoother, more accu. rate tracking. while uw Inta!IMouse Explorer is not the first mouse to use such t chnofogy, as a Microsoft product, it is the first to be targeted at such a large consumer market. Cr at !asst at the poffioll of diat market sw1ling to spend Sgg on amouse.

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The maturation of this program began with the move to a graphical intcr5rce in DOS! Otheradvances have indudcd the implcmcatation of autocomplete, which, as Far as I am aware, Erst appnucd in Quickca. Intuit recognized the importance of the Wcb early and so a number of dial-out features werc triaL The creation of the Caoadiaa Quicken Wcb site

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tapes, but the quality would likely be lmt an transfer to VHS. While ranrding, the All-InWonder usesabout 40 percmt ofthe pmc«ssor cydes,and playback ties up 100 percent— even if the processor is a 400 MHz Cderon. The bundled Video CD player does a bauer job of playing back MPEG Qes than the Windows Media Player. ATI's experience with previous versions of the AR-In-Wonder shows, especially in the bundled software. For each component— TV tuner, VCR features, DVD playback— the ATI sofnvarc had the most bdls and whist)es. It' s the only one with instant replay, agowing you to watch two images—ane live, the other delayed by two to 10 seconds (or more, depeading on system memory). Tbereh also a channel scan window that displays still images Rom es«havailable channd, updating them in murnolz All three cards can capture stills fmm a video (not a DVD), but only the All-InWonder automatically numbers and saves the images I love this card's TV Magazine —a transcript of a program created from the dosed caption text and captured vidm flames. The ability to review the day's happenings on your kvourite pmgram by reading a transcript quiddy becomes a must-have feature— you caa even choose to omit the commercials from the transcript. The Hot words kature will track the dosed captioning, looking kr a specigc word or wards. and beep, display the TV windmv, start recording video or creating a nlagsznlc lnnscflpz The ATI DVD player is so good, I yanked

out my dedicated Creative Labs card. With superior mlour and fabulous darity, it olfers tbe best computer-based DVD playback, an opinion ulpressed by other reviewers, tars ATI indudes a simple video wlitar to trim dips aad do cuts only" assembly. For more advanced work, ATI has included MGI's VideoWave II software in the All-In-Wonder bundle. Worldng with V ideoWave II is a pleasure. I' ve waxed ecstatic over this software before, and my enthusiasm hasn't wanwL It' s visually attractive, full of well thought-out features and my Erst choice for personal use. (Nota MGI receatly introduced VideoWave 111). The card's TV-out feature works wdL When you sdcct this mode from the contml panel, the monitor changes to 800x600 resolution at 60 Hz.The same image is seen on both the monitar and the TV. This works well for games, and for watching DVD playlwck on TV in addition to, or instead of, the computer monitor. If the dednop resolution is larger when you select TV-out, the screea becomes a window ante the larger vtlmel display that follows when you move thc mouse. A nice feature.

between its consumer graphics cards and its pmfessional vidm cards. Although the other two cardsare dearly consumer products,the Marvd reaches a higher leveL Instagatioa and setup was similar to the other canis, w'nh twu exceptions. The large connectorfor the breakout box on the cable, combined with a slight recess on the back of my system, made for a very tight gt. The Marvd is the only canl with mternal audio connectors. The others have internal cables to tbe audio card. The documentation indicates that the Marvel will be happy with a 166 M Hz Pentium-based system, but commends a 233 MHz Pentium CPU. The Rne print indicates that a 350 MHz Pcntium R is required for optimal DVD playback. That praved to be tru« in tmting. On a 300 MHz Cderon system, only the All-In-Wander oikred stutter-free DVD playback capable of freeze frame. When I swapped in a 400 MHz Cdemn, the Marvd's

Marvel G400.TV ftuaz Mattm ftbmated slreet price: 8400 Notable leatumx fztsmal atsgacmnectnz. Seat image from 1Vtuner. OaagteadXwxtISytzy feature. The All-la-Wonder and the Voodoo3 3500TV are at the top of the An and 3dfx's respective lines. For Matmx, the Marvel series sits

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Thoseinconveniences are m ore than offset by the superior picture quality and flawless playback the MJPEG format delivers. In every way, the quality of the playback is equal to the originaLEven at the 50 percent quality setting, thereare no visible artifacts, motion is smooth, and colouredges clear.The other cards skip playback frames so often, it's distracting, and the audio and video synchronization often slips. Although I can't ssy the Matrox never

skips a frame, it's rare. And the audio-video sync is alwaysperfect. Either recording or playback uses lessthan 10 percent of the processor cydas. This card is good enough to use asa replacement for your VCR —and you won't have to apologize for the playback quality when friends come over.You'll w ant a large hard drive. as the MJPEG Eles are about 50 percent bigger than ATI's VCR2 format. This means a

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In long play (LP) mode, youcanextend your motion recording time up to 1.5 hours. g«cause Mini DV is a relatively new format, the tapes are expensive compared to 8 mm cassettes. Depending on quality, Mini DV tapes are at least $20 each. The camera has a switch on the fiant that you can move from a lock position into cithcr Photo or Movie mode. The Optura was one of the Brst camcorders to offer this dual-mode capabiTity. (If others follow Canon's lead, it won't be long before w«will only have to own one camera.) In Photo mode, you can take digital still pictures in 720x480 pixel resolution, which you can view on your television, computer ar an thc camera itself. If you have a colour printer hooked to your PC (with a certified

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An optical image stabilization feature further contributes to the crispness and clarity of image capture by eliminating inadvertent shaking common to handheld shoots. The Optura also uses an RGB filter — the type used in high-end professional cern«orders —for a higher signal-to-noise ratio and consequently truer colour rendering. The Optura comm with two zoom modes: 14x optical. and 35x digital. I experimented with the 35x digital zoom for a few days, but was disappointed with the results. When enabled, digital noise is immediately recognizable when you zoom past the 14x optical zoom. I found the feature to be almost useless.

