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It's one thing for a company to claim its products are the best. But when a publication like PC M ~ a azine honours it with Iheir rsspeoted Editors' II a• TI a• I Choice, you sit up and take notice. Optiquest took I •P I I the concept of a large screen monitor, combined it II • with a small footprint, and designed a winner — the I ~ 19e (18.0e viewable) V95. Imagine! A screen image large enough to handle business, graphics, gaming and Internet applications for PC and Mac environments, yet small enough to fit into the footprint of a17e (various viewable) monitor.

Backed by a limited 3/3/3 year warranty (3 years on CRT, parts and labour) the Optiquest V95, V75 and Vl 15 all offer impressive performance with their super fine 0.26mm dot pitch for sharp, crisp images; OnView' controls for simple on-screen Plicg & Sky+ adjustments; for easy installation with Windows® 95 and Windows' 98 and TCO and Energy Star' compliant for power efficiency — all this and more at the affordable Optiquest price. Why settle for less? The Editors' choice should be your choice in size, performance and price. Call 800-843-6784, to obtain the name of the dealer nearest you.

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ceased operations.Even though some stores still have some stock, good luck getting disks and current drivers, let alone support, as time goes on. 2. I was surprised that there was no reference to the Zip drive "click of death" controversy. Regardless of what you believe the scope of the problem to be, I believe it at least deserves a mention. The jury is still out on the reliability of this drive. 3. As for the SparQ, I have personal experience with just how unreliable this drive is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I am on my fourth unit, as the first t hree failed. I f y o u c h eck ou t t h e alt.syquest newsgroup, you will see that my experience is far from unique. Also, it appears that there is a good chance that Syquest will be in the same boat as Avatar in the very near future, I wish the author

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had done a bit more digging before calling the SparQ a "better choice." John Meadows

clicking noise, Iomega technical service can walk the customer through a diagnostic process to dete rmineifthe clicking noiseis associated with a fimctioning problem." As well, Iomega has a service depot in Canada (Adtech)that honors the Zip wananty and has, "when necessary and appropriate, replaced out-of-warranty drives. The best place to read more about the COD and even download a free utility that will test your Zip or Jazdrive is the Unofficial Click of

I was disappointed in the way Rod Lamirand so easily glossed over the virtues of Syquest's SparQ drive in the October 1998 "Taking your data offline" piece. His comment suggesting that it be included in "high side of the price scale" category is a disservice to your readers. The figure used in the article for the cost of the drive was $300. One ad in the same issue offers it for $255. I bought my internal EIDE version at the April Death Homepage(blip://wwwthirdeyesp.corn). Computer Fest for even less than that. The 1 Regarding your comments about SyQuest, yes, it GB cartridges can be had for as low as $42. has had a serious nai on its stock and could ulti- The cost per MB here is an incredible $0.04. niately fail although the company is doing well with I think these numbers compare quite its i Mac SparQ USBand other products. This doesn' t favorably to the $450-$800 quoted for CD alter the fact that tire perip/reral is excellent and recorders or the drive and media costs for becoming widely supported. I visited the newsgroirp Sharks, Zips, SuperDisks, HiFDs, Syjets, you ment ioned and othersand fi nd no more com- DynaMOs, Jaz, Orbs, tapes or whatever else is plaints than with any other removable storage out there now. As for performance, wow. device.The SparQ has been and continues to be Average seek time is 12 ms, and the maximum

Rod Lamirand replies: It is true Avatar has unfortmiately gone out of business even tlrough they liad an excellent product that received good press. It is still (are(ear at this time if anyone will try to carry the product forward. And yes, the "click of death" (COD) issue is important to consimiers. Iomega has recently aimounced it is willi>ig to consider replacing or repairing Zip drives, even those no longer under warranty, on an individual basis in response to what has been called the click of death. lt is my understanding that COD is a tenn beingused to describe a nuinberof differentscenarios tliat result in the read heads seeking the cartridge's initial track. The noiseitselfis only an indi-

data transfer rate is 6.9 MBps. Aside from the limitless storage, applications run as fast off the SparQ drive as the computer's hard drive. It might sound like I'm very pleased with my SparQ drive. Well, Rod was right about one thing, big, fast and removable, it is where all the excitement is. Matthew Rapus

Creat advice I just caught the CBC show with Graeme Bennett and wanted to give him a congratulations on his demeanor and advice.(Editor's note: Graeme is a regidar giiest on tlie CBC AM noon to 2 p.m. prograni in the Vancouver listening area.)I have been working in computers since 1968 and have been in the technical end for the past 12 years and I think this man is great for the industry as a whole. I don't sell systems but do advise some folks as to what might suit their needs and I would and will recommendTCPas

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ble, enlightened, creative and enjoyable. This issue's Holiday Gift Guide aims to present a sampling of the best of the season' s offerings in computer hardware, software, books, online services, and related products. Even if you have no intention of buying a tech product or service this holiday season, it should be a fun window-shopping expedi-

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friends, family and yourself iooms large on millions of Canadians' to-do lists. No matter what our religious beliefs, and no matter whether or not we personally find the materialistic mania of the holiday season exciting or excruciatingly

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ec no "to s" Toy makers and software developers have teamed together to produce two unbelievably great techno/computer toys for kids this holiday season By Jean Allen-Ilteson arbie Photo Designer with D i gital Cainera and the Lego Technics robotics system with external sensors and a RCX programmable controller are of superior quality and their technology is beyond even the high end of kids' toys, While they are to be played with, calling them "toys" is an understaternent. You need deep pockets I' or both of these items, yet they are bargains considering their sophistication. I put my 12-year-old to bed at 11 p.m. still trembling with excitement after three hours of studying, building and testing his first "robot." The I I-year~id girl and her mother who tested the Barbie Digital Camera were equafly pleased with its technical quali-

