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AUGUST 1999 THE COMPUTER PAPER SC EDITION www.tc .ca

I started avidly reading TCPalmost four years

ago, but for the last six months or so I have
been losing interest. The problem is that

ference between Linux and NT. I am also a

moderate computer user
which one do you
your coverage is
recommend for a person like me? Also, could Win [dows]-centric.

minor story on a Linux security issue in the

May issue.
It is difficult to get good numbers on

this time. (It is well known of course that

Linux is beginning to dominate the low-end
server market with 17 percent 1998 market

a l most completely Linux because if you do buy a CD [containing the operating system] it is legal to share
you briefly list the features of each OS? Also,
I use Linux. I didn't mind your lack of
it with as many friends as you like. Similarly,
does Linux come with programs (e.g, word Linux coverage in the old days because that if a company buys the CD they can share
processing, Web browser) and does Linux market was so small, Now, I do mind! Linux that one CD throughout their departments.
support Windows 3.x/95/98 software such as is the story of the year in the computer From the estimates I have read, Linux [use]

share and probably double that by the end of

this year.)
You are doing a disservice to your
Canadian readers by keeping them in an artificial, mostly Microsoft bubble. Also, I hate
to see what used to be my favorite computer

MS Office?

Sheila Patel

field, and there is no mention of it in the

continues to roughly double each year with

magazine be so far out of it. You are missing

June TCP issue (that I could find), and a

about two percent of the desktop market at

an interesting story.
Alan W. Irwin
TCPreplies: you may be happy to leam that regular coverage on Linux begins this month. We
will be including a regr dar column on Linirx for
those who are already familiar with this operating system, and a nndti-part tutorial for beginners who want to get started in Linux.

Speech recognitlonand privacy

In your Letter from the Editor in the July
1999 issue, in which you discuss the problems of speech-recognition software, one
item that I don't see mentioned is privacy.
Talking to a computer or having it talk
back to you is all very well in a private room.
It does not work in public spaces such as

open-plan offices or factory floors where others can listen in on you.

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accountant. Not on a C algary-to-Toronto

flight, not even a Calgary-to-Edmonton stubble-jumper flight.

I am sure that voice recognition will be
successful in some applications, such as help
for the blind, hands-free dictating in private

cars, and private office work. Text will always

be with us. Videophones have never caught

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since the 1960s.
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that voice recognition will be as widespread

as some think, for the same sociological reasons.

Dale Speirs

Now that'sultimate
While looking through your list of ultimate
utilities (see cover story, April issue), I
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In theyearsince the MP3 audio file format appeared,

it hassimultaneously been called the bestthing and
the worstthing to happen to the music business.
artists are beginning to distribute music at MP3.corn, includ- cians? Like it or not, artists still make their money selling
ing the likes of the Beastie Boys, Billy Idol, Peter Townshend, CDs, not MP3s. This is because, to date, the format has not
p-and-coming artists, who use the format to quickly Dionne Warwick and more. Due to its popularity, MP3.corn proven suitable for profit-making. It has gained popularity
and cheaply distribute their music over the Internet, has been likened to a combination record label and record and wide distribution in its short history predsely because it
which was enough to convince the multimedia and
is free. It is also far too easy for one MP3 purchaser to send
think MP3 is the best thing. Many in the established store
music business, however, think it's the worst possible thing, content firm Cox Interactive Media to recently invest $45 free copies to anybody and everybody, further diluting profit-making potential.
and claim their profits are being eroded by a format that million in MP3.corn's future as a viable vendor of music.
This is where competitive formats, such as Microsoft's
allows anyone to freely distribute high-quality copies of commercial recordings. As is almost always the case, the truth lies More hardware
Windows Media Technology 4.0, come in. If a song is downsomewhere between these two extremes, and somewhere Electronic hardware vendors are also smiling about the suc- loaded in this format, the user has to get a key to "unlock" it
cess of MP3 all the way to the bank. Though there was stiff
and play it. This format and others like it do not allow for
outside of them.
Whether MP3 is the future of a new music business is prob- opposition by the Recording Industry Association of America digital copies, as each file is encrypted for use by only the perably beside the point; what the popularity of MP3s has done (RIAA) to the release of the first portable MP3 player by son who has the right key. There is a different key and the
is to legitimize the possibility of making money selling music Diamond Multimedia, a U.S. court ruling (most recently "lock" for every individual copy that is downloaded. This
and music players over the Net. This may seem to be a con- upheld in appeals court) rendered the sale of such devices technology allows for a secure method for selling music
tradiction, but several firms are already betting that MP3 is legal. This ruling has opened up the market, and the market- online while ensuring that copies cannot be distributed.
However, one of the general rules in the electronics indusgoing to be big, and some are already making money out if it. place soon demonstrated that there was demand in a matSo what exactly is MP3? It is a file format that essentially- ter of months Diamond Multimedia sold over 150,000 units try is that if a new format is to succeed, it has to be at least
compresses audio files to about a tenth of their normal size. of its Rio portable MP3 player. More recently, Creative Labs 10 times better than the existing format. The rapid rise of
This means that a four- to five-minute pop song that would has come out with its own portable MP3 player, called the CDs, which utterly displaced vinyl in a few short years, is a
normally be 40 to 50 MB in size can be compressed to a mere Nomad, with features that should make it highly competitive testament to this rule. In the same way, MP3 may well be on
4 to 5 MB MP3 file-a perfect size for transmitting over the with the Rio.
the way to replacing CDs.
Both firms will soon face increasing competition from
It will be highly problematic if any of the new alternative
Net. And the resulting file suffers little or no loss of fidelity.
Add all these factors together and you' ve got the sort of thing other firms. Hardware giant RCA has plans to release the "secured" digital formats prove to be easier to use or offer
that makes record company executives cringe. But it's also Lyra, whose micro hard drive, at 345 MB, can hold consider- substantially better sound than MP3. Of course, quality is not
the only factor here if artists only sell their music in a given
made a lot of musicians and hardware manufacturers smile. ably more than either the Rio or the Nomad.
The format is also set to make inroads into home stereo format, consumers will have little choice. But if that happens
systems with t h e i m m inent r elease of R eQuest's it is probably only a matter of time before somebody comes
Indie haven
Musicians are realizing the possibility of distributing their songs AudioRequest, an MP3 stereo component. By connecting it to up with a conversion program that will convert the secured
widely and for free using MP3s. Many underground, unsigned your stereo system, you will be able to create MP3 files from sound file to MP3.
bands have found that the Net is a great place to get themselves your CDs, audio cassette tapes, records, or radio broadcasts (as
It is safe to say that MP3 is just beginning to come into its
heard, and the Web site MP3.corn (htipltwww.mp3.corn) has long asyour systemhasthe requisite cassette player, turntable
own, and that there will be many changes in the music
or radio, of course). The AudioRequest can will have the stor- industry in order to accommodate it. As more corporate
become the centre of distribution for these artists.
turning a stereo
stakeholders get in on the action by selling such things as
MP3.corn offers free Web hosting services to bands that age capacity for more than 2,000 pop tunes
want to distribute their music in this format. The site now system into an MP3 jukebox. But more importantly, perhaps, MP3 players and buying online record labels, the MP3 format
includes tens of thousands of MP3 files to anybody who the AudioRequest player will be able to create MP3 files with- becomes more firmly entrenched.
Will MP3 still be around five or 10 years from now?
wants them. It gets well over 200,000 downloads everyday, out the use of a computer, breaking the MP3 format out of
Frankly, it doesn't matter. Whether it is MP3 or one of its
and also serves as an information nexus for anybody wanti- realm of the computer-crowd and into the mainstream.
descendants, selling music online is set to become a major
ng to learn more about MP3 or to find out the latest MP3The competition
industry.
related news.
As Bob Dylan once sang: "The times, they are a changSmall unknown bandsare not the only onesgetting in on So far it sounds like MP3 is great for home users, online enterthe act. As the format grows in popularity, many mainstream prises and electronics manufacturers, but what about musi- ing." And you should be able to buy that tune online soon. 0

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hybrid of television commercial-style comexperimented vrith the meuw.overs and ogy whenthecompany acquired Futurewave puter graphics, and print media design.
found myself immersed within dnematic in 1997, is poised to de6ne the aesthetic of Logos spring to life Menus become expandscreen transitions. I even clicked each but- the Web for the coming generation of sites. able, collapsible, and draggable. Design eleton just to see how the next paragraph of Its influence can even be seen in print and ments and other content Gm fly, fade, type,
morph or slam into place. Hash allows the
text would appear. OK, it may have been a television ad campaigns.
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little shy on content, but here was a site that
static HTML, the appearance of Flashmovies over the axhitecture and delivery of site
was actually fun to sur6
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Hash further closes the gap between the
visit to that site (httplhww.gabocorp.corn),I resolutions. Interactivity is net limited to
was confronted by a smug liNe preamble: swapping frames or javaScript mous@overs. traditional, static Web design and the true,
"Due to the inexhaustible deluge of prospec- Within the borders of a bmwser window, the television-style interactive multimedia expetive dients throwing handfuls of money at

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Flash sites resemble a hybrid of television commercialstyle computer graphics and print media design.

my initial suspicions about this technology:

to your desktop. However, Flash vector,

bitmap and audio compression is stunning.
SmallweIIAesigned, Flash sites commonly
compress to SOKB, offering the same download times as a single raster graphic on a sta6c site. This compression makes Flash ideal-

ly suited to target users with slew Internet

connections. Flash also streams, so your visitor is viewing and interacting with the site
before the file transfer has been completed.
Whge Flash is untouchable in the infermation design arena, it also throws a solid
punch on the content side. Online games,
cartoons, comic books, interactive adventures, e-zines and motion art created in Flash
are flourishing and making a serious challenge to other forms of streaming media.
Flash is also an ideal fermat for stretching
the aesthetic of an intranet, where band-

width is less of an issue, and in creating CD-

not ordy were Hash sites exdting, engaging

and fun, which anyone could plainly see, but breadth of design and functionality possibildients were eager to invest their hard-wen
marketing dogars in them.
Since then, a multitude of companies,
such as Disney, CNN and IBM, have added
Hash to their sites. In 1998 alone, 97 million

ities is constrained only by the bandwidth of

your site visitors.
Often when I discuss design with people
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these sites) were downloaded from the Web

description that is usually followed by glassy-

to explaining, for a lack of a better descripHash players (required to view effects on tion, that I create animated Web sites (a

rience through its liberal use of sound. Flash

4.0 employs both ADPCM WAY and MP3
compression to deliver streaming, CD-quality sound to your desktop. Regardless of the
lengths te which a designer attempts to capture a certain feel for a site through visual
interpretation, the easeful accompaniment
of a soundtrack instantly ~blishes a mood
for the site. The impact of the site soundtrack

site of Hash developer Macromedia eyed expressions of incomprehension). Most

often they think this involves creadng car- cannot be overemphasized;musicinfusesthe
(httpiiWww.macmmedia.corn).
As the newest release of this heavyweight toon characters. Some clients do request movie with the sublime qualities of energy
champ of Web animation, Hash 4.0, hits the character animations, but this encompasses
a and pace that are absent from static sites.
The rich multimedia experience of Flash
streets this summer, letb take a doser kok at mere firaction of Web animation projects.
the features of and technology behind it.
Design-in-motion better describes what would be useless if it could not be delivered

ROMs, where bandwidth is not a factor. The

bene6ts of the compact 6le format, ideal for
Internet, absolutely shine in these quickdelivery systems. The full multimedia capacities of Hash, combining vector and raster
graphics with C D ~ uality soundtracks,
enables the designer to create tmly iminersive experience. Flash is the tool for creating

the killer front end for any appgcation.

Aasb itt a nutshell
Hash is a vector-bael animation-sequencing
program. Whereas raster graphics, like JPKG
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image-editing programs.
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graphics files from within Acrobat as well.
document.However, you need to make sure BooxMARRsTo NEw CDNTKNTpPUT HEADERs
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From: Adobe Systems Inc.
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When downloading Web pages it's necesTel:
600-272-3623,http:1/www.adobe.corn
Acrobat PDF Writer is a good choice if you been configured correctly. If not, the graphic
are converting a text document. However, if
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Platforms: Mac or Windows (separate editions)
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can have multiple page levels.
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Downloading a large site could
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take quite a bit of time, so the
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enhanced features. That means no bookoption of different page levels is
New features
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marks, text notes, threads, or document
Among the new features in Acrobat 4.0 are:
Document security. Includes password information. To access these features, you
Macintosh users
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will have to wait
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over an open Acrobat document.
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Web Captare:
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the Windows version, you can capture a
Dragging a Web site link or icon onto the
Web page or an entire Web site within a Acrobat shortcut icon on the desktop, the
Acrobat application icon, or an open Acrobat will be saved to your disk rather
PDF file, with the links maintained.
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fine if you have Photoshop 5 or
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matting and look and feel of the original Edit text and graphics
document.
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PAsrK commands.
Web pages and convert them to
Scan paper documents into PDF.
Retain and print PostScript 3 graphics:
The SELKcTAI.L command selects all charPDF files. You can provide the
This feature is of special interest to graph- acters in the active line. However, you can URL in Acrobat 4.0 directly, or as
only edit one line at a time, which can be mentioned earlier, use the Drag
ic artists.
very slow. The ToucuuP TExr tool is good for and Drop feature. How your new
Acrobat4.0'B Open Web Page Bnd Coavaralon SBIIBNS
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minor edits only. If you need to make exten- PDF document appears on screen
dlelegae box.
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original document and convert to PDF again. to download the Web files.
puter, the software installs macros in
comments
If you need to move a graphic object in a
To use Web Capture, you need to install Final
Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, so
With its new features, Acrobat 4,0 has a
Acrobat icons will appear within these pro- PDF document, press the small triangle at the Internet Explorer and have the Internet
grams. To convert documents into PDF for- bottom of the Toucfrur TExT icon. This Properties dialogue box (if your version of great deal to offer and has made creation
mat from within Microsoft Word (97), you reveals the ToucnuP OBIKcr tool. To use it, Internet Explorer doesn't have this dialogue, of PDF files even easier. As you become
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and GIF files, encode a value for each pixel in

the image, vector graphics define the pixel

value of graphical objects by mathematical
equations. For instance, the arc of a curved
line is defined by two endpoints, called vertices, and the direction and weight characteristics of the line at the vertex from which
it originates. A collection of lines forms a
shape, or object. Because the appearance of
the objects is summarized in a few lines of
code, the file size of a vector graphic is a fraction of that of a raster image.
Vector graphics guarantee that lines,
moving edges and text are clean, crisp and
anti-aliased (i.e., not jaggy). This flexible, resolution-independent file type allows for the

easy manipulation of the size, shape, color

and position of objects. Therefore, we can
make them move.
Objects are animated inside a timeline
using keyframes. We first determine the size,
color, shape, opacity and position of the

object in one keyframe, then we define those

same characteristics in another keyframe further in the timeline. If we change the characteristics of the object in the subsequent
keyframe, the program can be made to interpolate each frame in between the starting
and the ending point. This process is called
tweening, and with it we create the illusion
of motion.
An object is animated within its layer,
which occupies a level of depth in the hierarchy on the work area, or stage. If we add
layers above and below this layer, we can
determine the visibility of moving objects
within the scene. The scene, which corresponds loosely to its HTML equivalent, the
page, is a collection of frames of animation,
with objects animating along the timeline in
their separate layers.
Flash moviesare composed of scenes,
which roughly correspond to pages of a Web
site. The heart of a Flash movie is the scene
transition. The designer decides how to animate the way one layout transforms into

another. Any object, such as logos, text,

menus, bitmaps and other design elements

On the application side, Macromedia's

Generator writes Hash movies on the fly from
can enlarge, shrink, morph, slide, change a database. This enables the posting of search
color or simply fade away.
results and time-sensitive information on
Flash movies and elements can play on demand, within the Flash interface. This also
their own without interactivity, but are also allows the viewer to customize appearance
responsive to mouse events. A mouse event and features. With Generator, there is no need
over buttons or other objects can trigger for the visitor to move outside the Flash interscene transitions or other animations to face to view server-generated content.
occur on the stage.
Flash is also a valuable interface design
Flash 4.0 takes some enormous steps to tool fo r de v elopers using M acromedia
expand its interactive elements. In this new Director, the industry-standard in CD-ROM
version, it handles forms within the inter- authoring. Hash enhances Director's native
face, allowing the movie.to pass text vari- raster graphic support, providing vector
ablesto the server using GET and POST. Sites graphic animation as well. Through Lingo,
designed in earlier versions of Hash required nearly every aspect of the Flash movie can be
HTML text fields, which meant partitioning controlled. Flash can also make Lingo calls to
the Flash movie within a frameset or pop- the Director movie to control playback and
ping up another browser window. Flash 4.0 trigger events. Flash and Director combine
allows the designer to not only integrate seamlessly to provide maximum flexibility
search boxes, form fields, and drop-down for CD-ROM and Web projects.
menus, but allows complete customization
of their appearance.
And in the other corner...
Working in c o njunction with Flash In the Web design-in-motion field, Flash
Generator, query results can be posted with- simply has n o p e er. D y namic HTML
in the Flash movie, allowing Hash interfaces (DHTML) allows the designer to move
to link to fully robust database and e-com- objects in layers and adjust the visibility of
merce server applications.
those layers, but it lacks the ability to propIn addition, Flash 4.0 has also adopted its erly mimic any of the sophisticated illusions
own scripting methods similar to Director's and effects that are accomplished in Flash
Lingo. Users are now able to interact with through shape and motion tweening of key
Flash elements by using the mouse and key- values that define those objects.
board, thus allowing adept designers to
Java applets are another option for creatdevelop games of simple to moderate com- ing interactive, animated Web content. Java

plexity.

applet animations are raster graphic-based,

The designer can also embed sound in

the Flash movie. Site theme music can be
mixed and instructed to react to user input.
Event sounds can play on mouse events or at
certain frames specified in the timeline. To
neutralize large audio file sizes, Flash can
stream sound files as they download, sparing
the visitor from preloading each sound file
before engaging the site.
Those unfamiliar with the concepts of
keyframe animation may feel daunted at the
task of creating Flash content. On the contrary, this logical system is exceedingly intuitive and easy to use. Rudimentary proficiency with the tools, timeline and theory of the
program can be achieved in a matter of days.
To fully exploit the capabilities of Flash,
however, a working knowledge of some of its
related technologies is recommended.

and thus suffer in comparison to Flash in

both file size, and crispness and smoothness
of animation. They also require custom coding, so even customizing an existing applet
(otherwise known as "ripping off") is a
daunting task for non-programmers.
Microsoft's retaliation to Flash is its
Liquid Motion technology, which allows
designers to create Web animations from clip
art libraries and p r efabricated effects.
Targeting the Web design novice demog raphic, this technology fulfills it o w n
prophecy: it's animated-GIF-like output is

crude enough to discourage any designer

willing to commit the time and energy for
designing a proper site from using it.

Limitations
The biggest obstacle to the proliferation of
Flash sites on the Web, the plug-in requirement, is in steady retreat. Network security

In this corner...
A vector drawing program, such as Adobe issues prevent many browsers from accessing

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Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand, is a

healthy adjunct to creating Flash content.
The drawing tools in Flash are simple but
limited. They create fine text, boxes and circles, but lack the maturity of professional
vector programs. Intricate, complex shapes
are nearly impossible to create with acceptable accuracy using Flash's paintbrush-style
drawing tools. The pen tools in Illustrator
and Freehand not only allow infinite precision in creating vector objects, but allows
you to optimize curves to reduce shape file
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for recording sound, so designers wanting to
create original soundtracks and event sounds
must venture into the world of sound-edit-

Flash content by d enying th e p l ug-in.

However, a recent third-party study revealed
that more than 75 percent of Web consumers
can already view Flash content without downloading the plug-in. The Hash plug-in currently ships with N etscape Navigator 4.06,
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higher, Windows 98, Mac OS 8.0 and higher,
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Another thorn in the designer's side is the
insufficient power of the drawing tools. For
example, Flash handles object coloring well,
with excellent alpha and gradient manageability, but its lack of editable handles, the hallmark
of any respectable vector illustration program,

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a must for editing loops and applying filters
to your sounds. Other program, like Cubase,

users to purchase Freehand or Fireworks to

achieve a professional level of precision.