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quality 12-bitl32 kHz (four-channel) mode that can be selected through the viewfinder menu. In the compact design of this camcorder, Canon has managed to pack just about every kind of port possible for transferring video into other media. In addition to the standard composite jacks, the Optura provides 5-Vid«o output and a FireWire port. I hooked the Optura to one of the two Fir«Wu«ports on a

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market the media under their own name. One ol those companies, Lexar Media (bypy/www.lexarmagg.corn). Offers "accelwatod" Compsctpfsm media, with faster write speed gnd USS compatibility. We had0 chance to hfak dt Lexsr's 48 MB Digital Fym package,which comes with the • Jun pSnot USB connector cable,ogowino • users to plug their CompsctRash card into their PC snd reodlwrite os if the card was an external hard drive. The 48 megabyte card and JumpShot bundle is Ovgilsbla for muyhly$299 streetpri ce,and the csd's hiohar capacity makes it a onnt addition to any digital camera travel kit. —Seen Cdrrfffhsg

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Pulililm MX-2800 Es5maiedafreetpdcs $1,349 Tsk800-283-5018, ImpJtwww feiiglm.ca Adopting a different form Srctor fmm the models that are earning Pujig(m cameras a lot of attention, the MX-2900 is both bigger and more fully Smtured Bmn the other Pajiglm units in this mundup. Abo, with a resolution

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version has a metallic gold Snish (rather than the wlver Swish of the standard model), aad comes with an 8 MB manory card, and a Sandisk lmageMate awd reader with USB connectivity for downloading images Smter. Although the resolution is too lmsic for demanding users, those with a casual

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rechargeable batterf~ sh ort, everydung mxessary tomakedigital photogmphya pbasure, evea for amatears. Aswith tbe DC215, the DC240 also comes in two vmsions. The 240i has its own softcover caaying case, bnt what Tek N0-387-3867, Ispdtwwwup.nnm really i stinguisbes it from the standard At just 1 m egapixel, Hewlett-packard's DC240 is its bluetdcar plastic mse, reminisphotoSmart C200 isn't erectly leading the cent of Apple's iMac computer. timately, it pack in tenne of resolution, but it manages to may be more gimmkk than anything, but for squeeze a lot out of the resolution it hax 'ibe those who want to try something different, this

image quality is always fprrnl, and it comes with its ownbuilt-in hardshell lens cover.Even though theuserintmetce ison the dunky mde, the camera is an ezcelleat choice for buyers who want a basic point-and-chck unit with reasonably good quality without spending a ton of money. HI9bypkls • Cemm wim 8 MBmsnsy cs/d. • HsdsbellIms owerpnmdssdnndplmscben. • Inwprice makespw ciwem an scSINI valm.

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ComjsactRBSh, SmaftMed)a and IBM'8 mjcrodrive n irn poriant considerabon when purchasing a digital camera is the aze nd kind of mmovable storage it uses. It's all well and good to be able to reuse a digrial camera's memory card. bul

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quickl y become an annoyance,forang the user to download images to a PC after taking just a handful of shots. With the new generalx¹ of higher-msolution digital cameras. this issue becomes even more pressing. Photographers who plan to take a lot of shots at the highesl resolution will want to make sum they 9el 8II rila memwy rirsy need ahead oi tiros. (there's nothing mors frustrating than running oui of space on your memory card just as onwlhing intwssring is about to happen in front of your lens!j These days.most cameras make use of one of two Irinds of storage: CornpactRash,and SmariMedia. (Srmy cameras appear to be the big exception, making use either of floppy disketles or

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to many conswner cameras yet). Even with today's highest resolution digital cameras, 96 MB is a lot of storage space. allowing more than150 JPEG captures at the highest-quality setrings. Most users would pebably run out of battery power first! The biggest problem with CompactFlash is ils lagw physical size. Anhough it's ret going to be a major issue for most digital camerausem, cars thataccept CompactRashmedia are necessarily slightly thicker. (It would be much harder to implement an ultra-compact design like Fulrklm s MX-2700, ior example, 4 it used CompactRash cards.) To be fair, most cameras using CompactF lash media anm't noticeably thicker than their SmarNafiawielding counterparts. Cost-wise, the two technologies apnea tobe runnmg neck and neck.At32 MB (the highest capacity shared by both formats). both hsd a steel price of about $225 to $250 per card at the time at writing. It will be interesting to see how the pricing skews when both formats are available in 128 MB versions. Although the CompacFlash techrxriogy was created by Sandisk,othercompnn'es market the made undw their own names.

one, Cesar Media (htlpri/www,lsxsrmsdia.corn), offers "accelerated CompactFlash cards. whichhave a fasterwri te speed snd USB corn pabbility. We had a chance to kek atthe 48 MB Digital Film package, which comes with the

JumpShot USB connector cable. asowing users to rriug their CompaclRash cad into their PC and mad/write as if the cad was

an external hard drive.The48 MB card and JumpSIet bundle are available at a street price of roughly $299. The card's higher capacity makes it a great akNon to any digital camera travel kri.

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The DC290 Zoom is a big camera in a number of ways: it has a lot of features (including audio). 2.1 mcgapixcl resolution, a 20 MB CompactF)ash card, and a big form fawor that allows Ihc user to gct a good grip on th« right side of the camera. It comes with the 3x optical zoom. features both USB and infrared transfer ability, and the shutter can bc kept

open for up to I 6 seconds. For those who like their Slee uncompressed, images can be saved in TIFF format. It's a higher-priced camera that's far better suital to professional users than casual users — but even the latter will Bnd it easy to use. Ifghlighb

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A drive for storage A new enuy into the world of dignal camera storage is ISM's new microdrive. The use of a small "m in the spelling is intentional, as IBM hopes this form of storage will catch on, and the name wril become a generi tenn. Siighlly thicker than CompactRash ends but using the Type II CompactFlash form factor, the microdrive is a mechanical hwd drivs, and is currently available in 170 MB snd 340 MB capacities. Cameras with a Type II CompactRash slot can use both standard CompactRash cards and the microdrive interchangeably. Thosewho choose to use the micnxlri ve vn'll be able to store hundI8ds of photos St a camera's highest resolution. Like SmarNediaand slsndard CompaclRash, the microdme can be used in other , from handhekl PCs to MP3 play, and more. Current slnmt-level pricing ior a 340 MB microdrive is around $899. ~ Csn u rhas

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images.and theorientation detection «an bca big time-saver for those who take a lnt of photos in Portrait morc. The one minor annoyance in the camera's interj'acc is the need to hit "save" to instan tly save pi«tures. if users don' t want to wait for the autosavc delay.