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The Fuji MX-700. Can you believe somethingthis compact can deliver the high quality i magery of I.5 million pixels, easily

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ages girls to view thecomputer as a tool that they can manipulate with other objects such as cameras to create fun activities and projects. The downside of this exciting tool is its limited target market. Where is the camera for boys? What about girls who have grown a little

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too old for Barbie, as the 11-year-old tester has? She loved the camera and how it worked but didn't want to be associated with what she perceived'as a younger girls' toy. As well, the resolution of images taken with the camera is fairly mediocre compared to~ok(Re digital cameras (what do you expect

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age. This is not to say consumers should be wary of systems shipped with a DVD drive; quite the opposite. For those unfamiliar with the technology, it's similar to CD-ROM technology, but allows 11iore data — up to 17 GBto be stored on a single disc of the same size. Because of the similarit of the technologies, the latest DVD drives are backwards com-

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board instead of to theside of the computer, leavIng one oftheside panel USBports freefor another device.

the door on the side of the unit, attach the keyboard, attach the mouse, attach the power cord to the back of the machine, plug into the wall, and

Touted as the savior of the Madntosh line,

the IMac is certainly an impressive little unit, and may be ju st t he perfect Christmas present for the family that stll Highlights lovesthe Mac. • It's a Mac!

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GoodCooking,andInternetoptions. Even though wecan'tbenchmark Macs with our current software, it's always nice to

see Apple products in the test lab, if only to offer an alternative to the PC world. The iMac is definitely a notable difference from the other computers we saw this month: compact,

colorful and remarkably easy to set up. Additionally, the iMac comes with a ton of extra features that make it a truly remarkable

machine: an infrared port, built-in modem and 10/100Base-T Internet. When you condense the whole package into a package the size of a traditional 15-inch monitor, it's even

more impressive. When all of this is available at a street price of $1,899 including a generous software bundle, it becomes a steal of a deaL There are a few d own sides to t h e. machine, however. Because of its compact all-

inwne nature, the iMac has very little room for upgrading inside, other than the RAM.

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explosion around the corner. Because of that, it's hard to say whether going with a USB

model for all connected devices is a shrewd move or a miscalculation.

The biggest downside for some will be the aesthetics of the machine. In a row of PC clones, the design of the iMac certainly stands out, with its transparent, white and turquoise

plastic case. Someare worried that it's a bit too hip for its own good, and won't look quite so hip three years down the road. Apple is likely hoping the design of the iMac will become to computers what the Volkswagen Beetle is to cars. Detractors, on the other hand, may have their vote on it becoming the AMC Pacer of computers. Again, time will telL The bottom line for the iMac? For Macheads and beginners, the features, pflce and simplidty make this a great machine for the whole family for Christmas. People more com-

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and it comes with a ton of software, too. Highlights • 300 MHz Pentium II processor. • 17-inch Daytek monitor has good picture quality. • Sound is courtesy of theonboardSoundBlaster card.

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I'm dreaming of a silicon Christmas Continued from page43 Designer, Best Photo Scenery and Windelete Essentials. This month, Samtack's Pine System is definitely powerful, with a good collection of components and one of the best benchmarking

scores turned in. The performance is largely owing to the 400 MHz Pentium ll inside the system, which makes this a great starter system for power users who want a basic system to

card, with a whopping 16 MB of memory. • The sound card is the brand newSound Blaster Live! Card, which offers true 3D sound, and the Altec Lansing speaker system (with subwoofer)

TK-IDM Technology Model: Darius AMD 3DMultimedia Suggested retail price: $1,880

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7.5 GB hard drive US Robotic sv.90 56Kbps mo dem Power switch is located next to the CD-ROM open/close switch, which could be problematic. Excellent software bundleincludesCoral WordPerfect Suite 8 (WordPerfect 8,Quattro Pro 8,Presentations 8, Icential 8, andPhoto House), lVlicrosoft package (Encarla 98, 3DMovie Maker, Golf, Cinemania,

system offers a good alternative for the family on a budget.

