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Letters I enjoyed your March edition and am very glad to see a robust local com puter paper again! It was good to liked the articles. B ut, as far as I k n ow, i t w a s read some voices from the past and other places. I will appreciate articles Ernie that sang the Rubber Duckie on the various Linux distributions song...not Kermit the Frog. and Linux, ata beginner level.At Cheers, the moment, I am trying Red Hat 7 James Stotx, Linux and Mandrake Linux. SFU Art Roive, Surrey

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convention, adopted a different direc tory indicator, and hence a different parameter indicator. If you' re talking about "pickness", I'm being picky that when DOS was implemented, such conventions were not carried on, leading to the author's misunder standing. I conclude that the author did not

to find out that on command line, Linux and Unices require case sensi tive words. It was either QDOS or n Microsoft's fault that such "pickness was not inherited because QDOS was indirectly related to Unix itself; however, somewhere along the line, the command line interpretor ior the console in 'nix-speak) dropped such

After reading the partly done article from your paper that I picked up in BCIT, I think the author of the arti cle is not very bright, despite that he had previous experiences of the same distribution of L i nux. "[we] finally solve this problem by using 'Xconfig urator,' but don't forget the caital 'X' — Linux is picky about things like this" indicates the author's lack of knowledge of Unix systems in gen eral. If the author had installed Man drake Linux 7.0, he/she is bound

Corrections Due to a press error, the lhiorton Ghost 2001 and Mac Advantage articles in the March issue were cut short. The complete articles are available at ComputerTracker.corn, at http//www.computertracker.corn/2001/2-Mar/Page10.html and http: //www. computertracker. corn/2001/2-Mar/page2. html, respectively.

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avoid. Help for Linux problems is everywhere,and itwon't take me 20 hours just to figure out how to get the

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be fixed no time because there are many users that had such hardware set up properly. I found that your magazine is rather biased towards Windows, where there are pages and pages stressing on Windows XP, and having a half done article talking about the author' s inablity to look for help. Indeed that Windows XP and MacOS are easier to use, but I manage to set up Debian GNU/Linux, which i s n o torously user-unfriendly on a system with

CD-ROM, CD-RW, SCSI card, a 20GB harddrive that have over 10 partition, a SCSI swap drive, SBLive Value, and Voodoo 3 in less than 24 hours. I'm sure that if I used Man

drake Linux 7.2 I could squeeze the install time down to 2 hours, includ ing the problem that I had with the

graphics card with XFree86. B.H.

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ment. If a Debian installation takes you, a person vrho seems very familiar vnth the procedure, almost 24 hours, I think it's sa fe to say that some people may Jind Mandrake — or any other version o fL inux — challenging.

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cases or connoisseurs C Cases come in a a w i de array of sizes and styles, rang ing from the basic beige box to outlandishly coloured blobs with eccentric stylings. There is, however, considerable interest in h i gh-end cases among PC hardware enthu siasts, many of which also enjoy hot-rodding their computers with overclocked processors and tricked out motherboards. These tweakers, more often than not, often benefit from both the practical aspects of a high-performance case and the "brag value" that comes when their peers "ooh" and "ahh" at their system when

at a public event such as a multiplayer gaming session or other get-together of fragmasters. As with other quality goods, you can expect to pay a pre mium, but rest assured, such a case will be the envy of many at the next QuakeCon convention or supergeek get-together.

expensive of the two, dubbed the PC-20 (C$300), is the sort of enclo sure that overclocking enthusiasts and case connoisseurs will adore. It' s available in "traditional" beige or a striking silver colour and is made by Lian Li. the PC-20 is made from aluminum and is probably the light est case you' ll ever lift. The metal is strong, however, and there's not a rough edge to be found. The front panel of the PC-20 case removes with a simple tug, thanks to a clever design that looks nearly indestructible. As a PC veteran who has broken more than a few crummy plastic tabs off the front panels of cases, this is also a blessing. Behind

it, you' ll find a large (washable!) air

filter and a variable speed control for the front-panel fans. Thanks to the custom case mod ifications by AMK Services, which supplied us these units for review, the case we tested was decked out with no less than seven (!!) fans — and Customized Cases Burnaby BC-based AMK Services that's not including the CPU fan (s) supplied us with a p air o f c ases or any blowers on your graphics card, hard drives, or so on. As you might customized for performance enthusi asts and, without a doubt, the more expect, all these fans tends to increase

Notable Features of the LAN case • Compact footprint, 15" high Hinged door hides more stor age bays Metal carrying handle • Top-mounted fan Spacious interior • Easy-open case No studs or screws required to mount mainboard No screws requiredto install expansion cards (!) Thin-and-tall power supply 5 x 5.25" bays 3 x 3.5" bays 7 expansion slot covers P4 compatible (etc.)

the ambient noise level somewhat but this air also has a decidedly chill ing effect on your PC components and that's music to a performance enthusiast's ears. In fact, the company claims that a system with a 900 MHz Athlon in a PC-20 case will run a full 14 degrees Celsius cooler than one with the same CPU in a traditional case. Similarly, the temperature of a high performance graphics card such as the NVIDIA GeForce 256 can easily reach 70 degrees Celsius in a tradi tional case; the Lian Li case reduces this to a less harmful 52 degrees. The other case, while not as "over the top" as the PC-20, is no slouch, either and carries a not-insignificant price tag of $159.99. It is so new that it is not yet officially named (but on AMK's website carries the designa tion LAN-0033). Its most unusual feature is a thin, rectangular, rear mounted power supply, leaving the "working area" inside the case more accessible than we' ve ever seen in a PC case. Its most useful feature is a clever design that completely eliminates the need to use a screwdriver. Its metal motherboard mounting studs allow the mainboard to snap firmly into place (and, if desired, to be removed later with similar ease). Its seven expansion slot covers use a slide-up clamp mechanism to alleviate the need for screws for securing graphics

Notable Features of the Lian Li PC-20 Case Lightweight aluminum con struction

No sharp edges Multiple cooling fans Removable air filter • Adjustable fan speeds

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Shown herewkh the sidesandfrontofthe case removed, the slide out trays of the Lian Li PC-20 Casemake it easy to add components or change settings.