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Do you have the power? Tips on digital camera batteries ver since the Grat digital camera rolled off the drawing board, they' ve had a mputation for using up batteries at an alarming rate. This is largely due to the fact timt the flash and the LCD semen onthe back ofmost cameras consume power like it's going out of style. fgnce most cameras use standard AA batteries, it's generally just a matter of popping out the old batleries and insergng a new set. This is a convenient but often very expensive solution. as some cwneras can eat through a set of batteies in as few as 30 minutes when the LCD display is in Use. One way for users to got wound this problem is to pwchase a set of rechargeable batteies and a charger. Although the initial cost of the batteries will be higher, they' ll quickly pay for themselves. You should use the highwmmpacity nickel metal hydride (NiMHj variety rather than nickel cadmium (Nicadj. Although soma camera manufacturers indude a set of rechmgeabla battem.s and 8 cheger in the camera box. it's always a good idea to got at least ono spare set for those extra-long slioots. h a(co pays to shop around. We recently saw a NiMH chwgw and set of four AA NiMH cells. branded by a digital camera maker, selling for nearly $70 at a consumer electronics store. We ended up paying less than $40 for a mmilar kit offwod by Radio Shak, then picked up another four battwies at $1 3 pw pair. So we got a cheger and Bight AA batteries for roughly the same price the other store was asking for a chmger and just lour batteias. For customem who purchase a camea that uses a pop 'etary battey, the choice is a bit harder. Although proprietary batteries are almady rechargeable and typically hold their charge for a lot longer, users who rUn oUt of powaf wlille Uslfig one of these cameos don't have the opuon of running to the comer stare and buying 8 new pack of batteries for emergency use. Momover, addaonal pmprietary batteries can bevey expwmive,running between $50 and $100 a crack. Sut users who plan to uso their new camera for extended pwiodsofgme may gnd this expensive pur-

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side. Of Nikon's newer 2.1 megapixel resolution mcdris, the Coolpix 700 is the linle sister, offering the same image quality but keeping the price down by removing some of the higher-end features. The lack oF optical zoom will put off a number of people, but for those looking for a more basic model. the high resolution and the amazing optics will be very anractive.

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• The convenOonal photography prints sarnemd the most 0rst choices, but for the majority of those who didn't pick 8 conventional print as their number one choee, they didn't rate one in the top Sve either. • Prints from 16 of the digital cameras appeared in at least one person's top five choices. • Twa/lty-two of 010d/g/tBI cameras w8/u failed by at least one person. • Two test Participants Ounked the conventional photography. What does this all mean'I For the most part, Photography is a matter of percepBon and personal taste. The output preferred by one person may not make the grade for someone else. For that reason, it may be a good idea to request inkietprinted samples when considering the Dumhase of a digital camera, to make sure your tastes are compnlibfe with its output. What is clear bom this quick experiment, is that the age of digital photography is upon us. Many of our voters were impressed with the quality of most of the digital cameras-even devoted 35 mm film camera usem. With even mors improvements in digital camera technology just around the comer, it's certain to be an area wo/OI watchingl Thanks to Lexmark for the use of the Jetprinter 5770 and to Hewntt-Packa/d for the use of a Photogmart P1100. Both of these colour ink)et printers were

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The Retail Council of Canada study also found only 26 percent of C anada's top retailers are selling online, compared to the 50 percent of the top retailers in the U.S. And this reluctance by Canadian companies to launch an online presence may cost them big in this year's Christmas rush. In 1998, U.S. consumers spent nearly US$3 billion online, andthis year, New York-based industry analyst jupiter Communications predicta Americans will spend US$6 billion. So t he question must be asked: Why are Canadian businesses reluctant to get online? Some analysts and e-commerce leaders say Continued on page 100

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commerce isfalling," Green adds. he slow rate at which Canadian businessesare catching the electmnic commerce (e-commerce) wave is causing many homegrown shoppers to send their online dogars down to the United States. This, at least, is the fmling being expressed increasingly by many analysts and e-conunerce solutions companies. According to the Ottawabased Retail Council of Canada, Canadian online shoppers spent about $668 million in 1998, a 156 percent increase over the previous year. These shoppers are buying everything from computer equipment and software to music, books, games and even cars. While this is great for e-

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do next. The situation is similar today for the novice network administrator. A dei'suit ' wtallation of a network operation system, such as Windows NT Server, just sits there. of no use to anyone until the administrator performs certain tasks. Iet' sassume NT Server4.0 and allofthe relevanthardware have been installed suc-

cessfully. Our server is the PDC (primary domain controller) and indmd, the only server in the domain. This is the simplest situation possible, chosen so that the basic concepts aren't obscured by extraneous details.

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nent to helping small- and mid-sized business make auuccmful stab at e-commerceby helping them understand what they should be doing to get there. She says that when she speaks atvarious e-commerce seminars around thecountry she isstruck not somuch by how many people say they want to get online, but by how fewactusgy lmow how to do it.

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"If they are novices, they need to asses businessand marketing stmtegles based on

their objectives and goals." Clarke adds. When I speak to an audience, what is appalling is only about Rve percent of the people in the audience have put together a businessplan and marketing objecuves based on their goals. They really have no due why they areputting up a Website." SPRmdlne the woml

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The mLmlng gnkn Certainly that is what Rare Medium Canada lnc. in Tomnto offers its small- and mid-sized business cscots. Not only does it hdp dients create a basic storefront, it offers customized solutions that can comprehensively reach a company's vertical markets. At the same time, Rare Medium tries to bridge an important gap that is often created when a company moves online:the gsp benveen the front-end Web storefront, with its

order tahng capabiTities, and the hackled pmcessesthat allow a business to fuigll its orders.

