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the transceivers needed to be both small and energy eflicient. Out of those design constraints came a technology that could be incorporated in a wide range of digital devices. An obvious example from the computing world of how this technologycan be employed isdocking a personal digital appliance (PDA) to a PC. Currently. if I want to synchronize my handheld with a desktop PC, I need to connect the two vis a serial port. I «an wirelessly synchronize the handheld with my infrared (IR) portenabled notebook, but the two IR ports need to maintain a line of sight. This isn't a problem for devices with Bluetooth, as it uses radio fre-

on yourcommute to work, and have the phone download email to your notebook computer as it sits in its carry bag. When you arrive at your destination and flip open your notebook, the latest messages will be ready for your peruslL As a tourist, you could approach a Bluetooth-enabled kiosk and have it download a local city map or restaurant guide to your PDA. Thesearesome scenarios Bluetooth supportershope to one day realize. Bluetooth-enabled home products could include most home entertainment products (TVs, stereos, camcorder, etc.) and of course the telephone. A Bluetooth-enabled telephone could allow you to surf the Web from your Bluetaoth-enabled TV, or download MP3 files to your Bluetooth-enabled stereo. On the down side, you'd have to worry about bands of quency (RF) technology, so no line of sight is roving crackers trying to fool your phone into needed. disarming the Bluetooth security system or With developments such as Bluetaoth, in activating the Bluetooth garage door opener. the near future, you might be able to set your Those possibilities — and concerns — may computer and organizer so they constantly some day be real, but the technology has a

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historical I'act is that the Canadian branch of pletion time wastwo and a balf ymir (not six the Computing-Tabulating-Recording compa- weeks) —stig less than a third of the time of ny changed its name to International Business the previous (1880) census. Machines Company in I917, seven ymrs George Dunbar beforeth«parent company name-change.

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Adobe Photoshop is the Iekyg and Hyde of graphics programs. On one hand it has been not only the leading graphics tool but also one of the pioneers (along with Micrografx Picture Publisher) ia establishing the basic functionality of ph o to-manipulation s oftware. Photoshop also tops the field in technical feats for layering and path actions. On the Hyde side. however, Photoshop can be cumbersome to learn and relies on thirdparty plains to come up to industry standard functionality in such areas asbrushes and ease of use. Such a rich pragram stumbling on such mundane features is hard to get used to.

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Overview:JASCPalntShop Prois sharewareapplication thaihas graduatedtothe bitmapbig lime with its blend of valueanduhlily. Pros; Goadbalance of editing features and intuitive

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some trepidation about how to acres the controls. That has changed with Painter's new control dialogues, which are afl stacked neatly together. But the real pleasure of working with Painter is its natural brushes, which emulate airbrushing. chalk, watercolour paints. and other natural media with uncanny fidelity. Now airbrushing reflects the ef'feet of tilt

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change, however, is the stability in the code.

The last two versions had the worst record by far of all the graphics programs I' ve used: six MetaCreat iona' Painter used to be in a position crashes in an eight-hour editing session. similar to Micmsoft's PhotoDraw: possessing (brush angle), bearing (direeions of brush- Painter 6.0, in contrast, has been rock solid outstanding natural media-like brushes and ing), flow (wheel settings based on use of (but I am keeping my fingerscrossed). In sum, effects but having an arcane system of floaters Wacom's Airbrush Stylus or other pressure Painter is back at the top because of its mastery and plugin objects for layering and masking. sensitive tablets), and pooling (accumulation of graphics media, while offering ag the power Unlike PhotoDraw, MetaCreations changed afl of paint when the brush is held stationary). and convenienceofm asksand layers.Thenew that in Painter 6.0, which now uses standard Impasto or depth effects can also be emulat- interface makes it considerably easier to use, layers and masks (which convert to Adobe- ed more dosely. And the interaction of existing though it truly is Mac-oriented with its lack of compatible layersandchannels when an image colours/paint on canvas with the current Windows functions su«h as right-mouse butis saved into Photoshop's PSD foenat) with brushis enhanced with new/expanded bleed, ton activation and hover hints. some unique added twists. dryout and feather settings. And new brush Rngng:4.3 oxt of5. For example,an icon on the status bar loadings allow multiple colours and better allows sel«ctions/masks to be universafly brush/canvas interaction to be assigned to a Comfmmgve nnnlyskt turned off, turned inside on. or turnel outside brush. The results are dazzling. Our three A lot of readers may wonder what the increon. This is very handy when a mask is not quite favorit mental benefits of the five products just dise features are: right and you need to touch up outside the l. Integration with pressure sensitive tablets cussedare,w hen compared with lower-priced mask, then quickly switch back Likewise, visifrom Wacom, and others, for emulation of or &eebie software (packagesthatcome bunbility masksare available for every layer and natural brush effects is still the best. dled with digital cameras and inkjet printers, can be created by choosing one of a simple set 2. Brush controls are the strongest in the busi- for example). Mere is a list of the functions

Mere is what the pmgrams reviewed in this artide add to the list: 1. Many more options for image transformation and colour corrections —most of which

are easier to use. 2. AbiTity to mask a portion of a picture to select ively apply brushes, correct colours, and apply effects and transformations. 3. Dozens of predefined brushes and effects, which can be further tweaked with senings

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4. The abiTity to combine several pictures using layers with user-customized transparencyforcofl ngcsand composite images. 5. Assigning text to a curval path, plus the ability to adjust properties like colour, type, angle, and size to sentences, words, and/or

individual letters 6. Support for more output options: induding saving in various compressal fife formats,

outpumng mmanymore devices,and offerof operations like colour luminance. And the ness,which meansmakingyour own toolsis you'S probablyget with a freebie progranx nd maybe tr ansf ormation ing morc layout formats. visibility mask itself can be ahtel using the in enny ascan be. I. Picturecrop pinga features (e.g., rotate, skew, flip horizontafly 7. Many more Web options, including optisametools usedfor editing images. 3. The dozens of included template brushes and vertically). mized fl)e compression, transparency conThe other major part of Painter 6.0's allow you to create any natural or unnatural makeover is a new set of control dialogues that expand and contract like tflrectory trees in Windows Explorer. This makes getting at the many brush, object, and effmts settings much more manageable. With the last few versions of Painter, I welcomed the new features with

2. Colour correction for brightness, contrast, hue, and possibly saturation and luminance. In sum, MetaCreations hasreafly cleaned up 3.Simple brushes for touch-ups, that offer the brushes in Painter 6.0, and in doing so. zoom in and out views. revitalized the whole program. And to boot, 4. Possibly masking and selazion tools that allow for fine control of colour correction the developers keep adding to the Web fea-

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preparation interface, essentially consolidating the entire process so everything takes place within one huge dialogue box called Save for Web. Using the LiveView panels available in Photoshop or ImageReady. you can view your images with up to four variations, Choose from CIF, IPEG, PNG-6, or PNC-24 hqe formats, and compare quality, file size, and download time. Using the new Lossy GIF feature, you can incrementagy set the GIF size. AU optimization controls exist here, including: Colour, Dither, Matte, Format, Image Size, Loading Speed, and more. Photoshop 5.5 is now closely integrated with ImageReady 2.0. And both applications can be installed at the same time."lump-to" buttons on the toolbars make it simple to switch between the applicauons while working on the same file. Clicking on the button in Photoshop immediately saves the current hie and opens it in ImageReady, and vice versa. Even better, aU edits in the prior application can be removed in the History palette. In this release, Adobe has built aU of the main Web export features into Photoshop itself, while ImageReady contains basic retouching capabilities. This feature minimizes the amount of jumping necessary.

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useful for tough to mask images like windBoththe Background Eraser and the Extract blown hair and leafy trees. It works in a very Image command remnve a certain amount of frames and create the illusion of a single ele- intricate way and allows you to isolate an object background colour of the remaining edge pixment in a frame moving or fading in or out. from the background with a minimum of els, making them partially transparent. This You canalso seta delay foreach frame. effort. When using the Extraiz lnuge com- makes compositing relatively seamless and mand you must work in a layer. It is recom- reducesthe problem of halos around images. Masking features mended that you make a copy of the working Adobe hasincluded three new ways of mask- layerwhen using this command. I was very Art history brush ing images. They a r e M agic E raser, impressed with the results. It made it possible With the Art History Brush, you can paint Background Eraser, and the Extract Image to create a complex mask—that previously may with stylized strokes. using the source data command. The Magi«Eraser tool automatical- have taken me hours to do —in a few minutes. from a speci6ed period. Using the various ly erases aa similar pixels to transparency. You can choose to erase contiguous pixels only or all similar pixels on the current layer. The Magic Eraser tool is grouped with the eraser tool in the toolbox. Options with this tool include Tolerance, Opacity, Use All Layers, Contiguous and Anti-Aliasing. The Background Eraser tool is dragged throughout an image to erase pixels. The different options, such as Sampling, Tolerance, Contiguous, Discontiguous and Find Edges, snow you to control the amount of transparencyand sharpness of its boundaries.This tool works well with a drawing tablet. Ippfffj/grlaffolffatafl pfmfatt grfrffttaalgNlgtgIE0raIaahttif The Extract Image command is especially

options of paint style, Bdelity. size and tolerance, you can simulate the texture of painting with different colours and artistic styles. Choosefrom curling lines of dilferent lengths, opacity, blending and dabbing to create new effect son your image.

