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6 From the Editor8 Letters

146 The Last Byte

TCP lab peers down the lenses84 It's a snap!

of the lotest digital cameras86 Digital camera survey90 Understanding digital camera storage optionsTech shock: Y2K is upon us

and I have no idea what's going to happen

99 Selling the electronic storefront99 lAN Line: Sharing, rights and permissions

99 On the Go: Wireless email no longer a fantasy

10 What's New54 Corel simplifies Linux experience65 Sperial delivery: Canada Post online

106 OS 9 advances the Mac platform

106 Linux Inside: Canadian open source projects107 Canadian Linux Users' Exchange

19 Personal compufing's recent history20 From Y1K to Y2K

1,000 years of computing(give or take a few millennia)

24 A short history of computers26 Information technology timeline

115 Online banking: How we got here

115 Weaving your own Web site: Part 51

115 Roots retailer digs into the WebIn-depth look at Coscoding Style Sheets: Part 9

>p « 47 Corel WordPerfect family Pack60 Ubi Soft's kinder, gentler games135 Disney keeps Nacs in mind with new

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66 TV on PC: Converged graphics cards66 Quicken: Best consumer software ever?66 Get funky with the 'disco' mouse73 Web TV for Windows80 Optura DV takes still and video images82 RCA Lyra joins digitai audio race

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Ever since Volume I, No. I maoff the presses in January 1987, TComputer Paper has retainedsame basic logo. There have beere6nements over the years, butthe general design stayed thesame. So, one of the 'we wrestled withwhether we shouchange somethinthat had becomedistinctive and reconizable.

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PCu in the 2tat centuryIn terms of mainstreun computing,the most interesting display I sawwas in Intel's briegng suites, awayfrom the tradeshow Boor in a localhoteL In one room, Intel displayed adozen or so examples from itsConcepts for 21st Century PCs proj-ect. Intel commissioned industrialdeign 6rms to break away from thebeige bcn, and design new formsusing technologythat i s a vailabletoday.

These arc "legacyfree" (no serial orparallel ports, andno ISA bus) designs,using Intel'sFlexATX mother-board, which issmaller than t henormal ATX moth-erboard. Among themore interesting designs were theOttoman PC (as in footrest). theMafp'c Bean (an organic. bean-likeshape for kids) and the scrubbableVesta kitchen PC. Barry on thesedesigns did I sce a 3.5-inch floppydrive. Many included DVD drives,and aa of them used USB as the soleport to connect to external derices.These creations and others can beseen on Intel's Web site at nttpd/dsvri-aper. intel.corn/technology/easeofuse/con-ceptpc.htm.

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prepare our new umbrella Web site, canadacnmputes.corn.It is thn new home of www.tcp.ca, whee you will nnd backIssues of TCP and our other print publications.But canadacomputes.corn will be mare than just an echivn

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manufacturersin the first fewmonths of 2000.

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Interesting times ahead,David Tanaka,Editor

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TCPreplies: ThelastroundupofLCDprojrr-tom was in our July 1999 issue, There are a fewpaints you sbouM keep in mind when choosingone of these devices. Thefiat disrincrion is in rkeimage-forming system used in a professes

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Password tracker doesn't collect infoA Web-based password management application lets users surf more easily with-out collecting personal data, according to its developer.

The Passcenter service (htip://www,passceater.ceml keeps track of multiple pass-words and offers single sign-on privileges for free. No information is garnered foruse in tailoring advertising or for other Web marketing applications, the compa-ny said.

"Passcenter will never accept advertising nor enter into financial agreements with other Websites," said Paul Barrett, chief executive of ID Arts, the company that developed Passcenter,corn."There's enough 'noise' on the Internet already. Users are looking for simpler, quieter Internet

Based on a service devdoped for the British government, Passcenter doesn't use traditionalauthentication methods, accordingto ID Arts. Instead of entering pass-words, users have to memorize five"pass faces" when they sign up. Toaccess the service after that, usershave to identify the five fromgroups of other "faces."

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What's NewContinuedfrom page /0Software reads Net email over phoneGuildsoft has started shipping a US$60 pack-age that monitors a PC user's Internet mail-box, then caUs them up over the phone tointeractively play their messages back.

Richard Clooke, a s pokesperson forGuildsoft, said the software was developed byItaly's Gensoh (htip://www.gehaoitchiihe.Ccm), and

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The 32-bit Windows package regularly dialsup and downloads a user'c email, placing it inthe user's Internet email applicauon as usuaL ltthen dials the user up — either on a regular land-line or a mobile phone — and olfcrs to play themassager hack using text-to-speech technology.

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Compugng gets pemonalRather than regard the integrated circuit as adeviation from its core businms of buildingmemory, Intel management had the foresightto see that the integrattxl circuit, the centralpmcessing unit for a potentiagy ingnitc rangeof computing devices, should become thefocus of the company's efforts. In short order,Intel developed the 8008, then the 8080 chips,just in time to seg the 8080 to a little company«agog MITS, which wanted to make do-it-yourself computer kits for hobbyists.

Two rather geeky kids named Bill Gates andPaul Allen wrote software for the MITS Altair8800 microcomputer, which had beenlaunchaI in 1974. Also foresceiag the possibil-ities of personal computing, Gates and Allenstarted a company called Microsoft to supplysoftware to the fledgling micmcomputer mar-

Around the same time, two other kids inCalifornia were selling "blue box' devices toallow users to steal telephone services. Thesetwo pranksters, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak,got out of that line of work before being arrest-ed, and instead decided to build a personalcomputer circuit board, which they called theApple I. In April 1976, the circuit boards wenton sale in electronic Byte Shops, with the slo-gan, "Byte into an Apple." The rest, of course, ishistory. Demand for the circuit boards was sostrong that Jobs and Wozniak rdessed a fullyassembled personal computer system, theApple B. By 1978. they were even able to moveApple's headquarters from the garage to a real

Once a surprisingly vigorous marltet forpersonal computers showed itself, many com-panies jumped into the PC manufacturinggame. Toronto-based Commodore BusinessMachines briegy marketed a KIM kit comput-er before releasing the Personal EkctronicTransacmr (PET) PC, foffowal by the VIC 20and thc Commodore 64. Texas Instrumentsdeveloped the TI 99 and Tandy Radio Shackthe TRS 80 PC, and a variety of other comput-ers from Kaypro, Atari, Timex/Sindair, Coleco,and others appeared at least bridly on the

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The gokien age of the PCBetween the launch of the IBM PC in 1991.and the rise of the World Wide Web by about1996, was a period of happy chaos in the PCmarket. In spite of the simple tarn that theApple Macintosh, Erst released in 1984, wasmanifestly superior to the PC, Apple's insis-

one, and this attracted IBM's interest. Initiallydedaring that there might be a market forabout 100,000 or so IBM PCs, IBM released itsErst personal computer. Based on a licensedversion of Micmsoft's MS DOS operating sys-tem, and an Intel 8088 processor, the IBM PClent a blue chip stamp of approval to the PC

Also, by providing a quasi-standard for thepersonal computer industry (" IBM compati-ble") without owning either the operating sys-tem (Microsoft DOS) or the CPU (Intel 8080,8088, 8286, etc.), IBM unwittingly made theIBM-compatible PC a viable mainstreamproductcategory,whichit had nohopcofcon-trolling. Hundreds of IBM-compatible PCmakers jumped into the market, and fairlyquickly, a few major vendors includingCompaq, Hewlett-Pa«hard. Packard Bell, Delland Gateway achieved the status of brand

tence on a monopoly over manufacturing Maccompatible computers meant that ag the otherPC makers in the world had to make some-thing else, and for most of them, IBM compat-ible was the only game in town.

One of thc worst things about the PC wasthat there reaUy were no Brm standards forbasic items like graphics, sound, peripheraldevices, networking or telecommunications.Adding any new hardware or software to a sys-tem was an "advcntur«." Corporations thatwere pressured to gct PCs for their gexibilitywatched the total cost of ownership of theseUaky things go through the roof due to downtime, training. maintenance and integrationdUE«ujties.

The two companies that were benegtingmost fmm the PC remained the two that hadprovided the key hardware and software com-ponents fmce the beginning: Microsoft andInteL Over time, they used their influence, insubtle and not so subtle ways, to try to bringsom«order to thc chaos of the PC. With plugand play. Microsoft took a big step forward inimproving the user experience of adding newhardware to a PC. Intel, for its part, waged anendless diplomatic campaign across the indus-try. attempting to assemble alliances and setstandards for improving thc PC.

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The semi-annual Intel Devdoper Forums(IDFs), «urrently held twice a year in PalmSprings, Calif., have become doser to true"Industry" Devdoper Forums, and Intel andthousands of other PC product developers getmuch better every year at agreeing to technol-ogy standards in advance of the rdease of newproducts. The result is that the PC is be«ominga much more stable professional appliance,and less of a hobbyist's tinker toy.

The future of the PCIn the age of the Internet, any device that canhook onto a network is a Network Computer.This indudes PCs with dial-up modems, cablemodems, DSL modems, or Ethernet, TokenRing, or wirdcss networks It also indudtu anyother information tool that has Internet mnnec-tivity. Alternatives to the PC in«lode handhelddevices, such as the Palm line fmm 3Com, digi-tal cell phones with text and graphics displays,and Windows CE devices of ag shapes and sizes.

According to presentations at the mostrecent IDF in late August 1999, the PC indus-try has set broad goals for the evolution of thePC over the next few years. They induder• Instant on: Going from power on to ready

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Colllplsgllg to goBoth Microsoft chief cm«utive, Gates, andIntd executives cbim the personal computersof the future will be portable and personalized.The emphasis will be on computing that trav-els with the user, either in the form of portabledevices, or a portable "personality," whichallows the individual to automatically cus-tomize whatever connected «omputing devicehe or she comes in contact with.

At the Comdex Fajj/99 conference heldrecently in las Vegas, several computing trendswere in evidence. For one, as Gates stated in hiskeynote address, our user experiences of theInternet will become morc personal, with theface the Internet presents to us conforming toeach user's wishes. For another, the age of dig-

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Near the end of the last Ice Age, sommne in what is now

sharp stone, and over the period of an entire month, scratchedthe changing shape of the moon's phases onto a pitxe of bone.

Thousands of years later, that bone with its carefullyengraved record of the phases of the moon was unearthed, andeventually recognized for what it was — the earliest knownexpression of human astronomical observation. This ancienttrace of mankind's obsession with time, counting, and sym-bolic representation of redity speaks of one of the fundamen-tal characteristics of the human species.

We are the apes that count. The built-in human ability tomake symbols that stand for time. things, bdiefs and numbers,has allowed us to construct the intricate, interrdatel global

culture we live in today. For human beings, knowledge is power,and the knowledge systems that civilizations have developedthrough history have been central to their success or failure.Modern computing didn't spring out of nowhere. It is just thc

most recent expression o(this basic aspect ofbeing human.This article will look at how computing came intobeing, mainly over the last millennium, from the year

I 000, to the year 2000 (although to understand thisperiod, we wig also delve into prior civilizations).

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In the year 1000 AD (YIK), the most tmhnologically advancedcivilization on earth was thc Muslim Arab Abbasid Caliphate,with its capital city at Baghdad, in what is now Iraq. At its peak,the Caliphate ruled vast lands stretching fmm Spain to India.

Although by the year 1000 some parts of the Caliphate hadbecome independent Islamic states, ag parts of the Islamicworld still shared strong cultural, religious, trading and techno-logical links. The Muslim Arabs had not conquered primitivepeoples and brought civilization to them. On the contrary,although much of Western Europe was still attentpting torecover from the barbarian invasions that brought about theDark Ages, the nations the Arabs conquered induded many ofthe most ancient civilized cultures of the Middle East, NorthAfrica, and Persia

Thc victories of Muslim Arab imperialism in the sixth andseventh centuries A.D. had given the Arabs ownership of therich traditions of astronomy, mathematics and computing ofthe Gra eco-Roman,Babylonian, Egyptian andPersian cultures. Under bril-liant rulers, such as HaroonAl Rashid, Arab universitieswere estab)ished and trade,science and e conomicgrowth flourished. By theyear 1000. the technologiesand arts of the conqueredpeoples had been synthe-sized into a distinct, uniqueArab civiTization.

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Kurzweil's logic is simple: computer tech-nology has surprised its own creators over thepast 50 years by increasing in power exponen-tiany. Against expectations, it has not hit anyabsolute barriers. and with the almost unlimit-ed research resources now being devoted to humans.

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high technology, there is no reason to assumeany imminent slowdown in the developmentof either digital or biological technologies.

Looking past the wearable, always-connect-ed, instant-on personalized PC gadgets of thenext five years, Kurzweil makes some disturb-ing predictions.

First: "Sometime early in the next century,the intelligence of machines will exceed that of

Second: "Once computers achieve a level ofintenigcnce comparable to that of humans,they wiU necessarily soar past it... Ultimately,non-biological entities will master not only thesum total of their own knowledge, but ao ofours lb«manity'si as welL"

Third: As this happens, there wiU no longerbe a dear distincdon between human andmachine.Fourth: "Humans have beaten ca«lotion. W e

arc crmting inteuigcnt entities in considerablyless time than it took the evolutionary processthat created us. Human inteuigence — a prod-uct of evolution — has transcended it. So, too,the intdligence that we are now creating incomputers will saon exceed the inteuigencc of

Kurzweil is mainstreaming a concept thathas generally been property of a fringe amongtechnology commentators, the concept of"post humanism." Put simply, the combinationof computer t«chnology and biotechnology,extrapolated only a few gencntions into thefuture, results in a vision of a new form of life.As articulated over the last quarter century byHans Moravec. a truly scary person. the post-humanist world view earns to lak«a weirdkind of pleasure fmm the possibility thathumans will replace themselves with a kind ofdisembodied, perfect-world brain.

According to both Kunweil and Moravcc,the nanotcchnologies that are being created forthe next miUenniwn — Y3K — combine controlof matter and energy at the fundamentalatomic partide lev«l with the computationalpower to create incredibly complete simula-tions of reality.

At some point, when all af the genesequences in a human being's genetic structurehave been identioed and ~ by somefutur«computer, that computer could runsimulations of that "person' s" Ufc as a sort ofsuper detailed computer game.

Simibuly, if every atom of a human braincan be identified by some computational sys-tcnx then prmumably, that computer couldrecreate a perfect replica of a human con-sciousness inside itsdL

Or could it?Scientific American went out on a limb to

publish Kurzweil's speculations, becausewhether he is right or not, computers have givenhumanity capabilities to manipulate informa-tion, energy, and maner in ways aw speciesnever has before. Computers may turn out to bemorc limited than the post humanists believe,but nobody knows what those limits may be. Inour rush to the brave new world of the future,we'd better start thinking about what we don' twant technology to do to us, rather than merelywhat we'd like it to do for us.?3

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omnipresent, occupying so many areasof our lives. The most obvious is proba-

bly the personal computer you have at homeor at work, but computers can be found almosteverywhere: from the chip that controls func-

Look around you. Computers seem

edged as the birthplace of the abacus (thoughearlier examples of this counting device arecredited to the Babylonians), one of manyexamples of an analogue computer. Over themillennia, computers changed little until thelast few hundred years — an era that ushered insome of the most of the important advances inour modern age.

200 years allo: thank JacquardIn 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard inventedthe Jacquard loom, a machine that usedpunch cards to rreate patterns with fabric.

In 1833, Charles Babbage, designed theDifference Engine (which he never «om-pleted) and the Analytical Engine. Bothwere analogue machines, but the AnalyticalEngine used memory. as welL

A major advance in computing tookplace in 1880, when Herman Hogerith, anAmerican inventor, adapted the Jacquardloom and Babbage's designs. creating amachine that would punch «ards using amechanical process. Data was aauaBystored on the cards. A single punch on the

card indicated asingle nu mber,while gmuping oftwo pun «hesdenoted a letter.With this mahod,up to 80 variationscould be generataLHoBerith won acontract to com-

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tions in your car to the chips ia mundanedevices like yow toaster. Computers havebe«erne a part of our busy lives to thedegree that they are easily taken for grant-

Where did they come from? Some havesuggcstcd that this technology was stolen fromaliens, but the truth is actually much doser to

To properly appreciate the origins of thecomputer, one has to go back some 5,000 ytnrsto ancient China. which is gencragy acknowl-

pute t h e U. S.Census. Using pre-vious methods, thetask was estimatedto take 10 years. but

with Hogerith's ma«bine, it took only sixweeks.

100 years soot the seeds of IBMln the wake of his succ«ss with thc U S. Census,Hogerith founded the Tabulating Machine

Cooard Burry, an Iowa SmtaSnivamgy oraduata studaat,

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Company in 1896. It eventually joined twoother companies to become the Calculating-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R) company in1 914, and i n 1 924, i t was renamedInternational Business Machines (IBM).

punch cards were a central part of «omput-ing in the 1960s and 1970s. For those of us oldenough to remember. the utility companiesusal to mail punch cards that served as bills to

The 1930s ushered in the Atanasoff-BerryComputer, now known as the ABC, which wasdevdopcd at lowe State University from 1936to 1942. It contained the ele«tronic arithmeticunit and regcnaativc, cydic memory — con-cepts that would later appear in more moderncomputea. In 1937 George Stibitz was work-ing at the Bell Tdephone Laboratories wherehe constructed a nlay-driven arithmetic unit.From there, he built several varieties of relaymachines that were eventually usal in WorldWar ll. In 1939, Stibim designed an electro-magactic relay calculator that solved the com-

er to decrypt German messages. In 1943. theBritish Bnagy created such a device, which wssdubbed tbe Colossus. The Allies built severalmore machines to assist in their D-Day plan-ning. The systans were available in time forthe Normandy landings, making a signigcantcontribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany.Outside of the war, the Colossus contributedlittle to the computer industry for nvo reasons:it was only deignal to de«rypt secret ma-sages, and its adstence remained secret formany dccadcs after the war.

In 1944, Howard H. Aiken, a Harvard engi-neer worhng with IBM, developed a com-pletdy electmnic calculator. The purpose ofthc machine was to compute ballistic chartsfor the navy and mathematical tables, muchlike Babbage's Ditference Engine. The machinewas huge — half the length of a footbag fieldwith roughly 800 km (500 miles) of wiring.The Harvard-IBM Automatic SequenceControlled Calculator Mark I or ASCC, used

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putational problem of complex numbers.Named the Complex Number Calculator, itwas used remotely over telephone lines.

With the beginning of World War II,computers became an important strategicweapon. In 1941, Konrad Zuse, a Germanengineer. had devdoped a computer cagedthe Z3 to design airplanes and missiles (thefirst of his Z machines was devdoped in1936). The Allies spend much of the earlypart of the war trying to develop a comput-

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ln the wake of the Mark I, the ENIAC(Elemronic Numerical l ntegrator a nd

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Computer) came into being, the result of apartnership between the University ofPennsylvania and the U.S. government. Whilethe ENIAC was 1,000 times faster than theMark I, it consumed 160 kilowatts of power,enough energy for a small city. The ENIAC wasan enormous piece of equipment, with5,000.000 soldered joints, 70,000 resistors, and18,000 vacuum tubes.

