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Shaw ls Calgary basecl-sbnd don' t

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In reading youi May issue(" Cable leaps forwardin digital services' by Jeff Evans) I was
fairly shocked t o r e a d t h a t S h aw
Cablesystems main office has moved to
Richmond Hill. This is extremely disturbing
(and also incorrect) given that the main
offices are in fact in Calgary, having moved
theremany years ago from Edmonton.
It may now shockEasterners to learn that
UNE 1999 THE COMPUTER

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Shaw is a Western company, based in

Calgary, and managed from Calgary. The
article by Jeff Evans is woefully inaccurate in
its claim that the office in Richmond Hill is
anything other than a branch office of Shaw.
Chris Calvert
lot ofpridein showing og; despite that it' sin the download, but you can find the extra
encryption on the IE S download Website at
poor ol' East is a regional distribution centre.
http://www.microsoft.corn/windows/ie/download/win
dows.htm.
Encryption and IE S
Some ISP's also carry their own standard
I had just recently read your review about
Internet Explorer 5.0(see"Internet Explorer 128-bit version of the browser.
5.0 focuseson functionality" by Graeme
Shawn Mesiatowsky
TCP replies: You are correct. Shaw's lieadquarters Bennett in the May 99 issue). I thought it
remain in Calgary. What the article should have was very informing, however, you hadstated GB replies: Thanks for the update. However, the
stated was that the newly opened centre in that therewas no 128-bit encryption for IES. statement was tnie when the article was written.
ilichmond Hill which Shaw executives took a It is true that 128-bit is not in the standard In fact, the statement in the published article"No 128-bl t version currently available.
However, the standard 40-bit version does
include Server Gated Cryptography (SGC/ tech-
nology, which allows international custonters ro

conduct 128-bit transactions with banks and
financial instlttitions around the world" was a
direct quote from Microsoft's Web site.
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1999 edition. Jean did a ton of digging, then
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licensed by Microsoft for inclusion in the
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in Canada in 1998 while more than 60,000 other class of mobile machine because they division, describes the dilemma faced by
were sold to home users. IDC Canada, a offer the latest CPUs, full-sized keyboards, rea- manufacturers as a constant struggle to bal-
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market research company, reports that sonably proportioned displays and connectiv- ance affordability with mobility as well as
notebook computer sales grew 17.6 ity to standard storage and media compo- with performance and features (as demonpercent between the third quar- nents (hard drives, floppy drives, CD-ROM s t r ated by the triangle chart).
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ognized as an important business tool, the room to play a game.'" That, combined with
majority of this market growth has taken the price reductions and performance
place among individual consumers for whom increases are driving the mobile market.
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is compounded by the many models each despite the many makes and models available.
individual manufacturer offers in an effort to 'However, common among all manufacturers
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plays, the largest available hard drives and very very close today to mirroring desktop
with the highwnd notebook."
guished more by the software bundle pre- amazingly large displays that are already
ISM's Taylor however, does not envision
loaded onto the hard drive (Microsoft Office reaching 15 inches and beyond (equalling
the entry level, but those are usually distin-
What a portable world

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attempt to optimize the "price/performance"
value a benefit to consumers bestowed by
the severity of market competition.
Classes of notebooks
To achieve the goal of providing an ideal
portable configuration to meet the demands
of different users, manufacturers have in the
past divided the portable market into three
general categories and produced inachines
tailored to each.
Entry-level notebooks are the most eco-
nomical but, not surprisingly, least sophisticated. It should be noted here, however, that
in comparison to the machines of only a few
years ago, this class of portable is very sophisticated indeed.
At price points somewhere between
$2,000 and $3,000, you will find all major
manufacturers are offering a reasonable notebook but with, perhaps, a Pentium, Celeron
or AMD CPU, smaller or lewer resolution display, smaBer hard drive and less RAM out of
the box. Usually tailored to the home market, entry-level notebooks are often weighted
toward multimedia in expectation that they
will primarily be uM.d to play CD-ROMs,
audio CDs, games, or to surf the Internet,
Hence, for example, ISM puts audio CD controls on the outside of the case on its
ThinkPad i series, so users can pop in an

audio CD without having to open the com-
puter case. Compaq puts oneAutton Internet

access buttons on some of its Presario models, also for consumer ease of use.
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suite instead of Enrarta, for example) than by

individual features.
Next up the ladder are the suitably christened mid-range portables. The target market
for these are SOHO (small office home office)
operators and wdrkers on the road. With
price points between $3,500 and $5,000,
mid-range notebooks will usually have
Pentium II (in contrast to Pentium, Celeron
perform
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the viewing area of a 17-inch CRT monitor).

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built-in teleronferencing, DVD drives, etc.
Will all notebooks

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Paul Patterson, market development manager for Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd.'s mobile
computing products division, sees a trend
or AMD) processors, higher capacities all

around and larger or higher resolution dis- toward aII classes of portables eventually
portables ever replacing desktops: "It's a matter of comfort more than anything else," she
says. "%here high-end notebooks certainly
have similar capabilities to desktops, people
generally are just more comfortable with the
large monitor and separate keyboard of the
desktops and I don't think they' ll ever want
to give that up."
As alluded to by Patterson, today's high-
end wonder machines are made feasible by
recent leaps in technological refinement making it possible to create huge capacity hard
drives in very small sizes and, more impordevices that you can plug your notebook of things: "People are more often away from tantly, CPUs specifically designed for neteinto to expand connectivity) for more seri- home or the office and doing different things book installation. It was net so long go that
with their computers so they are increasingly portables of any class were a generation
ous work when bark home or at the office.
behind in CPU technology (i,e., desktops
An example of where these differences looking for the same kind of functionality
come into play might be seen in a real estate and power of the desktop but in the portable would be for sale with a Pentium II while the
application, An agent can load his or her hard format. At this point I see lower end note- best CPU in a notebook would be a Pentium
drive with an extensive database of proper- books blending with mid-range as we' re able MMX) because of a lag in solving the probties induding photographs then take
to produce more and more functionality at lems of power consumption and heat dissipaadvantage of the faster CPU and higher reso- lower price points" he says, adding that this tion imposed by a portable's restrictive voltrend will likely continue toward incorporat- ume, (Power consumption, of course, deterlution graphics to make presentations to
mines battery life while heat dissipation
clients at any location Likewise, a travelling ing the high end as well.
detenmnes whether the chip will even f unGreg
Mlkovich,
vice-president
of
sales
sales agent might transport a variety of multimedia presentations to show potential clients. and marketing for NEC Computer Systems tion when installed in such a confined space.)
But Intel's mandate has recently been
At the top ef the heap comes the high- Division, agrees with the gradual blending of
end notebook. These are th e $ 7000+ entry-level and m i d-range machines. altered to dictate research and development
machines we often drool on but rarely buy. However he doesn't anticipate high-end on chips for portables that coincides with
They incorporate the best and newest possi- machines joining in the near future; If you that for desktops so the gap between releases
were to do performance testing, you would of new chip technologies for both kinds of
ble technologies within the weight and
dimensions of any other class of notebook. It find that the overall performance of high-end machine is rapidly narrowing. Of course,
is here you' ll find the fastest CPUs, loads of machines quite dramatically outpaces the other chip manufacturers, notably AMD, are
standard fast RAM, the most advanced other Vines and that keeps them quite separate following suit with their own notebook-dedgraphics capalities, highest resolution dis- and distinct. I would say, however, that we' re icated engineering. 0
developing into desktop replacements. This
docking stations or port replicaters (desktop will be led by developments at the high end
plays. They are often wired to accommodate
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Peanut Press turns handheld devices into books

By Megan Johnston
from your email,PC and Palm device, Peanut
Interface
Press will send you a new copy for free.
After the successful installation, I turned the

Palm Pro on, selected the Peanut Reader
from the Applications menu and opened the
novel,
Unlike some other readers, Peanut Reader
displays styled text (italics, bold, underline,
etc.) and formatting. The interface has a
number of viewer options, itrcluding a
choice of two font sizes, and the option of
reversing the screen. The text was round
non-serif font that was very readable, except
when the reverse-screen feature was turned
on. When the feature was on, the pale green
text at the edge of the black screen became
hard to read and bled into the pale green
border. Strobel says the company plans to
correct this with a buffer around the edge of
the interface in a future update of the reader.
To navigate through the book, you use
alm Pilot users I know love their

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tiny hendheid computers. These
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d evices not only have a place in .
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comp>. a handheld PC is not a new idea it has, in the
their hearts, they have a place in their
,
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ny's P e anut past, been a difflcult one to execute. There
pockets, at work, at home, on the road,
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Re a de r s o f t - are plenty of public domain titles floating
telling time, keeping notes, and sharing
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the intimacies of schedules, to-do lists, and
ware is free and around cyberspace, but once the raw text is
s
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can be downloaded downloaded it can be amessy read. Peanut
personal contacts. In witnessing the love
from it s We b s i te, Press's principals, Jeff Strobel and Mark
users have for their simple elegant machines,
where you will also find Reichelt, have made installing books simple
a company called Peanut Press came up with
the Peanut Press library. and created an interface that is easy to read,
a simple, elegant idea of its own it created
an interface that allows Palm owners to read Th e books, however, are not free. You can navigate and customize.
books with their constant companions.
brows e through the titles and read excerpts
In late 1998, I contacted Peanut Press and
online, then order the book you want
received the Peanut Reader software and a
through the Web site using a credit card sample novel by email. The reader is 32KB,
Peanut Reader, Wanut Press booIts
(tran s actions are encrypted). Peanut Press and the books vary in length from 2DDKB to
then emails the selection to you.
From: Peanut Press
7DDKB. Peanut Press says a Palm III can easiTo prevent you from emailing the book ly hold six or seven average-length books.
http: //www.peanutpress.corn
System requirements: PalmPilot Pro, Palm lll, lllx, V, to all your Palm-loving friends and family
Installing the software was a simple mator IBN1
WorkPad, Palm DS 2,0 or greater (including
m e m bers, Peanut Press uses the first eight ter of downloading the reader and the book
synchronization software),32KB free memory for the numbers of your credit card as your key to to my desktop PC, then using the PalmOS
"open the book. Though this feature limits install tool to select them for uploading. I
Peanut Reader, free memoy for each book (varles
from 200KB to 700KB)
copying of books, it doesn't limit the num- then put the Palm Pro in its cradle, pressed
Price: US$2.99 and up
ber of times you can delete and reload a title. the HotSync button and seconds later, I was
If you lose the book or mistakenly delete it ready to read.
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will it b e ? To help guide you modest needs at least where entering large numbers of words into the
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sion of color choices, we offer the following computer are concerned may predisplays
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handhelds puting.
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operating system has to making a sensible handheld design).
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enter text and numbers into it. You
which you would prevican also use an on-screen keyboard
ously have needed a note(or enter data on your desktop PC
book computer can now be tackled
and then transfer it to the Palm
quite credibly with a h andheld
Pilot).
computer. Tasks handhelds are typFor many users, however, a keyically asked to do range from basic
board will be a m ust and that
word processing, database and
means going with a t r aditional
spreadsheet work, to f u ll-blown replace the Gameboy-style hand- you plan to use it for writing a lot of handheld computer design. So the
email, Web browsing and even held computer game. Likewise, the email, working on spreadsheets and question then becomes one of
business presentations.
built-in microphone, speaker and browsing the Web, you need a dif- d eciding which factors will b e
And, over the past year, hand- sound capabilities let you consider ferent set of features than if you important in buying such a handheld computers have begun to take the possibility of leaving your tape merely want to use it for keeping )leld.
on tasks that previously would have recorder at home, using the hand- track of appointments, addresses
required an entirely different device. held computer instead to capture and to-do lists.
The screen
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mobile u s er , a trad i t i onal er is actually a more important conas operate with add-on wireless comsideration than you might think.
If all these features are tempting "clamshell" flip-open handheld
munications products for untethContinued on page 4EI
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teries and always have them in reserve and

fully charged.
or via a PC Card slot), CompactFlash cards

for additional storage, a serial or parallel
And for many users, rechargeable batter- connection cable for moving data to your
ies are a better option because they can sup- desktop or notebook PC, an external power
Continued fromage
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To start with, you are likely to be using a
handheld computer in a far greater variety of

desktop PC or even a notebook computer.
If you have decided to use a handheld
with a keyboard, chances are you will want
to be able to take it out of your pocket at a
moment's notice, flip it open and take down
a quick note or retrieve some data. In order
to do that, you have to be able to read thescreen in a wide variety of lighting conditions. When you are in a dimly lit room,
you' ll need a backlight, and when used out-
they don't generate a pile of dead batteries).
Keyboard
Keyboards on handheld computers are often '
cramped things that require considerable
dexterity and skill to use. Many manufacturers try to create a full QWERTY keyboard in
the limited space provided by something
that you will want to hold in your hand, but
transferringdata.
Most of these items are now standard on
h andhelds, with t h e e xception o f t h e
reflection.
on most other handhelds through the use of

a "converter" that allows them to be inserted
into a PC Card slot.
handheld will be dropped. The ideal design

is one closest to that of the cockroach: however much you drop it or stomp on it, you
should not be able to kill it.
Sadly, this writer has inadvertently killed
many handhelds as they slipped out of pockets or briefcases at the wrong moment and
came crashing to an early death. While it is
probably wise not to do a "drop test" in the
showroom when you buy your handheld
(just in case it fails), look at how well it
Memory
Get as much as you can. Last year's standard

was 8 MB, but look for systems with 16 and
even 32 MB becoming more common in the
HP's new Jornada 680 handheld provides a future. As a rule of thumb, the more memokeyboard that is as close in feel to a notebook ry you have, the better. Of course, since it is
computer keyboard as you are likely to flnd, only a handheld computer, you don't have
although some may find it a little cramped. to go completely overboard in this area. But
Meanwhile, Psion uses a unique "sliding if you are running more intensive applicadrawer" approach to the design of its Series 5 tions such as a Web browser having extra
keyboard to yield the maximum possible key- memory can only help.
board real estate. The Psion keyboard does,
however, sometimes suffer from a "dead space Software
bar" that requires you to hit the space bar All too often the software built into handdirectly in the centre for it to register.
held computers is a "cut-down" version of
a desktop counterpart. But it doesn't have
Connections
to be that way. While users of Windows
Another major issue in buying a handheld is CE handhelds have had to wait until the
in finding one that allows you to connect current release to get something accepteverything to it that you are likely to need. able, longtime users of Psion's Series 5 sysAnd that includes a modem (either built-in tems will know that rich and powerful
Battery life
There's no point in having a handheld computer if it is always running low on battery
power. Make sure that whatever system you
choose will give you at least 10 hours worth
of continuous use from either a single charge
(in the case of a handheld with rechargeable
batteries) or a single set of batteries (where
you use standard AA batteries).
You may also give some thought to how
you expect to be able to use the handheld.

