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ference between Linux and NT. I am also a moderate computer user — which one do you your coverage is recommend for a person like me? Also, could Win [dows]-centric.
minor story on a Linux security issue in the
May issue. It is difficult to get good numbers on
this time. (It is well known of course that Linux is beginning to dominate the low-end server market with 17 percent 1998 market
a l most completely Linux because if you do buy a CD [containing the operating system] it is legal to share you briefly list the features of each OS? Also, I use Linux. I didn't mind your lack of it with as many friends as you like. Similarly, does Linux come with programs (e.g, word Linux coverage in the old days because that if a company buys the CD they can share processing, Web browser) and does Linux market was so small, Now, I do mind! Linux that one CD throughout their departments. support Windows 3.x/95/98 software such as is the story of the year in the computer From the estimates I have read, Linux [use]
share and probably double that by the end of this year.) You are doing a disservice to your Canadian readers by keeping them in an artificial, mostly Microsoft bubble. Also, I hate to see what used to be my favorite computer
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Speech recognitlonand privacy In your Letter from the Editor in the July 1999 issue, in which you discuss the problems of speech-recognition software, one item that I don't see mentioned is privacy. Talking to a computer or having it talk back to you is all very well in a private room. It does not work in public spaces such as
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In theyearsince the MP3 audio file format appeared, it hassimultaneously been called the bestthing and the worstthing to happen to the music business. artists are beginning to distribute music at MP3.corn, includ- cians? Like it or not, artists still make their money selling ing the likes of the Beastie Boys, Billy Idol, Peter Townshend, CDs, not MP3s. This is because, to date, the format has not p-and-coming artists, who use the format to quickly Dionne Warwick and more. Due to its popularity, MP3.corn proven suitable for profit-making. It has gained popularity and cheaply distribute their music over the Internet, has been likened to a combination record label and record and wide distribution in its short history predsely because it which was enough to convince the multimedia and is free. It is also far too easy for one MP3 purchaser to send think MP3 is the best thing. Many in the established store — music business, however, think it's the worst possible thing, content firm Cox Interactive Media to recently invest $45 free copies to anybody and everybody, further diluting profit-making potential. and claim their profits are being eroded by a format that million in MP3.corn's future as a viable vendor of music. This is where competitive formats, such as Microsoft's allows anyone to freely distribute high-quality copies of commercial recordings. As is almost always the case, the truth lies More hardware Windows Media Technology 4.0, come in. If a song is downsomewhere between these two extremes, and somewhere Electronic hardware vendors are also smiling about the suc- loaded in this format, the user has to get a key to "unlock" it cess of MP3 —all the way to the bank. Though there was stiff and play it. This format and others like it do not allow for outside of them. Whether MP3 is the future of a new music business is prob- opposition by the Recording Industry Association of America digital copies, as each file is encrypted for use by only the perably beside the point; what the popularity of MP3s has done (RIAA) to the release of the first portable MP3 player by son who has the right key. There is a different key and the is to legitimize the possibility of making money selling music Diamond Multimedia, a U.S. court ruling (most recently "lock" for every individual copy that is downloaded. This and music players over the Net. This may seem to be a con- upheld in appeals court) rendered the sale of such devices technology allows for a secure method for selling music tradiction, but several firms are already betting that MP3 is legal. This ruling has opened up the market, and the market- online while ensuring that copies cannot be distributed. However, one of the general rules in the electronics indusgoing to be big, and some are already making money out if it. place soon demonstrated that there was demand — in a matSo what exactly is MP3? It is a file format that essentially- ter of months Diamond Multimedia sold over 150,000 units try is that if a new format is to succeed, it has to be at least compresses audio files to about a tenth of their normal size. of its Rio portable MP3 player. More recently, Creative Labs 10 times better than the existing format. The rapid rise of This means that a four- to five-minute pop song that would has come out with its own portable MP3 player, called the CDs, which utterly displaced vinyl in a few short years, is a normally be 40 to 50 MB in size can be compressed to a mere Nomad, with features that should make it highly competitive testament to this rule. In the