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the things we need to do. Still, there's something to be

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operating systems remains; I want the most effective

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tool to get the job done.

for Windows. And sure, calling tech-support with a

Were it that I pursued another career path and had

Linux-related question is likely to net some puzzled

become a plumber, I wouldn't have attempted to turn

wonderings, culminating in a suggestion t o start

the plumbing world on its ear by using 4.8 decimeter

Googling (or perhaps MSN searching?) or reading

drain pipes, incorporating all manner of new-fangled

through Linux-specific forums for the answer.

pipe fittings to interface with the main city sewers. I

However, commercial operating s y s t e m s a r e

wouldn't spend hours on each new job bending,

generally expensive.

shaping and manufacturing new pipes to work with the

By the time Windows Vista comes out â&#x20AC;&#x201D; firm date as

old plumbing.

yet available at time o f writing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there's likely an

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upgrade in a number of people's future.

pipe fitters.

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B e s t of 2 0 0 5 : T h e h o t t e s t g a d g e t s a n d g e a r of t h e y e a r If you're reading this issue of HUB: Digital Living, chances are you'll

1.5 ounces), that can store up to 1,000 songs or display up to 25,000

agree that technology is a wonderful thing. But with so many products flooding the marketplace, choosing one over another can

photos on its colour screen. And because it uses Flash memory instead of a hard drive (as with the

be an overwhelmingly difficult task. After all, many of these tech

iPod mini), there are no moving parts so it's ideal for working out with.

toys can cost a pretty penny, plus there's no worse feeling than investing in something that becomes quickly outdated. So, now that 2005 has come to a close, we thought it the perfect time to highlight some of our favourite gadgets and gear of the year.

The nano works seamlessly with the free iTunes software so you can create custom playlists or download podcasts and audio books â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all with a couple of mouse clicks. The nano ships in either ultra-shiny black or white. Keeping it so shiny might prove a little difficult however. Apple.ca; $299 for 4GB version.

Best cell phone It seems each week there's a new cell phone on the market, but the

Best digital camera

one that caught our attention earlier this year, and is now available in a

While digital SLRs [single lens reflex) cameras aren't as popular, or as

sleek black finish, is the Motorola Razr V3. At just 1.39 cm thick, 5.3 cm

affordable, as point-and-shoot digicams, it was the Canon EOS Rebel XT

wide and 9.8 cm long [when flipped open), it's one o f the thinnest

that took our best shots this year.

handsets on the market, yet the GSM world phone is packed with a VGA

This high-performance "prosumer" camera features w h a t t h e

digital camera, Bluetooth connectivity for wireless headsets, and the

company calls its "digital trinity:" an 8-megapixel CMOS sensor,

ability to download and play MPEG-4 video clips on its large screen.

Canon's proprietary DIGIC II image processor and compatibility with

Love text messaging and Web surfing? Users will dig the smooth metallic finish and etched keypad created from a single sheet of nickel-

over 50 EF lenses. While serious shutterbugs may turn their nose up at this camera for its

plated copper alloy.

lightweight plastic body, the proof is in the performance.

Motorola.ca; $250 with 3-year Rogers Wireless plan [or $410 without).

Canon.ca; $1,199.

Best MP3 player

Best game system

Thirty million iPod owners can't be wrong. Our favourite is the 4GB iPod

This is a tough one. The Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a killer

nano, a tiny music player [thinner than a no. 2 pencil and weighing just

machine that never fails to impress, but the best gaming hardware of the year must go to the Xbox 360 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;not just for what it can do today but where it'll take console gaming in the near future. This sleek white unit has some serious horsepower under the hood s o i t can deliver high-resolution games (720p) and 5.1 surround sound audio. It also has wireless controllers, a removable and upgradeable hard drive and a WiFi card slot to join an existing network, which will be perfect to take advantage of all the Xbox Live features. Xbox.com/ca; 5399 for core system, $499 for premium bundle.

Best PC monitor PC garners and movie lovers, rejoice! The stunning ViewSonic VX924 Xtreme monitor is a 19-inch flat-panel LCD display with an industryleading 3 -millisecond response time, which means your computer games and DVD flicks won't suffer from the common "ghost" trails caused by fast motion (by comparison, many PC monitors sport between 12 and 16 millisecond response times). The display (with 1280 x 1024 native resolution) also boasts a slew of analog and digital connection options and a sleek "floating" body design. Viewsonic.com; $499.99. By Marc Saltzman

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U n t e t h e r e d : WiFi to the M A X WiMAX hopes to bring broadband to rural communities and developing markets When humankind expanded from occupying the ground to taking up the airwaves, there was a paradigm shift in the way things were done. Information was as close and accessible as the nearest radio and

the range o f wireless Internet access exponentially, making i t a potential solution for rural communities where broadband access is often not available. Leveraging existing infrastructure, a WiMAX station can be installed on a TV or radio tower or other high point on the landscape.

later, television would share the airspace bringing images to accompany

Here's where things get interesting.

the voices.