Suppose, for example, you are expecting to
use the handheld a lot on business and don' t
have time to leave it charging for extended
periods of time. In this case, you should consider a handheld that runs on AA batteries,
which are available almost anywhere, or
plan to buy a second set of rechargeable bat-
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generally hard to come by, so you tend to be

sttick with whatever comes with the system
when you buy it.
looked. If there is one truism of handheld

computers, it is this: at some point, the
efforts at creating handheld computer keyboards are from seasoned veterans of the
handheld sector: Hewlett-Packard and Psion.
to use, quick, stable and well designed. If you
' CompactFlash slot. It appears to come only

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la r ge r ha nd helds, al t h ough Construction
Compactmash cartridges can physically fit This final consideration should not be over-
side, you' ll need to be. able to adjust the con- few succeed.
trast to compensate for the natural light and
A couple of the most successful recent
held before you buy it. They should be easy
port color screens, are cheaper to operate and supply (which is automatic on rechargeable find them lacking in any of those respects,
more environmentally friendly (because units) and an infrared port for wirelessly put the handheld back Handheld software is
situations than you would ever do with a
I,
applications can be created for handhelds.

Try out the applications on your hand-
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A final word
Handheld computers are now powerful
enough to do most of what you can do with
a notebook computer. And that means you
need to take-as much care and attention in
choosing one as you would a notebook. If
you make theright choice, you can accomplish a lot. This entire article, for example,
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what you' ve bought is what you' ll

need to consider are the same as have to live with. Following are
puters. Some of the factors you' ll
those for buying a desktop-com- some of the dimensions you

puter. type and speed of processor, should consider.
size of hard drive, amount of memory, and price. Portables also have Screen
their own unique characteristics, There are two broad types of liquid
and understanding these is equally crystal display (LCD) technology
important to your buying deci- currently being used with portables: active matrix and passive
sions.
Notebook computers are more matrix. Active matrix is also somevariable than desktop PCs in their times called TFr (thin film transisoverall "feel," but because of their tor).
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all-inwne design, that feel is difficult to modify. It is, t herefore,

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t w o , a ctive matrix
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screens provide the best images.

They generally have more contrast,
show blocks of color more evenly,
respond to signal changes more
quickly and have a wider viewing
replace it for around $50. If you
angle. These latter two points are
buy.
If you buy a desktop PC and
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matrix screens
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expensive, adding $400
or more to the notebook's
price tag.
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referred to in a number of ways.
STN (supertwist nematic), DSTN
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STN) and HPA (high-performance

addressing) all refer to variations
on passive matrix technology.

Passive matrix technology has progressed to the point where, under
many conditions, passive matrix
screens are virtually indistinguishable from those using active matrix
technology.
Today you can buy a notebook
will show more information on a
screen than one that supports only

800x600 pixels. Of course, the
objects on the screen will be smaller, but considering that one usually
sits doser to a laptop screen than to
a monitor, the higher resolution
may still be acceptable.
the best fidelity for photographic

images will be achieved by displays
that can show photorealistic color.
Satteiy
Most manufactwers no longer offer
nickel cadmium (NiCd) batteries,
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metal hydride (NIMH) or lithium
Another factor is number of

colors supported. So called "true"
ion-based (Li-Ion) batteries. A

major limitation with Ni-Cd cells is
inches (measwed diagonally). achieved if the graphics subsystem their susceptibility t o m e mory
Bigger is generally better (and more will produce 17.6 million separate effects: wit h c o n stant p a rtial
that recharging and infrequent comcostly), but a factor that compli- colors. A graphics
computer with a screen ranging
from 12 inches to more than 14
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subsystem
important for displaying DVD or

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than desktop machines. They are designed to time for repairs, or some provision for a loan-
with all the drives integrated. You won' t

enjoy the benefit of the ultraportable notebook's lighter weight if you are constantly
take a certain amount of bashing but they do

fail, often when you are away from home
carrying these external devices with you, and base.
The warranty you buy should match your
it can be a hassle to fish the drive out of your
bag and cable it to the notebook every time work style. For example, if you are an international traveller, you' ll want to make sure
you set up for a session.
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By virtue of being carried around, portable afford any downtime, you' ll want a warra ty problem. As with any warranty, read the fine
computers are subjected to more hazards that has an acceptably short turnaround print. 0
power use and recharging, and more accurate

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The trackpoint is used by Toshiba and

IBM on all their notebooks and by HewlettPackard on some of its models. This device is
the pencil-eraser-looking nub sprouting out
of the keyboard between the G, H and B keys.
To move the cursor, you push or pull on the
nub with your fingertip.

Both of these technologies seem to pro-
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smaller format, for example, or larger screen The most impending of these is a CPU with
By Ross NacOonald
here the recent history of portable sizes) there are a few technologies being
PC development has largely been worked on now that will introduce actual
based on the refinement of exlst-
new developments to the mobile world.
the development title Geyserville that Intel

expects to be selling before the end of 1999.
The details of Geyserville were described in
Febmary by Robert Jecmen, vice-president of

Intel's architecture business group and general manager of the mobile/handheld products group.
According to Jecmen, the Pentium III-
based Geyserville CPU can currently operate

at 500 MHz while the notebook is plugged
into the wall but cuts back to 400 MHz when

on battery power. That 20 percent cut in performance sounds relatively insigntficant, but
what is significant is that power consumption drops 40 to 50 percent when the chip is
operating at the lower speed. By the time
Geyserville hits the streets, Jecmen expects
its performance to start at 600 MHz and
reduce to 500 MHz on battery power with
the same credit toward battery life.
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Inc.'s mobile

computing products division spokesman,
Paul Patterson, sees the Geyserville chip as a
significant development for making all classes of notebook perform like desktop replacements: "The Geyserville chip is really exciting for users because there will be even less
of a discrepancy between the usability of
portables and desktops. It's a significant step
in that direction.",
NEC Computer Systems Division's vice-
president of sales and marketing, Greg

Milkovich, concurs: "Certainly chips like the
Geyserville technology will dramatically
improve notebook performance and put it
on an equal level to desktops like we' ve

never seen before."
Deeper into the guts of things, Intel
recently announced its Ball Grid Array (BGA)
CPU mounting package, which is.254 cm (.1
in.) thick and weighs only 4 g (.14 oz.). It' s
the smallest and lightest packaging system
yet for Pentium chips and is expected to support Pentium III chips in the near future.
Once it is fully developed for the higher performance CPUs, we can expect to see fully
functional Pentium IHs and beyond even in
ultraportables albeit the topic of price has
yet to be broached.
At iSTAR" Internet, we' ve done enough surveys to know that surveys don't get us new business the way
that word of mouth does. That's why we' re very pleased to note that more of our customers sign up due
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The nnhfersal notebook

Another recognized but yet to be firmly
established trend is for each manufacturer to
follow what's called the "universal notebook
philosophy in which each maker's components will be common throughout the prod-
uct line. Things like AC adapters, alternative

media drives and batteries will be compatible
with all current and future notebooks so you
won't have to buy replacements every time
you buy a newer notebook as long as it' s

from the same manufacturer.
Comm everywhere
Somewhat further down the road all the
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buzz is around BlueTooth technology

the
wofking name of a short-range radio frequency (RF) communication technology
being jointly developed by Toshiba, IBM,
Ericsson, Nokia and 3Com that is expected
to revolutionize the way all digital communications are conducted.
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BlueTooth was demonstrated in Hanover

in March and may sert hitting the streets
within 12 months. Unlike infrared (which
was expected a few years ago to change the

computing and communications worlds but
failed to do so), RF has no Iineaf-sight
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Business notebooks must support corporate preload
t's in the mid-range where most manufacturers chase after the business//commercial user. A study cited by a Compaq
spokesman suggests that businesses have
been faster to adopt the mobile platform
nectivity between machines currently in use

and with their future replacements is a significant consideration.
"A company will be very careful to test
machines before they choose which one to
because they get an average of four hours per buy, then create what we call an image for
week more work out of mobile PC-equipped that product an image being the software
pre-load for that system," explains Sue Taylor,
employees,
IBM Canada's ThindPad brand manager.

"But, when you adopt a new hardware
platform, you usually rebuild the image
because you' re dealing with a different hardware configuration different drivers in
some cases, or different BIOS all that kind
of stuff. So, big companies might want to
buy, say, 1,000 units, but not all at the same
time. But they want to know that they can

come back to the manufacturer six or 10
months down the road and buy that exact
same machine or one that supports the
imagethey created earlier so that they don' t
have to go to the trouble of rebuilding that
corporate image."
Ross MacDonald
The level of technology, the features and

the software bundles incorporated into these
notebooks are significant factors for business
purchasers to consider. However, more
important to the corporate client in deciding
which computers to buy are things like common docking solutions and higher connectivity so multiple users within a company
will not be hampered by a variety of technological demands.
It is equally important when purchasing
a large number of notebooks that the manufacturer will continue to support the platform, even as newer models are introduced
and purchased. It is very important to an
enterprise buying many machines that
upgrading to newer models in the future
won't force the reconfiguration of or switch
away from their existing applications and
the associated files. Likewise, consistent con-
The shape of porbsble things to come

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restrictions and is cheaper and easier to
employ, Expected to be eventually incorporated into al l t h i ngs communicativeportable phones, computers, pagers, etc.BlueTooth is likely to be PCMCIA-card based
for computers and may replace the standard
faxmodem for email, Internet access and
connection to devices while adding wireless
communication between multiple devices.
You might, for example, exchange files or
s end presentations t o
mu l t i t udes o f
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Looking ahead at power sources, a new battery technology called lithium polymer is in
the works, "It is unlike anything we' ve seen
before and several years down the road,"
Toshiba of Canada representative Julia
Carrescia explains. "It's extremely flexible in
packaging. As it is right now, batteries are
either cylinder shaped or bar shaped and
portable computer makers have to accommodate that. But, with Lithium Polymer, a
battery could be conceivably made like a
thin sheet of paper that could be wrapped
around the outside of a notebook to save

space and weight.
That's a computers
And further into the future, IBM Canada's
ThinkPad brand marketing manager, Susan
Taylor speaks of a futurist at the company

research lab who envisions a computer the
size of a Walkman. It would sit on your hip

connected to a headset with a heads-up display in front of one eye: nBut, due to the
technology," says Taylor,eit will appear as a
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and an alarm clock
In Canada, Rogers Cantel Inc. is offering
the pager as the underpinning for its Cantel
AT6rT Interactive Messaging service for $599
(the price drops to $475 if you sign a twoyear contract). The pager can also be leased
for $27 per month with a two-year messaging service contract, at the end of which the
pager can be purchased for $10.

The company also offers three monthly
usage plans for the RIM pager. These monthly plans start at $16.95 for a "short message"
service with a limit of 50KB per month,
$29.95 for a "messaging plus" service with
250KB of messages per month, and "elite
messaging" that allows you to send and
receive up to SOOKB of data per month.
So much for the prices. But what can you
actually 10 with a handheld wireless email
pager? To answer that question, I recently
spent some time with one of these gadgets.
My first impression was that it was extremely simple. This device is very easy to use,
although I admit it took me a little while to
get the hang of the "roller wheel" used for
scrolling up and down the screen and "clicking" on menu options.
From there, it was simple to send short
email messages, messages to other pagers (a
second two-way pager was provided for this
test) and to a fax machine.
As a veteran user of small keyboards on

handheld computers, I did not find the RIM
Interactive Pager 950's keyboard to be particularly difficult to work with, despite the
small size of the keys and the large size of
my fingers. But given that editing tools are
largely limited to use of the "backspace" key
and the scroll wheel, I wouldn't contemplate creating any long messages on this
keyboarder at least not with the limited
set of functions offered in the current builtin software. I certainly couldn't imagine
writing a 2,700-word message (the maximum the pager can handle) using this software.
But the basic premise of this pager is not
aimed at such a use anyway. It is primarily

for those people who need to respond quickly and wirelessly to email messages. As such,
it fulfills the job magnificently. It is fast, simple to use and
in our tests quite reliable.
Whether it is worth approximately $40 per
month (assuming you lease the pager and go

for the minimum service package on the
two-year lease) is another matter, one that
you need to dedde for yourself.

