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Editorial Does storage expand to fill requirements or does data expand to fill space? When computers first made the scene. reams and reams of punch cards. fed into the computer in sequence in a decid‑ edly mechanical way, would be required to process a relatively simple equation. Large arrays of magnets would later be used to store tiny amounts of data in temporary storage for faster access. as the very early incarnations of random access memory [RAM]. Floppy disks started out at IBM as eight-inch mon‑ strosities, and later shrank to 5.25-inch and then 3.5 inch formats, maxing out at a measly 1.44 megabytes [MB] of storage in the case ofthe latter. Anecdotally, I recall playing through Police Ouest ll, swapping 5.25 floppy disk after floppy disk, wishing we'd been for‑ ward thinking enough to opt for the 15-inch drives that would have cut my disk~swapping significantly ‑ from 14 5.25 discs to eight 3.55. if memory serves. As time wore ever onward and as hard disk drives made headway, storage capacities were measured in megabytes; 20MB seemed a huge amount of storage

L e t t e ro f t h e M o n t h Bur Letter ofthe Month comes from José Francisco Schuster, who writes: "Why use a cannon to kill an ant,“ a teacher used to say to the pals who felt the pressure of updatingto the latest ITtrend, though they barely knew how to type. I feel this smart piece of thinking is usually not taken into consideration by

either the industry or the customers. Very few people need ‐ or can afford ‐ a 10 bedroom home or a Ferrari. But when it comes to buyinga com‑ puter, if it's not the best of the store. most people feel

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Recently. Hitachi announced a .5 terabyte hard drive. That's SUDGB of storage space. Analogies such as how many times every entry in a large city's phone book would fit in to that space are hackneyed now, and as storage capacity grows. even those numbers become so large asto have no real meaning. The question remains: does the industry perpetuate the ever~growing storage space phenomena with con‑ sumers merely making use of the space afforded, or do we as consumers push the limits of storage into the realm of the terabyte? More to the point, is there a practical limit on the amount of data storage space an end user needs or wants? How about we ask the question again in five years

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money. A more simple version is, to top it, harder to crash. It's time to rethink IT. Leave the cannons to the one per cent who really need them.

For his letter. Jose wins a copy of McAfee's Internet Security Suite 2005 [ver. 20). acomprehensive package for protectinga PConline.

This month, in addition to general comments and feedback on the issue, we're asking for yourthoughts miserable. And. after the effort of dropping the last on our question of the month: What gadgets and penny to get the "shining one", 80 per cent of its pro‑ technologies would you incorporate into your high‑ tech dream home? Whatever your opinion, we want cessing power will never be used. Regarding hardware, for example, I think a proof of to hear from you. Send your thoughts to: this waste happens clearly in Internet cafes and

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and MSN Messenger to the customers. Why use a computer full of other features for this basic use? What a waste! Remembering the old times of main‑ frames. I wonder if it would bepossibleto build a kind

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does not. With Hyper-Threading enabled, the Extreme Edition 840 is able to simultaneously calculate upto fourthreads at once ‐ the only desktop CPU on the market today with that ability. The Extreme Edition also has some platform limitations; it will not work on Intel's previous 925XE or 925X chipsets. but rather only on the QSSXE and nForce 4 SLI. All ofthis comes at a premium price point: the Extreme Edition 840 costs around $1,388 approximately $600 more than it's Pentium D840 counterpart.

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The Intel Pentium D820 is Intel's most affordable dual-core CPU, costing around $288 at most online retailers. The CPU features the same Smithfield core as the Extreme Edition 840, but has a lower CPU frequency. running at 2.8GHz. The Pentium D820. like the entire Pentium 0 product line, features no support for Hyper-Threading, and therefore Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 can only operate on a maximum oftwo threads at the same time. Like the The Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 is currently Intel's flagship Extreme Edition 840, the Pentium D 820 will not work on older Intel dual-core CPU, running each of its Prescott 1M cores at 3.ZGHz on an LEA-775 platforms; rather, it will only work on NVIDIA’s Pentium SH and 800MHz front side bus. The Extreme Edition 84D's Smithfield core Intel's 9456 / QSSXE chipsets. features support for Intel‘s EM84T 64-bit extensions computing. and Intel's SpeedStep power management technology, allowing you to save Intel Pentium4 3.73 Extreme Edition power consumption through enhanced halt state mode. Unlike previous Although not the fastest single-core Pentium 4 processorwhen it comes generations ofthe Extreme Edition line, the Extreme Edition and the stan‑ to clock speed, the Pentium 4 3.?3 Extreme Edition is Intel's flagship dard desktop Pentium families share the same processor core, the only single-core CPU due to its 1068MH1front side bus. Based on the Prescott difference between them being that the Extreme Edition 840 features 2M core, the Pentium 4 3.73 Extreme Edition features ZMB of L2 cache, Hyper-Threading technology while the standard dual-core Pentium D EME4T instructions, and SpeedStep support. Since the Pentium 4 3.73