331 power supply, so this didn't pose because of ) its oddball power supply. a problem for us. The Enermax 331 Its "tool free" design makes it an ideal sells for S89.99. Some users may solution for those who delve inside their PCs on a semi-regular basis; it preferto pay extra forpremium qual is also bound to be attractive to those ity power supplies or a unit with a built-in uninterruptible power supply for whom a smaller case is desirable and don't mind calculating the cost — as long as it doesn't unduly limit of such items separately. Thus, when expansion options. Here at the PC a power supply is added, the PC-20 Buyer's Guide test lab, we fall into case we examined retails for $389.99 both categories. If you' ve ever owned a "cheap (Cdn). The LA N c ase comes with a clone" computer, you probably already 300-watt thin-and-tall power supply. know about cheap power supplies, shoddy fans, rough metal edges and However, the company warns that other telltale signs of inferior work the power supply is not upgradeable cards and other AGP, PCI (or ISA, at this time. We suspect you might manship. If you' re looking for cases if you' re into retro designs!) compo in the league of the best models by nents. The front fascia panel removes have a hard time finding a third easily, as do both side panels. Even party replacement should it ever fail. SuperMicro, Antec (the SX1040 is Naturally, we like the S389 case one of our favorrte cases), In Win the motherboard tray is held in place and other premium case manufac with a screw-free clamp design. You a lot, but when the "wallet factor" comes into play, we find ourselves turers, you shouldn't overlook these can literally build an entire PC with leaning in the direction of the less cases, distributed and customized by out the use of a screwdriver, with the help of this case and a few extra expensive unit, despite (and, in part, AMK Services. Recommended. 9 thumbscrews for those pesky disk drives. It has an outrageous number of drivebays for a 16-inch case: fi ve 5.25" drive bays and three 3.5" bays. This is a design hardware tinkerers will love. Network Tech. Before we go too much further, Chosen applicant must have 2yrs exp. in WinXX, NT, Novell. LAN, Internet and we should that some configurations data comm. matters. Must be hard working and have good customer service skills. of the Lian Li PC cases are priced Business solutions without power supplies. Therefore, Chosen applicant should have exp. in providing complete solutions to smallto be carefulwhen comparison shop medium size business. You should be knowledgeable in HW, SW, networks, databases, Web & e-business matters. ping, to compare identical configura tions. Our PC-20 case from AMK Pleasereply by e-math info@compu2000.corn or fax:436-2619. came with a good quality Enermax

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Planning to buy a CD-RW drive? beginners, and makes it easy to make Hewlett Packard HP is th e C D - Rewritable drive data discs, assemble MP3 and/or WAV files and burn up to 99 of them market leader in a vibrant market that, in 2000, saw shipments of onto audio discs, or copy CDs. The 9600se provides a pair SCSI2 CD-RW drives rise 5796 over 1999 connectors on the back of the slim levels. In Q4 of 2000, its top-of line case, but does not come with a the-line model is the C$510 HP CD-Writer 9600se, a SCSI-based SCSI card or cable. Thus, you' ll need external model with a 4MB buffer, to purchase these items separately — a not trivial expense. We tested leading-edge 12x8x32 performance and one of the best software and the drive using portable computers with 16-bit PCMCIA and 32-bit software bundles we' ve seen, includ PC Card SCSI interfaces, on a desk ing a "fast format" f eature that top system with SCSI-3 integrated reduces the time it takes to begin

2MB buffer, a basic software bundle and two pieces of blank media for C$265. An older 24x internal IDE model, dubbed the 8250i, or an exter nal 6x (yeech!) USB-connected 8210e model sell for US$136 and US$179 (after rebates), respectivelv. Be sure to check the software bundles of each model — they differ widely. HP offers several other models. The 9110i is the best bet for those look ing for a unit bundled with Adaptec Easy CD Creator, DirectCD, Acid, FilingCentral, and the multimedia organizer and CD labeler titles. See www.hpcdwriter.corn for additional details.

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from http: //www.goldenhawk.corn/ and Nero, from www.ahead.de, prob ably the two best-known alternatives to Adaptec's offerings. 2) Does the burner come with the software and (especially) hardware features you want? We think a 2MB buffer is good, but it's not as sophis ticated as, say, a 4MB or 8MB buffer, or even better, a drive with the "Burn Proof" feature that virtually elimi nates buffer underruns,

the theoretical maximum to achieve consistent success. On several of the

Burn Proof technology basically consists of a firmware routine in the drive that watches the status of the buffer. When the buffer is about to empty, the Burn Proo f controller sends a command to turn off' the writing

laser. Then, when the empty buffer condition is resolved, it turns the laser back on again. The drive's built-in

d rives we' ve tested with 2M B o r 4MB buffers, attempts to record at speeds above 4x rates often met with failure. Fortunately, virtually every CD recording utility on the market allows you to easily reduce the record ing speed.Thus, are not in a great hurry to burn your CDs, or are the owner of a computer a tad slower that today's latest and greatest, almost any CD recorder on the market today can write with a near-10096 success rate at a speed of 4x. But, for best results, you should consider getting a drive with the Burn Proof feature, or its equivalent, We recommend "test-writing" a few CDs with the "test" simulation mode provided by most CD writing software utilities. We also recom m end checkingthat other drives can read the CDs you create with your CD burner. This has a lot more to do with the brand of media you use than the brand of drive you choose. We once burned data onto a bunch of BASF discs and were later horrified to find that virtually no other drives could read the "successfully burned" disc. Needless to say, we stopped using them in a hurry. These days, we tend to find the "silver on silver" vari ety of discs produce the best results. (We' ve had particularly good results from the inexpensive "Delta" brand of 80-minute discs.)