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composition andlayout of ads, brochures,and illustrations for reports and manuals. Finally. on a personal note, I make my own Christmas cards, presentation backgrounds, and illustrations for users guides and Web sites using these tools. What you don't get with the front five As noted at the outset, each of the programs special izes in key areas. for example, MetaCreations Painter and now Corel PhotoPaint provide sophisticated canvas-brush interaction for colour and secondary natural effects, like bleeding, pooling or smearing. Likewise. Adobe, Coral and Microsoft PhotoDraw are the Erst to supply 3D effects, induding projecting onto simple 3D surfaces. But this is still primarily the domain of 3D renderingprograms like MetaCreations Poser. Even 2D effects, such as embossing, bevelling, paintsmears and other large scale surface treatmentsbeyond paper textures, are just beginning to emerge in the above programs. Automatic animation sequences using start and end point images with highlighted actors being changed/moved along from scene to scene, or cell to cdl, are still the domain of specialized professional animation and movie pfograllls. A final thought: In a word processor you have speaing and grammar checkers,but there's no such thing (yet) as an image grammar checker. So, even though these programs give today's graphic artists in6nitely more tools than those available to Leonardo Da Vinci, there's no guarantee they' ll be able to create a masterpiece. 0

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Cataloguing your digital 1mages By Jacques Surveyer ave you ever run into products you would like to like but just can't quite because they keep zapping you with linle foibles or quibbles? Well photo catalogue/album software is such a category. The four programs we look at in this roundup have a lot of nifty, bui not fuay developed features. Perhaps I'm too finicky. but here is what I wantfrom an image cataloguing package: • The ability to generate thumbnail size (about 80x60 pixels) views of a directory of mixed image files. The generation must befast 120 images(averagesize250KB) perminute or betteron a system powered by a 166 Mhz Pentium processor. This «ca«spends to the rate at which Paint Shop Pro 5.0 doescatalogue scans. It must be able to scan a variety of formats —at least 30 vector, bitmap and other fife types. It must be able to set up the catalogue with the following parameters: what info will be scanned into the database along with the image thumbnails; pixel size of thumbnails; what directory the catalogue will be stored in; and what Gletypes win be scanned into the catalogue. The ability to drag and drop images to and from the catalogue.

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CQuick Showcase 3.0 Now let's see if thc different photo album Fram; CDuickTechnologies software currently available meet our criteria. Tek206-427-106/. htlp:ttwww.cauick.curn In this review we looked at the following pa«k- Street price: $69.95 ages: ACDSee 2.41 Canon Photo Cra 1.0 From:TheACDSae Systems From:CanonSoftware Publishing Tak690.414-2237, hhp:ttwww.acasyslems.mm hltp://www .saflwars.canon.curn Street price: $60 Suggasled relail price: US$29.95 We also looked at PhotoZone from gf5$49.95 minusUS$20 mail-in rebate> Includedwilhmost uf Canun's 9 JC colour inkj ala. Canadian developer Vorton. With it. one can quickly assemble a photo album, but only CantoCumulus Desktop LE 4.02 for viewing or display. Users can't drag and From:CantoSoftware drop imagesfrom the album, or easily copy

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Cetaloaue creation basics The other programs reviewed here can all autoscan and create thumbnails from a dire«tory of multiple filetypes. But the speed of scan was quite variable. ACDSee is the fastest by far,while Showcase scans at more than twice our desired speed of 120 images per minute. Canto Cumulus and Canon Photo Org fall well short, scanning at only 25 percent and four percent, respectively, of the desired speed. The speed of processing may not initially seem like a major concern if the result is a handy, searchable «atalogue, but many such programs have bemme shelfware because of the very slow load and redisplay times of their thumbnail albums. Fortunately, the programs in this roundup appear to have pretty fast reload and display times once the catalogue is loaded —Cumulus and Showcase are extremely fast. When it comes to number of filetypes the program can store, Cumulus tops thc list with its abiTity to store an but one of the formats on my hit list. In contrast. Showcase handles about two-thirds, Con tinued on page 57

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PILLARS OF THE CO M M U N ITY Catalegulng your digital images Continuedfrompage 58 while Canon Photo Org supports only half and ACDSee only one third. So far, Canon Photo Org appears to be laggard in thc group. But Photo Org offers two extra conven. iences that none ul' the other programs do: a handy photo editor and greeting-card creator. Many users may hke the laner feature, and it o(Ters just a sweet hint of what is possible with more robust packages like Core) Punt House or MCI Photo Suite IIL The Canon Photo Editor, which pops up very qui«kly and has a nice range of crop, colour correction and bitmap paintbrush tools, isawfully handy for quick touch ups when reviewing the catalogue of your shots. Alas, the other three products la«k such a quick retouch photo editor, although they provide inks to external editors via the usual cut and paste operations (ACDS«e and Cumulus have Imks to external photo editors through the menu aswell), but it means the nuisance of going through three steps instead of one.

Instead, yuu have to play around, figuring out how to sct up the catalugue without putting any significant number of items into it. On«e you have a new «atalogue configured properly, you then have tu figure how to do 8 bulk loadhmpon of images. Shame on all the program designers for this wasteful inconvenience.

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Normally, I am not a fan of drag-and-drop operations heoaus« there is rarely a visual cue in most apph«ations that this type of feature is availablc. Back in the carly days of hlac and Windows, a de facto standard of the cursor changing to a grasping hand when it hovered over a drag-and-drop object seemed tu be emerging. But most newer programs are no longer so intuitive. You only learn the application's deep dark drag-and-drop secrets if you' ve gone through a tutonal, read the owner's manual. or by accidental discovery. In an era of electronic-only documentation, drag-and-drop features simply get mused. When «reatmg Web pages —with their New catalogue not a breeze duzens ofgraphic images and uther mcdm I must admit I was really disappointed with tiles, from bunons to too)hors to thumbnails, the di%«ulty invulved in setting up a new cat- to picture text and rolluvers—drag-and-drop alogue in all of the programs. I expected a wiz- is a true convenience. Notably, Cumulus ard or some other custom dialogue to pop up appearsto have drag-and-drop suppon forall when I dicked un the New menu item to step the major graphics and Web development promc through creat iny, a newcatalogue, prumpt. grams. This is a feature the other programs ing me for the parameters to conhgure it to my would do well to imitate. Coarmued on pagedd exam needs. No such luck.

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users can justify the cost uf adding one to thar PC system. With the advent of AUSL and cable nc of the most traumatic events in any modem connectiuns, some users are leaving PC user' scomputmy expenence is that thar PCs on fur extended penods, thus first time the piiwer goes out in the increasing the risk of power disruptions and middle of a work session. Onc second, 4 lot of equipment damage. Although a few hundred imponant (aas and figures are laid out in dollars may seem like an excessive investmcnt front of you on the screen; and in the next, the up (runt, it can certainly seem worthwhile aher screenis dark and hours of work are lost (we a power disruption occurs. neverseem to save our work as regularly asw e should, after all). The sppropriste amount of power Once you'vc decided that you'd like battery backup for your PC, it's important to make sure that you chuose a unit with the right voltamps (VA) rating. This rating measures the amount of power a UPS can deliver (ollowwg power failure; the higher the VA number, the longer the UPS will last. The aaual runtime of each UPS will depend on how many items are drawing on the hanery's reserve power, and how much current they typically draw. The morc items you have drawmg frum thebattery , thc shorter thc runtime. Previous generations of UPSes tended to be bulky, noisy and somewhat unattraiuve. In contrast, many o( today's modds are designed Many businesses have kwg known about wiih the typical consumer desktop in nnnd. and used umnterruptihlc power supply (UPS) Although there are still UPS models available systems, and man) home users are starting to catch on, too. The standard UPS acts as a buffer between your computer equipment and standard electrical outlets: an internal banery charges while you work, and should the power • Blackout Total loss of power fail, the UPS switches over to the battery so • Surge: A short and small increase in voltqwckly that there is no mterniption of pow«r age.Cari be caused when nearby equipto computer equipment. ment switches off. Even if the power doesn't go off completely. • Spike: A very fast penod of extreme other power problems can make computers overvoltage, typically between .5 and IOO frcczcup orcause hardware damage. Typically, mcroseconds. Often caused by lightrang power should be delivered at a regular voltage atnkes. with a regular sine wave pattern. In densely • Swell: A longer version of a surge. populated urban areas,where power resources • Sagi Uauaey a short and small decrease and equipment are ohen strwned, what comes in voltage, but aometanea last longer. Can out of the outlet can be very "dirty" owing to be caused when othereqtapment stans fluauations in the voltage or frequency of the up. power. Because o( this, many UPS umts also • Dipi A very short undervokage condition. have power-conditionwg (catures that protect The inverse of a spike. computer eqwpment from other puwcr.asso• Brownout Another name for a sag. ciated problems like spikes surges and sags • Harmonic distortion: Irregular frequency (sce UPS glossary). shifts in the power waveform. Can be Many people are under the impression that causedby othereqtapment on the same a UPS is strictly a device for businesses, but power line. with prices of the units dropping, even home

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itor will draw more power and shonen the runtime. If a CD-ROM drive is running when The Back-UPS Pro USB 500 is a more powerthe power fails, the runtime will also be ful solution than the OB)ce 400. It has morc reduced. A printer and Zip drive will also place outlets than any of thc others reviewed this demands on the banery. The ggurcs we' ve month, has a reasonably long runtime, llexible quoted herc are indudcd merely to give read- design and communications protection. For ers a general idea of the runtimes of one UPS users who have already maxed out their serial relative to another. Your runtime can and will ports, the USB connection is a nice option. vary based on your system configuration and APC Sack-UPS Pre 080 power requirements.

Note: As many of the UPS models we Suggestedretail price: $560(amvenadfromUS$379) Rxaff me:48min.,30sec. Low.batfwyw arning:43 min.. 15 sec.

received this month were sent to us directly from their U.S. manufacturers, the pricing we obtainedwas inU .S.funds and has been converted (in these instances, original price is shown inparentheses).Because of that,pricing may vary as the mrchange rate with the Canadian dollar fluctuates, and may vary from region to region.

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Although more famous for USB products and computer cables, Be)kin also makes a line of UPS units. The Regulator Pro 325 VA modd is at the entry Iced and is, consequently, fairly basic. The runtime is long enough for a user to quiddy finish work in progress, save and shut down their system. The outlet layout on thc back is a bit cramped, which ments it isn' t compatible with AC adapters, but those who only need to plug in a standard PC and monitor may find it to be an ideal solution.

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Armed with a longer runtime than the 325 VA model, Bclkin's 525 VA also comes with a few other features, including communications protection, communication with th«PC, and shutdown software. Its runtime is reasonably long, and the pricing is quite attractive. Like the 325 VA, this unit is plagued by a tight and minimal outlet configuration. But again, it may be a suitable solution for those who only need to power a PC and monitor. Note: Be(kin also offers UPS models with identical configuration as the 525 VA, but in 425 VA (US$150) and 625 VA (VS$200) versions.