Highlights • 350 MHz Pentium II processor • The system features aDVD-ROM,for data needs in throw additional components into. For those the future, and for multimedia andmovie playback. • The 17-inch Cybervision monitor is excellent. users, there is a lot of room to expand, with Works,Money,InteractiveCOsampler, andScenes), extra slots on the back, and extra bays up front. Prody Parrot, Foresaken,Unreal, Mighty Math, • System includes GVC v.90 56Kbps PCI-bus For most families, the system would probably Strategy Challengesvol.1, Imagination Express(Rain modem. • The QDI motherboard has asecurity feature, be overkill, but performance fans will love it. Forest andCastle), andScienceHouse. which allows the user to lock the whole system, Smartmachine Priced at the top end of our range this month, including the power switch. Model: Viper M350 the Viper M350 packs in a lot of value. This con- • Software includes PCcillin anti-virus software, and Highlights • Very competitive price. figuration may be overkill for a lot of families, but Street price: $2,495 MS HomeReference Plus (Encarta 98, Virtual if there's aserious gamer iri the family, this might Globe, Bookshelf 9&, Entertainment Pack 98, and • With the inclusion of the AMDK6-2 CPUand its This Viper has bite, degnitely. Srnartmachfne s be the right choice. Both the 3D Blaster TNI' and Puzzle Collection). built-in 3D capabilities, the system is aimed at the the Sound Blaster Live cards are excellent choices • System performancewas excellent. entry into our lab test this month has an 3D multimedia market. • The monitor and speakers included are good, impressive selection of multimedia compo- for high-intensity 3D games, and the speakers • Price point is quite good. nents, with i erformance. and monitor are perfect for taking advantage of although usersmaywant to consider an upgrade them. That's not to say that that's all the system The CompuPartner system this month shows on both, to take full advantage of multimedia. has going for it: the software bundle has alot for why STD systems are favorites around the lab, • 6.4 GB hard drive. everyone, including both office and children' s balancing price, features and performance. With • Case is horizontal, which allows the user to set the software in addition to the games. For those with DVD as the next optical standard, the indusion monitor on top to save space. the money, this is a great system. of a DVD drive here is nice, especially with the • CD-Fun Pack includes 1998 Grolier Multimedia price point of the system. When you throw in an Encyclopedia, How Your BodyWorks, STD exceHent monitor like the Cybervision C72 and a Chessmaste r5000,MavisBeaconTeachesTyping, Model: CompuPartner 350E nice software bundle, you' ve got a great allPrintMasterGold, USAtlas & Almanac,andWorld Street price: $1,999 around system that's sure to beuseful to everyone Atlas 8 Almanac. in the family. The only complaint is that the • Includes v.90 56Kbpsmodem. We always enjoy seeing STD's submissions speakers don't quite perform up to the standards Highlights • 350 MHzPentium II processor. into our lab tests, and this month's offering of the rest of the machine. Despite that, a great While not flashy, the Darius system has a • Video card Is the Creative Labs 30 Blaster TNT is no exception. system at a great price. good collection of components, and a set of

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CBT addresses professional needs Continued frompage 69 benefit of using CBT in t h e w orkplace. Probabiy one of the most common arguments in favor of CBTis a variation on the following: people remember 20 percent of what they see, 40 percent of what they hear and see, and 70 percent of what they see, hear, and do. More detailed studies have illustrated that the return on investment (ROI) for a company using CBT goes beyond enhanced learning retention.

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what their training needs are and have taken a critical look at the potential benefits. CBT is available anytime you need it. It can be delivered on demand, putting you and your employees in control of your own time and learning processes. It also provides a consistent presentation of learning materials, training session, or pay travel expenses or exposing every user in every training session dassroom fees to accommodate employee to the same learning environment and quality learning needs, so the costs per user remains of information. A good CBT application will alsoallow you to measure thereturn on your stable each time the application is used. Small- and medium-sized companies may training investment through tests or other find their CBT options are restricted by their feedback mechanisms, Or, if you are like budgets. They may be limited to off-the-shelf Newbridge Networks Corp., you get right products or customizable programs, and may down to the bottom line to determine what uct from a local computer store. If you cannot fulfill yourtraining needs in this manner, the primary costs for your CBT will be incurred during development. Costs to maintain and deliver the training are minor in comparison. tA/ith CBT, there is no need to prepare new materials, hire or train an instructor for each

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work (LAN), it's a simple decision to choose That's still an improvement over sharing the Fast Ethernet over Ethernet as the somewhat

higher cost is offset by the dramatic performance boost. In the more common scenario, where a substantial i nvestment i n 10

Mbps Ethernet has already been made, the choices are more compiex. This is l argely due to a single fact: networks don't have

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Mbps and 100 Mbps on every port. This can handle a large

number of users, since each port can connect to an individual user or a hub. On the other hand, in an office of seven users, each

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speed of his/her NIC. Over time, as older computers are retired, more of the ports will be configured at the higher speed, and the total bandwidth of the LAN will increase. To accommodate growth in t h e n umber of users, Fast Ethernet hubs can be added. It will be a long time before this switch needs

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a very large network. Unfortunately, unless er uplink button to one of the 10/100 ports. the architecture was changed, users would These buttons toggle between normal and continue to share the same 10 Mbps of band-' wi'dth. Although I visit offices with 30 and

uplink mode, the latter being used to con-

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trusive upgrade that is done entirely in the wiring closet. No desktop visits required. 0

nect to another hub. One way this could be

more users that are quite happy sharing 10 used is to connect the server or servers to Mbps, many modern applications are band- the fast ports, and users to the slow ports, width-intensive. Depending on actual habits directly or via a hub connection. This model and needs,10 Mbps can be inadequate foras is less expensive than Switch 1, but still few as three users, even if only mainstream gives a boost to performance that will be business applications are being used. It does- obvious to everyone. No visits to the desktop are required. This is a speedy and unobn't require desktop videoconferencing to

Issle Rablnovltch ls aToronto-basedcomputer consultant and technology journalist. Hewelcomes comments andquestions at drlan@irtechnogroup.corn.