Cakewalk, and Acid are handy for creating

While clever Flash animators can create

original music. Flash 4.0 imports WAV and

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When audio cassette tapes were introduced
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flash redefines interactivity

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by-frame drawing, the third dimension is not
supported in Flash. Rotating objects around
the Z-axis is possible only through workarounds, and Flash 4.0 does not yet import
animations in vector format from any of the
leading 3D modeling programs available.
As bandwidth increases and Flash compression improves, the focus of design limitation has shifted from the end viewer's

modem speed to his processor speed. The flu- tion that that runs smoothly on a 450 MHz
idity of Flash animations is based on frame
rate: the speed that the moving image on the
screen is redrawn. Television broadcasts
refresh at 30 frames per second. Twelve
frames per second are adequate to provide
the illusion of motion. The frame rate at
which your computer refreshes its screen is
dependent on the processor speed, video
card and display settings of your system.
Consequently, a full-screen Flash anima-

Pentium III-based system may look like a

slideshow on a machine with a 166 MHz
processor. This is a phenomenon we refer to
as chugging, and to avoid it designers must
determine a safety zone for their animations.
The amount of chugging in an animation is
an inverse relationship between the amount
of simultaneous motion on screen at any
point in time and the complexity and size of
the objects in motion. This limiting factor is

the sole barrier to Flash achieving the brass

ring of design-in-motion interactive Web
content delivered with the dynamism of television and cinema. Flash designers wait in
the wings and watch, with eager anticipation, the leaps and bounds that the hardware
industry is making as it breeches this gap.
Flash is a technology that has quickly
outgrown its own name. Acquired in January
1997, as Macromedia absorbed Futurewave
and its fledgling FutureSplash technology,
Flash was slated to be a competitor to animated GIFs. By working closely with developers worldwide, Macromedia has dropped a
multimedia bombshell on the industry that
generates new force with each release. Flash
4.0 is a good indication that Macromedia
intends to stay abreast of the dynamic Web
medium in the future. 0
Ooug Rigby is a design partner at the Fusion Media
Group. FMGhas twice won Macromedie's Shocked
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music distribution? Not likely . . . a t least
not yet. Paul Stark, the co-founder of the
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the way to go (you can read his adiatribesn

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Adobe's
chiefexecutive enthusesabout Acrobat,
PDF,InDesign and GoLive
up the page format that you want to capture
to. So, if I want to capture to a landscape
page I can do that, or if I want to capture to
an 8.5xli [inch] page, I can do that.
But if yeu turn it onto automatic mode,
set the settings up and tell it to go four leveis
into a Web site, you just walk away and after
a while you come back and there will be all
TCP: I read an interview you did I ii which you these zillions of pages. And all the links will
weretalking about Web spider technology that work, all the pullAow'n menus work. Then,
would collect information into a PDF (portable you can email that PDF file and print it relidociiment format) file. Coidd you talk a bit more ably. Most Web pages you can't print reliably.
TCP: Whowoold use tliat?
about that?
JW: (Laughs.) Everyone!
John Warnock: It's part ef Acrobat 4.0.
TCP: Did you have thetarget userin inind
Under the File menu you [cheose] Capture
frem Web. You have multiple options. First when you developed that?
JW: No, and it drove marketing crazy.
of all, you can say how deep into the Web
site you want to go, or whether you want to Everybody who saw the feature said "this is
what
go manually into the Web site. If you go' the coolest thing since sliced bread
"well,
I
will
people
use
it
for?"
And,
I
said,
manually and just pull down a page, every
time you chck a link, it will follow the link don't know what people will use it for," but
and append the page to your PDF document. everybody uses it. And, they [Adobe's marketing team] were having a terrible time posiSo, if you want to follow a specific threadmany times documentation is done like tips tioning that feature in some kind of marketand techniques by following a specific ing message. I always positioned it as "this is
a very, very cool feature that almost everythread you just dick through the thread.
For instance, on Adobe's Web site, if you body uses, and everybody will use it for difgo to the tips and techniques, they' re all ferent things at different times." But, it's a
sequential pages
you go to the next button, way of mining information out of a Web site
and the next button, and the next button. that is almost better than anything I' ve ever
You keep hitting those and it will append seen.
If you go to a daily site like CNN or CNET,
those to the PDF file, and you can save it at
content changes rapidly. Rather than mailing
any time.
Now, the neat thing is, as it parses the a URL and hoping the link is stig alive, you
HTML, it does a much, much better job of can capture the [Web site] and send a PDF
laying out the page than any of the browsers. document. And that's what we do at Adobe.
And, if you receive a file and dick on a
It keeps frames in place. It does page breaks
in a much more sensible manner. It doesn' t link that doesn't exist in the PDF file, it will
let the text run off the page. As a matter of go and get the page and append it to the PDF
fact, there's an option button so you can set file.

TCP: When yoii developed PDF,it was at a

During the iiewNedia 99 show in

timebefore the In
ternet was big.Hasyourcon-

Toronto in June,TCPEditor David

Tanaka hadan opportunity to talk with
John Warnock,Adobe Systems' chief
executiveofficer and chairman of the
board of directors. Following is an edited transcriptof that conversation.

ception ofit changed over time?

Jlhf:No. I' ve been in the computer business for almost 38 years now, and there' s
always been this holy grail problem of being
able to transport documents between computers. In 1990 we figured out a scheme
where we could actually make it happen.
That's what PDF came out of
trying to solve
this 30-yearold problein that everybody had
been fadng. And, it was a really nice, elegant
selution. Then, when the Net came along,
everybody said "this is obvious," It was a
very fortuitous event.
TCP: Has the Web changedhow you will
fiuther develop it?
JW: Well, yeah. The Web capture..., for
instance, is a feature put in because of that.
We still demand very high quality, very high
integrity, printability, device independence.
With the Webcaptured stuff, unfortunately,
you' re getting the images at whatever image
resolution the server is serving, but it's sNI
much, much better than any other scheme
for printing.
TCP: Yoo also implementedit as being a
central file format with hiDesign (Adobe's new
desktop
publish
ingsojhvare).W hatprobleins do
yoo expect that wi0 solve?
JW: There is the general document transportability problem that has been around for
20 to 25 years, Everyone who has tried to
attack the problem has said "what we need
to do is get everyone that writes text editors
and everyone who makes document production systems to agree on a format." And then
all those applications would generate that
format and everybody will be happy.
In the late '70s and early '80s Digital

Equipment came out with what was their

compound document architecture. This was
their attempt to unify docLment format. The
documentation was [very] thick, and it was
sort of the union of all known formats. Any
time a programmer would look at the spec,
he'd say "I'm not going to implement to this
spec.
When we did PDF we said let's start from
the p
in a different way. Let's capture
roblem
it at the print output let's get in existence
proof that we can transport documents
aieund and then let's add content to the document so that we can round trip it through
the application. In some sense you' re backing into a universal document format, and
adding more and mere value to that document format after its position as a standard.
The first thing is to get the standard in place,
and then expand it so that it has more and
more utility.
So, for instance, with the Web capture,
we keep all of the HTML tagging information
as part of the PDF Ne when we capture the
Web site. We can actually round-trip the PDF
fde back to a Web site. So, we can create the
original Web site from that PDF file.
TCP: Andit wiN receuteit with good fidelit?

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JW: Yes, absolutely. I saw a demo of this

about a month ago. It's still in the labs, it' s
not a product yet. Our goal has been to reliably communicate information across all dif-

ferent kinds of computers and aII different

kinds of operating systems and different
kinds of printers
keep the device independenceof the document.
TCP: You were quoted as saying that
IrrDesign is a QuarkXPress (one of the top professional desktop publishing packages) killer.
JW: I wasn't quoted. The press said that.
TCP: Fair enough. But the point is that it is
aimed at the print market. Does it also have
links irrto Web publishing?
JW: Yes it is aimed at the print market. I
think eventually, as SVG becomes a standard
then clearly InDesign in the future will be
able to author to SVG.
TCP: What is SVG?
JW: SVG is scalable vector graphics.
We' re working with the W3 Consortium
(Worldwide Web Consortium) to develop a
new standard for the Web that allows you to
do vector graphics. Right now, the Web is
sort of brain dead in that you can only do
images and bad text. The SVG standard uplevels that, so that if you really lay out a page
you can really lay out a page and get out on
the Web.
TCP: DoesSVG have any rela
tionshipto the
precision graphics markup language (PGML)?
JW: Yes they' re all related. The PGML was
our implementation of the SVG standard,
Now that the W3C has adopted SVGwe're
using SVG rather than our implementation.
TCP: You made refererrce a moment ago to
bad text. What did you mean by that content
wise or format wise?
JW: Format wise. (Laughs.) It's bad writing if it's content.
TCP: How are your other products doing
now that people are thinking that the Web is the
newreality?
JW: It turns out that about 93 percent of
all Web publishers own Photoshop and 60
percent of all Web publishers own Illustrator
[both Adobe products]. So, we actually make
more money onthe Web than probably anybody elsebecause we sell primary authoring
applications to the Web developer. Now, with
GoLive, we have the best professional Web
publishing tool. That, along with lfiustrator
and Photoshop and I m ageWriter and
ImageStyler, gives us a very powerful arsenal.
TCP:Are your customers who develop for the
Web different than the customers who develop

for print? Do they have different demands?

JW: They are today. I think that distinction is going to disappear. It's because most
of the Web developers are also HTML programmers. There's a very strong technical
bent to Web site developers. They have to
have a very strong technical bent because
they have to author in HTML, bufid CGI
scripts, Java script rollovers and all those
kinds of things. In the future, as more
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designers
people with a very strong aesthetic sense. The details of the HTML are hidden
from them and they don't have to code. And
yet, all the features like pulldown menus and
rollovers and all those things are supported
in GoLive,
TCP: What is your marketing strategy for
rolling out InDesign? For example, it could be
very hard to get production departments to

change f'rom using QuarkXPress.

JW: We' re trying to make it really easy.
We have a very reliable input filter that

allows you to load any of your Quark files...

save it in InDesign, [and] it's an InDesign
file. Now, rather than having to convert all
your EPS image files to import into Quark,
you can just take direct Photoshop files,
Illustrator files, in Photoshop and Illustrator
format directly with all layers in place. If you
have an adjustment layer and you don't like
the wayitlooks you can go back and change
it in Photoshop and it expresses itself in the
InDesign document,.. . I t's not repetitive
steps over and over again, You can make
changes much more easily than you could in
the past. If people are very used to the Quark
keyboard shortcuts, [they] can load them
into InDesign.
So, we' re trying to make it really easy for
production teams t o m o v e [ t o u s i ng
InDesign). And, once they see the typography that comes out of InDesign there's no
contest.. . . T h e type that comes out of
InDesign is the best type I' ve ever seen.
TCP: So you think you' ll be able tosell it on
the merits of the teclurology and the corporate
culture will shift?
JW: Well, I think so, because they [production departments] already use a lot of our
products. They are used to the palettes and
menus. InDesign is very much like that it' s
not a big learning experience. A lot of the
feature sets are equivalent to the Quark feature sets but a lot of the feature sets are brand
new wonderful things that you can't do in

N E W IN E D I A g Q
the optical keming. That means that every
letter is compared with every other letter and
the kerning spacing between them is adjusted. So, the color of the type is incredibly uniform as you look at a paragraph.
The third feature is called optical alignment that you can turn on. What it does is it
looks at the shape of each character on the
boundary of the line break and adjusts its
position so that it looks optically straight, So
quotes hang out a little, dashes hang out a little it's beautiful type. It's visually [Irst pleasing. The color is nice, especially in a newspaper or magazine format where you have fairly
narrow columns. It makes a huge difference.
TCP: It sormds like you really like typography, You must shake your head when you see
Web corrtent with fairly low resolution.
JW: Yes, bad text. But I think with SVG, it
solves it because there, you have the possibility of specifying kerning and character
positioning. There's 500 years of history in
type, and a lot of computer providers forget
that, and forget that there is really a huge
amount of cultural tradition and quality
associated with how text is displayed.
TCP: ls that one of the reasons why Adobe
Type1 fonts have always been considered among
tire best digital fonts?
JW: Becausewe've always insisted that
they be the best. When we first started Adobe
we had this lady who worked for us and we
kept being so picky about the type, And she

Quark. We' ll ship [InDesign] with 20 dictio- said, "Why are you being so picky about the
naries, so you' ll be able to do all languages
with essentially the same product. We' re just
trying to make it easy for the customer to
make the switch. The customers who are seeing the product and have played with the
product say "I'm gone."
TCP: What will happen to PageMaker?
JW: For people who are now using
Microsoft Publisher, we are targeting this as .
something they should upgrade to. So we' re
moving it down market, lowering the price
slightly, and targeting InDesign for the professional market.
TCP: You' ve rrrerrtiorred type a couple of
hrnes, and the impressive output qualities of
InDesign. Why is that?
JW: One of the features [of InDesign] is
that it uses a multi-line composer. So, in figuring out where hne breaks should occur,
and where hyphenation positions should be,
it actually looks at up to 10 lines at the time,
and it globally makes the best decision on
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lines. So you have much less probability of
taking rivers, or lines with bad spacing.
The other thing is that you can turn on

type?" And I said "Well, that impression of

that Times Roman A is probably going to get
printed 10 trillion times and you really
ought to get it right." Even though the type
business has sort of gone into disfavor in
some sense, we' ve always been very picky
about type and very picky about the way
type is laid down by the product.
TCP: Do you tlrink it matters? Do people
rrotice?
JW: Yeah, it does. If you put a Quark document next to an InDesign document and go
through a blind taste test with 10 people,
they won't know why it's better but they' ll
say well, I like this page better. This page
looks better. And I think newspaper people,
and some magazine people are really fussy
about type,
TCP; Has your type business srrffered
because of forrt clones and krrock-offs that are
now available?
JW: Yeah I think it has, but among the
professional graphic arts community I think
they still like Adobe type, and appreciate it.
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ryce 4 has arrived. This latest update
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This section allows you to precisely contiol
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comets, rainbows, fog, haze and more. Sky

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The Links menu gives you access to specific
Bryce-related Web sites. They include the
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sharing information, getting access to technical support personnel, and a place to post
links. You can also configure the Links menu,
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Users now have the ability to import U.S.

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significant. This means you can download,

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data, such as a terrain map of Mount St.
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can be output to print, video, transparency,

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Use of these terrain models could be valuable to real estate developers who want to
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Rendering can be processor and RAM intensive. The more complicated your scene is, the
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component of the Java 2 Platform, available ers creating solutions for t h e P a lm
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gaps where there is no image information. Quality t e xtures take

longer to apply, but look better.
When you' ve finished mapping
the photographs to your objects,
your scene might need some finishing touches. You can open image
editing programs like Photoshop
from within Canoma to retouch
your textures.

Sy Nathan Segal

a noma, a n e w p r o d uc t f r o m
MetaCreations, gives you the ability to q u ickly create realistic 3D

models from scanned and/or digital photographs.

Canoma 1.0
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For. Windows or Macintosh
Suggested retail price: $850 (based on US$599)

Not true animation

Stack and Align: 7he white buildings are duplicate ahapea.

In Canoma, you can create motion

where the camera zooms into the
model,
moves
around it, or f l ies
above it. However,
Ca noma i s
not
meant to be a full

ronment (for example, terrain, nearby

objects or buildings) might make this difficult,
A photographer's studio, on the other
hand, affords you a greater degree of control
over the photo session. Angles and measurements can be mapped out fairly accurately
and objects more precisely photographed.
Canoma could be effectively used to create
3D models of smaller, individual objects for
an oniine catalog, for example. Other applications include interior and p ackaging

designand game development.

Advanced modelingtips
Here are some techniques to simplify your
modeling using Canoma:
Ad d guidelines to establish perspective.
Du p licate objects with the same dimen-

As MetaCreations representatives recently told TCP,Canoma turns 3D object creation on its ear. Normally, to create a 3D
sions.
3D animation appliobject, you start with primitive elements to

Add helper objects, such as a box, for

cation.
For
that
you
create the form, then wrap the form with an
more accurate perspective and scene
will
have
to
use
3D
appropriate texture to achieve the effect you
orientation. You can replace the box
programs like Ray
want. With Canoma, you start with the texD ream
Stud i o ,
later with a m ore defined shape, if
ture and extrapolate the 3D from it.
T
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u
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s
p
a
c
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,
required.
Specifically, with Canoma, you start with
Lightwave
and
otha digital image a picture of a building, for
ers. Canoma's ani- File resolution tip
example and using it as a background, you
mations are output While you can save a variety of image sizes,
"pin" various objects to elements on the
QuickTime Canoma depends on the original quality of
as
photograph. Once the objects are pinned
Mirror Textures enabled and before any retouching.
movies or as sets of the bitmaps that you use, as do many 3D
into place, Canoma uses that information to
still frames.
programs. If you want high quality output,
create a 3D model that is then mapped with first, then check the perspective in View
the original images need to be high resolumode.
A
good
practice
is
to
pin
the
basic
the pixels from your photograph. To use
tion.
Pass
the
ladder
please
shape,
then
zoom
in
and
refine
the
placeCanoma, in-depth 3D knowledge is useful,
, ment. To place a corner you cannot see, use To create a 3D scene, you have to photobut not absolutely necessary.
the beads along the edges of the object to graph an object from both sides, which may Summary
not be easy. For example, if you are standing While Canoma can generate good results, it
define the corner.
The main working window
on
a hill taking a photograph of a building, has its limitations. For example, it is not
Pinning
corners
accurately
takes
practice,
In Canoma there are no floating palettes. All
the features are integrated into the work- but if you don't get it right, there are 10 lev- you will need to match the perspective when designed for modeling trees, people, or terspace that covers the entire screen, At the top els of Undo you can use. Alternatively, you you take a second picture on the other side. rains. Programs such as Bryce 4, Poser 3, 3D
left is the 2D Image Palette that displays can simply delete the shape and start again. If there is no hi)I on the other side, you Studio Max, Truespace or Lightwave are more
thumbnails of images used in your project. Note that when pinning an active object, it is might have to use a crane or a helicopter to suitable for these tasks.
Canoma was designed for individuals
At the top centre is the Floating Toolbar, red and all others are yellow. If the scene gets get to the same elevation. That can get
who
want to create complex 3D imagery
expensive
and
complicated.
The
challenge
is
complicated,
you
can
activate
the
Solo
from which you can choose Select, Glue,
without
having to go through an extensive
to
find
a
perspective
that
works
from
all
sides
On/Off
button,
which
dims
all
wireframes
Z oom, Pan, etc. At th e b ottom of t h e
of the object. However, the immediate envi- learning curve and this it does very well. 9
except the one you' re working on.
Canoma window are the Creation and
When building objects on top of one
Animation tabs. Under the Creation tab
there is a selection of primitives you can another, use Stack and/or Align (located
%un r 26 pal ee cannmo"
14
File Edit View C leate Teems Anlm~n H t I D
choose for your scene box, pyramid, table, under the Creation tab) before selecting
another primitive. Use Glue to align objects
stairs, etc.
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On the bottom left are the camera con- pri.cisely. Zoom in closely to ensure that the
trols, which are nearly identical in form and wireframes fit properly and check your
function to those in Bryce (for anyone famil- progress in the View mode. You can also
iar with that 3D program). Camera controls speed up modeling by duplicating similar
include a trackball, letting you rotate the shapes.
camera in any direction. Other options are
Mirroring textures
Banking, Field of View, and the ability to
move objects directly in the scene by clicking When pinning an object to the background,
and dragging or by using the Control key in Canoma can map textures onto a few sides of
combination with dragging. For example, the object, but not on the back or the ground
drag up to move straightforward, drag left to plane behind the object, Unmapped areas are
turn left, or use the Control key, a mouse referred to as bald spots, One way of filling in
click and drag up to move straight up, and so these areas is to use a second photograph,
taken from the other side of the object,
on.
which must be added to the scene.
Canoma will import a variety of 2D
To fix bald spots automaticaliy, you can
image formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG,
GIF, PSD, BMP, and PICT. Canoma models tell Canoma to mirror textures. This function
steals textures from other parts of the object
can beexported to MTS, OBJ, PP2, VRML2,
MTS, WRL, OBj, PP2, SCN and DXF file for- and maps the texture into the bald spots. In
doing this, you have a choice between quick
mats.
or quality textures. Quick textures are good
for previews, while quality textures adjust for
Success lies in the pinning
When pinning an object to the background, changes in brightness between photographs
An abject Ia being "pinned" to the background image.
it's a good idea to set up some easy shapes that can appear as seams. It also fills in white

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music recorded and distributed via comput-

On June 15, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of

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MP300. device,manufactured by Diamond
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not fall under the jurisdiction of the nation's audio recording device" and so is not subject
to the 1992 Audio Home Recording Act,
anti-puacy laws.

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fast-changing world of Internet music distri

bution was built on new convergent technologies that do, not fit neatly with existing
law for certain types of consumer audio
recording devices.

A suit was filed by the Recording Industry

Association of America (RIAA) in October
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licences and other forms of identification.
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decades," he said.
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CALGARY (NB) Manitoba Telecom Services
Inc. and Bell Canada, a unit of BCE inc. of
Montreal, have formaliy launched their venture i nt o C a nada's tw o w e sternmost
provinces in competition with ex-ally Telus

Corp. The new company is named Intrigna.

Intrigna is part of a Bell Canada project to
extend its services from O n tario a n d
Quebec
the company's territory in the old
days of regional monopolies to the whole
country. Through the alliance with MTS,
which has traditionally served Manitoba, BeB
will compete in Alberta and British Columbia
with Telus, which was formed from the merg-

The companies also announced that

Murray Korth, a former Telus executive, and
former president and chief executive of computer services firm ISM Alberta, has been
appointed president and chief executive of
Intrigna. Intrigna has registered with the
Canadian
Radi o - television
and

tomers, and will resell Nexxia's broadband

a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). services in Alberta and B.C,
The company said its initial targets are
The new name has no real meaning,
Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver.
though it conforms to Bell's emerging praclntrigna will work with Bell Nexxia, a
subsidiary that Bell formed last year to offer
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matchbox. The monitor was connected to a
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SAN MATEO, Calif. (NB)

Top e-commerce
sites are losing customers at an average rate
of 60 percent every six weeks because they
are concentrating o n b o o sting p r ofits
instead of establishing loyalty, a new study
claims.

Likening e<ommerce to an online version of a vending machine, the marketing

firm Rubric Inc. found that only 16 percent
of the 50 Web sites studied sent foUowup
marketing offers to customers who had made
purchases in the last 30 days.
Of those 16 percent, only two of the

Only 16 percent of the 50 Web sites studied

an offer about women's clothing when he

never indicated any interest in such a pur-

sent followup marketing offers to customers

chase,
"There's still a lot of room for improvement," said Hal Steger, Rubnc's vice-president of marketing.
"Everyone is talking about one-tonne
marketing, but very few of these sites are
doing it."
The company plans to do two foffow-up

who had made purchases in the last 30 days

"This could be due to the fact that these
ewommerce sites are both older and much
larger than the newer sites, which may limit
their ability to interact with customers on a

replies to basic questions such as "Which

model should I buy?" the study found,

failed to ask the customers if they would like

cluded.

more information on related products ser-

Customers seeking information from the

sites found it difficult for the most part to get

response.
Rubric also found many examples of mis- shopping season. 9

responses were personalized and nearly half

vices, the study found.
In conducting the study, Rubric asked
50 people to buy one item from 50 "leading" e-commerce sites. The c o mpany
released the names of aU SQ sites, but
declined to link specific responses to specific companies.