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UNE 1999 THE COMPUTER PAPER SC EDITION www.tc .ca
NEvV S
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By lan Stolrell
our car ro ect's oa
According to the companies, the deal is

an indication that users are increasingly
PALO ALTO, Calif. (NB) There are few looking for "anytime, anywhere access to the
places from which it has been difficult if not growing volume of Web-based information
impossible to log onto the Net. The family and applications, and the growing market for
car has been one of them... until now But automotive computing devices and mobile
Online Anywhere is teaming with automo- applications."
tive electronics company, Vetronix Corp., to
One application example cited by the
develop a voice-based product designed to companies for a voice activated product
would be a driver's or passenger's ability to
access Web content from an automobile.
The deal calls for Online Anywhere's use a personal information manager (PIM) to
FlashMap Web content reformatting product get driving directions directly from a Web
to be used to deliver VXML (voice-enabled site.
extensible markup language) content for inVishwanath said, "The product itself is
vehicle software an d c o m munications going to be a two-piece solution... a VXML
peripherals developed by Vetronix. The browser that runs on the Auto PC, and a servresulting products will operate on a computer which will b e r unning at a content
er running the Microsoft Windows CE oper- provider's site. These will b e c o ntent
ating system-based Auto PC platform.
providers that want to enable their content
"What Vetronix is doing with Auto PC...
on the Auto PC."
He continued: "So it could be an enteris creating various ways to interface Auto PC
with the rest of the car system," explains prise, it could be an Internet company, in
Mohan Vishwanath, president and chief exec- fact any company that wants to enable their
utive of Online Anywhere. There was great content on the Auto PC.
"There's going to be a server which takes
synergy between the companies because one of
the
existing content that these companies
the things that we wanted to enable was
Internet content on the Auto PC... and do it have it could be an email application, a calin such a way so that people do not have to use endar application, a financial application
and that gets converttheir hands... it can be done through voice." such as stock quotes
ed by our Online Anywhere servers into

VXML and then gets fed to this browser on
the car," he said. "And there is some kind of
a wireless connection between the two."
James V. Zaleski, president of Vetronix,
says his firm has been involved with
Microsoft's Auto PC initiative since late
1996 the first product was the CarPort vehicle interface system.
Vishwanath explained the wireless connection, saying that, with regard to Vetronix
.. you' ll see soon a relationship with a carrier which will be providing the data, the
connectivity part of it."
Online Anywhere will be providing its
Oasis server, which the CEO said, "... will be
offered both as a packaged server that people
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company which does not want to buy a piece
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Command Corp.,and the other Yahoo Inc.
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Corp. involved the upgrade of its AtHotel TV
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improved AtHotel service were recently
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local information, games, and chat."
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that Online Anywhere's Author Once, View
Anywhere service will convert Yahoo's content and services, induding email, calendars,
stock quotes, sports scores, and weather
information.
Online Anywhere is a Motorola Ventures
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companies about copyright protection plans, Sonic Foundry.
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Streaming media company
RealNetworks said that, in an effort to
RealNetworks Inc. jumped into the booming avoid such copyright violation, it will use a
market for digital music delivery and the
format developed by ATILT Corp. to help
growing controversy over the MP3 format in secure files and protect copyrights. The techearly May with the launch of RealJukebox, a nology, known as a2b music, was introduced
software product that lets personal computer
users transfer their compact discs onto their
computers, digitally download thousands of
by ATRT 18 months ago to help music labels

and artists deliver CD-quality music over the
title, artist and genre by accessing information from the Web; and allows users to trans-
time promotional purposes. The artist or

label can choose to allow a consumer to give
such as the addition of markers to trace
Also, on the same day RealNetworks
music to the person who recorded or pur- launched RealJukebox, Internet company
chased it.
RealNetworks faces competition in the
jukebox software market from Microsoft,
whose Media Player uses an alternative file
format to MP3 and includes piracy protec-
Interne.
The a2b music technology, according to
songs and create customized playlists.
The PC jukebox also plays songs as they ATRT and RealNetworks, allows an artist to
are recorded at high speed in the back- offer different download options, such as full
ground; automatically categorizes songs by songs for purchase by consumers or limited-
Wired Planet released version 1.0 of its Wired

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functionality with access to the company's
customizable music network. Q
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a secure copy of the music to a friend, which

fer songs to other portable music players.
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MP3 music compression format, which has at the same time allow consumers to have
caused controversy in the music industry
because of copyright protection tlaws that
have allowed for the illegal uploading and

downloading of music pirated copies from
CDs. Attempts to develop standards for copyright protection of digital music are in the
the opportunity to purchase it themselves.

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Web and forced them to shut down because
of security deficiencies.
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of the Seattle company's leading position in
Internet media, with about 60 million users
and an 85 percent share of the media streaming software market.
the easiest way to play and manage music

downloaded from the Internet and recorded
music from personal CD collections, while at
the same time respecting the important
rights and interests of copyright licence
holders," Rob Glaser, chairman and chief
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and services, together with strung partnerships, enables us to create robust solutions,"
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services available to help make it a reanty. $30.94 a share at Friday's dose, to $24 by
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The industry as a whole has long recognized the need to provide solutions for businesses to create and maintain a presence on
the Web. Compaq has been involved in this
movement as well, but the diversi6cation
that came with r ecent acquisitions of
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to give it the con6dence to step out in front EcOarcjPfelfrer, whowasInstrmnentaj ln
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which dosed Innovate 99. Gates' speech featured key points from his new book Business
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Gateway aa suffered dips in their stock prices

following Compaq's announcement.
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on Sat, April 17, and asked for Pfeiffer's resignation. Both Pfeiffer and Earl Mason (who
was Compaq's chief 6nandal officer) deliv-
success, the forum was overshadowed by
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n ews of Compaq's preliminary 6rst~ e r

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Apru 9, predicted that Compaq'searnings
for
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Compaq.
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IDC study predicts expansion of online auctions

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (NB)
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tions will play an increasingly important role the market.
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"Auctions fit the definition of a sticky
of companies providing software .solutions application, something that engages users
and ancillary services related to ewommerce, and keeps them coming back," says Jill
a new study claims.
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vices that act as liaison between online buy- service, according to the study.
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years earlier
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in Compaq's history," stated Rosen. "All
those who benefited from that growth owe
him a debt of gratitude."
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business on a quarterly
basis. The gestation
period for the resignation is clearly longer
than one quarter."
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but we don't run our business on a quarterly
basis, The gestation period for the resignation is clearly longer than one quarter."
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1,024x768, with a color depth of 32-bit.
ments for DVD playback become less com- (Note: The Sysmark 98 is an updated version
plex, the format is becoming very attractive of the older Sysmark 32 benchmarking softto a lot of users. This shift is also helping to
ware, which used a different baseline config-
erforma
nce scores.
change the perception of the PC from a pro- uration to determine p

ductivity tool to the central entertainment
appliance in the house.
Peripheral connectivity is also drawing a
lot of attention. In the past, if we wanted to
attach a device to a computer we could
Result numbers from this test are not meant

to be compared with the numbers generated
on tests done using Sysmark 32, which we
used before March 1999.)

Pricing for this roundup was obtained
choose the serial and parallel port (although from the vendors at the time of testing.
released its new Pentium III chip, which has more adventurous users have dabbled in Because of the fast pace of the computer
70 new instructions that address multimedia SCSI), Both serial and parallel connections market and the fluctuations in the value of
performance. Although the top speed of the are starting to be viewed as "legacy" tech- the Canadian dollar, prices may be subject to
new Pentium Ill chip is 500 MHz (only 50 nologies now, because of their limitations some fluctuation.
19 0.26 95KHz
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higher CPU speeds down the road. At the
same time,many users are also interested in

AMD's new chips, the K6-III, and the upcom-
ing K7.
Df'-H31D/1731D.
With the new CPUs comes a new generation of motherboards, featuring support
for higher bus speeds. The recent switch to
the BX motherboard chipset introduced a
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All dimensiws shown
Ie cRTsize. vienhle i' n smaller.
and speed. Serial connections to a computer
can be painfully slow, and are really only

useful for devices that generate or receive a
ininiinal amount of data.
Parallel connections, while faster, often
suffered from incompatibility problems with
other technology. Users installing a parallel
port external drive would often find that
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suffered from limited ability t o a t tach 400 MHz AMO K6-III processor (With the
bus speed of 100 MHz, which was a pretty devices, as users could generally install only
exception af the Apple, this was the only
system thai didn't use an Intel CPU in this
ripping speed for those used to the 66 MHz one or two devices at a time using either type
world. Although eaglier 100 MHz boards of port.
roundup).
The 10.8 GB Fujitsu hard drive offers a good
supported higher bus speeds, the new genTwo new technologies are starting to
amount of space for files and applications.
eration of Pentium III machines will be
appear on computer systems with increasing
able to take advantage of a faster 133 MHz regularity. USB (universal serial bus) is the Has a Logitech First Mouse, and Fujitsu
bus.
more common of the two, having had operWindows keyboard.
The performance of video cards has also ating system support since later versions of 3Gom56wbps modem.
soared. A year ago, an 8 MB card seemed Windows 95. This technology has a much INultimedla
- The optical drive is a 5x OVD.
pretty luxurious. Since that time, memory higher transfer speed than legacy serial conon the cards has jumped to 16 MB, and more nections, allows the user to (theoretically) in addition to the Sound Blastar Pcll28 sound
recently to 32 MB. In addition, 3D function- attach up to 127 devices, and allows devices
card, Cambridge Soundworks' four-point PC
Works speaker set is included for great sound.
ality has started to become standard on
to be attached and installed to a functioning
Video is provided by a16 MB Creative Riva TNT
many cards, whether Direct 3D, OpenGL or computer without the need to reboot. A
Voodoo-based. Building 3D right into the
newer technology, FireWire (also known as

card.
IEEE 1394), is just starting to appear in high- Kaiaandab}llty
er-endsyst
ems now, and offers the same User has choice of two iSA cards and onePCI,
or one iSAandtwo PGI(one ot the mounting
bling up cards inside the system and con- advantages. However, the incorporation of
necting outputs of different cards together FireWire at this point is limited to digital
brackets is shared).
standard video card has made life simpler for
many users. It eliminates the need for dou-
on the rear of the machine.

As one way to take advantage of higher
video capabilities, many users are starting to
turn to DVD technology instead of the trusty
old CD-ROM drive. In addition to much
higher storage capacity available, DVD drives
offer the user the ability to do DVD video
video cameras.
An acknowledgernent of the growing
Two full-size and one 3.5-inch drive bay
available.
Two slots for SDRAM(one of which is in use),

ners and digital cameras) is that many PC
and two slots for older 72-pin SIMMS.
manufacturers are starting to locate the Some usersmaybe put off by the lack of PS/2ports right on the front of the machine for
style ports for keyboard and mouse, and the lack
easy access.
of a standard USSport.
importance of attachable devices (like scan-
THE COMPUTER
UNE 1999
We start off this
+
The
Power
Macintosh
G3
series is the work-
month's roundup
with the odd com-
puter out (with

the exception, of
c ourse, of t h e
Apple):
the
Tangent system,
which uses AMD's
new K6-IH chip
i nstead of t h e
horse of the new

models
fro m
Apple. Styled like
Intel Pentium II
instead. Where the
users
and it helps keepthe system price down.
machine and two
package.
A US Robotics
56Kbpsmodem Isincluded.
Even though this
system isn't going Multimedia

to win the speed IthasaPanasonicDVD dri
ve,butnomovieplaywars, it's chock
er software. Users will have to install their own.
f ull o f
oth e r The Eontronics 3DFx
Bansheevideo card has16
attractive goodies
MB of memoryanboeid.
iMac is for the new

or casual user, the
that would make
G3 is a more seriit a great choice.

on this machine is slower than most of the ous machine for power users or for the small
other machines, but part of that is due to office environment. The ability to open it up
the slightly slower CPU speed. Where this with the pull of a tab is a handy feature for
machine comes through is in value. For just users who need access to the guts of the Suggested retail price: $1,949
over $2,000, the Tangent indudes great hardware, and its upgradability answers hmpftwww.elcosys.corn
audio components, a fast DVD drive, and some of the concerns of those who were Software
wary of the iMac's closed case. Like the iMac,
Two ISA and two PCI cards, or one ISA and

three
PCI (one ofthemounfing brackets is shared).

Two full-size and
one3.5-inch bay available.
There are three slots for SDRAM.
Only one was
filled in the test system.
Windows 98.
The focus for the Elco system is to provide the basics of a fast system affordably.
however, there are a few concerns: no built- Components

and a great alternative for fans of AMD's in floppy drive, and potentially frustrating 450 MHz Pentium III processor.
proc enols.
keyboardand mouse.The removable media
problem can be solved with a USB Zip or LS120 drive, and more USBkeyboards and mice
ApplePower IecmleebIjj
Suggested retail price: $4,699
httpltwww.apple.ca
Software
MacOS 8.5.1.
No other pre-Installed software.
Components
Speedy 4gg MHz G3
chip.
The 9 GB SCSI
hard drive is fast, and although
it's smaller than some of the other drhres this
month, it should provide plenty of space for
most users.
are starting to hi t t h e market. Overall,

though, this one could well be the answer to
dedicated Mac-heads who thought the iMac
was just a bit too cute,
gompeiPreeeri
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Suggested retail price: $3,299
http Jtwww.compaq.ca
Software
Windows 98.
Bitware Fax, Digital Yideo Producer, Intel Video
Phone 3.0,Microsoft package(Word 97,Works

4.5,
Money99,EncarlaEncyclopedia99),
installed, but has a spot for one. Instead, this
model came
with an Ethernet jack for connecting
is roundandhasatendency to spin in place,

causing orientation problems.
MEEItlmedla
The system features a 24x CD-ROM
dr/ve. It is
covered up by a tilting panel, which daesn't
elect the use of the drive itself, but prevents the
INIUN
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The unit we tested

didn't have amodem
to a network, or for use with ADSL or a cable
modem.
The USB
keyboardand mouseon this modelare
the same as those found an the IMac, which
might be problematic. The keybaerd features two
USB ports on either end but the layout is a bit
cramped, reducing the function keys to tiny little
nibs. The mouse canalso be a bit awkward as it
Quicken Basic 99, UvePix Deluxe, Incoming.
Components
45 0 MHz Pentium II processor.
Plenty of hard drive space at19 GB.
Machine Includes both floppy and a 100 MB
Internal Zip drive.