CBT addresses professlonai needs Continued from page73 munications sectors as the best candidates for the future growth of CBT. Many of these industries experience rapid and continuous change in the products and services they offer, requiring constant skills upgrades. Still, organizations are hesitant to jump on the CBT bandwagon. This is particularly true of government and educational institutions. Organizational politics and traditional views on training hinder efforts to implement CBT. Many companies and government departments are still trying to support fullblown t r aining d epartments, i ncluding instructors, on e v er-decreasing budgets. Adolphe relates three main r oadblocks Gemini encountered with-potential clients even aslate as the early 1990s: • the lack of infrastructure required to support CBT; • th e paradigm shift required to move to CBT; • and the need for a fundamental understanding of what CBT meant. Adolphe believes standardization within her industry may help demystify CBT for

everyone. Standard Issue Standardization of the CBT architecture or delivery platform is an increasing concern to many developers and content providers. By creating standard formats for text, graphics, audio, video, animation and simulation, changes in course content can be made at any time b y an y o n e w i t h ou t di f f i culty. Standardization also becomes a business issue

for CBT companies looking to expand overseas to European or other markets, where ISO stan-

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CBT companies will need to address as the industry grows. Another is the creation of a truly valuable learning tool. Many companies sacrifice learning techniques and the more

educational aspects of content development and rely more heavily on the glamorous technical tools and the programming perspective. "When multimedia took off three years ago,everyone jumped on that bandwagon as we all know and the majority of them are not around today," says Adolphe. "They were only doing the multimedia part and the glitz, and they weren't thinking about the

effectiveness and the pedagogy and the instructional design." She adds that they didn't consider "how important the content is; they were more interested in the entertainment end of it.", The result is a poorly designed product that has bells and whistles yet ends up being more frustrating then helpful. Clearly CBT is not the be all and end all of training, and most CBT developers will admit there are t raining areas — certain human and managerial skills for examplethat probably benefit from more traditional methods. But when it is designed thoughtfully, it is a powerful training tool. According to Adolphe, effective CBT incorporates many different learning principles. She states that

"90 percent of an interface should already be familiar to the user [because] it's very important that the learner concentrates on the content and doesn't spend all their time try-

ing to learn, yet another, new interface." The software should provide feedback

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be provided in different ways to accommodate different learning styles. And, the whole thing must be adaptive to each individual's learning strengths and weaknesses. Learning is not simple. There are so many variables that can reduce its effectiveness, and that costs a company when it is training people to help them grow and to help your business grow. CBT gives you an opportunity Concept. There should also be examples and to reduce those variables and to create an supplemental instruction that lead people interactive learning environment available on to more information. Concepts need to on demand.In the knowledge-based econo-

my of the future, this may be your company's greatest asset. So, as you enter the future of professional development, remember that the old saying still rings true: "Tell me and

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Window to Payroll Window to Payroll allows definition of custom earning and deduction codes and interfaces with many general ledgers. We liked the user interface with its large buttons and flow chart approach to payroll processing. With its Workers' Compensation calculations and multiple union reporting, it is a good solution for job costing and union environments. The company also offers an Export to General

developer, Conamex International and the Toronto Dominion Bank (and is scheduled to be available to all Canadian banks by Dec. I). In order to customize paycheques or other reports, a separate report writer is required, either CA-RET, which shipped with earlier versions of Simply Accounting, or C rystal Reports S.O or greater, which must be purchased separately.

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computer cheques as well as after-the-fact payroll. Payroll errors can be adjusted using the adjust-cheque command — the program prepares the adjusting entries for you, Simply Accounting retains two years of

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estimated reseller price of US$199. IBM security smart card for laptops IBM, http: //www.ibm.corn/pc/us/accessories RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (NB) — IBM has announced a PC Card-based smart card Xtrerne offers lnllne catalog security kit that can keep unauthorized users from accessing, information on notebook PC owners looking for an upgrade monitor or

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smart card, and a smart card reader installed in a notebook PCMCIA Type II slot. "Protecting sensitive data with a mobile workforce is a great concern for many companies today," said Kevin R. Barry, general manager of IBM's PC options and peripherals. He described the system as "virtually tamper-proof." In practice, a user inserts a personalized smart card and then enters a four-digit personal identification number (PIN) to access

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pare previously uncooked meals, not reheat frozen dinners. The firm said that its FlashBake technology has been used in the commercial sector since 1993 but that the Wolf/FlashBake 120 will be the first countertop model that can plug into any standard 120-volt outlet. It will also be available in wall-mounted models, Quadlux said. The developer indicated that it is hoping the oven will appeal to professionals that prefer the taste of traditionally prepared meals but who do not have the time necessary to cook.

line of products. Xtreme distributes its products, including CRT and flat-panel displays, CD-ROM drives and keyboards, through distributors and resellers across the country. The

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use with a single program written for itSibelius musical notation software. Now Sibelius has been ported to Windows. and cookfrom above and below, depending A Mac version is planned for introduction on the food or cooking mode chosen. in early 1999 and a children's version should According to the firm, the oven can bake, appear in late 1999, according to Saverio broil, steam, grill, roast and saute. Cooking Mancina, who acts as marketing partner in with light also provides flexibility to brown, North America. caramelize and sear foods with no preheating Named for Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, required, Quadlux said. the software was written by twin brothers Ben The oven will be available through the FiashBake Web site. device uses Gemplus GemSafe technology and Jonathan Finn, who both compose music longer heating up, one Silicon Valley developT he suggested retail p r ice f o r t h e and RSA cryptographic technology. It includes and write software. They chose to write for the er has raised the temperature again with the Wolf/FlashBake 120 is US$1,500 to US$1,700, support for Security Dynamic's SoftID, digital Acorn because it was the fastest platform they Wolf/FlashBake 120 oven, which utilizes a Quadlux spokesmen said. signature capability, a security luggage tag, could find at the time. The two wanted to remove some of the "manual grind" from the microprocessor-controlled halogen light to FlashBake,Tel; &00-THE-OVEN and Norton's anti-virus protection program. http: //www.flashbake.corn The IBM Smart Card Security Kit has an process of composing music. cook food faster than in a conventional oven. The program quickly became a favorite among musical types both amateur and professional, According t o Ma n c ina, San Francisco Symphony director Michael Tilson Thomas has kept an Acorn machine on his desk ever since he found the program. The software bears a fairly hefty price for a desktop machine — US$499. Academic and theological users qualify for a discount to US$299. Asked if it might not make sense to drop the price to more consumer-friendly and INTEL PENTIUM II 3001VIHZ typical Windows levels, perhaps under 32M8 SDRAM US$200, Mancina pointed out that the pro4.3G8 FUJITSU HARD DRIVE programmed to apply energy at different times during the cooking cycle to penetrate