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A jokethat often makes the rounds at ecommerce events is of s business that has a flashy Web store&out with all the latest beUs and whistles and takes credit card orders, but spits out a piece of paper with information that later has to be typed into the system by some poor soul later in the day. What Rare Medium does is work with a variety of third parties, developing ways to link

a business to asupply chain and distributor so it can better fulfill its orders. "There are opportunities to work with third parties that can do that," says Greg Rubidge, managing director for Rare Medium. "Our firm acts as a conduit to the other companies in the industry who can make that happen."

hosted e -commerce solutions t h rough Netscape' slineof enterprise software snd professional service organization. The association allows SsskTel to offer services ranginf from bill presentment and payment, to secure online ordering to small- snd mid-sized businesses. "So a smafi business now does not have to go out and buy all of the capital investments and software, and then do ag of the integration

marketing at the Sun-Netscape Alliance in Toronto. "Until recently, most services that were created for small businesses were of z pure technology kind, and they often were not very functionally rich, or lwerel too capital intensive and expensive. So many small businesses could not get onto the Web to conduct e-business." When looking at what e-commerce solution

not too late and we are going to see, in the next year. a rapid improvement." "We' ve seen Chapters, Indigo snd Future Shop go online, and the Retail Council of Canada and federal government are really trying to encourage Canadian businesses to adopt an e-commerce way of doing business. And when you say we are faging behind, who are we falling behind? The U.S. But we are ahead of most other places in the world like Europe,

providers are doing to help businesses get work," says Jonathan Tice,seniordirectorfor online, IDC Canada's Green is optimistic: "It is Japan and Asia."0

Addressing the problems of linking a business's front- and back-ends is one of the goals of Multiactive Software's Entice! Solution. Released in the summer, Entice! is touted by the company as a "customer-centered solution" for the mid-market that organizes aB of the store&ont activities on an e-commerce site

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a good or service. "Entice! is a solution that is made to transition a business into an e-business by integrating the sales, marketing and service functions onto the Internet," says Multiactive

Software's Halverson. "A lot of companies I' ve talked to have not made that connection, or just don't think it is an important issueto connect the front-end Web storefront to the

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Canadian open source projects arshaa McLuban would have had a field day with the open source movement. Talk about "global village":

Wine is a Windows com-

Linux was born in Finland. LyX iscentred in France. The SuSE

patibility layer that allows users to run selected

distribution of Linux is

Windows16-bitand 32-

based in Germany,and TurboUnux was devdoped in the Far East. FreeBSD, NetBSD and

bit applications directly from their X Window

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tives to Linux) evolved out of the creative vortex of the University of

Unux Isetwinder boxes Corel's involvement with Linux began with a hardware initiative. It developed a small

(desk-dictionary size) Linux box built around the StrongARM RISC processor. It created three versions of the box, called the Netwinder: a small-department server, a

Following the trend of recent commercial distributions, it indudesa graphical management developer's box, and a thinnish-client endtool for configuring and customiring the sys- user version. tem, plus a feature for updating the system via the Web. Corel's involvement with Linux runs deep. Seeing a potential market for its fiagship WordPerfect product, as well as itsfuU

oflice suite, Corel has been contributing

California at

Berkeley, while Richard Comt embraces Unux Coral (lepihwa.coral.cora) endeared itself to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Linux community when it released Coral near Boston. W ordPerf ect8forUnux and made abasi«verCanada is also home to some energetic sion (miausextra fonts andgraphics) available open-source activities. Ottawa-based Carel at no charge. Coral WordPerfect 8 was the first Corp. previously releasedCoral WordPerfect 8 mainstrem desktop application available for for Linux andhasnow releasedan entire Linux Linux and it was a success fmm the iastant it distribution callel Coml Linux. A Coral asso- hit the wires. ciate company, Rebel.corn. hss introduced Over a million people downloaded it from small sdf-contained, easy-to-adminhner Unux the Coml Website within a few months of its bases based on the StmngARM pmoessor. A release,aad it is aow induded in nearly every Vancouver, B.C., starmp company, Stormix commercial distribution of Linux. Que has Technologies Inc., has released a distri1>ation aheady releawxl a book devoted to it: Using of Liaux calltul Storm Unux. And Calgary, Carel WordPerfscr 8for Linux, by Roderick W. Alberta, is the home of OpenBSD, the open- Smith, 1999 (ISBN: 0-7897-20329, $59.95). source OS that some security analysts consider More recently Cord bas released its own Stallman's GNU Project started out life at the

the most secure Unix distribution available.

on t h e r e liable D ebian G N U/Linux (httpitwww.dehbh.org), Coral Unux adds easeof-use features aimed at new users. Centred on the KDE interface, Coral Unux includes a graphical instafiarion akin t o C a ldera OpenLinux 3.2 and Red Hat Unux 6.1.

valuablecoding efforts to the opea-source

Wine project (hltpi/wnw.wlashq.org). Wine is a Windows compatibility layer that allows users to run selected Windows 16-bit and

32-bit applications directly from their X Window System environment. The Wine projecthas bees making steady progress through the effort of volunteer programmers, but the Corel input hasgivea the project additional impetus. What Cord is ssisting with in partictdar is

a Wine API layer that will allow Corers native Windows ofilce suite to run in Unux, without haviag to maintain separate Windows and Linux devdopment streams. If successfuL this could benefit Liaux users and Windows devel-

Rehetcom's Netstndw

Before brinpng it to market, however, opers alike, forming a bridge between Unux Coral sold oif its hardware division to an and Windows pmgramming. distn1>ation of Unux called Coral Unux. Based

OS 9 advances the Mac platform Major OS release embraces Apple's core markets and the Web It's no secret that the emergence of the Web has created an opportunity for Apple to coapple's renewed focus and discipline has tinue its explosive gmwth and make even furgestated another major system software ther significant inroads into the mainstream ease—its second in just two years. marketplace. The trick will be Mac OS 9 is the latest milestone offering that to anticipate how conhas been precedel by various other upgrades sumers will use this new and updates labeled as 8.0, 8.1, 8.5, 8.5.1, and medium, then careful-

ay Peter Mgburn

8.6. In an industry where development cydes ly craft an operating of morethan a few years are the norm, the systemaround those competition is beginning to sit up and take needs. OS 9 seems notice.