same way, MP3 may well be on 4 to 5 MB MP3 file-a perfect size for transmitting over the with the Rio. the way to replacing CDs. Both firms will soon face increasing competition from It will be highly problematic if any of the new alternative Net. And the resulting file suffers little or no loss of fidelity. Add all these factors together and you' ve got the sort of thing other firms. Hardware giant RCA has plans to release the "secured" digital formats prove to be easier to use or offer that makes record company executives cringe. But it's also Lyra, whose micro hard drive, at 345 MB, can hold consider- substantially better sound than MP3. Of course, quality is not the only factor here — if artists only sell their music in a given made a lot of musicians and hardware manufacturers smile. ably more than either the Rio or the Nomad. The format is also set to make inroads into home stereo format, consumers will have little choice. But if that happens systems with t h e i m m inent r elease of R eQuest's it is probably only a matter of time before somebody comes Indie haven Musicians are realizing the possibility of distributing their songs AudioRequest, an MP3 stereo component. By connecting it to up with a conversion program that will convert the secured widely and for free using MP3s. Many underground, unsigned your stereo system, you will be able to create MP3 files from sound file to MP3. bands have found that the Net is a great place to get themselves your CDs, audio cassette tapes, records, or radio broadcasts (as It is safe to say that MP3 is just beginning to come into its heard, and the Web site MP3.corn (htipltwww.mp3.corn) has long asyour systemhasthe requisite cassette player, turntable own, and that there will be many changes in the music or radio, of course). The AudioRequest can will have the stor- industry in order to accommodate it. As more corporate become the centre of distribution for these artists. turning a stereo stakeholders get in on the action by selling such things as MP3.corn offers free Web hosting services to bands that age capacity for more than 2,000 pop tunes — want to distribute their music in this format. The site now system into an MP3 jukebox. But more importantly, perhaps, MP3 players and buying online record labels, the MP3 format includes tens of thousands of MP3 files to anybody who the AudioRequest player will be able to create MP3 files with- becomes more firmly entrenched. Will MP3 still be around five or 10 years from now? wants them. It gets well over 200,000 downloads everyday, out the use of a computer, breaking the MP3 format out of Frankly, it doesn't matter. Whether it is MP3 or one of its and also serves as an information nexus for anybody wanti- realm of the computer-crowd and into the mainstream. descendants, selling music online is set to become a major ng to learn more about MP3 or to find out the latest MP3The competition industry. related news. As Bob Dylan once sang: "The times, they are a changSmall unknown bandsare not the only onesgetting in on So far it sounds like MP3 is great for home users, online enterthe act. As the format grows in popularity, many mainstream prises and electronics manufacturers, but what about musi- ing." And you should be able to buy that tune online soon. 0
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site of Hash developer Macromedia eyed expressions of incomprehension). Most often they think this involves creadng car- cannot be overemphasized;musicinfusesthe (httpiiWww.macmmedia.corn). As the newest release of this heavyweight toon characters. Some clients do request movie with the sublime qualities of energy champ of Web animation, Hash 4.0, hits the character animations, but this encompasses a and pace that are absent from static sites. The rich multimedia experience of Flash streets this summer, letb take a doser kok at mere firaction of Web animation projects. the features of and technology behind it. Design-in-motion better describes what would be useless if it could not be delivered
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Some options are: CREATE graphics files from within Acrobat as well. document.However, you need to make sure BooxMARRsTo NEw CDNTKNTpPUT HEADERs Acrobat 4.0 The PDF creation method you select will your image-editing software is properly AND FooTNDTEs oN NEW PACE, ADD PDF From: Adobe Systems Inc. depend on what you want t o achieve. installed and the necessary plug-ins have STRucTuRE andPAGELAvour. When downloading Web pages it's necesTel: 600-272-3623,http:1/www.adobe.corn Acrobat PDF Writer is a good choice if you been configured correctly. If not, the graphic are converting a text document. However, if sary to be aware that Web sites Platforms: Mac or Windows (separate editions) Estimated street price: $360 can have multiple page levels. your document contains graphics, Distiller is Downloading a large site could the better choice. If you choose PDFWriter, take quite a bit of time, so the you won't h ave access to PDFMaker's enhanced features. That means no bookoption of different page levels is New features very valuable here. marks, text notes, threads, or document Among the new features in Acrobat 4.0 are: • Document security. Includes password information. To access these features, you Macintosh users protection to prevent unauthorized users must use Distiller — although your files will will have to wait from seeing parts of a PDF document, or be larger as a result. Web C a p t ure, S t r u ctured altering or printing a PDF file. ~ ~ @w~ w ~ ~ A Iiookmarks, Digital Signatures • Di g i tal signatures: This security feature, Drag and Drop conversion to PDF and PDFMaker are not available available only in the Windows version, Another method of creating documents with «elA W ~ • 4I~ on the current Macintosh verallows the author to electronically sign Acrobat is the Drag and Drop feature, which sion of Acrobat 4.0. Adobe has the document. 