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Common features To copy the drive it must not be in use. Thus these programs all boot from a floppy so that the hard drive is not running — you cannot open a DOS box and clone a drive. Whenever you arecloning you need to know the jumper settings of your hard drives. Many drives indicate the master/slave/cable connect settings on their cover but some do not. You can usually get this information from the Web page of the drive's manufacturer, even for old dr'ives. This information can also be found in the drive's manual and on specialized Web p ages l i ke

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magazine and ISPCon. He is opinionated, easy to categorize the vendors, but ISPCon was future administration is done from a Web sometimes cantankerous, and controveisialmore of a challenge. Witli more than 200 browser on another computer. attended the r ecent I n ternet Service frequently taking contrary points of view on exhibitors spread over 55,000 square feet, the Cobalt (http://www.cobaltnet.corn) has done a Providers Conference (ISPCon) in San Jose, the direction of the ISP industry that, in hind- " show floor wasimpressive. The booths were: big nice job of hiding the complexities of Linux Calif., which has always been different from sight, are often right on the money, A former and well-marked, but exactly what was being and Apache behind,its administration tools. broader Internet shows that draw much of their engineer, he can swap acronyms with the best,-.- sold or promoted was often a mystery. The most From the demo I saw, it certainly looked like audience from Internet users. ISPCon is solely of them and his nitty-gritty information keeps mysterious displays were for services to ISPs. an effort-reducing combination. While users Hardware, and software were easy to iden- can buy cheaper computers as servers, the for the people who build the network for the the magazine on the required reading list for managers and techies alike. tify. Pricing was harder to extract, because it is ;. Cobalt offers a nice package using open source Internet — the Internet service providers (ISPs), business often based on some variable determined by ;..",,.software with a slick configuration utility. The From an informal survey at the opening the ~alesrep. session, about two thirds of the 5,000-plus , The hunted beauty of its package is that there is no addiattendees represented true ISPs. Around 5 per- :- Although ISP representatives came from all Some of. the products were quite esoteric. tional software to buy. cent indicated they had entered the ISP indus- .--over the world, only about 15 percent were One example was a company called. iAtlas, Another hot box that should appeal to from outsidh the U.S. try in the last year. (http;//www.iatlas.corn), which sells what it calls ISPs was from Transcend (hitp://www.transcendForced to deal with dicey software, flaky "traditional business data" combined with modems,corn), The Box offers voice, data and The host routers, constantly changing modem stan- information gleaned from InterNIC and other Internet in and up to 24 ports in a small red Every trade show is made of three groups of dards, and technology that is really too new to Internet sources and compiles them. This is box for about $200 per port. This type of prodparticipants: the host, the hunted, and the work very well, ISPs manage to keep most of then sold to ISPs and other industries. uct is also available from 3COM and other hunters. Often the host of a trade show or the connections open. vehdors, but usually starts at a higher range, conference is some grey corporate entity. The big dream of many ISPs is the legendary Hot boxes with a minimum of 96 or more ports. ISPCon is quite different and is sponsored buy out, and many came to hear about cashing One booth had ISPs lusting after its slickly by Boardwatch magazine (htip://www.board- out. The most popular sessions at the confer-- designed, translucent, rack-mounted Internet Integrated massaging watch.corn). It was recently purchased by ence were about evaluating ISP businesses or servers. The Cobalt RaQ microserver, runs One conference buzzword was integrated mesMeckler Media (http: //www,mecklermedia.corn), .- Bnding capital to buy out other ISPs. A number Linux and Apache Web servers and sells for saging, which allows faxes, voice mail, and publisher of internet World. Boardwatchwas . of people I spoke with mentioned their growing under. US$1,000 with a 2 GB hard drive and 16 text messages to be channeled to a users' launched in 1987 to cover what.was then the fear of the aggressive competition coming from MB of RAM. email account. From there, it can be read with computer bulletin board industry. As the cable and telephone companies. Some said they This was particularly attractive for small any Web browser or pushed out to pagers or industry rebuilt itself into the ISP business, feared that the years of rapid growth might be businesses or startup ISPs that want to put up cell phones that support text displays. the magazine grew to become the bible of that coming to a close for smaller companies . a self-contained Internet presence complete Farther up the food chain, some vendors industry in North America. with Web site, email and ftp. These units don' t offered text to speech, so a user could call in Editor, and the conference's master of cer- The hunters require a monitor. Users configure an IP from any telephone and have their mail read emonies, Jack Rickard, personifies both the At many computer trade shows, it is relatively address on the side of the box and then all Continued on page 138

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MediaGate (http: //www.mediagate.corn). From the demos I saw, I predict this offering may be slow in coming as it requires a substantial investment in equipment that will probably depreciate quickly. Partial solutions were cheaper, but it seemed like customeis might require a fair bit of tech support. Also worth a look was Nascent Technology's