One o f

t h e co m pany's clients,

Outpost.corn, was included in the study. The

others included sites run by Amazon.corn,

CDNow, Etoys, Gap, Gateway, IBM, Lands

End, Microsoft, ONce Depotomaha Steaks,
Playboy, Planet Rx, Sears, Staples, Starbucks,

Wal-Mart, Victoria's Secret and Sharper

Image.
The study found that sites peddling

books, music and videos performed poorly

compared to emerging product categories
like health and beauty.

Forty percent of email questions sent out studies over the next six months to see if e-

by the researchers went unanswered, includone-to-one basis," Rubric researchers con- ing sites that promised a time frame for a

commerce sites are re-marketing to customers over a longer period of time and to
see how the sites do during the Christmas

targeting.

Rubric, http: //www.rubric.corn

ITU ratifies full range of ADSL technologies

GENEVA, Switzerland (NB)= Asymmetric digital subscriber Une o f coordinated specifications for compatible systems that operate
(ADSL) technology may have been rolling out faster than anyone over a range of bit-rates from less than 1 Mbps to more than 7
could have foreseen in the last year, but it was stiU technology in Mbps.
~ .. The ITU had previously given a provisional green light to the
its infancy.
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ification of aU ADSL speeds and standards by the International m a ny carriers, most notably in the U.S., have started deploying
ADSL services.
Telecommunications Union (ITU).
While the ITU gave the ratification thumbs up to the G.Lite
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ADSL proposal in June, many telecommunications carriers have ~w"affect these early deployments. Instead, it will allow users some
-been wary of investing in new line plant because of the standards degree of assurance that one.vendor's ADSL liit such as an ADSL
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that limitation is no longer an issue. The ITU says is expects to see
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Sesrrrality irsformation service

NB The
Se x u alit y
Res e arch
information Service (SRIS) is a pilot project at The Kinsey Institute to provide a
specialized information service to disseminate important research findings

related to sexual health and. well-being.

The institute says its mission is to make
this sometimes scattered and hidden

research more accessible to a general

audience and to researchers and professionals from different disdplines, and
to make it easier to identify gaps and

needs in research.
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tee that has been looking at ADSL issues, said systems based on the at rates up to 1.5 Mbps with a simplified service installation and
ITU-T proposals (now standards), are being deployed by carriers to reduced modem cost. The ITU says that this. typically avoids the
,, provide affordable access to internet, teleworking, distance leam- need to install riew wire or a splitting filter in the customer premis'"' ing, and multimedia services.
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"Theseservicesanswertheu~gentneedofteiecommunicitioris,~, O ther approvals from'fhe 11U include ratiff/ation for the

customers for instantaneous access to multimedia information, method for DSL systems to negotiate mutually supported operatand the approval today is well timed for telecommunications and ing modes (G.994.1); the reference architecture for ADSL systems
~ computer equipment vendors, service providers and network oper- ( G.995.1); test methods for ADSL systems (G,996.1); and the man:-ators alike," he said.
Ragement of ADSL systems (G.997.1). . ~ .
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because many companies are now introducing systems and ser-, dards, work can now begin on developing standards I'or even faster
vices on a large scale aU based upon the world standards -for:.,;;ADSL bit rates, as well as increasing the local loop reach of the

gqchnology, 0 .
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NKWS

MU LT I ME D IA

i oaster
owere
SEAm.E, Wash. (NB)
Microworkz.corn, the
company that first gained notice for selling
PCs over the Internet for around US$300,
has announced plans to sell a PC called the
iToaster for US$199. An official says the firm
has developed what amounts to a new operating system (OS) for the device that makes
Windows look sluggish,
iToaster, scheduled to be available July
15, will run on an operating system based
partly on BeOS, with its multimedia efficiency, and partly on Linux, with its stability and
Internet e f f iciency, a c cording t o a
Microworkz.corn executive.
"It's very light on its feet, very fast," commented Mark Palmer, the firm's chief purchasing officer. "If you compare this OS on a
133[MHz]-speed processor with Windows on a

200 [MHz]or even 266PAHz]-speed chip, this

is a lot fastec And there's virtually no boot-up
time, because it doesn't have to go through aII
the rigmarole that Windows has to.s
He added, "It's a pretty seamless OS.
We' ve been testing it for the past few weeks
and it works beautifully. It would be a mis-

take to call it an Internet appliance, because

- it does so much more."
Palmer says the firm hopes to see people
ordering multiple copies of the iToaster, "one

for each room."

Though the device is intended primarily

for Internet use, it also will come with a word

processor, spreadsheet program and graphics
editor. Palmer says the productivity suite is a
special iToaster edition of Gobe Productive, a
BeOS suite published by Gobe Software, Inc.,
of Portland, Ore, The standard suite on
which the iToaster version is based runs
under BeOS on PowerPC and Intel(x86}
machines.
When turning on t h e i Toaster, said
Palmer, the user is presented with a menu of
choices that do not differentiate Web appiications from local ones.

3 65

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9 M A T CH PRICKS
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can accommodate faster digital connections,

such as an external cable or digital subscriber

line (DSI.) modem.

For addwns, it provides two industry
standard architecture (ISA) slots and three
peripheral component interconnect (PCI)
slots, Palmer said.
"This is exactly what people have been
waiting for," said Rick Latman, chief executive officer (CEO), in a s t atement. He
described the new PC as having uno virus

problems, no Y2K issues."

He added, "Everything is set up at the
factory for consumers so all they have to do
is press one button and it's instant on,
instant off no boot up time required. They
can immediately shop online, surf the Web,
or send and receive email. And because it' s
not a Windows environment, it's virtually

crash proof."
Gobe Software, httpiiwww.gobe.coIII
Microworkz.corn, httpliwww.microworkz.corn

Free-PC ships first 10,000 computers

PASADENA, Calif. (NB)
Internet startup firm Free-PC Inc. began shipping 10,000 computers to users who have agreed to share personal i nformation and put up with desktop
ad bannersin exchange forafree PC,emailand Internet access.
Free-PC started shipping the computers in mid-June, said Steve Chadima, vice-president of marketing. The first 10,000 recipients of free 333 MHz Pentium III-based
Compaq Presarios were chosen from more than 1.25 million U.S. applicants. The majority are middle-income Internet users ranging in age from 25 to 40, although other
groups, such as college students and senior citizens, are also represented, Chadima said.
The idea behind the free computers is to deliver ads targeting specific demographic
groups directly to their computer desktops. The ads are based on the precise information
the computer recipients provide to Free-PC. Advertisers signed with Free-PC so far
include Amazon.corn, Beyond.corn, CarsDirect, Citibank, eBay, eToys, Investors Business
Daily and PCFlowers. The ads appear on the right side and along the bottom of the computer screen, whether or not the user is online.
Free-PC, a venture of Internet incubator firm Idealab, plans to ship more computers
based on data it extracts from the initial recipients over the next 90 days, Chadima said.
Applicants who fall into the user groups that qualify as "good customers" by the company will most likely be the recipients of the next round of free computer shipments, he
added,
Free-PC is has no plans yet to extend its offer outside the U.S.
Free-PC.corn, http//wYIYr.free-pC.corn

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Ebetween to hardwire links into PCs Virus cbecker scans outbound email
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NB) The company
that provides the soltware building blocks
for more than 70 percent of the personal
computers sold worldwide is getting into the

When a consumer first turns on a PC

with the Ebetween extension built in, the
consumer will receive a prompt asking if he
or she would like to have links to Internet
companies appearing on his or her desktop.
Internet business
using relationships with
motherboard manufacturers to hardwire
If a consumer clicks a "no" button, that
direct links to internet companies into new consumer's system will boot up normally,
computers.
displaying a standard Windows desktop. If
Launched as a subsidiary of Phoenix the consumer clicks a "yes" button, that conTechnologies Ltd., Ebetween will o f f er sumer's desktop will contain links to no
Internet service providers (ISPs), online more than five, non-competing Internet
retailers, search engine sites and other online companies, according to Gharda. A typical

VANCOlJVER, B.C. (NB) Electric Mail Company, Inc., a Vancouver-based email outsource service, has announced that it will offer its customers outbound, as well as
inbound, email scanning The outbound service is a response to the recent spate of computer virus/worm bugs that send infected messages to addresses listed in a victim' s
Microsoft Outlook address book.
The most prominent recent example of such "mal-ware," as it is called, was the
Meilssa email worm, which sent lists of Internet porn sites to people's Internet contacts.
Aside from mail server overloads, the worst damage Mehssa caused was embarrassment.
It could have been much worse.
The ExploreZip worm was another recent example of using a 6rm's internal resources

to shotgun mal-ware to specific user addresses.

Electric Mail calls its scanning service E-.mmunity'Outbound. It will be'provided free
to subscribers to Electric Mail's E-mmunity inbound email vims scanning service.
Cathy Munn, Electric Mail president, said the firm's E-mmunity service is targeted for
all sizes of business and acts as something of a "super firewall".-email server'. The aim is

companies direct access to newly manufac- desktop would offer links to one ISP, one
tured generic PCs. Phoenix purports to be
the world's largest provider of basic input
output systems (BIOS) for PCs. BIOS con6igure computers to run Microsoft Windows.
Ebetween will offer Internet companies
"the ability to deal with one entity us to
get their products known to consumers,"
said Laurent Gharda; vice-president of mar-

search engine and one or more online retailers.

keting for Phoenix.

Internet companies will have to pay for

the privilege of having their icons placed on
Kbetweenenabied computers. And if early

Phoenix's goal is to make Kbetween ser-

vices available on substantially all nonbrand-name or "white-box" PCs sold worldwide. White box computers make up about

35 percent of ll PCs sold.

To date, 13 motherboard vendors, including ABIT, AOpen, Asustek, A-TrendBiostar,
Chaintech, Gigabyte, LuckyStar, MicroStar
International {MSI), Shuttle, SOYO, Tekram
and Tyan have agreed to distribute Phoenbr's

Internet read-only memory (ROM) extensions, which will enable the Kbetween

"Everything is done with user permis-

to isolate and scan for mal-ware of all sorts before sending a message on; avoiding the

sion," Gharda said.

That is unlike Hewlett-Packard, which
indudes an America Online icon on its new
coinputers regardless of what customers
request, Gharda added.

interest is any indication, many will, Yahoo,

Earthlink, Lycos, Snap.corn, Trend Micro,
AOL, C/Net and Excite have all signed contracts to receive Ebetween services, according
to Phoenix.
In addition to charging Internet companies a flat fee for having their links installed
on new computers, Ebetween will get a commission for every purchase inade through
those links, Gharda said.

hassle of cleaning out bugs on customer sites after an infection hits.

The approach works for some.,john Wilson, who describes himself as the "alpha
geek" information services (IS) manager at Clark, Richardson gt Biskup, an engineering
firm in Kansas City, Mo., said, "Since the Brst of june, I' ve received ll Outbound Emmunity notices it quiddy spotted our organization's rogue users who hadn't installed
or updated their AV files. It blocked their virus contaminated documents from leaving
our system, which saved us the considerable embarrassment of sending infected files to

our customers,"
He added,-"I throw their virus notices into a foldhr on my desktop when they find
one, and I' ve accumulated quite a collection 52 viruses just since the 6rst of the year,

inbound and outbound."

-;;r "The prevalence of email viruses is astounding," said Muim. "We' re currently 6nding an average of one infected message in every 500 that we scan, and the number has

actually been creeping up over the last year despite corporations' use of internal vuus
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they are now moving up to 19- and 21inch displays. As even larger monitors
become available, the prices of smaller displays are dropping, which entices more users

digital controls. Where older monitors had a

series of knobs to individually control size,
contrast, etc, newer monitors have all of
these controls bundled up into a single on-

screen display (OSD).

In addition to the familiar controls, OSDs

add a number of other image-manipulation
capabilities, including correction for pinto switch to 17-inch displays, which in turn cushion and trapezoid distortion, and image
drives prices down even further,
rotation. OSD controls on some monitors
Huying a 17-inch monitor for use at also feature more advanced image controls
home has advantages and disadvantages. On like beam convergence, moire reduction and
the positive side, the larger display means more image adjustment settings.
h igher screen resolution, which in t u r n
means you can display more information on Thank Sweeheee
the screen at a size that's stilt easy to read. One of thecommon concerns about moniUsns of smaller monitors have most likely tors is whether they emit harmful amounts
had to content themselves with screen reso- of electromagnetic and radio-frequency
lutions of 640x480 or 800x600. Many 17- energy. (After being conditioned to not sit
inch monitors can easily display resolutions too ctose to the television, it can be unsetof 1,024x768 or 1,280x1,024, and some will tling to sit for hours mne inches away from
even handle 1,600x1,200. (Of course, the a computer screeni) Users of newer monitors

ability to display these resolutions also can rest easy, however, as they are so welldepends on the capabilities of your video

shielded that radiation is a very minor issue.

card.)
Over the years, Swedish testing authoriThis higher resolution can be a real boon ties have instituted a number of safety stanfor Internet users, allowing them to open a dards for monitor manufacturing, starting
work window on one side of the screen, surf with MPR, and the subsequent MPR II, stanfor information with the Web browsn on
dard. Since that point, the TCO standard has
the other side of the screen, and chat with been introduced, with different levels of safefriends using ICQ in another corner. For ty. The TCO was first introduced in 1992,
multitasking users (myself included!), the was revised in 1995 and again in 1999. At
extra screen real estate provided on a 17-inch present, the TCO99 standard represents one
of the strictest and safest standards available.
monitorcan bea bigadvantage.
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Aperture grille:This type of display uses
monitor has to be that much bigger as well,
a number of "guide" wires running along

wire shadow might be confused with one

of the horizontal lines in your drawing.
The primary advantage of aperture grille
is the richer color of the display,
Shadow mask: These monitors use a perforated ceramic plate (usually made of a
material caUed invar) to guide the color
beams to the phosphors on the screen.
This technology is generally cheaper

(red, blue and green) at luminescent

patches of phosphor on the inside of the
tube. Each beam must travel in horizontal strips from the top left to the bottom
right corner of the screen, and then start
again at the top. The refresh rate indi-

cates the number of times each beam can

cover the screen in a second. A rate of 60
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Dot pitch: This is a measurement of how
tightly packed the patches of phosphor
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element oh the screen contains a patch
of red, a patch of blue, and a patch of

green phosphor. A dot pitch of .25 mm

would indicate a distance of a quarter of

noiogy comes in a few branded varieties,

including Trinitron (owned by Sony) and
Diamondtron (owned by Mitsubishi). All

the number, the doser together the

of these variations use two damper wires

to hold the other wires in place, and these
wires show up as thin horizontal lines on
the display. Although they are usually

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Although short-neck monitors can be helpful in reducing the front to back dimension,
17-inch monitors are still wider than 14- and

15-inch displays. This can problematic

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taking up more of the user's workspace.

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Di s p lay Mate, fr o m So n o r a Screen type: shadow mask.
Dot pitch: .26 mm.
Technologies (http//www.displaymate.corn). This
program subjects each monitor to a series of The 7Gir achieved 100 Hz at 1,024x768 and 75
Hz at 1,280x1,024. In both cases, flicker was not
images and patterns designed to test flicker,
evident.
edge clarity, moire, and more. Because of the
nature of these tests, it's worth noting that Corner focus was a potential issue. It was generally good at 1,024x768, although blue was a bit
the testing is quite subjective. Individual
blurry. At 1,280x1,024, corner focus was only
results and preferences are bound to vary
fair.
somewhat.
Please note that pricing information was Moird interference was minimal at both resolutions,
obtained from the vendors or their represenMinor jumping was evident when testing screen
t atives. Because of the volatility of t h e
regulation.
Canadian dollar and the fast pace of the
computer industry, pricing is subject to fluc- As with previous models in the Spectrum tine, the
OSDcontrols aream
azingly easy to use(probatuation. Also, please note that "suggested"
bly the best af ail of the monitors tested). The
retail price and "estimated" street price are
user pushes the seiectian wheel in and spins it to
just that; these prices are subject to variation
Comer focus was excellent at both resolutions.
change values.
from region to region.
Minimal maire at 1,024x768, but more was evident at 1.280x1,024.
With its low price, this monitor is aimed at
the budget-conscious user. The focusing Minimal jumping during testing of screen regulathe diagonal measurement across the
tion,
issues make this unit less satisfactory for
entire front of the CRT, even the portions
The OSD controls are ail located under the botdetailed
work.
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someone
looking
for
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covered by the monitor's outer casing.
tom edge of the screen, and although the OSDis
general-purpose monitor, this one does the
The viewable area is the area of the tube
relatively easy-to-use, this placement of controls
job
nicely.
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easy-to-use
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control
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can sometimes be awkward.
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The tests
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This month, we tested monitors using an ATI
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Monitors were tested in two resolutions
Screen type: Diamondtron aperture grille.
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Although it's designed to match Apple's new
Dot pitch:.25 mm.
highest-rated refresh rates, to emulate slight The monitor achieved 100 Hz at 1.024x768, and G3 machines (the nets Mac keyboards will
ly more demanding conditions than most
75 Hz at 1,280x1,024. Flicker was negligible at
slide under the monitor between the legs,
users will subject them to.
both resolutions,
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terns to appear on top of the image being
shown. Typically, moir(. only appears at
higher resolutions. The more moire that
appears, the less suited the monitor
would is for h ighly detailed graphic
work, Some monitors come with moire
cancellation" as an option in the OSD,
but this option generally roughens up
the rest of the picture.
Re gulation: Sudden flashes of color in
certain areas of the screen can cause the
rest of the display to shrink or expand.
Some monitors are able to handle sudden
variations with little change in the overall display, while the image jumps noticeably on others.
Viewable area: The descriptive size of a
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monitor sits atop a three-legged stand, so it
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other monitors this month, which may be a
problem for users with tight space.
The Studio Display is a bit pricey for most
casual users, but the Diamondtron display
makes it an excellent choice for people doing
higher-end multimedia work, no matter
what platform they are using.

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quite well, although users who want to work

in higher resolutions may find it less than
ideaL For general-purpose use, it should be a
good choice. (Thanks to Monitor Depot for
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Estimated street price: $519
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Although still acceptable, the focus quality
Screen type:Oiamondtron aperture grille.
dropped noticeably at 1,280x1,024,
Dot pitch: .25 mm.
Moire wasn't much of an issue with this monitor,
The monitor is capable of 100 Hz refresh at
as it was negligible at 1,024x768, and onIy mini1,024x768, and 85 Hz at 1,280x1,024.
mal at 1,280x1,Q24.
Minor jumping was evident during screen regulaThere was someminor flicker at the higher resolution, but nothing noticeable at 1,024x768.
tion testing.
Gorner focus was excellent at 1,024x768. Though Although the OSD control buttons take a bit of
it was a bit less clear at 1,280x1,024, it was still
time to get used to, simiiar functions are linked
very good.
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No noticeable moird at 1,024x768, although
make setting the monitor easier.
some crept in at 1,280x1,024.
Regulation of the screen wasexcellent in both
resolutions tested.
The OSD is easy to use, and the controls are well
labeled.

Suggested retail price: $399

Screen type: shadow mask.
Dot pitch: .25 mm.
The C72 is capable of an 85 Hzrefresh rate in
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At 15.6 in., the viewable area is smaller than any
of the other monitors.
Suggested retail price: $470
The picture quality is great, with very little flicker,
and minimal moird detected.
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Corner focus was excellent at both resolutions,
Dot pitch:.25 mm.
The OSO has a lot of image manipulation capabil The monitor achieved a refresh rate of 100 Hz at
ity, though learning how to use the buttons takes Although many are familiar with Daytek's
1.024x768 and 75 Hz at 1,280x1,024. There was
a bit of work.
more budget-conscious line, the company
subliminal flicker at both resolutions, but not
makes a number of higher-end models, includenough to be problematic.
This model was featured in our roundup ing the Vista V17, The aperture grille technolo Corner focus was quite good at 1,024x768.
back in August of 1998, and it still stands up gy makes it a great choice for multimedia work,
However, at 1.280x1,024, corner focus became
well. The picture quality is great, and there' s and the price makes it accessible to those of us
poor, and there were someminor problems with
little in the way or flicker or moire. A was the without huge bundles of cash. No matter wh'at
focus elsewhere on the screen.
case a year ago, the monitor's picture quality your focus, this monitor fits the bill
Moire was minimal at 1,024x768, but became
is good enough to compete with the highermore pronounced at 1,280x1,024.
priced models.
Minor jumping was evident during screen regulaThe biggest problems you may have with
tion testing.
the C72 are the small viewable area and the Suggested retail price: $329
The OSD controls take a bit of patience at first.
slower refresh rates, when compared with
the higher-end models. For customers on a
Screen type: shadow mask.
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price, the.25 mm dot pitch and good refresh choice, offering professional quality for just a
should suit the needs of users looking for a genrates make the Argon an attractive choice. few dollars more than entry-level models.
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lower resolutions, it should deliver the goods tribute the CyberVision line in Canada.
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scious user. The coarser dot pitch makes it

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with minimal flicker and moir6 appearing only at

1,280x1,024.
Comer focuswasexcellent at both tested resolutions.
Screen regulation was excellent,
Although the OSDworks well, the layout of the
controls on the front of the machine is awkward,
Also, the color, size and position of the buttons
makes them blend right into the case, which can
make adjustments difficult in low-light conditions.
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and 85 Hz at 1,2&gx1,024. Flicker was virtually
non-existent at both resolutions.
Some maire appeared at 1,2&gx1,024, but was
minimal to negligible at lower resolutions.
Regulation of the screen was excellent.
The OSD controls are well laid aut. The softtouch buttons are easier to user but are, consequently, easier to activate by accident.
One key feature of the Flatron 795 Plus is its USB
functionality. It has an incoming jack, which
auows the user to control the display from a program on the computer in addition to using the
monitor buttons. It also has four outgoing jacks
Estimated street price: $549
for attaching other USBdevices, t urning
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Plus into a USBhub.
Screen type:
shadowmask.
Dot pitch: .28 rnm. This may be too coarse for
All around, this was our favorite monitor.
some users, but is good for general purpose use.
LG's Flatron technology delivers a crisp, dis- The A700+ was capable of an 85 Hz refresh rate
tortion-free, and virtually glare-free picture.
at 1,024x76&, and 60 Hz at 1,280x1,024. Flicker
The VSB functionality is the icing on the
was minimal at both resolutions.
cake, adding more powerful user control over. Corner focus was excellent at both resolutions.
the monitor, but also allowing the user to Some moire appeared at 1,2&gx1,024, but was
attach additional devices upstream. Between
otherwise minimal to negligible.
this and the excellent picture quality, it is a During screen regulation testing, some jumping
great choice for someone looking for a highwas noticeable.
er-end display.
The biggest drawback for the MultiSync line is
the overly confusing OSDand awkward control
layout.
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most other monitors use four. Users may find the
layout extremely frustrating at times.