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At home either in a rack or sitting on the desktop, MGE's Pulsar ES 5+ delwers a reasonable runtime, protects a phone lin», and offers powerfulnetworkable software for UPS management. With only two outlets, it may be too minimal for some users. However. those who only need to protect a PC and monitor may want to consider this model —especially with its unconventional and eye-catching design. Hot«MGE has a new series of UPS models, known as Pulsar Ellipse, but we were unable to get evaluation units hy press time. We hope to take a look at them ln the coming months.

ware, and communications protection. The ability to quickly see how much power is remaining is also a very nice feature. kuntime is also fairly reasonable, mzkmg this unit worth a look if you have more demanding power requirements. Powerwere 3115 - 420 Suggested retaii pnce. $270 Runbme; 20 min., 35 sec Low-battery warning: 13 min., 7 sec.

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StarOffice Draw/Image does not have the 2D p olish o f M i c rosoft O f fice 2000's PhotoDraw or the wealth of clip art goodies bundled with Corel's Print Oflice, but it does allow 3D creation tools, including text effects thatare becoming ever more usefulin presentations, illustrations, and Web site developm«nt. However, StarOffice Draw/hnage does la«k the desktop publishing capabilities of Microsofi Office 2000's Publisher. Thus, the StarOflice Draw/Image earns a 60 percent equivalence rating, and a seven out of 10 overall rating.

Ubliues, scnpang, extras StarOffice Mail, StarOf6ce Schedule and StarO/fice Discussion have the virtue of being tied in with StarOffice so that editing an email m essagebrings the full power of StarOfiic« Word and StarOIE«e Calc to help you bare your soul or make your point However, it can become confusing to navigate among the dit'ferent StarOf6ce Modules. StarOffice needs what Corel Suite already has, Perfect Expert, the best task-oriented coach in all of the oflice suites. Having said that, StarOffice has its own extras in the form of Explorer, Seamer and Navigator — which form a poor man's Perfect Expert. These StarOffice extras do indeed simplify access to files and Web resources (Explorer), help find clipboard-like chunks of text, imare and objects (Beamer). and speed up moving betweencomponents in complex compound documents ( Na vigator). Sta rOffice's HelpAgent wig aid new users in getting used to the power and convenience of Explorer, Bmmer and Navigator. But don't make the mistake I did in expecting Navigator to work in StarO/Bce Cele or StarOIEce Impress the way it does in StarOffice Word. Fortunately, Seamer and Explorer work in most StarO/Ece Modules. On the scripting side,StarOffice, like Lotus, insists its StarOffice Basic is equivalent in functionality to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) — the complete development environ of which is available in Microsoft Oflice 2000 and CoralWordPerfect Office 2000. The reality is that VBA is moving so fast, especially in the database, objects and Web arena, that even Microso&i«s are hard pressed to keep up. VBA is leagues ahead of StarOflice Basic and Lotusgcript (which is not as far behind) in both functionality and the completenessof the development environ. Users can and do develop complete commercial software based in WordPerfect, Excel, Quattro Pro, or Access using VBA. Although StarOf6ce Basic does not have the developer muscle of VBA, its macro-recording capabilities and simple scripting may be just perfect for automating the routine and simple repetitive tasks that crop up in the PC workplace. We found StarOffice Basic a bit cryptic at 6rst, then just right I'or simple macros and scripts. So again, StarOffice Basic garners a low equivalency score to VBA — at 65 percent — but a high program rating of 7.5 out of IO for its overall utility.

What's in a Start In comparison to the top two office suites (see table). the shine from StarOffice twinkles, but not evenly. The core of StarOffice —StarO/fice Word, StarOffice Cele, an d S tarOffice Impress/Chart for presentations —matches the top suites closely. But beyond that, StarOffice becomes more of a pulsar,beaming occasion-


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StarOf/ice Continued from page Bf/ ally with modules like StarOffice Draw/Image, but disappearing (no small business applications, for example), or nearly pulsing out with its database and desktop publishing offerinBu. So wby did Sun Microsyutems psy several millions of dollars for SturORtce? Itu core functionality iu strong, and it huu been consistently improving. It runs uniformly on all the Windows environs, au well as OS/2, Linux and Solaris. It reads snd wnteu Microsoft Office fiieu, including the latest Ofiice 2000 formats (not with afi of Office 2000'u new features, but with some o f i t u p roblems — StarOffice Impress,for example). Develupcru have been working on s Java version of StarOflice that Sun wants to make available over the Wub for free, uo users will be able to download the latest StarOffice Modules to work ihe ofiice suite anywhere in the world un any Winduwu, OS/2, Linuxor SolarisPC or workstation for free. Free is the key word here. I am constantly embarrassedwhen colleagues ask to "borrow" my Office 2000 CD-ROM saying that they «an't find their own. Hereto/ore, I have had to beg off, now I can propose a very viable alternative: they can just load StarOffice from the CD-ROM I keep bandy. It will read and write their lvficrosoft Office files and provide great home-side word proceuumg, drawing and spreadsheet cupabilitium Likewise, for students and users on a tight budget, StarOffice is very attractive. Finally, savvy Web users may want to take a look at what iu certain to become the office suite of the Web. 0

go-anywhere, read-anything capability," he said Shirah added that the company is also indirectly saving a lot of money for millions of Web site operators that, for various reasons, may not wish to invest in separate services for handheld devices at this time. Digital Paths says it is offering its

software/Web portal-based service to end users free of charge and does not require user registration or identification for the basic service. By going through the Digital Paths portal, the firm says that users can browse the Web anonymously —a privacy-protecuon feature than can have a high value in itself to many consumers.

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yadom ino/a (htip://www.windom.corn) Integigance Suite and Wyadom Server gives businesses a means of deiivming content to a wide range of mobile devices. "There are two markets we am kinking at," says Youatri Chowdhary, vice-president of new products for the Richmond Hill. Ont.-based developer. "llwaa include datum companies that have a wimiasa strategy to extend inionnahon and content on their Wab sites out to subscribers or potengai subscribera. The other is the enterprise mar-

ket with People on the move who went to get in touch with their oSce in order to get email or information about the invernory." Information is delivered thmugh the integiganca Suite and the Wyadom Server using WAP (Wimiaaa Application Pmtocog, which allows the information to be put into a form that can be read by such devices as digital phonos with display screens or Palm handhold devices. Because of the iimitagona on how these devices can display information, and the bandwidth issues, WAP allows a company to deliver content quickly and In a farm that can be used by anyone. Information can include such Wings as notiiication, transaction coniirmationa, story summaries, Promotiona or fimaiy data needed for a sale. Chowdhary believes WAP wiU become a standard tor wirutasa communications and haa already garnarad industry support. (More information can be found at the WAP Forum Web sita at htip://www.wapto-

mm.org.) 'We ag like to dream about the wonderful scenario ot there being one uniform standard, but aa wa have seen over the past yama that ia not the case." ha adds. "There are muNpie players in the market and each haa ita own branded version oi things. Even though there ia this idea that there should be one atandml, there will ba more than one type oi technology coexisting. — yom Venat/a

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Wireless standards But along with these different devices will come a set of differing network and access issues.The access needs of a salesperson who is on the road will diFfer from those of someone who only requires quick access to update the contam database on a Palm device from the database on their desktop. "Based on the kind of mobility people have, they are going to chose different access types depending on the devices they are using," Egan adds. Already, the remote access industry is seeing several distinct standards emerging, each ofi'ering different kinds of mobility, access speeds and flexibility. One oF these is Bluetooth, a technology specification oifering short-range radiolinks benveen mobile devices,such as PCs and cefi ular phones. Bluetooth is often referred to as a cable-replacement technology; in other words, Bluetooth will be the wireless substitute for ag the cables that people currently use to connect PCs to other devices like cell phones. A Bluetooth Special Interest Croup (SIG) established by Ericsson, IBM Corp., Nokia, Intel and Toshiba is pushing Bluetooth to be incorporated into a variety of devices. The Bluetooth SIC says more than 1,200 companies have joined since it was formed two years ago. Some analysts have speculated that Bluetooth would falter or at least be slow to gain acceptance without support &om Microsoft. The good news for supporters is that Micmsoft endorsed the specification and joined the SIG in late 1999. The five founding companies, along with Microsoft, 3Com and Motorola have established a Bluetooth promoter group within the SIG. Another wireless technology getting a lot of attention is HomeRF, a «onsumer-level open industry specification for wireless digital communication between PCs and consumer

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technology with a good speed and without haying to plug in a card," says Howard DuLany,wireless marketing manager for IBM's mobile systems group in Raleigh, N.C. DuLany sees 802.11-HR being integrated into homes, hotels and airports where people will need to connect to the Internet through a variety of devices over great distances. Plans are already in the making for incorporating 802.11 into various IBM notebooks and other devices.These devices could theoretically connect to each other using Bluetooth, then connect to the Internet or a corporate network using the wireless standard, without the user having to find a phone or network jack. Already, 3Com has incorporated 802.II-HR into its AirConnect Wireless LAN solution. AirConne«t is nearly as fast as a wired Ethernet connection, and with secure data transmission and software for easy configuration, monitoring and management. Using an AirConnect access point, anyone can send and receive data within 60 m (200 ft.) of it without being tied to their desk. "Much like a cordless phone, you can walk around with an antenna out of your notebook and surf the Web or get your email," says Matthew Hickey, manager for system engineering for 3Com m Toronto. Hickey sees AirConnee as being a good system for the home as well, especially for older homes in which stringing wire through the walls for highspeed connectivity is impossible. AirConnect could then link to the home's dedicated highspeed cable or ADSL Internet conneeion. With remote accessability of their p roductswhileseam- this type of solution, one can imagine a totally lessly making them work with Bluetooth as weU. connected home where you could use a Palm "If you think about it, 802.11 is a LAN access device to c heck Continued on page 88

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drome. 'There haven't been enough software tools that areeasyenough to use.People don't incidents, memo objects, infrastructure, have time to be trained [to usesofiwarej anyequipment catalogue, user-defined properties, more. Theyneedtoolsthat arereadily available and gcorcfercnccs. It can capture various types of information, such as documents, graphics,

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informalcategories,such as clues,hunches, knowledge-management package that captures, data from the Internet, intranets, email and edge. No quantity of software will overcome an instincts, anecdotes. and personal insights. analyzes ,distributes,andmaintainsacom pany's push applications. The majority of this infor- organization's innate suspicion about sharing YourWorld has two components. The first is a pmcess knowledge. It retails (or VS$995. One mation is irrelevant, if not counter-productive. knowledge. By creating an environment in back end, which is rcaUy like a database con- licence is neekd for cash «omputer that is used "Data becomes information when it becomes which sharing isencouraged, «ven rewarded, a tainer. that retails for US$1,000. Small companies typically only need one. A licence for the second component, the front «nd, needs to bc purchased for each computer.The front end lists forUS$1,500 per licence. In addition to companies dedicated to creating knowledge-management software solutions, many other vendors invoke the knowledgemanagement mantra to market businessintegigence software, such as "int«Uigent" search agents, data warehousing, mining and modeling applications, and "push technologies" that can turn a project designnl to impmve an operation's knowledge gathering and sharing into an information technology nightmare. Understanding individual and organizational needs first, as wdl as budgetary constraints, will make knowledge-management solutions easier to identify and technology purchases less painful. Adds C raham Westwood. president. o( Mississauga-based Domain Knowkdge Inc. (attpzywww.process lmowlepgecma), "T«chnology issupportive of

for contmt creation, but the resulting information can bestored in HTMI which can be posted on the company intranet and accessed by everyone in the organization —even thou without ProCarta on their computer.