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after you have run the updater. The instager CD-ROM also indudes updates for Stufilt Expander, DropStuff an d A p pleWorks Surprisingly, Final Cut Pm also required an update at the time of OS 9's release, but this should be available for download from Apple's Web site by the time you read this. FaxSTF 5.04 and Retrospect 4.2 are the latMacintouch (htlp://www.macin-

incompatibilities after the upgrade, allowing you to easily return your hard disk to its previous state. You should get in the habit of checking for third-party extension, control pand and application compliance before you bey'n an upgrade. Pmbably the best two sites to verify these issues are

touch.corn) and M ac Fixit (hllp://www.macfixit.corn), which compile reports and feedback &omApple and the usercommunity before and

est releasescompaable with OS 9. If you still haveSpeedDoublerandRAM Doublerkicking amund, I'd suggest abandoning them since they' re incompatible aad aren't really necessary with this OS. If you own a Hewlett-

PackardDeskwriter 600 scrim printer,or an lf you are a publisher, or HP Desk)et 600/800 series inkjet printer, you' ll

after each OS rdease.

have to wait for updates on HP's Web site before migrating to OS 9. Even though I' ve never The last step to ensuring that your upgrade eacountered a s e rious and Type Manager Dduxe (which are goes without a hitch is to choose the Mac OS problem during a system upgrade, I alwaysbegin the processby doing a available for f ree o a A dobe's site at All set in the Extensions Manager, dose its complete backup of my hard disk, induding htlpJ/atria.adobe.corn). OS 9 safely relocatesthe window, insert the OS 9 CD-ROM, thea the entire System folder. This comes in handy incompatible ATM version into the Control restart your Mac while holding down the "C" Continued on page /08 if you discover any extension or application Panels (disabled) folder. so don't enable it until own any typefaces from the Adobe library, it is essential that you update Adobe Type Manager

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B S D fa m ily — FreeBSD, N etBSD

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Re bel.corn OpenBSDplus — a commercially supported

company that bills its

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tionship with Rebel.corn. Running the StrongARM processor, the Rebel.corn Netwinders use very little power and generateverylittleheat. The setup and adminiitration of the pre-loaded Linux takes place via a remote PC running Windows and s Java-based Web browser. Hence you can simply pop them into a corner or into a server rack without a monitor or keyboard attached. The Netwinders have network cards built in (the server has two

o f them) and youcan almost use themasplug

every line of code has been audited for security. In addition, it includes strong encryption p r ograms that cannot be legally exported from t he U.S. due to the export laws of that country (e ncryption is considered a miTitary secret). OpenBSD is based in Calgary. The OpenBSD CD-ROM proudly proclaims "Made inCanada: land of free cryptography." Conrinved on page 112

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Vancouver startup company Stormix cated to Linux and open source solutions for business and home users. The company has released Storm Linux, a distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. As with Corel Linux, Storm Linux sports a graphical installation procedure (plus the option of a text-based install), and SAS (Storm Administration System), a set of controls for system admin and maintenance. SAS comes in both graphical and text fl avours. Storm Linux includes the StarOIEce S.la suite of office applications as part of the distribution.

The primary goal of the company is to make Linux easier to use. It is contemplating things like tutorials and wuards embedded into the distribution. What is interesting is that both Cord Linux and Storm Linux are building on the excellent but lesser known Debian GNU/Linux base. Both companies are attempting to make Debian easier to use. Storm was started by three developers: R. Garth Wood, Kevin

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you should be aware ofIiw Cansdmn Uncd Users' Exchange (CLUE}. The goal

Technologies (http//www.stormix.corn) is dedi-

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One of the first things I noticed shortly after the upgrades on both machines was that the

Apple menu wasconspicuously shorter. Closer examination revealed that six items were missing. It seems that the installation process

Sherlock 2 Sherlock made its debut in Mac OS8.5, where it was an instant hit. Sherlock 2 has tons of

In addition to the standard search plug-ins (such as AltaVista, Excite, etc., which are grouptxt with the standard Internet channel),

metallic look of S herlock and QuickTime makes it hard for the user to quickly and easily distingtdsh the contml elements. For examthere are sets of spedalty plug-ins gmuped ple, the dose box and the window-resue han-

with channels labeled People, Shopping, News, dle blend into the overall appearance. These Refer ence andApple.W ith Sherlock 2,you can elements should contrast strongly with the rest enhancements and refinements that make also create your own channels to suit your of the interface so they are immediately recogsearching your local storage, network volumes organizational tastes. nizable as elements that perform a function. and the Interneteven faster,easierand more One improvement to Sherlock's user inter- Furthermore. the Sherlock window is missing enjoyable. face is that it no longer opens separate win- a zoom box and windowshade control, which Apple dropped Sherlock's tabbed folder dows for every search result. Instead. it lists are elements found on ag other Mac windows. interface in favor of a row of channel buttons that categorize the type of search you want to perform. Starting Rom the IeR side of the mw, you can choose to search one ormore localor

hits withio the Sherlock window, while at the same time changing the result column headings to reflect the context of the search. For example, the Shopping channel will show pricing and availability, whereas the People chan-

I could go on describing other faults with the inter('ace design but others have already covered this issue in detail. Hopefully, Apple is just going thmugh an experimental phase and will recognize the shortcomings of this new "show-

removes older versions of Apple CD Audio remotevolumes for 6les based on name or Player, Apple DVD Player, Apple Video Player, content. One really useful new feature is the nel will display columns for email addresses case" appmach. Graphing Calculator and SimpleSound, plac- abiTity to save complex boolmn 6)e searches as and phone numbers. i ng newer versions i n t h e r oot o f t h e a set accessible via a pop-up menu —which Sherlock 2 has tremendous utiTity for Web Mu)09!e users Applications and Apple Extras folders. To m eans youdon't have to recreate the search searches, however, it will have to depend on

restore all of these items to the Apple menu, each time you require it. Moving to the right, searching the Web has you can create aliases and dmp them into the beenbroken down intoaseriesofchannelbutApple Menu Items folder. One thing I usually check right after an tons that de6ne a speci6c category of search. upgrade is how much more system resources (such as hard disk storage and RAM) are consumed. Fortunately , OS 9's requirementsoverand above those of OS 8.6— aren't that

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several times to gain access to my account. If you use this featmu be prepared to resort to

simplified but dfective way of creating a multi-user envimnment with security privileges. In situations where one computer is shared by several people, such as at home and in schools, At Easebecame a popular utility. In OS 9, a more sophisticated multi-user capability has been more doiely integrate)

your typed password on occasion. It's interesting to note that Apple designed recyded from the early '90s PowerTalk days the password architecture to be modular so that has been injected into OS 9.The Keychain third parties could add their own forms of verification through devices such as a retina or fingerprint scanners.