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will work in any Socket 939 motherboard after a BIOS update. AMD is that the CPU's multiplier can be changed in order to achieve a higher holding true on their promise to make Socket 939 as robust as its overclock. Like previous Athlon 64 FXprocessors, the Athlon 64 FX-S? Socket Aplatform, with the Athlon 64 slated to run on Socket 939 well can be purchased for around $1415. into 2008. AsAMD's flagship X2processor, the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is AMD Athlon 64 3800+ priced accordingly and will cost you around $1215. And finally, we have the Athlon 84 3800+. As mentioned earlier, there are a few different versions of the 3800+ built on various cores, but i'ti-lD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Like Intel, AMD recently introduced lower cost versions of its dual-core we'll be taking a look at AMD's latest 3800+ CPU, the 3800+ Revision E. CPUs for the more mainstream markets. The cheapest is the Athlon 64 This Athlon 64 3800+ is built on AMD‘s Venice core, and includes SSE3 X2 3800+, which currently sells for around 5500. Based on AMD‘s support as well as an enhanced memory controller capable of low-cost Manchester core, the X2 3800+ has two cores running at addressing four dual-channel DDR 400 memory modules at the same ZGHZ, each with 512K8 of L2 cache. Like the Athlon 84 X2 4800+, the time ‐ a feature long awaited by many enthusiasts. This single-core Athlon 64 3800+ costs around 5420, which is about $30 cheaper than X2 3800+ will work in any existing Socket 939 motherboard. its dual-core derivative.

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Conclusion From our test results, it is evident that AMD's Athlon 54 and Athlon 64 X2 family of processors are simply faster than Intel's higher clocked Pentium 4 and Pentium 0 CPUs. Looking at our Doom 3, Far Cry and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory custom game demos, we can see that even the cheapest Athlon 64 in our roundup [the single-core 3800+] was faster than the Pentium 4 3.73 Extreme Edition - a CPU that costs about $750 more. Intel's single-core CPUs still maintain better encoding and decoding test results over the Athlon 84 and Athlon 64 FX, but when looking at our four dual~core CPUs, AMD's Athlon 54 X2 line takes the cake. In every single test, the Athlon 84 X24800+ outperformed Intel's flagship dual~core CPU, the Intel Pentium 840 Extreme Edition. When it comes to choosing the right processor for you, you first have to decide what you plan on doing with it. The single-core Athlon 84 perform better in games, while the single-core Pentium 4

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software. one for media files [we will talk at greater length about storage course. and sometimes he does them up like an A8<E Biography or similar. requirements for digital video. and for HDV, next time]. DVD drives, extra He adds titles and music, he manipulates images into that card slots and drive bays, as well as networking connections for external storage devices [USB 2.0, FireWire, SCSI and so on) are all important. Depending on the video capture card you have chosen, you may still want to look at a fairly decent graphics card [128MB, for sure] or even a nice dual monitor card. There are great reasons to have both a nice com‑ puter display, and a regular TV‐ the old NTSC standard or a high-defini‑ tion widescreen ‐ in the edit suite. In other words, if you want to buy a computer editing workstation, you are in the $1,500 neighbourhood to start with. and there's plenty of opportunity to move on up! Again, the final configuration for an editing system is based on what it ‐ and you - must do. There are always technical requirements aswell as esthotic considerations to meet with sytem configuration. The same holds true for the software you use; some programs are simple and straightforward, and you can be editing in no time. But classroom training is often required to use a more complex editing program in the most efficient and effective manner. The software choices, too, depend on what you want or need to do. Here's an example: one videographer I know shoots personal and fami‑ Iy-type events almost exclusively. He does birthday parties for friends, he does the occasional family reunion event 0! even a

wedding now and then. Hewants these programs to look really nice, of

old~time sepia tone look, and he creates some pretty crazy special effects that are straight out of an old MTV rock video! Ofcourse, part of the reason for watching his videos is because they're fun and entertaining - so the program needs a little extra pizzazz, and adding special editing techniques, transitions. effects and soon makes sense. The special nature of the program means a special editing system is required ‐ one with the extra horsepower to actually make the effects, and to process all the fancy video. Another acquaintance uses video in her real estate business. She takes video pictures of the properties she represents, and she will play the video for a client who cannot make the trip using a VCR, the Web or even her portable laptop PC. Her purpose is strictly business; there's no need for special effects and little need for special transitions between scenes. The videos them‑ selves are usually pretty short. The system she needs to edit can be (and is] less powerful and hence, less expensive. One could say the same thing about the editing software; basic, entry level programs will do everything my real estate friend needs. Her pro‑ grams have notransitions between scenes other than the complete and immediate switch from one scene to another. It's called a hard cut, or astraight cut. It's the oldest and most common transition in the visual arsenal. But far from being plain and ordinary, the cut can be the most powerful and impactful edit you'll ever make! Fr