has soared past its competitors to move into the second position in the error correction mechanism treats the CD-RW arena with a market share of tiny gap created during this interrup 17% of the CD-RW market behind tion as it would any minor defect in onto the motherboard and a SCSI3 writing to an unformatted CD-RW the media — it simply writes around to-SCSI2 adapter cable and even HP. LG, notes Evans Research, posted disc from about 60 minutes to 5-7 it. Although Burn Proof was orig a remarkable 20396 increase in volume minutes. (CD-R d i sks take only an old Adaptec 1542CF SCSI-1 shipments over Q1-00, to regain the inally developed by Sanyo and has about 10 seconds to format.) There' s (ISA) interface, with a SCSI-1 to been licensed to several manufactur SCSI-2 cable. All worked well except market share that it had achieved in a simple backup utility that may ers (most notably, Plextor and LaCie), Q4-99. (Reference: http: //www.evans the 16-bit PCMCIA card connec finally encourage you to do that full Ricoh, Yamaha and Toshiba have sim research. corn/storage-snap. html) (or partial) system backup you' ve tion, which degraded playback per ilar s)gems. Goodbye, ruined CDs! In short, this kind of market per been puttingoff and a handful of formance when the drive was used as formance is a good thing. It virtually a CD-ROM, and returned a "SCSI other titles, including a CD label Plextor ensures that the drive will be well ing utility, Broderbund's Print Shop controller not found" when attempt supported by new software titles and It's probably safe to say that Plextor is Multimedia Organizer and a copy of ing to record a disk using a retail updates. the best-rated of the big brands, and MusicMatch Jukebox. The package packaged version (not included) of company's most as such, the drives tend to command Currently, the also includes couple of blank CDs, Easy CD Creator. premium prices. Plextor drives are This drive is also available as an popular model is the LG Electronics a package of CD labels and even a CED-8080B ( h t t p: //www.lge.ca/ usually named as the best brand for "Neato" CD label stomping gizmo internal model dubbed the 9600i, for long-term reliability, and our expe C$440. Both of these models and, product/ced8080b. asp) that help you apply them. rience with a 4-year-old model still It comes with Adaptec Easy CD It is also supposed to come with indeed, most other HP CD-writers, Creator and Direct CD, the tools chugging along here at our office support the recording of 80-minute Sonic Foundry's ACID — hands tends to bear that belief out. CDs, with appropriate (third-party) we use most often to create CDs. down, our favorite music creation The h i gh-end P lextor P X We recommend making sure that the SCSI software — but our review unit was software. W12432TVSW12x4x32x softwareversion of Easy CD Creator Honestly, considering the outra nussing this title. (Perhaps the last model (C$485) features the above is at least 4.0. Older versions lacked geous prices of SCSI cables and full reviewer agrees with us!). the ability to load MP3 files. You mentioned Burn Proof feature that The centerpiece of a CD writer' s featured interface cards, we think makes CD burning more reliable. might also want to avoid the just software bundle is, of course, the an IDE-connected drive is a better released Easy CD Creator version CD recording software. The 9600se choice for most PC users. An IDE 5.0, at least for the next few months. Yama ha includes Veritas "MyCD" software drive can connect internally to the We' vereceived a number of negative The award for speediest CD burner instead of the more commonly found same cable to which your hard drive reports about this new version. currently g o es to Y amaha. Its records Adaptec Easy CD Creator. While or CD-ROM drive is attached, thus LG is gaining a good share of the CRW2100E CD b u rner this originally struck us as a risky costing you nothing extra, above the CD-RW market this year, and have a CD-R discs at 16x, CD-RW discs in move, considering the market-leading cost of the drive kit and a few pieces strong Canadian presence. The main 10x and can read a CD at the speed of blank CD-R or CD-RW media. status of the Adaptec title, the Veri of 40x.And iiIP3 fans,take note: An IDE drive with similar specs questions you should ask yourself are: tas software is a user-friendly alterna this baby can do digital audio extrac 1) does the CD burning software you tive, albeit a little less full-featured. to the 9600i is the 9510i. It retails for want to run (e.g., is there anything tion at the full 40x speed. C$390. Other models sacrifice speed Most notably, it lacks the ability to other than Adaptec Easy CD Cre load and burn ISO disk images. 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but they will show you a notebook and tell you that it is a laptop. One of the things I look for when I buy a computer wether it be a desk top or portable is the ability to be able to handle DOS based programs and wether or not it has a built in micro floppy drive. Now I know that sounds silly in this day and age of 'Windows 2000' and high speed CD R/W drives but the fact of the matter is, I don't need all that. My work, such as this arti cle, is written in W ord Perfect 6 for DOS. It gives me more features than anything any Microsoft prod uct hasever dreamed of. So many in fact t hat I b a r ely useany of them. My portable computer is a 386 and myhome computer isa486. Dinosaurs you say. Maybe, if you are doinggraphic arts,but when it comes to word processing, I learned y ears ago that only and x t r u n s slower than I can type. As for storage capacity a 40 M hard drive holds all of my programs, including 'Windows 3.1' should I want to play some solitaire. And for backup, which I always do, every night at home and every time I turn off my portable, a mini floppy holds

more than I can write in a day. I will agree that a micro floppy is much more convenient and less easily damaged than the mini so I am not against advancement. When

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alternative to the Palm V series of thin and light PDAs; now, Sony has announced a new model that goes even further, with quadruple the resolution of Handspring or Palm offerings, colour, music playback fea tures and some exciting expansion options, too.

New Sony pushes the Palm OS envelope growing number of Palm hand eld fans are starting to sense that

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envelope fasterand further than th e c ompany that started the Palm OS ball rolling in the first place. The H and spring Visor Edge was unveiledin March, 2001 as an

Announced inJapan for an April 7th release and initially e iqiected to be available to that market only, the specs on the Sony Clie PEG N700C are just einerging as trans lations from Japanese hit the net.

nor do I care because anything on the market nowadays, new or used is pretty well going to be a notebook.) However, though they are smaller they are still not truly portable. My little notebook has travelled with me all over Canada, except for three provinces, all across the US, except for three states, to M exico, and to China One of the things I asked, when I booked my flight to China, was if the plane was equipped with plug ins for computers. Air Canada told me that ot their entire fleet on the China route, only three planes had outlets for computers, and those were in business class. I can understand this. Most planes were built before the present uprise in the use of notebooks and designers of planes have rea.sonably assumed that portable computers are portable, meaning they don't need access to a power source. But they do. One of the reasons I have been looking into buying a new portable is that the batteries in my present notebook are shot. When I was given the notebook the battery would only hold a half hour charge a nd as time went on it got to t h e point where it wouldn't hold a charge at all and now it is so dead that if it is in the computer the computer won' t boot so I have to take the battery out just to get it to work which mean I am chained to an outlet. Ergo, no portability. Because I travel a lot I need a com puter that will run on batteries and you say that any good note book will. And I ask, ' For how long?' The problem is that newer note

books take up so much space with their fancy drives that they don't have room for a second battery. For some of them this means that when the battery is low you have to plug the computer in to charge the battery. Others have the option of being able

Here's what we know so far: • 320 x 320 resolution, reflective TFT screen, but with 256 colours only.