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Of course, this is the fascination and lure of Comdex. Will one be able to spot the technology trends as they emerge at a show that still attracts a wide range of start ups as well as mainline hardware and software firms? It is interesting to note how many of our picks

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along with new-born artificial intelligence (AI)

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software and access to real-time information about our money Rod Lsmlmnd Discount Snd winy he PC has always been about money. I nterestingly, while t h e e volution o f Not just because of the profit it has Microsoft's product has been swift and proproduced fo r m a nufacturers b ut found. the price has always been low. Like ecause of its ability to manipulate data, usu- many before it,Intuit mustlie awake at night, y in the form of a spreadsheet, and usually add up digits that begin with dollar signs. The early PC, in many ways, was a sophistimted calculator used mosdy by businesses. It

ook the arrival of the graphical user interface GUIL in the form of Windows, OS/2, and the vlac OS to transform the personal computer rom a hobbyist's pursuit into an entertainnent/productivity tool for the general popuation. That development set the stage for the irrival of personal financial software. The first such program was Quicken, from I company called Intuit. Its early products vere DOS- snd Vrindows-based programs for >ters who wanted to track bank accounts, >rint cheques, budget, and perform other uoney-related functions. The category of >ersonal financial software grew through the 90s with various players appearing, then disippearing due to acquisitions, mergers or nsolvency. For the last year o r t wo, vlicmsoft's Money has been Quicken's only eal «ompetitor.

for clearly Microsoft has expended great effort to build, sell, and even discount a produ«t that is in many ways an equal to Intuit's. Why? Microsofi has scores of products, many of whi«h receive much less attention. As a technology writer I am not privy to what goes on behind the doors of either Microsoft or Intuit; however, by looking at some important developmentsthat have occurred regarding consumers and financial information, it is possible to make some assumptions.

The Wsb chsngsd svsrythlng Initially, banks saw that customers wanted to use their home computers to see their bank accounts.Some banks and credit unions began to offer software programs that connected via local telephone lines across the country totheir private networks. As the new Net phenomenon devdoped, everyone saw the opportunity, but there was insufficient se«urity in that access method. Both financial institutions and personal financial software companies saw that they were related but their goals never aligned, and thus banks and credit unions wrote their own shallow computer interfaces with limited functionality and no universality while perContinued on page I 16

Weaving your own Web site: Part 51 An in-depth look at Cascading Style Sheets: Part 9 ry KsMhBohsnggl-Roberts n this artide we conclude our look into Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) properties by looking at the propertiesVERTIO/IL-AUGN.

BOTTOM,BOTTOM and TOP.BASELBIEalignsthe The WHITE~ACB prupsrty ACEpmperty is designed to add baseline of the element to that of the parent The WHITE-SP element, while MIDDLEaligns the text to the extra spaces (i.e., "white space") between

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whichhasdri venthecompany slncs it began in 1873. Roots is really lucky in that ws think we have a perfectly suited business for the Internet. hs adds. We believe we will be Canada'8mast successfulSnd important Wsb site."

Green said hsalso askedIor input Sum his 17-ysaredd son and his friends ss to what Roots should be doing with ths sits

and what kind ofcontent would appeal to teenagers as"thsy are part of theaudience we are dirsckng this towards as this Is 8 gsnsratke that has grown up around conlplltms. Ths appeal oi an sstabllshad Canadian brand should be welcomed by CanarHan «ellns shoppers. Tmunto-based Intematkeal Oats Corp. Canada prsdicts that by 2003, intsmst commecs will gmw to 81 2.8 binon, repnwsnting some 4.6

pmcsnt of total mtail spending inCanada. Howsvsf, 83 pe«wit OI SIS doiialS cufrsntly spent by Canadians online goes to

Lks.-based sitesbecauseof thelack of major C nadl8fl mtag nalnaS afld Canadian-basedsmvlees on ths Wab . "Roots is 8 big Canadke rstallar and you are now easing reasonably sized companies stalgng to take the plunge,' addsJordan Worth,tslscommunkmhons anaiyslIorIOC Canada. "But 800 you sas a lot mes hssitancy In Canada because it costs a kri oi money to put up 8 Wsb sits

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The AUTO setting, which is the default value, sets the image to its normal size.WIDTH The NORMALvalue for WHITE-SPACEsimply can also take a specigc measurement value, tells the browser to format a line of text as it which sizes the width of the image to the normally would, by removing excess spaces value desired. It can also take a percentage that appear between words. PRE works exacdy value that sizes the width of the image in like the <PRE> HTML tag, retaining the origi- relation to the overall height of the browser nal spacing and carriage returns between let- window. The following example shows all ters and words on s page. The NOWRAPvalue three values at work: also retains the original spacing between letters snd words, but ignores any carriage <IMGSTYLE='WIDTH.AUTO" SEC="myimsge.gii">This returns, so you would have to insert a line image is sei to its natural sue (AUTOseitingi. break("<BR>") to insert a carriage return on <P> the Web page.The following example code <IMG STYLE="YYIDTH2IN' SRC="rnyimage.gif'>This shows the PRE value in action: Image Is sei to 2 inches in width. <P> <P STYLE="YYHITE-SPACE: PRE"> <IMGSIYLE='YYIDTH.50%' SRC="myimage.gif'>This image is set to 50%of the browser window's width As Yoe wlgsee

the extra white spaces andcarnage returns in this sentence are abdisplayed "as is". </p>

While NDTH is really meant to be used with images, unlike HEIGHT, it will have an appreciable effect on other Web elements, such as text, though its use is not recommended in this case This property is not suppomed at all within as the results can vary. WIDTH is fully supportinternet Explorer, and only the PRE and NOR- ed under Internet Explorer. Netscape MAL values are supported in Netscape Navigator does not support its use with Navigator. images, but does with text. The WIDTH Properly The WIDTHproperty is used to scale an element (most typi«agy an image) to the desired vertical length on a Web page, and is the sibling

property to HEIGHT (explored earlier in this series). WIDTH can take one of three different values; a unit of measurement value, a percentagevalue,and the name value AUTO,whi ch sets the element to its default size.