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the image, vector graphics define the pixel value of graphical objects by mathematical equations. For instance, the arc of a curved line is defined by two endpoints, called vertices, and the direction and weight characteristics of the line at the vertex from which it originates. A collection of lines forms a shape, or object. Because the appearance of the objects is summarized in a few lines of code, the file size of a vector graphic is a fraction of that of a raster image. Vector graphics guarantee that lines, moving edges and text are clean, crisp and anti-aliased (i.e., not jaggy). This flexible, resolution-independent file type allows for the
easy manipulation of the size, shape, color and position of objects. Therefore, we can make them move. Objects are animated inside a timeline using keyframes. We first determine the size, color, shape, opacity and position of the
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another. Any object, such as logos, text, menus, bitmaps and other design elements
On the application side, Macromedia's Generator writes Hash movies on the fly from can enlarge, shrink, morph, slide, change a database. This enables the posting of search color or simply fade away. results and time-sensitive information on Flash movies and elements can play on demand, within the Flash interface. This also their own without interactivity, but are also allows the viewer to customize appearance responsive to mouse events. A mouse event and features. With Generator, there is no need over buttons or other objects can trigger for the visitor to move outside the Flash interscene transitions or other animations to face to view server-generated content. occur on the stage. Flash is also a valuable interface design Flash 4.0 takes some enormous steps to tool fo r de v elopers using M acromedia expand its interactive elements. In this new Director, the industry-standard in CD-ROM version, it handles forms within the inter- authoring. Hash enhances Director's native face, allowing the movie.to pass text vari- raster graphic support, providing vector ablesto the server using GET and POST. Sites graphic animation as well. Through Lingo, designed in earlier versions of Hash required nearly every aspect of the Flash movie can be HTML text fields, which meant partitioning controlled. Flash can also make Lingo calls to the Flash movie within a frameset or pop- the Director movie to control playback and ping up another browser window. Flash 4.0 trigger events. Flash and Director combine allows the designer to not only integrate seamlessly to provide maximum flexibility search boxes, form fields, and drop-down for CD-ROM and Web projects. menus, but allows complete customization of their appearance. And in the other corner... Working in c o njunction with Flash In the Web design-in-motion field, Flash Generator, query results can be posted with- simply has n o p e er. D y namic HTML in the Flash movie, allowing Hash interfaces (DHTML) allows the designer to move to link to fully robust database and e-com- objects in layers and adjust the visibility of merce server applications. those layers, but it lacks the ability to propIn addition, Flash 4.0 has also adopted its erly mimic any of the sophisticated illusions own scripting methods similar to Director's and effects that are accomplished in Flash Lingo. Users are now able to interact with through shape and motion tweening of key Flash elements by using the mouse and key- values that define those objects. board, thus allowing adept designers to Java applets are another option for creatdevelop games of simple to moderate com- ing interactive, animated Web content. Java
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The designer can also embed sound in the Flash movie. Site theme music can be mixed and instructed to react to user input. Event sounds can play on mouse events or at certain frames specified in the timeline. To neutralize large audio file sizes, Flash can stream sound files as they download, sparing the visitor from preloading each sound file before engaging the site. Those unfamiliar with the concepts of keyframe animation may feel daunted at the task of creating Flash content. On the contrary, this logical system is exceedingly intuitive and easy to use. Rudimentary proficiency with the tools, timeline and theory of the program can be achieved in a matter of days. To fully exploit the capabilities of Flash, however, a working knowledge of some of its related technologies is recommended.