• The music playback features currently support only the pro prietary ATRAC music format and stores its data on Digital Rights Management (DRM) enabled Magicgatecards.In other words, you won't be load ing MP3s into this unit the way you can with competing Pocket PC devices. • Improved JogDial integra.tion Supports USB connectivity to desktop PCs. (Mac support, however, appears to be absent.)

• 8 MB RAM 33 MHz Dragonbali VZ processor Optional Mobilephone Connec tor (currently, compatible with

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to take the battery out, after you

shut down, and replacing it with a fully charged battery. (There is actu allyone computer on the market that allows you to change the batter with out shutting down.) This to me is a very practical idea. Now we are reaching portability. We work until the battery gets low, pause while we replace the battery and con tinue working. But what happens when the second battery gets low. Simple, while you are working with the second battery the first battery is in a charger. Not so simple, Few manufacturers offer a battery char ger. To recharge the battery you have to put it back in the computer and plug the computer into the wall. So much for the portability. And even if you do have a sep a rate battery charger it has to b e plugged into a wall. So unless you have unlimited funds to buy unlim ited extra batteries your portability is only the distance and time you can travel from a wall outlet with one or two batteries. To be truly portable a notebook has to have a separate battery char ger and the charge has to work off of solar power. Even a separate char ger that worked off of a car lighter would be a good improvement. But as long as you are chained to a 110 or 220 outlet a portable computer is not truly portable. 8

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HailStorm uses technology similar Indeed, there are those who believe (as we do) that HailStorm will make to that seen in Microsoft Passport to Microsoft a more boastworthy target simplify user logons and protect pri vacy than ever for hackers. Other web sites, induding Salon There is, however, plenty of evi and the PC enthusiast site Ars Tech dence that many users don't want to pay for services they may be able nica, have been experimenting with to get for free elsewhere. Qualcomm a voluntary payment systems, such as has encountered considerable user PayPal or Amazon's Honor System. In The initiahve raises some ques resistance from its plan to move the these scenarios, users are asked to vol tions about the future of free email and messaging services, if customers once-popular (read: previously free) untarily support the site by contribut ing whatever they can, sometimes in demonstrate a willingness to pay, as Eudora system to a yearly subscrip tion model. For many users, such exchange for access to premium ser Microsoft is betting they will. But vices or exclusive content. others worry that recent breaches a change is the final straw that We have little sympathy for com will force them to move to another in Microsoft's own web site show email program, such as Microsoft's panies such as PayMyBills, which in that customer information, including virus-plagued Outlook Express or the March 2001 reneged on a previous credit card numbers and other per promise to provide its customers with sonal data might not be as secure as built-in mail client in Netscape Com a free two years of service they will municator. Microsoft's Hailstorm Microsoft assures us it is.

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Ray Harryhausen thrills at the Digital Media Expo and many other beloved films too numerous to list here, Harryhausen has inspired generations of film o, out there, has not seen makers and animators to launching The Seventh Voyage Of their own professional careers. This Sinbad (1958) which fea is a man who has single-handedly tured Cyclops, a gigantic one-eyed animated, without computer assis tance, classic fantasy images that creature? Or remember Todd Arm have imbedded themselves into the Jason And The Argonauts strong in minds of countless fans. Many of l1963) which featured one of stop his noted admirers are today's leg motion animation's finest hours — a thrilling sword battle between three ends in their own right: Directors George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, intrepid warriors and seven re-ani mated skeletons? And do you remem James Cameron; makeup artists Stan ber Harry Hamlin, as Perseus, in Winston, Rick Baker; modelmakers Clash Of The Titans (1981) and his Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and spine-tingling encounter with a most Phil Tippet. In an exclusive interview with Com deadly creature, Medusa, who, with a puter Tracker,Ray Harryhausen, at the blinding glance, could turn you into tender age of 81, reveals that he came stone? to Vancouver because he is still very Because of his work as a pro ducer, writer, director, special effects interested and active at attending fes technician and designer on these tivals and conventions. "I like to keep

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up with the times, although I don' t want to get involved with the com puter," said Harryhausen with a wan smile. "Computer generation, I think is a wonderful tool, but it's not the be-all, by-all that everyone seems to think it is. I wish I had a computer to blot out the strings of my flying saucers! I had to paint out each wire in everyframe! Ifyou passed a cloud, you'd see the wire if you were so dose to the lens. A computer can wipe out a cableholding Arnold Schwarzeneg ger. It's helpful in that respect." A recipient of the Gordon Sawyer award in 1992 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci ences, Harryhausen says that he also stays busy with other activities. "I am doing a lot of sculpting in bronze. We had to cannibalize many of the characters in our films because of time and money. Some of them no

Harryhausen's personal use and for display at an exhibition that opened just last year a t the Sony F i l m Museum in Berlin, Germany. They are also o n d i s play a t F o r rest Ackerman's famous Ackermansion Museum in Los Angeles. Asked about his views on today' s visual and animated special effects, Harryhausenremarked that"they do some marvelous things. The BBC made a documentary called Walking with Dinosaurs, that was very impres sive. There were things t hat w e couldn't do like multiple animals walking off i n t h e distance. That would take forever in animation. And we can move [the camera] on objects. There were certain things that would have been very difficult for us to do with travelling mattes. I had to pave the way for that technique on film rather than digital — the way it is today." Harryhausen has a very simple philosophy when it comes to the nature and use of stop-motion ani mation. "Animation to m e i s you don't expect them to b e to o real. You know that dinosaurs don't exist. [Although] you try to make them as real as you can, [but] if you make them too real, it loses the fantasy. I always felt, like a good painter, if you ask a landscape artist to paint a photographic copy of a scene, yet it' s not an interpretation. Anyone can do that. You want to give your inter pretation. The modern films try to make it a semi-documentary, not a melodrama, like the Sinbad voyages, Perseus andJason, rather than just a straightforward, 'Loold A dinosaur! Another dinosaur!' This is what I learned &om Willis O' Brien. He was the only one to make the dinosaurs movie stars " It was at the early age of 13 years old when Harryhausen had his life set for him when he watched King Kong in 1933. Frightened, and yet fascinated by the giant ape, Harry hausen soon discovered that special effects animator Willis O' Brien was