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EDVAC ( Electronic D iscrete VariableAutomatic Computer). This computer couldhold a stored program along with data. Withhis innovations, the computer could be pausedat any time, then resumed, picking up where itleft off. This offered more flexibility with pro-granuning. Another important innovation wasthe central processing unit (CPU), which fun-neled all computer functions through a singlearea of the machine. By 1951, this culminated

in the production of the Univac I, one of thefirst commercially available computers. Adaim to fame for the Univac was predictingthat Dwight D. Eisenhowe,r would win the1952 U.S. presidential election.

60 years ago: the rise of transistorsIn 1948, U.S. rcscarchers John Bardcen andWalter H. Brattain took out a patent for a tran-sistor. William B. Shockley appliexI for a patentfor the transistor efFect and a transistor ampli-&cr. In 1951, semiconductors became com-mcrriagy available. By 1955, transistors wercbeing produced in large quantities quicklyreplacing nearly ag vacuum tubes. In 1962.semiconductor transistors were reduced to thesize of a grain of salt.

In 1958, Jack Kilby, an engineer with Texaslnsmunents, invented the basic iut«grated cir-cuit. Robert Noyes improved upon it. invent-ing and patenting a method to interconnectthe components on a chip.

A&er thc creation of integrated circuits,came the challenge to miniaturize them fur-ther. This went through three main steps. The&rat, LSI (large scale integration) made it pos-sible to fit hundreds of components onto a sin-gle chip. VLSI (very large scale integration)came next, fitting thousands of componentsonto a chip. Finagy, ULSI (ultra large scaleintegration) made it possible to 6t millions ofcomponents onto a single chip. As the chipsbecame smaller, they also became feather, more6«sible, and cheaper.

During the 1960s, computers were built&rom solid state components. us&izing transis-tors and replacing vacuum tubes. During thistime, the IBM 1401 was produced. The 1401was an important milestone, because it con-tainml ag the components one would 6nd in apresent day computer.

An important fmture of these computerswas that they stored programs and languages.This made it possible to instruct the computerand easy to replace or update thmc instruc-tions as necessary. One task could be for num-ber crunching, while another would be forpayroll computations. FORTRAN (FormulaTranslator) and COBOL (Common Business-Oriented language) became the most com-mon languages, making it easier to program acomputer, and replaring the older method ofusing machine code.

The origin of the YRK "hug'What we now call the Y2K "bug" (essentiagy atwo-digit date &aid, which, when it rolls ov«r atthe stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, canbe interpreted by a computer as 1900 inst«ad of2000) began with the creation of the Cobol in1959. For the next 20 years. more programsw«re wrinen in Cobol than any other language.Programmers during that time had the optionof using two- or four-digit &dds, but the two-digit Beld was much more common. By 1974,Cobol of&rially adopted the four-digit Beld, butunfortunately, it didn't catch on immediately.

The mighty mouseOn June 21, 1967, Doug Engdbart applied fora patent on his X-Y Position Indicator for aDisplay System, now better known as themouse, a device that he had been thinkingabout and working on for more than a decade.Engelbart had originally sketched out the ideaof the mouse in notebooks that he had carriedaround for years. Around 1964, he and a groupof people he worked with got some money to

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As computers have grown ever smaller. theyhave become more powerful. Advances intechnology have created the LAN (local areanetwork) as a way to link computers togetherin an of6«e sewing. WANs (wide area net-works) extended connectedness further. hyjoining LANs, often in different cities or conti-nents. Networking has made it possible toshare files and programs over a wide area,making data transfer extremely efficient.Perhaps the greatest expression of networkedcomputing is the Internet and the World WideWeb, which have spanned the globe and madethe world a much smaller place.

2000 and beyondSo where is all this technology taking us?Predictions abound, but here are a few to thinkabout:

lt will become possible to speak in one lan-guage and have it automatically and instant-ly translated into another, not unlike theuniversal translator in Sror Trek. (AtComdex Fall/99 in November, Lernout StHauspie demonstrated sohware that trans-lates an email message wrinen in Frenchinto English in a matter of seconds.)Major medical procedures will be per-formed by tiny robots (micromachinesl,inserted through smaU incisions in the body,and progranuned to handle virtually anymedical emergency.

• The Internet will become completely wire-less, eliminating the need for phone lines

• The microcomputers as we know them willbecome a dung of the past. Instead. pro-grams will be available from a large central-ly located database (for a small fee, ofcourse). Users will have dumb terminals athome or the ofgce, and will simply log onwhen they want to use a program. This isalready taking place to a certain degree onthe Internet, where users can log intoschools online.

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Sitting astride the trade routes betweenChina and India to the east, and the GreekByzantine Empire and a slowly recoveringEurope to the west, the Arabs and their subjectpeoples were world leaders in scientificthought and research for more than 500 years.For example, the mathematical term "alSo-rithm," a clearly defined procedure for obtain-ing the solution to a problem, is derived fromthe name of al-Khowarizimi, a ninth centuryPersian mathematician.

The scholars, astronomers and engineers ofthe Abassid Caliphate had access to ag thenumbering and computing technoloBies thatEurasian and African humanity had developedover the previous 5,000 years. These technolo-gies were extensive and impressive, even bymodern standards.

By 3000 BC, the ancient Egyptians andBabylonians had developed geometry to helpbuild huge structures such as the pyramidsand ziggurats. Map making and surveyingtechnology was created to determine landownership, boundaries, and to aid in naviga-tion and international trade.

The religion of computingAncient peoples all over the world, from the

Maya of Central America, to the ancientChinese and Hindus, to the Pre-Celtic inhabi-tants of Britain, developed great skill at astron-omy, dcvcloping mathematical systems thatallowed them to predict astronomical events,and building structures such as Stonehenge (areligious and astronomical monument inEngland, that was started around 3000 BC).Astmnomy had practical economic uses, suchas calculating the dates in the year when it

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ln most ancient civilizations, religion andmagic were not rigidly separated from politics,technology or business. All parts of a culture'sbelief system were integrated. with religiongenerally being the m ost i mportant.

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puting aid, still used widely for business inpans of Asia. (As recently as )940, a skilledJapanese Soroban user named Matzukai wenthead to head against an American electroniccomputer in a calculating competition andwon.)

The civilizations of Egypt, Babylonia andAssyria also established royal libraries, the firstexamples of extensive databases. The greatestlibrary in the ancient world was at Alexandria,0 Greek city in Egypt. It contained more than amillion books, summing up the knowledge ofthe world of its day.

Beginning in the sixth century BC, the clas-sical Greeks, learning from their moreadvanced neighbours, began to integrate andimprove upon the foreign mathematical andcomputing systems. By 450 BC the Greekswere highly proficient with geometry, Andwere using the abacus. By 320 BC, Aristotleattempted to gather all scientific And natur,dknowledge into a single, comprehensive sena l

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numerical system on which our modern sys-tem is based, and which included the conceptof zero. The Arabs adopted a version of theHindu numerical system around B00 AD, and"Arabic numerals" eventually found their wayto the West, pardy through the efforts ofLeonardo Pisano Fibonacci, around 1202 AD.

Pessino the torchAlthough the Muslim Arab Empire preservedand even advanced the classical world's com-puting technology, its glory days came to 4

The Mongol invasion, which dimaxed in thedestruction of Baghdad in 1258 AD, ruinedmuch of Central Asia and the Middle East, andmortally wounded the dassical Arab civiliza-tion. (It's worth noting that the barbarianMongols also respected high technology. Theirinvading hordes generally took with them acontingent of the best Chinese engineers andtechnicians to apply the latest military techno)-ogy, including gunpowder and sophisticatedmechanical siege engines, to break down theenemy fortresses that the Mongol cavalrycould not overcome.)

ln short order, most of the lands of theMuslim Arab Caliphate were taken over by theMuslim Ottoman Turks, whose empire con-tributedd relatively little that was new in the wdyof science. As European science and scholar-ship revived during what we now call theRenaissance of the 1400s, the Turks inadver-tently gave a final gift of classical civilization to

In 1452, the Turks finally conquered the cityof Constantinople, which had held out againstM uslim attacks for nearly 900 years. A wave ofwell-educated Greek refugees fleeing the fall ofthe last great city of the Graeco-Roman worldbrought with them treatises on mathmnatics,mapmaking and astronomy that directly

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server environments.

Linux's greatest success to date has been itspopularity as a server operating system.Framingham. Mass.-based International

Data Corp. (IDC) reports that l3 percent ofcommercial organizations are using Linux. By2003, IDC predicts Linux commercial ship-ments wiU have a compound annual growthrate of nearly 2S percent, compared with a rateof 10 percent for aU other client operatingenvironments, and l2 percent for ag other

Linux's popularity on servers, however, hasnot translated into gening the operating sys-tem onto desktnp PCs. In this market, Linuxhas a lot of catching up to do."Linux has a market share less than half of

the hlac OS, but more than twice oF OS/2 orUnix," says Dan Kusnetzky, director of operat-ing environment research for IDC. "So Linuxis there, but it is not a major force."

The reason is quite obvious, according tomany analysts: >n us present form, Linux issimply too hard to use. While efli>rts have beenmade to simplify it, many outside the pro-

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developers, and it is great for develupers whodon't mind typing on a comn>and line andniggling aU the bits m the OS to get things justthey way they want ihem," says Scan Draeker,founder and president of Loki EntertainmentSoftware, in Tustin, Calif.

Loki ports popular PC-based games-including Civilization, Soul Glider, Rail RoadTycaon II and Ultimate Solitaire — over to

"But most people want to use iheir comput-er and don't have the time or the interest todeal with that kind of thing," Draeker says. "Iwant dialogue boxes, menus and the kinds oftools created by Apple and Microsoft to makethe camputer more accessible to the rest of us."

Enter Ottawa-based Core) Corpnration withits ambitious goal of making its Linux OS forthc desktop as friendly to install and use as anyother operating system. Coral's mu>anve wa>announced m April l999 with an alliancebetween Carel and two open source developer

communities. The alliance was formed todevelop a graphical user interface (GUI) forLinux, and to simplify thc instagatian process,which many potential users discovered was tooonerous a task as they tried to load Linux ontoa system. Carel's goal was ta develop a versionaf Linux OS that automatically detects the sys-tem's hardware — including sound cards, CD-ROM drives, printers, and scanners — andloads aU the necessary drivers.

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LAS VEGAS — The personal Web is the nextbig thing, according to Microsoft chairmanBill Gates.

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lesson on the PC industry, pointing out thctension between "big iron" centralized com-puting and the personal computer model ol'processing power distributed across multipledesktops. He then applied the big box versusPC debate to his personal Web vision. Thegrowth of PC penetration in the home (morethan 50 percent of U.S. homes now have a PC,according to his statistics) has spawned anindustry of innovators. Add the Internet phe-nomenon on top of that, and "you get some-thing that even surprises the people whose jobit is to make projections about what is going tohappen. So, the PC has gone to new heights,and I believe, wiU continue to do so."

In the future, said Gates, Web surfers won' thave to deal with lnt«met content through pre-

organized screens. Extensible markup language(or XM I a tagg)ng schema rdated to standard-ized general markup language, or SGMI thattreats content information and content presen-tation information separately) is the key toaUowing information to be customized at a"semantic" level. For business. "it deals with thequestion of, if one person wants to buy andanother person wants to sell, what informationdo they have to send back and forth."

Gates said that, from the user's perspective,it will mean a more seamless and mintinuousexperience across devices, because "you won' thave to move your information — your Ries,your favorites, your contact list — from one siteor device to another device. If you personalize,it will show up on ag your different screens,whether it's the PC or the TV at home."

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With everything going through the lntcrnct,this will of course, demand reliability and seal.ability on an ever increasing magnitude. In thepast, Gates said, scalability was often thoughtabout in terms of hardware — adding more orbigger iron to thc problem. However, scalabil-ity is also a software issue, and in fact, manag-ing the scale and reliability is fundamentally, 4software problem, according to Gates.

He said Windows 2000 (the long-awaitedupdate of the Windows NT network OS)would be a key to software sea)ability. To igus-trate this, Gaies demonstrated how the sog.ware redistributed and balanced the loadacross a Web site's remaining server~ when oneserver failed. u

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Mike Dickson, Corel's project developmentmanager, says Wine is a reimplementaion ofthe WIN32 library set that allowed Coraldevelopers to either create a binary port to runpre«ompiled Windows applications in Linuxthrough the transpon layer of Wine, or to usea secondary port to compile direcUy againstWine's WIN32 implementation to create anative Linux code.

"The main benefit of Wine is that you areable to take an existing application and move itto another operating system with a minimumof recompile and a minimum oi' trouble,"Dickson says."This lets you have the same lookand feel, the same feature set, and the samebinary compatibility and file formats."

This preservation of the look and feel ofcommercially available office and productivitysuites (such as Corel's applications) whenmoved over to Linux will be an imponant fa«-tor in making Linux a viable desktop OS-people want to use what is familiar.

Mnux appgcetionsAt the same time, Corel also moved to addfunctionality to the Linux OS by partneringwith several third-party developers to makeavailable Linux-based productivity solutionsand games.

Draeker says he signed on to make Loki'sLinux-based games available to Corel since hesaw it as a natural fit between the two companies.

"Loki and Coral are really two companiesthat are focused on Linux as a consumer desk-top product," Draeker adds. "When they told

us of their plans for Linux distribution and ofthe Linux plans, we thought it would be a goodthing."

Another company that is working doselywith Corel is epax.corn Inc., a Menlo Park,Calif.-based developer of popular faxing andmassaging solutions for the desktop.

"The idea is that if you bring out a newdesktop, you want to make sure key applica-tions and services are available to the user tomake it competitive," says Michael Crandeg,vice-president of eFaxxom. "[Corelj gave us acall and identified eFax as a strategic opportu-nity to support faxing and other unified mes-saging services that we are working toward inthe desktop environment."

Crandeg adds that the inclusion of fax andmassaging services should make Linus moreappealing to everyday consumers who wantprepackaged and preloaded solutions, much inthe same way Windows og'ers a variety of prein-stagal productivity solutions with its desktop OS.

Others embrace user friendlinessWhile Carel has been making a lot of noiseabout its Linux OS, it is certainly not the onlycompany trying to make Linux more user-friendly. Caldera Systems Inc., of Or«m, Utah,has been shipping its OpenLinus 2.3 to busi-nesses since September. It offers remote massinstallation features, Y2K compatibility and animproved Lizard (Linux's wizard) GVI for eas-ier installation. The company also offers a vari-ety of office productivity solutions that aim topreserve the functionality and familiarity thatbusiness consumers expect from commerciallyavailable products.

"People don't want to come into somethingand wonder what is GIMP [GNV ImageManipulation Program. a Linux imagingapplicationj," says Eenoy Tamang, vice-presi-dent of marketing For Caldera Systems."People don't know what it is and what theywant is familiarity.

"They want to make sure that what they aredoing is not lost and there is not too muchtime spent on the learning curve. Corel enter-ing in the marketplace is weU needed becauseit validates what we have been trying to do andit is the right strategy, which is needed toenable more people to access Linux on afriendlier level."

Many argue that if Linux is to truly becomea conunerciagy viable desktop alternative toWindows or Macintosh, PC vendors have tobegin offering machines with the OS installed.So far, most PC hardware vendors have beencontent to offer Linux on their server prod-ucts. Companies like Caldera and Red HatSoftware lnc., a Durham, N.C.-based Linuxdistributor and developer, have agreementswith several manufanurers to put Linux onsome of their servers.

Caldera's Tamang says his company is in dis-cussions with several V.S. and overseas part-ners to offer Linux with dual. boot capabilitieson commercial desktops, letting consumersflip between Linux and Windows.

And Ottawa-based PC manufacturer Euro-com is looking to offer dual-boot notebooksfeaturing Corel's Linux OS in the near future.

Dale Windle, manager of technical opera-tions for Eurocom, would not go into specificsabout the company's Linux plans, but would

say Eurocom is looking to olfer Linux on note-books in its 5100 and 5300 lines.

"We have gotten to the point where we havetaken a couple of machines and given themtriple-boot capabilities offering Windows ett,Windows NT and Linux," Windle adds.

He says Eurocom wiU also offer Corel'sLinux-based office suite, but the company isstill in negotiations with Corel about details ofthat relationship.

While dual-boot consumer machines areone way to take Linux into the mainstream,others suggest Linux will have a greater andmore immediate impact on digital-readydevices that wil l connect people to theInternet. Here, Linux's small footprint, speedand gexibility would be an asset.Even Corel may be looking beyond the com-

mercial desktop space. IDC's Kusnetzky seesCorel as looking at Linux less as a means ofopening up new commercial possibilities, butas a way to further consolidate its place in gov-ernment and vertical markets where its officeand productivity suites have done well againstMicrosoft products.

Kusnetzky believes Corel could be looking atbusinesses that are looking to lower the cost oftheir IT expenditures by offering them anoperating system and office suite that can runon low-cost, low-maintenance hardware.

"And putting together a Linux package thatinstalls very nicely and supports their officesuite, they can approach a complete solutionsbid, which is of lower cost," he adds."They arelooking to stay in the personal productivitymarket and looking to extend their solutions."0

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Linux continues march into mainstreamBy Tom Venetis

LAS VEGAS — Two key announcements atComdex Fall/99 have helped strenyhen theLinux operating system's position as a chal-lenger to Microsoft's dominance in the indus-try and on user dw'ktops.

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held Cygnus Solutions that will allow Red Hatto oi'fer Linux users a complete set of develop-er tools and support programs. The deal is val-ued at US$674 million.

Cygnus specializes in software developmenttools and enyneering services and d«velopersupport for desktops, dient/server systems,real-time operating systems (RTOS), andembedded, post-PC-«entric platforms.

"What Red Hat has not had is a set of devel-oper tools and devdoper suppon programs thatare the equivalent of the industry-l«ading devel-oper tools and support programs," Young said."And that is exactly what the merger withCygnus Solutions is going to bring to our abilityto build a complete open source suite, not onlyof operating system technologies, but of devd-oper technoloy'es and the support savices."

With these new oferingn R«d Hat hopes to

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tance of Linux on the desktop, instead focus-ing on its development for Internet appliancesand giving people access to Linux-based serv-ices and solutions over the Web. Young calledthese servic«s the killer applications of the 21stcentury.

"The desktop is a 1960's technology modd,"Young said. "You have these dumb, DOS-basedworkstations connected to intelligent services.As [U.S. District Court[ [udge [ThomasPenlield[ Jackson has pointed out [in his rulingin the antitrust lawsuit brought against thecompany by the U.S. [ustice Department), thatmarketplace is dominated by Micmsoft and

they have a monopoly. The reason ts that peo-ple don't buyoperating syst«ms, they buy appli-cations. And a0 applications are built (or theWindows platform. Our opportunity is to buildthe applications of the 21st century. It is not toreinvent the applications of what we are now."