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Before purchasing knowledge-management software,suggests Wesiwood, there are several things to consider. H«advises small business operators to first consider what uses they have for their knowledge, afier which they can get the technology to support their organisation's strategic direction."There is no point in building this library of everything that's ever been done in thc business and saying, 'n<iw we' ve done something.'Understand why you're doing it. Make sure that the technology is appropriate to your capabilities, There is no point in installing a very expensive knowledge m anagementsystem if you're a four.person organization." Alderson stresses the importance of workthe k nowlgroup teams within an edge-manageorganization "buying into" ment process « ire st e • ta xt vt Q, knowledge management. I "Employ«es need to see because it pro- u. lv v 4 i t vides a me«hathe increased team value v & s v tw t w IW nism in several in sharing and transferring • ~ o s+ % A key areas of t -~0 lt |ww knowledge out to other wl ~ i ~ I~ I ~l I k now l e d g e management. In and o( itself, however, it is not the whole thing. It just

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The old adage that knowl«dge is power holds true. As Alderson puts it, "Knowledge is power, but when you sharc your knowledge to the team and other teams, you further increase this power for the company." Ct Cents Cookzrxt Michelle Cookcan be reached at

613.247-7001or by email at «cook©go.glotmtael or mcookOpapl«bat«at. Dani«a Pravcs, senior marketing manager

Continuedfrom page 85 email in the kitchen by using Blueiooth to connect through the stove, fridge or toaster to the laptop in the living room, which would

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being used to access it. So if one is using a PDA, Oraclegi Lit« will pr«sent the data in a way that is readable on that PDA device. Along with the Oraclegi lite, th«Web-to-go and Portal-to-go add-ons provide extra features for remote access users. Wcb-to-go allows any Oraclepi application to shih between online and oNine modes, letting anyone continue using the application even when not connected to the Internet. Portal-to-go ensures that database and Internet applications can bc acc«ssible to the portable device. "You don't have to rcconfigure data anymore," Pravca adds. "As long as you have a browser [on a portable d«vicej, you can take that information and check your own stocks, orderairline ticketsordo your expcns«r«port. Anything you would normally have done m theoffi ce,you can now do cxternagy."0

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Bete access While most hardware companies are looking at ways to interconnect the various standards, others think the issue is irrdevant. What is more important is how the information will be presentedto someone on the device they

are using.While surfing on a notebook is relatively easy. doing so on a cellular phone or a portable device with a small screen is another story entirdy. Orade Corp. thinks the best way around the standards issues and the various bandwidth concerns is to make the data configurable to the d«vice one is using. That is why Oracle r«ccntly launched its Oradegi Lite solution for the Palm Computing and Psion EPOC platforms.

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Coming soon to a server (or desktop) near you By Jacques Surveyer o say that Windows 2000 (originally called Windows NT S.O) is important to Microsoft is to state the obvious. It is the operating system Mi«rosoft hopes will propd it to the same dominant position in enterprise servers that it now enjoys with Windows 95/98/NT on ths desktop —a «ommanding 88 to90 per«entshare ofthe market.

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The challenge But benveen hp and «up is the potential fiir three critical slips. First, the codebase expands from about 20 million lines in Windows NT 4.0 to well over

40 million lines in Windows 2000. NT has been the most availability-«hallenged of network operating systems, due in no small part to device driver amends and simple reboots required of Windows NT at installation, or re«onfiguration by third party and Mi«rosoft applications. Given this history, Windows 2000 will be subject to much scrutiny for potential impacts on reliability and availability. These performance questions arise at the same time organizations are trying to compete for customers on the Web using enterprise servers, where reliability and s«alability arc critical issues. However, even more crucial is the fad that Windows 2000 will be released

Feb. 17, right in the midst of the antiripated widespread Year 2000(Y2K) transition period. Even organizations in Nurth America —which by allasscssm«nts are best prepared for Y2K programming problems— maybe understandably reluctant to take on a new and ambitious operating system during this cru«ial juncture. Sc«ond, due to thc larger «odebase and some ambitious features in security, directory service,and new enterprise transa«tion processing «apabilitics, Windows 2000 is anywhere from one to two years late depending on who does the counting. The important point is that the lateness of Windows 2000 has given its competitors, su«h as Novdl Netware S.I (which won Best of Comdex 1999 for networking software), Sun Solaria, and Linus an opportunity to catch up. And as wehave already seen in an earlier review of these operating systems (sce The Comparer Paper, lanuary 1999), competitors to Windows 2000 have used theopp onunity to not only pull up (or forge ahead) in functional features, but also to ftg in the gapa on easeof use and simplicity of administration, which heretofore was a distinguishing feature of Windows. Howcvcr, as we shall see, Windows continues to enjoy price advantages. Third, for the past year and a half Microsoft has chosen to litigate rather than sctU«antitrust charges brought against it b y the U.S.

Department of )ustice. Recent Iindings of acts by the presiding judge have substantially ruled in favour of the government. Some l«gal exp«rts say if the case is not senled before the judge's final ruling, it cauld linger on in the courts for two or three more years. A lingering antitrust suit is thought by many to have played a huge role in IBM's fall from promincn«e. Analysts «ite the I«ngthy antitrust case of the '70s and early '80s for sapping IBM management strength and attention from the real issucsthe «mergencc of PCs, networks and distributed computing —allowing other IT vendors to

develop and deliver superior strategies and products to «ustomers. The same crisis of management attention could plague Microsoft as wc cross into the next millennium.

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u just gct nicely settled into your Linux installation and, whoosh, it' s out of date. Linux maintains a fastpaccd development cyde that «an leave y ou gasping f o r breath if you try to keep up with it. The kernel development team adds new features and patches daily, gathering them up as "releases" on a regular basis. T here ar e t w o streams of Linux kernel releases: odd-numbered and even-numbered once. The oddnumbe redseries, such as Linux 2. 3, are experimental kernels —leading-edge stuff mainly for devdopsvs to test and experiment with, but still buggy and not intend«d for produ«tion. (Anyone is wd«orna to download these kernels and try them out, oF course.) The even numbers,such as Linux 2 2,are the"stable" production releases where most of th«

However, in typical Microsoft fashion, Windows 2000 u targeted to meet and master many kcy enterprise issues—availability, manageability. reliability, s«alability and sc«urity —head on. At his keynote address at Comdex Fall/99, Microsoft chief Sill Gates did a scalability and reliability demo of a Windows 2000 Web site known bugshavebeen excised, for the Ford Motor Company. beingd But even the production kernels undergo The site was percolating along at about 4,200 sub-serie s releases.Hence we currently see a page hits per minute when one of six pro«««mix of 2.2.10, 2.2.11, 2.2.12 and 2.2.13 keraors was yanked from its rack mount. With nels as the distribuuon vendors work towards barely a blink, the C o ntinued on page 99 the forth«orning2.4 prado«sion series. In addition to the kernel itself, Linux pa«kagersuse ea«h new distribution release as an opportunity to upgrade versions of libraries and other open sour«e programs and documentation. It's also a convenient time to add things such as new setup and admin features.Each distro also hru to keep • m v Compiled by TCP editors also sports a new Finder that simplipa«e with the development of X Window with files from Newsbyles fies storing, organizinr, and retriev~ 0 and the various video and sound dnvers that ~ i ing of fries, and unifies these fun«have been id«axed since the last distribution. tionson the «omputer and across uringhis keynote address at Small wonder,then, that Linux distributions MacWorld Expo, held in San LANs and the Internet. o y are a moving target. Since thc start of this «olFranciscolan. 5-8,Apple chief As with all things Apple, some umn (August 1999), cvcry major Linux districxc«utive officer Steve jobs (who, considerableeffort has been taken bution hashad at least one major upgrade. Thc according to Newsbytes, has finally with Aqua's appearance whi«h nice thing about Linux is that it's not ne«cssary dropped the "interim" from his job indudes luminous and semi-transto upgrade your system iF you' re happy with title) unveiled Mac OS X as well as the parent buttons, scroll bars and winthe way things work But if you' reafter the latcompany's internet strategy. dows, and features fluid animation est drivers and support, the upgrades can be That strategy includ«s a new to enhance the user's «xperien«e. anra«tiveHere'saquick summary ofthelatest category of I ntern«t services, Aqua featuresall-new 2D, 3D and Intel-based updates (note: new Linux releases iTools, a redesigned Apple Wcb site, m ultim«dia graphics. The 2 D such as Cord Linux and Storm Linux are not and a multi-year partnership with graphicsare performed by Apple's induded in this roundup): lav Internet service provider (ISP) new Quartz graphics system, which Vv EarthLink (the latter will, initially, is based on the PDF Internet stan~ l Blackware Unux 7.0 only be available to Mac users in dard. It features on-th«-fly PDF renSI«ckware Linux (hxp://itssw.sla«kwara.«om) is the I/.S.). to use while simultaneously including dering, anti-aliasing and compositing. The 3D the oldest of the current distributions and morc functionality for professionals. graphicsare based on thc OpenGL standard, the one that most dearly retains the Ilavour and the multimedia is based on Mac OS X Apple says Aqua is a major of thc early days. It dcrivcd from the legApplds own()ui«kyime standard. ln addition t o i ncluding what Apple advanccmcntin user intcrfa«cs, endary (and now extinct) SLS distribution, (http://rnrw.appl«.«om)calls "state-of-the-art featuringthe Dock fororganizThe company saysthat Darwin, one of the Erst Linux distros. It lcels the technology" throughout, Ma«OS X aho sports ing everything from applicaApple's advanced OSkernel, is at most like Unix in itssetup andconliguration an entirely new user interface called Aqua. tions and documents to Web the «orc of OS X. Darwin is and it doesn't usc RPMs. Instead. it employs Applesaysthe new OS is easier for neophytes sites and streamingvideo. Aqua Conrinurd on page 93 traditional Unix Con rinued ox page 91