Compaq mouse
andkeyboard haveInternetand
multimedia quick-access buttons.

In addition to an ultra-speedy 1.5 Mbps digital
modem, the system also comes with a 10 Mbps
Ethernet jack for connection to ADSL, cable
madems or networks.
Msdtlmedla
5x DVD-ROM
drive and DVDplayer software.
Video is an 8 MB ATI
RagePro AGPcard.
userfrom accessingtheheadphonejack.
S-Video and composite output ports are Included
The video card is the new ATI
Rage128 card
for output to TV or VCR.
In addition to astandard VGAout port, there is a
with 16 MB of memory.
Esrpandabmlty
digital flat-panel port for the newest generation
The case features a unique design with a release
af TFT displays.
switch that allows the user to open up the side
panel, which is hinged at the bottam of the
Four USB ports and two FireWire ports.
machine. This makes the interior very accessible
User can instag one ISAand onePCI card, or
for upgrading. However, this feature also makes
two PCI cards (one of the mounting brackets Is
the Interior very accessible to people who
shared).
One fugclze bay available.
shouldn't be in it Usersarewarned to employ
the locking mechanism whenever possible. Ag of Three slots for SDRAM.Only onewas In use on
the machine'sfragile equipment isanchoredto
the test machine.
this panel, which could come crashing down if
appropriate care isn't taken when opening it
While the Presario 5677 isn't the speedi-
(Note: Because the MacOSwill not iun our bench-
marking software,therearenoresults for the G3.)
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overwhelming in its expandability. The
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500 MHz PentiumIII processor.
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ponents, Users should pmbabiy be satisfied
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onboard. (The test system had the Hercules
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About the built-in digital security,
Walkden said, "Once the [record] labels and

ate a player for downloadable music that the RIAA [Recording Industry Association of
firm hopes will compete successfully with America] are happy, there is an architecture
the now popular MP3 downloadable music to protect their content, the anticipation is
Technologies is working with e.Digital to cre-
format (see "From the Editor" by David
that they will start to release music for mar-
Tanaka in this issue).

keting on the Internet.s
The new players will use digital signal
She added, "The consumer will be able to
processors (DSPs) made b y T e xas get better content on widely available Web
Instruments (TI) and an audio codingsystem sites much more easily than they currently
based on a compression system originally can with MP3. Finding MP3 files is not the
developed byBell Labs.The Lucent compres- easiest thing in the world. It's not a pleasant
sion system is c alled th e
E nhanced consumer experience. If they could go to a
few areas and download music files there,

Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC).
If EPAC players take off commercially, it and know they are doing it legally, that will
will be a triumph for the Secure Digital be a plus."
Music Initiative (SDMI), the recording indusFred Falk, chief executive of e.Digital,
try's effort to develop an open but secure says the sound quality of EPAC isexceptionaccesssystemfor digital music, Lucent's New al. Declares Falk, "We know what people
Ventures Group was a founding member of want in an Internet music download player;
the trade group, which has criticized MP3 as great sound in a compact device that's robust
not providing adequate protection for copy- and well-priced."
The player itself is still under developrighted digital material.
Rachel Walkden, director of the audio ment, but Walkden saysLucent does have a
initiative for the New Ventures Group, says protype in operation. The new device will be
there are many reasonsfor consumers to prefer EPAC to MP3 files.

"It is basically a better codec [compressiondecompression system]," she said. REPAC at
80Kbps is at least asgoodasMP3 at 128Kbps.

So you canget thesamequality for a third less
space and athird lesstime to download."
made by e.Digital using Lucent's patented

MicroOS file management system.
MP3 files are highly compressed versions
of standard CD audio recordings that fit
about 10 times more music into the same
amount of storage. The best known current
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quick,
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places and perform similar tasks with a pock- recharges. An optional extended-life battery SVGA external port, speaker, microphone
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are using bundles of wireline and wireless their wireline phones for wirelessunits.
survey said they would consider giving up

their wireline phones for a wireless alterna-
telephone services in the first year such serPol l ster Angus Reid Group Inc. carried tive.
vices have been available, according to a out the survey of 1501 adult Canadians by
Men are more likely than women to connationwide survey conducted for consulting telephone in February on behalf of Ernst R sider this option, and people with higher
firm Ernst Er Young LLC.
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The survey also found that average gives 95 percent certainty that the results are found.
spending on both wireless and wireline ser- accurate within 2.6 percentage points.
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visual programming, components and use of
dever wizards or third-party design tools,
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and superior visual programming development environs with many third-party
suppliers of tools and components.

And the runtime performance of both Java
and Visual Basic have steadily improved to the
point that they are approaching within 10 to
30 percent of the fastest programs developed

in C/C++, Cobol, Fortran or Pascal. Finally,
Java in particular but also Visual Basic can be
used to deliver Web programs.

On the Web, Java and Visual Basic can be
used as servlets. These are Web applications
sitting on a server and sending down dynamically created HTML and scripts to your
browser. Java, with its great cross-platform
portability, can also be used to develop
applets that run directly on any PC or client
browser. With new ADSL and cable modems
running 20 times faster than current 56Kbps
modems, look for even more exciting (and
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ning on just about any combination of hardware and operating system while Visual
Basic is master of Windows. VB runs on
Windows 9x, NT (partly on Alpha versions),
2000 (the new name for NT 5.0), and CE
(partly). However, Visual Basic no longer sup-
huge APIs. More telling is that, in order to

accommodate new OO and other functionality, Visual Basic has had to expand its
basic syntax by dozens of commands. Even
worse, the documentation for Visual Basic
has deteriorated wit h r e cent r eleases.
ports Windows 3.x, while Java does.
Explanations of commands are spread over bility for both development systems and the
On the other hand, Visual Basic has
secure) Java applets coming to your Web become, through VBA, the scripting lanbrowser.
guage for Windows applications. This is
In sum, both Java and Visual Basic have
important because more systems will be
come to the fore as programming languages built directly into key applications such as
because they were built to fit the mold for
new system development, with rapid development through visual IDEs and comprehensive SDK/APIs to meet all the latest programming requirements, especially the Web.
Perhaps even more important are the OO
methods and component-like code, which
can stand alone or be linked to existing programs and data sources in a variety of ways,
including servlet, downstream application,

application server or Web applet, It is this
versatility in deployment that makes both
languages so attractive.
Over the next four or five years, the proliferation in programming languages should
subside. This situation has persisted so long
as client/server and n-tier processing needs
were not being well served. But the current
balance of comprehensive APIs, rapid development for a variety of deployment modes
and competitive runtime performance make
Java and Visual Basic compelling choices for
AutoCAD, Excel, Notes, Project, SAS, SAP,

Word an d h u n dreds o f o t h e r m a j or
Windows programs.
If we compare Java and Visual Basic in
detail, there are four major criteria we can
use. The first is ease of development. It is
here that Visual Basic would appear to have
an advantage. After all it is basic. However,
Java and Visual Basic comparison

On the surface, Java and Visual Basic share
some common and compelling characteristics. Both are comparatively easy to learn
and to begin developing useful, small programs with due to their approachability. In
addition, both have very comprehensive
APls with the latest in Web and n-tier developments. Indeed if you can't find what you
need directly in the language, both have a
wealth of third-party tools, utilities and
components available to complete their
effectiveness.
Finally, both languages have the critical
advantage of many modes of deployment.
Java or Visual Basic code can stand alone,
be bolted on as components of a larger system, or act as server-side linchpins between
legacy systems, data sources, and PC and/or
Web browser clients. This is why Java and
Visual Basic should emerge as the dominant
programming languages over the next five
to 10 years.
However, there are three major differences between the two languages. First, as
noted previously, Java has been built from
memory model, integrity checking, etc.)

built right into its core design.
But the third, and perhaps the critical difference, is that Java is cross-platform run-
program code they produce. However, in the
which cost more than $100. Quick exam- rush to get newest versions and features out
ples of how to use Visual Basic's numerous the door, both Java and Visual Basic have let
commands and functions are declining down developers.
even in the electronic documentation.
Java is only slightly better. Fortunately,
Part of this may be inevitable. Rapid

changes in Web and programming standards
Java's huge API is organized into compre- mean some code and APIs become obsolete,
hensive references. But like Visual Basic,
users have to look to third parties for documentation with quick examples of Java
Legend
+ Good
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Windows Toolkit (AWT) classes were quickly
superceded by the new event-listener classes
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Java
Ease of development
+ Very good visual-development environs

+ Lots of wlzards and help
Number of syntax elements/routines 50 commands/thousands of routines
Approachability
+ JVM/SDK free andeasily available
+ Text editor andbrowser neededto run

Oocumentatlon
Avallablgty of books,
tutorials, courses etc.
Reliability and stability
Major weaknesses
00 design takes someextra effort

Evenbigger API to master
= Mixed quality of written material
+ Solid HTML reference documents
= Lots of books and tutorials
= Big ln colleges and universities
+ Self-training easy
Constant and rapid change ls drawback
- Numerous new classes/APls
Rapidlydeprecatingclasses
Robustness
Security
Overall reliability
Speedofdevelopment
Editor
Visual development
Debugging/Testing
Project size
Other
Runtimeoptions
Cross platform
Oeployment options
the ground up as an OO language, while

Visual Basic is gradually acquiring complete
OO capabilities. Second, Java has a number
of security and reliability features (sandlot
security model, strong typing, simplified
Stability and reliability

Traditionally, programming languages have
had very good records of stability and relia-
code. The fundamental problem is this: and Swing GUI components and interfaces.
although developers of both languages In Visual Basic, a similar pattern has seen two
have worked hard to make them easy to or three data access methods proliferate into
like Java, Visual Basic has grown and has approach and learn, the sheer size and
Continued onpage 97
many business applications.

So expect programming languages to gravitate towards the specialties they serve well:
Prolog and some LISP variants for AI, Fortran
for intensive engineering/numeric analysis
systems; C/C++ for commercial software
development; Cobol for transaction processing; and most notably Java and Visual Basic
leading the way on the new Web and component-based systems that act as links and linchpins among backwffice applications.
three large manuals printed versions of
scope of their functionality make them difficult to thoroughly master.
Speed
Ace ln the hole
Visual Basic "'

+ Very good visual devel crit environs "'
+ Lots of wizards and help
300-plus commands/thousands of routines
+ Can do useful work quite quickly
+ VBA is available in many products
Learning edition costs $f 00
HugeAPI to master
poorly written, disorganized, costs extra
- electronic docs cost extra,
have few/poor examples
= Lots of books and tutorials
+ Microsoft and other training courses available
= mixed adoption in colleges/universities
Constant and rapid change ls drawback
Numerous new routines/syntax
Just starting to move to 00 technology
'
Huge API ls bigger than Visual Basic's
- Always bugs lnnewfeatures

- Data accessroutines a mess
+ Cleaner try/exceptlon handling

& event listener models
+ Runtimetype,bounds checking
+ Restdcted memory manipulation
++ Major advantage ls sandlot model
+ Reasonably reliable at start
Bugs creep ln early f.1 SDK
GUI compatibility problems
+ Major ISVs like Oracle, IBM, Sun,
Sybase, etc. committed to lt
+ Very good native and third-party tools
+ Automatic syntax checker ln editor

+ Direct use of Windows'APls
Dependson IDE,someareweak
= IDEs are quite good
= Client side debugging ls good
= Goodbutmixed on serverdebugging
= Good profiling and test tools
+ Medium scale with DBMS
+ Server or large-scale n-tier/Web
+ Advantage ls more secure and broad reaching
componentslike JavaBeans,EJBs,and servlets
= Third-party tools, libraries, eic.
Gives away 10 to 30 percent speeddeficit to C/C++
++ Major advantage
= EXEs and byte code
= Beans and EJBcomponents
= Web servlets
+ Browser applets
+ Advantage to Java on server
+ Byte code optlmlzers, trusted
compiled apps just getting used
JINI
- Opened upto direct memorychange

ActiveX still problematic
+ Six versions to clear bugs
Still islands of instability/bugs
Hardto findgood adviceon what
to avoid or how:to fix some bugs
+ The favored tool at Microsoft
+ Very good native and third-party tools
+ Constantly sets the standard
= lOEs are quite good
++ Best debugger by far on client
= Improving on server side
= Some great third-parly test tools:+ Small quick and dirty
+ Medium scale with lots of GU!s ..
+ Big advantage ls huge army of developers.
= Third-party tools, libraries, etc.
Gives away 10 to 30 percent speed deficit to C/C++"'
Could be negated lf Visual Basic emits byte code
= EXEs and prude
= ActiveXcomponents
= Web servlets
+ Advantage toVisual Basic onclient

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Kodak's APS scanner bridges film,
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digital photography
photography easier for non-photographers,

its features also make it a boon for more
advanced shutterbugs. Easy mid-roll replacement, faster loading time, extra information
recorded magnetically on the film, and onthe-fly selection between three different
aspect ratios are just a few of its benefits. It' s
almost like combining the resolution and
installing the software. (Inexplicably, the

setup program asks you to provide the serial
number from the bottom of the Film Drive.
Does Kodak anticipate someone using the
Film Drive software with some other device?)
The Film Drive is also one of those consumer-oriented PC gadgets that has no off
switch, which is an increasing source of irritation for me. Including the Film Drive, I had
four peripherals on my desk which are used
for maybe 15 minutes a day, and yet are
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Fortunately, that's my only complaint
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media.
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From: Kodak
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System requirements: Nndows 95/98
Suggested retail price: $549
about the hardware. True to its hype, the

Film Drive is as easy to load as an APS camera: pop open the door, slide in a
processed or partially-processed film
cartridge, and close the door. Once the
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prise that Kodak has introduced the Film
Drive FD 300, an APS film scanner. Like
APS itself, it's positioned for consumers
while also being useful for more advanced
users, combining the benefits of digital
and analogue.
ate the preview.
scans APS film it's the smallest and cheapest I' ve seen to date. A featherweight 709 g
(25 oz.), the Film Drive is a white plastic box
about twice the volume of an external ZIP
drive. Half of that volume is empty air; the
entire back half is used for cooling vents.
Performance and usability