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The QuickLiuk Pen takes the general derignprinciple of a pen scanner to new heights, byadding onboard storage (up to 1990 pages ofdata, according to the company). This means itdocsn't have to be tcthercd to a PC serial port.It is a truly portable device, drawing its powerfrom two AAA batteries.

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However, one biUing consultant wondersjust how sccurc the service really is. "I haveconcerns in terms of its best-praaiccs compli-ance, in tcuas of document managcmcnt." saidBill Broddy, a partner with Toronto-basedPrinova Tcchnologics Inc. Thc company devel-ops and integrates biUing systems for Unancial.retail and uulity organuations.

The scrvicc may not even meet the require-ments set out in pmposcd federal IcgLelation,he said. Referring to Bill C-6, which will set outrules for online privacy and «-commerce prac-uccs. Broddy said Epost kgs shon on protect-ing IeSd documents.

The rccipicnt of a lcgagy binding document,such as a kgal writ or a credit card bill, bas totake possession. When using the Epoa service,Broddy said he amldn't save documents to hiscomputer's hard drive and bad to leave themin his online mailbox. For bim, this docm't

Ae wdl, Iegd documents have to be preacnt-cd in a format that won't change, hc added.While Bmddy said he coukln't transfer Epost(des to his desktop, he wes able to use sacencaptures as wdl as cut and paste informationto other files. Less-than-honest subscribersroidd alter biUiag or other Unancial statc-meats, then pass them olf as legidmate docu-ments for expense accounts, for arample.

Bmddy's guiddincs (oUow simikr oacs setout about 20 yaus ago, foUowing the advent oflaser printing, hc said. They arc regcctivc ofthc ban practices that have bees around for akng time in the computer docwncnts busi-

At the Nov. 26 launch of the service, CanadaPast and ita business partners dismissed secu-rity concerns. 'Ihe dectmnic post of6cc is amajor kap forward in lacilitating secure andcongdential dectronic commerce transactionsfor aU Canadiaas, said Andre OuUet, prcsidcntand chief exccutivc olliccr of Canada Post, attl» Toronto cvcnt. Wc arc very con6dent thatmany Canadians will accept our invitation."

Oulkt oudincd several applications for thescrvicc. induding sending and rccciving con-tracts, bills. government forms. medical docu-ments and credit card applications.

Epost "democrauzes" c-conunerce billing,according to Renah Pares(sky. P»sidcnt andchief cxecutivc of Cebra Inc., also speaking atthc launch. Cebra, an o6'shoot of the Bank ofMontreal, helped devdop the Epost servicewith Canada Post. Small businesses wiU be ableto take advantage of cheaper dectmnic billingoptions than existed in the past, she said. refer-ring to virtual private networks and extraucts.

For Cameron Dow, Epost is the start of ancw beginning for Canada Post. "It's a greatopportunity," said the software research ana-lyst with International Data Corp. (Canada)

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So, on the surfirce. it seems we' ve waited a longtime for tbc kinds of fcatunn found oa graphicscards like the Matmx MsrvcL the ATI AU-ln-Wondcr and dw 3dfx TV. And tbe basic func-tionality ogmed by these cards is just dw beyn-ning of 8 rkh new fcauuc rct well soon enjoy.

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Comdex Canada this pastsummer, I knew I had to get my hands onone, both literally and figuatively. It mayseem odd to get excited abnut 8 mouse,but this is one funky device. The MkxosoftIntelliMouse Expkxer is easily one of thesleekest computer psripheraIS-4 ranksnear the top, right along with the iMac, fora~ ch ing design. Not only does it lookgrixwy, it's also a pretty good mouse. Itmplaces the rubber ball used to direct a

computer mouse wfih an opticalsensor, which offms smoother, more accu.rate tracking. while uw Inta! IMouseExplorer is not the first mouse to use sucht chnofogy, as a Microsoft product, it isthe first to be targeted at such a large con-sumer market. Cr at!asst at thepoffioll of diatmarket sw1lingto spend Sgg

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have been using and mvicwing Quickensince I992 and ham watched it yow froma small DOS proyam that printed out

cheques on my old dot-matriz printer. to arich and complete line offinancial programs.Quicken Deluxe 2000 ispossibly the most usefuland «omplctc home soft-ware program in existence.lf I could have only twosoftware packages on mycomputer for thc rest of my •

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nized the importance of theWcb early and so a numberof dial-out features werctriaL The creation of theCaoadiaa Quicken Wcb site(hupi/www.fiuuksa.cs) in!997 bmught dmdy infor-mation and advice toCanadian users.

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What TV tuner cards asn notBefore yau buy, however, think carefully aboutthc video signals you use, and how you uscthem. There's still a good list of things youcan't do with a TV card and PC. You can' trecord onc show and watch another. You can' tpause a show while you answer the phone and

then start watching where you left olf while itcontinues recording. You can't tune in a satel-lite signal or service flam any other condiuon-al access device, such as a pay- TV desc rambler.These cards don't support digital TV.

Also consider that an onscrcen remote is notas easy to use as a conventional handheldmodel. Features you take for granted, like fast-forward and rewind, may not even be avail-able.

Don't huy one of these cards if you' re look-ing for ease-of-use and Sawless, problem-freeperformance. Although the graphics featuresare rock-solid, the convergence features needmorc work Hardware. software. and operat-ing system integration caa hc shaky, tentativeand idiosyncratic. The 3dfx card is a grst-generation convergence product. This isMatrox's second time out for the Marvel, andATI's third release of the AU-IO-Wonder.

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With a traditional mouse, Iha rubber ballpicks up the dust, dirt or oils of the mousmuswtace, which over time gums up the internalrollars conllouing the movements, making itless accurate. Afi ball-driven mice eventuallyneed their innanls cleaned to continue to func-tion properly. The IntauiMouse has no suchmoving components, and its light assembly is

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During taste!ladon, I was surprised by thetwo coaxial cable connectors on the back ofthe cariL Th«second one is for the FM tuner, afeature unique to this card. The (tuickStartbooki«t r«mmmcnds that you don't swap outyour old card before you start. The pre-installindudcs a video that shows erectly how tosetup a video card — a nice toudLAE of these cards have a brcak-out bm, a

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There arc a variety of "skins" for theoutcr«en remote. Ogowing users to customizethc look of thc controll«r lot«face. In addiuonlo channel and volume controls, you can freer«thc image, capture stills, and surE The surfwindow contains snapshots of cash availablechanneL The VCR button opens a second con-trol panel to start recording thc current chan-nel.

Timed recording controls arc avukblc an astandard tabbed dialogue box. lite 3dfx haslimitedrecording options: uncompr«seed AVI,or MPEG-2 at 320x240 or l60xl20 pixels.

The quality of the live «birn image is aboutthe same as on a td«vision sct, as long as youusc a resolution of 800x600. If you go higher(and this card is capable of 2,046xl 536), thcdisplay starts to look a link chunky. Th«• xtensivc propcrtics dialogue indudcs specificprcscts for watching movi«s and sports. Thcsc

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When rccordcd at thc highest scttiny, theplayback is slighdy lower quality than the orig-inaL As with the live signal, tbe lower thcscreen resolution, the bcacr it hots. Theinduded Ukad Studio video editor is a gwxltool for the first-time video producer. The lim-ited feature set, and restrictive, modularapproach may be frustrating for more cxperi-

seemed that a different captme driver wouldallow capture fmm a «un«order at resolutionsup to 720x480. My system has a Web«am, andUlcad was able to record at its maximum reso-lution (352x288). Ukad couldn't find the 3dfxvideo input.

Although I hal read rcvi«ws praising theoutput-to-TV capability, this must havereferred to gaming or video playback at640x480. Although 800x600 is supported, theimage quality of the scan conversion at thatresolution is l«5 than at the lower resolution.

Like tbe other cards. in order to view the TVlistings, you must install WcbTV for Windows,the gcncric Windows TV view« application.The dcctronic program guide (EPG) byGemstar was disappointing. Gemstar still has-n't adjusted its channd lineup to refiect thechanges my cable pnwidcr, Rogers, made inmy neighbourhood last fag (listings in yourarcs may bc fine). Although the EPG shoulddownload automatically, I' ve not had muchsuccess, and have had to go to the Web site toupdate th« listings. (Incidentally, if you haveWindows 98, you can install WcbTV forWindows and access thc EPG even if you don' thave a TV card.)

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Of the three cards, this one was initially theRakicst. After the second dean install, however.it did let me work and record or watch TV atthe same time, and would remrd a show in myabsence.

Tbe AR-ln-Wonder 128 has no tmuble scal-ing TV windows fmm 640x480 to 1,600x1300.The nifty "TV desktop" mode uses the live TVimage ss your PC's wallpaper. In the end I pre-ferred to watch TV in a window while IworkesLThis card records in many formats, indud-

ing AVI, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. The dei'suitVCR2 format is proprietary, but the codcc isavailable at the ATI Web site, so even thosewithout AR-ln-Wonder cards can playbackVCR2 Rha. The VCR2 format bas a kw morevisible artikcts than MPEG-2, but only at full-screen playback resolutions higher thea1,024x768.

Both recording %%drmats are comparable toVHS. I was quite happy with the 320x240 simat 30 frames per second (fps) for standardtime-shift viewing. At that rate. a 30-minuteRle is about I GD. I'd be tempted to uses high-er kame rate to edit my kmily camcorder

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ATI's experience with previous versions ofthe AR-In-Wonder shows, especially in thebundled software. For each component — TVtuner, VCR features, DVD playback — the ATIsofnvarc had the most bdls and whist)es. It' sthe only one with instant replay, agowing youto watch two images — ane live, the otherdelayed by two to 10 seconds (or more,depeading on system memory). Tbereh also achannel scan window that displays still imagesRom es«h available channd, updating them in

All three cards can capture stills fmm avideo (not a DVD), but only the All-In-Wonder automatically numbers and saves theimages I love this card's TV Magazine — atranscript of a program created from thedosed caption text and captured vidm flames.The ability to review the day's happenings onyour kvourite pmgram by reading a transcriptquiddy becomes a must-have feature — youcaa even choose to omit the commercials fromthe transcript. The Hot words kature willtrack the dosed captioning, looking kr a spe-cigc word or wards. and beep, display the TVwindmv, start recording video or creating anlagsznlc lnnscflpz

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ATI indudes a simple video wlitar to trimdips aad do cuts only" assembly. For moreadvanced work, ATI has included MGI'sVideoWave II software in the All-In-Wonderbundle. Worldng with V ideoWave II is a pleas-ure. I' ve waxed ecstatic over this softwarebefore, and my enthusiasm hasn't wanwL It' svisually attractive, full of well thought-out fea-tures and my Erst choice for personal use.(Nota MGI receatly introduced VideoWave111).

The card's TV-out feature works wdL Whenyou sdcct this mode from the contml panel,the monitor changes to 800x600 resolution at60 Hz. The same image is seen on both themonitar and the TV. This works well forgames, and for watching DVD playlwck on TVin addition to, or instead of, the computermonitor. If the dednop resolution is largerwhen you select TV-out, the screea becomes awindow ante the larger vtlmel display that fol-lows when you move thc mouse. A nice fea-

between its consumer graphics cards and itspmfessional vidm cards. Although the othertwo cards are dearly consumer products, theMarvd reaches a higher leveL

Instagatioa and setup was similar to theother canis, w'nh twu exceptions. The largeconnector for the breakout box on the cable,combined with a slight recess on the back ofmy system, made for a very tight gt. TheMarvd is the only canl with mternal audioconnectors. The others have internal cables totbe audio card.

The documentation indicates that theMarvel will be happy with a 166 MHzPentium-based system, but commends a 233MHz Pentium CPU. The Rne print indicatesthat a 350 MHz Pcntium R is required foroptimal DVD playback. That praved to be tru«in tmting. On a 300 MHz Cderon system, onlythe All-In-Wander oikred stutter-free DVDplayback capable of freeze frame. When Iswapped in a 400 MHz Cdemn, the Marvd'sDVD playback was lawless.

The Matnur has the best image from thc TVtuner, at any resolution. This may be because,unlike the ATI and 3dfx cards, the tuner is noton the AGP card, it's in the breakout box. Thechannd preview feature creates a resizsblewindow thatupdates still images bom up to 30channel in mtation.

The Marvd's scan conversion (convertingVGA to NTSC, which is required for TV dis-play) is thc best of tbe bundz This is the onlycard that can output a 1,024x768 resolutionscreea to TV. Thc TV output can be independ-ent of tbe monitor, with its own resolution

Marvel G400.TVftuaz Mattmftbmated slreet price: 8400Notable leatumx fztsmal atsga cmnectnz. Seat imagefrom 1V tuner. Oaagtead XwxtISytzy feature.The All-la-Wonder and the Voodoo3 3500TVare at the top of the An and 3dfx's respectivelines. For Matmx, the Marvel series sits

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the Motion JPEG (MJPEG) recording format.This c odec requires a hardwareencoder/decoder that is built onto the MarvelG400. Unless you first convert the file toMPEG-2 with the supplied transcoder soh-ware, you won't be able to play it back onanother system. It's worth noting that thethree-pass transcoding process (video, audio.multiplexing) tak«s more than three times aslong as the play length of the clip.

Those inconveniences are more than offsetby the superior picture quality and flawlessplayback the MJPEG format delivers. In everyway, the quality of the playback is equal to theoriginaL Even at the 50 percent quality setting,there are no visible artifacts, motion is smooth,and colour edges clear. The other cards skipplayback frames so often, it's distracting, andthe audio and video synchronization oftenslips. Although I can't ssy the Matrox never

skips a frame, it's rare. And the audio-videosync is always perfect. Either recording or play-back uses less than 10 percent of the processorcydas.

This card is good enough to use as a replace-ment for your VCR — and you won't have toapologize for the playback quality whenfriends come over. You' ll want a large harddrive. as the MJPEG Eles are about 50 percentbigger than ATI's VCR2 format. This means a

30 minute recording is approximately 1.5 GB.Because of my experience with Avid's pro-

fmsional non-lin«ar video-editing systems, Iwas excited to see that the consumer version,Avid Cinema, was bundled with this card.However, I was disappointed. It was quite frus-trating to use, and its limited feature set won' tlet anyone's creativity blossom. Oh weB, lucki-ly MGI's VideoWave is inexpensive as a stand-alone purchase. (2

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The Sony WabTV Plus STB integratesTV and the Web. Allowing you to browseths Internet usiflg TOW tSIsvlal(m sst as adisplay device. This fall has seen thelaunch of sevwal enhanced TV shows,induding NBC Nighlly News andNewshour with Jim Lahrsr. During thebroadcast ot these programs. specialinformation is sent via the TV signal to theWebfv Plus box. If you choose to view theenhancements, the TV image shrinks, likea picture-in-picture feature, and a WabPage opens offering mors news and linksfor in-depth reading.

WebTV Plus also lets you to interactwith programs, like Wheel of Fortune andJsoprmriy, allowing you to Play along withthe game in real-time. You know a show isinteractive when a little "i logo appeals inthe upper right comer of the display.

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Ouicken: best consumer software everyContinuedIrom page 77Planner and a downloadable version ofQuickTax (when ready) to the Deluxe productfor $99.95 and no rebate.

a CD-ROM drive, and speakers, but a Pentiumis recommended. A modem is required foronline banking and 'tqeb site access.QuickTax 2000, the tax component of the

suite, installs everything the program needsexcept the final tax formulas, which are notofficially set until the end of the year. At thattime Iuu'0 be able to download the fina! code.L!suagy purchasing a download version ofQuickTax would mean missing oui on mulu-media and other space hogging files. Thisstrategy overcomes those lirmtations and islikely a good idea, although I did not test theproduct.

The best averQw'cken Suue 2000 is the best personal finan-cial mfnvare ever written anywhere, an>1im».In Fact. I would argue that ii could be the bestsoftware program cs er written fur consumers.

If you could drop it hack in time, say )0years. with a romputer capable of running it, Ism not sure who would be more surprised-the users or the prop ammera.Seriously,i F youadd the vanous components, like rhe slickinterface snd exhaustive functions, to theonline banking features, W eb page links, andCD-ROM-based tutorials, you would not onlydrop jaws, you'd implode heads!

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pam that scared mc. The step-by-step processof calculating your assets and liabilities nowand into thc future is as painless as such aprocess can be. Sadly, I have discovered that-due to the current state oF my financial plan-ning — I will be broke long before I dic.

The pmgram uses a day-planner metaphorfor msy navigation. The name QuickWcalthPlanner is both a truth and a fib. The programis laid out like a planner, which is true. but the

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quick wealth part is a lie according to what theprogram told me. I really liked the compre-hemive summary that is produced at the endof the process.

After plugging my data into the planner. Irealued I had two options for my future: Iwould either have to take up smoking and stoprunning, which would lower my life expeaan-cy to 75 years; or tdl my children no universi-ty money would be forthcoming. In ag seri-ousness though. the future becomes muchclearer when viewed through QuickWealthPlanner. which is the point,

Quicken Deluxe 2000, the main program, isreally the gem. It does it aU. I could write agday about the Register, the Autoiifi, theCategorization functions. I could continuewith charts and graphs and projections andstill bepraisingonlytheAccount Register Thatwould leave out the Home Center, Planning

Then there are extensive essays, artides,video tutorials, and mplanstions — more ofwhich can be accessed by links to the Web sitewhere they reside. You want financial calcula-toa? You got than. You want updated stocksand funds? They're here. The FinancialCalendar memorizes transactions, thePonfolio Manager allows you to update fromdilferent sites, links are made between yourloans, mortgages, and RRSPs and theQuickWadth Planner. These arc but a few ofQuicken 2000's features.

The single most useful feature in Quicken-it isn't new in this version but is improval andmay be new to your bank or aedit union — is

the online updating of your account informa-tion. If you are at all serious about trackingyour bank account, go to the Web page of yourfinancial institution arid look for its onlinebanking capability, it i s usually calledS omething-or-Other Direct. Look fo r sDownload to Quicken option, and if you can' tfind it, send them an email asking where it is.

I emailed four sites and received twoans«'ers within 24 hours and another withintwo days. Many banks and other financialinstitutions have been waiting ta see if theI'unction would be broadly supported andrequested by their customers. Now that it ».,many are in the process of bringing it about.The ability to update my chequing account,which I now have thanks to my credit unionand lnuit, is exceUent.

There is no downside to Quicken Deluxe2000. The only reason I would not buy it is if Iowned Quicken l999. The redesigncd mterfacehas not changed much (it didn't really need tobe improved). the investment tips and changesare minor, and the ability to Hotgync data to aPabn bandhekl computing device withPocketQuicken is not something I nmd orwant. If. on the other hand, I didn't alreadyhave a recent veaion of Quicken, but I did dosome online investment or banking, I wouldpickup the Deluxe version.

The Suite is a good value if you are going touse the QuidiWealth Planner. AU in aU, it isobvious that Intuit has invcstcd in making itsproduct useful to Canadians. Consideringwe' re only slightly larger than the populationof CaliFomia. that's a real investment. 0

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Optura DV takes still and video imagesBy Peter Milburn

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I' ve heard a lot about the astounding qual>-ty offered by digital camcorders, so it was withgreat anticipation that I tested thr CanonOptura review unit. At a glance, the Opturalooks like a 35 mm SLR camera. Closer exam-ination, however, reveals that Canon has clev-erly integrated the form factors of an SLRwith the design of a conventional video cam-era. That's because the Optura was designedto take both still and fug-motion digitalimages.