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or worse, shielding users from the Linux com- Rrxl Hat 6.1 now indudes optimized code and mand line. It continues to be a useful release to auto update as well, plus a gmphical installation suggest to Microsoft Windows users who are that Mandrake does not offer, so Mandrake has new to Linux and want to try it without mak- lost some of its advantage. It still offers a much ing a technical commitment. bener KDE than Red Hat however. Mandrake Linux 6.1 is the Linux that forms SuSE Unux 6.3 MacmiUan Linux and is widely available in «omSuSE Linux (http: //www.ause.corn) is the biggest puter and ogice supply stores under that name. Linux distribution, now spanning six CDROMs. Originating in Germany, SuSE is the TurboUnux 4.0 leading distribution in Europe. Installation Just as Red Hat is the leading distribunon in and support is multilingual. North America and SuSE is the leading distriA slick distro with excellent admin tools, bution in Europe, TurboLinux (http.//www.tur SuSE 6.3 offers a new graphical installation, Ootioux.com) is the leading distribution in Asia. auto partitioning, and better hardware detec- It outseUs ag other distributions in lapan, tion, bringing it into line with the latest China, Indonesia and Korea. It comes in Calderaand Red Hat releases.The 6.3 release is English, Japanese and Chinese versions. based on kernel 2.2.13 and KDE 1.1.2. TurboLinux 4.0, based on the Linux 2.2.12 SuSE packs an enormous atnount of trial kernel, represents a jump from 3.6. It is offered sofiware onto its CD-ROMs as wdl as the in three versions: Turbolinux Workstation, broadestselection ofopen source oiferings.For TurboLinux S e rver, a n d Tur boLinux terna.com) broke new ground with its graphical this reason SuSE makes an excellent Linux for TurboC)uster Server. The server version coninstallation and auto partitioning. It was the laptops. You don't need to spend a lot of time tains a professional version of BRIL a commerfirst Linux that didn'I scare off non-technical downloading software with this distributioncial backuputility, whilethe cluster ser ver packusers. OpenLinux 2.3 continues this tradition most of what you want is on the discs. SuSE also age contains utilities and kernel suppurt for setwith Caldera's Lizard (Linux wizard) instaga- includesa comprehensive user manual. ting up a high-performance Linux cluster. t ion, p lu s C aldera-licensed versions of TurboLinux does not have a large foUowing PartitionMagic and BootMagic. Mandrake Unux 6.1 (Maomglan Unux) in North America at this time, but the compaW hile Caldera Openlinux can be used as a Mandrake Linux (http://www.liaux-maodraie.com) is ny has formed a relationship with IBM. IBM server, it is packaged primarily as a desktop based on Red Hat Linux and keeps pace with Red ships Turbolinux along with its Linux port of distribution. B ased o n ke rnel 2 . 2.10, Hat release numbers. Hence the latest is 6.1. It is DB2 and WebSphere. TurboLinux deploys its OpenLinux 2.3 indudes KDE 1.1.1. The 2.3 based on kernel 2.2.13 and it installs KDE 1.1.2. own X-based graphical admin tools in an envirelease is a minor update, with a number of M andrakeLinux 6.0 won the Product of the ronment i t c alls TurboDesk, a modified bug fixes and some new commercial "trial-ver- Year award at LinuxWorld Expo '99 for its WindowMaker interface. It also offers KDE sion" packages added. improvements on Red Hat, induding a well- and GNOME. The overall emphasis in Caldera OpenLinux installed KDE environment, optimization for 2.3ison graphicalmanagement and, forhetter Pentium processors, and an auto-update feature. Continued on page 103

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Interactive (htlp://3dix.corn) announced its strategy to bring its 3D graphics products to the Mac with branded model~ leatur ing the new VSA-100 processor. The company saysboard products based on the VSA-100, which contains native Mac support and acceleration, will deliver ultimate flfl rates and high visual reality through breakthrough digital cinematic effects, bringing Mac gaming to the next leveL Additionally, 3D rendering quality on the h lac will be dramatically improved through the VSA100's advanced fufl-s«ene anti-aliasing technology, a capability Third-party developments Following is a list of new and notable announcements made by neverbefore available from 3Dfx for Mac. third-party developers at MacWorld Expo: Retrospect to support Mac OS X • Dantz Development Umax debuts FireWire scanner • Umax Technologies Corp. (htlp:llwwwdaati.curn) announced that its award-winning (hup:/lwwn.umax.corn)took the wraps off the first professional Retrospect Backup software will support Mac OS X as well as scanner with FireWire (IEEE-1394) support for Mac and PC futurereleases of Mac OS X Server. users—the Umax PowerLook 1100. By using FireWire connectivity —one of the fastest peripheral connection standards to VXA-1 tape drive conggured for Nlac • Ecrix Corp. date —the PowerLook 1100 offers blazing data transfer rates, (httpd/www.vxatapu.corn) announced availability of its VXA- I tape hot-pluggable «onnectivity without the need for a host card, drive in a configuration devdoped for the Mac. The external and the ability to connem multiple Macs to streamline work- driv~ which has been designed to match the new Power Ma« C4 — will offer two interface choices: a SCSI interface available flow, according to Umax. in February 2000, and a FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface availInternet Explorer 5.0 Mac Ediflon • M icrosoft Corp. able in the second half of 2000. ( hllp://new,microsuh.cum) unveiled I nternet E xplorer 5 . 0 Macintosh Edition, which it says introduces a new rendering iTouch technology for iMacs • E l o TouchSystems engine and functionality that has "never before been available (htlp://wnw.elolouch.cum/) says its iTouch touchscreen technology on any browser of any platform." Microsoft says it plans to is now available for use with Apple's iMac computers. The comrelease Mac OS X native versions of Internet Explorer, Outlook pany saysthe iTouch software, with new features and a "revoluExpress,and Microsoft Office. Release dates were not tionary lower price point," will make the iMac an ideal afl-inannounced,but the company says itexpects the new browser one solution for tabletop interactive displays. Continued orr page 103 wiU be available in early 2000.

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doing it yoursdf, howev«r, I c a n provide some useful information. First, you will want to buy the appropriate number of licesces at a good price. Try Insight Canada or similar sources. You' ll get nothing but the software, but the prim will be good. Unlike some network software, GoldMine's modd is concurrent user licensing. If you buy the five-user version, any 6ve people on the LAN can have GoldMine loaded at the same time. In a typical offfce, the number of licences required wiUbe less than the total number of users, but probably not by muck Most users

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between the methods is easy to evaluate. The simpler of the two methods is to create a shortcut an the workstation desktop to the GoldMine EXE 6le on the server. In a Windows 98 computer. you would go to Network Neighborhood, and create a shortcut Shared database of the Fnws.eie program file on the desktop. At the heart of ColdMine is a shared database, Double-clicking on the shortcut is all you need which needs to be installed on a server that to do to bring up the GoldMine login screen. everyone can access. Installing GoldMine on a By default, GoldMine briny up the same loght server presents no particular difficulties. name that was used to login to the network, During the installation, itis wise to choose the but that can be changed. All that needs to be option to install the software required for a done to complete the login is to enter the passworkstation installation. More on that later. word. In an o/)ice without any security conGoldMine has its own security scheme. cerns, ColdMine can be configured to bypass Users need accounts in GoldMine, in addition the login screen, but I' ve never found that to to their accounts on the network. The creation be a goodapproack of GoldMinc accounts ne«dn't be entirely The second approach to installing manuaL GoldMine pulls up thc list of network GoldMine involves creating an icon as just accounts, and askswhich users should be given described, but once GoldMine is loaded, going GoldMine accounts. This approach savessome to the Licence Manager menu within typing, and also assuresthat the GoldMine and GoldMine, and choosing the option to install network accounts have the same name. The the GoldMine program 6les in a local path. passwords. though, are set independently. The option to update the 6)es when a newer version is placed on th«network can also be Client side chosen. The advantage of installing the proOnce ColdMinc is installed on the server, user gram &les locally, especially on a slower netaccountsare created,a database is created in a work, is faster program loading time, but separate directory, and permissions set at the nothing more. Once GoldMine is loaded. pernetwork operating system (NOS) level, it is formanceisthe sam e,since in both cases,the time to install software on the workstations. program 61«s are totally in memory, and the There are two ways to do this, and thc tradeoff database 6les are on the network drives.

While within th« licence Manager menu, you might take a look at the Net-Vpdatetab. The administrator can have GoldMine go to the Gold M in e Web site (htts://wwwdaianiaesw.con) to check for a newer version of the software. If one is available,it is downloaded for immediate or later installation. On a properly conffgural system, the administrator will take away this capability from other users.