WORD-SPACINGisbest used for emphasis rather than for use across the complete text on a Web page. The following code pmvides a good

exampleof how WORD-SPAONG should and should not be used on s Web page: <H2 AUGN="CENTER" STYLE='WORD-SPACINGi 0.5CM;">Notice HowThis Header StandsOut on the Page</H2> <P STYLE="WORD-SPACING 5IN;"> Trf not to gooverboard whenusing Ifiis property, becauseYoucan take emphasis too Isr it YOudon' t watch out. </p>

Continued from page I I5 and unless an organization understands what they want to do with it and how to drive business through It, it can be a vary scary experience." The Roots site is hasted on IBM Global Services' Universal Server Farm. It also uses IBM's Net.Commerce snd Global Merchant e commerce soiutiona-Including credit card processing, sales tax calculation, and coordination of Oltter fulflgrnant —to PIOCSSSordsm.

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In this example, you will see e header effectively spread out across the top of the Web page, as each word is spaced out fmm the other by 0.5 cm. It instantly grabs your attention because it is so dikerent from most of the text in other headers you are likely to run

across. However, the words in the paragraph that follow the header are each spaced 5 in. apart, making it hard to read, and likely requiring the reader to scroll down through what is actually a small amount ol text. As always, be careful and do not go overboard when using properties like WORD-SPACINGor

Thu WORD eIPACING Property LETTER-SPACI NG. IO WORD-SPACINGis very similar in eSect to the LETTER-SPACING property, but i nstead of Next time: Units of measurement and colour in adding extra space in between all of the indi- CSS. Keitb Scbengili-Roberls welcomesany comvidual letters, it adds space between various ments ,suggestionsorNTMLtipsyoumayhave.You words. It can take one of two values: NORMAL, can email Keith at robertskGwave.home.corn Look which usesthe default word spacing values for his recentbookon HTML, TheAdmncedIIIIYIL ,2nd EdNon,co-autbored by Kfm Silkused by the browser; or a unit of measure- Companion

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IBM Canada Ltd. says Roots chose IBM because "we understand scaiablliiy. security. and reliability." Scalability is an important Issue for Roots, which is sxqanding its online rstag reach Into the U.S. in time for the holi day buying season. The Bostonbased Boston Consulting Group is predicting online shoppers will have spent an estimated US$23 million over in 1999 Christmas shopping rush, up from US$7.5 million for the same period in 1998. The idea was to gst Canada up and running and saa whatever bugs there ars and fix them, and find whatever Ioglsbcs need to be fixed, Green said. Gnmn hopes to be pulling some $1 0 million to $20 million in sales through the Wsb site by the end of 2000. Roots, on average, has annual sales of $200 million through its 120 mtail stares. Ci

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The brain drain Companies need to focus on internal culture to keep talented employees By Tom Venetlu ' e debate rages over the scale-

according to Statistics Canada's Scott Murray, who preseated his research at a 1998 forum on whether a brain drain to the U.S. exists.

Nasturzio suggests high-tech workers and develops high-end business-to-business and graduates want to be in environments that are

business-to-consumer applications, it knew it could not attract graduates and high-tech

not only challenging but where their contriand even the existence— of a "When you look at the high-tech industry butions are appreciated. Mahng them feel national brain drain of technology in Canada as opposed to the States, to say that they are stuck in a back room, or are simply workers to the U.S., Caaadian high-tech com- taxes [arel the reason why American reduced to taldng care of a couple of servers

workers by ofFering high salaries. Instead, it offered employees an environment in which they could learn new technologies, and in

panies are realizing that they' ll experience a recruiters are taking Canadian high-tech

or computers, is a sure way to lose them, no

which mentoring was encouraged to help

brain drain on a corporate level if they don't

graduates is disingenuous," suggests Seth matter howmuchmoney they arebeing paid.

employeesunderstand new technologiesand

find better ways to reach out to high-tech graduates and create a challenging, exciting environment for them to work in once they' ve been hired.

Klein, director of the B.C. ofnce of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Vancouver. And others suggest if graduates are leaving Canada, it has more to do with the kinds of job environments that U.S. companies are

expand their skills.

Bruin drain debate While the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute blames Canada'stax systems fordriving near-

oFering Canadians. Al Nasturzio, regional vice-president for

Keeping employees intemeted

Vancouver-based DNA Media ServicesInc.

Christine Bacinski, associate instructor/consultant for the Toronto Technology Gmup (TFG), found after graduating fram ITI that many employers were not doing enough to

similarly encourages its nearly 50 employees to mentor each other in the technologies and projects they do in order to foster an environment where they are constantly chauenged. attract or keep skilled graduates like herself. DNA translates computer solutions for forOften, she and her dassmates were olFered eign markets in Asia and Eumpe, and knows

ly 40 percent of recent graduates in science, the Toronto-based Information Technology unchallengingjobs, or the companiesshowed

technology workers are wiuing to move to a

medicine and management out of the coun-

diFerent company if they feel they are not challenged or supported in their work "Creating a good working environment is one of our top priorities... and can outweigh

Institute (ITI), says some graduates from his try (a themefrequently echoed in the popular college have been lured to the U.S. by the press and news broadcasts), Statistics Canada higher salaries, but more often it is the greater suggests highly educated Canadians are not job support and continuous training that is leavingthe country in droves, and whatever the inducement to move. lasses there may be are outweighed by the "We keep hearing that people are leaving number of highly educated and technically because of the 6nancial beneets and the tax trained people coming into the country. structure in the U.S.." Nastutzio adds. "I don' t "There is linle statistical evidence in sup- think that is the whole reason. The envimnport of a large scale exodus of knowledge ment is absolutely critical: not only the working workers from Canada to the United States," environment, but whotheyare working for."

little interest in helping those they did hire continueto upgrade their skills as technology

changed.