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In order to combine both still and motioncapture functions and keep the design corn.pact, Canon has migrated from using thebulkier standard 8 mm video cassettes infavour of a new tape format called Mini DV.These casscttes measure about dox48x I 2 mm,and can hold up to one hour of video or up to500 stills — or a combination of both modeson the same tape — in short play (SP) mode.In long play (LP) mode, you can extend yourmotion recording time up to 1.5 hours.g«cause Mini DV is a relatively new format,the tapes are expensive compared to 8 mmcassettes. Depending on quality, Mini DVtapes are at least $20 each.

The camera has a switch on the fiant thatyou can move from a lock position into cithcrPhoto or Movie mode. The Optura was one ofthe Brst camcorders to offer this dual-modecapabiTity. (If others follow Canon's lead, itwon't be long before w«will only have to ownone camera.)

In Photo mode, you can take digital stillpictures in 720x480 pixel resolution, whichyou can view on your television, computer aran thc camera itself. If you have a colourprinter hooked to your PC (with a certifiedanalogue or digital video card), you can printout your still images. Taking still photos withthe Optura, is simple: lighdy pressing thestart/stop button primes the built-in autofocus and auto exposure, after which youfirmly press the same button to capture yourimage. The Optura frccxes your picture in theviewgnder (or external LCD panel), thenrecords the image to your tape for six sec-onds. During this time, the camera can also• • • • • •

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The resolution of stills taken in Photo modeis suitable for the Web, but when scaled to a4x6 inch print, doesn't come dose the qualityof shots fmm a 35 mm or APS film camera. oreven a mid-range digital camera.

VideoShooting digital video in Movie mode, howev-er, redly shows olf the strengths of this cam-corder. With the Optura, Canon is the first toutilize progressive scanning CCD technologyin consumer video. This is made possible witha new digital integrated circuit ( IC) thatprocesses every pixel in its CCD array at a rateof 60 fields per second. What makes this evenmore amazing is that all of this signal proc«ss-ing is being done concurrently with otheressential funczions such as automatic focusingand exposure.

Digital cameras that don't use progressivescanning can capture and record 60 fields persecond, but their ICs can only keep up with theCCD data by recording even line pix«b on afirst scan, and odd linc pix«b on a second scan.This elfectively drops the recording rate to 30frames per second and degrades the quality byintroducing flicker. Progressive scanning alsoeliminates colour blurring, sm«aring and visu-al "noise" associatml with other camcorder sys-

An optical image stabilization feature fur-ther contributes to the crispness and clarity ofimage capture by eliminating inadvertentshaking common to handheld shoots. TheOptura also uses an RGB filter — the type usedin high-end professional cern«orders — for ahigher signal-to-noise ratio and consequentlytruer colour rendering.

The Optura comm with two zoom modes:14x optical. and 35x digital. I experimentedwith the 35x digital zoom for a few days, butwas disappointed with the results. Whenenabled, digital noise is immediately recogniz-able when you zoom past the 14x opticalzoom. I found the feature to be almost useless.However, the optical zoom, from wide angle to14x, is impressive and should be enough formost videographers.

Like conventional professional cameras, theOptura gives you the &eedom to override itsstandard easy recording mode that automati-cally adjusts your focus, aperture and exposuresenings. A rotating dial on th«side of the cam-era lets you choose from several presets thaiwill compensate for extreme lighting condi-tions, such as shooting subjects againstextremely light or dark backgrounds. Thecamera also has two settings that let you man-ually control the priority of your aperture andcxposur«settings.

Autofocus is suppl«mented by a fmtureCanon calls Flexizone AF (autofocus). In thismode, thc camcorder places a small rectanglein the viewfinder that you can position overthe portion of your scene that must remainin focus. This is indispensable for sceneswith a lot of depth of field when you want tokeep either the foreground or backgroundsharp.

Shooting spectacular video wouldn't bejustified if i t wasn't accompanied by highquality sound. The Optura can record soundin PCM digital format for both still and videoshots. It offers either CD-quality sound at 16-bit/48 kHz (two-channel) mode, or a lower

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In the compact design of this camcorder,Canon has managed to pack just about everykind of port possible for transferring videointo other media. In addition to the standardcomposite jacks, the Optura provides 5-Vid«ooutput and a FireWire port. I hooked theOptura to one of the two Fir«Wu«ports on a

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Compared to a portable cassette or CDplayer, the Lyra is also considerably more, well,ponablc At 147 g (5.2 oz) with batteries, andtaking up just 11.4x0.4x2.1 cm (I.SX23x0.825in.) of volume, it is light and small. Tbe silvercolourml unit looks like a voi«e remrder withan LCD screen. and contains the usual assort-ment of music playback buuons, u volumecontrol wheel. and jacks for the headphonesand adapter.

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The whole cxperieace of formatting youraudio CD favorites for playback on tbc Lyra isactually quite fua One thing that makes theproces so good is the RealAudio CDDB (CDDatabase), which is a free service indudedwith Res(Audio Player. RealAudio CDDBmatches your CDs to the company's database,then transfers the track information to yourcomputer. Tbe effect is that rather than havingto enter tbe name of the album, author, yare,and individual track sang names, it is done I'or

To test thc database, I recorded four CDs,duse of which thc database rcmyuzcd andkbded (Harry Connick Jr.'s Shc, Dixie Chicks'Wide Open Spaces, and Etta James' TheSweetest poaches 1960-66). The Dixie Chicks'CD is only a year old so it wasn't surprisingthat it was ecoyuzc4 but the Etta James col-lection was made in 1986. which means theRealhudio CDDB is Surly extensiw. Tbe onlyCD I trisd that wasa't r cogaized was an oldBcnay Goodnum CD called The lszz Colhctsr

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The obvious competitor to the Lyra isCnative Lab's Nomad. The Nomad has an FMtuner. whichmight be of interest to some. Itcan also make voice mcordings, which is amore useful function as far as I am concernaLHowever, the Lyra and Nomad arc quite simi-lar in terms of audio Hcording functioaality.

One big plus for the Lym is that it is "future-prooE Its ROM can be rep~ , so pm-sumably tbe Lyra can be upgraded to supportstandanb as they emerge. Thus, if the MP3 for-mat languishes, you He not left with an expen-sive aad tiny ranovabk 32 MB hard drive.

ht about two minutes of audio permegabyte (based oa the 64Kbps M P3 qualitylevd, which is usually describe as near CD"quality), the induded 32 MB card oilers only16 minutes of sound. However, you can lowerthe quality and increase amount of music youcan put on the card. Tbe Lyra can also be pu r-chascd with a 64 MB CompactFlash card, anoption worth considering.

All in all, this is a well thought out andhandy product that feels like a second editionrather than a first try. Tbe only dung thisrevkwer would rcmmmend is that RCA add akey lock function like most c«0 phones have.For consumers it might be time to considermoviag on to the next big thing — all digital,portable music. 0

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When shooting in the recommended mini-mum lighting conditions, thc camcordm pm-duccs motion video of stunning quality.However, when shooting under low-light mn-ditions indoors, I was somewhat disap poiatedwith thc brightness and level of colour mpro-duction. Manually controlling the aperturesetting compensated somewhat for this. Forthc best passible results in low-light condi-tions, I recommend purchasing a vid«o light.

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Combine that with the impmved reso-lution of n«wer digital cern«ms, and it' sno longer that easy to pick out thc con-ventional 3x5-inch or 4xd-inch printsfrom 6lm cameras when they aremixed in with a batch of digital photo-graphs printe out on a photo quality inkjetprinter. The di&ereaces that do «xist area'tgreat enough to be of «oncern to maa users.

Along with tbe yowing number of genera!-purpose inkjet printers that are capable ofphotographic output, there are a number ofprinters availablc sce&CSSy for dighal pho-tography. A few of the newe photo-orientedprinters have slots unheard to accept digitalcamera memory canis directly, which allowsusca to print photos whhout cvcn ac«ding toowrl 8 conlputcf.

We Iookal at two such printers nb&« print-ing out bard copies of photos taken for thislak l«smack's Photo Jetpintcr 5770 was thc&rst inkj«t printer on the market with sloe forboth SmetMeha and Compuctflash cards,and bas a sleet price of mughly $399. We alsogot to look at the nev Hewlett-PackardPhotoSmart PII00, which bas a suggcstcdretail price of $749. It also bas slots for bothmedia types, duplenng, and a VSB inter&ac.Both priaters provide cnegent photogmphicoutput aad double as sendard inkjet printers

For users who choose to go the digital route,thc biggest head«in will be the cast of inkWith anridgcs sometimes costing between$50 aad $!00, it can be mpensive to a«ate a lotof output. When printing full-colour photos,cartridge also tend to run out of ink quickly.Those who want prints of cverythmg theyshoot will still &ed that comentional o tog-raphy bas tbe price alga. Those who wouldradm print only adax output may &ad thedigital output more couveoieat and cost-c&cc-

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Although the technology bas been amund fora few years. it is just now starting to icagy takeoff in the consumer marketplace. A combina-tion of k&ing prima and increasing quality isresponsibk for this. Although thc date whendigital photography will l«place convcational6!m photography is still a subject for specula-tion, oae thing is sure: with thc quality aadprice of today's digital camera offerings, it' sgetting pl«tty dose!

Enter the tfqfllsl darkroom'Ihe biggest problem most people have withconventional photography is with the devdol>

Sending 6!m out for procesing and print-ing can be very erpenive — capeciagy for thosewho shoot 8 lot of pl«tune. Addltlonsgy, whena m& of 6lm is sent for devrioping, typicallycvey photograph is printaL cv«o those thatare unfocuseL too dark, have thumbs in thccorner, or are. for any other number of otherreasons, immcdiatriy consigned to the bin.

For most pcopk, devekping photogmphi athome isn't ma&y an option. It is a time~n-sllnliog, messy ploexs tklt Icqlnlcs cap«liveequipment and often pi«deus space. Plus, thechemicals sm«S kuL Ultimately, it's not worthit for the vast majority of pmple.

With the dqp'tal «ames, howcvcr. uses havecomplete control over which piaurcs arcprintaL There is also the advantage of havingphotos in digital format to begin with, allow-ing them to bc seat in email attachnnnts with-out the hassle of scanning. The storage devicesused on digital cameras might seem «SF«mise,but the cea of a 32 MB memory «aid is rough-ly equal to about 20 rolls of 35 mm lilm. Soaft«r you' ve shot the equival«nt of 20 rolls,"&Im costs become senx since the same mem-ory canl caa be usel over and over again.

Uses can acket the shots they waat to priat,meaning that one no longer has to psy forunwanted pictures. The dighal print cost — Lc..the price of thc ink and photo paper — is aboutthe same as the con for priats from a photo-6nisher. on a per-print basis.

And perhaps the most appealing aspect ofthe di!jtal darkroom is that photographers cando all these things in tbe comfort of a brightlylit computer room with little to no specialequipmenl!

Aa Bond ns the real IhhlgyAlthough conventional prints still have anedge over home brew digital photo output interms of unage quality, it's smprising just howdose tbe two have become. Photo-qua&tyinkja printers oow have very good to ex«agentphotographic output, for a gcncrdly reason-able price.

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CanonPowerghotPro70Esomated streetprice.' $1,299Teh 800-263-1 121,hbp://www.«anon.ct}Canon has beenmaking conven-

cameras for a l ongtime. T h e P owerShotPro70 is a slightly more professional modd inits consumer digital line. It's one of the largercameras in this roundup, and may be a bitunwieldy for some. However, it has a numberof features that users will Bnd impr«ssive. Th»1.68 megapixel resolution is high, and theoptics are exccgent. Although it uses a propri-etary rechargeable battery, a standard batteryfrom a camera shop can be used in an emer-gency. While it doesn't have a built-in flash, ithas a standard Bash seat built into the body,agowing users to add their own Bash. It alsocomes with an impressive software bundle,giving users a lot of control over their imagesafter they' ve been transferred to a PC.Highlighta• svnvelrng LCD msplay ts more versable, allowing

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Casto OV-7000BXSuggested retail price: $1.100Teh 905-882-0700, http: //www.caaocanada.cornIn addition to keyboards and handhelds. Casiois making its pres«ncc felt in the digital cameraftdd. A slightly older unit, the QV-7000SX hasa lower 1.3 m«Ptpix«I resolution, but has a

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viewlind«r can be problematic in brightsunlight, which makes images diflicult tosee on the LCD viewfinder (esp«ciagy

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ture up to 12.8 seconds of motion video.The swivd lens and the infrared transfer

are also nice features.Hghlrghta• Moue and Panorama capture modes offer a gmd

vanely of photographic options.• Swiveling lens• Saves Ihumbnail-size JPEGsr

Casio OV4000SXSuggested retmi price: $1,300Tel: 905-882-0700, httpd/www. Caamcanada.cornThough it has roughly the same form factorand the same r«solution as the QV-7000SX, theQV-8000SX has a number of bonus featuresthat mak« it worth extra consid«ration. The gxoptical zoom is one of the highest available,and can be combined with 4x digital zoom fora total zoom of 32x.

In addition to the Movie and Panoramamodes, the camera comes with a manual Bulbmode that allows the shutt«r to r«main openup to 64 seconds (for that time-lapse photog-raphy you always wanted to try!) and a supermacro mode that can focus on objects as closeas 1 cm (.39 in.) away. The same cav«ats aboutthe QV-7000's LCD panel apply to this rnodekit tends to drain batteries and can be hard to

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se« in bright sunlight. Otherwis«, the QV-8000SX has a number of int«resting featuresthat make it both useful and fun.Hghaghts• Gx optical zoom a excellent.• Move, panorama, arm bulb mode offer many good

capture ophona.• Swiveling lenS.• Super macro option for ultra-closeups.• IMred remote control.• Includes USB conneclivity ior faster picture transfer.

CaaioOV-EDDDUXSuggested retail prlCe: $1,350Tel: 905-882-0700. htlp://www.caskcanada.cornWher« the other two Casio cameras reviewedthis month aim at the more casual user look-ing for a few neat features thrown in, the QV-2000UX is a more conventional and profes-sional model. Although it fix«s the lens in onedirection, it ups the resolution of the camerato 2.1 megapixels for high-quality prints, andthe lens is protected by an int«grated hardsheUcover. Best of ag, is the use of the Type IICompactFlash slot, which allows the camera touse IBM's 340 MB micmdrive. Coupled withthe high resolution, that makes for a winning

Highlights• Gr8ill resotuhon.• Movie mode.• Us8 connection for faster pcture Iransfer.• Infrared picture transfer option.• Type tl CompaclFlash slot accepts highcapacity

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Epson PhotoPC 760ZEsumated sheet price: $t,000Teh 800-463-7766, hltpy/www.«peon.cornAlthough Epson is bauer known for its line ofprinters, it is also in the camera ftdd, and the1.3 megapixel PhotoPC 750Z is a high-qualitycamera that's easy to use. The 3x optical zoomis a key feature, as is the internal flash memo-ry. The Solar Assist panel is a v«ry nice batterysav«r. The 750Z also comes with rechargeable

NpsonPhotoPC 000Estimated street puce: $1,100Teh 800.463.7766, htlp:/twww.epaun.COmTh«Epson PhotoPC 800 has a slightly dill'er-ent form factor than the other two Epson cam-eras looked at this month. Because it dispenseswith a zoom lens, it can Bt into a shirt pocket,and is one of the smallest digits) cameras avail-abk (Fujiftlm's are still smaller). The fact thatit packs in a whopping 2.1 mcgapixds andaudio functions is impressive. The lack of opti-cal zoom may put off more demanding users.but those looking for a compact point-and-shoot camera will Bnd this model to be just the

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PulililmMX-2800Es5maied afreet pdcs $1,349Tsk 800-283-501 8, Imp Jtwww feiiglm.caAdopting a different form Srctor fmm themodels that are earning Pujig(m cameras a lotof attention, the MX-2900 is both bigger andmore fully Smtured Bmn the other Pajiglmunits in this mundup. Abo, with a resolutionof 29 megapixds, the MX-2900 indudes a Sxoptical zoom. On top of that, it bas an muernalBash seat, for those who'd prefer to use theirown Bask All in alk the added features make ita nice impmvemeat over the MX-2700, forusers who want more control over theirunages.Iydkllpbls• 2.3 mepapke resnkbm is excelkmk• 3x epbcal mnm indudst• ~ knp l xNery We from kckdxd ceb.• External flash seat

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Tek 800-4654325, bBpd/www.kodak.caThe DC240 has 1.3 megapizels resolution,great optics, a great mom, aad indudcs an 8MB memory canL On top of that, it feamresKodak's amazingly easy-to-use interface,sports USB connectivity, and comes withrechargeable batterf~ sh ort, everydungmxessary to make digital photogmphy a pbas-ure, evea for amatears. As with tbe DC215, theDC240 also comes in two vmsions. The 240ihas its own softcover caaying case, bnt whatreally istinguisbes it from the standardDC240 is its bluetdcar plastic mse, reminis-cent of Apple's iMac computer. t imately, itmay be more gimmkk than anything, but forthose who want to try something different, thiscould very well be it.HI9559bls• 32 ep5cal zoom Isn.• Comes rmb ~ hei m end cbar9s:• USB inhnfzce for faster pkbm transfer.• 240I bas IMsc-Bw bsnskzxm biue-sd-wbite plssdc

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dard item with any camera). Where this cam-era falls down a bit is with its zoom; it features2x optical and 3x digital zoom, which is morelimiting and thc revemc of other higher-endKodak cameras. Despite this drawback, theDC280 takes ercdlent pictures and makes agreat choice for a more demanding user.

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With the new generalx¹ of higher-mso-lution digital cameras. this issue becomeseven more pressing. Photographers whoplan to take a lot of shots at the higheslresolution will want to make sum they 9el8II rila memwy rirsy need ahead oi tiros.(there's nothing mors frustrating than run-ning oui of space on your memory cardjust as onwlhing intwssring is about tohappen in front of your lens!jThese days. most cameras make use of

one of two Irinds of storage:CornpactRash, and SmariMedia. (Srmycameras appear to be the big exception,making use either of floppy disketles orSony's own Memory Stick technology.)Both technologies have advantages anddrawbacks.

CompaclRash and ~ are b o thsmall, sold-stale technologies. Typically,camera manufactumm prefer to use one orthe other through their entire product line.snd they often offer memory cars brand-ed with their own name to sell as acces-$¹es to their csnisra lines.

, Think SmartAlthough CompsctRash ha8 the edge inNorth America, Toshiba'8 SmartMedia Ior-mat is the most popular format in most ofthe world. SmartMedia is thinner — memorycards are less than I mm thick. This allowsmanufacturers Io deagn camera bodiesthat as excepuonally thin. Data onSmarNedia can read via external readersand PC Card adapters. Because this media8 vo ihvi, iloppy disk ad8plsfs. which carloe inserted into standard soppy drives,have also been developed as n way totransfer SmartMedia data.