Setting up users GoldMine can store data in a variety of formats. If you have a client/server-style database on your LAN, like SQL Server. Sybase, DB2 or Orade, you can use that. For most smaller offices, the defftult dBASB IV format will be fine. The GoldMine administrator can do all of the user administration by logging inta GoldMine from anywhere on the LAN with an administrative account. GoldMine is fairly granular in its approach to user rights and access. By default, most items on t he GoldMine menu system are available to every user, but any item can be taken away if iequirctL For example. rights to create ncw records, edit or ddete sxisting remrds, or look atother people'scalendars,can betaken aw ay. Each menu item is independeet of the others. Securit y and accessissuesnmd to be considContinued on page 98

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replace,but over the psst severalyears,under the leadership of a new president,Nobuyuki Idei, Sony seems to have redoubled its innovative vigour. The company is now a world leader in "convergence." the integration of all traditional media using computers and digital technology, and a seemingly endless stream of new t e«hnologies continues to pour out of i t s research labs. At a critical period in the modem era when the world really began its transformation into an electronic global village, Morita did much to build bridges between Asia and the West. He tried to encourage a mature relationship of equals between Japan and the U.S., contributing a ac«sion to the book The /upon That Can

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A Jet database engine can support millions of users with advanced profiles, including Intellimirror custom local user backup and support, plus upcoming Exchange 2000 integration. The downside to ADS is that it requires extensive planning for installation and/or migration. As well, ADS features and functionality do not yet match StreetTalk and NDS, which have been installed for two or more years. But like Novell's NDS, this is betthe-businesssoftware from Microsoft, so do expect constant improvements and integration into the whole product line. The next area MicrosoFt is focusing attention toward is Windows 2000's Internet Services .In this area,Windows NT 4.0has a mixed reputation. It has clocked some of the fastest Web page service times in the industry on Intel boxes, and it has awealth of top-notch Windows 2000 basin facts development tools. The reliability and availLike Gaul. Windows 2000 can be divided into ability of Windows NT 4.0 plus IIS, however, three parts. Windows 2000 Professional is the leave a lot t o b e desired (s«e Network desktop version for PCs and workstations. Computing Oct. 4, 1999 review for details). Windows 2000 Server is the work group server Scalability is also an issue, with Windows edition for use in small ollices and depart- NT 4.0 maxing out at four symmetric multiments to serve anywhere from five to 500 processors with two-way clustering. Finally, users. Windows 2000 Advanced Server is Microsoft simply does not support a lot of designed for use in enterprises with either W eb-developmentstandards,such as lava 2.0, thousandsofusersorlargedatabases with tens IDBC, CORBA and the like, except through of thousands of usersconnected directly or via third-party software. Fortunately, Windows the Internet. 2000 addressesmany of these issues (seeTable There is also a fourth, delayed version of 2). Windows 2000, the DataCenter edition, which In the area of reliability and availability, will support up to 32 symmetric multi-proces- Windows 2000 is getting at some of the key sors,have advanced dustering with failover culprits: reboots required by the OS, clashing capabilities and the new 64-bit memory man- DLLs, memory leaks and failing device drivers. agement capabilities. It will not be available But even Microsoft's Office 2000 stig requires until at least nine months after the release of at least two reboots on install, and one on the other editions of Windows 2000. reconfiguration. In our full review of Windows 2000 (which The Certified for Windows 2000 program we'B begin once we have the final pmduct), we tries to address these issues. The problem is will run benchmarks and tests with Microsoft that less than two percent of software is fully and other application software. We shall also certified at the time of this writing (early make the natural split between Windows 2000 December 1999). Microsoft olficials say that Professional (the workstation version) and the number will soar as Feb. 17 approaches, but all two Serverediuons.As you can see from Table of its own applications have yet to make the I, Server and Advanced Server have many of grade. the same features. The main differences are in Reliability and availability of I nternet scalability featurm involving different levels of ServicesarecrucialforWi ndows 2000,because support for Symmetric Multi-Processing a company's Web site is its interface to its cus(SMP), 64-bit memory and c)ustering services. tomers,suppliers,employees, and other stakeBut let's examine each issue in detail. holders. Companies cannot afford Web site downtime. On the other hand, the new code Priolng represented by ADS, COM+, Securit y and The first notable thing about Windows 2000 is other services doubles the size of Windows NT that its pricing has drifted upward. At a list codebase from 20 million to 40 migion lines in price of $472, Windows 2000 Professional is Windows 2000. just a bit more expensive than Windows NT Many consultants are recommending that 4.0. But on the Server side, the price is sub- Windows NT Web sites looking for better relistantiagy higher. A 1 0-user licence for ability and availability move to Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Server is $1,274, whereas a 20- in increments: delay implementation of ADS, userlicense for Windows NT 4.0 has a street COM+, and/or other "riskier" services while price of $982. In addition, the memory and reaping the higher availability and security of disk requirements have also increased. core Windows 2000. However, that would be expected with many Finafiy, For scalability Windows 2000 will additional functionsandservices (seeTable I). supply an increase with support for eight SMP processors(up From four),better fi (e performWtndown 0000 nnndcnn ance with NTFS 5, and clustering services that There are six major categories in which will be most welcome to Internet service Windows 2000 has improved its services. providers (ISPs). As well. IIS5 wiU have better Microsofthas emphasized Active Directory failover and runtime tuning. Services(ADS) as being the crown jewel. ADS But the DataCenter Server version of allows Windows 2000 to compete more doseiy Windows 2000. with support for 32 SMP with Banyan's StreetTalk and NoveU's NDS. In processorsand advanced clustering, is delayed fact, Microsoft believes ADS will igtdte the anywhere from three months to a full year market for directory services. As Table I depending on who you talk to. 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provide end users with a group scheduling and calendaring solutiim that combines the proven strmigth of UNIX with the simplicity of the Mac.

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Xircom worked with Handspring and Lucent's B«B Labs research and devao pment unit to coMsthXpert assistants for the Msc • develop a prototype Springboard expansion MathXpert Software (ht!p.//ww wm aihxpert corn) module, based on Lucent's wireless neiworkunveiled Mac-compatible versions of its popu- ing techno)ogy, that will agow someone usinr lar step-by-step problem-solving math soft- a Handspring Visor handheld PC to browse ware for students in Crades a-l2. the Internet via Apple's AirPort network. O

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Me, myself and my avatar Whenthe book Snow Crash debuted in 1992,the World WideWeb wasstillin itsinfancy and author Neat Stephenson's vision of an online world in which people met, dated, partied, andeven conducted businessthrough avatarsseemed asfarfetched asthe "consensualhallucinations ofthe InternetthatWilliam Gibson conjured up in his1984 novelNeuromancer. By Tom Vanatis "As Hiro approaches the Street, hc seer rwu young couples, prubab/y using their pureur's computersfor u double date in the Meruverse. climbing down uurof PortZcrrswhich is the /ocul purr of entry uud muuuruil stop.He is uur scciug real people,of course... The pruptr urr piecesof sufiwure culled avatars. They are theaudiovisualbodiesrburpeupirusrru cum muuicusr with each othe in the Me/averse" — Neal Stephenson, SnowCrash ust as author William Gibson's cyberspace was grounded in the reality of what would later become the Internet, e avatars in Stephenson's Snow Crash have existed, in one form or another, before he began writing about them. "The very first avatar system was created in I985 at Lucas Film," saysBruce Demur, founding director of the Contact Consortium and president and chief executive officer of Digital Space Corp in Santa Cruz, Calif. "It was created on the Commodore 64 computer to allow people to share a sense of story space, to bc able to type to each other and take each other on quests in quite simple virtual worlds. In a sense, it allowed them to interact socially."

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Demur is something of a guru in the avatar and 3D virtual worlds community. His company, Digital Space Corp., hosts the annual online Avatars Conference and he is the author of Avatars!, a guide through the emerging avatar univcrsc. His interest in avatars and virtual worlds began in the early '80s when he began fiddling with computers, thinking they might provide a way to create Continued on page /09

Weaving your own Web site: Part 52 An in-depth look at Cascading Style Sheets: Part 10 CSS propertyCOLOR,as in the foffowing sim- the amount of green to be displayed, and the third setting the amount of blue to be disple example: played. Hexadecimal values run from 00 to FF Style Sheets (CSS) provide (from 0 to 255 in regtdar numbers), where FF Web authors with much greater con- <8 STYLI=COLOB; RE0'>Red.bold text</B><BR> is the maximum possible value. Under this trol over such things assetting colours, In this case, we are using a standard HTML scheme,a hexadecimal colour value of FF0000 creating objecu set to a specific size, and much more. By using CSS, it is possible to set colour RED.but there are several other ways to is equal to red, 00FF00is equal to green, and 0000FFis equal to blue. This combination of exact sizes for such things as the padding specify colour values. values allows for more than I6 million Most Web authors are already familiar with value in borders and margins, and to set colours to HTML tags, which ordinarily how to specify colour values using a hexadec- colours, giving the Web author a very large would not be capable of taking on a colour imal colour value, which in general enables palette to play wit)z By now, you have probably guessed that value. CSS also expands the ways in which the Web author to set a more predse shade of colours and units of mcastucment can be a colour onscreen than a typical colour name you can usc hexadecimal colour values in C SS (such as red, green or blue) provides. Under as well, and you'd be right. CSS actually prospecifi ed in aW eb page. the standard HTML method of sening hexa- vides two difFerent ways to set CSS values. In decimal colour values,there arc in effectthree the "full" hexadecimal value version, you can Us(ng colour in CSB If you' ve been following this series, you'll pairs of numberscontaining twodigits apiece, set text to the colour red by using the followalready have scen several examples of code with the first pair «orrcsponding to the iag code: Continued un page /08 that use colour values, primarily using the amount of rcd to be displayed. the second to By Keith Sohsngili-Robsrts

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u ONLTNE & CONNECTED w Me, myself nnd my nvntor Continued from page 104 virtual worlds. But, at the time, computers did not have the power or flexibility to do what he wanted. Beyond chat The virtual worlds that did exist were textbased, with people having to type in long, detailed descriptions of the world and their online personas. Darner says it wasn't until computers became more powerful and the Web became a household word that avatars a nd v i rtual w o rlds a s e nvisioned b y Stephenson could become something of a realToday, there are several online virtual worlds in which one can explore and interact in an avatar form. One of the most popular is ActiveWorlds (http: //www.activewor!ds,corn), a community-based 3D environment in which people can build their own worlds or chat and interact with other community members in the various worlds that already exist. One of the largest in ActiveWorlds is AlphaWorld, a city-like landscape in which one can use an avatarto walk through par4, streets or even into rooms and buildings and meet people. Started in 1995, AlphaWorld has some 100 million "objects" (such as buildings, parks, trees, roads, homes. and offices), and loo4 like a major metropolitan city. You download an ActiveWorlds browser, then for US$19.95 register as a citizen, taking on a name and avatar. You are then transported into AlphaWurld (or any other world in ActiveWorlds) where you can begin interaaing with other avatars. Afler a while you are greeted by any number of people who approach you in the community. They m ay askwhat you are doing, ifyou need help with anything or if you just want to chat about a favourite movie, book or CD. Spend enough time in the environment, and you will find yourself with avatar friends, making plans to to just hang out or organizing a party that could be joined by any number of other avatars. What is surprising is how naturally the conversations and interactions flow between people using avatars, especially when mmpared to text-only chat conversations.