and thus suffer in comparison to Flash in both file size, and crispness and smoothness of animation. They also require custom coding, so even customizing an existing applet (otherwise known as "ripping off") is a daunting task for non-programmers. Microsoft's retaliation to Flash is its Liquid Motion technology, which allows designers to create Web animations from clip art libraries and p r efabricated effects. Targeting the Web design novice demog raphic, this technology fulfills it o w n prophecy: it's animated-GIF-like output is
crude enough to discourage any designer willing to commit the time and energy for designing a proper site from using it.
Limitations The biggest obstacle to the proliferation of Flash sites on the Web, the plug-in requirement, is in steady retreat. Network security
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Flash content by d enying th e p l ug-in. However, a recent third-party study revealed that more than 75 percent of Web consumers can already view Flash content without downloading the plug-in. The Hash plug-in currently ships with N etscape Navigator 4.06, Internet Explorer and AOL versions 4.0 and higher, Windows 98, Mac OS 8.0 and higher, RealPlayer G2, QuickTime 4.0 and WebTV. Still, the plug-in requirement carries enough inertia to prevent many companies from committing their entire Web presence to Flash. Another thorn in the designer's side is the insufficient power of the drawing tools. For example, Flash handles object coloring well, with excellent alpha and gradient manageability, but its lack of editable handles, the hallmark of any respectable vector illustration program,
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i ita music istri ution's comin o a e By Sean Carruthers omewhere over at the major record labels, you can hear record executives' knees knocking together in fear as the age of digital music distribution dawns.
Record companies have always made it their business to keep an eye on duplication of copyrighted material owned by their artists and to crack down on gross offenders. When audio cassette tapes were introduced in the 1960s, they were a major concern.
After all, the ability of audiophiles to easily duplicate all of their favorite music in the comfort of their own home would cut into the profits of the record companies and drive them out of business! As we all know, that didn't happen. Some
even argue that "sampler tapes" are responsible for more sales, as the happy listener would run out and buy full albums from any artists who were heavy favorites from those mixed tapes. A company calledMP3.corn is one of the latest to make use of that premise, and has come under fire for its use of the MP3 format for music redistribution. Record companies are particularly edgy about the MP3 encoding process, which uses MPEG compression to reduce near-CD quality audio files to a fraction of their uncompressed state. This allows a user to compress a 60 MB .wav file down to a more downloadable 3 or 4 MB. Surely this is the death of the record companies?