With line-of-sight to the structure housing the WiMAX station, houses can

Today, wireless is often perceived as the way to go with wireless

pull in a strong signal from up to 50 km away, proponents say. Without

networks at home and in the office, cordless and cellular phones,

line-of-sight, the range is diminished. However, the true range of WiMAX

Bluetooth and other wireless device-to-device connection methods.

has yet to be practically tested in real-world scenarios.

WiMAX is one standard for wide reaching wireless Internet access that

The Associated Press recently spoke of a remote village school outside

hopes to extend connectivity beyond the limited range of existing WiFi

Buenos Aires where choking dial-up connections were replaced with

(802.11a/b/g) technology.

broadband-speed WiMAX access in a carefully scripted media event,

While direct access to WiMAX signals by endâ&#x20AC;˘users is a way off, the standard is getting attention as a possible solution for rural communities as a "last mile" link to the rest of the world.

driving home the potential benefit to remote communities and schools. The technology allows for a shared bandwidth o f 70 Mbit/sec that, according to WiMAX cheerleaders, is enough to offer traditional broadband speed to over a thousand home users.

A new standard? Fredericton, New Brunswick was the first Canadian city t o offer publicly funded blanket wireless Internet access to area business, residents and visitors.

Up in the air? Whether WiMAX will - or even has the potential to - displace the current duopoly of broadband access (cable and direct subscriber line (DSL)) is

In places like Texas, the debate is ongoing as to whether public WiFi is a

much debated. For now at least, the focus is on the rural area angle where

fair government offering in a market economy [how are private 15Ps to

the only real options are costly satellite access with sometimes-

compete with "free" Internet access, after all) or whether it's reasonable to

unbearable uplink latency or excruciatingly slow dial-up access.

use tax money to fund such a project.

As WiMAX rolls out, the first products will likely be aimed at business and

Fredericton used the existing and common 802.11 WiFi standard, with a

government applications, though consumer applications are expected to

range of only a few hundred feet and a lower effective throughput, this

come on the tail. Wireless metropolitan area networks (WMAN) where users can roam

would require a great many repeaters and nodes to truly blanket even a small city.

around the city with full WiMAX coverage, accessing the Internet and web

Today, we're staring down the barrel of a potential new standard in

services at will might sound like something of a pipe dream but are not

wireless broadband Internet access. It's called WiMAX (Worldwide

entirely far-fetched. Currently, there are a few cities testing WiMAX coverage within their

Interoperability for Microwave Access) and as the acronymic name suggests, it's WiFi to the next level. Wireless standard 80216, in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [IEEE, www.ieee.org) book o f codes and standards pushes

borders. Notably, the city council for Brighton in the UK is running a pilot program in collaboration Sussex University and local company Metranet, the eGov Monitor (www.egovmonitorcom) reports. The idea is to give students and schools always-on access to the Net, blanketing 90 per cent of the city in WiMAX coverage while simultaneously laying the infrastructure to communicate cheaply and effectively with city employees in the field. Intel is a major supporter of WiMAX, stating that we'll start to see notebooks incorporating the technology in 2006. WiMAX does not spell the end of WiFi, however. The two standards are in fact complementary. A coffee shop offering wireless Internet access to customers could, for example, install a WiMAX receiver station that would then route to an existing 802.11a/b/g station t o allow customers to connect in the usual way using existing technology. Will we be walking around major cities, blanketed in always-on wireless similar to cell phone coverage? Time will tell, but with the current popularity of VolP and the recent release of wireless VolP handsets, it seems consumers are ready now. By Andrew Moore-Crispin

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footer. Choose a font that you don't regularly use to type with, and your letterhead will look custom printed. To return to your document, click the Close button on the Header and Footer toolbar. Add anything to the letter that you normally put in all the letters you send. For example, choose Insert > Date and lime, enable the Update Automatically checkbox and choose a date format to add a date that is always current. Include a subject line and your signature, too. I use what I call "Click here" blocks to add more functionality to my

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the formulas that make the calculations. To protect the template so you can only edit cells that should be altered,

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price of transforming your existing PC into. a media

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center using Meedio Pro is far less expensive than

has been efficiently scaled back to what Apple calls

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'the six buttons you really need' (For the curious, those buttons are Play/Pause, Back, Forward, Up, Down, and Menu.)

which is described by its creator on the MythTV Web site as a 'homebrew PVR project'

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of modules that can turn your existing PC into a

wants to download it, MythTV is a surprisingly full-

multimedia machine.