a lot of,'Hi! How are you!' kinds of communications. It is so limited. When you look at an avatar-dominated environment, when you get the sense of the gestures,movement and the environment, it seems to add so much of what the text-based communications can't. That is the real breakthroughy Adds Patrick Kitano, "in the early days of the Internet revolution, chat with strangers was really a fad." The vice-president of business development and sala for Blaxxun lnteractwe

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DiCarlantonio also sees Mons being used by companies to help employees find information an an internal corporate network. For example, an employee looking for specific information on the company's health plan, pension options ar complaints procedure can ask the avatar. They can also request that the information be presented in a form that is useful to them. There may also cnme a day where people will have their awn avatar agents who will look for information on a new car, Putting your best business feae fotwenf home, or vacation, (or example, and have it ready when they Bruce Darner's Digital Space is looking at creating virtual come home or have it sent to the office. worlds and environments in which people can do business, DiCarlantonio suggests that what is important about avatars allowing participants from around the world to collaborate on is that they allow people to have a "rdationship" with technolprojects. ogy. It is easier to work with something if it has a human interOne company Darner is working with is a genetic research —LissJefPey, byDesign E-LnbUnit faceand can speak to you in your language, rather than having firm. Digital Space wants to create a virtual community for the to learn its language of line commands, key combinations and firm, giving each member of the far-flung research team an avatar so they can meet, exchange ideas, findings, and data, and ance is e-commerce. While there is a lot of hype about the mouse-clicks. DiCarlantonio first encountered digital relationships when quickly create collaborative teams. One can imagine a virtual online shopping revolution changing business, many will tell you that there are morc people surfing and price shopping he worked in lapan and helped develop digital pets— fish, birds conference room in which avatar team members could meet, exchange notes and even leave messages on a virtual white online than actually puning a credit card down and purchasing or other animals that rmide on a PC. Like real pets, they interact with humans and require care and feeding to prevent them board (ar those who could not make the meeting —a giant step items online. (iom dying. Surprisingly, these virtual pets caught on in lapan forward from online collaborative software available today. "I think in 10 years lavatarsl wifl be the primary interface for and the U.S. proving that making the interaction with technology more "human" easesanxiety about using technology. people in their daily livesand work," Darner says."The Net, as itstands now, isa half-developed space.The Web is notcyberWho will I be todttyy space. The Web is a document database. It is not interactive and There is a growing demand that avatars become more human is a fairly static medium. The avatar virtual world.... really does too, reflecting the individual tastes and quirks of the people embudy the idea of you going somewhere and there are people using them. there."

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inner personality," she continues. D'Onofrio's work certainly has pwsonality. Her Eve before the fall"-inspired avatar won the l998 Avvy AwaizL Last year, she was asked to be a judge at the 1999 competition held during the Avatars Conference. Vancouver-based Credo Interactive Inc. also believes that most avatars available today are not all they could be. To help correct this, Credo created Active Avatars for people

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Before you turn on your computer, you should design your new database on paper. Do this by looking at what you want the database to do. In osw case the manager wants to be able to find quick answers to questions such as Who has car park spaces?,Who works in the Accounts department? and lf I give everyone a IO percent salary rise this year, what will this cost me? In our case the manager already knows what information he needs to store in the database because he's been using a card system for some time. If he didn't have this experience he'd have to consider ag the possible questions he'd need answers to and the type of reports he'd need to produce. It's not until you know what you need to get out of a database that you can determine what you must put into iti When you know what data you need to put into the database you can determine how you' ll organize it. It's easier to manage people's names if you split these into first name and last name. This way you can search for a person by last name and create lists in alphabetical order. You can also use the mail merge option to send leners that read "Dear Mary," etc. If you don't split names into first name and last name then these tasks will he more difficult to complete. You should also splir address information into street name and number, town, state/province. country and zip code/postal code.

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Unux editors: The joy of text Conrinued from page 114 satile, elegant «haracter-menu combo tool that could be used for browsing, editing, renaming, and moving files. If you liked Norton Commander, you' ll be right at home with a n i f t y a pen-source clone called Midnight Commander. It's on most Linux distributions as mc. Go to a command line prompt and try it out. You get a split screen with panels left and right that you «an control independently. The function keys provide easy access to the view, edit and other functions. Midnight Commander even allows you to inspect the innards of RPM Bes. The program makes an excellent viewer and simple editor.

the original Wordstar, Joe has an option for displaying help information while you' re editing. To install and use Joe type the following after you' ve inserted your Red Hat CD-ROM (note: this series of tutorials is based on Red Hat Linux tko): ¹ mount /dev/cdrom/mnpcdrom ¹ cd /mni/cdrom/RedHai/RPMS ¹ rpm -Unvjoe'rpm ¹cd/ fi xmoxnt /mnt/Cdrom ¹ Joe /etc/fxo.conf

Simple text editors Unix has a reputation for hard-to-leam text editors (we' ll visit those in a minute) but there are a number of easy editors you can use. The text editor within Midnight Commander. far example, is very DOS-like in its operation and it can be invoked independently. You can call it directly from the command line, e.gc

Then type Ctrl-K H to display the help menu. Another pleasant, easy-to-use editor is Pi«o, which comes with the text-based mail readerPine. Most Linux systems have Pine install«d so Pico is available for your use. As with loe, it presents help menus, making it very easy to learn. The only thing to watch with Pico is that, by default, it wraps lines of text. This is a good thing in email, but it's a bad thing in configuration liles. Hence you should invoke Pico with the -w flag to prevent line wrap, e.g«

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Many a Linux newbie has been thankful to find this editor on the system. Another option: did you ever use Wordstar, or a Wordstarderived editor, such as thos« integrated into Turbo C and Turbo Pascal? Meet Joe (Joe's Own Editor). You might have to install this from your /RedHat/RPMS CD-ROM directory since it is rarely installed by default. As with

Bleak-belt editars Because Unix is based on text files, Unix editors and utilities have been designed to manipulate text in uncommonly powerful ways. Hence it is worth your while, if you want to move beyond a beginner's level,to startworking with these tools. You wig want to learn how to use grep and its variants (type in man prep)

There are many Vi tutorials on the Net where you can go to learn more commands. Vi is also covered in most books on Unix and Linux. The Vi command set is very rich and a modern Vi such as Vim offers macro record and playback, color syntax highhghting, and split-screen display. Vim is the default Vi for Red Hat Linux. There's a new Linux Vim-HowTo with a Vi tutorial a t h tfp;//www.finuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NmHOft/IO.¹tmf, and you can locate other online tutorials by typing "vi t utorial" i n your favourit e search engine. Despite the oddball keystrokes, once you develop a comfort level with Vi, you' ll discover it is quite eNcient. You never have to take your hands out of typing position. And Vi is a life skill — you can take Vi anywhere. You can even baNe your Windows friends by installing the Windows version of Vtm on your other hard drive partition and enjoy watching their faces while you edit a Be. This also gives yau a chance to practi«e Vi while you' re in a Windows session. Emacs, in contrast, is a very large, Swiss Army knife-like program — a powerful editor that can also be used to read email, newsgroups, and even surf the Web. It was written by Richard M. Stallman, the person who started the Free Software Foundation (GNU Project) to which Linux owes much of its existence. Emacs s i powerful because it wss designed to be extensible through a built-in programming Janguagt. LISP. The "macs" in Emacs stands for macros. C'onrinued on page II 9

and at least one of the dassic Unix text editors: Vi or Emacs. Of the two, I'd recommend Vi as your Erst conquest. Vi (pronounced vee-eye) is the most widdy available editor for Unix — you will find a version of it on every Unix system you encounter, from Linux to Solaria to FreeBSD. The Vi editor, originally created by Bill Joy at the University of California at Berkeley, has more of the lean, classic Unix feel than Emacs. When you start up Vi it's fast and light. But learning it takes a fair bit of patience. What makes Vi confusing is that it's modal: it has a cammand mode and an edit mode. You "shift gears" by tapping the ESC key. Here's a very brief demo on how to use Vi. The boldface items are the commands you type. Try this on a practice file. ¹ vi myiestixt i

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First steps with Access Continuedfrom page I /4 You' ll see an empty Database dialogue appear on the screen and you' re ready to begin. Create your table using the Table Wizard, which will automate much of the process. To begin, select the Table tab. dick New, choose Table Wizard and click OK. You' ll see a list of sample tables and th«6elds you' ll typically indude in them Click the Business option and from the first window choose the Employees sample table. Choose these fieids (in order) from the Sample fields list and dick the right pointing arrow to add them to the list on the right ( F i elds in my new tab le); Employeellumber, FirstName, LastName,

DateHired, DepartmentName and Salary. You' ll note there's no field for Car Park details so you' ll need to add it manually later. For now, choose Next. The next dialogue offers to name your table Employees, which is acceptable. Choose No, I' ll Set The Primary Key and dick Next. From the What Fidd Will Hold Data That Is Unique For Each Record dropdown list choose EmployeeNumber and choose the Numbers I Enter When I Add New Records. This means the EmployeeNumber field wiU contain numbers only, which you will enter rather than having Access provide them. Click Next to continue and at this final screen choose Modify The Table Design option (so you can

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To do this, switch to the Datasheet view by choosing View, Datasheet View. You' ll be pmmpted to save the table, so answer Yes when asked. You can now enter the data —one item percefl — foryour table.Use the Tab,Enter or Right Arrow key to move to the next Iield in the row, type your dates in the format 3-12-OO (using dashes) and, to enter the data in the Yes/No fidd, press the Spacebar for Yes and leave the checkbox unchecked for No. When you' ve entered the data, you «an close the table by clicking the Close button in its top right corner. You' ll be returned to the Database dialogue and you'U see that the Tables tab contains your new Employees table. Continued on page/20

add the Car Park held), and click Finish. You'U see your table on the screen in Table Design View, which shows how your table is designed rather than what it contains. You' ll see the six fields you' ve added and their Data types are listed — these correspond pretty much to the types in the list above. To add the fidd for tbe Carpark data (in its correct position), click in the margin to the left of Salary so you highlight that row and choose Insert, Rows. In the Field Name cefl type CarPark and from the dropdown list in the Data Type c«U choose Yes/No.