Mailspinner (http: //www.mailspinner.corn}, ECentric (http J/www.e-centric.corn), OfficeDomain's MessageASAP (http://www.officedomain.corn), and N-Plex WebExpress(htlpJ/www.isocor.corn). Software An Australian company, Ixla (hllpJ/www.ixla. corn), showed an interesting software package

spectrum; what is referred to as a brochure site. ly waiting for it to become available in their Vancouver-based Multiactive Technologies area..The catch in many areas is that tele(http: //www.multiactive.corn) offers a program phone companies have to improve their lines called ecBuilder. Sitematic C orporation to meet the high standard required to run (http: //www.sitematic.corn) offers a similar product. DSL. The process is taking a while, because it often involves the telcos making changes at Sort out trademarks their switching stations. Thompson R Thompson, which claims to be Many ISPs fear the advent of DSL because the leader in international trademark and they are being crowded out of offering it to users copyright services, has created a Web site to by a technical requirement. DSL only can travel help sort out trademark problems associated 6 km or less from the central telephone office. with domain names. It offers a free service for Users won't see DSL modems in local comcompanies and individuals who want to puter stores soon. Because they are an end-toestablish a Web presence. It ties the InterNIC end solution, DSL 'modems are most likely to domain name registration database to a data- be supplied by the ISP or telephone company base of international trademarks. Users can providing the DSL service. Phone companies get a free sample of the information by log- are somewhat ambivalent about rolling out ging on to http J/www.namestake.corn. DSL because the required investment in improvements cuts into lucrative contracts The sessions with business customers. This year, ISPCon had 226 sessions that In Canada, DSL will be offered in two main addressed concerns in a few distinct categories: flavors, one priced under $100 for consumers, technical and standards-based challenges; mar- and one for business users starting at around keting topics, such as how to increase profits $400, according to Perm Gill, vice-president of from the same customer base; increasing com- Cyberus Online (http: //www,cyberus.corn}. DSL can pany growth; how to sell an ISP; and the ongo- reach download speeds of up to 7 Mbps. The ing threat from cable and telephone compa- consumer offering will be limited to 2 Mbps. nies — this year in the form of digital subscriber Business offerings will be staged at 2, 4 and 7 lines (DSL) and Internet provided by cable. Mbps, ranging up to around $800 a month.

called WebEasy. The package wis like a lowend version of Fusion NetObjects. For around US$50, customers get a wizard-driven program that quickly puts out attractive Web sites. WebTrends (http: //www.webtrends.corn) seems to make one of the more popular Web site log analyzing programs, Most Web servers have a log program that tells administrators a variety of information about who visits their Web sites, where they come from, and what pages they view. WebTrends reads-the log and for- DS1. The buzz on Llnux mats the information into a -set of standard DSL is the next generation of technology offer- Linux is the rising star in operating systems. It reports, complete with graphs and charts. ing higher-speed connections to the Internet. lays claim to being the only operating system Originally designed for video on demand, that is actually gaining market share against E-commerce simplified DSL is based on silicon technology, digital sig- the Microsoft behemoth. Another theme of the show was e-commerce. A nal processing algorithms, and existing copWritten originally by L inus Torvalds, number of software vendors have created pack- per wire telephone lines. It is similar to, but Linux is a free UMX-based operating system ages that simplify this process. Most products much faster than, ISDN or 56Kbps modems. that runs on many platforms. It has been focused on the low end of the e-commerce The speed of DSL has many users anxious- developed with assistance from users all over

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"Since July, the five leading providers of database software: Oracle, Informix, Computer A ssociates, Sybase, and I B M h a v e a l l announced plans to support Red Hat Linux OS," said Robert F. Young, president of Red Hat. Many ISPs use Linux because it's free. Arshad Merali of Aracnet, a Toronto-based ISP, said his company used both Linux and Windows NT, and that the combination of Linux and Apache Web servers is hard to beat because the software is free.

Conclusion It was a great conference about an extremely dynamic iridustry. Four years ago the ISP business did not exist. Four years from now, it could be gone, with most of the companies absorbed into a few large ones, or it could be even bigger than it is today. 0 Douglas Alder (dougaOsmartt.corn) is the founding editor and publisher ofThe Computer Paper.Since leaving the publication in the fail of 1997, he hasbeentraveling with his family and pursuing his interest in computers.

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P3 audio files are typically one tenth the size of the audio files you'd find on a regular CD, while p roviding ne a r -C D qua l i t y sou n d . Compressing such good sound into such a small space is perfect for downloading over the Net. This audio format may well become the audio format of choice someday — if the music industry allows it.

some require you to create a separate WAV file from a CD before compression, while others do it directly. Some use slightly more efficient algorithms to create the MP3 file, while others allow you to set parameters, like the sample rate, to produce a better sound.

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What ls an MP3? MP3 is the popular name for a layer-3 MPEG file. It uses a very efficient algorithm to compress an audio file td about 10 percent of its normal size. A typical full-stereo song on a given music CD requires roughly 10 MB of space per minute of music, meaning a typical four to five minute pop song is about 40 to 50 MB. The very size of these files is a major disincentive for anybody who wants to copy a music track and send it to a friend — even with a56Kbps modem and a good connection, it will take a long time to transmit. But what if you could send the same file to your friend in one tenth of the time? For things like mono recordings or spoken-word recordings (which, typically do not have to be heard at the same fidelity as a

These programs are known as "rippers" because they are capable of "ripping off" the sound from a CD music), the compression can go even further, fitting an hour-long show onto a space that could fit onto a few floppy diskettes. Given their small size, decent sound quality and the relative cheapness of CD recorders, it is quite possible to get well over 100 MP3 format pop songs — or about 10 album's worth of material — onto a single CD-R disc. This is the sort of thing that makes many record companies cringe.