The Srst disadvantage wrih this technol-ogy, how8vef, ia that the cars ANy b8 lossdurable than CompactRash because Ihememory area is exposed on one side of thecad and may be subject to abrasion dur-ing inserrion and removal. More pressingfor many critics of the SmariMedia ionnatis the cunent 32 MB cap lor the cards;although cards up to 128 MB are apparent-ly working in the pmtotype phase andmanufactwers are hopeful that they' ll shipscen, they' re still ret available.

Compact ls big!Sandisk'8 CompactRash technology, onthe other hand, has sprinted ahead interms of capacity, with 96 MB memorycards already shipping. and 200-plus MBcards available in a double-width format(although this format hasn't made ris way

to many conswner cameras yet). Even withtoday's highest resolution digital cameras,96 MB is a lot of storage space. allowingmore than150 JPEG captures at the high-est-quality setrings. Most users wouldpebably run out of battery power first!

The biggest problem with CompactFlashis ils lagw physical size. Anhough it's retgoing to be a major issue for most digitalcamera usem, cars that acceptCompactRash media are necessarilyslightly thicker. (It would be much harder toimplement an ultra-compact design likeFulrklm s MX-2700, ior example, 4 it usedCompactRash cards.) To be fair, mostcameras using CompactF lash media anm'tnoticeably thicker than their SmarNafia-wielding counterparts.

Cost-wise, the two technologies apneato be runnmg neck and neck. At 32 MB(the highest capacity shared by both for-mats). both hsd a steel price of about$225 to $250 per card at the time at writ-ing. It will be interesting to see how thepricing skews when both formats are avail-able in 128 MB versions.

Although the CompacFlash techrxriogywas created by Sandisk, other compnn'esmarket the made undw their own names.one, Cesar Media (htlpri/www,lsxsrmsdia.corn),offers "accelerated CompactFlash cards.which have a faster write speed snd USBcorn pabbility.We had a chance to kek at the 48 MB

Digital Film package, which comes with theJumpShot USB connector cable. asowingusers to rriug their CompaclRash cad intotheir PC and mad/write as if the cad wasan external hard drive. The 48 MB cardand JumpSIet bundle are available at astreet price of roughly $299. The card'shigher capacity makes it a great akNon toany digital camera travel kri.

A drive for storageA new enuy into the world of dignal cam-era storage is ISM's new microdrive. Theuse of a small "m in the spelling is inten-tional, as IBM hopes this form of storagewill catch on, and the name wril become ageneri tenn. Siighlly thicker thanCompactRash ends but using the Type IICompactFlash form factor, the microdriveis a mechanical hwd drivs, and is currentlyavailable in 170 MB snd 340 MB capaci-ties.

Cameras with a Type II CompactRashslot can use both standard CompactRashcards and the microdrive interchangeably.Those who choose to use the micnxlrivevn'll be able to store hundI8ds of photos Sta camera's highest resolution. LikeSmarNedia and slsndard CompaclRash,the microd me can be used in other

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Min oltsDimage EX 1600ZoomEstimated slrscl nnos: $930Tsk 905-890.6600. htlpy/www.minie.caDespite a (cw minor kinks, the Dimagc EX)500 Zoom is a versatile little unit with snumber of interesting features. As with theprevious model, the Dimagc V. the EX I500line fcaturcs a removable lens, which can bcattached to an optional extension cabk. ThcI.S-mega pixel resolution delivers high. qualityimages. and the orientation detection «an bc abig time-saver for those who take a lnt of pho-tos in Portrait morc. The one minor annoy-ance in the camera's interj'acc is the need to hit"save" to instantly save pi«tures. if users don' twant to wait for the autosavc delay.

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Nikon Coolpix 700EsliiiiatBB Street pnc8:$900Tel; 905-625. 99 10htlp://wow.xikon.ca.Nikon i s a we l l-rebpected name in thegeld of conventionalphotography, and iteCoolpix line is cement-in5 ite reputation morefirmly on the digital

side. Of Nikon's newer 2.1 megapixel resolu-tion mcdris, the Coolpix 700 is the linle sister,offering the same image quality but keepingthe price down by removing some of the high-er-end features. The lack oF optical zoom willput off a number of people, but for those look-ing for a more basic model. the high resolutionand the amazing optics will be very anractive.Highlights• 2 I megapixel resolution aed high-quality Nikkor lens.• Captures in uncompressed TIFF format• Gongs camera with 2-plus megapiiel resolution

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Nikon Coolpix 000Estimated street price: $1,1 00Tel: 905-625-9910. Btlp:I/www.nikcn.caSplitting the difFerence between the basicCoolpix 700 and the more fuUy-featuredCoolpix 950, the Coolpix opts for the basic sizeof the 700 while adding a high-quality zoomlens. As withzhe other models. the 900 features

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Tips on digital camera batteries

ver since the Grat digital camerarolled off the drawing board, they' vehad a mputation for using up batter-

ies at an alarming rate. This is largely dueto the fact timt the flash and the LCDsemen on the back of most cameras con-sume power like it's going out of style.fgnce most cameras use standard AA bat-teries, it's generally just a matter of pop-ping out the old batleries and insergng anew set. This is a convenient but oftenvery expensive solution. as some cwnerascan eat through a set of batteies in as fewas 30 minutes when the LCD display is in

One way for users to got wound thisproblem is to pwchase a set of recharge-able batteies and a charger. Although theinitial cost of the batteries will be higher,they' ll quickly pay for themselves. Youshould use the highwmmpacity nickelmetal hydride (NiMHj variety rather thannickel cadmium (Nicadj. Although somacamera manufacturers indude a set ofrechmgeabla battem.s and 8 cheger in thecamera box. it's always a good idea to gotat least ono spare set for those extra-long

h a(co pays to shop around. We recentlysaw a NiMH chwgw and set of four AANiMH cells. branded by a digital cameramaker, selling for nearly $70 at a consumerelectronics store. We ended up paying lessthan $40 for a mmilar kit offwod by RadioShak, then picked up another four battw-ies at $1 3 pw pair. So we got a chegerand Bight AA batteries for roughly thesame price the other store was asking fora chmger and just lour batteias.

For customem who purchase a cameathat uses a pop 'etary battey, the choiceis a bit harder. Although proprietary batter-ies are almady rechargeable and typicallyhold their charge for a lot longer, userswho rUn oUt of powaf wlille Uslfig one ofthese cameos don't have the opuon ofrunning to the comer stare and buying 8new pack of batteries for emergency use.Momover, addaonal pmprietary batteriescan be vey expwmive, running between$50 and $100 a crack. Sut users who planto uso their new camera for extended pwi-ods of gme may gnd this expensive pur-chase a necessity.

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We went into this digital cameraLab Test with the idea thatwhen presented with digital

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To test this, we printed samples fromeach of the 25 digital camanm in thismonth's Lnb Test on cokwr ink!et printemand asked 20 staff members from otherdepartments at The Computer Paper toiudg8 tllairn to pals or fail th8 oulplltfram each camera. and to select and ranktheir top five favourite Photos

The digital camera photos — three toeight images bom each camera, 111images in total — were all Driintad out atthe same nmolution, using the same out-put senings, and on the same paper. Foran added twmt, we threw In six photo-graphs taken with a professional-quality35 mm film camera and printed by 8 con-ventional photofinisher. The nmultsween't as dearwut as we had expected:

• The convenOonal photography printssarnemd the most 0rst choices, but forthe majority of those who didn't pick 8conventional print as their number onechoee, they didn't rate one in the topSve either.

• Prints from 16 of the digital camerasappeared in at least one person's top

• Twa/lty-two of 010 d/g/tBI cameras w8/ufailed by at least one person.

• Two test Participants Ounked the con-ventional photography.

What does this all mean'I For the mostpart, Photography is a matter of percep-Bon and personal taste. The output pre-ferred by one person may not make thegrade for someone else. For that reason,it may be a good idea to request inkiet-printed samples when considering theDumhase of a digital camera, to makesure your tastes are compnlibfe with itsoutput.

What is clear bom this quick experi-ment, is that the age of digital photogra-phy is upon us. Many of our voters wereimpressed with the quality of most of thedigital cameras-even devoted 35 mmfilm camera usem. With even morsimprovements in digital camera technolo-gy just around the comer, it's certain tobe an area wo/OI watching l

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States. to launch an online presence may cost them big in this year's ChristmasThis, at least, is the fmling being expressed increasingly by many ana- rush. In 1998, U.S. consumers spent nearly US$3 billion online, and this

lysts and e-conunerce solutions companies. According to the Ottawa- year, New York-based industry analyst jupiter Communications pre-based Retail Council of Canada, Canadian online shoppers spent about dicta Americans will spend US$6 billion.$668 million in 1998, a 156 percent increase over the previous year. So the question must be asked: Why are Canadian businessesThese shoppers are buying everything from computer equipment and reluctant to get online? Some analysts and e-commerce leaders saysoftware to music, books, games and even cars. While this is great for e- Continued on page 100

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A dei'suit ' wtallation of a network opera-tion system, such as Windows NT Server,just sits there. of no use to anyone until theadministrator performs certain tasks.Iet's assume NT Server 4.0 and all of the

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the new millennium. Ithas long been a "holygrail" for mobile com-puter users. For years.we have been inundat-«d with images of peo-ple sending email fromthe beach, horn theback of a taxi or from

the top of a mountain. Yet when you lookedinto the technology required to do any of thosethings, it was often di%cult to use, slow,expensive, unreliable — or not invented yet. Iknow this to be true fmm long and bitter expe-rience, having sent my Erst "email Rom thebeach badt in 1982.

In those days, the dosest you could get to awite)ess experience was to take a mobile com-puter and a large, bulky thing called anacoustic coupler, which you latched onto theesrpiece and mouthpiece of an equally bulky(and oeen unreliable) mobile phone.We have come a long way since then.

Wireless email no longer a fantasyWireless ema11 is now available in a variety offorms — and at prices that compare quitefavour ably with standard mobile phone callingcharges. Wireless email attached to notebookcomputers (using devices such as a wirelessmodem operating over the Mobitex networkand using services such as Burnaby-baaidInfowave Software's Infowave for Exchange)has been around for some time. But for thosewho want wireless email without a notebookcomputer, here are a few of the wireless emailoptions I have tried in recent months:

Nokla Communicator 000IBThis is pmbably the oldest self-contained wire-less email gadget you'U currently gnd on themarket. It is basically a "smartphone thatindudes email functions, a Web browser, textprocessor, calendar, address book fax andspcakerphone functions.

Probably the best thing about theCommunicator 9000i — from a wireless emailpspecttiv~ th at you can um it with anystandard email account. You don't need to signup for a special wireless email service. If youuse a PCS/GSM~mpanble service, you just

plug in the phone number of your existingInternet service provider (ISP) along withyour incoming and outgoing email details andthe Communicator 9000i does the rest for you.File anadunents are handled intelligently by"leaving" them on the email server so thatwhen you next log on with a desktop or note-book computer, you can pull them oif

There is, however, one major downside tothe Nokia Communicator 9000i the price. At$1500, it is probably out of the league of most

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A consistent loy'n name scheme needs tobe developed, usually based on some com-bination of Erst and last names that can beup to 20 characters long. The three mostcommon schemes are represented by thefogowing examples: jsmith, janes. andjane. smith. Next. a dedsion needs to bemade concerning the creation of groups.Users acquire the rights. permissions, andcapabiliYies assigned to the groups theyjoin. Being added to a youp never sub-tracts rights. This is an elII«ient way inwhich to assign permissions to individuals.

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The tools give a business access to a secureshopping cart or order system, real-time Webpayment rrnsaction systems, internet market-ing, and online training and seminars.

Clarke says the seminars are a key compo-nent to helping small- and mid-sized businessmake a uuccmful stab at e-commerce by help-ing them understand what they should bedoing to get there. She says that when shespeaks at various e-commerce seminarsaround the country she is struck not so muchby how many people say they want to getonline, but by how few actusgy lmow how todo it.

"If they are novices, they need to assesbusiness and marketing stmtegles based ontheir objectives and goals." Clarke adds.When I speak to an audience, what is

appalling is only about Rve percent of thepeople in the audience have put together abusiness plan and marketing objecuves basedon their goals. They really have no due whythey are putting up a Web site."

SPRmdlne the womlEducation is now a growing trend in the e-commerce solutions industry. Where a fewyears ago it was simply enough to create n setof tools for getting a Web store&out up, it isnow just as important to teach people whatto do after that storefmnt is up.Normand Naniel, general manager for

the Montreal, 42ue.-based Metalink GroupInc. says consulting work is now a big partof his e-commerce business. as he Endsmore companies trying to understand howto successfully start up and use an e-com-merce site."What we have done is develop a method-

ology for crmting a Web strategy that willget 0 consensus between the communica-tions and marketing pcoplc, the technologypeople and the production people," contin-

The methodology allows a cwnpany tocharly identify its objectives for getting online,Rnd out what hnd of e-commerce technolo-gies it needs to achieve those ends, and whatchanges a it msy need to make to be more e-

While this kind of examination mzy soundlike something only large corporations canindulge in, Naniel says he deals with manysmall companies and startups in bis consultingpracuce.

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What Rare Medium does is work with avariety of third parties, developing ways to linka business to a supply chain and distributor soit can better fulfill its orders.

"There are opportunities to work with thirdparties that can do that," says Greg Rubidge,managing director for Rare Medium. "Ourfirm acts as a conduit to the other companiesin the industry who can make that happen."

Addressing the problems of linking a busi-ness's front- and back-ends is one of the goalsof Multiactive Software's Entice! Solution.Released in the summer, Entice! is touted bythe company as a "customer-centered solu-tion" for the mid-market that organizes aB ofthe store&ont activities on an e-commerce siteand connects them to the back-end proanses,which it also automates.

At the simplest level, Entice! uses theInternet to help a business generate, qualif'y,distribute and respond to an online cus-tomer in much the same way it would dealwith a customer who walked through thefront door of a physical store looking to buya good or service.

"Entice! is a solution that is made to tran-sition a business into an e-business by inte-grating the sales, marketing and servicefunctions onto the Internet," says MultiactiveSoftware's Halverson. "A lot of companiesI' ve talked to have not made that connection,or just don't think it is an important issue toconnect the front-end Web storefront to theback-end office and business processes. Theystill believe that the ultimate sale will bemade through traditional means, whether itis a phone call or a face-to-face meeting witha sales representative."

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ghsdng,rights, snd permissionsContinued from page 99mission via membership in a particular group,that permission is not lost as a result of mem-bership in another youp that does not haveequivalent permissions or rights.

Suppose there's a printer on the networkreserved for users of an accounting appli«a-tion. It would make sense to create a groupcalled Accounting consisting of these people,and assign the right to use this printer to thisyoup. If there is a group o( users with a par-ticular set of requirements that isn't alreadycovered by an existing group, it's good practiceto create a new group with a descriptive name.

A Windows NT Server is likely to shareresources such as files and directories, andprinters. Increasingly, server-based applica-tions, Internet access, fax serring, and emailare being added to the mix. Modems andscanners are other possibilities, but they arestgi rare.

Printer shoringLet's look at how a printer is shared. In thesimplest situation, the printer we want toshare is physically connected to the server. Ifit is connected to another computer on thenetwork, or perhaps a print server, the con-cepts are still similar.

First it needs to be instaged. This is doneunder NT in much the same way as under?/srmdows 95/98. Next, the printer must beshared. In a small office, it is typical to giveeveryone full access to the printer. Since it islikely that everyone is a member of the Usersgroup, this is accomplished by giving full con-trol to the Users group. It is not necessary toyve permissions to individuals.

Sometimes, it is desired to restrict access tothe printer, or to give some individuals lessthan full contmL The four permission levelsfor printers are no access, print, manage doc-uments, and fuI I control. Perhaps theAdministrators youp would be given fullcontml, the Users group print access, andsome other group the right to manage docu-ments (i.e, managing the print queue).

If the server is running Windows NTServer 4.0, and all of the users are running

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In Canada, the pager sells for $599. At leastthat's what you pay if you buy it fiom RogersCantel, as the underpinning for its CentalAT&T Interactive Messaging service. Thatpurchase price drops to 5475 if you sign a two-year contract for the Cental AT&T InteractiveMassey'ng service. The pager can also beleased for $27 per month with a two-year mas-saging service contract (with a 810 buy-out atthe end of the lease). Over and above that, thecompany offers three monthly usage plans forthe pager. These plans start at SI6.95 permonth for a "short mmsage" service with alimit of 50KB per month, 829.95 per monthfor a "massaging plus" service with 250KB ofmessages per month and "elite massaging" thatallows you to send and receive up to 500KB ofdata per month.

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NT Workstation 4.0, then no additional driv-ers need be installed. If, as is more typical,there's a mix of Windows 95/98 and NTWorkstation among the network's users, thenWindows 95/98 drivers for this printershould be installed on the server. as welL Thereason for this is to reduce the administrativeburden of providing printing services for

What does a user do to connect to and usea shared printer for the first time? There areseveral methods, but the one I find to be eas-iest involves navigating to the printer inNetwork Neighbourhood. It wil l be listedunder the server name, along with all of theother objects being shared on the server.Double-dicking on the printer will down-load the appropriate print driver to the user'slocal drive, and install it . That's why it' sworth taking the extra step of installing printdrivers on the NT Server for other operatingsystems. If the driver is updated on the serv-er, it will be updated automatically on theworkstation.

Dhnctory shoringDirectories are shared in much the same way,but the details are naturally different. Once ashare is created, the next step is to set thepermissions on that share. There are four lev-els of share access: read, change, full control,and no access. The difference between changeand full control is that someone with the lat-ter permission can change the file and direc-tory permissions, a feature available only ondrives formatted under NTFS. If the admin-istrator needs more granular control overpermissions on a resource than share accessprovides, the only way to accomplish that isby using NTFS permissions. When this isdone, the permissions on a resource are thelesser of the permissions granted vis shareand NTFS.

Another benefit of using NTPS on a driveis the ability to compress files and directories.Since NTFS compression is a part of theoperating system, and not a bolted-on fea-ture, it is safe and efficient. With modernhardware, the performance hit is scarcelynoticeable. Ct

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Linux was born inFinland. LyX is centredin France. The SuSEdistribution of Linux isbased in Germany, andTurboUnux was devd-oped in the Far East.FreeBSD, NetBSD andOpenBSD (dose rela-tives to Linux) evolvedout of the creative vor-tex of the University of

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Canada is also home to some energeticopen-source activities. Ottawa-based CarelCorp. previously released Coral WordPerfect 8for Linux and has now released an entire Linuxdistribution callel Coml Linux. A Coral asso-ciate company, Rebel.corn. hss introducedsmall sdf-contained, easy-to-adminhner Unuxbases based on the StmngARM pmoessor. AVancouver, B.C., starmp company, StormixTechnologies Inc., has released a distri1>ationof Liaux calltul Storm Unux. And Calgary,Alberta, is the home of OpenBSD, the open-source OS that some security analysts considerthe most secure Unix distribution available.