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the frequency of bugs in both languages.
To an extent bugs come with rapid
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versions of Visual Basic, users have had to
wait for the release of two or even three service packs to get reliable code for some new
features either in the development system or
in the language. (See the editorial in April
1999 Visual Basic Programmer's Jorrrnal
"FiveThings You Hate about VB6" for the latest episode on Visual Basic bugs.) Yes, most
of the old code works. Yes, most of the bugs
are clustered around new features. No, most
users do not want to develop with what is in
effect beta code and features. Want to kill a
function or feature in a language? Make it
buggy so developers have to spend extra
hours and days proving that the bug is in the
language not their code.
Java is somewhat better. But in the rush
to get various releases of JDK 1.x out the door
serious bugs crept into some of the new APIs.
Also, compatibility of the GUI routines on
various operating system platforms has lead
to pungent humor i.e., Java is the language
you get to write once and debug everywhere.
Now it is important to point out that
these are not catastrophic bugs by any
means. Ninety five percent or more of the
functionality of both languages is rock solid.
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using any features in the bug-infested swamp
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one or more lines of code and, in most

cases, immediately resume running the program either from where it was halted or
from a point d etermined by th e user.
Despite the fact that Java has sophisticated
just-in-time (JIT) compilers and very fast
interpreters, Java IDEs have only a pale
approximation of t his immediate restart
debugging capability. However, on the profiling and testing side, both Java and Visual
Basic have the support of some excellent
testing tools. But perhaps the most com-
ing within 10 to 20 percent of equivalent

C/C++ code. Ho~ever, Visual Basic 6.0 saw
the speed advantage slip by five to 15 percent
in a number of categories most notably in
database access. But analysts argue that with
steady compiler improvements still to come
along with CPU performance continually
improving also, both Java and Visual Basic
will be taking on more enterprise programming tasks over the next five to 10 years.
ment, is disappointing its constituency yet

again with another version whose new features are buggy (see "Confessions of a VB
Beta Tester," in the April 1999 issue of Visual
Basic Programmer's Journal). However, the
Conclusion
pelling reason for speed of development is If you have read all the way through to this
paradoxically the huge APIs.
point in the article, you undoubtedly picked
Given short development time and complex coding requirements, reuse of tried and
tested (hence the concern about bugs) Java
or Visual Basic API code can and does cut out
major chunks of development time. When
time to market is the critical success factor
for most businesses, speed and reliability of
software developments that drive marketwinning innovations also come to the fore.
The whole idea behind OO programming
is structured inheritance and reuse of code.
What Java and Visual Basic bring to the table
is not only reuse but also the ability to deliv-
er code in deployment packages (executables, components, servlets and applets) suited to a wide range of needs.
When to use
It is obvious from the chart that there are
trade-offs between the two languages. In the
coming months, The Computer Paperwill feature tutorials on both Visual Basic and Java
so you get to see some of the coding pros and
In their defense, both Microsoft and Sun
cons in detail.
But right now you may need to decide
which language to use and when. For applications on the server side especially Web
applications Java has a distinct advantage
simply because it runs on more enterprise-
have dedicated themselves to producing
dass operating systems. Also, major Web
more reliable code. Microsoft, for example,
application server vendors such as BEA,
up its tenon great admiration for Java and

Visual Basic mixed with ample frustration.
Great programming languages like Java and
Visual Basic should not be dogged by poor
documentation or reliability and bug problems, especially when those small but significant percentages of bugs detract from the
languages' greatest strength: speed of development.

Visual Basic, in particular, after being
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proof is in the programming.

Fortunately, both languages are readily
available. Go to hitp://www.sun,corn/java and

download the latest JDK, which includes
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programs. Just add your favorite text editor
(notepad.exe will do).

And Visual Basic is available in a learning edition for less than $100. Or look for
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Perhaps because there have been so many
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vs. a 20 to 60 percent speed improvement),

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non-computing activities. In the case of this

disc, there are flash cards for letters and the
eader Rabbit's Complete Learn to Read 100 most common sight words, a letter
S ystem is t h e l a t est r e make o f poster that may be used as a place mat and
nteractive Reading Journey, the most seven books that each contain several stories.
s uccessful interactive program I h a v e
These books are the weak spot in an othreviewed for teaching children how to read. erwise terrific product. There was a moveThese programs demonstrate the results of ment five to 10 years ago by the higher than
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child master early reading skills for the first
time. A manual contains a checklist to help
you assessyour child's reading level, whether
it is simply a few letters or simple sentences,
and which activities the child should start
with. Reader Rabbit also has acontrol panel,

called POP, that contains a continuous the hat" and "seespot stop" were just no fun
record and assessment of your youngster's
progress and success.
The better edutainment products, like
this one, use the multimedia capabilities.,of
CD-ROM to best effect and tie them in with
for beginning readers

never mind that
these were something young children could

master and feel good about. It was determined that what beginning readers needed
to liven things up was a'difficult sight read-
The program begins by teaching the

alphabet and letter recognition, both with
lowed by macaroni,marshmailows, mangoes upper and lower case letters, Happily, phonand marmalade on the next few pages. This
alliteration sounds fun, but remember this is the first in-hand book
kids encounter with this program.
The good news is that when these
books are read on the computer, the
print only i n cludes the simple
words. The more troublesome words
noted above are only spoken by
background characters.
Especially helpful are the "aids" for par-
from busy parents or teachers. Each lesson

reinforces the previous one. With Pick and
Play, however, new letters and words appear
for that particular exercise as long as children
keep working with the activity rather than
with a finite set of exercises,
I 'd recommend burning t h e

books and sticking with the discs,
because the latter are excellent.
Using them, children can work
though the lessons or choose the
Pick and Play mode to practice specific sound families. Parents can
assess strengths and weaknesses by
using the flash cards and instructions that come with the written parent's
manual. This then allows them to direct kids
to the appropriate section for more practice.
However, by working through the lessons
systematically, children can get a quick start
on reading skills with just a little supervision
ics are still alive and well in the Letter Lands,

as sections on each letter are called, These
work through the alphabet starting with the
most commonly used letters to help children
decode these first. Reader Rabbit, Mat the
Mouse and their hamster friends gently
teach and lead children through the program. They answer questions and reinforce
correct answers with praise.
After the basics of phonics are taught,
children begin to build words and sentences
and develop reading comprehension. The

books and songs on the disc reinforce the
lessons of games. While these concepts seem
simple, they are slowly and carefully introduced and reinforced with the Complete
Leam to Read System. The result is that these
activities can be helpful if not instrumental in
launching children's reading skills by age five

because they carefully build competence.
Included in the package is an additional
CD-ROM of stories that can be read from the
narrator's point of view or, for variety, from
the point of view of the characters. If your
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Firms dumping data to avoid
Y2K problems, U.K. report finds

LONDON (NB) A report released in late
April from Information System Integrators
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that businesses in the United Kingdom are
dumping up to 90 percent of their data,
rather than face the cost and resource
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conversion programs.
According to the firm, which specializes
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pressed data on a PC server is much more mainframe capacity they need to the
n weeks, rather than several months, with
data, they can sometimes stop the original
economic than on a mainframe," he said.
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extent that once they have transferred the
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lost information and losses resulting from
business interruption that carry a higher

price. This applies not only to regular businesses but to home-based businesses, for
example, wherelosing aH their data can be
devastating.
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the loss of coverage that can follow a bxeak-
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2. To activate the alarm if this layer is

breached through door contact switches
or detectors that respond to the souhd of
breaking glass, for example.

There are more than eight ways to bypass
a typical aluminum and gian storefront, so
some target hardening needs to be done.
Since thieves read articles like this too, I will
deters a thief if it increaseshis or her chance not list specific details here. A security conof being caught. Ideally such a system consultant in your city can give you unbiased
sists of three components: the first layer of recommendations. FoHowing though, are a
protection, the alarm, and the second layer
couple of basics to consider when starting to
of protection.
assess
your home or office.
The Nrat layer
be hardened with a combination of ASM.75-
The first layer refers to defences on the out-
9F steel mesh, roofing tar paper, and.75-inch
Drywall is easy to kick through. Walls can
side perimeter of your house or office. This plywood. This combination is recommended
and used by the RCMP.
has two goals:
If your office is in a remote location like
1. To deter a thief for at least two minutes
by implementing "target hardening" an industrial park then the two-minute rule
techniques such as installing window does not work Adding more hardware to the
bars, polycarbonate (shattex proof) outside perimeter is a waste of money
sheets, locks, and blocker plates. because the thief has afi night to bypass
(Remember, these techniques must meet whatever you put up. Instead, spend money
fire codes.)
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Canada). What you end up with, however, is

a stable archive of whatever you wrote to the
disc. The stability comes from the fact that
the digital code is etched into the mylar surface of the disc so it c-nnot be corrupted by
wear or magnets the way hard drives, tapes
and other magnetic media can.
espitethe increasing number of urban
myths about hackers injecting our
computers with viruses or even steal-
ing our files, most data whether personal or

work related is lost through hardware loss,
theft and failure or when a user simply deletes
files and directories by mistake. Failure more
Removable cartrldrIes
often than not takes us all by surprise as hard

drives crash, motherboards bum out or, more
There isn't much to say about removable cartridge systems because they constitute little
more than the creation of an infinitely sized
hard drive. Their storage medium is the same
as hard drives, they work like hard drives,
rarely, electrical fluctuations "spike" our computers into oblivion.

The answer, as everyone well knows but
largely ignores, lies in regularly backing up
they' re as fast as hard drives and their capac-
whatever you use for storage (usually the
ity exactly matches however many cartridges

you can afford.
hard drive). This ensures that the introduc-
The drives themselves come in internal

and external versions and they are generally
recognized as another drive by backup utilities. Their data transfer speed means you can
tion of any data corruption viruses, accidental deletio~

well a s any hardware
failures will not result in a loss of data, which

is often more valuable than than the com- natives to their habit. The approach of Y2K,
for example, is a perfect opportunity for peoputer system itself.
Craig McLellan, business development ple to consider backing up, not to solve their
manager for StorageTek Canada says "96 per- Y2K problems but to buy themselves time to
deal with the p
cent of people with computers have a
roblem
s."
The traditional solution for the mnscien-
habit and that habit is they don't back up.

They have to literally go through the pain of
That's because tape could never (practically speaking) do more than store large run any executable file or program from
amounts of data due to the linear way it
runs past the reading and recording heads.
This made it too slow to run executable
files and programs or to readily access oft-
them.
Gne of the benefits to cartridge systems is
that the rnediurn is relatively stable and will
not be affected by wear for many hundreds
tious had long been a tape backup system of used files. Many traditional manufacturers of thousands of hours of use. The downside
some description. Nowadays, however, tape don't even make tape drives anymore is that the cost per megabyte is the highest of
to be stolen or their hard disk [has] to crash has lost favor despite that the tape cartridges because the alternatives that have been all Cartridges for the recently deceased SyJet
or a file jhas] to be accidentally deleterL Then remain very economical on a cost per introduced are faster, more convenient and 1.5 68 drive sold for about $150 as recently
capable of being employed as auxiliary as last December.
people become very open to looking at alter- megabyte basis.
losing data
typically their mmputer jhasj
media and storage units to enhance a com-
With the recent
puter's usability.
y
Further, we lately have a whole new issue

to deal with: data portabifity. As applications
and hard drives get bigger, files are getting
demiseof Syguest,
Iomega's Jaz 1 GB
has taken over as the
">
most common highcapacity cartridge

drive.
bigger too. It's now common for home users

small businessesand even individuals within
larger enterprises to create gigantic spread-
cropp
ies
sheets, text documents, and even multi- IRIh speed os' hilh capadty
megabyte multimedia and graphics files on Much like cartridge drives, these devices are
their FCs.
But when the time mmes to store such
available in external and internal configura-
tions and, depending on how they' re confiles or pass them on to others, it requires nected (parallel port, SCSI, PCMCIA card,
stacks of incrementally backed-up floppies, etc.), they are fast enough to operate as addiinto tional drives for mnning executables as well
carrying and installing your tapesystem
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your whole computer. There are ail kinds of most popular of these is definitely the
individual reasons for wanting to move or
Iornega Zip drive
remove stuff t~
rtis t s creating portfolios
but there are sevof space hungry images, legal-types wanting
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known relatives
safe, incorruptible archives, and Inter-nauts
downloading huge amounts of data.
like the LS-120
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you can't erase data once it's been written.
CD-RW (CD-rewritable) has been around for

a couple of years. Being re-writable, these
discs can be reused. CD-R or CD-RW drives
are now available for $500 to $1,000.
Making your own CD-RGM is actually
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Any device ln this category constitutes a

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on the second layer, since the police
response time could be longer than Sve minutes.
The alarm
The alarm has to do three things:
1. Activate as quickly as possible.