Making your own It is relatively easy to make your own MP3

files from your CD collection. Simply download the appropriate software from the Net, put your CD in your CD-ROM drive, and by the time you go and get a cup of coffee,

These programs are known as "rippers" because they are capable of "ripping off" the sound from a CD. Because of the wide availability of rippers, MP3 has spawned a large following on the Net, as audio pirates make requests for songs and exchange them on Usenet newsgroups, private ftp sites and Web sites. Several album's worth of material are posted across various newsgroups every single day. Even a casual glance will reveal a wide selection of material to choose from; everything from old radio shows to '50s rockabilly tunes to the very latest releases. In fact one intrepid Beastie Boys fan managed to post a copy of the group's latest album a full week before it appeared in the record stores.

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This is not the sort of thing that endears the format to the recording industry. In fact the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has taken steps to limit the spread of MP3 files. It is currently asking many of its recording artists to lend their name to sign

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Flash technology include Disney's Daily Blast, a site for Fox TV's The Sinipsons, and, of course, Macromedia. FreeHand 8 contains a "release to layers" plug-in that simulates the effect of "onionskinning" so you can easily create animations. The Flash player included with the suite a)lows you to play back and export these animations. The bottom line The Design In Motion suite tools work in concert to aid the professional print designer in re-

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ui e or new The Plccgged in Parent is a brief guide that helps give parents an action plan to make the hough computers and the Internet are most of their home PC. A few years ago author great tools for education, they can also Steve Bennett co-wrote the bestseller 365 TVbe great time-wasters. There are educa- Free Activities You Can Do with Your Child. You tional programs and there are mindless blast- might think computers would be anathema to 'em-up games. Similarly, there are Web sites someone who frowns on television, but here that are truly useful and those that offer little Bennett argues that with parental guidance, substance. That is not to say all software pro- PCs can become effective learning tools. Bennett points out, however, that a comgrams or Web sites need to be useful to justify their existence, but some of your computer puter is not necessarily better than a television time should be spent taking advantage of the simply because it is more interactive. For chiltruly extraordinary resources that lie at your dren to get the most out of the family computfingertips. er, parents must be willing to do some research and guide the child in computer usage. The book begins with an anecdote about The Plugged in Parent: the author asking parents assembled at a con-

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ne of the longest standing concerns about Web page design has to do with where something is positioned on a W eb page. How many timeshave you been in a situation where you have wanted to add some image or text to a specific point on a Web page, and found this seemingly simple task trying your patience? Over time Web designers have tried such tricks as transparent images and indented unordered list tags in order to get something exactly where they wanted it to be. A solution to this problem may finally be at hand with Cascading Style Sheet positioning (CSS-P). CSS-P was initially devised as an extension to the existing Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) specification devised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and has more recently been adopted within the successor CSS2specification. All of the acronyms aside, CSS-P may be the solution Web page designers have long been waiting for. What's more, because you can place something exactly where it should appear on a

="fred.gif" STYLE="position:absolute; <IMG SRC left:250; top:100">

look whereyou are positioned You can position elements in CSS using the position element. The position element has three modifiers: absolute, relative, and static. All of these modifiers can use the standard measurement values associated with typical CSS elements: centimeters (cm), inches (in),

This means that the top-left corner of the image fred.gif is positioned 250 pixels to the right and 100 pixels down from the top of the browser window. With the relative modifier you can specify millimeters (mm), picas (pc), pixels (px), and where you want an onscreen element in relapoints (pt). Because of the specific nature of tion to a previously specified absolute referthe positioning element with reference to a ence. If I want to place some text adjacent to computer screen, the default measurement the previously specified image, I could use the value is pixels. following code: The absolute modifier is the easiest to understand and is typically used the most. <8 STYLE ="position:relative; left:110; top:20">Check When you use position absolute, your ele- out the imageaboveand to the left!</8> ment is positioned absolutely with reference to the top-left corner of the computer screen. This sentence is positioned 110 pixels to the In other words, the top-left of your browser left and 20 pixels down from the lower-right window represents the coordinates 0,0, and comer of the image. The image (or any other you position your element with reference to onscreen element for that matter) is though of that value, If you want to position an image to as beingin a box. The sentence box isposiappear 25 pixels over and 100 down, you tioned away from the bottom-right corner of the previously positioned item. In essence, the relatively placed sentence considers the bottomright of the image as its 0,0 co-ordinate, and positions itself relative to those co-ordinates. These two examples might imply that you always have to position items to the left and down from any previous element on the Web page. While you can't use right or bottom to position an element, you can use negative values. If you want to position a caption underneath the image, you could use this code instead of the previous example:

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If you insert this line of code and view it in Netscape Navigator 4.x, it will appear to the immediate left of the image, and not as you might think, to the left of the previous sentence that was relatively positioned underneath the image. The nice thing about the position attribute is that it has been adopted for use since the 4.0 versions of b ot h I n t ernet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. The only real drawback is that not everyone is using the most recent versions of these browsers. Since positioning can be a crucial structural part of a Web page, at the moment it is recommended that you go easy on using the position element. The fact that you can make things disappear by using negative positioning means that it should be possible to make things suddenly appear by changing the value of the positioning element to correspond to an onscreen position. The only problem with this is that Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer use different JavaScript handles; this means that you have to program a JavaScript program Check knowing that users will be using a specific out the imageabove! browser. In most cases, this is not an option, so what do you do? It is possible to use negative values with Simple. Detect which browser is being used, the absolute modifier, to position elements so then point to the proper code sequence suitthey only partially appear or are completely able to that browser to animate a previously off of the screen (until you call for them, hidden element. But that's for next time.... 0 which comes later). It is worth noting that the relative modifi- Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes your comments, er is not supported in Internet Explorer 4.0 or suggestions, or HTML tips. Email Keith at: the 5.0 Preview. Instead, it treats relative as if robert skÂŠwave.home.corn.Look forhisnew book on it were absolute. If you try the last example HTML,TheAdvanced HTML Companion2nd Edition, line of code in Internet Explorer, you can co-authored with Kim Silk-Copeiand, now in bookexpect to see most of the text (or all of it stores. Previous articles in this series are atThe depending on the size of the absolutely posi- ComputerPaper Website at: http: //www.tcp.ca/.