responsible for the films' remarkable images. "When I saw King Kong, I haven' t been the same since," he chuckled. "That shows a film's powerful influ ence. If I had seen Little Caesar, and admired that one, I could have been a godfather!" He laughed. Asked why he reacted to the film so strongly that it set a career course for him, Harryhausen explained, I just felt it driving. I don't know where the urge came from. I just felt like something was forcing me into this. "I was following in the footsteps of O' Brien. He was the snowball that started down the hill. I got involved with it and I m a de the snowball bigger and someone today is making the snowball even bigger!" Sadly, 1981's Clash Of The Titans was his final film, but Harryhausen i s relieved to know that all of hi s filrns continue to be distributed and appreciated today thanks to television, laserdisks, video, and DVDs. "Thank god it's not dated," he says. "All our films are reissued to new generations [of fans], and they appreciate it even more than the original release!" Just as soon as a publisher can be found, fans can look forward to a "technical biography" that Harryhau sen has recently completed. "It's going to have a lot of color in it and stills that you' ve never seen before," he says. For three of today's busiest ani mation artists, Vancouver animator David Bowes, and MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch co-creators Eric Fogel and Steve Jaworski appearing with Harryhausen at the festival's stop motion effects panel, was a dream come true.

For David Bowes, who was also an exhibitor at the Digital Media Expo, and who specializes in stop-motion and clay animation, Ray Harryhausen was a childhood inspiration. Literally watching Jason and The Argonauts on television with his father set him on a long journey that culminated in his becoming an professional anima tor with extensive commercial and corporate credits. "My father really loved Ray Harry hausen's work," Bowes told Computer Tracker. "The films would appear on TV and my Dad and I would sit down and watch and I was so inspired see Ray Harryhausen thrills, page 21

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Apr il 2001 Computer Trackercomputertracker.corn vide a one-year parts warranty, but a mere 90 days on labour.). Another nice touch is the way the unit's power connector on the back glows with the light of a small LED, even when the unit is turned off t o in d i cate that of TWAIN-complaint imaging apps external power is working correctly. We always try to find something with the unit. On e i s a s traight to complain about in our product forward image editor; the other is reviews, but, h onestly, there isn' t called Creative Photo Projects and is much to mention here. A mysterious an easy-to-use "fun photo enhance nectionand HP's de facto standard PCL Level 3 language. Although it' s ment" utility. V i rtually all o t h er round port resembling a now-obso difficult to test duty cycle claims, HP photo editors on the market (Corel lete Macintosh serial port is undoc says the printer is suitable for duty Photo-Paint, A d obe P h otoshop, umented in the manual but is, we suspect, intended for some as-yet cycles of up to 2000 printed pages PhotoDeluxe, etc.) are also TWAIN compliant. This means that you' ll be u navailable attachment option per month, on average. Print speeds vary according to the able to use the scanning functions in perhaps a transparency adapter. The unit's parallel port connection, which almost any program you want, not complexity of th e document, but terminates in an odd little connector just the ones HP supplies. range from 9 pages per minute (ppm) (technically known as a 1284C con in "Econofast" black to 4.3 ppm in nection) on the PSC, could be, we "best" mode. Colour speeds range Copier from 6.5 ppm to 1 ppm in best The copier features of the PSC 500 suppose, a liability for those seeking a longer cable. The manuals (which are perhaps its strongest feature mode. and an area where this unit begins to are generally quite good) discuss demonstrate significant advantages how to share the PSC 500 on a Scanner The scanning functions of the PSC over three separate peripherals. After network at some length, but H P 's 500 are also well-realized, as you all, you can pick up a fairly decent website says it's not supported, The might expectfrom one of the leaders printer and scanner for about $150 website has a few other errors, too, in the desktop scanner market. The each these days and produce results including discrepancies in pricing. One page says US$299; another esti package includes software that allows roughly comparable to those achiev mates US$399. able here. This unit's copier can make the unit to optically recognize text, making it possible to place printed up to 50 copies with the press of a enlarge/reduce copies &om 25 For More Information pages on the scanner's fiatbed, scan button, to 40096 and can even copy in colour Information about this and other HP them in and have the character shapes (it automatically senses whether your products can be found on the World on the page recognized and auto original is colour or black R. white). Wide Web at http: //www.hp.corn or matically translated into your word There are several other cool features, by calling 1-800-387-3867. processor.Although this seldom pro See www.pandi.hp.corn/pandi-db/ too: "Auto Fit," "Poster Maker," "2 0 error free, duces a page that is 100/ =psc500 prodinfo.product specs?produce on 1" and "Clone for wallet size it can be an enormous time saver for detatled specs. 8 and it sure beats retyping pages by photos." The unit is also capable of

All-in-one printer/scanner/copier mall business owners t1yically of such widely available consumables don't have enough need, money a definite plus for consumers. The unit u ses a t w o-cartridge or desk space for dedicated scanning station and many have only system. This is also a Good Thing occasional need for printing, copying single-cartridge printers are a hassle, as you have to swap cartridges every and faxfunctions. But, when these tasks are required, it's important that time you want to switch from colour to black printing, or suffer "muddy the quality is there. Hence, HP is brown" pseudo-blacks, excessive ink just one of several peripheral manu use and poor print speeds. facturers tailoring all-in-one multi While it's safe to say that all inkjet function devices to the needs of these printers end up costing far more than small business owners. laser printers in the long run, we have found thepage-count capacity Compatibility The PSC (printer/scanner/copier) of the huge 30 millilitre colour car 500 is designed for PC users. The tridge to surpass that of any other printer of i n kjet-based multifunc unit is supplied with drivers for Win dows 95/98, NT and Windows 2000. tion peripheral we' ve tested. The 25 ml black cartridge, compatible with (This latter driver is, at this writing, HP Deskjet 810, 812. 840 and 842 in a "print only" state and does not support scanning.) We tested the unit models, is similarly prodigious in its under Windows 98, Windows NT, output. The printer uses HP's PhotoREt Windows 2000 and the new Win resolution enhancement technology dows Millennium Edifion. Happily, it worked well in all four cases. Note, to deliver 600 x 600 dpi black output, and 1200 dpi colour with Photo however, that it requires a bi-direc tional parallel port connection. If you RetII, the latter resolution achievable already have a deviceconnected to only when using photo paper. The ink is deposited on the paper your printer port, you' ll need to add using a "drop-on-demand thermal another one — HP cautions that you inkj et" technology. Although the doc should not use a switch box or a pass umentation supplied by HP doesn' t through connection of some sort. HP says the PSC 500 works best specify the drop size, the company's website says the drop size of Pho with the port configured in "ECP" toREtII printers is in the range of mode. This Enhanced Control Port 8-10 picolitres — not as good as function can be enabled in your com puter's BIOS, typically accessible by today's best "photo quality" printers, but more than enough for profes pressing Delete (etc.) when the com sional looking business documents. puter is first powered on. HP says PhotoREtII makes use of a new ink cartridge vvhich fires ink Printer At the heart of the HP PSC 500 drops that are 70'Yo smaller than pre is an inkjet printer, using the same vious HP DeskJet/HP OfficeJet print colour inkjet cartridges as no less cartridges and claims they are "the than 28 other HP products, including smallest drops of ink in the inkjet a reliable workhorse here atComputer printing industry." As a result, up to Tracker.the popular 722C printer. 16 drops of ink can be layered on top of one anotherto create one dot of Having spent the greater part of a color on an image. month looking in vain for a local The unit communicates with a PC supplier of ink supplies for another via a bi-directional parallel port con brand of printer, we consider the use