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Screen type:Trinitron aperture grille technology,

Dot pitch: .25 mm.
The AV-7T can handle a refresh rate of 85 Hz at
1,024x768, and 60 Hz at 1,280x1,024, Flicker
was negligible at lower resolutions, but was
detected subliminally at 1,280x1,024.
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tested.
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screen regulation testing.
The OSD takes some time to learn, but similar
controls are linked for easier use.
Suggested list price: $599
KDS offers express replacement of defective
monitors under its K.A.R.E.S. program.
Screen type: Mitsubishi's own Diamondtron aperture grille provides great display quality.
Although it uses the higher-end aperture Dot pitch:.25 mm.
grille technology, the pricing of the AV-7T Of au the monitors, this was the heaviest, which
makes it an attractive choice both for multicould be unwieldy for some users.
media users and general purpose use. The The monitor achieved a refresh rate of 75 Hz at
refresh rate may not be as high as some users
1,024x768 resolution, and 60 Hz at 1,280x1,024.
might like, but the picture quality is excel- There was some minor flicker at 1,280x1,024,
lent in most other respects. A good choice for
but virtually none at lower resolutions.
most customers.
Some moir6 was evident at 1,280xt,024, but it
was negligible at lower resolutions.
Corner focus was excellent at both resolutions.
Screen regulation was also excellent.
The OSD controls are on a slide-out panel.
Although there are arrow keys for navigation, it
isn't obvious how to get between menus. Once
this is figured out, it's easy to navigate.
The monitor also comes
with a Macintosh adapter.

Despite the problems with the OSD, the

A700+ is a good monitor. Even with a coarser .28 mm dot pitch, the picture quality is
great, with tiny amounts of flicker and moire
noticeable only at higher resolutions. In the
end, users can get used to the awkward OSD
in order to take advantage of a high-quality
monitor from one of the more respected
names in the monitor game.

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well known, and the new Diamond Plus 71
continues that tradition. The Diamondtron
technology gives this model an excellent dis-

Suggested retail price: $509

Screen type: shadow mask.
Dot pitch: .26 mm.
The 073 is capable of an 85 Hzrefresh rate at
1,024x768, and 60 Hz at 1,2&gx1,024.
The picture quality was excellent, with no more
than subliminal flicker at both resolutions, and

excellent cornerfocus.
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play quality, the monitor is easy to use, and
minimal to negligible atlowerresolutions.

Estimated street price: $639

the whole package comes in at a relatively

low price. Although it's on the heavy side,
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way for the rest of us to experience higherend monitor technology.

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Oot pitch: .25 mm.
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The controls on the monitor may some practice.
The D7SA is a new addition to Sceptre's wellrespected DragonEye line of monitors. It's a
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179/ ] 8 9 M atsonic 6260S w/]M Cache/3D Sound ........, 109PnP Ethernet Card IS~CI ---- --- $]9/2] ]omega Zip IDE lppM Int./disk ............ $97/13
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Sound Cards ar. Speakers 3+~ + c9" "0 5-Tx p]QQMB
Matrox Millcmum G200AGP 8/16M .........94/147
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Dito Tape Drive 7G/7G Tape..., ...,....... 289/49
Manox Millcnium G400 AGP 16/32M,.....]89/249 Pine 3D SOUND w/128 Voice .........,............... $19 E
Cable Asscmb]y ]5/25/Spf] ............. 9/12/19 Jaz Drive 2G SCSI Int./Ext/2G Disk.... 499/135
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SVGA 15"/17"/19" ........................... $179/289/524 SoundB]aster Live PCI 256/PCI 512 .............. 73/77
ADI ]7" SPC+/]9" 6p ............................... 4p9/629 Juster 3DFX] 450W Speakersw/subwoofer ...... 3 56k V90VoiceFax/Modem ---------- $27 25" FullSize Tower Case w/PS ...................79
]7" AOC 7G]r,26nm 16ppx]2QQ SSHz ......... 3]9 Speakers 140W .................................................... 12 PCI 56k Voice Diamond Supra/GVC.... 59/44 16/19/24" ATX Tower Case 250w PS.. 48/58/82
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77 ],44M Floppy Drive PanasomM4it .... 24
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Sony.25mm 19"400GS/21" SQQPS .......889/1689 Benwin BWS3D400W 4 Spks 1 Subwoofer ......99 Cardinal128K ISDN ..
..............................159 5.25" Rack for 3.5" Device .......................... 6
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MAG .25mm xJ500T/xJ700T ................. 259/415
lti,eyboards Q Mice
Hp 695CM]QC/722C ............... $229/279/349 Secondary Case Coiling Fau/Slots Fan.... 12/19
NEC .25mm ESQQ/MSQQ/E750 ...--- 345/349/629 Wm98 Keyboard
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..........., 59 Canon BJC50/80........,.....................46S/368 PS/2 Mouse 4, Keyboard Adaptor .................5
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ujitsu E35]/PH300/4.3G/64M/]3.3"XGA/56k/24x$309 HP CD-Rewriter 7570i/8200i ......,.............. 318/428
K6II 350+MB+3D Sound+upto 8M Video, 229
Fujitsu E342/CL300/3.2G/32M/]2.] "TFT/56kI24x...$2]2 Plextor 24x4x2x Int JExt ............................549/659
Tosbiba 030CDT C300/64M/436/24x/]3.3'T/56k$304 Creative 5x
DVD-Hl ROM w/Dxr3 Kit .........,.. 239
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PH Celeron 366+PH BX-Pro MB+Sound .. 249
Tosh]ba 2.5" Hard Drive 43G/6AG........ $269/369 CD w/case Writab]e/Rewritab]e .........,......... ].6/5.5
Celeron 366+Intel MB+Yamaha740 3D Sound
144Pin SDRAM 32M/64M/128M .... $99/189/35 Ezonic USB Digital Video Conference Kit ......... 9g
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PII BX 100mhz Motherboard

64M 100mhz SDRAM
SMB AGP Video/40X CDROM
4.3G Hard Drive / 1.44M FDD
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Pentium 166/200mmx/233mmx..... 69/69/72 Diamond V770 TNT2Ultra 32Maeex4............329
Celeron 366A+ ASUS 550mhz gurantee call 3Dfx VooDoo2 pci 12M..............,...........139
Celeron 36SA + ABIT @550mhz gurantee call ASUS VooDoo3 3000 16M ......................199
Intel Celeron 333/366/400.........99/109/135 S3 3D Virge 4M Pa/Intel 740 8M aai .....32/52
Intel Celeron 433/466 ...................175/229 ATI 3D Xpression wi 4M.........,................45
Intel Pll-333/350/400.............call /255/275 ATI Xpeit 98 aep/ va SM......................69/79
Intel PIII450/500/550..........399/699 10
ATI Xpert 128 aaps216M..........................129
AMD KSIIMO / 400 / 450 ...........75 / 109 / 159 ATI Xpert.PIay98 8M aaimi sxmtv.........89/99
AMD K6lll-400/450 ........................239 329 ATI All-in-Wonder 12816M aewix:i .........299
Cyrix M2 300/333/366................57/59/89 ATI Rage Fury aepsa 32M ~.................199
Creative Rive TNT / Banshee 16M.......125/115
MEMORY
Video Capture Card+ TV Tuner wrac............89
Memo 8 M 1 6 M 32M 64M 128M 256M Matrox Marvel-TV aai ne 8M .....,............369
1 68pin SbaaM ioouns 35 6 5
1 1 9 28 9 ATI TV-Wonder / TV Tuner+FM.........119 /119
72pin SDO 29 42
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Logitech Guickcam home uss V-Camera...115
72 in RE 30 4 5
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Penfium 512K (AT) + 4M Video+ 3D Sound 89

Super 7 ( AT) AGP + 3D Sound ...................99
Super 7 ( AT) + SM AGP + 3D Sound......... 119
ASUS P5AB (AT) Super 7 AGP............122
ASUS PSABa(AT) Super 7 AGP+3D Sound 132
ASUS PSA (ATX) Super 7 AGP................132
ASUS PSAa(ATX) Super 7 AGP+3D Sound 142
ASUS PSSVM(ATX) Super 7+ SM AGP......159
Pentiumii di iii
BX (AT) + SM AGP + 3D Sound ................109
BX (AT) + 8M AGP + 3D Sound + Modem...129
BX (AT)+SM AGP+3D Sound+Modem+NIC 139
ASUS (ATX) P2BF .....................,...........179
ASUS (ATX) P2BD / P2BS ...............375/449
ASUS (ATX) P2B-VM-8M Video................249
ASUS (AT) P2-99B.................................139
ABIT (ATX) BH6/ BX6 V2 ...............135/159
ABIT (ATX sto) BM6 / ZM6 ...............155 / 139

16bit 3D Sound Card isa ............................17

Sound Blaster 16 PnP / AWE 64 isa........30/49
Sound Blaster PCI 64/128/512......45/56/79
Sound Blaster Live value rei aaa....................75
Diamond Monster 3D MX300 pa ................109
GNT5000A Subwoofer 8 Speakers ............55
YAMAHA MSW10 Subwoofer 8 Speakers....109
4 point PC Work Surround Speakers.........139
Altec Lancing 4Sw Subwoofer+Speakers...179
Altec Lancln 45.1w Subwoofer+S akers 108
Microphone / Headset Mic +Vol Control.....6/12

CD-ROM /CD-WRITER / DVD

40X Toshiba / Aopen / Liteon.........75/59/58

48X CreatNe / Liteon................................75
50X /40X ASUS................................89/72
SCSI 40X Pioneer...............................119
Panasonlc Sx4 CD Writer eE ................. 305
Panasonic Sx4 CD Writer scsi .......................319
Mitsuml Sx4x2 CD Re-Writer eE...............299
HDD / LS120 / ZIP
Yamaha 16x4x4 CD Re-Writer eE .............399
stN m 4.3 8 . 4 8 A 10 . x 1 3.x 17 20G Yamaha 16x4x4 CD Re-Writer scsi............349
Fujitsu 139 159 17 9 2 1 9 2 3 9 3 19
Yamaha 16x4x4 CD Re-Writer scsi Exr.......549
WD
159 1 7 9 1 8 9 2 2 9 2 5 9
389 SONY CD Re-Writer 24X4x4 eE ...............359
Quantum 139 169 18 9
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SONY CD Re-Writer 24X4x4 scsi...............399
72IXI nr 6.x S.x 10.x 1 3.x 1 8.x 20 GB HP 8110i CD Re-Writer 24x4x2 eE ............389
WD
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279 409
HP 82 i CD Re-Writer 24x4x4 eE ............429
Quantum219 229
349 429
Panasonic DVD RAIN.......,.......................839
Maxtor
249
429
5x DVD3 Toshiba/Panasonic/Sony 129/129/139
SCSI ustaoorpm
WD 9G /18G ............565/995 6x DVD3 Pioneer Slot Load /Tray Load......149
LS120 2x 120mb Super Drive / Diskette 119/14 Blank CD Recordable / Re-Writabie .......1.6/6
Zip 100MB Int IDE Drive / Diskette.........99/14 Sgmln BlankCD Recordable,...................3.5

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Motorola 56K V.90 Modem va I isa .................29
56K V.90 V/F/D Not-Win4lodem isa ...........69
Aopen 56KV.90 V/F/D Modem isajina...75/49
Aopen USB Modem 56KV.90V/F/D ext.....129
USR 56K V.90 Modem isa l t'ai...............89/69
PCMCIA 56K Modem..................:...........105
Acer Ethernet Card zomoie pa I isa..........21 / 19
Acer iixviomixe pa Ethernet Card.................28
D-Link zixvio ixs mi Ethernet Card......,.....32
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D-Link PCMCIA ioiviomuos+ 56K (csrubus
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Diamond Homefree Combo ISA to PCMCIA 329
Diamond Homefree Desktop ISA to PCI.......289
Ethernet Hub 5/8/16port.............45/65/129
RJ45/ RGSS Cable 10/20/50 fl......7/10/19

Wlrelesa f(eyboard / USB Keyboard....69 / 39

Windows 95/98 Keyboard......................13
Chinese Keyboard.................................19
Chinese NaturalKeyboard......................39
ChineseHand-Writing Pen ....................78
Multimedia Function Keyborad...................39
Fujitsu 8725 .........................................25
MSNaturalKe board withe stemonl ....46
USB Mouse 3B......................................16
2B Serial/ PS2 Mouse..........................9/8
MS Intelllmouse (with system only)...........35
L itech Wheel Mouse..........................19
PS2 4-s AT Keyboard Adapter...................5
Keyboard Drawer...................................18
Cable
Printer Cable (Bi-Directioneil 6'/16'..........7/15
MONITOR
IDE Cable / FDD Cable............................3
15" / 17" / 19".2t Monitor...........189 / 299 / 519 Power Split / Power Bar...................... 3/6
SCSI Cable with 3/5/ 7 Connector....6/8/12
17"
AcerView nr 77e /m 78c /m 79g 329/ 439/569 Extentlon Cable for Monitor / KeyBoard ......9
ADI ESP+/mSGT ...............399/519 5xBNC RGB VGA Cable .........................29
Cable (Serial Port Cable)...7
ViewSonic m E771 /.sa G773 ...........389/489 External Modem
Others
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Optiquest m Q71 / m V73...............349 /445 488/ Pentium AMD CPU fan.......,..........9/8
Pll CPU fan I Celeron CPU fan .........18/15
Sony ns210GS /na 220GS ....,...539/669 2"
Case Cooler 3pin /4pin ...............15/12
Hansol na V701P...............................389 Dual fan Heatsonk for Pll I Celaron .........35
Proview m PS776 ...............................339 Heatslnk Compound / Thermal Paste .....10
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HDD Cooler / PC Ventilator..............17/35
Acerview m 99C/ Hanselna 900P....629/609 Mobile Rack w/fan for HDD/ZIP/LS120etc..20
ViewSonic na G790/Opsquesim V95 759/689 Mounted Frame for FDD / HDD..............6/9
on aa 420GS /ADI m 6P...... 899/659 Switch Box for Printer 2/4 port..........15/19
LCD Acer 15" F31 /17" F51 ...........1199/1499 Switch Box for Monitor 2/4 port..........15/19
PRINTER
Switch Box for System 2/4 way,.........28/39
Canon 1000/2000 Color Inkjet...call for Rebate Printer Card / Enhanced...................16/24
Epson Stylus 440 / 640 / 740......195/ 269 / 37S Monitor Screen Filter 15" /1T ..........25/ 39
Epson Stylus Photo 750, e cove 344ouii
.......439 SCSI 2/uara SCSI Card Pa......,....55/159
HP inkjet Color 695c/710c ......,........229/279 SCSI Adapter DB25F/MiniDin 50M............19
Lexmak 3200/5700 Color Ink et........229/299 Power Supply AT 230w/250w..........25/30
HP Laser 1100 600dpi 8ppm .....................599 Power Supply ATX 250w/300w .......39/59
Brother Laser HL-1020/-1040...........369 /449 Anti-Static Wrist Strap.............................9
Brother Laser HL-1050uss...................... S39 APC UPS BF280..................................129
APC UPS BK500M 500VA 250w.............199
Okidata600dpi LaserSppm .....................399 USB HUB 4 Port................................,...69
SCANNER
PS2 Port/ USB Port/ USB Card.....3/16/55
Mustek 1200LS /600 usa ..................149/119
Acer Scan 620S scsiI 620P ..................165/139
SOFTWARE .
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Acer Scan 620U use ..............................179 Anti Virus Norton 5.0/ McAfee 4.........,.....29
Acer Scan 620ST scsi Transparency ...........259 MS Windows98 Upgrade Version ...........109
Acer Scan 620PT Transpan
recy...............239 MS Windows98-Chinese Ver (w/ sys only)169
Umax 1220S /11220U ....................279/239 Lotus Smart Suite 98 Millenium ...............45

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SONY CDR(10PAK)

$19

AOPEN 56K V90PCI FIDIV NODEN

BROTHER 1040DX LASER PRINTER
ISN 9.1G U2W SCSI HD(7200)

Lexmark 3200 Color Printer

VIEWSONIC G77750.25 17"

OR DLINK DFE 530TX NIG

WINDOWS PS/2 KEYBOARD

MITSUMI PS/2 MOUSE
ASPERT DESKTOP MICRO ATX CASE
100 W MULTIMEDIA SPEAKER
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INTEL SE4408X2/
ASUS PIIBF 100MHzMainboard
INTEL PIII 450 512K L2CACHE
128 M 100IIIHL SDRAM
PANASONIC1.44FLOPPY DRIVE
PIONEER 6XDVD ROM
QUANTUMKAS.IG( 7200rpm) UDMAHard Drive
DIAMOND VIPER770 TNT2 32M
LOGITECHinternet Mouse With Wheel
LOGITECHInternet KeyBoard

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ALTEC LANSINGACS44Speaker
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ABITBH6 4408X MAINBOARD

INTEL PII400 WITH 512K L2 CACHEBUILD IN
64 M 100MHzSDRAM
PANASONIC1.44 FLOPPY DRIVE
PIONEER 6XDVD ROM
QUANTUM CR8.4GUDMA HARD DRIVE
ATI RAGE12816M AGP W/ATI DVD PLAYER
AOPEN 56KVSO PclVOICE/DATA/FAX MODEM
ASPERT MIDTOWER ATX CASE
SOUNDBLASTERLIVE VALUE IEb

MAXTOR 6.8G UDMA HARD DRIVE

ATI XPERT 988M AGP VIDEO
SOUNDBLASTER AUDIO PCI64 W/
LITEON 40X MAX CDROM
AOPEN 56K V90 PCI VOICE/DATA/FAX MODEM
MITSUMI PS/2 MOUSE
LOGITECHInternet KeyBoard
MID TOWER ATX CASE
LOGITECH
Internet Mouse With Wheel$61/prts
15" SVGA 0.28 MONITOR
Crealivelab 4 Point Speaker W/Subround Sound
WINDOWS 98 PS/2KEYBOARD
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INTEL Pill 450 W/512K L2 CACHE
t28M 100MHz ECC SDRAM
PANASONICLS120 120MB DRIVE
TOSHIBA40X SCSI CDROM
IBM 9.1G SCSI HARDDRIVE
3DLADS OXYGEN RPM64M
ADAPTEC U27890 SCSI CARD
USR 56KV90 DATA/FAX MODEM/
CR CLINK000TX 101100010
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Comer focus was excellent at both resolutions.
Moire was minimal at both resolutions.
During testing of screen regulation, there was
some minor jumping.
OSD controls may require some practice.
ViewSonic is one of the most respected
names in the monitor business, and this
new model shows why. Although the refresh
rate may be on th e low side for some
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to distract from the display quality. This
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as some other monitors, they do offer moire cancellation.
The monitor achieved an 86 Hz refresh rate at
1,024x768, and 60 Hz at 1,280x1.024.
There was some flicker noted at 1,280x1,024, but
it was negligible at lower resolutions,
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dards. Most PCs
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Windows and Mac computers for around

$100. You' ll also need a SCSI cable for this

external device. The back of t h e

d r ive

indudes a pair of large 50-pin SCSI connectors, allowing you to daisy chain several
other SCSI devices to your computer. As long
as each SCSI device has a different ID num-

Canrtnued an page92

Tips for successful CD recording

ecording,

or "burning," your own

CD-ROMs has become a popular
and affordable way to store data.
With the declining prices of CD writers,

from-i both public. sources and els'e-.,

'

nomenon known as a 'buffer underrun,"

which is typically caused by an interruption
during the disc writing process. If the system
can't continue suppl)dl+ data durmg the
interruption (e.g., from a buffer), the write
operation fails and the disc becomes just
another expensive coastez While this ean stiB

als, US$240 for full =time government,

employees, US$120=for full-time stu-

iMac and blue-

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based PC with a SCSI connector. At

one time, all Macs induded
SCSI, but the latest

products, This drive is a good example of the

that will provide cybersecurity pros

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Laoe recipe for success, Housed in a stylish, Nlac safiwaro: Adaptac's Toast
ultra heavy4uty ease, the 8x20x is the fastest 3.5,6 and DlrectCD
CD-8 drive we' ve tested at 7CP Labs. And, Windows 95, 98 and NTsoftthanks to its large 2 MB buffer, it's also one of ware: Adaptec'sEasyCDCmalor
3.5b and DlrectCD
the most reliable, too.
ications:Traydesign Sanyo CRD-8008
As owners of older recordable CD drives Specif
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large buffer can lead to a disk-trashing phe- 50-pin SCSI connectors, tnrmlnatar switch, push-

arena::from writers arid experts experienced in the area,'-along with arti-

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Setting up the unit on a Windows or Mac

happen with this (or virtually any) drive, the
PC
was no p
Note, however, that the
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CD-writing software (in our opinion, the very drive Ls a SCSI device and, thus, requires
either a Mac or a Windows 95, 98 or Nlbest on the market) will minimize the grief.

puter ads, you may also encounter a tech- scratched (accidental damage notwithnology called CD-RW, which stands for
CD-Rewritable. As the name implies, CDRW discs can be rewritten much like floppy diskettes. Blank CD-RW discs are more
expensive than blank CD-R media. Most

more people can afford them. However, CD-RW drives will also function as a CDbefore you run out and buy one, there are R unit.
The number one advantage of CD-R is
a few things you need to know.
price. Discs are relatively inexpensive, (as
low as $1) and can store up to 650MBof
Advantages
information. Another plus is security,
and vflnacfvantages of osinfl Cgf-R
The technology we are covering in this
article is referred to as CD-R, which
stands for CD-Recordable. When you are
out shopping, or browsing through com-

because data recorded to a CD-R is physically impossible to erase. Since the surface of a CD doesn't come into contact
w ith the recording head it c a n't b e

standing), which protects the recorded

information,
This makes the CD a great candidate

for long term storage. CDs can be used

for digital publishing, catalogues, software distribution, data archiving and

backup, audio, video, multimedia, and

more. And assuming you buy quality
dues and take care of them, they can last
up to 100 years= at least that's the claim

made by some manufacturers {although

most concede environmental pollution is
likely to affect the CDs' polymexs well

before the 100 years is up).