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It's hard t o criticize something that's free —

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features, such as RSS news feeds, weather updates, over it without any remuneration. That said, there are and a selection of simple games that can be played with a remote control.

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Meedio TV delivers personal television features,

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W o r k i n g f r o m home: A r e you r e a d y ? Have you ever wondered how much time is wasted each working day by the thousands of people driving to and from work in Canada? According to Statistics Canada, people working in large metropolitan areas like Toronto and Montreal spend, on average, more than one hour per day commuting. This translates into five hours per week and 260 hours per year, which is equivalent to nearly 11 full days of life or, if you prefer, 6.5 weeks of work. The question is this: Considering the progress made in accessing, securing, using and transferring knowledge with a mere computer and the ability to do all this at home, is going to work in an office building downtown really necessary? Some experts say no. In fact, studies are showing that leleworkers" (people who work at home rather than at the office) are subjected to less interruptions and

Toronto (for a total of 152,285) and 12 per cent in Montreal (for a total

become more productive. This, according to the same studies, leads to

of 93,120). This represents an average yearly growth of less than five

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per cent in Toronto and just over two per cent in Montreal).

and morale. Teleworkers usually report an increased feeling of control

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over their lives, which reduces stress' So why aren't more people teleworking?

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Society in general would also be affected by teleworking, which could

less absenteeism, positive effects of management through results,

lead to less traffic and pollution, fewer road repairs and accidents, and

better corporate image.

significant savings on gas, b u t could also result i n a reduced For employees: A feeling of isolation, a feeling of being penalized in

occupancy rate in downtown office buildings, and less business for

terms of career advancement, vulnerability to management abuse, a

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When people do "out" someone running an adult site, things can get

one of 2much.net's video chat girls can make up to $45 per hour, and

nasty - especially if the site features the Webmaster as an online

up to $75 per hour if she works from home.

performer. Jim and Jenn Deans know this from personal experience.

'The best part of my job is finding a girl who's working in retail or

After a neighbour signed up to their site and learned who they were,

waitressing or even at a pizza place,' says Nick Davis, Webmaster of the

their suburban Ottawa cover was blown. The result was lots of press

video chat site iCandys.net . "She makes no money, her apartment is a

coverage - which can arguably be good for business - protests outside

hole in the wall and she doesn't have any way to get out of it. And then

the Deans' home, demands that they move away, and even vandalism

we come along, and we show her what she can do, that is worth more than she thinks she is.'

of their property.

Two points that adult webmasters must remember: The models must

For his part, Jim Deans has taken this storm in stride. 'This self. appointed moral majority will stop at nothing to keep adult material

be 18 years o f age o r older, and all necessary legalities must be

from being produced in Ottawa,' Deans told www.ynot.com; "all the

followed in the Web site's home country. 'We went as far as to discuss

while probably surfing i t themselves' Maybe so, but this incident

what we were planning with the police before we did a single video

proves that the adult Webmastering trade is not for the faint-of-heart.

chat," Mark Prince says. "That's how important it is for us to stay within the law, for the sake of ourselves and our performers."

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must roll up their sleeves and work hard, just as if they were selling

adult webmaster's biggest peril. But they aren't. Instead, according to

cars, farming fields, or auditing accounts.

Ottawa's Jim Deans, "The biggest challenge is reliable hosting from an

'It is a retail business; says Deans. 'It is not going to the cottage on

adult-friendly hosting company, [because] any loss of a server for days

the weekend, because you have t o work. It is getting up at 5 a.m.

or even hours can spell disaster.'

because you just had an idea, monitoring bandwidth promoting your

Public disdain is also a constant threat for adult webmasters. This is why when Becky DeForest is asked what she does for a living, she

site, watching for hackers and password traders, and occasionally taking some pits of naked ladies."