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hand! The flatbed is able to scan a max imum A/A4 paper size, more than enough for an 8.5 x 11" page. Images can be scanned in colour or grayscale. In colour mode, the unit captures 3 0 bits of c olor (which i t t h en reducesdown to 8 bitseach of red, green and blue data). Eight bits (256 shades) of grayscale data are captured. There's also a one-bit (black-and white) mode. In each case, the maxi mum optical resolution of the scanner is 600 x 2400 dpi. HP, like virtually all other scanner manufacturers, uses a software trick called "interpolation" to algorithmically increase the unit's maximum resolution to 9600 dpi. This may be useful for BOW scans on occasion, but the optical resolu tion is u1timately more important.

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Alt-in-one Integration The unit is actually quite quiet in operation, with an operating noise level of 42dB, on average. It is, of course, much quieter when idle.:-) Francophones will be pleased to note that, not only does HP Canada ship bilingual manuals, but the unit even comes witha French-language "Imprimante/ f aceplate, wit h Numeriseur/Copieur" labels. The company provides a one-year war ranty on the unit. (Actually, Canadi ans get a bonus here, too: units sold in the U.S. after July 31st, 2000 pro

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Bowes this year was completing ani mation for Voyage of the Unicorn, a four-hour mini-series starring Beau Bridges which aired last month on The Odyssey Channel in the United States to high ratings. * I don't know if you can replicate that [tive of animation] today with computers," notes Bowes. "There' s

something about the real puppets he used — and the timing! Just think about it — there were no video assists at that time. Everything was blind animation. It all had to be precise and timed out meticulously to the own. live action. The man is a legend of his In addition to producing lively ani mation for music videos, children' s own time." "A lot of people think stop-motion programming, a major project for

other in the wrestling ring to come dic effect, meeting Harryhausen sent him back to his childhood. "I remem ber begging my mother to let me stay up late at night to watch The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad," says Fogel. "I just remember that the images of the creatures that he'd created was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Those images stayed with me throughout all

animation is boring, like watching paint dry." Au contraire, says Bowes, "You' re going into another world. And you' re into y our c h aracters. Seven, eight or twelve hours later you' ve created this fabulous scene.It' s absolutely magical." Bowes' final thought is intriguing: "I wonder, today, people who are playing video games, where will they be when they' re my age?" Will the inspirational cycle repeat itself? Bowes has a website at http: // www.bowespro duction s. corn For Eric Fogel, co-creator of the very popular, satiric stop-motion Celebrity Deathmatch, which pits a variety of celebrities against each

my childhood and growing up. They were with me when I decided to go to film school to pursue a career in stop motion animation. "Still, to this day, on Celebrity Deathmatch, we' re using his work as a point of reference for the work we do on the show. He created a pal

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dobe has announced Adobe Atmosphere, a new profes ional Web tool for author ing, viewing and interacting with immersive, virtual 3-D worlds. The new product, says the company, allows designers to create graphically rich, true-to-life 3-D w o rlds, enabling end-users to virtually "walk the Web" and communicate in real-time for a

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Object import options are very limited and the tool exports files only in Adobe's proprietary .AER format. Builder isn't particularly easy to use, but neither is it complicated. It pro vides a very basic four-pane view (top, side, isometric and browse) of a wireframe object. When a view is selected, the wireframe can be edited in the main window. A Tree view inspector allows you to choose objects by name — a good thing, consider You can attach textures or p aint the objects with solid colours, and ing the apparent inability to select an obect inside another merely by you can define URL links as gate ways to another scene. You can clicking on its outline in the editing also attach JavaScript behaviors to window. Once your model iscreated and objects, allowing for in-scene ani debugged, you can publish it to the mation or other effects.

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Mac OS X disc and Mac OS 9.1 CD are both bootable, The retail ver sion of Mac OS X can be installed over the Public beta, but Apple rec ommends reformatting the partition for best results. (We reformatted the partition on which we had previ

ously installed the Mac OS X Public Beta partition for our tests.) The disc of developer tools has been updated since an earlier edition was made available on Apple's Developer web site for use with the Public Beta. USB is supported, at least in a rudimentary fashion: Mac OS X sup ports a number of third-party USB mice and keyboards in addition to Apple's own devices. The second mouse button and scrolling wheel on Microsoft's optical Intellimouse are functional, although left-handed users will find that the buttons cannot be easily switched. In addition to support for Apple's USB speakers, several brands of third party USB speakers can be used, although some require special config uration. A total of 39 USB printers are directly supported, including the many popular models from Canon,

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digious. However, some of the con figuration methods are decidedly un-Mac-like. Setting up a firewall, for example, requires the use of the Unix command line interface and the use ofsome commands we are sure will seem to some like "like going from Windows to DOS" — not a pretty proposition. In addition, users of third-party wireless PC Cards are out of luck. Max OS X supports only Apple's own Airport cards. Graphics Drivers: OS X ships with ixMicro, NVIDIA and ATI drivers for all Apple models on which the OS runs. However, there are no 3dfx drivers and, with 3dfx now out of business, you' re not likely to ever see

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"rip" CD from audio discs. If you want to burn CDs, however, you' ll have to reboot to Mac OS 9.1. Nei ther version running under OS X supports CD-R or CD-RW burn ing. The MP3 Player included with the Public Beta is not included. A Mac OS X version of iMovie2 was also made available on Apple's website on March 24, along with a "preview version" of AppleWorks 6.1, Apple's award-winning productivity application. The Mac OS 9.x ver sion of iMovie2 runs under the Clas sic environment, but performance is laggardly, with frame rates less than half their rate when running natively under Mac OS 9,1. Online Updates: Apple pro vides additional resources for Mac users in it s o nline iTools folder available for free download by Mac users who reg