Wine is a Windows com-patibility layer that allows

users to run selectedWindows 16-bit and 32-bit applications directly

from their X WindowSystem environment

Comt embraces UnuxCoral (lepihwa.coral.cora) endeared itself tothe Linux community when it released CoralW ordPerfect 8 for Unux and made a basi«ver-sion (miaus extra fonts and graphics) availableat no charge. Coral WordPerfect 8 was the firstmainstrem desktop application available forLinux and it was a success fmm the iastant ithit the wires.

Over a million people downloaded it fromthe Coml Web site within a few months of itsrelease, aad it is aow induded in nearly everycommercial distribution of Linux. Que hasaheady releawxl a book devoted to it: UsingCarel WordPerfscr 8 for Linux, by Roderick W.Smith, 1999 (ISBN: 0-7897-20329, $59.95).

More recently Cord bas released its owndistn1>ation of Unux called Coral Unux. Based

the Web.

on th e r e liable D ebian G NU/Linux(httpitwww.dehbh.org), Coral Unux adds ease-of-use features aimed at new users. Centred onthe KDE interface, Coral Unux includes agraphical instafiarion akin t o C alderaOpenLinux 3.2 and Red Hat Unux 6.1.Following the trend of recent commercial dis-tributions, it indudes a graphical managementtool for configuring and customiring the sys-tem, plus a feature for updating the system via

Corel's involvement with Linux runsdeep. Seeing a potential market for its fiag-ship WordPerfect product, as well as its fuUoflice suite, Corel has been contributingvaluable coding efforts to the opea-sourceWine project (hltpi/wnw.wlashq.org). Wine isa Windows compatibility layer that allowsusers to run selected Windows 16-bit and32-bit applications directly from their XWindow System environment. The Wineproject has bees making steady progressthrough the effort of volunteer program-mers, but the Corel input has givea the proj-ect additional impetus.

What Cord is ssisting with in partictdar isa Wine API layer that will allow Corers nativeWindows ofilce suite to run in Unux, withouthaviag to maintain separate Windows andLinux devdopment streams. If successfuL thiscould benefit Liaux users and Windows devel-opers alike, forming a bridge between Unuxand Windows pmgramming.

user version.

Unux Isetwinder boxesCorel's involvement with Linux began with ahardware initiative. It developed a small(desk-dictionary size) Linux box builtaround the StrongARM RISC processor. Itcreated three versions of the box, called theNetwinder: a small-department server, adeveloper's box, and a thinnish-client end-

Rehetcom's NetstndwBefore brinpng it to market, however,

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OS 9 advances the Mac platformMajor OS release embraces Apple's core markets and the Web

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pple's renewed focus and discipline hasgestated another major system software

ease — its second in just two years.Mac OS 9 is the latest milestone offering thathas been precedel by various other upgradesand updates labeled as 8.0, 8.1, 8.5, 8.5.1, and8.6. In an industry where development cydesof more than a few years are the norm, thecompetition is beginning to sit up and take

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It's no secret that the emergence of the Webhas created an opportunity for Apple to coa-tinue its explosive gmwth and make even fur-ther significant inroads into the mainstreammarketplace. The trick will beto anticipate how con-sumers will use this newmedium, then careful-ly craft an operatingsystem around thoseneeds. OS 9 seems

first big step to thatend.

lnsttdlssonEven though I' ve nevereacountered a s eriousproblem during a systemupgrade, I always begin the process by doing acomplete backup of my hard disk, indudingthe entire System folder. This comes in handyif you discover any extension or application

incompatibilities after the upgrade, allowingyou to easily return your hard disk to its previ-ous state. You should get in the habit of check-ing for third-party extension, control pand

and application compliance before youbey'n an upgrade. Pmbably the best

two sites to verify these issues areMacintouch (htlp://www.macin-touch.corn) and M ac Fixit(hllp://www.macfixit.corn),which compile reports andfeedback &om Apple and theuser community before andafter each OS rdease.lf you are a publisher, or

own any typefaces from theAdobe library, it is essential that

you update Adobe Type Managerand Type Manager Dduxe (which are

available for f ree oa Adobe's site athtlp J/atria.adobe.corn). OS 9 safely relocates theincompatible ATM version into the ControlPanels (disabled) folder. so don't enable it until

after you have run the updater. The instagerCD-ROM also indudes updates for StufiltExpander, DropStuff and A ppleWorks.Surprisingly, Final Cut Pm also required anupdate at the time of OS 9's release, but thisshould be available for download from Apple'sWeb site by the time you read this.

FaxSTF 5.04 and Retrospect 4.2 are the lat-est releases compaable with OS 9. If you stillhave SpeedDoubler and RAM Doubler kickingamund, I'd suggest abandoning them sincethey' re incompatible aad aren't really neces-sary with this OS. If you own a Hewlett-Packard Deskwriter 600 scrim printer, or anHP Desk)et 600/800 series inkjet printer, you' llhave to wait for updates on HP's Web sitebefore migrating to OS 9.

The last step to ensuring that your upgradegoes without a hitch is to choose the Mac OSAll set in the Extensions Manager, dose itswindow, insert the OS 9 CD-ROM, thearestart your Mac while holding down the "C"

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Running the StrongARM processor, the p rograms that cannot be legally exported fromRebel.corn Netwinders use very little power and the U.S. due to the export laws of that countrygenerateverylittleheat. The setup and adminii- (encryption is considered a miTitary secret).tration of the pre-loaded Linux takes place via a OpenBSD is based in Calgary.remote PC running Windows and s Java-based The OpenBSD CD-ROM proudly proclaimsWeb browser. Hence you can simply pop them "Made in Canada: land of free cryptography."into a corner or into a server rack without a Conrinved on page 112monitor or keyboard attached. The Netwindershave network cards built in (the server has two

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Storm LlnuxVancouver startup company StormixTechnologies (http//www.stormix.corn) is dedi-cated to Linux and open source solutions forbusiness and home users. The company hasreleased Storm Linux, a distribution based onDebian GNU/Linux. As with Corel Linux,Storm Linux sports a graphical installationprocedure (plus the option of a text-basedinstall), and SAS (Storm AdministrationSystem), a set of controls for system adminand maintenance. SAS comes in both graphi-cal and text fl avours. Storm Linux includes theStarOIEce S.la suite of office applications aspart of the distribution.

The primary goal of the company is to makeLinux easier to use. It is contemplating thingslike tutorials and wuards embedded into thedistribution.

What is interesting is that both Cord Linuxand Storm Linux are building on the excellentbut lesser known Debian GNU/Linux base.Both companies are attempting to makeDebian easier to use. Storm was started bythree developers: R. Garth Wood, KevinLindsay and Atsushi Ikeda.

OpsnSSDlf you' ve been using Linux for a while, you' veprobably encountered references to the BSD(Berkeley Systems Division) family of open-source operating systems. They bear a strongresemblance to Linux, but their heritage is dif-

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One of the first things I noticed shortly afterthe upgrades on both machines was that theApple menu was conspicuously shorter. Closer

ing. It seems that the installation processremoves older versions of Apple CD AudioPlayer, Apple DVD Player, Apple Video Player,Graphing Calculator and SimpleSound, plac-i ng newer versions in t he root o f t h eApplications and Apple Extras folders. Torestore all of these items to the Apple menu,you can create aliases and dmp them into theApple Menu Items folder.

One thing I usually check right after anupgrade is how much more system resources(such as hard disk storage and RAM) are con-sumed. Fortunately, OS 9's requirements-over and above those of OS 8.6 — aren't thatonemus. Your mileage may vary depending onhow your system is set up, but with virtualmemory enabled, the sire of the System folderonly increased by about two percent, while theRAM requirements increased by 13 percent.However, if you do more than word pmcess-ing, sending email and Web browsing, I'd rec-ommend that you have a minimum of 96 MBof RAM installed. This is espedally true if you

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Sherlock 2Sherlock made its debut in Mac OS 8.5, whereit was an instant hit. Sherlock 2 has tons ofenhancements and refinements that makesearching your local storage, network volumesand the Internet even faster, easier and moreenjoyable.

Apple dropped Sherlock's tabbed folder

that categorize the type of search you want toperform. Starting Rom the IeR side of the mw,you can choose to search one or more local orremote volumes for 6les based on name orcontent. One really useful new feature is theabiTity to save complex boolmn 6)e searches asa set accessible via a pop-up menu — whichm eans you don't have to recreate the searcheach time you require it.

Moving to the right, searching the Web hasbeen broken down into a series of channel but-tons that de6ne a speci6c category of search.

about the interface.

In addition to the standard search plug-ins(such as AltaVista, Excite, etc., which aregrouptxt with the standard Internet channel),there are sets of spedalty plug-ins gmupedwith channels labeled People, Shopping, News,Reference and Apple. W ith Sherlock 2, you canalso create your own channels to suit yourorganizational tastes.

One improvement to Sherlock's user inter-face is that it no longer opens separate win-dows for every search result. Instead. it listshits withio the Sherlock window, while at thesame time changing the result column head-ings to reflect the context of the search. Forexample, the Shopping channel will show pric-ing and availability, whereas the People chan-nel will display columns for email addressesand phone numbers.

Sherlock 2 has tremendous utiTity for Websearches, however, it will have to depend onthird-party development of additional plug-ins (for channels such as for Shopping, Peopleand Reference) to further its usefulness. Forinstance, it has only tbme LDAP server plug-ins (Yahoo. Bigfoot, Four l I), which really lim-its the scope of a People search.

One last criticism of Sherlock pertains to themetallic look and fed (ditto for QuickTimeP)eyer while we' re at it). I'm not the 6rst per-son with concerns about the new directionApple is taking. In Stet, there has been a stormof controversy online among users concerned

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see thatthis new metaphor adoption is threatening oneof the Mac's greatest traditional strengths — itsconsistency and dsrity. To begin with, the flat

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OS 9 advances the Mne platformContinuedfmm page 108simplified but dfective way of creating amulti-user envimnment with security privi-leges. In situations where one computer isshared by several people, such as at home andin schools, At Ease became a popular utility.

In OS 9, a more sophisticated multi-usercapability has been more doiely integrate)into the system. By default, the multi-useroption is turned otf after you perform aninstallation.

The Multiple Users feature breaks dowauser dasses into thmr basic categories calledNormal, Limited and Panels, afi of which havecheckbox controls that allow an administratorto assiga user privg«gin. Of course, when thecontml panel is first opened, the machine'sowner is presumed to have full access privi-leges. As you would expect, you can set globaluser options in addition to specific user per-missions that enable (or restrict) access to var-ious system components, local and/or remotevolumes, applications, folders and documents.Each user can even customize the system'slook-and-feel via the Appearance contmlpanel, so that the desktop donga changesdepending on who is using the computer.

In addition to typiag in a user passwortLusers can access a computer running OS 9 witha voice password. OS 9 steps users through thevoice password process by taking four samplesof a user-designated spoken phrase, It theabiometricafiy averages the samples to profiletheir voiceprint. While this feature has a highcoolness fitctor, I found it wasn't 100 percentreliable. Occasionagy, I had to say the phrase

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It's interesting to note that Apple designedthe password architecture to be modular sothird parties could add their own forms of ver-ification through devices such as a retina orfingerprint scanners.

There are some other rough edges to theMultiple Users feature that Apple aad otherapplication developers will have to smoothover ia upcoming releases. One of the mostglaring is the omission of a password verifica-tion field in the window For crmting new useraccounts. Moreover, as you type in the pass-word, each character appears as a bullet, so youcan't double check what you' ve typed in. If youmake a typo while creating a new account,you' ll have to delete the user and re-specify theprivileges unless you can guess what your typo

There is also another security loophole inthe abiTity to bypass the Multiple User setupusing a startup CD-ROM during the bootupsequence. Also, restricted applications andother Bes do not become invisible (or graythemselves out) to make it obvious to usersthat they don't have permission to use them.Iastead, users hace to try to open a file orapplication — and get a message declaring thatit is forbidden — to find out that they don' thave access. lastly, some applications (such asAdobe Photoshop) don't support the creationof Multiple User preference Bes.

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One of the beautiful features of theKeychaia is its portabfiity. Conveniently, youcan copy it to a disk, or send it via a networkto another Mac, so you can access your fullset of passwords wherever you are. Since thisis a security feature. you' ll be doing yourselfa favor by clearly understanding how toproperly use this powerful tool. It's impor-tant to remember that if you happen to leaveyour Keychain accidentally unlocked, otherusers will have full access to the areas yourpasswords protect. However, at no time will

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And in what is perhaps Apple's biggest pow-erhouse feature in terms of networking, OS 9now supports executing Applescript overTCP/IP. This is a big deal for professional pub-hshing houses that have really latched ontoApplescript as tool for automating manytedious and repetitive production tasks. At theFall 1999 Seybold conference Apple's chiefemcutive, Steve Jobs, demonstrated how a Macbased in New York could execute an

' Applescript that cropped and scaled a series ofPhotoshop images, then relayed them to a Macin Los Angeles that uswl the same Applescriptto place these images into a brochwe.

Coloroyno nnd FontaynoThese are two pivotal technologies that willfurther help consolidate Apple's dominance inhigh-end publishing. Colorsync has beenupgraded to version 3.0 and has finany addedthe ability t o save d i fferent workflowsettings — a long-requested feature. TheColorsync control panel is now easier tounderstand, breaking proSes into the fourcategories: Input, Display, Output, andproohr.

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Other impmvumnntnApple daims OS 9 introduces more than 50new features to the Mac environment. Whilewe have covered many of the m ajor ones, thereare aho many other improvements — somesubtle, and others more obvious to the enduser. Here are just a few:• Gamesprockets, the game acceleration

extensions (development of which almostceased in 1997), have undergone anotherperformance-tuning update. They are nowinstalled by default in OS 9.

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attendees are up to — trying to spot the nextbest technology in their specific area of «zpert-

ise. PCWeek has a slight advantage, because itsparent company, SoftBank, puts on theComdex show. So it certainly gets the co-oper-ation of exhibitors in providing pre-show helpto its test lab staff and board of corporate part-ners in identifying some of the best hardwareand software p roducts o n di splay.Nonetheless, it is interesting to comparePCWeck's picks with my own.

Best nstworldng hardwsmPCWeak Wireless Mountain's SpiderReaderSpider Tags for winless contml of physical assets.Jacques Surveyer: NetGear's Home PhonehneNetwork Adapter allows Ethernet connectionof PCs using existing home telephone wiringand ordinary telephone jacks.

Best desktop, mobile or hendheld systemPCW and JS: Aqcess Qbe Computing Tabletcombines voice, handwriting, wireless, USB.Ethernet and attachable keyboard in a thickdipboard powered by a 450 MHC Pentium BI,and priced at US$3.500.

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Seas enterprise produogvay sorhvsrePCW: Multiactive Entice!, a broad Web-basedsystem of customer relationship management(CRM) modules.JBSI Sun Star Office Suite, a well-rated wordprocessing, spreadsheet, presentation softwarepackage that runs on Linux, OS/2, Solaria andWindows 95/98/NT. The Mcker is that it's for-ever free, has a Java portal, and readsMiausoft Ofsce Blas.

Best new technologyPCW: Mobility Electronic's Split Bridge allowssharing of costly PCI cards among PCs.JBS: SecureGen's EyeD mouse Bngerprintpointing device assures secure PC use.

Best networldng softwarePCWI Novas's Netware 5.1 adds PTP, IBMWebSphere, NDS 8.0, and news services to atop network OS,

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Weekdays y am - 10 am, $2.50/min.Canadian open spume prolsotsContinuedfrom page 107The chief organizer and maintainer ofOpenBSD is Theo de Raadt, who serves as thecentral Bgure for the OS in the way LinusTorvalds represents Linux. (De Raadt andMichael Cowpland were both receipients ofthe 1999 Technically Excellent Canadiansawards from TCP's sister publication,Canadian Computer Wholesaler.)

OpenBSD has been picking up pins latelyfor its solid performance and tough security.Unlike most distributions of Linux, whichtend to be a bit careless about security in theirout-of-box installations, OpenBSD daims tohave not been cracked in an out-of-box instal-lation for over two yean.

OpenBSD is Ending its way into BrewaBs,muters and Web servers. In a ringing endorse-ment, Network Security Technologies Inca aleading U.S. provider of network security, hasdecided to offer commercial support forOpenBSD to its customers.

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A number of corporate sites are beginningto mix Linux and OpenBSD servers, usingOpenBSD for gateways and iirewalls.OpenBSD is also popular for creating VirtualPrivate Networks (VPNs) between sites forcorporate extranets. If you use Linux in acorporate environment, you may want tocheck out what supplementary servicesOpenBSD can offer your corporation ororganization.

I can't help but think that McLuhan wouldhave approved of O penBSD's highlyCanadian prohle that tweaks the rigid, out-dated encryption export laws of the U.S. Inthis area at least, Canada is much more intune with the global village than is the villageof Washington, DC. 0

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The 'best' of Comdax a aubjecgva thingContinued from page 112IBS: Novefi's e-Directory brings NDS 8.0 andLDAP to the Net plus Solaria, NT and Netware.

Best peripheralPCW: Sony Multiscsn SDM-N50 15-inchcolor LCD monitor is 1.27 cm (0.5-in.) thickand selb for US51,455.)BS: No pick

Bast Wab development softwarePCWI Ultimm Workfiow Suite builds work-fiow routing and systems with intuitive inter-

IBS: Macromedia's Dreamweaver 3 plusDrumbeat 2000 brings databased Web sinu tothe masses.

Beat utgity auitwaruPCW: Cyberliak's MediaeShow 2.0 providesAVI, MP3, )PEG and other media in showableEKE format.IBS: No pick

Despite extensively traversing both theSands and the Las Vegas Comantion Ceatres atleast twice, I was only able to come up with onepick that matched PCWeek's Best of Comdmselections. In addition, I simply did not havemy picks for two categories: best peripheraland best utifity software. Finally, four of mypicks were not even considered as possiblefinalists by the PCWssk judgex Coral OpenLinux, Novdl's e-Directory, Sun's Star Oifice,

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Of course, this is the fascination and lureof Comdex. Will one be able to spot the tech-nology trends as they emerge at a show thatstill attracts a wide range of start ups as wellas mainline hardware and software firms? Itis interesting to note how many of our picksare for coinciding, and not leading-edgetechnologies.Only one of my picks (SecureGen EyeD fin-

gerprint mouse) and two PCwesk picks(Wireless Mountain's Spider Reader andMultiActive's Entice!) can be thought of asleading-edge, but the rest are major advancesin existing hardware or software categories.There were booths featuring wireless, hand-

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CommentaryMiaosofi vice-president David Vsskevich hasarguml, tellingly. that software completes anddefines the range of capabilities of hardware,and that the last fiontiers of IT software arebeing settled, solved and developed with the n-tier distributed processing systems of theIaternet. Afier the problems of thee systemsare resolved, he says, software will reach aplateau awaiting breakthroughs in artificialintelligence, human interfaces, and bio-devices, which in turn wiU spur a new upswingin software development.