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On the down side, data can be written
to a CD-R but not erased or rewritten
(there are, however, some workarounds
such as Direct CD or multisession recording, discussed later in this article). So if
you make a mistake, you' ll have to write
the data to another part of the disc or
onto a new disc. In addition, CDs can
sometimes crash during recording, mak-

TECH ENTERPRISE g

the scale, Plextor is considered to be the

Rolls Royce of CD writers but it is also one
of the most expensive.
SCSI, IDE or parallel?
As to which is better, SCSI or IDE, you
may not n otice much difference these
days. SCSI is still a better choice in some

cases, but in others IDE can outperform

SCSI. If you only intend to use your CD

writer wit h o n e c omputer, you could
ing part or all o f t h e CD unusable. choose either. Portable computer users, or
However, there are steps you can take to those wanting an external drive, might
minimize this eventuality.
also consider a parallel port-connected
drive. But if you want to use it with both
How to choose a CD writer
a Macintosh and a Windows PC, SCSI is
Before you even look into buying a CD
the right choice.
writer, it's important to consider if it's the
A few years ago, SCSI was the best
right solution for y our storage require- choice for data transfer, as it was extremely
ments. If you need to store 100 MB or less low on its CPU usage levels. An IDE system
at a t i m e , a Z i p d r i v e , a n L S 120 of four or five years ago would often exceed
(SuperDrive), or their equivalents would be CPU usage levels of 72 percent when writadequate. On the other end, if you have ing a CD.
gigabytes of data to be stored, a tape drive
Another potential problem is buffer
might be a better option. That amount of
underrun. It t ypically occurs when the
data would require several CDs, which
computer encounters an u n e xpected
could create a storage problem of its own. delay in receiving data while writing as it
However, if you' re into multimedia, graph- might if a network connection was temic design, photo manipulation, game play- porarily unavailable or a CPU or hard
i ng, o r d o w n loading f i le s f r o m t h e drive was busy. If the buffer empties an
Internet, then a CD writer is an attractive underrun occurs and you' ve got what is
solution.
essentially a dead CD because you can' t
There is a wide variety of CD writers on write an y m o r e i n f o r mation t o i t.
the market and an entry-level price of $350 However, buffer underrun is now largely
to $450 will get you a decent drive. Some a problem of the past, so long as you
recommended manufacturers in this price have a good system.
range are Sony, Acer, Hewlett-Packard,
When you buy an internal CD writer, I
Yamaha and Mitsumi. On the other end of recommend you have it p r ofessionally

installed unless you are experienced in

upgrading PCs. I would also recommend
buying a new CD writer as they have corrected some of the problems that plague
older drives.

or workplace is in an old building where

the supply of electricity fluctuates. The
best protection against this is an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) device the
bigger the better with its own indepen-

Hardware requirements

dent power source, which will keep your

system running when your regular power

With a PC, a good minimum requirement

for an internal IDE drive is a system with
a 100 MHz Pentium CPU and 64 MB of
RAM. For an external parallel port drive,
the minimum requirement would be a 100
MHz Pentium CPU with 32 MB of RAM.
And if you plan to use SCSI, it will even
work with a 75 MHz Pentium CPU with 16
MB of RAM, Newer CD writers only use
about 23 percent of the processing power
of the CPU, which is a drastic drop from
the 72 percent or higher of a few years

ago. If yo u

source fails. Such a system costs about

$120.
With the minimum hardware requirements, transfer of data is fast enough to
record a CD from data contained on media
in another devic~ such as a cartridge in a
Jaz drive although when you actually
write the CD, the software will create a
temporary file on the fastest hard drive,
rather than taking the risk of going to a
potentially slower drive. The software will
then write the data to the CD.

h ave a s lower system,

installing a SCSI card is a good idea as it

won't require any horsepower from your
machine.
The practical minimum requirements
for installing a CD writer on a Macintosh

Software

If you' re just starting out, I recommend

Adaptec Easy CD Creator or the Adaptec
Toast s o ftware f o r t h e M ac i n tosh.

Approximately 90 percent of all the CD

system are a Quadra or a Centris (an 040 writers on the market come with this soft' processor or better) with 32 MB of RAM.
If you have an external SCSI writer, it' s
important to note the potential for data
loss if your total daisy chain of peripheral
cables is longer than IS3 cm (6 ft.).
It's especially important not to use the

computer or open any applications while

the CD is being written. Doing so may
cause the buffer to be completely emptied
before it can be refilled which could crash
the CD. A sturdy power supply is also rec-

ommended especially if your home office

ware for Windows 95/98 or Macintosh. If

you use Windows NT, however, you' ll have

to buy the Adaptec Easy CD Creator Deluxe

package, which costs about $150, Another
CD writing option is the Adaptec Direct CD
Wizard, which assigns a drive letter to the
CD writer, giving you the ability to save
data as you would with a floppy diskette-

drag and drop.

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And what is termination in this context? even then, the error didn't cause any data
Well, imagine that the chain of SCSI cables loss.
We tested the drive successfully under
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from device to device. If the last section of Easy CD Creator package doesn't officially
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Umitationsand cost per megabyte

As mentioned earlier, this drive does not support CD-RW media. However, CD-R discs are
still less than half the price of the cheapest
CD-RW discs we could find ($4 per disc at
Costco). At $1.60 per 650 MB CD-R disc, filling them up is not an issue just throw

Supported OSes
Windows 95, 98 and NT are supported by the another disc on the burner.
At current prices for media, CD-R repreincluded Adaptec software. Personally, we' ve
had better success with the Easy CD Creator sents a nearly ideal storage solution for those
package than with DirectCD. DirectCD write

who need to exchange files with other users,

operations, in our tests, failed or exhibited or who want to minimize ongoing costs.
other problems about 10 percent of the time.
Writing discs with Easy CD Creator, on the Conclusion
other hand, was very dose to 100 percent This drive should be on your short list if you
are shopping for a speedy and reliable CD
reliable.
Although Toast is still our favorite CD recorder. We'd also recommend looking at
recording package on the Macintosh, we products based on the Ricoh MP6200S (CDwould rate its failure/problem rate at about RW), Plextor PX-R412C and Teac CD-R55S
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color is due to the dye used at the time the

CD was manufactured, and is indicative of
materials used to manufacture it and its
shelf life after recording.
A CD made with cyanine will be blue
and has an expected shelf life of 50 years.
A CD made with phtalocyanine will be
gold, has a low light sensitivity and is
expected to last for up to 100 years. Green
CDs have a relatively short shelf life of 25
years.
Your CD writer is colorblind, so figuring
out which brand of CD-R media is best for
you is a matter of trial and error and your
storage requirements.

Continued from page91

and move files into it, much like a preset
shopping list. When you' ve organized your
files, you tell it to write the contents of the
list, instead of having to write each file or
folder individually.
Toast is the Mac equivalent of Easy CD
Creator and is excellent when you have to
select multiple files. With it you bring all
your files into one application and drop
them as a whole onto the CD.

About multisesslou
Multisession is a technology that allows you
to write to the same CD multiple times as

long as there is still space on the disc. (Note. Ceneral haudllug precautious
this is not the same as rewriting.) To do this, Hold discs by the edge, being sure not to
you simply leave the CD with an open session option, which allows you to put more
data on the CD at a later time. Both Adaptec

touch the surface. Keep the disc free from

dust and fingerprints. If the disc does get
d irty, dean it w i t h c anned air. If y ou

Easy CD Creator and Toast have a multises- need to wipe the disk, use a use a lint free
sion function.
cloth (lens cleaner) and a cleaning liquid
made for CDs. When wiping the CD,
Verifying CDs
wipe outward from the centre to the
The software mentioned above allows you edge, never in a circular motion as this
to verify CDs i.e. check the discs for
may grind the debris deeper and damage
r ecording e r r ors on bot h

P C an d

the disc.

Macintosh systems. If errors are present

the problem and you can take steps to cor- CDs need to be stored in jewel cases or
rect it. Verifying CDs is a good practice.
Verifying the contents of a disc takes about
as long as recording the contents.

temperature for CDs is 15-25 degrees history. But you can still recycle it.
Celsius.

Haudliug precautions after writing

When labeling a CD, do not write on the
surface with a hard tipped pen or pencil.
Use a water-based pen containing no
chemical solvents, which could damage
the disc, Write only on the protective surface. If you plan to use labels, they must be
perfectly adhered to th disc. Bubbles or
creases will create an imbalance when the
disc is being read, and cause tracking prob-

lems and possibly noisy spin-ups. If the

label is improperly adhered, do not
attempt to remove it as you may damage
the disc. If you plan to silkscreen a design

multiple CD holders called caddies. These

are your best insurance against scratches.
Avoid storing CDs in a stack without any
protection. Store them away from direct

record CDs. Before owning a CD writer, I

used aJaz drive to store data. However,

once I'1 tried a CD writer, I sold my Jaz
drive, I encourage you to have a look at
your storage situation to see if CD recording is in your future. I highly encourage it.
Once you see the results, you won't be disappointed. 0

still works, copy its data to your system or

another disc immediately. If you scratch

the underside of the disc, you' ve etched
the polycarbonate (plastic). While this is
not as serious as scratching the label side, it
part of the disc. Error correction will take
care of small scratches, but larger ones
could cause disruption, creating audible
glitches or CD-ROM driver errors. If this
happens, copy the data to a new disc.

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Victoria, 8.0., who provided information and

advice,
Nathan Segai Is a freelance writer and digital artist
who lives in Victoria, You can contact him at: nai-

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rive su orts
How to install this high-capacity, low-cost storage solution
install Windows on your new system. At 8. This should take you back to the A:>. Now
to boot your existing copy of Windows
it's time to format the hard drive. Type
any rate, you' re going to need a disk of
and immediately use it as a drive D.
some sort with the DOS tools FDISK and
Format D: ISN and press ENTER.The IS
t the risk of dating myself, it's worth
FORMAT on it. The Windows 98 startup
means that the system files will be trans- Quantum's caveats
mentioning that back when my comshould readthe caveatsat Quantum's
disk includes these utilities; it can be creferred onto the drive, making this disk DOS users
puter club buddies and I flrst started
ated via the control Panel>Add/Remove
bootable. (This is not essential if the drive Web site regarding that operating system's
working with disk-based mass - storage on
Programs>Make
Startup Disk.
is not going to be your boot drive, but inability to access drives larger than 8.4 GB.
computers, we were utterly content with disk
Because we purchased an OEM (original
doesn't hurt, in any case; the system files Windows users with a computer that has a readrives that stored a couple of hundred kiloonly take a few hundred kilobytes.) The sonably recent BIOS won't have a problem, and
bytes
they were so much better than the
equipment manufacturer) drive, it caine
N command tells the system that you FAT32 largely alleviates the need to partition the
tape drives we'd used previously! And then
in a simple anti-static bag, with no manuals or cables. So we first had to get the
want to name the volume. Answer Yee to available space into smaller logical drives.
came the day I bought my first hard driv~
If your computer does not support
required cable, which was an IDE cable.
the Are yousure?prompt. After it is finit must have weighed about 20 pounds, and
Your system may already have one
ished, you will be prompted to give the UDMA/66, you can either use the drive with
stored a whopping 20 MB! And here we are,
volume you' ve just created a name. Give a standard 40-pin IDE cable as a UDMA/33
on the day I' ve just purchased my latest hard
installed that is not being used. You may
it a short alphanumeric name, for exam- drive, or you can purchase a UDMA/66 condrive: 13 GB (that's 13 billion characters
also need a "Y" splitter to provide the
worth of storage) for $260
about one quarnecessary power to the drive.
ple: 13GIG, If the drive you' ve installed is troller card, such as the $90 Ultra66 from
Check
the
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jumper
and
set
a second hard drive, you' ll then be able Promise Technology Inc. 0
ter of the price I paid for my 20 MB drive 3
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accordingly. If your system already has a
about 14 years ago.
hard drive and an IDE CD-ROM drive,
they will usually be configured as
Primary Master and Primary Slave,
Quantum CR 13.3 CB hard drive
respectively. This new hard drive could
From: Ouantum
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With the power off and the power cable
I chose a Quantum CR, a 5,400 RPM drive
disconnected, we opened the case, and
that delivers decent performance and good
inserted the hard drive into one of the
compatibility at a low price. Yes, there are
Celeron 400Mhz Pentium III - 450MHz
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faster drives
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40x EIDE CD-ROM
40x CD-RO
the new drive. When you first turn the
however, greatly underestimates the compatKeyhoard
104-key Keyboard
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ibility of this drive. I did not need to run any
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Press the indicated key and choose

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Computer Systems

Standard CMOSSetup. There, you' ll see

the MS-DOS compatibility mode problems
options to define your hard drives and
StorageReview encountered with its (LXbased) test PC.
other devices. If you already see the drive
listed as set to AUTO you' re set. If the
I also tested the CR on a new PC system
Secondary Master is listed as NONE, then
based on the Whitney chipset, that directly
you need to set it to AUTO. Move the curprovides support for the UDMA/66 mode
this drive incorporates. Again, I encountered
sor over and use the pageup/down keys
no problems and was even able to use the
to set the option. Save the settings and
Cable Select mode that allows the drive to
exit.
auto-configure itself for optimum perfor- 6. Boot from the startup floppy. Choose
Without CD-ROMSupport for now; you
mance choosing its own Master/Slave setwon't need it initially. After a few minting depending on the configuration of the
rest of the system.
utes, the disk will present you with the
DOS prompt: A:>. At this prompt, type
As is usual, the capacity of the drive once
FDISK. Answer Yes to the question Do you
it was formatted was smaller than the manufacturer's claimed 13.3 GB. I ended up with
want to enable large disk support? Then,
choose option 5, Change Fixed Disk. This
12.4 GB of storage capacity using the FAT32
file system under Windows 98.
allows you to work on the new drive in
your system, not your existing (already
InstaUlng your drive step by step
formatted) hard drive.
Because the installation of a new drive can be 7. Following the prompts, make. a new pria little arcane for new users, I' ll briefly
mary DOS partition on the new drive. It
will set up a partition that will allow you
describe the exact steps required to install a
to store data on this drive, then chug
new drive such as this one. In this example,
I' ll refer to the standard Master/Slave drive
away examining and verifying the structures. Answer Y (yes) to questions; press
configuration jumpers for compatibility with
ESC to exit when prompted. Press
most readers'
systems.
1. Before you begin, it is best to have a
Windows startup disk. Windows 98 startup disks are ideal; they contain a CDROM driver that will make it easy to

ControitAit+Deiete to reboot system after

you quit FDISKand it wams you that you
must reset the system. Boot from the

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TEC H E N T E RPRISE

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PowerQuest software recovers infected drive
By Steve Quinney

user whose PC had been infected by the

used after a fatal crash or virus attack. Most

recovery software is designed to be installed
and running up to the point your drive fails,
after which you use the software's recovery

ChemnOby.vViru. The virus had unleashed

methods to restore your drive to operability.

was recently asked to help a computer

Iit's terrible payload, wiping out part of the

hard drive and mahng it virtually impossible

to access the data stored there, and reprogramming the computer's BIOS with junk so
the computer would no longer start up. My

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first thought was "Your computer is toast!"

lost 8k Found
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Estimated price 870

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However, I had recalled hearing about

some new software from Poweguest, the
makers of Partition Magic and other disk utilities. The mmpmy daims that the software,
Lost Br Found, can recover data from hard drives damaged by vhus attacks or that have been
acddentally erased or otherwise rendered
Lost gr Found will not "fix" the hard
inaccessible. Basically, PoweQuest daims if a
hard drive can still spin, there is a good chance drive. However, it will allow you to transfer
files to another drive.

Lost Br Found can recover its data.

to save them to one or more drives attached

to your computer. Lost Sr Found is a single
user product designed to work only on one

computer. For multiple computers, you' ll

need to buy multiple copies, or use
PowerQuest's Search R Rescue.
The program itself is quite small. It boots
up from a single floppy, with supplementary
files, such as "restore long file names," on a
second fioppy. When the program runs, it
asks you which drive attached to your computer is damaged and which drive you would

I immediately ran a virus scanning utility

on the recovered files and found 97 files corrupted with the Chernobyl virus. The virus
had attacked many of the system files from
Windows 98. I cleaned the infected files with

an antivirus program and began to move

some of the recovered and cleaned files over
to the original but newly formatted drive. If

you do this, note that some programs will

cease to function properly without all of
their resources intact (for example, files
located in the system directory will have to

like to transfer the recovered files to.

You have a choice of recovering directory
structures or single files. I chose to recover
the directory structure because of the chance
that files located in different directories on
the damaged drive
have the same fi
le name.

be re-installed).

Had I chosen to recover single files, the program would overwrite files with the same
name.
Since I had no idea how many files were
on thedamaged 2.5 GB drive,Iused a 3 GB
hard drive to hold the rescued files. I
installed the damaged drive into the com-

process took me just a few hours from start to

finish. To complete the recovery of the computer, I sent the unit out to have the BIOS
chip reflashed, then re-installed the nowdean hard drive.
Data recovery services have traditionally
been a very expensive prospect, costing any-

I was able to "save" more than 75 percent

of the programs with all their files and data
after re-installing just a few programs and
moving the files over to the "new" drive
from the "recovered" drive. This whole

where from hundreds of dollars to thousands

to recover lost files from drives. This program
would take approximately 12 to 16 minutes did exactly what it claimed it could do for a
to recover the files, and when it finished, I mere $70. 0
puter, chose the"recover all files" option and
let the program go to work It indicated it

The software is designed to rescue files had a recovery drive with approximately 1.2
This program differs from other data
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Print servers, switches and hubs, oh my.

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The benefitsof a print server

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networking products that have traditionally been reserved for large networks. But now Intel and other manufactur-

ers have introduced models designed and

priced for the small business market. I tested
a print server and an eight-port 10/100
switch from Intel's InBusiness line. The print

Why would you want to use a print server? It

allows you to situate your printers virtually
anywhere in the office you aren't limited to
placing them right beside your computers.
Also, a single connection to the network will

ISSIE RABINOVITOI

server makes network printing more flexible instaiiation pointers

and convenient, and the switch makes most

There are several points that merit special

local area networks (LANs) noticeably faster. attention. The cable you use between the
Both are priced to be attractive to small businesses, although there are competitive models from other manufacturers that are even

Print Station and hub or switch should be

Category 5, regardless of the speed of your
network. The cable from the printer to Print
cheaper.
Station port should be stamped "1284 comThe Intel InBusiness Print Station is a
pliant" and should be no longer than 2 m (6
very small device that is under 5 cm high (2 ft.). In principle, printers shouldn't be conin.) and has a surface area somewhat greater nected to computers with cables longer than
than a CD. It has two parallel ports, a single this, but they often are, usually without any

RJ45 port, and an external power adapter. problems. You may choose to disregard
You connect the power adapter, plug it into

a jack in the wall, connect the printer (or

printers) to it, then install some software on
each workstation that will b e using the
printer. The Print Station can connect at 10
or 100 Mbps, depending on the speed of the
port on the hub or switch you' re using. With
auto-sensing hardware, you' ll get speeds of
100 Mbps. The Print Station supports networked computers running Windows 95/98,
or NT, but not those using earlier versions of
Windows or DOS.

either or both of these guidelines; doing so

doesn't guarantee printing problems, but it
does increase their likelihood. Incidentally,
most printer cables are not 1284 compliant.
Such cables are about four times as expensive
as more standard cables. It's your call.
Once the printer and network cables are
installed, it's time to turn on t h e Print
Station. When the status light turns green,
you can start configuring individual computers to print to the shared printer attached to
the Print Station. The status light can also

The Print Station Setup program checks turn red or amber

both of which indicate
for NetBEUI or TCP/IP protocols. If neither is problems.
installed, it installs NetBEUI on systems running Windows 9x. On systems running
Windows NT 4.0, however, NetBEUI should
be installed manually prior to installing the
Print Station software.
Installation of the Print Station is easy
and quick, without any apparent pitfalls
(the 'issue of compatible printers is noted
below). I found the documentation to be
lacking for less-experienced administrators.
In fact, the printed documentation is the
only problem area I encountered with this
product.

We specialize in
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support two printers. In an office environ- Switch is such a piece of equipment. You can
ment, users forced to share their printers connect anything to any of its ports; a comwith other networked PCs often find the traf- puter with a 10Base-T or Fast Ethernet card, a
fic generated around their desks by people 10Base-T or Fast Ethernet hub, a print server,
picking up print jobs distracting and annoy- or even another switch. Auto-sensing 10/100
ing. As well, if their computer runs into a ports mean no configuration is needed.

And now, let's switch to something entirely

different. Hubs and switches perform many
of the same functions, but the switch is a

Switching provides each user or device with

a dedicated channel at 10 or 100 Mbps to the
network.
The best performance would be realized
in the case where users and ports are in a
one-tonne relationship, but excellent results
can be obtained with a smaller number of
switched ports. Even a four-port switch

more intelligent and powerful device.

added to a large LAN would produce a

Consider eight users connected to a 10

Mbps Ethernet hub. This is an example of a
shared Ethernet network All users share the
bandwidth, which is 10 Mbps. Similarly, in a

noticeable improvement.

problem, or a reboot is necessary, printing is

impacted, A print server does away with
these annoyances.