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e as, es corn u er f you' ve already browsed through the Holiday Gift Guide in this issue, you may have concluded that we at The Computer Paper are hopeless technological optimists, blissfully unaware of any aspect of computing that is less than delightful. In fact, we do believe personal computing and that shiny new World Wide Web are,on balance, much more of a good thing than a bad thing. That' s why we like to work here.

THE .: LAST BYTE

250 million parts of our vaunted global technological infrastructure are likely to fail all at once, in the middle of winter. The Canadian share of that crash could be two to four million failing devices. If the breakdowns are limited to Tamagotchi cyberpets and StairMasters exercise equipment, we' ll get by without too much pain. If the dead systems include nuclear power plants, natural gas networks, office buildings and communications satellites, we could be in for a disaster of very large proportions.

It's too late? The date recommended by many experts for having Y2K readiness programs in place is Jan. 1, 1999. That allows for a year of tweaking and JEFF EVANS perfecting to make systems that are Y2K ready in theory, ready in reality. The information technology (IT) departHowever, we are also aware of the limits of technology, and the dangers of regarding a ments of the Canadian federal government, tool for learning — as computers can be — as a the big substitute for wisdom. This may be the last national winter for some time in which we can all relax and enjoy the lavish gifts high technology has :-

haven't even begun to plan how do deal with it. We' re already out of time, like the blood fiasco, times 1,000 To find an analogy to what's about to happen, we have to look to other times in history when institutions were overwhelmed by something completely unexpected, and outside of their previous experience. In recent Canadian history, the Red Cross tainted blood scandal is an instructive example. The Canadian Red Cross, a benevolent but stodgy and slow moving institution, was blindsided by the sudden appearance of deadiy, initially u ndetectable viruses in t h e blood donor population. It's much the same with YZK. Power utilities, for exam-

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us. John and Jane Q. Public. It was left to the victims of the tainted blood, their poor families, and their hungry lawyers, to try to get the Red Cross and various governments to make amends after it was too late. This time, with the Y2K problem, we' ve all

new year. Pride Uoeth before... the INlllennlum BuoV The personal computer industry has

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never been as vibrant, vigorous or seductive

as it is now. Those of use who"ve been around PCs for a while are stunned by the incredible power of the under-$1,500 home PC system. The offerings of the PC industry this holiday season are unprecedented in their richness, relative ease of use and low cost, Yet, looming over this marvelous picture is a future with a real, yet unknown danger. Since my last piece on the Year 2000 (YZK) problem — the so-called Millennium bug — I' ve become a good deal more convinced that it could put a big chill on next year's holiday season. It seems in the last couple of months that the more digging I do, the scarier the pic-

ture that emerges. While the mainstream computer business has potentially big problems related to the

amazed at the number of people from all walks of life who look briefly concerned, and then say something to the effect of, "Well, Bill Gates is working on something to fix the Year 2000 bug, isn't he?" So, when the chairman of Microsoft was in Toronto for some meetings in October, I asked him if he was involved, or interested in getting involved, in any joint government/industry alliance to tackle the Y2K problem in embedded systems. Gates looked at me for a moment and then, a bit wearily, stated his position. He and Microsoft are very concerned about the Y2K problem as it directly affects the Microsoft products used by Microsoft customers. Microsoft is working very hard to identify and deal with Y2K problems in time to beat the upcoming deadline. Gates is not about to march into other companies and tell them how to deal with their YZK issues. In short, given the fact that Gates is being vigorously prosecuted by the

billing systems, so customers U.S. Justice Department and many state govcan still be charged for power ernment, and harassed by competitors who

brought to so many of us. This may be the last, best holiday season of this millennium.

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power grid, the number that are not YZK ready, and when they will be replaced, here are the answers you' ll get: • Everything is under control. businessesare gearing up their efforts and may • We' ll get back to you. be mostly ready in time. • We don't know. However, in wide-ranging conversations • Wh at YZK problem? since July, none of the "experts" I' ve talked to In general, in fundamental power,gas and in these organizations want anything to do telecom networks„Y2K preparations are either with the embedded systems problem. I'm sure in their early stages, or have not even been there are some people out there who are work- started. ing on it, but the embedded systems problem is at least IO times as big as the "standard" It ain't me, babe Y2K problem with desktop PCs and main- When I start whining about Y2K to coworkers, frame systems, and most o rganizations relatives and passersby in the street, I was

edition of this column — if there is a column published in January 2000, that is. In the meantime, I pian to erijoy this holi-

day season with my family, and look forward to playing with all the computer toys I' ve had to review for this issue. I expect that in 1999 I'm going to be as big a nuisance as I can on the YZK topic, until I see some reason not to be. I urge you all to do the same: phone, fax, email and harangue your local member of parliament, your provincial premier and the prime minister until you start getting some answers that make sense, As Tiny Tim said in the Dickens classic A Chnstmas Carol, "God bless us, each and every one." We' ll need all the help we can get. 0

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