2. Send out the alarm.
3. Decrease the police responsetime.

Most burglaries are fmished by the time
the alarm is activated. I demonstrate this to
clients by having them time me for 30 seconds as I run through their office grabbing
thing. Then I ask them to visualize what
could be taken in that time with four people
helping me. Based on this, giving employees
30 seconds to one minute to deactivate the
alarm only increases the post-alarm "safety
window" before police arrive. Therefore the
only acceptable delay is ZERO seconds. This
means placing the keypad or switch outside
the door. (Keyed switches are available with
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alarm does not send out the signal then the

thieves have all night to bypass the second
layer. Therefore the door to the alarm
inch thick steel walls and .5-inch thick

doors, with holes at the rear for ventilation
and cables.Safes need to be bolted down
against the United Kingdom's elite SAS
(Special Air Service). The SAS

was ordered to
retrieve a file in a house protected by a
equipment should be more secure than the with concrete expansion anchors (.625- smoke machine (about which they were
front or back doors.
Install an alarm-activated flashing light
inch to .75-inch diameter), but not con-
outside your premises. In an industrial park

at night this can dramatically decrease the
police response time, as they will not have
to hunt for your address. Lit address num-
will run about $700 to $900, plus installa-
briefed beforehand). Even with infrared and
crete nails. A computer safe of such quality night vision goggles they were unable to
tion. For smaller budgets a "pod" stainless

steel anchor is good value for the money
(about $200).
bers at both the front and the rear of the
Laptops are highly prized by both ownbuilding
are also a good idea. Lighting is ers and thieves. If they are going to be left
only useful if there are people driving or
at the office overnight, I recommend storwalking by regularly to see something sus- ing them ih a large fire-resistant gun safe
picious. Have lots of lights for your house with shelves inside. (A "fire safe" from a
in the city. In an industrial park, however, big-box office supply or hardware store is
there is nobody to witness a crimeso it not a good bet, because the word "safe"
does not make sense to light up the place here means safe against fire only, not
against theft. I have seen these safes opened
for the burglar's convenience.
in fewer than five seconds.) Install a digital
The second layer
combination lock that needs two combinaThe second layer of protection around com- tions and two people to open. Keep a
puters is necessary because, as I' ve tried to log, signed by both the administrator and
illustrate, most burglaries are completed in laptop user every time the safe is opened. If
two or three minutes' -long before the you have a computer safe there is usually
high security keys ).
police anive. Therefore, this second layer room to store a few laptops.
Thieves can bypass alarms by cutting has to deter the thieves long enough for
For a room with large monitors, highthe telephone wire or destroying the alarm help to arrive. Crime prevention standards capacity laser printers and lots of other
itself. Therefore the telephone wire has to usually set this at five minutes for non- valuable equipment, I recommend smoke
be either protected, monitored with a
remote locations.
generators. These machines are specially
DVAC line, or backed up by a cellular
Computers can be physically protected. made for burglary deterrence and are trigdialer. I recommend installing all the alarm Cables are largely ineffective. I demonstrated gered by the alarm plus a verification
equipment in a secured room or hiding it this once to a client who maintained that motion detector. When activated, they fill
in the ceiTing space. If it is in the of fice sup- thieves don't carry three foot bolt cutters" the entire space with a harmless dense
ply closet, put a deadbolt and a door and by cutting his cables with a pair of special white fog, which reduces visibility to nearframe reinforcer on the solid core or steel nine-inch pliers.
ly zero in 30 to 60 seconds:
door. This must be done because it is the
I recommend computer safes, especially
The effectiveness of these machines was
Achilles' heel of the whole system. If the for servers. These should have at least .25- demonstrated last year when one was pitted
retrieve the test document. The British govemment currently uses over 1,000 smoke
machines.
Smoke machinesrun between $3,000
and $6,000 and can eliminate the need for
many other security upgrades. For example, I recently surveyed a computer reseller
in Richmond, B.C. who needed to protect
a small room where it stored Pentium and
RAM chips. The company also needed to
protect its two servers upstairs. Rather
than spend $2,000 just on two server safes,
I recommended moving the servers downstairs into the room where the chips were
stored and installing a smoke machine.
And unlike window bars, locks, etc., when
you move you can unplug the smoke
machine and take it with you thus preserving your security investment. Smoke
machines are also an effective anti-holdup
device.
Remember that you want to buy time
after the alarm is activated. By increasing the
level of post-alarm delaying tactics, the
threat of becoming a break-in victim is
decreased. Q
Eric Ho,BScMech., worksin Vancouver, B.C.His
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The Melissa virus turns into a fable for the Age of Technological Nervousness
By Jeff Evans
t the end of March, a flood of warnings about a particularly virulent new

Microsoft Windows macro virus began
flooding over the Internet and were, shortly
after, picked up by the mainstream mediums
of television, radio and newspapers. Codenamed Melissa, the newly encountered virus
stood out from the tens of thousands of
macro viruses previously detected, by the
cleverness of its essential premise, and the
quality of the programming that made it
work.
When an email message carrying the

virus was received and opened by a recipient
running compatible software, the virus code
executed a set of instructions that emailed
the Melissa virus out to 50 addresses on the
recipient's Outlook Express email list. The
result was a kind of cancerous chain letter
effect, where people received an email from
the accountof someone they knew, opened
it, and thereby automatically infected another 50 people on their own email address list.
In some corporate networks, the amount
of virus-generated email traffic increased
incredibly rapidly, and network administrators began shutting down networks to find
and fix whatever was causing the flood of
unwanted messages.
However, as prolific and ingenious as the
new virus was, it turned out to be quite easy
to counteract. Within about a day after the
first reports of Melissa began to circulate, virtually all anti-virus vendors were posting a
downloadable "fix" for Melissa on their Web
sites.
The Melissa panic soon subsided as the
virus was quickly removed from affected
computers. In fact, as it turned out, aside
from its reproductive ability, Melissa was
rather benign it didn't actively do any specific damage, such as erasing files or reformatting hard drives.
Enter the feds
Then, just at the point where the Melissa
incident might have been expected to fade
away like many other two-day wonder virus
scares, the story got new legs. News reports
surfaced of an America Online subscriber
being quoted as saying his AOL account had

been "hijacked" by an unknown hacker who
used it to post the first known upload of the
major criminals by the FBI and other lawenforcement agencies.
Melissa virus.
Every dark cloud has a sliver lining
From subsequent press reports, it became

apparent that American law enforcement
agencies, aided by some anti-virus and network security companies, were actively pursuing an investigation to try to catch the person or persons behind Melissa. Shortly after,
an arrest of a suspect was announced in a
high-profile press conference.
As the story kept twisting and turning
through the first two weeks of April, a second
person's involvement in creating Melissa was
alleged, and details of police busts of an
underground virus-writing Web site were
reported. Melissa's accused distributor, the
innocuously named David L. Smith, and his
shadowy co-accused, code-named VicodinES,
stood in jeopardy of serious jail tiine, fines
and civil lawsuits.
Perhaps inevitably, Melissa became a great

marketing and public relations opportunity
for publishers of anti-virus software, computer
security consultants, and even for journalists
looking for scary cyber-crime stories. Finally,
press reports about con.artists peddling bogus

anti-Melissa cures seemed to mark the final
winding down of Melissa mania.
The last hurrah
of the merry pranksters
This writer, who personally first got bitten by
a computer virus infection back in early
Continued onpage 109
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puter systems,
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person's email account and use it to commit an offence, as is alleged to have been
done to initially spread Melissa. While the
vast majority of those who play with viruses are doing so as an intellectual, puzzle
solving or programming game, those who
deliberately or through negligence harm
other people's property with a computer
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The 100 MB cartridges are quite economical at about $25 each, but where they fall
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easily reconstructed. All file attributes are
also removed. Collectively, this means all
files are unreadable and unrecognizable to
any hacker who might go to the trouble of
intercepting them.
Additionally, in case you' re worried
about a break in, fire or some other disaster
wiping out the repository, StorageTek is certified by the Canadian government as having "secret status" and the data is mirrored
across multiple sites.
"You have to realize," says McLeuan,
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peripherals usuaUy go with it. The single
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you' re not." CI
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1987, normally has no patience or sympathy
whatsoever with virus writers and distributors. Nevertheless, I find it impossible not to
feel at least a little pity for the poor schlub
who now stands frozen in the headlights of
immense law-enforcement agencies and
legions of hungry lawyers. I' ll bet he won' t
do that again.
More seriously, the reports of how new
technologies were used to track the digital
"footprints" of the alleged virus uploader
and the original virus code writer, highlight
the increasing power of surveillance technology to watch who is doing what on the
Internet and other networks.
In the name of "public safety" and "security," a whole host of new technologies, government and private snoopers, new laws, and
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the machine. The cablegoes through a

loop in the piate, around somethingthat
espite hardware prices that are can't be moved, then locks with a padlock.
lower than ever, the hunger for hot
Any experienced thief will know that
(i.e., ill-gotten) computer gear is as only moderate amounts of brute strength
ravenous as ever. Safeware, a U.S. insurance will generally overcome the adhesive and
agency specializing in business computer all that will be left behind after a really
equipment, reported notebook losses alone good yank is the security kit itself. The real
growing from 150,000 units in 1994 to
value in these kits is in deterring those who
208,000 in 1995. And that's just among its m ay be t h i n k ing o f s n a tching y o u r
clients!
machine on impulse.
The numbers aren't in yet for 1998 but
ln some cable lock-down systems, the
we can expect at least a similarly propor- locking mechanism is attached to a plate
tioned increase if not a larger one. Though that inserts into your floppy drive and
no one seems to have done the arithmetic, can't be removed without the key. These
adding total notebook and desktop thefts have the advantage of forcing the would-be
together ought to give many pause to con- thief to destroy the floppy drive if he or she
sider just how important our hardware, elects to exercise that same brute force
and the data it contains, is to us.
technique. These locks also cross over into
Theft-proofing your hardware is fairly
the category of data protection systems
straightforward with a multitude of rela- because they stop anyone from either
tively inexpensive products on the market copying any of yow files onto floppies or
to at least mitigate the chance of somebody from introducing any viruses, etc. via the
walking off with your valuable stuff.
same route.
Portable PC owners will readily anticiCable systems
pate the biggest flaw in this system, howCable lock-down systems are the most ever Many notebooks now have removabundant hardware protection devices in
able floppy drives, which, if the thief has
terms of what's available, likely because the time to figure out where the release catch
concept is so logical and the execution so is, will be the only thing left sitting on the
straightforward.
table when you come back froin the washAs the name suggests, all kits of this
room. This is not a w orry for desktop
Alarm systems
There are two different kinds of alarm systems on the market. The first works for
both notelxoks and desktops and is called
a cable alarm. Like the cheaper lock-down
cable systems, cable alarms involve sticking
a loop to your computer with a small adhesive plate.
But, instead of simply running through
that loop and around the leg of the table,
the cable runs to an electronic alarm box
which is switched on or off with a key, lf
the lock is m oved or even tampered
with or if the cable is cut, the alarm goes
off, hopefully scaring away the thief while
warning anyone within earshot. Of course,
if you want to move things yourself, you
simply turn the alarm off and run the cable
out of the loop.
The adhesive plate is the only thing
permanently attached to the computer.
Some of these alarms (but not all) include
a tamper-resistant battery compartment
thwarting anyone who might attempt to
type include a cable, a lock and some users. Expect to pay around $30 for one of
means of attaching them to your computer these.
to chain the machine to the furniture so
nobody else can run off with it at least
The most secure of the cable lock-down

systems for portables are those that attach
to a "security slot" that many but not
all portables have built into the cabinet.
It's a little slit in the case containing a loop
that you' ll usually find at one of the rear
not very quickly. 1Vhen shopping for one

of these kits, consider the quality of the
individual components and the length of
the cable
you'd be surprised how short
1.5 m (5 ft.) suddenly seems when it's a
ways to remove a notebook protected this
you need. Prices vary according to these way is to use the key, cut the cable or serifactors but you can expect to pay around
$20 to $30.
The most common attachment method
is a small adhesive plate, which sticks to
ously break the computer case the latter

rendering any theft for profit redundant. A
kit with good quality parts shouldn't cost
you more than about $25.
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A simple way to identify your very own
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component like the battery or hard drive
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case.
The more aesthetic ainong us, however,
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method of marking your notebook. It's a
special marking pen containing ink that
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kit. Expect to pay about $40.
Vancouver-based Absolute Software has
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installs a software "agent" that regularly
calls the Compu Trace central monitoring
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and CompuTrace will b egin a t r a cing
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British Standards Institute (BSI) committee,
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tag isa rlassircase ofan "evolved"

As for the value NONE, it should work in
the same way as the browser's default value
when no float setting is given. The following
two lines of code should display equivalent
results:
tag. It was first introduced in an early ver-
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the browser.
font name information in a similar manner

type or "family" of font to be displayed. to the tag. For example, if you want
tries to get around this by specifying the
sion of Internet Explorer, and consequent- Given a particular value, the browser does to make sure that, of all the serif fonts availly was adopted within Netscape Navigator,
and over time each browser has added
attributes meant to enhance the use of the
tag (such as point size and color). As a
result, not all of the attributes are recognized between the two browsers, which has
its best to come up with a match, so if you
able, a Times font, such as Times New

Roman, takes precedence over any other
Courier font to appear onscreen, whereas serif font that may be available, you can.
if you specify SERIF, you may get a Times This is done by specifying the name of the
Roman font instead. This CSS element is specific font you want in single quotes
the tag as one that should be fully

superceded by CSS, and in the recent
HTML 4.0 specification, its use (along with
taining multiple values attarhed to the

FACE attribute. In other words, you could
choose to include the following HTML
specify MONOSPACE you may get a
still dependent on the user's computer to backed up by a more general font name, folsigniflcantly diminished the tag's use for come up with a matching font famiIy, but lowed by a FONT-FAMILY value that the font
handling all aspects of font display. It is the font family categories encompass a belongs to. Here's what that code would look
<IMG SRC="i
mage,jpg'STYLE='FLOAT:NONE">In this worth noting that the W3C (World Wide broader spectrum of fonts that could only like in the case of trying to specify the Times
case, the imagehasbeenset to the value
Web Consortium) seemingly singled out be accomplishedwith a tag con- New Roman font:
STYLE='FLOAT:NONE'.
Internet Explorer beats out Netscape
Navigator hands down when it comes to the associated <BASEF

ONT> tag) is deprecat-
rode in order to have a get a serif font dis-
supporting the FLOAT element. Internet