Hubs and svvitches

dedicated bandwidth, and the LAN itself has

80 Mbps pf bandwidth.
With a switch, the packets of data go
directly from the origin to the destination,
without the wandering typical of a hub.
Switches remember the address of every
node on the network, which means data is
routed more efficiently.
In the case where there are eight users

with Fast Ethernet cards connecting to a Fast

Ethernet hub, they share 100 Mbps of bandwidth. If each connects to a port of a Fast
Ethernet switch, the 100 Mbps are dedicated,
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larger LAN with three 16-port Ethernet hubs $250, for the switch and print server respecand 40 users, there's still only 10 Mbps of tively. Each delivers excellent value for the
bandwidth to be shared. Frequent collisions money, but if your budget is tight and you
of packets are inevitable and performance, at can only buy one right now, your particular
peak use times, can slow to a crawl.
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Let's replace the hub in the first example choice, 0
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For fine-tuning the installation, the

printed materials are of little use. A little digging in the help files will reveal some useful
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jobs on a Windows NT server. It offers stepby-step instructions for doing this.
Printers that print directly to a hardware
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Print Station. If you have any doubts about
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Apple gives media player a new interface, limited MP3 support

Sy Craeme Iermett

n what appears to be further evidence of

Apple's second wind (or is it the third?),
the company released the final version of

an ambitious upgrade to its QuickTime multiinedia architecture for Macs and Windows

PCs in early June.

Qislclr Time 4.0
From: Apple
http: //www.qulckhme.apple.corn
For. Macintosh, 32-bit Windows PCs
Pnce: U8$29.95 (Pro), free (download)

In April, Apple i nitially released

QuickTime 4,0 as a "public beta" asneak
peek at the software's new functions, which
includes the ability to play MP3 audio files.
That was followed by an update, posted May
14 on Apple's Web site, that added support

for Intel"s popular lndeo 5 video compressor/decompressor (known as a "codec'),

With it, users running QuickTirne 3.0 Pro or
better are able to create and playback Indeo
5-encoded video f iles. Th e Q u ickTime

Updater
release in Juneupgraded beta users
to the final release (if you installed a beta version of QuickTime 4.0, you can update to the

final version by launching the Updater,

which is located in the QuickTime Folder).
Unfortunately, in beta or final form,
QuickTime 4.0 is unable to play MP3 audio

as Sorenson's Broadcaster (a US$199 product

F inal Cut Pr o f o r U S$999. The n e w

QuickTime release is available for free down-

for streaming live QuickTime 4.0 video from

load at http: //quicklime.apple.corn, in an

a Power Mac 63 running the Mac OS).

internet~entric format that downloads a

broadcasts such as those enjoyed by PC users small instaBer that subsequently downloads
via ShoutCast. QuickTime 4.0 also lacks sup- and installs various optional components. If
port for MP3 files encoded with a recently you prefer, a QuickTime 4.0 Full Installer is
developed technique called variable bit rate also available on an Apple FTP site at
dolt.wise.edu/.
(VBR) encoding. Hence, it can't play some ftp://apple.
We' ve now had a chance to run through
audio files, even if they are playable on the
same system with Microsoft's Media Player. many of its QuickTime 4.0's new features.
And, unlike Microsoft's player, QuickTime 4.0 Here's what's new and improved:
wasn't able to retrieve the missing codec from Su pport for Flash animations.
the Web it just failed with a blank white Limited support for MP3 audio (CBR
screen. When confronted with the same file,
only).
the Microsoft player successfully retrieved the Better full-screen playback performance
required decompressor from Microsoft's own
(Pro version only).
codec repository. An auto-update function is New Movie Player (now renamed as
provided in QuickTime 4.0 that can check
QuickTime Player).
with an Apple server to see if there is a newer
Streaming support.
version of the software or a missing codec
available hopefully, Apple will begin to sup- Streamles
o support
ply these missing pieces.
QuickTime 4.0 improves upon the limited
Other new additions in QuickTime 4.0 streaming capabilities of version 3.0, with
include support for Macromedia Flash ani- support for both fast-start streaming (created
mations and so-called "streaming video" by saving a movie with "hints") and true
server-based streaming with support for RTP
playback
meaning, it can begin to play a
large file before it has finished downloading. and RTSP. Although Apple does not support
Apple made theannouncement at the NAB
streaming from servers running Mac OS,
99 show in Las Vegas, where it also released a third parties have already announced and
long-awaited video editing package called shown Mac OS-based
servers, such

TribeWorks' iSheII, a free media authoring

tool for QuickTime streaming, is also worth
checking out
We' ve seen a demonstration in which
Mac OS X streamed decent-quality video to
50 iMacs using QuickTime 4.0, However,

stream
ing

Mae Station

some reports suggest that streaming video

quality can be poor; we'd recommend evaluating prospective solutions carefully. (Apple
chief executive, Steve Jobs, has characterized
RealNetworks' RealVideo and RealAudio

streaming technologies as QuickTime's

m ajor c o mpetitor. W e ' d a l s o p l a c e
Microsoft"s NetShow and i t s s uccessor
W indows Media Technologies 4.~ r re n t ly
in beta in that category.)
We found it somewhat inconvenient
t hat, when u sing t h e Pr o v e rsion o f
QuickTiine 4.0, it is impossible to view a
movie on a Web site in full-screen mode
until after it has been completely down-

loaded, viewed and saved, then re-opened in

Present Movie mode. Those familiar with
Microsoft's recent Media Player updates
know this doesn't have to be the case.
Although the new QuickTime Player
looks cool, certain aspects of its interface
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manner. If there were a televised Bolt ad campaign, it would probably feature Snrr Trek's

TravaIl ta

rive

hype. It sports a solid metal casing and has a thehc a little too far. It looks and feels nice,
nice heft of almost 3 kg (about 6 lb.) that I and the resounding dick when I put the tape

in the slot was satisfying, but during operation the drive was almost maddeningly
noisy. The fan alone drowned out the sound
of my PC's fan, and after a while the spindles' whirnng, which I could hear from 10 m
(25 ft.) away, gave me a headache.

f you read American computer magazines, WorfsnarHng, "It's big. It's bad. It's BOLT.'
it's hard to miss Aiwa's ads for its new Bolt in his basso pafinu!0.
tape drive. Inch-tall capitalized letters in a
heavy typeface fairly boom, "10 GIGS. 149
BUCKS." (American bucks, of course.) The

first time I saw it, it nearly knocked me out

of my chair.

Still, the sound didn't impinge on perfor-

mance. The external Bolt drive is said to have

a maximum backup speed of 25 MB per
Belt Orlve

minute under the best of cfxcumstances: that

is, there is no BIe compression or other tasks
distracting the CPU. After 6ring up Backup

Manufacturer. Aiwe
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System requirements: Windows 95/98/NT
Estimated street price: $299

haven't felt Exec, I immediately backed up my hard

in a piece of con- drive's entire data partition: 1.7 GB made up
sumer electronic equipment of over 10,000 IHes, The whole thing took an
in a long time. This may weH be the

AH of Aiwa's Bolt material ads, press

Am a zingly, the external, ECP parallel-first tape drive that can also be used for
kits, Web site
leap out at you in the same port Bolt's outward appliance reflects its weight training.
Also in the Bolt box is a slim instruction
manual, a 6.6 GB Travan tape (curious, since
the Bolt advertising so boldly pmdaims its
10 GB capacity), and Seegate's trusty Backup
Exec software.
The drive was easy to install I only had
to plug it into the paraHel port and instaH the
software. It was quick and painless, which

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was good because the manual, which is de

appointlngly incomplete in phces, would
not have been much help. {In the section
'Inserting and Removing Tapes,' for example, try to fmd out how to remove a tape.)
A minor digression here: the included
tape, despite the Aiwa ATP-106 part number,
is actually a standard Travan tape aTR-3, to
be exact. In fact, the Balt can use Travan TR2 and TR-3 tapes, though they' re rated at 3.2
GB per tape. However, in order to get 6.6 GB
out of a tape, you fust have to reformat it

hour and 48 minutes, which works out to

about 15.74 MB per minute. I had left the

compmsion on as most people would, but

since most of my data fHes use compmsed
BIe formats, I only got a 1.01:1 compression
ratio. While the Bolt wasn't a speed demon
by randomwccess media standanis (I could
have burned the same amount of data onto
three CD-Rs in less time), it was certainly

quick for a parallel-port tape drive. I also had

veri6catton switched off, but later tests con-

Grmed that verifying doubles the total backup time. Rrmtoring the data was a bit qukker,
running at about 20 MB per minute.
The usual argument for and against tape
backups applies here. The slow backup speed,
compared to random~ccess devices, is balanced by the low media cost (about 0.6 cents
per megabyte). However, the Bolt takes the
shag out af the speed issue, nd the low cost
of the drive coupled with the ease of instaHation sweetens the deal. With Aiwa's entry

into the market, the world of tape backups

using the Bolt's propnetary formaL
just got easier and cheapez 0
While formatting the tape (a seven-hour
task), I discovered that the Bolt's designers Emm Townsend([email protected])ishackedupun
might have taken iis heavy4uty design aes- fape andGO.

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n the DVD Age, we often take the tmsty

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less than 1 GB of infnrmation. It isn't suit-

table for movies, and many new garnes are so

the idea of being able to bum your own discs

at home still holds a lot of appeaL Whether
it's a CD full of data or music, people still get
exdted about the idea.
Mitsmni, which is well aware of the

appeal of this technology, has been making

hrge that installing them from CD format CD-R drives for some time (we use a Mitsumi
requires disc switching. So why would you
want to look back? Becauseyou want or need
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T ECH ENTERPRISE g > Q

ower mana ement sti u n rea ize

ower management doesn't work. There,
I have said it and I feeI a lot better. After
several years of struggling with the

power-management systems offered on a

wide variety of notebook computers, I
have come to the sad
conclusion that they
j ust don't work a s
advertised.
The
i d e a of

power-m
anagem
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systems i s

gr e a t .

They are supposed to

prolong the battery
life of your notebook
computer by s h utting down v a rious
parts of the computer when they are not
being used. Power-

you actually want to use at any given

moment.
The first problem with power-management systems is they are sometimes pretty

Power-management
systems are sometimes
pretty stupid and seem
incapable of distinguishing between

of non-keyboardrelated tasks and

o ne that i s t r u l y
inactive. And that' s
an important di fference.

a computer that is

S uppose, f o r
example, you are

busy doing a bunch of

non-keyboard-related

downloading a large
file
fro m
t he
I nternet vi a y o u r
notebook computer's built-in modem.
During the down-

management sys-

tasks and one that

is truly inactive.

t ems d o t h i s b y
putting t h e s e rial
port, the hard disk,
t he screen or t h e
whole computer into suspend mode where
little or no power is being used. The idea is
that when you subsequently press the
power button, the notebook will bloom
into life again instantly, and allow you to
resume whatever you were doing. In fact,
power-management systems often end up
shutting down the parts of the computer

ON
THE GO

stupid and seem

incapable of distinguishing between a
c omputer t ha t i s
busy doing a bunch

load process, you

may decide to step

out of the room and
get a cup of coffee, go outside for some
fresh air or just take a break from the computer. With a p oor power-management
implementation, however, that choice may
not be open to you. A power-management
scheme that does not check the serial port
or the hard disk for activity may end up
s hutting down t h e system when y o u

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The same thing can happen during
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saved by Microsoft's Video codec.
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capabilities will be the basis of a forthcoming compression standard dubbed MPEG-4.
Some Windows applications will not
work with QuickTime 4.0, but may work if
version 2.1 is installed alongside it. For
example, the troubleshooting notes for Peter
Gabriel's Eve CD-ROM say, "QuickTime 2.1
for Windows must be installed even if you
have QuickTime3.0.QuickTime 2.1 and 3.0
will run side by side and should not cause
any problems." In our tests, this advice also
applies to QuickTime 4.0.
As we noted with version 3.0, the loading speed of our Web browsers declined after
installing QuickTime 4.0. After installing
QuickTime 4.0 in Windows 2000 beta 3
(already a little slower than we'd like on a
200 MHz Pentium Pro with 40 MB of RAM),
Internet Explorer 5.0 started operating very
slowly, presumably due to the new overhead
induced by the QuickTime plug-ins provided. Attempting to play a movie from Apple's
Web site on this system was so sluggish as to
be impractical. Our Windows 95 and 98 systems fared better. Playback on our 240 MHz
PowerMac was decent, however, Internet
Explorer 4.5 developed a never-before-seen
propensity to quit spontaneously without
even so much as an error message.
As with version 3, the freely downloadable version of QuickTime 4.0 is severely
crippled and cannot export, loop, edit or
even display full-screen movies. These limitations are erased by paying US$29.95 for a
registration code; QuickTime 3.0 Pro owners
can use their existing code to upgrade.
Note, however, that even with the Pro
version, QulckTime cannot convert sound
files to MP3 format yet another feature provided by Microsoft's free Media Player 6.1.

What's inthe Pro version?

The QuickTime 4 Pro version sold through
Apple's Web site provides an easy to use (i.e.,
limited) video editor and additional authoring and playback features (described at

http: //wvvw.apple.corn/quicklime/upgrade/), including several that were previously part of the

2.x release's freeware version, such as looping
and full-screen playback. Mac downloaders
may miss additional options the previous
Windows versions of QuickTime never had,
such as the now P
rovenlySave Movie feature.
Indeed, as many Mac users complained about
QuickTime 3,0, Apple has basically crippled
its freeware version of MoviePlayer and is
making you pay for functionality that the old
2.x version provided for free (and still does, if

you saved a copy).

Conclusion
The new QuickTime Player is a slick-looking
but functionally clumsy design, and its links
to Internet content are undoubtedly revenue
generators for Apple and its "featured partners." We were disappointed that QuickTime
4.0 does not support saving as MP3, or playback of the VBR MP3 files that are increasingly common on the Internet. These files
are both smaller and play back with higher
quality than CBR files. There is every likelihood they will continue to grow in popularity. We hope Apple addresses this issue,
improves the quality of streaming video and
adds more codecs in a future release of
QuickTime. 0

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By Cene Wllbnrn

Welcome to Linux Inside, a monthly column

devoted to tracking what's new and interesting in the Linux world. Unlike the companion training series, Linux for Newbies, Linux
Inside is for those of you who already have
Linux up and running. So, let's check out
what's new and cool in Penguin land.

e most important Linux event of the

year has been the release of the Linux

2.2 kemeL The kernel is the engine, or

heart, of Linux and is the part that Linus

Torvalds created and continues to work on

with his merry band of developers. As you
probably know, Linux was named after
Linus, who is something of a folk hero to us
Linux users.

Kernel releases come in big jumps and little jumps. The changes from Linux 2.0.28 to
2.0.32, for i nstance, were minor. They
cleared up a few problems or added a small
number of new features. They were mainly
update releases.
While most of us were using the stable
2.0 series, the kernel development team was

on the box to give it new life.

Here are some of the highlights of Linux

2.2:
Op t imizations in the kernel will make

Unnx on the desktop

In addition to the new Linux kernel, the
past year has w i tnessed extraordinary

d evelopments designed t o

b r ing a

Windows- and Mac-like environment to the

Linux desktop. Although Linux has had X

Window graphical managers for a long

time, the X environments available have
tended to be less well-integrated than those
for Windows and Macintosh. That's rapidly
changing.
There are now two competing leadingedge graphical environments for Linux: K
Desktop Environment (KDE) and GNU
Network O b ject M o d e l E n v i ronment
(GNOME). Both have taken attractive features from Windows, Macintosh, OS/2 and

The PCI bus subsystem has been totally NextStep, plus some new ideas, and comr eworked, allowing Linux

t o w o r k bined them into desktop environments that

smoothly with a greater number of hard- even your parents would enjoy using.
Linux even faster than before on
KDE (httpJ/ww.kde.org) is the more mature
ware devices.
series. In the spirit of Linux, anyone was free
machines with at least 16 MB RAM.
of
the
two, having had a headstart in develto download the experimental kernel at any Wh ile the Linux 2.0 series provided some Laptop users will find improved power
opment.
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management
support
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port, 2.2 has scaled up the level of SMP
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ported in the kernel.
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Hat.
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PC is going to be a quad-processor Huge improvements have been made in
March
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to becoming deployed in corporations, it has
port up to 16 processors.
world's largest computer trade fair held
radio tuner cards.
acquired features that allow it to compete In a d dition to I ntel, Cyrix and AMD
annually in Hanover, Germany.

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6.0, Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor,

has begun distributing KDE as an option.

May/June timeframe before the major distributions could integrate it and start offering it

attractive desktop environment with drag-

The Linux 2.2 kernel was released offi-

KDE is a thoroughly contemporary,

to customers. You can either manually install

the new kernel into your existing Linux
setup or update your system with a commercial upgrade. New distributions based on 2.2
include Red Ha t L i n u x 6 . 0 , C a ldera
O pen Linux 2.2, SuSE Linux 6 . 1 and
Slackware Linux 4.0. At the time of this writing Debian GNU/Linux is still 2.0-based with

and-drop features, customizable toolbars

and taskbars, themes, wallpaper, screen-

kernels bring improvements, they invariably

break things that were previously working.
Because Linux is sourced from so many different places, it takes a while for all the parts

items: a calculator, yellow sticky notes, simple text editor, organizer, address book, fax
viewer and, of course, games. There is even
a kpilot utility for synchronizing Palm
handheld computers with korganizer.

savers, desktop shortcuts and built-in mini-

apps such as a file manager, floppy disk

manager, CD player, and customization dia-

logue boxes.

One utility, kppp, provides a graphical

interface to help users master the dreaded
Linux pp p c o nnect t o t h e i r I n t ernet
work progressing towards a 2.2 release.
As always with new kernel releases, there provide rs.
It also includes an assortment of useful
are a few cautions. While major new levels of

to settle in. If you have an important production server running on the 2.0 k ernel

KDE has developed strong momentum

series, you should probably wait a few in the development community and
months before even thinking of upgrading. O'Reilly R Associates (http J/Www.oreilly.corn/),
For your personal desktop machine, how- the publisher of h igh-quality books on
ever, you usually have less to worry about Unix, has recently released Programming
and can jump on the new release as soon as

you like.
Hats off to Linus and the development
team for taking Linux to the next level of

sophistication!

with Qt to help programmers learn the environment.

GNOME (httpJ/www.gnome.org) is part of
t he G N U Pro j ec t (F r e e Software

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TCP looks at the final release of Microsoft's long-awaited suite

By Craeme Bennett

Autocomplete automatically added "Arts

Ltd.,s thinking that I wanted to type in my
fter its long-awaited release, Microsoft
coinpany name. Fortunately, it seems to
officially launched Office 2000 in
have learned, Now, when I type NGraeme " it
early June. I looked at the Premium
pops up a tool tip containing my first and
Edition of the suite and found it to be stable
last name, indicating that, by pressing Enter,
with some very powerful features for pubit will Autocomplete that text string. By simlishing to the Web.
ply continuing to type, you can also override
The Premium Edition tested included
this feature.
FrontPage and PhotoDraw 2000 which are
The program, which i n c ludes and
both excellent programs.
requires Internet Explorer 5.0 for some of
The company claims system requireits functions, allows you to open Office
Mi r Of t .-.ments for the suite haven't changed since
documents via the Edit button on Internet
Office 97 but then again, 16 MB of RAM
Explorer's toolbar. It also allows the openwasn't a realistic minimum memory coning of Web documents in the application
figuration for Office 97, either. I tested
in which they were created, or in other
Office 2000 o n a v a r i ety o f s y stems
suitable applications on your system. (For
equipped with 40 MB to 160 MB of RAM,
example, on our system, a Word document
a nd CPUs ranging f ro m a 1 6 6 M H z extra RAM if your system is running on a saved as HTML could be reopened in Word,
P entium t o a r a n g e o f C e l eron a n d minimum supply.)
FrontPage or Notepad.) Right-clicking a
Pentium II models and even a dual-CPU
The program's Autocomplete feature may document and choosing Edit opens the
450 MHz monster running Windows 2000 . seem intrusive at first, and you' ll probably document in the application that created
beta 3, a l l w i t h r e a sonable r esults. spend some time using the Undo command it. (Windows 2000 adds a context menu
Performance, howeverwas poor on a sys- (or Control+Z keyboard equivalent) to
option to Open With as well; Windows 9.x
tem with only 32 M B o f m emory. (At unravel its "help.' For example, when typing users can open documents with a choice of
today's low prices, it is worth investing in my last name at the top of this article,
Continued on page 107
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Foundation). Rather than Qt, it uses the
GTK+ software library. (Officially, GNOME
is pronounced guh-nome and GNU is pro-

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users who do not know, or care, how to use
the traditional Unix vi editor. 0

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IT manager, musician and writer who operates a
small farm of Unux servers. Back issues of this
series are available on his Website at www.interlog.corn/-njo/. This series, and the companion training series, Llnux for Newbies, can also be found at
TCPs Web site, http Jheww.tcp.ca.