Now, few would argue that the Mach kernel and B SD Unix foundation that underlies Mac OS X is as solid foun dation as you can find in a modern operating system and we heartily concur — Mac OS X is an operat ing system well suited to demanding business tasks and professional uses. However, the "Classic" Mac OS has long been renowned forits ease of use and there have been questions (primarily from the anti-Mac press) about how well-suited Mac OS X is for "newbies." Thus, our first set of tests looks at these issues. 1) Installation — Mac OS X requires no special keys to be held down. Simply inserting the CD, double clicking the " Install Mac OS X "

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to get the system to boot. (Apple warns that some users may have to update their firmware to use Mac OS X. Presumably, this warning applies to us.) Once we ha.d done this, the boot process continued. 6) A slick animation of rippling water and "Welcome" messages in several languagesprecedes the fi nalphase of the setup, in which you are presented with a user registration screen. You are also presented with an Internet setup screen in which you can enter a dynamic or static IP address and other configuration data. An option to sign up for an Apple iTools account or use an existing one is then pre sented. (This step was mandatory in

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Adobe After Effects 5 is probably more well-known than ever, since it became knoivn as the program that created many of the effects seen in

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prone than the earlier beta version known as 4k60. We cannot verify this claim, but can attest to the stability of the retail release. It only crashed once on us yet, in several days of serious testing — and even after the crash, in which the Finder hung and could not be qui t o r r e launched,other

Tracker.corn, StepWise.corn It should be mentioned, however, t hat m any o f th e s e applications seemed to us rather more compli cated to download and install than those with which most Mac users are likely familiar. Most PC users will immediately grasp the idea of renam ing a rich text format "readme" file to readme.rtf in order to view it as it was intended, but we suspect many Mac users will find some of the con ceptual shifts required by Mac OS X jarring, if not downright PC-like. For those who want to dig deeper, the Developer tools CD included in the OS X package is a great place to start. It i n cludes a number of commands and programming tools designed to allow you to compile and debug your own programs. This col

applications could still be launched and used normally. Some PowerBook users have noted a problem, how ever, in which network settings must be re-applied after a restart. Other testershave confirmed a bug in the 4k78 build that leaves sound broken on Beige G3s equipped with a hard ware DVD decoder card. Indeed, not only is DVD play back broken on Mac OS X, but early adopters will also be unable to burn CD-RW discs or DVD-R discs with the new OS, at least initially. These limitations seem odd, considering the thrust of Apple's recent "Rip, Mix,

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lection includes the Project Builder and Interface Builder tools originally developed by NeXT, now updated for Mac OS X. The disc also includes some basic tutorials with which you can get started building your own

apps. What's Ahead Apple is reportedly hard at work on an updated versionof Mac OS X, code-named Puma, slated for release this summer. This version is likely to be the version shipped when the com pany starts pre-installing the oper ating system on new Macs in July. Those who wish to avoid the inevita ble snags and compatibility glitches in the initial release may be well advised to consider waiting for the Puma update.

Conclusion Some of the complexities of Unix undermine the system's suitability for Mac users unfamiliar with command lines, shell scripts and Unix services. We'd call Apple's efforts a success in most regards, although the current lack of support for DVD playback

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SCSI/Kii $535/568 Canon S400 / S450 $1 48/198 120/260/ 600W + Subwoofe/ $10/20/30 (10 pcs) $1 2 / 12 Thunderbird 1GI 1.1G/12G $268/28Iy348 9G U2W/18G U160 SCSI 7.2K $298/438 BASF / Sony CD R Epson 560I m / 960 $98/148/368"( m) Altec ACS 33/45/54/48 $ 65/88/98/148 CD-R Media (50 pcs) $40 Intel CPln 36G U160 SCSI7.2K I 10K $ 7 4 8 /798 ny1800/2000 $108/138/19g Epson875PhotoI1270 Photo $278/568 BASF/Sony CD-Rewriteable $2.5N35 "- Creative FPS15 Celeron 633/667/700 $ 1 18/138/148 ~Sea ate (SCSI) HP 642I 840/ 930 $ 128/ 148/238 Creative DTT22ny25ny3500 $178/328/398 Celeron 733/766/800 $1 5 5/188/208 9G U2WI 18G U160 $328/448 HP 950/970/990 $ 2 98/428/588 > Yamaha M201 Speaker/Subwooier $ 6 8 P-III 667/733/800 /850 $208/222/288/298 HP 1220 / 2200 / 2250 $ 6 68/688/948 18G U160 SCSI 10K/15K $47 8/648 CD / DVD/ SOund I M ~use P-III 866/933/1G $318 / 378/408 36 / 74G U160 10K SCSI $84 8/1498 Lexmark Z12/ Z42/ Z52 $78/150/228 Ace/ Wheel Mouse $12 . Ace/ 50x / 52x CD-ROM $55/60 ;:. 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SB Live Value 5.1 $108 Intel Wireless Gamepad $88 $678 = Brother 4600 MFC $568 : Gigabyte 7ZXR/7DX (DDR) $ 2 18/278 $32 ~~ SB Live MP3 5.1 / Xgamer 5.1 $138/138 Logitech Internet Keyboard :- Br . other8600MFC /9600MFC $748/968 TekRam 315U /390F SCSI Kii $68/148 ... Intel CPU's Motherboard ~ SoundBlaster Live Platinum 5.1 $268 Loglieeh Cogdees KBl Whsd Mouse ggg HP 1tiN 23NV 22NON $665/122W1718 MS Internet Keyboard $32 $168/228 . Asus CUV4X / CUBE Tape Backup $68 8 /868 M s Haiu/al Keyboa'd/UsB $38 / 6 8 HP 1100A / 3150C MFC Gigabyte 6RX(DDR)/8TX(P4) $268/318 Zip/ J AZ/ MicroDrlve HP 4100 / N / TN $16 78/2368/2728 ~ k Fa n iagd815EPFVIEPFVL $17gr i gg HP 24G /40G Int. DAT Drive $1218/1388 HP 5000/ DN / GN $ 2 188/3535/3888 Onstream 30G IDE / SCSI Ini. $318/698 IBM/ lomega 340M MicroDrive $368/388 ATX 16" /18" Case 8 250W P/S $45/55 9$$0$ S15EEA2/ EEA2L ga e 128 HP 8150/ N / DN $2 9 68/3568/4268 ATX 18" Case & 300W P/S $80 Onsiream 30G Ext. 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30 LabsOxygen VX1/GVX1 32M AGP ..$278/728 Ae$$91PlN GeFaak NK 325nV.... 4$5Bri75 Asus V7100 GF2 MX 32M Dual Head ......$198 Asus V7700 GTS 32M DDR / Dlx ......$260/318 Asus V7700GTSDDR64MPure/ Dlx .....$438/498 ATI Rage Pro 8M (TV)....... . . . . . . . . . . . .$55 ATI RageFury Pro32M/ DVI ...... . . . .$150/160 Nl Rgdeoa VE32ggM)R Duel Heed..... %4S ATIRadeon 32MB /DDR ............$160/228 ATIRadeon 64MB DDR /VIVO........$278/288 ATI All-in-wonder 128 Pro 16M/32M ....$198/248 Hl RedeoaMAHg/aadsr 32% ....... . . 4 Ã 8 Eisa Gladiac GeForce2 MX 32M..... . . . . . . $198 BseQagec eerogce2GTB32N DOR.... 4ÃS Eisa Qadiae GeForee364NHN...... . . 4848 Matrox G450 DDR 16M /32M ..... . . .$118/168 Mairox Mar/el G450ETV 32M DDR DH .....$298 nVidia TNT2 M64 32M / Pro ...... . . . . .$68/1 08 nVidia GeForce2 MX 32M /TV ... . . . .$118/148