Others argue that software agents and bro-kering, large-scalemodeling and simulations,bio-electronic interfaces plus dynamic opti-mizing algorithms will pmvide plenty of gristfor sofiware and hardware developers to inno-vate and work on for the next decade.

This writer tends to favor Vaskevich'sarguments. But if tens of thousands of well-intentioned and savvy experts cannot agreeon, let alone predict, the impact of Y2K onthe world economy, what hope is there foragreement on the pace and direction of com-mercial hardware and software development.Is the Best of Comdex the best we can hopefor? Ci

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mted calculator used mosdy by businesses. Itook the arrival of the graphical user interfaceGUIL in the form of Windows, OS/2, and thevlac OS to transform the personal computerrom a hobbyist's pursuit into an entertain-nent/productivity tool for the general popu-ation. That development set the stage for theirrival of personal financial software.

The first such program was Quicken, fromI company called Intuit. Its early productsvere DOS- snd Vrindows-based programs for>ters who wanted to track bank accounts,>rint cheques, budget, and perform otheruoney-related functions. The category of>ersonal financial software grew through the90s with various players appearing, then dis-ippearing due to acquisitions, mergers ornsolvency. For the last year or two,vlicmsoft's Money has been Quicken's onlyeal «ompetitor.

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for clearly Microsoft has expended greateffort to build, sell, and even discount a prod-u«t that is in many ways an equal to Intuit's.Why? Microsofi has scores of products, manyof whi«h receive much less attention. As atechnology writer I am not privy to what goeson behind the doors of either Microsoft orIntuit; however, by looking at some importantdevelopments that have occurred regardingconsumers and financial information, it ispossible to make some assumptions.

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Weaving your own Web site: Part 51BOTTOM, BOTTOM and TOP. BASELBIE aligns thebaseline of the element to that of the parentelement, while MIDDLE aligns the text to themiddle of the associated element. SUB andRIPER are the equivalents of subscript andsuperscript, TBT-TOP aligns the top of the ele-ment to the top of the parent, while TEKT-BOT-TOM doiu the same thing. but to the bottom ofthe parent element.The values BOTTOM and TOP are designed to

be used in relation to the existing line of texton which the element is situated: TOP aligcsthe element to the tallest element on that lineof text, and bottom does the same for theshortest element on the line of text.

VERRCAL-AUG N is a good property for align-ing text alongside such things as images, andmany of its values have direct counterparts tothe <IMG> tag in the HTML 4.0 specification.Unfortunately, this particular property is notwell supported. In Internet Explorer, only theBUB and RIPER values work, while it's not sup-ported at all in Netscape Navigator.

The WHITE~ACB prupsrtyThe WHITE-SPACE pmperty is designed to addextra spaces (i.e., "white space") betweenwords. While it seems like it might be relatedin function to the LE?TER-BPADBIG or WORD-SPAGNB pmpeties, which use a Bxed value tospace out separate leners or words, it is in fiictmore dosely related in function to the <PRE>HTML tag.

The <PRE> tag mtains the appearance of pre-formatted tmu on a We b page, keeping ag of thespadng and indents of the original text intactThis is useful for listing samples of program-ming code on a Web page, for example, whereit is ne«essary to maintain indents, and let a lineof text run oir the side of the page rather thanwrapping around so the next line.The WHITE-SPACE property seems to be

ideal to replace the <PRE> tag. Its three values(NORMAL. NOWRAP and PRE) either incorpo-rate or extend the functionality associatmlwith that tas.

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Woriring with Markham, Ont.-basedIBM Canada Ltd., Roots will offer some200 different items, including clothing,loather goods and accessories, for saleonline. The site will also have Web-basedservices, such as vlrtuai postauds andan intsractivs soap opera which wasdeveloped using Macromsdia's Flashtechnology.

Oon Green co-founder of Roots prs-dicts his company's foray into onlineretailing will be a success, leveragingRoots' hlstoiy and culbns — the latter ofwhich has driven the company slncs itbegan in 1873.

Roots is really lucky in that ws thinkwe have a perfectly suited business forthe Internet. hs adds. We believe we willbe Canada'8 mast successful Snd impor-tant Wsb site."

Green said hs also asked Ior input Sumhis 17-ysaredd son and his friends ss towhat Roots should be doing with ths sitsand what kind of content would appeal toteenagers as "thsy are part of the audi-ence we are dirsckng this towards as thisIs 8 gsnsratke that has grown up aroundconlplltms.

Ths appeal oi an sstabllshad Canadianbrand should be welcomed by CanarHan«ellns shoppers. Tmunto-basedIntematkeal Oats Corp. Canada prsdictsthat by 2003, intsmst commecs will gmwto 81 2.8 binon, repnwsnting some 4.6pmcsnt of total mtail spending in Canada.Howsvsf, 83 pe«wit OI SIS doiialS cuf-rsntly spent by Canadians online goes toLks.-based sites because of the lack ofmajor C nadl8fl mtag nalnaS afldCanadian-based smvlees on ths Wab .

"Roots is 8 big Canadke rstallar andyou are now easing reasonably sizedcompanies stalgng to take the plunge,'adds Jordan Worth, tslscommunkmhonsanaiysl Ior IOC Canada. "But 800 you sasa lot mes hssitancy In Canada because itcosts a kri oi money to put up 8 Wsb sits

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The NORMAL value for WHITE-SPACE simply

normally would, by removing excess spacesthat appear between words. PRE works exacdylike the <PRE> HTML tag, retaining the origi-nal spacing and carriage returns between let-ters and words on s page. The NOWRAP valuealso retains the original spacing between let-ters snd words, but ignores any carriagereturns, so you would have to insert a linebreak ("<BR>") to insert a carriage return onthe Web page. The following example code

tells the browser to format a line of text as it

shows the PRE value in action:

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This property is not suppomed at all withininternet Explorer, and only the PRE and NOR-MAL values are supported in NetscapeNavigator.

The WIDTH ProperlyThe WIDTH property is used to scale an element(most typi«agy an image) to the desired verti-cal length on a Web page, and is the siblingproperty to HEIGHT (explored earlier in thisseries). WIDTH can take one of three differentvalues; a unit of measurement value, a per-centage value, and the name value AUTO, whichsets the element to its default size.

The AUTO setting, which is the defaultvalue, sets the image to its normal size. WIDTHcan also take a specigc measurement value,which sizes the width of the image to thevalue desired. It can also take a percentagevalue that sizes the width of the image inrelation to the overall height of the browserwindow. The following example shows allthree values at work:

<IMG STYLE='WIDTH. AUTO" SEC="myimsge.gii">Thisimage is sei to its natural sue (AUTO seitingi.<P><IMG STYLE="YYIDTH 2IN' SRC="rnyimage.gif'>ThisImage Is sei to 2 inches in width.<P><IMG SIYLE='YYIDTH. 50%' SRC="myimage.gif'>Thisimage is set to 50% of the browser window's width

While NDTH is really meant to be used withimages, unlike HEIGHT, it will have an apprecia-ble effect on other Web elements, such as text,though its use is not recommended in this caseas the results can vary. WIDTH is fully support-ed under Internet Explorer. NetscapeNavigator does not support its use withimages, but does with text.

Thu WORD eIPACING PropertyWORD-SPACING is very similar in eSect to theLETTER-SPACING property, but instead ofadding extra space in between all of the indi-vidual letters, it adds space between variouswords. It can take one of two values: NORMAL,which uses the default word spacing valuesused by the browser; or a unit of measure-ment. Like the LETTER-SPACING property,

WORD-SPACING is best used for emphasis ratherthan for use across the complete text on a Webpage. The following code pmvides a goodexample of how WORD-SPAONG should andshould not be used on s Web page:

<H2 AUGN="CENTER" STYLE='WORD-SPACINGi0.5CM;">Notice How This Header Stands Out on thePage</H2><P STYLE="WORD-SPACING 5IN;">Trf not to go overboard when using Ifiis property,because You can take emphasis too Isr it YOu don' twatch out.</p>

In this example, you will see e header effec-tively spread out across the top of the Webpage, as each word is spaced out fmm theother by 0.5 cm. It instantly grabs your atten-tion because it is so dikerent from most ofthe text in other headers you are likely to runacross. However, the words in the paragraphthat follow the header are each spaced 5 in.apart, making it hard to read, and likelyrequiring the reader to scroll down throughwhat is actually a small amount ol text. Asalways, be careful and do not go overboardwhen using properties like WORD-SPACING orLETTER-SPACING. IO

Roots rutagsr digs Into the WsbContinued from page I I5and unless an organization understandswhat they want to do with it and how todrive business through It, it can be a varyscary experience."

The Roots site is hasted on IBMGlobal Services' Universal Server Farm.It also uses IBM's Net.Commerce sndGlobal Merchant e commerce soiu-tiona-Including credit card processing,sales tax calculation, and coordination ofOltter fulflgrnant — to PIOCSSS ordsm.

John Wstmore, general manager forIBM Canada Ltd. says Roots chose IBMbecause "we understand scaiablliiy.security. and reliability."

Scalability is an important Issue forRoots, which is sxqanding its onlinerstag reach Into the U.S. in time for theholiday buying season. The Boston-based Boston Consulting Group is pre-dicting online shoppers will have spentan estimated US$23 million over in 1999Christmas shopping rush, up fromUS$7.5 million for the same period in1998.

The idea was to gst Canada up andrunning and saa whatever bugs there arsand fix them, and find whatever Ioglsbcsneed to be fixed, Green said.

Gnmn hopes to be pulling some $1 0million to $20 million in sales through theWsb site by the end of 2000. Roots, onaverage, has annual sales of $200 millionthrough its 120 mtail stares. Ci

Next time: Units of measurement and colour inCSS. Keitb Scbengili-Roberls welcomes any com-ments, suggestions or NTML tips you may have. Youcan email Keith at robertskGwave.home.corn Lookfor his recent book on HTML, The Admnced IIIIYILCompanion, 2nd EdNon, co-autbored by Kfm Silk-Copelsnd (ISBN; 0-12-623542-2).

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If you have typed a regionname that Excel doesn't recog-nize, it will display the ResolveUaknowa Geographical Datadialogue haec and show thename it aumot matck Find a

list that corresponds to theregion in question, select it anddick the Change buaon. You

will need to repeat this pmcms for aa theregkrns Ezed does not mmgnize.

Whee the completed map appears, you' ll smthe MiaosoR Map Conaol dialogue on thescreen, aad the gist column of data will havebeen plotted on the map (you must maauaayadd the semnd column laser). Fmm hem youcan custonure your map in a number of waya

Cutrtomlzlna Vaur mapOnce your map is created, you can alter theway your Erst column of data is formattedby dragging one of the six formattingoptions Rom the left of the Map Contml

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enever you have a need to analyzedata based on geographiad regions,such as provinces or countries, you' ll

appreciate the mapping capabilities built intoyour spreadsheet soft-ware. Each of the majorspreadsheet packageshas maps that allowyou to quiddy and eas-ily p lot d ata b yprovince or by country.

This month, we' lllook at how to create asimple chart lor a com-Iraay selling widgets.The sales Bgures will be

ploaed idoagdde the population data for thepmvinoes, aaawing tbe company to analyze itssaks relative to the populatioa densities. I' vegivea you detailed instructions for MicmsoitEzod 97 and 20DO, and some starter notes ifyou'm using tutus 1-2-3 97, or Quattm Pm 8.

Yotfa need same data to chart in EzceL sobegin by creating a auaple workshmz Place thenames of the pmvinces in the gu Isa column ofthe range yau want to plot on a map and makesure the data appmpriate to the regionsappears in mhunns to the right of the names.

You should use the region names specigedby Excel, as it will make the map easier to cre-ate. If you use other shortened forms of thenames, Excel may have dgaculty Ending themrrect map to use or the cormct area on themsp to plot your data

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Root, users, and pnonvvordzThe mot, or superuser, account is your iannamaster account. This account is not only themost important one on your system, it's alsothe account from which you can do the mastshoot-yourself-in-the-foot damage. Here arethree strategkn for making this account laavulnerable.

First. Iog in as root only to peri'orm admin-istrative tsskz Do not use the acmunt as yourgeneral login. Create a staadard user accountfor yourself, with a di6aent password, and usethat for aa your normal work, even if you' rethe only user on your worksteuon. The reason

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Intruders love to get at your /etc/passwd Slebecause it often contains encrypted passwordsSrr your system, which they can run thmugh apassword-cracking program to look foraccounts they can exploit. To make thingsmore diffindt for them, use shadow passwords.On Red Hat systems you can enable shadowpasswords by typing /shin/pwconv whilelogged in as root. This moves the encryptedpasswords into a separate Sle that only pro-grams with root access can read.

If your system has more than one user withan account, you may want impose some kindof group-oriented security so that 6les createdby one user cannot be read by another user.Some distributions, such as Rod Hat andDebian, use a separate default group for eachuser, which automatically makes youp accessmore secure. Other distros, such as Calderaand SuSE, lump everyone into a default usersyoup, which is not as secure.

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This invokes the delete, copy andmove/rename commands in interactive mode,with "y/n" prompts for every overwrite ordeletion. This trick has saved my bacon on sev-eral occasions. Some Unix purists disgke thesesafety features, but I prefer to pmtect myselfagainst the inevitable lapses of concentrationthat occur during a long pmyamming ses-sion. You can ovenide the interactivity byusing the "-f" (force) Sag when you' reabsolutely sure of what you' re doing.

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lf you' re not using Red Hat, leam wherethese announcement lists are Ssr your particu-lar distribution and become a frequent Syer.Download and apply all security fixes asthey' re announced. Update any part of yoursystem that your vendor recommends. Themajority of the cracked sites on the Internetare those that have been lax about securityupdates. Don't be naive or lazy about security.

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actually need. The Unix tradition is that you, assystem ministrator, know what you' re doingand will adjust your system accordinglyUnfonunately, as a new user, you may not evmknow yet whafs going on under the hoocL

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The image of the Excel map, showsthe Value Shading format. In it, eachpmvince is shaded according its popu-lation. which is the data in the first datacolumn (column B). You can alter thisformatting to Category Shading bydragging the Category Shading iconfrom the left of the dialogue and plac-ing it on top of the Value Shading iconin the box on the screen. The CategoryShading format makes each region adifferent colour.

Other formatting options indudeDot Density, which could be used toshow the sales figures for each province,with higher dot densities reflectinghigher values.

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from the top of the the Map Control dia-logue into the Column area of the box anddrag a formatting icon from the leR of thedialogue into the Format area next to thename of the second data range.

Not all fortnats can be used together on amap. If a format cannot be used with an

existing choice, the format will appeardisabled and you will not be able tosele«t it.

If you make a mistake you can pick upany data name or formaning option anddrag it out of the box to discard it. Closethe Map Control dialogue when youhave selected all the data columns andmap formats and return to your spread-sheet by pressing Escape or by sdectinga cell outside the map area. As a map isan embedded object, to alter it, simplyd ouble-click on i t t o s tart up t h eMicrosoft Map application.

Fina tuning your mapOnce the basics of your map are com-plete, you can fine tune colours, pat-terna and placement by moving the var-ious elements around with yuw mouseand resizing them using their sizing

handles. You can alter colours by selectingthe legead, right-dicking it and sele«HagEdit. You' ll find the toolbar that appearswhen yow map is selected has a number ofother optioas for altering aad addiag to yourmap, indudiag placing pins in it (to markpoints of interests) and adding labels and

For example, dick the Map Labeh buttonto add province or country names and yourcursor will change to a text box containing alabel that will change to the correct provincename as it moves over your map. Click whenyou have it in position, thea add the nextlabel — press Escape to turn off the labeloption.

lotus t-g-gTo «reste a map in Lotus, create your data in

Excel. Lotus's coding of province names issimilar to Excel's except that it groupsNorthwest Territories and Yukon, but you' llfind the process of reconciling names is quitesimple, so mistakes are easy to fix.

When you have your data, highlight theportions you want to plot (indude theregion names and the data for these. butdon't indude the column headings). SelectCreate, Map and click in your worksheetwhere the top left corner of the map is toappear.

If Lotus can't determine the map type touse, then the Map Types dialogue box willappear. If this happens, select the map youwant to use from the list and dick OIL

The region dialogue box will appear everytime you use a region name that Lotus doesnot recogtuze. You can choose to replaceyour region name with lotus' own code forthe region or you can add your own namefor a region.

Chances are Lotus' names won't be anexact match for the names you use, so, if youfind it preferable to use your own descrip-tions, spend a few minutes creating customnames for the region names you want to use(select the Add As Custom Name Por optionbutton and match your name with theappropriate one in Lotus' Known mapregion list). When you have reconciled aB

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(2uuttrw Pro v 8Not aU the Quattro Pro files you need to mapdata are installed when you choose a Typicalinstallation, so chances are you' ll need toinstall them. To do this, load your originalQuattro Pro CD-ROM and follow the installprocess to the point where you choosebetween the Typical, Compact, Custom orRun from CD-ROM installations. SelectCustom and make sure that in the QuattroPro options section you select the Mappingcomponent and continue with the installa-

To create your map in Quattro Pro, createyour data as you would for Excel QuattroPm recognizes standard province abbrevia-tions as well as full names, so you may useAB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PF QC,SK snd YT.

Select Insert, Graphics, Map and you' ll bestepped though the Map Expert. In the firststep you' ll choose the map you want to use(e.g. Canada by province). In Step 2, selectthe arrow at the right of the Region Namesbox and click and drag the highlighting overthe region names then click the Maximizebutton (or press Enter). Then repeat thepmcess for the Colour data that will be thefirst column of data to plot on the map andrepeat it again for the Pattern data, which isthe second data column.

When you select Next, Quattro Pro willtry to recognize the region names and, if itcan't then the Check Regions dialogue wi1(appear and you can match your name to thename Quattro Pro uses. When all regionshave been matched, you can proceedthrough the remainder of the steps in theExpert to add other features to yow map.Finally, click and drag an area for your mapin your worksheet and the map will appearon the screen.You can customize your map by selecting

the area to alter and right-click to bring upthe shortcut menus.

Quattro Pro ships with a number of filescontaining demographic data for many of itsm ap areas induding Canada. You can findthis data ln )routtsu(tegtprogramstDataMaps folder andyou' ll find Canadian data in the fi leCanada.wb3. This and the other demograph-ic data files are useful for providing you withthe codes that Quattro Pro uses for theregions on its maps. 0

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Over the past year, I reaived dminsupon dozens of computer books onvarious difi'erent subjmts to review.

My poor bookshdves only have room for somany, so every few months I head down to thelocal library with a hue!wack brimming full ofvarious computer book titles. Don't get mewrong — many of these are perfectly goodbooks, but there ere only a select few that Iconsider "keepers." These are the books I referto again and again. Why! It has to do with acombination of the writer's talent for enlight-ening and engaging the reader on a subjectthat is otherwise apt to put most people tosleep, and the thoroughness in which a partic-ular subjmt is covered.

Here, in no real order, sre some of the bestcomputer books fiom the past ymr.