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is currently best integrated with a manager
called Enlightenment, which p rovides,
arguably, the nicest-looking desktop you
can find. Red Hat 6.0 installs GNOME as its
default GUI. SuSE 6.1 and Slackware 4.0
offer it as an option. It is readily available
for Debian.
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meaning there are wrappers for programming in GTK+ for several programming
languages, though the main language is C.
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GNOME have a somewhat more attractive
appearance than the ones that come with
KDE, but overall KDE is faster and more
stable. GNOME is only just reaching maturity while KDE has been in general use for
several releases.
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folks who are new to Unix. With KDE or
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file.)
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concerns. For example, when I installed Excel to create documents, then share them
the program onto an NT system running on the Web, ditto. However, those who
Microsoft"s Internet Information Server want to edit those documents in a program
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bit more effort than some might want to stable and its behaviour predictable in all
undertake just to have this feature. The tests so far. For those of uswho've struggled
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one in your organization's IT department. Premium edition carries a hefty $1,229 list
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reat ui e to over oo e P o t o-Paint

By JacquesSurveyer

or every book on Corel's Photo-Paint

imaging software there must be five for
Adobe's Photoshop. This is too bad,
because Corel's Photo-Paint is technically
every bitmap the equal of Photoshop. On top
of that, it is distinctly easier to use, has a better scripting language and is much easier on
the wallet. In The Offinol Gu/de, author
David Huss helps convey some excitement
about using this often overlooked program.
As might be expected in an official guide,
Huss provides a good overview of PhotoPaint's basic interface elements and introduces some of its nicer features like the three
preview modes, docker dialogues for controlling objects, scripts, channels and a recorder,
plus the critical tool-setting and color
rollups. He also outlines four methods for
getting images (in more than two dozen file

formats) into Photo-Paint, including imports

from Twain devices, clipboards, drag-anddrop operations, and albums.

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Publisher: Osborne/McGrawHill
Price: $55.95

Finally, what's a tour through the wonders of Photo-Paint without a few dazzling
demos and a clever guided display of effects,
filters and plug-ins. (These stunning effects
are built into or induded with Photo-Paint
and are probably its biggest value. You'd pay
significantly more for other programs with
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using multiple images as objects in a montage design. There is also a section on graphic types and color models to get users comfortable with the intricacies of color correction and the trade-offs of image size versus
color control and fidelity. This is particularly

This book i s t h e l atest offering in

Peachpit Press's Eitfle Book series, which
indudes such popular titles asThe Eitfle Mac

both beginners and pros, are well served by

important for both Web designers and print
publishers.
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Book.One of the signatures of this series is

that the authors assume the reader has little or no technical knowledge, and they
cover their topics in a friendly, no-nonsense manner. This book is no different,
and is really designed for the absolute
beginner, assuming that the reader has no
or the Web,
After providing s ome b ackground
material on what Web cams are and how

you can use them for teleconferencing or

for simply adding some spice to your Web

The book covers a lot of other material

that may or may not be of much use. For
example, there is a section that deals with
creating your own screensaver based on the
pictures you take with your Web cern. The
basic idea seems to be that since you have
the technology to take pictures, you might as
well use them. Not a bad idea certainly, and
it may be a good way to put your Web cam
through a drill before you go "live," but I
really wonder how many people will use this
particular section.
The book will also be a disappointment
to those looking for more advanced Web
cam information for example, I couldn' t
find anything about setting up a remotecontrolled Web cern, where a user can control where the camera looks ever the Web.
This is not an unreasonable topic for this
type of book to cover, but there were no references to it.
On the whole, this is a good book on the

site, the book quickly examines the types

of Web cams available and how to find
the one best suited to your needs and
budget.
Designed to help both Macintosh and
PC users alike, it also takes a detailed look
into downloading and setting up popular
Web c er n
s o f t ware l i k e M ic r o soft
NetMeeting, BoxTop Software's iVisit, and
M irabilis Software's I CQ . T h e b o o k subject, especially if you are a beginner and
includes a quick teur of Web cern sites' are eager to get things going quickly. The
around the world, devotes a chapter to
book provides a friendly approach to the
interviews with people who have already topic, and would make a good gift to someset up Web cams, and explores how Web one who has just received an Internet-ready
cams can be lots of fun.
digital camera. 0

up and running quickly.

this thorough and fascinating guide to Corel

Photo-Paint. 0

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deep knowledge of such things as modems

ing, it really isn't and The f.ittle Web Cam

Book shows just how easy it is. While this
book may not be in-depth enough for the
techies out there, The Little Web Cam Book
has enough info to get the absolute beginner

Rating:

tal photo manipulation) were particularly

Coral Photo-Paint 8:

pictures over the Internet may seem daunt-

The Uttle Web Cam Book

Author. Hisabeth Parker
Publisher. Peachpit Press
(dist Addison-Wesley Longman, Tel: 416-447-5101)
ISBN: 0-201-35420-9
Soficover 358 pages 1999
Price: $28.50

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Internet-ready digital camera) an
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inexpensive or free software that you can
download. While putting all of this together
into something that can take and transmit

tips and helpful exercises in this book. In

fact the step-by-step workshops that cover
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height.
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the image in relation to the overall height of where a specific word will appear on-screen.
the browser window. So if you wanted to So even if you can"t really use it effectively
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take one of three different properties: a unit

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any size you want using standard CSS mea- individual letters in the text that appears on <H2 ALIGN='CENTERSTYLE="LETTER-SPACING:
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above, can make the text virtually unread-

able. Use this particular property sparingly,

and do not go overboard when setting the
value for the distance between the letters.
Again, this is another case of a property
being fully supported by the latest version of

Internet Explorer (versions 4.0 and up), but

not at all w i t hin t h e l atest version of
Netscape Navigator (version 4.6). If you plan
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no information is lost when a user reads your

page using Netscape Navigator.

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The LINE-HEIGHT property enables Web
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text on a Web page, Using this property, you

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By Kelth Schenglll-Roberts
uction fever has hit the Web big time.
Whether you are looking for a hardt o-find press kit f o r t h e m o v i e
Buckaroo Banzai,gold coins, Wedgwood
china dolls, antique furniture or just about

anything else imaginable, you will most likely find it in one of the hundreds of online
auction houses that have sprung up on the
Web. This article takes a quick look at eight.
No, now I have nine. Do I have 10? Yes! I
have 10 auction Web sites. Any more on 10?

quickly grew and expanded into other

venues, and now sells just about everything under the sun. If you are selling or
looking to buy something, this is probably the first place you should check out.
Just remember all of the prices at auctions are in American dollars.

twist on online auctions because it targets select cities across North America,
including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal,

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they also offer a Petfinder service to help
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sold to the guy reading the newspaper.

for computer gear. Many auctions start at

recently got into online auctions, and is

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your Web pages. Used more subtly, you can

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text on your text page, making it run longer
so it appears to contain more text.
The LINE-HEIGHTproperty can take one of
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or a percentage value that is relative to the

displayed font's height.

If want the text on your Web page to look
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use the LINE-HEIGHTproperty in conjunction
with the FONT-SIZE property (this property
was discussed in detail in an earlier article in
this series). This way, you can simply set the
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in LINE-HEIGHTfor the paragraphs of text on your
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You can also achieve this same effect by

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microphone to recording from CDs. It uses "establishment" record labels who secretly
QuickTime technology to save and convert fear MP3 and similar formats of digital
sound files in various formats, including music mean the end to their control of the
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seH these files, put them on your Web site,
or share them with your friends. Right now

the members of the recording industry are

split, supporting competing protocols, but
eventually they hope to create a format that

prevents piracy. When that happens, we' ll

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connector to match your computer's serial
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trouble-plagued Rage 128 drivers shipped

by ATI recently.
e've been working with a Voodoo3
Installation was a snap. We inserted the
3000 from STB (poised to be card into our system's AGPslot (the Voodoo3
acquired by 3dh, the maker of the is an AGP 2x device) and powered up.
Voodoo family of chips) and we' re mightily Windows 98 detected the device, and promptImpressed.
ed us for the drivers. We inserted the CD-ROM

tmecolor gaming is overrated, anyway there

isn't a caui on the market that doesn't suffer a
noticeable slowdown in tmemlor mode (after
all, you' re working with millions of colors
instead of thousands) and, for most people, 16bit color provides the best tradeoff between

hardware decoder aud is stfil your best bet.

The only other drawback to the Voodoo3
is its lack of a shipping Open GL ICD drivex
Don't be fooled by prerelease reports such as
those from OpenGL that crowed "3Dfx will
ship their first branded Voodoo boards with

inddent. The company provides a helpful

image fidehty and pedonnance.

Voodoo3 chips and include a full OpenGL
3dh ships drivers for Windows 95, 98 and ICD.. . . A l l b oards will ship with a full
NT 4.0. Both Installed easily and worked well, OpenGL 1.1 ICD," or FastGraphics' breathless
although the NT driver's hck of support for
report that Voodoo 3... will be cheap and
DirectX (or should we say NT 4.0's lack of ship with an OpenGL ICD... and thus supdecent support for Direct X) makes it less suit- port all OpenGL apps out of the box.' It didable as a gaming solution. It is also notable that n't happen, folks. The Voodoo3, as of driver

comes with a 35QMHz RAMDACand 16 MB of

installation video on the driver CD-ROM and

3dh's limited implementation of AGP (which

SORAM(not SGRAM),providing maximumresolution of 2,046x1,636. Includes a

TV/S-video output
jack (RCA),andstandard VGAconnector. Includes
1Q-yearwarranty (lifetimewarranty in U.S.).
Software: Unreal(upgradeto UnrealTournam
ent aviavailable for cost of shipping/handling); Need
for

a quick installation booklet to help novice doesn't really take advantage of the AGP bus
upgraders get started.
for texture storage or retrieval), is believed to be
We'd agree w it h
An a ndTech'sa contributing factor to the hct that the 3dh
(hitpJhuww.anandfech.corn/) review, which states cards are considerably less trouble-prone than

Voodoo3 3000
From: 3dfx

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Techni
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Speed III; Descent 3: Sol Ascent (special edition). A

coupon for DVD player software is also provided.
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and a minute later it was worhng. We tested

the card on an Abit BX6-based Pentium II system and a Pentium PC with an Asus PSA-B
Socket 7 motherboard, using the ALi AGP
chipset. Both worked on the fhst try without

that "Out of the video cards compared, the

competing cards based on nVidia TNf, Matrox

version 1.01, uses Microsoft's software GL dri-

ver for programs that require OpenGL. This

makes a program such as Newtek LightWave
5.6 fully five times slower in performing shaded rendering on a Voodoo3 than on, say, an
nVidia TNf4ased card.

best in 2D quality came from the 3dfx

G200 or (espedally!) Rage 128 chipsets.

However, a st:alled MiniGL driver is proVoodoo3 3000 whose 350 MHz integrated
The Voodoo3 supports "hardwareessfsted" vided for use with OpenGI based games. This
RAMDAC produced the dearest pictures at DVD playback, but comes with a card you have miniport driver supports Intel (including
1,280x1,024 and 1,600x1,200." (Anand rated
only the Matrox G200 as supedor in 2D out-

to mail in to get the DVD software (they do this

Pentium IIQ, Cyrix and AMD 3DNow! based

so they don't have to pay a royalty on every CPUs. 3df'x reportedly plans to be shipping an
formance,goodsoftware bundle.
put quality.)
card shipped). Expect to pay about US$10 for Open GL ICD by the time you read this. But
Casa: UmlledOpenGLsupport Driver version is
The Voodoo3's image quality in 3D gam- the shipping/handling/CD fees. Apparently, for straight ahead gaming, the Voodoo3
1.61, and afewglitches should beexpected.
ing is very good, but not great. This is because the hardware assistance doesn't extend to sup- rocks. We think it's the best choice in gaming
it does not support 32-bit "tmecolor" full- port for motion compensation
a dedicated graphics cards, bar none. Q
screen display modes. It uses some internal
This is the fastest graphics card we' ve trickery to deliver an image the company says
ever tested, and one of the least troublesome. is equivalent to 22-bit color, which certainly
Look at these 3DMark 99 benchmark results: isn't bad, but in a side-by-side comparison
with one of the competitors listed above in 32bit mode, you%I definitely notice the differ3dfx Vondoo3
nVldla TNT2
ATI Rage Fury

ence in some games.

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Textures that are photorealistic on, say, an

nVidia card's output have a hint but noticeable

dither patternon the Voodoo3-poweml disThe score for the Voodoo3 is a full 25
percent above the results we obtained
from the previous state-of-the-art system

(also powered by 3dfx): a pair of Voodoo2

cards linked together in a "scan-line interl eaved" configuration. Best of a ll , t h e
Voodoo3 driver worked in the majority of
our tests with nary a glitch. -This is a welcome contrast to ou r e xperiences with

a .

play. It's not that big a deal to most people, but

is worth mentioning. With that said, it's important to note that the card does not have a problem displaying 24- or 32-bit true color modes in

2D applications. We testedAdobe Photoshop in

16; 24-and 32-bit modes and the Voodoo3
looks as good asany other card you'll find with
photographic images or gradient fills in 24- or
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inux or New ies

Part 1: Introduction
By Cene WBbnrn
elcome to Linux, the hottest, fastest-

system was created by Finnish graduate student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of
Helsinki in 1991. Torvalds created the Linux

growing operating system on the kernel because he liked Unix but couldn' t
planet. Linux is everywhere these afford a commercial veaion. He drew togethdays: it's being used by businesses, schools, stu- er a band of developea from around the
supervision. Critically important parts of the

and the latest release, 2.2, positions it to

challenge Red Hat as the leading distro for
home users CaMera indudes a lightweight
version of Partition Magic that helps you

rest of the operating system came from the

install Linux onto an existing Windows

Free Software Foundation GNU Project, the

XFree86 Project, and various other projects.

95/98 machine. Furthermore, you can perform the entire Linux installation directly
from Windows. If you want the easiest way
into Linux, this is it. The 2.2 release
includes Wordperfect 8, Star Office 5, KDE
and the Linux 2.2 kernel It even sets up

dents, writers, sdentists, Web monkeys, programmers, graphic designers, and Dilbert's
mom. A I'ree operating system that has grown
from its hobbyist roots to deployment in major
corporations, Linux now has an estimated 10
miHion users worldwide. If you' ve been tempt-

world and they have been working on the

ed to rtyout Linux for yourself, stay tuned, this

Linux combines the seasoned, mature

features of Unix with support for modern
hardware such as Zip drives, color printers,
sound cards, Voodoo cards, PalmPilots, and

article is the first of TCPs new "Linux for

Newbies" series, and is designed to help you

Linux kernel ever since, under Torvalds'

get Linux up and running.

The series will lead you through setting up CD writers. One of the distinguishing feaand operating Linux on an Intel or Intelxompatible PC. Along the way you' ll leam enough
basic Unix commands to administer your
Linux system. To follow along with this series,
you' ll need a PC you can use to run Linux. The

minimum system for character-based Linux

(similar to plain DOS) is a 386 with 8 MB RAM,
a 100 MB hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive.
To use Linux comfortably with a graphical
user interface (GUI), your PC should have at
least 32 MB RAM and a fast processor, preferably a Pentium-level chip. Linux can coexist
with DOS/Windows, OS/2, or Windows Nr.
We' ll dig into the details next time, but plan-

The full, commerdal 6.0 release indudes directly from Red Hat or from your favorite
the Star Office 5 suite of office applications, computer shop. 0
GNOME, KDEand theLinux2.2 kernel.I'll
be using Red Hat 6.0 to illustrate this series. Gene Ilbum ([email protected]) is aToronto-based
Caldera OpenLinuxis aho well supported IT manager, musician and writer who operates a

WordPerfect for you as a bonus. Very slick

tures of Linux is the amount of choice given

to the user. There are at least a dozen GUI

and impressive.
SuSE Linux, based in Germany, is the top

choices, ranging from simple interfaces to

distro in Europe and hasbeen rapidly gaining acceptance in North America. lt's a

the slick new KDE and GNOME environments. Linux is highly valued for its speed
and stability it's fast and it rarely crashes.
Linux, which is named after Torvalds, is

normally pronounced lln-ix or lin-ux (as in

]QQX

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the penguin. The central Linux Web site is

happy campers.
Slackware Linux is a popular distro charning ahead, you' ll need a 500 MB to 600 MB Linux Online.

partition for a reasonably well-appointed

graphical workstation installation, and 1 GB or
2 GB if you want the kitchen-sink veaion.
With disk drives being so cheap these days, you
may wish to install a second drive just to experiment with Linux.

Clleoalng e lBstllbNtlen
Although Linux is free (you can download all
the parts and put it together youaelf), it's more

convenient to pumhase
a ready-made distribution on CD. Each "distro" has a slightly different flavor and texture. Once they' re up and

Is Unnx for yeny

running, they' reall pretty much the same, but

But first, a disclaimer. Linux is not for everyone. Linux can be challenging, frustrating
and a bit too technical for some users. When

each distribution has different installation,

maintenance, andupgradeprocedures.
They also vary in the amount, nature, and

acterized by a simple, straightforward,

menu4riven setup. It's one of the oldest of
the distros and the one that feels the most
like traditional Unix. Its clear setup and
simple approach to administration make it

a very satisfying distro to install and run.

Slackware maintains a good Web site and
has ahvays offered high quality. Its prind-

pal drawback isthat it has no easyupgrade

path to new veaions. The latest release,
4.0,
indudesKDE andtheLinux 2.2 kernel.

you start using Linux, you are embarldng on currency of the free software they indude. D ebian GNU/Linux, the only non<ommeKial distribution, is a sophisticated disa major study. If patience and a willingness Some distrosindude "personal use"versionsof
commerdal software, such as
Wordperfect 8 for
Linux. Every distro offers well over 1,000 free
Windows and Macintosh. If you enjoy com- proglalll5,
The major distros are: Red Hat Linux,
puting challenges, however, Linux offers the
Caldera OpenLinux, SuSE Linux, Slackware
biggest bang for the buck
and the most fun.
to leam new things are not among your
stronger qualities, you should stick with

on Linux. If Linux is not canted in your local

store, you can order the distros directly from

Unfortunately, Debian GNU/Linux is a

the companies via the Web, or from online dis-

diamond in the rough. It's the most chal-

to $50 or more. For this series I'm recom- count stores such as CheapBytes or Linux
mending the $1.99 special.
Systems Labs.
What ia Unnxy
If Linux were a motor vehicle it could be a
Volkswagen Beetle, a sleek Mercedes convertible, a Chrysler mini-van, a 18-wheeler Mac

Which distro should you pick? The best

guideline is this: if you have a friend who is
experienced with Linux, use the same distro he
or she is using. Getting help will be much easier that way.

gene of a number of independent, grassroots Internet-based projects.

The kernel, or engine, of the operating

lenging Linux to install for inexperienced

usea so I In not reconnnendlng lt to newbies at this time. Debian has been selected
by Corel Corp. for its forthcoming Corel
Desktop Ijnux. Once Core) has smoothed

over the rough edgesof installation, we' ll

revisit this release.

If you' re onyour own, herearesomerough

truck, or an all-purpose, ail-terrain Hummer

depending on how you set it up. There is no guidelines about specific distros:
operating system anywhere that can match it Red Hat Linux is themostwidely useddlsfor versatility.
tro. It's well supportedand there are several third-party booksdevoted to it. The curMore spedfically, Linux is a free Unixrent release is 6.0. Red Hat is a very good
compatible multitasking, multiuser operating system that resulited from the conver-

Internet, in the spirit of the FreeSoftware

Foundation. The Debian release is very
c arefully crafted, w it h t h e be s t
update/upgrade procedure of all the distros. The latest 2.1 release does not
include KDE, GNOME, or the Ltnux 2.2
kernel, though these can be added.

So, all you need to participate is an avail- Linux, and Debian GNU/Linux . Thesedistros
able PC with enough free disk space, a Linux are frequently sold at computer storesand are
installation disc, and an attitude. Ohyes a frequently induded on CDs sold with books
good connection to the Internet will really
help. The cost of obtaining a Linux CD will
fall somewhere between $1.99 plus shipping

tro favored by many Linux veterans. It is

maintained by a group of volunteers on the

Cetkiny ready
In the next instalhnent, we' ll look at the
mechanics of instaHing Linux. If you want to

follow along step by step, get a copy of the

Red Hat 6.0 for $1.99 fmm CheapBytes. You
choice overall, and is frequently the pick of ran split the cost of shipping if you purchase
professionalssetting up Internet servers. It multiple copies with a friend or two. If you' d
also makes a fine peaonal workstation. prefer a version that indudes a printed manInstallation is straightforward and easy. ual and extra software, pick up a boxed set

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record budgets, estimate cash flow and

timate that nearly 60 perxperts es

calculate salaries and other financial data

are more likely than not to contain inac-

rect calculations. This means that

t he documents we us e every day t o

This inonth I' ll look at the types of errors

worksheets can contain and some of the

cent of spreadsheets contain incor-

curacies.

tools and design philosophies you can use to worksheets can contain. Some are easier than
help ensure that your worksheets are error others to locate and fix.
free.
Syntox errors
Types of errors
Syntax errors are mistakes in applying the
There are three basic types of errors that language of the program you are using. For
example if yo u use a f o rmula like

=add(a4:a20) you' ll get a s y n tax e r ror

because the key word you' re using in the
formula is wrong. It should be =sum(a4:a20).
Syntax errors, as annoying as they are, are
easy to find and fix simply because the program usually finds them for you. For exarn-

ple, try typing =add(a4:a20) into a cell in

Excel and you' ll see the cell d i splays
BYNAME?
indicating that Excel doesn't recognize the text in the formula.

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actually run the program. For exainple, if
you have a worksheet that contains a formula that performs a division based on the
contents of two other cells, it will result in
a run time error if the divisor cell at any
time contains a zero. This may only happen
intermittently or under circumstances that
may be difficult to predict when you are

designing the worksheet. Run time errors

are harder to find and fix than syntax
Loelc errors
Logic errors are the hardest of errors to

locate and fix because there will generally

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are likely to work just fine and to return
valves but the problem is that they aren' t
doing what you want them t o do . For
example, if you want to calculate the sell-

NOR,

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markup and you use the formula =86i10'A
assuming that the cost price is in cell B6
then you' ll get a result but it won't be the

one you want. The correct formula is

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have done these at school when yov began
complex cakulations by first making a
rough calculation of w hat t h e a nswer

should be. You then made a more accurate

cakulation and tested to see if the answer

you got was about what yov thought you

would get, For example, a mark up of 12.5
percent on a garment costing $175 is a little more than 10 percent, so say it's about
$20. Your rough estimate would make the
sale price of the garment around $195 (it' s
actually $196.88). If you made this calcu-

lation using the logic error noted above,

the result wovld be a s elling price of
$175.10, which is well off the figure calcu-

lated in the rough check figure and would

indicate something was wrong with th e

formula.
Rough checks are "quick and dirty calcu-.
lations" they are meant to give you a rough
answer that you can compare to the spreadsheet "answer,"
Not all rough checks are as easy to make
as the one I just used but you can often
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figures and checking that the results are

what you expect. If the simple figures work
then there is a good chance more complex
ones will too.
Using known data is another way of
checking complex formulae. For example if
you know that an amount of $X invested for

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use these known inputs in the formula and
get the result you expect then it is likely that
the formula is correct.