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excluded]. Of course, no examination of an lntemet‐based technology would be complete without a reference to its applications in the realm of human sexuality. Well known are the video chat rooms wherein operators con‑ verse via lMwith clients who request whatever sexual circus acts tickle their fancy at the moment ‐ less so is a practice known as ”Toothing.“ In Europe and Asia, text messaging via cellular telephone is far more prevalent than it is in North America. So, as the story goes, British pub‑ lic transit patrons would flirt electronically with fellow commuters via BIuetooth-enabled text messaging ‐ the purpose being to arrange an anonymous sexual tryst. For a while it was all over the tech news and then it went off the radar as these things do. Upon further examination about a year later however it was discovered that the whole fad had been a hoax!

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Global commanda that are the aarna aa In the Windowa unlvarae Well almost the same. The important thing to remember is that even though both PCand Mac have a Ctrl key, the Mac actually uses the Command key in place of the Ctrl key in most basic commands. (The Command key is, it's the one with the Apple and/ortho “squiggle' on it, typically located right besidethe space‑ bar.] It's this type of overlap that makes it quite easy to make the switch between operating systems. Command-A: Select all. Highlights all items within a window to allow 9°” ‘° copy them, CU‘ them, or transform them. Windows equivalent: Ctrl-A.

application, including all child windows. this one will do the trick. Win equiv: Alt-F4, though again, CtrI-D is used by certain applications. [in Windows. Alt-F4 will only shut down the instance of the program you're currently using, so if you have Firefox open four times, you'll have to shut down each window individually. In Mac, it will shut down all instances of the program.) Command-TAB: Change application. If you're constantly switching back and forth between two (or more] applications, the easiest way to doso is by hitting Command-TAB. In the middle of your screen, you'll see icons for all open applications; hold down the command key and hit TAB until the application you want is highlighted. Note: by holding down Command and the Shift key at the same time, the direction is reversed. Windows equivalent: Alt-TAB.

Command-‘: Change window. If you are in an application with multiple windows open, and you need to move between them, use Eommand-‘ [that's the key directly above TAB on most keyboards]. As with the change application shortcut. changing this to Command-Shite“ will cycle through child windows in the reverse direction. Win equiv: CtrI-TAB.

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side of the screen, under Source, click Music Store. in the main window, you will now see the word Podcasts on the left-hand side [above Audiobooks]. Click this, and a purple Podcasting page will appear in this main window. Step 3: This page is referred to as the Podcast Directory. Here you can click through Apple‘s Top 20 or Top 100 podcasts [measured by number of subscriptions], browse podcasts by category [e.g. Talk Radio, Food, Politics, Technology] or type a word into the podcast search window [such as 'wine'].

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timeframe. The actors on the show take care to not disturb a crime British Columbia. His practice includes provldlng litigation support, with scene and to represent "real world" scenarios; however, when electronic specialization in cybercrime investigations and computer forensics. media is present. they have no qualms about turning on a computer and searching for the "smoking gun" email or internet Web site. This is unfortunate. because to the trained eye it is obvious that no one at CBS has everthought ofconsulting with a computer forensics practitioner on how to accurately portray an electronic investigation. Just as police investigators are careful never to tamper with a crime scene and must ensure that proper evidence handling techniques are followed. a computer forensics expen must ensure the integrity of the electronic evidence. This means that before any analysis can take place, the investigator must document the area where the computer is located and ensure that the proper chain of custody is followed. Once the documentation is complete. the examiner is free to start working with the computer. However, unlike TV. where the actors work off the actual PCinvolved with the crime, in the real world all analysis is conducted from bit stream images and not the original evidence. (Bit stream images produce an identical copy of the original storage media by replicating all ofthe sectors on the device] This precaution is taken because turning onthe computer could result in important data being overwritten and deleted, crucial date and time stamps could be altered, or, in a worst case scenario, encryption algorithms could be triggered. thus preventing the drive from being

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