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thorough snd packed with examples of code that includes benchmark tests (with the required ORB support software and source code on the included CD-ROM). This benchmark code is invaluable because it allows maders to see the trade-oils, not just in runtime perfonnance but also in ease of development. Also Java and CORBA does a much better job of explaining the transition from client server to n-tier processing with its varying strategies and advantages.

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with middleware like IBM's MQSeries or Hewlett Packard's e-Speak. In general, the stateHri-the-art in Java software agents like JINI and other APls are only covered peripherally. Nonetheless, the coverage of the core Web serving and servlet technology is treated comprehensively. It's hard to keep up with the Web development trends without key books like these that show Java Server technology in action. Ct

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First steps with Access Currfmuerffrurrr page /20 will lind that these tools are handy when you'rc working with,> large data file. Ouerying your data I/sing queries you can ask questions about the data m your databaseand store these queries so you can reuse them later. To create a simple query fur this table, close the table if it is open (you can answer No or Yes when you'rc prompted to save changes to the table design) and «hoose the Queriestab. Click New, choose the Simple Query Wizard and cli«k OK. The lirst query you' ll create wig display a subset of the data in the table; thc first name, last name, salary and department. To do thizv select th e f i elds FirstName, LastName, Department and Salary from the left window, cbck the arrow key to move them to the right window and cbck Next. From the next screen choose Dewii (shows every held of every record) and click Next. Name thc query "Employeesby Department" and choose the Open The Query To View Information buuon and click Finish. You' ll see a subset of the data from yourtable on the screen. hiodil'y this so you can type the name o( the depanment and sec detail s of only those employees whu work in that department. To do this, choose View, Design View to move to the area where you can alter the design of your query. In the col u m n hea ded DepartmentName in the Criteria raw, type [Type the Department Namek The square brackets are important as they teU Access to askyou for the department name before the query results are displayed. Ta see how this works, click the Run button (it hasa red exclamation mark un it) and a dialogue will appear prompting you to enter the department name. Type Sales and click OK. Now, the query will display information (or only those employees who work in the Sales department. Close this query by clicking the Close button in the top right colviel'.

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Displaying your data on paper Reports are a way ol committing the data m your table t«paper. Yiiu can set them tn contain all thc data or simply a subset «f it, Tn create a rep«A bst ing the employees g mt« departments, begin by choosing the Reports tab, ch««sc New, Repiirts Wizard, from the dropdnwn bst choose Empt«yees (sn the data for the rcp«rt will come from the table), and cbck OK. Chir«se all the fields s« they'll all appear «n your report. in the next dialogue yaull choose the held that the data wig be grnuped by. Select the DepartmentName field and click thc right pointing srr«w to move n to the wmdaw on the Aght. Click Next and choose the fields LastName and FirstName ss the s«rt heldsso the empl«yeas will appear in «lphsbetical order within the department groups. Cho«xe the Summary Opti«ns button and fram the Salaryr«w enable the Sum checkbnx, cha«se the Dered and Summary apti«n butt«n and enable the Calculate Percent Of Tnt,il For Sums checkb«x and cbck OK then Ncxi. From the layout «pti«ns ch«ase Abgn Left I, Landscape and enable the Adjust The Field Width S«AII Fields Fit (Tn A Paf» dieckb«x and click Next. Choose one of the styics, click Next, give the report the name "Employees gruuped by Departmem <all dewdsl." choose the Preview The Report option and click Finish. Wait while the repnrt is compiled and the results displayed. Yau can print ibis report or merely view it on the screen. Like the Query, its design is saved so you can create a report using these seuings anytime by simply d ouble-clicking the repon name i n t h e Reports tab. So, there's the Access igi quick tour. 0( course there's a lat murc ta it, but yuu're off to a good start. In future columns we' ll Mke z lookatsome more advanced features.IJ

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accessible thmugh the PropertiesSheet. These samedesign time properties are also accessilile in your VB programs. The trick is knowing how to get at them. Table I provides some importantpre-defi ned names inVB foraccessing not just formsand controls but also application information. Weshall take advantageof nadVB objects. menu items, the menus then act as a skeleton thesepre-defi Remember, the way to refer to an object's of what your progmn is going to do. Our pmgram is simple. Rle I Exnand Mt I Cut I CopyI property is object.property. Solet's changetbe height of our menudemo form programmatipasta IDeleteare the complete commands. cagy. Click on theEdit I Cstmenu item and add

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The new nerd order As Linux frenzy peaks, geeks rule the world, or at least the stock market stream end user operating system A substantial library of native Linux a p plications s oftware monly us ed should be available to end users by hardware su«has the end of this year.

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graphics cards, DVD drives, and sound cards would hkely be evadable. Inprise, the own ers of the Borland hne o f s o ftware development t o ols, announced the forthcom-

Casino capitalism: Buy low, sell high-and cash out The gold rush mentality now

engulflng Linux in many cases is

bewildering rapidity, a combination of techno-optimism and

greed for a quick easy buck pushed anything associated with Linux into the

headlines ofevery flnancial section in print or online.

The Linux bubble can probably be sai d to have begun in earnest early in the fall of '99. The pioneering Linux software publisher Red Hat chose to make its initial

government. Very bright people devoted their time and talent to writing and sharing Linux soft-

ment environment code-named

development of new linux software code, and offer- ware tides. ing debugging and IBM continued to strongly pro-

demonstrated any real ability to stock market "bubble" is exploiti ng investors' optimis~ r he rd instinct — in much the same way as the Internet bubble did. Both of these recent technolo-

overin your bank account. It'scertain that many people have made

money from the Linux market, but

strangers for f ree, ing full pop for hardware, periph- millionaires, and a good many erals, training, support, services, paper billionaires, over the past about copyright or maintenance, upgrades,and appli- two years. The Internet and linux intellectual property. catlolis pfograllls. bubbles continue to work their A s 1999 drew to a The shape of the new business magic, because unlike other close. however, the model for Linux quickly became investment bubbles of the past,

back

without any nonsense

It's the rich get afl the gravr, it's the poor wot gets the blame

My total personal stock portfolio consists of one share of Hudson's communitarian ethic clear: give away the linux operat- such as the Dutch tulip mania of Bay Company stock that I was of Linux appeared to ing system for free, and charge reg- the 17th century, or the South Sea given as a child. Its current value is be dying as dollar signs rephced ular prices for everything else. bubble, or the Florida real estate around $20,the same as it was 30 peacesigns in Linux lovers' eyes. Ironically, this points out a simple bubble of the 1920s. today's tech- years ago. The annual dividend reality that the Microsoft-haters nology investment bubbles are cheques (generally wefl under $1

Make migions otf free softwaral

per year) are probably still being prefer to ignore, which is that the based onsomething reaL The Internet bubble is riding on mailed to the address where I lived

The Linux frenzy was further cost of buying the Microsoft stoked by uncertainty about the Windows operating system is a future of Microsoft, as the initial minuscule percentage of the total findings of fact in the L.S. govern- cost of ownership of a PC.

the wiring of the world, and the complete reorganization of every aspect of world business that it is

bringing about. linus is riding on its potential to bust the Microsoft-

Carel 'sstock price shot up from its dismal 1998 low of $1.35, to a record high of over $60

money. It was supposed to be about freedom &om the Microsoft

record high of over $60. A flood of other major PC commonopoly. The open source soft- panies made linux announceware movementbegan as an anti- ments just as the year ended. capitalist, neo-hippy alternative to Adobe announced Linux versions the increasing impersonalization

of its Acrobat and FrameMaker

of personal computing.

programs. World leading graphics chip maker ATI announcedformal support for linux, as did Creative

There has always been a utopian subculture within computing, devoted to "making ini'ormation free, and to playfully gumming up the gears of big business and big

On the linux merry-go-round,

you aren't really rich until you into Linux-related companies have dumped your stock, paid before those companies have your taxes, and counted what's left

dominated computing world of

the past 15 years wide open, and btxome the basis of this new century's computer market. an inspired, if opportunistic, stroke of marketing genius. The However, the fact that there is widely publicized aad rapid runup something real under the hype in Red Hat stock price that result- ment's anti-trust prosecution of The main selling point linux doesn't mean that investing in the ed gave a powerful signal to the software giant led to charges, has is that it is a compact, nearly bubble is safe. For one thing, the investors that Linux was likdy to and rumoursof a breakup of the crash-proof al t ernative to IPO industry in the U.S. is a moncompany. At t h e same time, Windows. Its main limitation is umental insider scam, where the be an interesting stock play. the small number of mainstream big players have access to the At the same time, the Red Hat Canadian software publisher Cord phenomenon highlighted some of began to publidy demonstrate an software applications currently stocks as they are issued, pocket the ironic contradictions of Linux impressive new graphical version available i n Li n u x f o rmat. the initial proflts, and "cash out," becoming the next big thing for of Linux for mainstream PCusers. Nevertheless, there is ever more selling the stocks at inflated prices the get rich quick cmwd. Linux Corel's stock price shot up &om its reason to regard Linux as a main- to smaller investors. wasn't supposed to b e about dismal 1998 low of SI35, to a

the Linux phenom enon. Thiswas

tion" and prices drop, vast numbers of people losetheir shirts.

it's also a simple fact that they haven't done it on the basis of selling Linux-related software to end users. Rather, they' ve pocketed technical support serv- mote Linux, happily giving away gy-related stock market manias money from investors who may, or "Linux soflware,whilecharg- have created thousands of paper may not someday get their money ices to L inux-using "free

Kylix, which would radicaflyspeed

public offering (IPO) of company stock during the annual linux World show, when media anention was briefly concentrated on

profit from flipping Linux stock, vast sums of money are being transferred out of the pockets of another set of investors. Every time the market makes a "correc-

attracting eager investors to buy

ingrelease ofa Linux develop- make money. This latest linux t the end of 1999, just when you thought it couldn't get sillier, the investment community's absurd over-valuation of the Internet stock market m orphed in a n e w direction — absurd over-valuation of Linux stocks. With

In order for one group of stock

market players to make a huge

Labs. The support of two of the leading multimedia hardware makers recant linux users could

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very well in 2000, acquiring millions of new users, and attracting an increasing third-party developer community. I think that smart and ruthless insiders will make a lot of money &om Linux stocks, while quite a few small investors wiU get

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