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Some artists, like Tr ancenden (http: //www.trancenden.corn), have much of their catalogue available for download on MP3.corn, with the option to purchase the CD version of the album. MP3.corn also offers a free CD of "103 of the best songs you' ve never heard", containing...yup, 103 MP3 audio files (like Ishkabibble i Chicken on
a Stick), as well as a video from Seal, and multimedia files from the latest ~ ustin Powers adventure. When it comes to making record companies nervous about the future of music redistribution, the hip-hop group Public Enemy has upped the stakes even further. It had its first foray into the digital world earlier this year, making some of its music available in MP3 format on its Web site (httpJ/www.pub-
iicenemy.corn). The group's record labei, Def Jam, was not amused and forced the group to remove the files. The group answered back by making its next album, There'sa Poison Going On, downloadable in its entirety via the Neb site, and later available for pure',iase on Zip cartridges via the Atomic Pop label. Does this spell the end for conventional
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flash redefines interactivity Continuedfrom page 92 by-frame drawing, the third dimension is not supported in Flash. Rotating objects around the Z-axis is possible only through workarounds, and Flash 4.0 does not yet import animations in vector format from any of the leading 3D modeling programs available. As bandwidth increases and Flash compression improves, the focus of design limitation has shifted from the end viewer's
modem speed to his processor speed. The flu- tion that that runs smoothly on a 450 MHz idity of Flash animations is based on frame rate: the speed that the moving image on the screen is redrawn. Television broadcasts refresh at 30 frames per second. Twelve frames per second are adequate to provide the illusion of motion. The frame rate at which your computer refreshes its screen is dependent on the processor speed, video card and display settings of your system. Consequently, a full-screen Flash anima-
Pentium III-based system may look like a slideshow on a machine with a 166 MHz processor. This is a phenomenon we refer to as chugging, and to avoid it designers must determine a safety zone for their animations. The amount of chugging in an animation is an inverse relationship between the amount of simultaneous motion on screen at any point in time and the complexity and size of the objects in motion. This limiting factor is
the sole barrier to Flash achieving the brass ring of design-in-motion — interactive Web content delivered with the dynamism of television and cinema. Flash designers wait in the wings and watch, with eager anticipation, the leaps and bounds that the hardware industry is making as it breeches this gap. Flash is a technology that has quickly outgrown its own name. Acquired in January 1997, as Macromedia absorbed Futurewave and its fledgling FutureSplash technology, Flash was slated to be a competitor to animated GIFs. By working closely with developers worldwide, Macromedia has dropped a multimedia bombshell on the industry that generates new force with each release. Flash 4.0 is a good indication that Macromedia intends to stay abreast of the dynamic Web medium in the future. 0 Ooug Rigby is a design partner at the Fusion Media Group. FMGhas twice won Macromedie's Shocked Site of the Day and participates in the ongoing development of Flash. View Its porffolio online at http:Ilfusionmediagroup.corn.
Olgital meeslc distribution's coming Continuedfrom page 94 music distribution? Not likely . . . a t least not yet. Paul Stark, the co-founder of the indie label Twin/Tone Records, is a proponent of switching to completely digital distribution, but is as yet uncertain that MP3 is the way to go (you can read his adiatribesn
on the subject at http: //www.twintone.corn). Other labels are still holding firm with their conventional distribution methods. And at present, most consumers aren' t quite willing to give up having a physical product in their hands when they purchase an album; giving someone $8 and then downloading an album is still a bit t oo abstract. With the way people are taking to the MP3 as a method of sampling new music, however, it seems to be only a matter of time before the leap is made to full digital distribution, whether it's just for individual songs or full albums. 0
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Adobe's chiefexecutive enthusesabout Acrobat, PDF,InDesign and GoLive up the page format that you want to capture to. So, if I want to capture to a landscape page I can do that, or if I want to capture to an 8.5xli [inch] page, I can do that. But if yeu turn it onto automatic mode, set the settings up and tell it to go four leveis into a Web site, you just walk away and after a while you come back and there will be all TCP: I read an interview you did I ii which you these zillions of pages. And all the links will weretalking about Web spider technology that work, all the pullAow'n menus work. Then, would collect information into a PDF (portable you can email that PDF file and print it relidociiment format) file. Coidd you talk a bit more ably. Most Web pages you can't print reliably. TCP: Whowoold use tliat? about that? JW: (Laughs.) Everyone! John Warnock: It's part ef Acrobat 4.0. TCP: Did you have thetarget userin inind Under the File menu you [cheose] Capture frem Web. You have multiple options. First when you developed that? JW: No, and it drove marketing crazy. of all, you can say how deep into the Web site you want to go, or whether you want to Everybody who saw the feature said "this is what go manually into the Web site. If you go' the coolest thing since sliced bread — "well, I will people use it for?" And, I said, manually and just pull down a page, every time you chck a link, it will follow the link don't know what people will use it for," but and append the page to your PDF document. everybody uses it. And, they [Adobe's marketing team] were having a terrible time posiSo, if you want to follow a specific threadmany times documentation is done like tips tioning that feature in some kind of marketand techniques by following a specific ing message. I always positioned it as "this is a very, very cool feature that almost everythread —you just dick through the thread. For instance, on Adobe's Web site, if you body uses, and everybody will use it for difgo to the tips and techniques, they' re all ferent things at different times." But, it's a sequential pages —you go to the next button, way of mining information out of a Web site and the next button, and the next button. that is almost better than anything I' ve ever You keep hitting those and it will append seen. If you go to a daily site like CNN or CNET, those to the PDF file, and you can save it at content changes rapidly. Rather than mailing any time. Now, the neat thing is, as it parses the a URL and hoping the link is stig alive, you HTML, it does a much, much better job of can capture the [Web site] and send a PDF laying out the page than any of the browsers. document. And that's what we do at Adobe. And, if you receive a file and dick on a It keeps frames in place. It does page breaks in a much more sensible manner. It doesn' t link that doesn't exist in the PDF file, it will let the text run off the page. As a matter of go and get the page and append it to the PDF fact, there's an option button so you can set file.