"[Companiesl feel, certainly at the introductory level, that we are pretty much a dime bow much you are making," says Mike a dozen and they don't really have to cater to Richards, business development manager for our needs,and they don't have to appreciate DNA. "We have regular sessions and minius asmuch becausethere will be others com- classes that people put on because it is ing along," Bacinski adds. impossible for everyone in the company to TTG recognized this when it launched less do what everyone else does. But having a

than a year ago. As a startup company that

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As Bruce McConnell of the where we live. In Canada, we have

force myself to sit down on International Y2K Cooperation Nov. 2 I to watch the made-for-

TV movie y2K. I regardedit as homework, in the sense that this was the only large-

scale year 2000 (Y2K) drama that was going to be released before the year 2000 actually

Center put it. In reality, the most

significant risk Y2K poses is not localized technology failure, but

one of the most advanced, and

most computer-dependent sori- one of the most vulnerable parts of eties on earth. As another recent U.S. government report pointed out, Canada is therefore, theoreti-

a degradation in the cally, highly vulnerable toY2K disp erformance of t h e fll ptlons. connected relationships However, asa result of spending among el ectronic tens of billions of dollars to devices, procedures, address the problem in the last

happens. Apparently, most producers fig-

people, and organiza-

ured that any Y2K disaster movies would

make modern life

According to Al Aubrey, IBM Canada'shead of Y2K preparations, the infrastructure is the HVAC

(heating, ventilation. air conditioning) category.Many modem buildings risk going dead this winter if

testing software, checked and

their computerized temperature

and word processed files.

contmL pumps,fi ms,trans(owners, alarms, power regulatorsand other equipment hasnot been completethree years, Canada is one of the ly checkedand madeY2K-pmof.

t ogether most Y2K-ready countries in the world. Nevertheless, if anything workable and efficien." goeswrong, it will go wrong at the I think this global systems worst possible time — in the midonly be of interest, briefly, right before the rollover to 2000, and approach to Y2K may give us a dle of the Canadian winter. In terms of the global money regwould be of no interest at all af'ter- better hint of what's going to hapwards. Most passed on the chance pen corn»the new year.To put it gion, Canada's temples, the banks to make feature films with such a simply, I think the can of worms and other financial institution, are rigid "best-before" date. that opens up on New Year's Day highly Y2K ready. Not too far agenI thought the Y2K movie was a could be big and very messy,even behind are the g lousy production, and it enor- if it isn't the kind of apocalypse ries, public utiTities and Fortune mously oversimplified and dumb- that the gun-happy survivalists 1,000 companies that havegenerally ed down a very complex issue.In and end-of-the-worlders are pre- done a pretty thomugh job prepar-

tions that

overnm ent

particular, it quiridy moved to a dicting. I think the event will be U.S.-centric view, and focused on significant globally, and possibly one big technical threat (a break- have effects that last for months. down at a U.S. nuriear plant), Will Y2K's effects be catastrophpretty much ignoring every other ic, serious, embarrassing, mildly

Backed up all the businessdata on the hard drive on Zip cartridgesand CD-ROMs. Downloaded the Microsoft Y2K

Think globally... Outside the 20 or so most industrialized countries, government attention, and funds for Y2K

fixed all the critical businessrelated database, spreadsheet Ensured that if power does go down for any length of time, our extended famfly has made anangementsfor winter camping" in our housesfor at least a few days. However Y2K turns out, I' ve

had myown techshock by degrees

remediation, have generally been over the last three years. I have grossly insufftrient. We may see developed avery skeptical attitude test by failure for whole countries towardsour reliance on computer which won't go away, where government and in&astruc- technology, ture Y2K readiness is at the miser- no matter howthe next 30daysgo. Ironically, I'm writing this artiably low level of Canadian small businesses. A U.S. government c le on a c ommuter train i n advisory to pull diplomatic staff

Toronto, which has been sitting

ing for Y2K, and which now riaim out of former East Bloc countries about a mile short of the station they will only I'aceminor internal is an indication of the high proba- for the last hour, due to a power failure to the track signals.I've issuesre)ated to the Y2K problem. bility of trouble in that region.

beentrappedonthe train, with my At the local level, however. notebook's batteries r unning Canada's small to medium busi- . Aot locally possible consequence of Y2K. The irritating, or triviaff I hope I'm nesses, which represent the bulk of If Y2K turns out to be just another down, watching the computer's movie also ended about three wrong, but I t h ink i n some employment and new economic bizarre bout of mass hysteria. dock as I become increasingly late hours into 2000, local time, which instances it will quite seriously growth in Canada, are mostly Y2K- along the lines of other end-of- for a meeting with Microsnft and didn't provide much insight as to affect people's daily work and unready. In a great many casts, the-world panics, great.I' ll be the Hewlett-Packard. Faith in technology? Not me. ves.Ifwe're lucky,many of companies and individuals have flrst to laugh at my own nervouspossible l onger-term c onse- home li the breakdowns can be fixed decided, either deliberatriy or by ness. However, just in case, I' ll have For the next little while at lmst, quences of the Y2K problem. quickly, and collectivdy will be no simply avoiding this issue, to "test taken the following precautions I'm going to be a true believer in Murphy's Law: "If it can go wrong, gfntatia muiandi more than a blip that doesn't gen- by failure." Many of us will simply before Dec. 31: ' Checked and updated the BIOS it will — and at the worst possible wait it out and see what stops erate long-term damage. If we' re The old Latin saying. muraris on the family business's main time." iu ttadi, translates into "every- unlucky, someparts of the world, working after New Year's Eve, and Happy newyear! I2 PC (a I 998 Dell desktop). thing affects everything else," and and the global economygenerally, then try to get someone to fix it. could take a significant hit. this especially applies toY2K. Even if we avoid most of the disAccording to hsuings before the gu,OI0ZV, ~, 20ryaty yi0uBgdt)zsgmdtvg Q(AV, y)K 5QHTHAytzo( aster scenarios —nuclear plant U.S. Smaze in October (htlpJitnnzssnit(g AII gtggyiyrb Bgylgt2 'NltttcstgWith gttisgRK tny Jsg AS55-'Igst ate.gosl-y2tt/heaiingsl991013/), expert meltdowns, nuclear weapon malgiytkztsoi AR%drATB IIPW A'tgAtLPlV Nrz Astpbgy ptz ytcVLy15 tyyet witnesses on Y2K riaimed that the functions,power, gas and telecom ytryPPVPSKS? N0%. 1d tzsszrsgAcanydyt spectacular fitilutes featured in sen- grid shutdowns, mass small busiFttnnAtt Ctyytdg 'rfltffg gtqtS'0 sational, media and entertainment ness bankruptcies — I would be NNft y(nit rysILv MV Nstttp .~ AAkytsgg. q coverage are lesslikriy to occur than surprised if our faith in computers 0RNKZ a more complex phenomenon: the doesn't take a considerable hit. deriine of economies over an

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