Keeping constant data visible is perhaps

the easiest way to track errors. For example,
if you addstate and local taxes to items in an
invoice you can eliminate some errors by
placing each of the tax rates in a cell by itself
and refer to the cell in the formula rather
than placing the rate in the formula. If you

place 7.S percent in cell A4 you might calculate tax on an invoice using the formula
=InvoiceTotal'A4 rather than =InvoiceTotal'7.5%.
Constants buried inside formulae are hard to
find and to check for accuracy or alter if the
situation changes in the future. If you place
constant values in a cell by themselves and

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Workbooks can now contain a number
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click OK. In Quattro Pro use Insert, Name,

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Close.
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(and should) usethe name instead of the cell

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Naminy ranges
Compare the f ormula =A4 CS and
=Total SiateTaxRate. To understand the first
formula you would need to look at cells A4
and C6 and work out the data they contain.
You canthen return to the formula and

the cell and dick OK. In Lotus 1-2-3, select

Range, Name, type a namefor the range and

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should develop.

come to the conclusion that it cakulates the

state tax payable on a total figure. If you
look at the second formula you can make
that assumption from the wording of the
calculation.
Using "range" names like these make
your formulae easier to read and understand.
In Excel 97, you can name any cell in a workbook by choosing the cell and selecting
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sheet that has plenty of blank cells below it

and one free column to its right. In Excel,
select Insert, Name, Paste, then Paste List. You
will get a tw~ l u m n list with the names in
the first column and the cells they refer to in
the second. In Quattro Pro, select Insert, Block
Names and select Output, and click OK and
Close.

Chechlnlf your data

need to understand the difference between is called absolute addressing and it's an
Excel 97 has a neat function to help you absolute and relative cell addressing so you important concept to understand and use
track down problems when you suspect
particularly where you are placing
there are errors in your data. It allows you
to specify what is valid data for a given

constant data in a separate area of

a worksheet and referring to these

range, then ask Excel to find and mark any

cells in your formulae.

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cell in the range that contains invalid data.

To do this, select the area you want to check
and select Data, Validate, select the Settings

Develop ahealthy distrust

If you have the attitude that some-

Audit tools

tab and select the type of data allowed from

You can see the data that contributes to a the Allow dropdown list. Depending on the
formula by using your spreadsheet program's type of data you have selected, the dialog
audit tools. This is particularly handy when will alter and allow you to set other paraa formula returns an incorrect result
you meters for that data so you build a profile of
can quickly see where it is getting its data what data is allowed or what is valid. You
from and which other cells are relying on it can set different definitions of what is valid

where in your worksheet is an error

you' re more likely to be aware of
potential problems and to look out
for the possibility of a mistake or
two. On the other hand if you take

for their inputs.

even the most obvious blunders.

the attitude that your spreadsheet is

problem-free you' re less likely to see

data for different areas of your worksheet.

Too many users believe implicitly in the accuracy of worksheet

When you are done, select OK.

You can then set Excel to find
any data that doesn't comply
w ith y o u r s p ecifications b y
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information they seem to think

thatbecause a computer produced

selecting Tools, Auditing, select

. Show Auditing Toolbar and

the information it must be accurate.

The statistics prove this assumption

select the Circle Invalid Data but-

is wrong
and if you put some of
these tips to work in your worksheets, your work is more likely to

ton. Any cell containing data

that does not match the parame- Planing eenelent dele enehas Inn rates In n separate ornaof
ters you have set will be circled
in red allowing you to check and your wedreheefmalus II eneler lo eee,cheekendnpdele.

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contain valuable statistics than to

become one! Cl

edit it . Th e C lear Validation

Circles button will remove the can copy them correctly. When you refer to Next month we' ll look at some
of the teameditcircles from your data.
the cell A2 in a formula in cell A3 you aren' t ing optfons in yourword processor that youcan use

Addressing issues
If you have a number of formulae
to create across a row or down a
column you should create them
by copying them rather than
building each one individually.
Every time you write a formula
you run the risk of making a mistake if you write each one sepaUsing Bre lndlUng bulbar hnfionn yen ean frees fheee
rately then a mistake will be hardprovide fhe lnpnl lnlo formulae.
er to track and eliminate as each
ln Excel 97, select the cell that contains formula will need to be individually checked.
the formula you want to test and select
Alternately, if you write one formula and
Tools, Auditing, then Show Auditing Toolbar. copy it, even if it is wrong you' ll duplicate it
Select the Trace Precedents button to see the so many times that, with luck, it will be more
cells that provide data to the formula. Select obvious and tracking it wfil be easier because
the Trace Dependents button to see where it will be repeated in every copy. Fix one verthe data from this cell is used in subsequent sion of the formula and you can copy it to
formula. In Quattro Pro you can do the same replace all the other Incorrect copies.
If you' re copying formulae that include
thing using Tools, Auditing, Trace Precedents
or Trace Dependents.
references to constant values, then you' ll

really referring to cell A2 but rather to its

position in relation to cell A3 (one cell
above it), So, if you copy the formula A2i1

whenmorethan one person Isworldng ona document. HelenBmdleycanbe contacted at helenhelenbrndley.corn.

from cell A3 to cell B3 it will read =82+1 (try

it if you don't believe it). The only way this

can be explained is to say that the formula

in cell A3 is a formula that says "take the
cell one above this cell and add 1 to it."

When this formula is copied to cell B3 it

sfill reads the same way, if it is copied to cell
Z100 it will appear as =Zggr1 and it still

reads the same way.

Often you won't want the cell reference
to change and you may always want to
multiply something by the contents of a
cell. In this case you can fix the formula so
the cell reference to cell A4, for example,

will always read A4 if you refer to it as

$A$4. So, for example, if you write the formula 4A$4 2 in a cell and copy it, it won' t
matter where you copy it to it will alway".
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Railway unveils interactive timetable

According to Matthias Pankert, Philips with the caller until it understands what is
system went live late last year, but now the
full system has come onstream, allowing Speech Processing's program director, needed.
Because the system wasdesigned for natcallers to request instant train timetable Speech Mania is a s oftware package
information.
designed to allow people to carry out a ural language appliaitions, Philips says it is
As a result, Telia says, callers are experi- genuine intelligent dialog with a comput- highly flexible and has built-in allowances for
Allowing callers to interactively request
details about trains and fares, the service encing no more hold times or awkward er over the telephone. In use, he said, the incorrect grammar and regional accents and
men u A r iven
sys t ems. system listens to the caller, interprets the dialects. Since the phased system startup in
runs on a system supplied Telia and Philips. touch-tone
The system is driven by Philips' SpeechMania Furthermore, call centre agents are relieved content and context of their request and November 1998, Philips says that the system
has reported a 94 percent dialog successrate
speech-recognition technology and is capa- from routine information queries and can gives the appropriate response. If a
ble of handling several thousands of calls per focus on the actual reservation and booking request is unclear, the system will ask for and remarkable customer useracceptance.
Philips, htlpJ/www.speech.philips.corn. Telia,
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with each playing a unique set of notes. They
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The chamber music section teaches musical notation while children develop their
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flutes, and oboes.
Kids can chaage, move or delete spedfled notes or sections of their compositions.

They may play back oae instrument at a

time or all four simultaneously. Similarly,
they may block a section of notes and play
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Makalg More Music Is rated for children
eight years of age aad oldec If a child is on
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taking music lessons, the program could be a
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TRAININ C

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By Jacques Surtreyer

The first thing you notice is that the editor uses color coding: comments are in green;
n the first Visual Basic Tutorial we took a VB keywords are in blue; and most other
quick tour of the Visual Basic (VB) canvas code is in black. But as we shall see below,
and the visual programming tools, such users can customize these settings.

as the toolbox, form window, properties

sheet and Project Explorer. In this insMment we spend a little more time getting to
know the programming side of the VB environ, especially VB's very powerful text editor and some of the ways you can customize

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In the previous lesson we emphasized the
importance of VB's Project Explorer as a key
navigation aid among aH the forms and

code that make up a VB program. If the

Project Explorer window is not showing,
just dick the VtawlPttojzcr ExrLottxtt menu
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to pop it up like in Figure 1. As you might

The VB text editor's customization feaexpect the Project Explorer works very much tures are useful, but more importantly the
like Windows Explorer.
text editor is very smart. Every time a line of
code is entered, VB checks its syntax and
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C++ or Java programming that do not
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appreciate it.
Moreover, VB's Intefiisense feature gives
users lots of help in getting the syntax right
in the first place. Figure 2 shows Intefiisense
FINtte1: liB Projegt Explorer ulatiow
in action. As I started to type the1hcr2propIt has two folders one for aH the forms erty "text," the Intefiisense combo popped
used in a VB program project and another for up with aH the possible properties and had

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afi the modules. Modules are VB program

ules.
As shown in Figure 1, clicking on the
code icon brings up the text editor loaded
with any code assodated with the highlighted form or module. The form icon is next to
the code icon. Clicking on the form icon

If the subroutine has already been

defined, the text editor brings that subroutine into the window for immediate editing.

Notice that several subroutines are shown

in the text editor at once. By dicking on the
code toggle switch view shown in Figure 2,
you can view just the subroutine you are
editing, or aH the subroutines contained in
that .frm or .bas file.
This raises the final point on text editing. Just as a VB program can have several
forms, it also can have dozens of Basic subroutines spread over many files. The .frm and
.frx files contain both Basic subroutines and

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Creatlgeg a password proyram
In this exetdse we shall write a program that
checks for the password "Howdy from VB6"
and then prints a short messsage. First we
have to design the form. To do this, start up
VB, enter FaxlNxw and choose the SXANnAttn

EXE (we' ll discuss other templates in future

tutorials).
N ow click on t h e f or m an d i n t h e
Paorstrrtgs Sngxr change the form's CAFrtoN
to "Enter Password." Drag and draw a label
from the toolbox onto the top left of the

the controls and layout associated with each form. Also change the label's CArnoN propform. Now .bas files contain only Basic code erty to Enter Password."
but this code can be accessed/called from any
Next drag and draw a textbox just below
subroutine.
the label and extend it to the right edge of
the form. Blank out the textbox's Tsxr property and change its PAsswoxnCuAttproperly
to "' . This will cause the password, when
Test
filled in, to be displayed in asterisks with the
sas
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string hidden but available in the VB prosesesas
sea
gram.
Finally, add a command button to the
form. Change its caption to "Okay." Select
RtttelSTAxr from Vr s menu and the form

shown in Figure 6 should be displayed.

Fllttre I: Tite VB OpSoas seBlttis

Just as in Microsoft Word or Corel

WordPerfect, Visual Basic allows users to customize their own working environment and
how VB works. Figure 4 shows the Options
dialogue in VB. It allows you to make a
number of changes including Editor settings,
how docking will work, and more. In Figure
4, we changed some of the color coding and
font defaults used in the text editoz You find
the options dialogue under ToorslOmates
menu items.
ted so you have a quick way to catch
Under the PaojzcrslPaoramss menu
spelling errors.
there is a second dialogue for configuring
But there are a lot more conveniences how a spedfic project will work Many of
built into VB's text editor. In Figure 2 we these setting will be covered when we get to
point to the two combo box coding aids. the more advanced features of VB, like
The first combo box lists afi the controls debugging and compiling your program into
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Iri Figure 5 we show how to select which

form is loaded first by VB when the program starts up. This can be useful when
attaching a password dialogue or entry
"splash" screen to your program as we shall
in our exerdse.

honed in on the right suggestion by the time

I typed "te. AH I had to do was to hit the Tab

key and Intefiisense SHed in the rest of the
command.
On completion of the line it checks the
syntax and, if correct, immediately fancy formats the line. Fancy formatting indudes
adding blank spaces around operators (Hke
"+',
"'", etc.), auto-indenting code
To add new forms to a project click on
the Pao~IAnn FoaM menu item. To delete blocks and capitalizing variable names that
a form no longer needed in a project click on have been entered in aH lowercase. The latter
the form in Project Explorer and select the is a good reason for induding at least one
PINyacrlht ovs menu item. While it is a
capital letter in aH VB names. If you misspell
handy tool for adding and removing forms, a name its capital letter does not appear
the most common use of the Project Explorer when the line is immediately fancy formatcode that can be used anywhere in a VB program. Clicking on the forms folder makes it
expand out to show aH the forms used in a
VB program project. In effect, the project file
(.vbp file extension) keeps track of aH the
resources used in a VB program. Project
Explorer is a window into that project file.

select an event, VB automatically writes the

subroutine header and doser. For example:

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Now that the form is ready, let's do the
programming. First, doublewlick on the
Oxavbutton. This will bring up VB's text editor with the cursor right in the middle of the
Private SubCotrtmandl Click() subroutine. Type
the following code:
'Any line beginningwith an apostrophe is acomment
, like this one
' For testing tell the user their password
MsgBo
x 'Yattr password is ' & Textt.Text
End

brings up the form ready for VB program- the events that a spedfic control (a text

Note how easy it is to put in comments.

Any line beginning with an apostrophe
becomes a comment line. For the purpose of
this exerdse we are going to echo the pass-

ming. You can also double- or rightMck on

word back to the user. The MSGBoxcom-

used in a form. The second combo lists afi

a runtime .exe file.

field in the example) can respond to as

the form or module to quickly navigate. shown in Figure 3.

mand would normally be replaced by a call

on the procedure or program that this password is designed to protect.

Right now we want to go to the text editor to

modify some VB code. So we click the code

icon.
Visual Bask text editor
Next to VB's Debugger, the second most
powerful (and clever) feature of VB is its text
editor. The VB development team has lavished great effort on making editing in VB as
easy and effident as possible. Figure 2 highlights some of the key features of the text editoz

Now let's enter the code required to vali-

date the password. Choose the %herl control

from the text editor's CoNrxoL combo box at
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and again VB creates a skeleton routine:
Figttte 3: Eutnlg Uggegi etiltor combo
Again this aids coding because only the
correct events are shown in the list. If you

Private Sttb Texl1 Validate(Cancel As Boolean).

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In upcoming tutorials we will examine

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If Text1.Text <>'Howdy fromYB6' Then
' MsgBox is soimportant for quickly giving notices to

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using more VB controls. In the meantime, a
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valid passwords contained on file. Till next

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ties. Also, there was often a combination of

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en I visited the Boston Computer youth-oriented Japanese entertainment
M useum in
1993,Ihad achanceto untouchable to the big U.S. media conglomexplore the museum's free com- eiates and distribution channels.
Yet there was much in Japanese popular
puter lab a fasdnating community outreach program that made computer technol- culture that fit the emerging cyberculture of
the 1990s. The integaeon of human and
ogy available to Boston's inner city kids.

By Jeff Evans

As is the case with many other U.S., machine in mechaadventures such asMobile
Canadian and Western European dties, the Suite Gnndam, Appleseed,and Robotech;the
youth of Boston has in the last 30 years come enormous entertainment value of Japanese

to consist of a mix of dozens of national, religious and ethnic groups from all parts of the
world. What did these "global," multicultural hds want to do with computers?
Some were conducting science experiments, building simple robots, or learning
desktop publishing. Most, however, were creating art on the lab's Apple Madntosh computers. To mysurprise, although imagesfrom
U.S. pop culture (TV shows, fashion, cartoons, rock music, and action films) were
well represented, American pop icons
appeared to be, literally, a minority interest
to these computer kids.
Instead, the bulk of their art was based on

Japanesesources, ranging from video games,

through animated cartoons, to manga, as
Japanesecomicsare called.
Where had they learned about this stuN?
I asked them, and their answers always led
back to computer bulletin board systems
(BBSes), the precursor to today's Internet.
Something was happening here. Since

videogame hits such as Nintendo's Super

Mario; the cuteness factor ofHello Kitty, Astro

Boy,and more recently,Kiki's Delivery Service

all seemed to communicate well to technooriented kids.
I began to encounter Increasing numbers
of North American teens and young adultsmany eventually choosing careers in the
growing information technology industries
whose personal dreamscapes were
made up from a remarkably standardized
media kit. They were commonly involved
with some or all of the following: electronic,

punk or alternative music, sdence fiction

and cyberpunk books and movies, Asian

action films on laser disc, and a grab bag of
Japanese media, including video games,
manga,and Japanese animationknown as
animeor Japanimation. Although often a guy
thing, animeseries such as Sailor Moon
offered an heroic, exdting, adventurous role
model for young girls.

that is mostly invisible in mainstream

Canadian and U.S. television, publishing,

and retailing. Increasingly, however, if you
want to understand modem North American
youth culture, it seems you also have to
understand Japanese youth culture, and to
do that, you have to understand how the
Internet now ties the two together.

From Godziar

to Gundam to Grrl Power

As a childhood hn of JapaneseGodzilla monster films, I had been somewhat aware of the

increasing presence of aJapanese aesthetic in

my favorite entertainment genres of science
fiction and fantasy in the 1970s and '80s.

However, a number of bamers seemed to

limit the movement of commerdal Japanese
media into the Western mainstream.
Partly, it seemed that Japaneseentertainment formats and content were simply too
"different to easily appeal to massaudiences

outsideJapan. It seemedas if Japanesegame

shows, romances and sports, for instance,
could not be translated for Western sensibiTi-

In the above-ground entertainment economy of North America in 1999, Japanese pop

culture's place is still spotty. The videogame
market is the big exception, wlme Sony's
Playstation sales in the U5. have exceeded
Playstation sales in Japan (over 20 million
versus 16 million consoles, respectively), and
English language versions of Japanese game
software are often bestsellers. Elsewhere
Japanese pop culture, in dollar terms, is a
small player in mass media and retailing.
Japanese animation videos and DVDs are
sometimes available in a small section of
load video stores. Comic book shopscarry a
few translated manga titles next to the more
established titles, such as
X-Men or Spawn.
On the borderless Internet, however,
Japanese culture is huge. In the online world,

of the U5. television seriesmentioned above.

As a final comparison, Walt Disney's
Mickey Mouse has an astonishingly paltry
35,678 Web sites containing his name. This
might be hard to understand, considering the
global reach of the Mouse, until one factors in
the Disney's litigious attitude towanh thoseinduding fans
who use its copyrighted characters on unauthorized Web sites.
In fact, the phenomenon of Japanese
animeand mangapermeating the Web is perhaps the perfect model for how the Internet
is becoming the medium for a new global
culture that does not depend on traditional
corporate methods. As in the case of the MP3
music format, if the gatekeepers of commerdal mass media in North America can't figure
out how to packageand sellJapanese culture,
then it wiII spread with almost no commer-

dal or corporate direction

via the Web. This
an entertainment phenomenon can be mas- "Information wants to be free method of
sive without leaving a large dollar traiL
digital publishing has its ~ ,
t h ough.
Part of the power of some Japanese media
In a recent search using the AltaYista
comes from the fact that it is based on search engine (hfip
Jhww.altavisla.corn), I typed The dark side:
American mass entertainment f orms. in a variety of keywords to see how many laud of the risiuB Otahu
Modern Japan was created by a trauma that Web sites concerned themselveswith various There's an unhealthy or at least dubious side
seems hard for Westerners to rememberor concepts, and found some interesting pat- to Japanese popular culture, which is well
understand. After a century of trying to tems that give at least some hint of how per- known in Japan, and is becoming a concern
become a major power by emulating vasive Japanesepop culture is on the Net.
here. Many young Japanese men refer to
European sdence, education and militarism,
"Sex," as always, led the pack, with themselves asOtaku, meaning an obsessive
Japan was literally burned down to its roots 21,073,920 Web pages concerned in some fan of particular video games, or pretty
by the U.S. Air Force. Most major cities were way with that word, followed fairly dosely young pop stars, or animated cartoon series.
nearly flattened
two of them by A-bombs.
by "money, with10,166,980. "God" rated
Increasmgly, Japanesewomen are revoltAfter unconditionally surrendering to mention in 6,364,820 Web pages. "Football" ing against the social pressure to marry these
the Allies in 1945, Japan wasoccupied by the and "baseball had 4,641,600 and 4,043,720 very odd young men, prefemng the single
U.S. Army. What followed was acrash course mentions, respectively.
life, and leaving the men to their compulsive
in American culture.However, the Japanese
Hit TV series such as Bnl the Vampire collecting and consuming. Much of the
reacted to American commerdal massmedia Slayer, The X-paes, Xenaand the entire Star anime, mangaand video games collected by
as they had responded to the influx of Trekphenomenon had substantial but much Otaknis erotic and often violent andis the
Buddhism and classical Chinese culture: lower Web pagecounts of 255,210, 219,637, subject of more than one million Web sites.
they adapted it into a uniquely Japanese 266,150 and 245,469, respectively.
This is disturbing evidence that some of the
form. American influences ranging from
By comparison, "anime' showed up in Japanese culture spreading through cyberDisney cartoons to westems, to the science 1,752,100 Web sites, and "manga' in space is far from harmlessfun. For better and
fiction of Starship Troopersauthor Robert A. 1,438,930! An astonishing Web presencefor a for worse,the Internet hasopenedaglowing
Heinlein, morphed into a p eculiarly socalled fringe phenomenon. The anime window into a Japanese fantasy world that
Japanese aesthetic that still resonates with adventure seriesEvangehonis referred to in
entertains, inst r ucte d s educesthe

some Western audiences.

281,460 Webpages, more than Star 1Iek or any young of the wired world. 0

Panic in the Year Zero:

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