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"toomtivor - this Is the folder into which you'll need to drag all of your video files. ThePSP's video format is MPEG•4, so you'll need a software program that converts your video files (DivX,AVI,WMVand soon) to that format. Make sure to select widescreen format at a resolution of 480 x 720 pixels or lower. It's also recommended that the total bit rate of the file be no more than 768kbps (meaning, for example, 512kbmp of video and 96kbps of audio to equal 768kbps total). You'll also need t o rename the files using the convention °M4VXXXXX.mp4", where X represents any number. For example.

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more convenient as opposed to securing user information. It suggests that users trust it with passwords that aren't terribly sensitive such as a Web-based personal email login or a subscription login for online

secunty, Rice says: Something you know [such as a not easily guessed or

publications. It's more secure than the password fill-in utilities on popular

cracked password), something you have [like a USB security token or

Web browsers, but not as secure as some of the more dedicated security

smartcard} and something you are, or some piece of identifiable biometric

biometric devices.

data like a facial or voice recognition, an iris scan or - inthe case of ourTest Lab - a finger print

by dirt or (in our test case) black permanent marker covering a

The biometnc solutions profiled here range from the consumer-oriented

The Microsoft solution uses an optical sensor that could be stymied registered fingerprint.

convenience to the high-level enterprise and small or home office solution.

The major issue as a consumer solution is that Microsoft seems to have

Microsoft's Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader is an example of the former,

relied too heavily on Web design protocols in the device software. While a

and Zvetco Biometric's Verifi FingerTouch Security Professional fingerprint

good number of login and password fields are recognized, requiring only

pod fills the latter category. APCs Biometric Password Manager falls

that users scan their fingerprint and then input the login / password

somewhere in the middle, being aimed mostly at security-conscious

information in order to just scan a fingerprint for future access, there are a

consumers but with some of the heightened security features required by

fair number of sites that aren't compatible with the device. For example,

enterprise. For example, rather than take a surface "picture* of the portion

the fields in Google's personalized homepage login (www.google.com/ig)

of the finger that comes in contact with the sensor, the Password Manager aren't recognized. scans beneath the first few layers of skin. Another strange issue is that while users can easily enter via the login screen of Windows XP, with support for multiple users, the floating login

Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader and mouse combo It's a marriage of convenience. The Microsoft Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader doesn't offer the high-end security of the dedicated solutions profiled here. Ditto for the stand-alone reader pod (Microsoft Fingerprint

window that appears in certain versions after a certain period of inactivity doesn't recognize the fingerprint scan for login. The fingerprint reader does however work with both Internet Explorer (6.0.2) and Mozilla Firefox (1.5) as tested.

Reader) that uses the same optical fingerprint-reading technology. However, as a consumer convenience - once users go through the initial set up with frequently visited Web sites - it's a reasonable solution. The documentation that users must agree to before installing the DigitalPersona password management software that comes with the hardware states itself that the device is designed to make computing

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non-standard Web forms; Google's personal portal login and password

possibilities —the sensor won't recognize non-living tissue,

fields weren't recognized. While users can shut off the audio feedback or make the default voiced

with software and hardware integration. Users are further prctef:.- ad from

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prompts to be strictly system beeps, the male voice that says "access

the USB connector of the pod and the USB port of the computer. Each

granted" or login verified" gets annoying after a very short while.

packet of data sent from PC to pod and vice-versa is digitally signed and

physical intrusion such as data mining using a device that sits between

enterprise solutions secure, such as below the surface fingerprint

any interference will result in packet rejection. Because it reads beneath the first layer of skin, dirt arid grime aren't an

scanning and a conductive scanning sensor that responds to the

issue for the FingerTouch; a fingerprint completely blacked over With a

electrically conductive properties of living tissue (though to be fair, we

permanent marker was recognized without delay.

The APC solution incorporates some o f the hardware that makes

didn't have a cadaver to properly check this claim, nor were we willing to sever a finger in the testing process) but its software is clearly designed to be a consumer convenience as opposed to a true security solution.

Conclusion: Each of the solutions examined here has its place. The question of which

In much the same way Microsoft's Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader one is best suited to a particular application comes down to two things. First, the cost factor; the APC and Microsoft solutions are relatively

doesn't want t o make itself accountable for the user's sensitive information, the APC Biometric Password Manager shies away from such responsibility.