Explorer almost fully supports it, even
played on the user's screen:
edmeaning it is no longer recommended

for use.
under fairly extreme circumstances (such
The CSS FONT family consists of the folas when it is combined with margin-set- lowing elements: FONT, FONT-FAMILY,
ting elements or in a series of elements), FONT-SIZE, FONT-STYLE and FONT-VARI-
The browser interprets the code by mov
<FONTFACE='Garamond,AGaramond, s, Times
Roman, CGTimes, Home,Goudy'>This sentence
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while Netscape Navigator supports some ANT. Smce the FONT element is simply a
Or you could use the following, more
of the basic values, and falls down flat short-hand version of all of the properties of
when trying to handle anything more its sibling elements, we wifl look at them concise CSS code instead:
complicated. Due to this circumstance,
and given the fact that whenever you use
FLOAT you are affecting how the page will
be laid out in the browser, its use is not
recommended at this time unless you are
certain that only Internet Explorer users
will be visiting your site.
instead.
FONT-FAMILY determines how a font
should be displayed, Instead of naming a
specific font, like the tag does, the
FONT-FAMILY CSS element instead sets
the display characteristics of that font. It
can take any of the following values: CURSIVE, FANTASY, MONOSPACE, SANSYbe FONT fancily of elements
SERIF and SERIF One of the drawbacks of
There is an entire family of elements devot- the tag is that you had to specify a
ed to setting font values, They are meant as particular font name (such as Arial, Times
a replacement to the somewhat unwieldy Roman or Courier) to get it to appear
 tag, and expand its capabilities. The onscreen. The FONT-FAMILY CSS element
<H1 STYLE='FONT-FAMILY:
'Times New Roman'
Times, SERIP>Serif font<tH1>
This sentence is
displayed in aserif font tB>
ing from the specific font name, then, if it

can't find a match, goes to the family that
the font belongs to, then to the generic font
family type if no match has been found.
This CSS element is safe to use, as it is
supported in versions 4.O and up of Internet
Explorer and Netscape Navigator. I3
Next time: The rest of theFONTFamily CSSelements.
There is an inherent trade-off when you Keith Schengili-Robertswelcomesanycomments,

use the FONT-FAMILY CSS element in this
manner: what you lose in specificity you
gain in terms of the greater likelihood of
getting a font match and in brevity of

code.
While this is a fairly simple way of speci-
fyingfont appearanceon aWeb page,FONTFAMILY also lets you combine more specific
suggesti
ons orHTML tips you may have.You can
email Keith at: robertsk@wave.home.corn. Look
for
hisrecentbookon HTML, The Advanced HTM L
Companion2ndEdition, co-authorodby Kim SilkCopeland (ISBN:g-f2-623542-2), now available in
bookstores. Previousarticles in the series canbe
found atTheComputer PaperWeb site at:
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directly involved in determining the needs
running 5,000 impressions per month on a

copier, for example, buying a little personal
copier is not going to be for you. You have
to go out and buy a real copier which may
cost $6,000 or $8,000 as opposed to $2,000
for the little one but in th e l ong run
you' re going to get a longer up time, better

serviceability and a cheaper cost per page.
The computers, in effect, become simple Amortize that over a three- or four-year
ownership plan and you save money in
nal components less and less crucial to the long run. Equally, a personal fax
terminals making the abilities of the inter-
of a wide variety of businesses, then fulfill-
effective use. Being able to use older computers longer greatly reduces that all impor-
machine for $500 in a busy office environm ent is going to get worn out i n n i n e
ing them with the most suitable technolo-
tant total cost of ownership.
months to a year. It's the simple physics of

wear and tear."
Now, of course, a lot of SOHO operators
use the modem card on their PCs to take
care ofthe faxing. Larger offices can now
gies. Ikon itself was once known primarily

as a copier company the addition of
"office solutions" to its name well illustrateshour things have changed.
Walker notes that the more established
Ikon clients are most definitely leaning

toward thin-client technologies to avoid
repeatedly re-investing in new desktop
Where the small an d h o m e o f f ice computers. Newcomers to digital office

(SOHO) market more or less looks after itself technologies, on th e o t her hand, tend
with consumer-oriented digital products,
Walker points out that offices of almost any
size can benefit greatly from considering
new technologies as well as keeping up as

new products are introduced.
"At the core of our business, the switch
take advantage of LAN-fax technology, in

which the server takes care of that chore
It was originally much cheaper to purchase

a stand-alone copier, stand-alone fax and
stand-alone laser printer than to purchase the
early generations of digitally integrated machines
has been completely made in office electronics from analogue to digital," Walker
says. "Virtually all the manufacturers of
copiers, for example, are going digital and
no longer produce analogue products. So,
what you' re seeing is the copier becoming toward workstations and Windows NT or
too. Using a LAN for such tasks means people no longer have to send a document to
the laser printer because digital technology
printer, get up from their desks, take the
allows those image-oriented functions to all ping a new office with computing devices, a paper from the printer, walk it to the fax
be integrated."
network is the cheaper choice. A network machine, then stand around waiting for it
One of the most obvious changes of terminal costs between $800 and $1,000, to go through. Likewise, in-bound faxes
going digital is for businesses that do a lot while a standalone PC can run at about can be routed directly to individual deskof photocopying. Newer machines facili- $2,500 per desk.
tops where the recipients can read them,
"When it comes to equipping an office, save them, print them or delete them, all
tate scan-once-print-many copying. The
image is digitally stored and simply repeat- though, a lot of it has to do with what you without having to leave their work area.
ed. It no longer has to be freshly scanned can afford," Walker reflects. "At times it' s Further, specific software packages are now
best to stretch a little beyond what you
making it possible for LANs to route faxes
for each copy.
Directly related is the ability to use the
have in mind for a budget because you can direct to email.
"Businesses, especially large businessscanning features of digital copiers for often get a much better solution to your
document filing 2nd storage something needs for only an extra couple of dollars, es, are always trying to get the maximum
that more and more enterprises are taking Sometimes, especially for people starting a value of employee time," Walker says.
advantage of. The rise in filing and storing new small office right from scratch, and "The big thing these days with rightdocuments digitally is due not only to its even more particularly for those setting up sizing, and markets and the economy the
a home office, shopping at a large con- way it is is that employees are expected
technical feasibility, but also to the fact
that scanned documents are now legally sumer retail outlet for basic products will be to, and do, work more than they ever did
b efore." And d i gital technology is t h e
accepted in many jurisdictions, most par- just fine."
ticularly by Revenue Canada for audit and
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other purposes. It is no longer necessary to ly assess their needs. "If you' re going to be phenomenon. 0
the fax machine, document scanner and
Novell Netware-based servers for their initial investment in setting up. When equip-
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rooms.
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around for close to 10 years. But the more
recent widespread adoption of the technology has resulted from the fact that it was
originally much cheaper to purchase

copiers, fax machines and laser printers as
standalone machines than it was to pur-
chase the early generations of digitally integrated machines. Research and development costs, however, have now been recovered by the manufacturers and they are
finally producing machines that are both
more affordable and more t alented.
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moving in the right direction, and has been for managing shared resources, and diskette, which is the same as the boot
the faH, and used it briefly. New that the first

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workstations.
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diskette. By default, the installation offers to
look in A."iUcence for the appropriate files. I

saw no reason to think the files were anywhere else, but it turns out they are in the root
Novell toolsfor network setup and adminis- directory. The directory "licence" is empty.
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NetWare Connect for remote dialup network defeat many people, because the error message
access. For setting up access to the Internet, that is generated is not very helpful.
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enhancing browser performance, and of NetWare were even worse.
The hardware detection routine had trouNetscape FastTrack Server for publishing Web
documents. Of the other included compo- ble identifying my Ada ptec SCSI adapter and
nents, perhaps the most useful is a fax serv- my Intel Ethernet card. Fortunately, I knew
be installing it again, and discussing it in a

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many offices.
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the limit, since there's no way to add addi- to insbdl this product, but once that is done, graceful procedure.
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The latest not always

best technology
ou have to wonder how much is
enough and justhow much computing power you really need to take with
you. After more than 15 years of using
portable computers, I still find that the
majority of the things I do with them can be
accomplished on the much simpler devices
of yesteryear.
Most of my portable computing work is

simple word-processing, with a little spreadsheet work and some email thrown in. AII of
these are functions that my NEC PC-8201
mobile computer (a lesser-known cousin to
Tandy's then-popular Model 100) was able to
carry out back in 1984.
Admittedly, it wasn't as easy to use nor
as powerful as
any of today's machines, but
it certainly did the job. It ran happily on four
AA batteries, included 64KB of solid state

RAM storage, provided word-processing,
spreadsheet and communications software as
ly spoiled by exposure to a huge number of
ON
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leading a "digital lifestyle." This approach
to carry an entire living room entertainment

system in my briefcase. I have also long been
a fan of trying to cut down on the number of
devices you need to carry with you when
inevitably leads to highly converged notebook systems with tons of memory, hard disk
microphone and speaker) that attached to space, amazing color screens, high speed
the earpiece and mouthpiece of a standard modems, DVD-ROM drives and integrated
telephone receiver of the era. Simple, yes, but wireless data communications.
it worked, even from pay phones all over
But do I really needall that? Of course
North America and Europe.
not. Few people do. And that seems to be the
But this technology probably seems as driving philosophy behind a number of
relevant to the average mobile computer user recent releases in the handheld computing
of 1999 as the experiences of an early Ford sector. On a recent visit to the Santa Clara,
Model A driver are to the owner of a new clif. headquarters of Palm handheld comLexus or Chrysler minivan. Surely the puter manufacturer 3Com I spoke about this
Internet and the need for powerhl systems very issue with Griff Coleman, who sells
that can use color screens, rich Java<nabled Palm systems to corporations.
I suggested that the latest Microsoft
Windows CE handheld devices, which incorporate color screens, could put 3Com at a
Although [3Com] is often asked by journalists

about when it will launch a color version of the
Palm handheld
and perhaps when the company
might add functions such as the ability to play
MP3 files
neither request is coming from users
in any significant number
disadvantage with its monochrome Palm

family. He replied that although he is often
asked by journalists when 3Com will launch
a color version of the Palm handheld and
perhaps when the company might add functions such as the ability to play MP3 audio
flles
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any signiflcant number.
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need it," Coleman says. "While you may need
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application that demands it. We would only
consider it to the extent that color fits into our
well as a database for names, addresses and

e lectronic diary appointments. Ba~ h f e
was great, the keyboard was wonderful and
the screen
despite being small was highly
readable. And when I filled the 64KB of RAM,
it was a relatively simple matter to transfer
my files to a desktop personal computer or to
store the files on a cassette tape.
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receive messages using something called an
"acoustic coupler." It was nothing more than
Web browsers and Internet-based email (with

flle attachments) have made such
devices obsolete.
Perhaps, but my point is a little broader
than that. It is simply that in the on-going
quest to have the "perfect portable"
which
can do everything from playing DVD movies
and MP3 music files to offering wireless, live
email we may have started to blur the line
between what we want and what we need.
As someone who spends a lot of time
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a couple of suction cups (surrounding a
handheld computers, I have been complete-
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Good question
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Painter 5.5 a function-advanced pixel and

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Painter 5.0 makes it easy to r eplicate
effects such as fire, glows and burned

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onto your canvas to create instant art.
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display, CD-ROMdrive.
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sential free-form image generator, dramati-
The program fills an important niche in a

graphic artist's toolbox because it allows users
to digitally simulate traditional natural media
tools. Painter offers a whole whack of brushes
that mimic the behavior of a variety of different chatmais, oil paints, watercolors, chalks,
airbrushes, felt pens, crayons, pens and pencils

just to name a few. There are even tools
even wilder, mixing in dty, wet, glossy,gooey,

soft, hard and grainy brush characteristics.
affect how the art is generated.

Painter derives a lot of its power and
ural media,hasinfinite arrayofdigital mediaspecial
flexibility from an expandable modular
affecfs,mixof pixelandobject tunis, Websawy, and
software architecture called plug-in floaters.
supportsWab-safe calais andKodak calar-matching
Some examples of these include: bevel
syslafn.
you create your own paper textures, or use world, a powerful interactive way to give
CanL Interface is clutteredwith taa manypaleltes,
the bundled assortment of pre-defined text a 3D look; liquid metal, which inutates
uses some
unconventional methodsfor patfwning
papers that come Installed. If you use adraw- drawing a trail of liquid mercury; and glass
simpletasks,slidercontrols nai complemented by
ing tool
such as "fat" chalk the texture of distortion, which gives the impression of
edit fields,andsomeplug-ins causeunexpected quit- the paper will expressItself where you paint, looking at your art through different kinds
ting in law-memarysituations,
Painter's digital dexterity really becomes of glass. On rare occasions some of the
apparent when you continue to paint over more intensive plug-ins caused Painter to
the same area. Gradually, you obliterate the unexpectedly quit when memory condiPainter also simulates the medium onto underlying texture. Going further still, the tions were too confined. To avoid this,
which you are applying these tools. It lets ability to mix and rnatch different paper tex- you' ll either have to assign more memory
Prus: Performsoutstandingsimuiatian af artistic nat-
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what you can do with real media.
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to Painter, or wait until MetaCreations provides a fix to the way some of the plug-ins
handle low-memory situations.
Once you' ve finished using the myriad
assortment of pigments and papers you can
the program's onion-skinning feature by

painting individual frames to create your
own animations. You have the option of saving each frame as a GIF file if you want to
produce Web animations. Painter also concontinue to "bend" your creation with a bat- tains scripting as part of its plug-ins palette
tery of esoteric manipulations located under so you can record your actions, then save
the effects menu. Sophisticated surface tex- and playthem back on command.
turing, drop-shadowing and lighting effects
are a few examples ofoperations that can fur- Web-savvy
ther refine your work.
With every other graphics software publisher
stampeding to make their applications Webfriendly, MetaCreations wasn't about to be
left behind. Most of the enhancements in