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AOC 7GI/ .25 17" / 9GII' .26 19' ......................$255/348 KDS VS-7i 17" / VS 190i 19' ...........................$238/350 LG 775N/775FT 17" .......................................$260/355 LG 955E/ 955FT 19" ........................................$438/520 NEC AS70 17' / AS90 19" ..............................$268/438 NEC AS75F 17'/ AS95F 19" .........................$338/498 NEC FE700/FE75017"...,.............................,$348/428

NEC 19" FE950 / FP955 ..................................$61 8/738 NEC 22" FE1250 / FP1350X ........................$1238/1368 Samsung 550S 15" /750S 17" .27 .................$1 98/268 Samsung 753DF /755DF 17" .......................$328/338 Samsung 700IFT/700NF 17" ......................$408/428 Samsung950P/955SL 19" ...................,.....$398/498 Samsung 955DF / 900NF 19" .........................$498/598 Samsung 1100P+ /1200NF ...,.....................$948/1268 Sony E200 / G200 17"......................................$518/578 Sony 19" E400 / G400 19" ............................. $698/788 Viewsonic 17"E70 .27 /E70F .25....................$298/338 Viawsonlc 17" E75 .25I PF77 .25 ....................$348/510 Viewsonic 19"E790 .26/G90m .26...........,...$578/548 Viewsonic 19"PF790 .25 /P95F .25................$668/788 Viewsonic 21" GS815/22" PF815............,..$1228/1398

LCD Panel

Scanners Acer 3300U /4300U ..... . . . . . . . . . . . $108/128 Acer 1240UT ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $218 AGFA E20/ E40/ E50 .... . . . . . . . $118/208/268 Canon N640/ N650U ...... . . . . . . . . . $118/148 Iw Canon D660U / N1220U ...... . . . . . . .$218/288 Canon 1210U / FS2710 (35mmFilm)....$388/738 Epson 610/640 ..... . . . . . . . . , . . . . . $138/198 Epson 1240 / Photo..... . . . . . . . . . . . . $268/360 Epson 1640 / Photo.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . $378/468 HP 3300C /3400C USB ..... . . . , . . . . $125/1 48 HP 5300C /5370C USB ..... . . . . . . . . $280/398 HP 6300C / 6350C US B ...... . . . . . , .$525/650 HP 7400CI 7450C USB..... . . . . . . . . . $668/938 More Information •

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Hub & Switch Intel In-Susiness SS101TX4 4 Port 10/100 Switch $148 Intel In-Business SS101TXB 8 Port 10/100 Switch $188 intel In-Business SS101TX16 16 Port 10/1 00 gttdtoh $530 Intel Express 410TStandalone 16 Port Switch (1/V100) $888 Intel Express 410Tstandalone 24 port switch (so/Ioo)$1168 Intel Express 460TStandalone 16Rat SNch (io//00) $1348

Intel Express460Tstandalone 24 porl switch Ii/yahoo)$1668 Intel Express 520T Scalable 12 Port Switch IIOnOOI $1898 Intel Express 550T Sealable Routing Switch $2968

Printer Server

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Wireless Networkin $478 3Com HomeWireless Gateway 3Com Ai/Connect 11Mbps PCII PCMCIA $348/248 D -Link DWL-1000AP Wireless Access Point $ 4 2 5 D-Link 11Mbps Wireless PCI / PCMCIA $ 2 60/220 Linksys WAP11 Access Point $408 U$$keyeAia+ 4 Pert Rouser $418 Linkeys Wigeiese PCi I PC3gCiA $7S/2N Linkxgys Wireiese USB $1%

Network Ada ter 3CDM 3C905B-TX 10/100 PCI Adapter Ace/ 10/100 PCI Adapter D-Link 538 10/100 PCI Adapter

Intel Netporl Express 10/100 Exi. Printer Server 1 Port $318 Intel Nelport Express 10/100 Ext. Printer Server 3 Port $468 100Mb s Hub / Switch I ntel InBusiness Printer Station 10/100 2 Port $ 2 2 8

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I 3COM 3C16750 OfficeConnect 8 Port 10/100BT $168 3COM 3C16751 OIceConnect 16 Port 10/100BT $308 : Windows 2000 Server 5/10 Clients $12 28/1618 D-Link DSSS+ 5 Port 10/100 Switch $98 Windows2000 Advanced Se/ver25Clients $5298 , D-Link DSSB+ 8 Port 10/1 00 Switch $138 MS Exchange 2000 Server 5 Clients $1798 ) D-Link DSS16+ 16 Port 10//100 Switch $398 : MS SQL Server 2000 5 Clients $2048 I D -Link DES-1024R 24 Port 10/100 Switch $ 4 9 8 MS Site Server 3.0 5 Clients $1708

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