After installing the APC solution's OmniPass software, a couple of items are added to Windows context menus that allow for easy encryption of files or folders, a nice touch. However, the reader gave too many false negatives in our tests, refusing

inexpensive but aren't well suited t o the ultra security-conscious consumer desktop or enterprise applications. Zvetco's FingerTouch system satisfies the needs of the enterprise and the security conscious with fewer false negatives but would likely make too big a dent in the wallet for consumers. The Zvetco solution is the one you'll find on our desktop from now on.

access to registered fingers several times before finger placement was just right. It became frustrating after a short while.

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Verifi FingerTouch Security Professional Note: Zvetco Biometrics URL should be read "e-verify" as opposed to "ever-iffy, which would not exactly inspire the confidence the company might hope. Zvetco's FingerTouch is actually the most full-featured of the biometric solutions tested as software goes. In addition to securely storing e-wallet information such as addresses, phone numbers and even credit card information, the Verifi ID software that ships with Zvetco's biometric pod can will recognize non-standard Web login forms as well as application logins with a little user intervention. In addition, users can encrypt folders or a portion of a hard drive from 64KB up to 13GB in size. This space is then reserved for secured files and Personal information. This portion of a drive is then accessed in the same way as any other drive, except that a biometric login is required to before

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The Story After emerging the victor of the "browser wars' of the 90s and squeezing out competitor Netscape, Internet Explorer has enjoyed near-total dominance as the Web browser of choice (which is hard to avoid when IE comes bundled by default with the Windows operating system.)

outdated Trident rendering engine. Issues include a lack of complete support for Web standards like HTML and CSS, reduced support for PNG and JPEG formats, and failure to provide things like tabbed browsing and

Why use it?

RSS integration.

Because Internet Explorer has been the industry standard for several years, most Web sites have been optimized for viewing in Internet

Because IE is closed-source software and is tied to the Windows OS, it generally only receives major upgrades in conjunction with the release of

Explorer and won't be displayed with all of their bells and whistles in other browsers.

a new operating system, and its capacity for customization and expandability is severely limited.

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The Story Why lose it? Internet Explorer's security vulnerabilities are notorious. During 2005 alone, more than 50 security vulnerabilities were identified in IE 6 SP 2 by security advisory Web site Security Focus [http://securityfocus.comj. Most of IE's security headaches stem from ActiveX, an application that automatically downloads scripts when you visit a certain Web site. At their

Founded and headquartered in Norway, the Opera Web browser began as a research project for Norwegian telecom company Telenor in 1994, and developed into a viable streamlined alternative to the increasingly bloated browser offerings from Netscape and Microsoft. Opera pioneered tabbed browsing [opening multiple pages within one browser session) and i s the first browser to offer voice-activated

most benign, these scripts can enhance the Web site with animations,

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music, and so on. But unfortunately ActiveX can also auto-install malicious scripts like unwanted toolbars, adware and spyware.

and XP only). Although older versions o f Opera had banner ads, the latest version of Opera (8.50) is completely ad-free, and Opera has also waved the S40 licensing fee to make it once again viable in comparison to other

Another criticism that has been levelled against IE is that it's lagging behind other browsers in usability due to it being based on the rather

free browsers.

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SYCI Yes, Netscape is still around - and it's even making a comeback of sorts. After being pushed to the brink o f oblivion by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Netscape was acquired b y AOL who promptly launched an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. When the dust settled in 2003, AOL came away with a US$250 million settlement and a licensing agreement to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsing technology royalty-free for seven years.

Why use it? Thanks to the licensing agreement with Microsoft, Netscape 8.0 i s a dual-engine browser that is able to incorporate both Firefox's Gecko engine and Internet Exporer's Triton engine, giving users the option of viewing Web pages in either Firefox or IE. In theory, people can use Firefox to visit the shadier neighbourhoods of the Internet where security might be an issue, and can switch to Internet Explorer for reputable sites that might not display properly in Firefox. Other interesting features are live content" - a list of constantly updated scrolling headlines in a browser toolbar, and the Multibar, a customizable tray that can contain shortcuts to up to 10 different expandable and customizable browser toolbars, such as RSS headlines and local weather.

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The story This open source browser from the Mozilla Corporation caused quite a stir when it stole five per cent of Internet Explorer's market share less than a month after launching in 2004. It continues to chip away at Internet Explorer's virtual browser monopoly by providing strength in IE's two main areas of weakness: security and customization.

Why use it? Firefox's security features are one o f its biggest attractions. I t ' s pop-up blocker is referred to as the best in the industry, and it does not use ActiveX. Other features include a built-in RSS reader, tabbed browsing, integrated search engine, and a download manager that lets you pause and resume downloads at will.

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