Painter 5.5, which is the current version,
were implemented to make it suitable to the
additional tasks of Web production.
Similar to specialized Web tools, such as
FireWorks and lmageStyler, Painter 5.5 now
supports image-slicing. To do this you sim-
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The most significant new feature in

Painter S.S is dynamic text. This powerful
new plug-in floater allows you to interactively change the typographic and special effects
c haracteristics of t e x t "on-the-fly."
Unfortunately, many of the parameters that
can be specified useslider controls instead of
more precise edit fields. This needs to becorrected in the next revision. Of course, the
other advantage of dynamic text is the abili-
Painter doesn't limit you to pixel-based

methods of imaging. It also provides objectbased tools that behave like CorelDraw,
Freehand and Illustrator tools. Objects are
placed in what Painter calls "floaters," which
change their appearance depending on

whether your mouse pointer is over them or
program like Photoshop. Pixels that you

don't want to merge with other pixels in a
drawing can be placed in their own floaters
as well. Painter preserves these floaters when
you save your files in its native RIFF format.
Painter allows you to open movies saved
not. Previously, each of these button "states"

would have to be saved as its own individual
file, thereby creating a hassle when it came
to tracking and organizing files for your Web
site. Painter 5.5 allows you to save the multiple states of your buttons in a single file making it much easier to organize your Web site.
Painter also allows the assignment of URLs to
in QuickTime or AVI format and perform
any of its floating images for the quick gen-
compositing or rotoscoping. You can also use
eration of client or server-side image maps.
are conceptually equivalent to "layers" in a
curve.
learning
For example, instead of the drawer
ty to come back at any time to edit your text-
palette metaphor I would prefer to see hieras long as you save your files in Painter' s archical cascading menus for the variations
native RIFF format.
of drawing tools. I'd also like to see support
for the ability to drag and drop swatches-
Bottom line
The brief look I' ve given Painter doesn' t
begin to convey the mind-boggling vast-
like paper
to change their ordering.
Another example of interface quirkiness
is the confusion that ensues when you want
ness of this program. To gain a better appre- to rotate an image by, say, 90 degrees.
ciation of what this software can do, you
Applying this operation under the Effects
c an download a
t r i a l v e rsion a t t h e
ply specify in a plug-in floater window how MetaCreations Web site.

you want an image tobe segmented, and
Painter automatically generates the command in HTML
A huge timesaver for Web production is
native support for JavaScript rollovers. Many
Web sites contain special buttons that
One of the major complaints I have with

Painter is that the user interface is overrun
with palettes. Understandably, the level of
sophistication of the software presents
design challenges and demands some learning effort on the part of the user. However, I
can't help but feel that some improvements
to the interface could significantly ease the
If you are a professional Photoshop user

you' ll find that Painter with its natural
media capabilities is an indispensable complementary tool. It is capable of opening and
saving in Photoshop's file format while preserving layer information. You also have the
option of ut ilizing many of Photoshop's
native filters within the program.
Rendering the marvelous effects of

Painter comes at a price. To get real-time
feedback from many of the tools and special
effects, you' ll need nothing less than today' s
fastest machines with lots of memory the
more the better. Of course, if you are a serious artist you' ll also need a pressure-sensitive
pen and tablet to get a natural drawing feel
and to realize Painter's numerous subtle
effects that are pressure-sensitive.
menu rotates the image, but not the canvas.

I had to delve into the manual to learn that
you have to use your inouse (or pen) with
the rotate tool activated in the Tools palette,
Also, I was also hoping MetaCreations would
finally eliminate some of the screen redraw
artifacts that occur with image floaters. I was
disappointed to find this was not the case
with this new version.
But these minor annoyances are a small

price to pay when you consider the enormous creative power bestowed to the user by
this program. Ultimately, Painter is a sure bet
to infinitely expand your creai ve horizons
and, at the same time, make you feel like
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scroll to Snd the best setting. You
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increments. You'H Hnd most 12
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points and still remain quite legible.
very so often you'H find that a document takes up too many pages. For a
documentyou plan to photocopy 1,000
times, for example, the difference between
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that, add hours of collating and stapling
(plus a tree or two)and what should have
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To add a half spacebetween paraspace a document. Today's word processors
graphs select Foiibat, Paragraph
and select the Indents and Spacing tab nd text ta place in columns, select Format, offer more line spacing options so, if a docuin the Spacing After list box select six points Columns and select Two Columns and click ment doesn't really need to be double
spaced, then use something smaller instead.
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paragraphs.
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width of the gutter (the space between resize them to reduce the space they occupy.
line tabs instead
Avaid adding extra space between para- coluinns), which increases the width of the To resize a graphic, select it and drag one of
graphs entirely by indenting the fust Hne of
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to size down a short artide for a newsletter or
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Narslns and line height
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tab. Reduce the size of the margins and select
OK.
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line height
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that aren't in the list and you can use half
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A-Power Computers Ltd.
ACCPAC International
Addax Computer Co.
Addison-Wesley Publishers
ADR Computing.. . . . . . . . .
AE Electronics.. . . . . . . . . .
Aero Monitors .. . . . . . . . . .
A lovetls Laser Products.. . .
AMAX.. . . . . . . , . . . . . . . .
Anitsc Computer Technology
Aspert Technology .:. . . . . . . . , ,
ATIC Camputer ... . . . . . . . . . . .
ATOP Computer
Beckman Computer .. . . . . . . . . .
Bsstop Computers.. . . . . . . . . . .
Bsstwars
Brother. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
C.C. Tech .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
G ADVision Development Corp.. . .
Campus Computer
Canada POS Systems Carp.
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.. .38
.. . 68
.. .26
...49
..122
..118
..135
..113
.. . 42
.. . . 92
.78, 79
.46, 47
.. . . 63
...131
Com Canada.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 0
C ompaq Canada.. . . . . , . .
9
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Computer Depot
Computer Swap Meet
55, 112
.. . 114
.. . 131
Contro Computers .. . . . . . . . . . . .48, 64

Crystal Computer Itd
.. . 128
Gutting Edge Computers
.. . 130
Cvbercom Svstems
.60, 61
CYTD-TECH LABORATORIES INC. .. . 133
Daiwa
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Data Recovery Labs
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Daytek
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Dell Canada .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 2 , 7
Dipper Technology Inc... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 3
Discount Carnpuier Club

.. . . 108
Discount Computer Club & Discou . . . . 1 09
Discovery Mvltimedia .. . . . . . . . . .. . . 1 15
DW Technologies
....t31
Easy Hosting.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 7
Elite ah
..44, 45
Euracam.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3
Eversource ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 133
Evolve Technoloaies
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Firefly Books Lt
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Ry Computers.. . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5
ForeFront Direct
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Frontier Computer .. . . . . . . . . . . ..22. 23
Generic Camputers
.. . . 111
GLAMY Computer Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6
Galdlite Intematianal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 1
Halt Price Computer Books
.. . . 1 24
HI-O Computers Inc.
.... .56
HomeBase Internet Publishing Lt . . . . . . 8 9
Houston
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Hyuen Canadian Enterprise LTD .. . . . . 1 3 2
ICI Computer.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..38. 39
i Digital Internet Inc... . . . . . . . , . . . . . . 5 7
Indgepsndent Books Sellers. . . . . . . . . . 1 2 7

Infomatch Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 7
Information Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3
Infoserve.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1 10
Internet Direct. . . . . . . . . . . .
... . . 'I4
Internet Gateway ... . . . . . . . . . .103, '105

Intertech Computers
.... .82
IPG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 . 71, 140
later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8
IT Systems Inc
. . . . . . . .1 3 3
Jascorn Computers
...
JRS Computers Inc.. . . . . . . . . . .
LG Eiectronics. . . , . . . , . . . .. . .
L nx Internet .. . . . , . . . . . . . . . .
hi'ac Station .. . . . , . . . . . . . . . .
Mcgraw Hill .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . , .76
, . . .1 1 4
. . 1 1 , 41
. . . .1 0 6
. . . . .1 1 1
. . . .1 2 4
. . . . . . . .1 0 4
. . . . . . . .1 ' l 3
MicroConcept . . . . . . . . .16 , 17, 18. 19, 20
MobilTech Int. (MTI). . . . . . , . . . . . . . .1 3 0
M S Skills 2000 - Med Hat. . . . . . . . . . .1 1 8
Multimedia Technologies
. . . . . . . . .8 6
Nantran Systems,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 2
Netcom .. . . . . . . . . .
.. . . . . 1 3 , 31
Netlink Computers .. . . . . . . .. . . . . 5 0 . 51
NetNatian Internet... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 2
NetPro Computer Solutions . . . . . . . . . .9 4
Network Control.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 9
New Type Computers
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NextGen Computers
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Natebook City . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . .1 2 6
Nu-Age Computer Plus
O.At Comp Inc.
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Pacilic Online Services
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Paralynx Internet... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
PC Planet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
PCS CornpuSupplies Express . . . . . . . .1 3 3
Phase 1 Systems
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P hil Kushnir Enterprises. . . . . . . . . . . .1 3 3
Planeteer Internet
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Portable World
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PowerGomp Technologies
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Powersonic Computers
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Primetims Computers. . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 5
Primex Computers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Printer Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
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Progress Media Duplication . . . . . . . .1 3 2
Quantumt office products .. - . . . . . . .8 1
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CM Audio and Video
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Memory House Inc.
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By Jeff Evans
both for personal creativity and for the free

sharing of thoughts and information
across social and geographical boundaries.
In between those two extremes, mainstream computer technology mixed commerce, learning and fun in a dynamic, ever
hen IBM introduced its

first personal computer in 1981, based on
a primitive Intel microprocessor and the first version of
the Microsoft DOS operating system, there were only
a few million computer users
changing mix t hat stimulated its rapid
progress. In truth, computers, like most

human inventions, are both an economic
and a cultural medium. I wasn't naive
on the earth. Now there are hundreds of millions, including at least

five million Canadians. At present
enough to believe, "business bad, goofing off

good," but I think I was realistic in seeing a
rates of increase, there should be
potentially harmful side to a technology

that I enjoyed using and promoting.
over one billion people routinely
using computing devices for work,

learning and play within the next
The community memory

When I first ran into The Co~purer Paper
four or five years.
in the late 1980s, I enjoyed reading it
What has always interested me

about the personal computer revolu-
because it was a fertile meeting ground for

the commercial and social sides of computing in Canada. Inside any issueof The
Computer Paper,there were a wide range
of voices. On the one side were hucksters
tion is the degree to which it " just
grew," rather than being the product of

any master plan. The "personal" aspect
of the PC has been the key. Computer
users' choices have driven the development
of PC hardware, software, and the World
Wide Web. At The Computer Paper,we' ve
always tried to stay in touch with both our
computer using readers' needs and wants, as
passionately selling computers the same
way they would have sold rugs, or car

stereos or potatoes. There were also
computer enthusiasts trying to write
honestly and accurately about how to
get the most personal, financial and
well as the activities and products of the

computer industry.
educational value from computing.

There was a populist, democratic
mix of ideas inThe Computer Paperwhich
(Computing) power to the people

Sure, the U.S. military, government, and big
drew me to get involved in it, first as a free-
business sectors had a disproportionate
lancer, and then as an employee. I participat-
hand in the development of "big iron"

mainframe computing, and in the subsidization of a lot of the fundamental research
ed in seminars at ComputerFest, and later at
The PC was dismissed by most professionals

as a hobbyist's machine; a toy for amateurs
and development that underlies modem
technology. But the personal computer was

something that virtually nobody in power
predicted, wanted, or knew what to do with
in the early days.
The PC was dismissed by most professionals as a hobbyist's machine; a toy for
amateurs. In a way they were right: socially,
personal computing started as a hobby, then
Comdex Canada, as a way to help our readers meet computer professionals, so that
both groups could share ideas and leam from
each other.
During the four and a half years that I
included vast numbers of young people who

got into computing for the intellectual challenge, the desire to solve puzzles and problems, and the sheer fun of it. This is where
the stereotype of the asocial, solitary computer geek came from. To a degree, it has an
learned to hate DOS, discovered the Mac in

1984 and really liked it, and had my one true
tech toy romance, with the Commodore
Amiga computer, between 1985 and 1989.
element of truth in it. As'one wise woman

said, "women use technology, men fall in
ing as a phenomenon with two very different

faces. At one extreme end of the spectrum
During that decade of the 1980s, the
Reagan "greed is good" years, I saw comput-
have worked full-time for TCP,I started up

the Test Lab. I ran it, mostly single handed,
for a year and a half, testing and ranking
hundreds of computer products. All of us at
TCP tried our best to be fair and honest in
our assessments of PC hardware and soft-
ware. We tried to build a reputation for reliability, so the editorial content would balance
love with it." There were a lot of lonny boys was computing as an expression of rational the advertising, delivering a clear, useful,
staring at computer screens, teaching them- brutality: a technology to serve the worship "good read" to meet the needs of our nationwide audience.
selves programming, writing games, and not of efficiency, surveillance and control, and
But, change is the one constant in the
i.etme count the ways
getting out enough, all through the 1970s maximized profits, regardless of human or
The word "amateur" is related to amore, and '80s.
social cost. This was computing as "informa- tech biz. So, my fellow Canadians, it is with
tion processing," ultimately a tool to increase a heavy heart that I must announce that this
which means love. An amateur is someone
is the last, Last ByteI' ll write as an employee
the power of the ruling hierarchy.
who does something primarily because he or Getting personal
At the other extreme was computing as of The Computer Paper,I am moving on to
she derives intrinsic satisfaction from it ,
I got lured into computing out of an interest
became an obsession, then a career, for the
millions of largely self-taught, self-motivated
people who in various ways built the PC
industry.
earning,
crewhether or not they make money from it.

in graphics, design and animation. I used communication, a medium of l
The first generation of computer users PCs for typesetting in the early '80s, and ativity and community. In my idealistic view
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