1. Canadian Internet HnndbooluIJSIttbulbn to YottnbBnAulhcrs: Jim Cailcg and lgck BroadheadPublisher. Macmillan CanadaSegcnm 200 pagesPane 821.95Carrog and Broadhead have managed to re-invent their venerable Handkcek yet again. Asthe subtide Hew re Pcs/ir by Understanding rheInrcrner uf 2NS implies. the focus of this bookis on the future of the Internet over the nextfive ymrs.

So what's a yottabitf It is an extremelylarge amount of information, but of anorder that Carrol and Broadhead predict wewill soon be using as available bandwidth onthe Internet (and other telecommunica-tions) explodes. Carrol and Broadhead lookat how this massive impending change totechnology wiB undoubtedly change indi-vidual career paths and the way corpora-tions function. The book is full of fascinat-ing facts and analysis that never seem to gobeyond thc realm of thc plausible. And asalways, Carrofi and Broadhead make it acompelling read.

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L Seglng OngneAu!hue: Jim Canal and Rkk SasdhesdPubtsher. Macmglan Canada8N 0-771 5.7643.9Scgcuver 394 pagesPrice: 821.95The purpose of this book is straightforward:hdping you to set up an onhne store. Soundssimple enough, but Carroll and Broadheadmanage to pmvide the sort of detailed, practi-cal information rarely seen elsewhere. It is ancxcegeat and thomugh introduction to theyowing field of e-business that is aimedpdficagy at a Canadian audience.Ttue to form. Carroll and Broadhead pro-

vide sage advice, practical tips on Internetmarketing strategies, and ways to encouragerepeat visits to your online store. Along theway. they pmvide numerous emunples of exist-ing online merchants who got things right. Italso delves into the processes of setting up amerchant's account tn process credit cardtansections online.

The book is nicely munded out by inter-views with key Canadian businesses that havestablished a sigaificant onliae point-of-sale

presence, and Carroll and Broadhead's visionsof e-commerce in thc near future. This is athorough, practical intmduction to e-com-

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L The LINe IMno BookAulher: Rabin NglamsPublisher: Addlsen-WesleySSN: 0-201-35421-7Sehconr 191 pagesPike: 826.95

he Sittb iMacTBeck is aimedsquarely at theiMac owner whois a fi rst-timeMacintosh user.It is designed as adcsfuop mmpan-ion, to be glancedat while you srework on your

assumes nothiafpdealing with how to turn an iMac on, how touse a mouse, what the Macintosh operatingsystem environment looks like, and how it afiworks. What makes Tire Little iMac Book sogood is its gtiendfy, helpful tone that makesIeeruhrg how to use en iMac fun. If youknow any recent iMac converts who havenever used a Mac before, this is the book forthem.

g. Woody Leonhard TeachesMicrosoft ONloe 2000Autlur. Woody LnmhsidPubtsher. OueISBN: 0-7897-1871-5Sehcemr 650 pagesPnm: 829.95I have to admit a bias here, in that leonhsrdhas become one of my favourite computerbook writers. In this book, he is playing to hisnatural strengths: as a long-time expert in such

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Ojjfcc 2NO part of the title is something of amisnomer, as ieonhard really only looks atWord, Excel, and PowerPoint in any depth.There is only one small chapter that ties theminto the remaining OSce 2000 programs. Thistitle is beet suite! to the reader who has somebasic knowledge of these proyams. but wantsto be taken on a tour of their new features byetrue, critical expert.

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and Simon havepmducmf over theyears have theirown idiosyncraticappmach to tech-nology topics, Inthis case, the resultis a book thatlooks at the vari-ous features of

Windows 98, with interject!one fromIeonhsrd and Simon on huw it aught to workwhy things were designmf the way they wae,and how to change things so that they workmore sensibly. If you can imagine an operatingsystem being heckled as its various featmes areexamined, you' ve got an idm of how this bookreads. The smelt is a highly entertaining end

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The PalmPilot,continues todominate thehandheld com-

despite repeatedattempts by othermaaufacnuers todislodge it fiomthe top. Thisbook covers a& ofthe variations ofthe Palm devian,

fiom the original Pilot 1000 to the palm Vll,and is an cxcegent update to the ence&cut orig-inal edition.

However, if you have a copy of the first edi-fion and own a Palm III or earlier, thme is nocompelling reason to "upgrade" to this quid*If you have one of the more recent Palmdevices, or use a Palm with a Macintosh com-puter,you will find the new sect!em devoted tothese subjects make the guide a worthwhilebuy. If you are a new PalmPilot user and aielooking for a book that will pmve to be a con-tinuafiy handy reference, this book's for you.

This is one of thosebooks I knew I'd likethe moment I pickedit up. It's the ever-

t strange tale of stav-ing up a softwareaunpany in ncuth-ern Cal ifornia'sSilicon Vaficy, andtahng it to an IPO(initial public offer-ing). This territory is

last year he released The Firer S20 Million fsAlways rke Hardcsr, which was subtitled ASiliimu Veffey Novel. In this book, he tries topmvide a slice-of-life of those who live andwork ia Silicon VaUey.

Ifre Niufirr en the Lute Shift is a cogection ofarticles, some of which have previouslyappmued in magaunes, such as Wired. In thebook he presents some interesting stories ofthe people who brought us such Intanet suc-cess stories as CfHet and Hotmail, as weg asthe plight of a salesmen trying desperately tomake his quota by the end of a quarter,Unfortunately, while the book is long onatmosphere, it is short on analysis. However, it

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more removed fmm its progenitor, Wiadows95. This latest edition in the series of venera-ble Hnmhcg books is a useful reference for theWindows 98 power user. On its back cover,this book even guarantees that it containsmore information about using Windows 98than any other book on tbe market! It maynot make for a scintillating read, but it baimore than you' ll probably ever need to knowabout Windows 98.

L Wongpergeot Offitm 2000:Tfm OSlelel tgutdeAugur: Alan NelbauerPubgsher: O ~ mw HglISSM 0-07-882589-5Sethxnw 849 pagesPdm: 203.95Miaosofi Office 2000 is not the only oSccsuite in town. There's also Coral's WordpeifectOSce 2000. This book takes the approach ofguiding tbe reader through each ofWordPerfect OSce 2000's programs by usingtheir many functions in a real-world environ-ment. So while nmding about how to sendmnail, compose a standard business letter, cre-ate a chart. presentation or spreadsheet, youlearn about the functions and fcaturcs of thepmyams comprising the suite.

Thme's something of a philosophical differ-ence between thc two major suites: unlikeMicmsofi Office, pmgrams in WordperfmtOffice are not Wizard-based, and, theref'ore,lend themselves more to a book like this, whichexplains aB of the functions of the variouspmyams. AB in afi, this is a good working ref-erence for people using Wordpmfcct OScc2000 and its many individual applications,

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The brain drainCompanies need to focus on internal culture to keep talented employees

By Tom Venetlu

' e debate rages over the scale-

national brain drain of technologyworkers to the U.S., Caaadian high-tech com-panies are realizing that they' ll experience abrain drain on a corporate level if they don' tfind better ways to reach out to high-techgraduates and create a challenging, excitingenvironment for them to work in oncethey' ve been hired.

Bruin drain debateWhile the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Instituteblames Canada's tax systems for driving near-ly 40 percent of recent graduates in science,medicine and management out of the coun-try (a theme frequently echoed in the popularpress and news broadcasts), Statistics Canadasuggests highly educated Canadians are notleaving the country in droves, and whateverlasses there may be are outweighed by thenumber of highly educated and technicallytrained people coming into the country.

"There is linle statistical evidence in sup-port of a large scale exodus of knowledgeworkers from Canada to the United States,"

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according to Statistics Canada's Scott Murray,who preseated his research at a 1998 forumon whether a brain drain to the U.S. exists.

"When you look at the high-tech industryin Canada as opposed to the States, to say thattaxes [arel the reason why Americanrecruiters are taking Canadian high-techgraduates is disingenuous," suggests SethKlein, director of the B.C. ofnce of theCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in

And others suggest if graduates are leavingCanada, it has more to do with the kinds ofjob environments that U.S. companies areoFering Canadians.

Al Nasturzio, regional vice-president forthe Toronto-based Information TechnologyInstitute (ITI), says some graduates from hiscollege have been lured to the U.S. by thehigher salaries, but more often it is the greaterjob support and continuous training that isthe inducement to move.

"We keep hearing that people are leavingbecause of the 6nancial beneets and the taxstructure in the U.S.." Nastutzio adds. "I don' tthink that is the whole reason. The envimn-ment is absolutely critical: not only the workingenvironment, but who they are working for."

Nasturzio suggests high-tech workers andgraduates want to be in environments that arenot only challenging but where their contri-butions are appreciated. Mahng them feelthey are stuck in a back room, or are simplyreduced to taldng care of a couple of serversor computers, is a sure way to lose them, nomatter how much money they are being paid.

Keeping employees intemetedChristine Bacinski, associate instructor/con-sultant for the Toronto Technology Gmup(TFG), found after graduating fram ITI thatmany employers were not doing enough toattract or keep skilled graduates like herself.Often, she and her dassmates were olFeredunchallenging jobs, or the companies showedlittle interest in helping those they did hirecontinue to upgrade their skills as technologychanged.

"[Companiesl feel, certainly at the intro-ductory level, that we are pretty much a dimea dozen and they don't really have to cater toour needs, and they don't have to appreciateus as much because there will be others com-ing along," Bacinski adds.

TTG recognized this when it launched lessthan a year ago. As a startup company that

develops high-end business-to-business andbusiness-to-consumer applications, it knew itcould not attract graduates and high-techworkers by ofFering high salaries. Instead, itoffered employees an environment in whichthey could learn new technologies, and inwhich mentoring was encouraged to helpemployees understand new technologies andexpand their skills.

Vancouver-based DNA Media Services Inc.similarly encourages its nearly 50 employeesto mentor each other in the technologies andprojects they do in order to foster an environ-ment where they are constantly chauenged.DNA translates computer solutions for for-eign markets in Asia and Eumpe, and knowstechnology workers are wiuing to move to adiFerent company if they feel they are notchallenged or supported in their work

"Creating a good working environment isone of our top priorities... and can outweighbow much you are making," says MikeRichards, business development manager forDNA. "We have regular sessions and mini-classes that people put on because it isimpossible for everyone in the company todo what everyone else does. But having a

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The hmln drainCeu/inuedfront page 132knowledge of what other people's jobs areand how it affects the projects we are work-ing on is important."

Role of educatorslf Canadian businesses need to start changingtheir corporate culture to find and keep valu-able employees, Canada's high-tech cofiegessnd training centres also need to start doingmore to hook up their graduates with inter-ested firms and opportunities. Too manytimes, colleges and universities oger littlesupport to graduates once they finish theircourses, leaving many struggling to find

CDI president Doug Morley says his col-lege recently held a graduation ceremony thatfeatured speakers snd attendees fromCanada's high-tech sector and was an oppor-tunity for some informal networhng. CDIalso goes a step further by having 45 employ-ment specialists on staff to help students meethigh-tech recruiters and employers.

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Nasturxio says he is trying to get ITI's grad-

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O'Reilly books are always easy to spot on thebookstore shelves because of their commondesign — each cover is adorned with a blackand white engraving of a dffierent animal. Forthis book, the animal is, aptly. an asp. ManyWeb masters will, no doubt, appreciate thissnaky metaphor, as dealing with the funda-mentals of ASP can be as tricky as wrestling anannoyed python. But as with the majority ofO'Reilly's Nutshell series of books, ASP in aNutshell is a good reference guide that wig helpboth neophyte and more experienced ASPWeb developers.

SP (Active Server Pages) is a means ofdelivering Web page content onemend through Microsoft Internet

Information Servers. Many professionalWeb masters are turning to developing sitesusing ASP-based Web servers — or other.similar s ystems s uch as All aire'sCofdFusion — in order to deliver highly cus-tomizable and dynamic content to theirusers. In most Web servers, the clientrequests a Web page. and a simple "flat"HTML file is sent to the client. With ASP,the server also takes the client request, butadds an interpretive layer, making it possiblefor the Web master to deliver dynamic, cus-tomizable information to the individualclient. In this issue we take a look at a cou-ple of books devoted to ASP.

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This book is divided into three major sec-tions: an introduction that looks at ASP fun-damentals, an extensive object reference that ishandy to have when programming functionsinto your Web site, and an installable compo-nent reference that documents the propertiesand methods of additional functions you canadd to your Web server.

The introductory section is good, laying outthe basic principles of ASP in a concise man-ner, but is only suitable for the beginner who isfamiliar with the basics of object-oriented pro-gramming (or has some knowledge of VisualBasic).The majority of the book is hard-core ref-

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Beginning Aogve Server Pages R.OAuthws: Brian Francis. John Kaugman, Juan T. Ubre.Oavid Sussman, and Chris UllmanPublisher: WROX Presshtlp://www.wrox.corn (Oist. by Addison-WesleyLongman, Teh 416-447-51 01)ISBN: 1-861 001-34-7Soflcovar 652 pages 1999Price: 855.95Rslln9:Information content: I /2Readability:Intended for: BeginnerOverall Rating:

Wrox Press realizes that not everyone cansimply leap into a new programming environ-ment without some instruction. BeginningActive Server Pages 2.0 is aimed squarely at thenew ASP Web programmer. The book starts byteaching readers the very basics and works upto helping them build robust Web applica-

This is a good guide, if you' re looking fora relatively easy, step-by-step approach tolearning ASP. It doesn't assume the readerhas prior programming experience, thoughit does assume a basic knowledge of HTML.The book outlines the very basics of ASP andhow it functions at both the Web client andWeb server ends. It then describes how to setup a basic Web server (the fiee MicrosoftPersonal Web Server), which is necessary forrunning the examples provided in the book.After loohng at some basic ASP techniques,variables and control structures, it devotes afidl chapter to understanding the basics of

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Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0 doesassume you can install Microsoft PersonalWeb Server on your system. (Personal WebServer is best suited for systems runningWindows gx.) By concentrating on this par-ticular Web server it also bypasses dealingwith arguably more popular servers like theInternet Information Server common toWindows NT servers.

The subjects covered in this book are verybasic, which is perfect if you have next to noprogramming knowledge, but may be a biton the thin side for those with some experi-

On the whole, Beginning Active Server Pages2.0 is an mrcellent guide for the true ASPbeginner. Q

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Happily, both releases are available for theMac platform ino doubt due to the fact thatToy Story was animated by Fixer, whose chair-rnan and chief executive is Apple boss SteveJobs). The Windows/Mac hybrid CD-ROMsare $39.99 each.

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significant risk Y2Kposes is not localizedtechnology failure, buta degradation in theperformance of t heconnected relationshipsamong electronicdevices, procedures,people, and organiza-tions that togethermake modern lifeworkable and efficien."

I think this global systemsapproach to Y2K may give us abetter hint of what's going to hap-pen corn» the new year. To put itsimply, I think the can of wormsthat opens up on New Year's Daycould be big and very messy, evenif it isn't the kind of apocalypsethat the gun-happy survivalistsand end-of-the-worlders are pre-dicting. I think the event will besignificant globally, and possiblyhave effects that last for months.

Will Y2K's effects be catastroph-ic, serious, embarrassing, mildlyirritating, or triviaff I hope I'mwrong, but I t h ink in someinstances it will quite seriouslyaffect people's daily work andhome lives. If we' re lucky, many ofthe breakdowns can be fixedquickly, and collectivdy will be nomore than a blip that doesn't gen-erate long-term damage. If we' reunlucky, some parts of the world,and the global economy generally,could take a significant hit.

aster scenarios — nuclear plantmeltdowns, nuclear weapon mal-functions, power, gas and telecomgrid shutdowns, mass small busi-ness bankruptcies — I would besurprised if our faith in computersdoesn't take a considerable hit.

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TV movie y2K. Iregarded it as home-work, in the sense thatthis was the only large-scale year 2000 (Y2K)drama that was goingto be released beforethe year 2000 actuallyhappens. Apparently,most producers fig-ured that any Y2K dis-aster movies wouldonly be of interest, briefly, rightbefore the rollover to 2000, andwould be of no interest at all af'ter-wards. Most passed on the chanceto make feature films with such arigid "best-before" date.

I thought the Y2K movie was alousy production, and it enor-mously oversimplified and dumb-ed down a very complex issue. Inparticular, it quiridy moved to aU.S.-centric view, and focused onone big technical threat (a break-down at a U.S. nuriear plant),pretty much ignoring every otherpossible consequence of Y2K. Themovie also ended about threehours into 2000, local time, whichdidn't provide much insight as topossible longer-term c onse-quences of the Y2K problem.

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According to hsuings before theU.S. Smaze in October (htlp Jitnnzssn-ate.gosl-y2tt/heaiingsl991 01 3/), expertwitnesses on Y2K riaimed that thespectacular fitilutes featured in sen-sational, media and entertainmentcoverage are less likriy to occur thana more complex phenomenon: the

extended period due to the drag"imposed by many, individually non-critical Y2K failures.

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where we live. In Canada, we haveone of the most advanced, andmost computer-dependent sori-eties on earth. As another recentU.S. government report pointedout, Canada is therefore, theoreti-cally, highly vulnerable to Y2K dis-fll ptlons.

However, as a result of spendingtens of billions of dollars toaddress the problem in the lastthree years, Canada is one of themost Y2K-ready countries in theworld. Nevertheless, if anythinggoes wrong, it will go wrong at theworst possible time — in the mid-dle of the Canadian winter.

In terms of the global money reg-gion, Canada's temples, the banksand other financial institution, arehighly Y2K ready. Not too farbehind are the government agen-ries, public utiTities and Fortune1,000 companies that have generallydone a pretty thomugh job prepar-ing for Y2K, and which now riaimthey will only I'ace minor internalissues re)ated to the Y2K problem.

At the local level, however.Canada's small to medium busi-nesses, which represent the bulk ofemployment and new economicgrowth in Canada, are mostly Y2K-unready. In a great many casts,companies and individuals havedecided, either deliberatriy or bysimply avoiding this issue, to "testby failure." Many of us will simplywait it out and see what stopsworking after New Year's Eve, andthen try to get someone to fix it.

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Think globally...Outside the 20 or so most indus-trialized countries, governmentattention, and funds for Y2Kremediation, have generally beengrossly insufftrient. We may seetest by failure for whole countrieswhere government and in&astruc-ture Y2K readiness is at the miser-ably low level of Canadian smallbusinesses. A U.S. governmentadvisory to pull diplomatic staffout of former East Bloc countriesis an indication of the high proba-bility of trouble in that region.

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However Y2K turns out, I' vehad my own tech shock by degreesover the last three years. I havedeveloped a very skeptical attitudetowards our reliance on computertechnology, which won't go away,no matter how the next 30 days go.

Ironically, I'm writing this arti-c le on a commuter train inToronto, which has been sittingabout a mile short of the stationfor the last hour, due to a powerfailure to the track signals. I' vebeen trapped on the train, with mynotebook's batteries runningdown, watching the computer'sdock as I become increasingly latefor a meeting with Microsnft andHewlett-Packard.

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