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ception ofit changed over time? Jlhf:No. I' ve been in the computer business for almost 38 years now, and there' s always been this holy grail problem of being able to transport documents between computers. In 1990 we figured out a scheme where we could actually make it happen. That's what PDF came out of — trying to solve this 30-yearold problein that everybody had been fadng. And, it was a really nice, elegant selution. Then, when the Net came along, everybody said "this is obvious," It was a very fortuitous event. TCP: Has the Web changedhow you will fiuther develop it? JW: Well, yeah. The Web capture..., for instance, is a feature put in because of that. We still demand very high quality, very high integrity, printability, device independence. With the Webcaptured stuff, unfortunately, you' re getting the images at whatever image resolution the server is serving, but it's sNI much, much better than any other scheme for printing. TCP: Yoo also implementedit as being a central file format with hiDesign (Adobe's new desktop publish ingsojhvare).W hatprobleins do yoo expect that wi0 solve? JW: There is the general document transportability problem that has been around for 20 to 25 years, Everyone who has tried to attack the problem has said "what we need to do is get everyone that writes text editors and everyone who makes document production systems to agree on a format." And then all those applications would generate that format and everybody will be happy. In the late '70s and early '80s Digital
Equipment came out with what was their compound document architecture. This was their attempt to unify docLment format. The documentation was [very] thick, and it was sort of the union of all known formats. Any time a programmer would look at the spec, he'd say "I'm not going to implement to this spec. When we did PDF we said let's start from the p in a different way. Let's capture roblem it at the print output — let's get in existence proof that we can transport documents aieund and then let's add content to the document so that we can round trip it through the application. In some sense you' re backing into a universal document format, and adding more and mere value to that document format after its position as a standard. The first thing is to get the standard in place, and then expand it so that it has more and more utility. So, for instance, with the Web capture, we keep all of the HTML tagging information as part of the PDF Ne when we capture the Web site. We can actually round-trip the PDF fde back to a Web site. So, we can create the original Web site from that PDF file. TCP: Andit wiN receuteit with good fidelit?
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ferent kinds of computers and aII different kinds of operating systems and different kinds of printers — keep the device independenceof the document. TCP: You were quoted as saying that IrrDesign is a QuarkXPress (one of the top professional desktop publishing packages) killer. JW: I wasn't quoted. The press said that. TCP: Fair enough. But the point is that it is aimed at the print market. Does it also have links irrto Web publishing? JW: Yes it is aimed at the print market. I think eventually, as SVG becomes a standard„ then clearly InDesign in the future will be able to author to SVG. TCP: What is SVG? JW: SVG is scalable vector graphics. We' re working with the W3 Consortium (Worldwide Web Consortium) to develop a new standard for the Web that allows you to do vector graphics. Right now, the Web is sort of brain dead in that you can only do images and bad text. The SVG standard uplevels that, so that if you really lay out a page you can really lay out a page and get out on the Web. TCP: DoesSVG have any rela tionshipto the precision graphics markup language (PGML)? JW: Yes they' re all related. The PGML was our implementation of the SVG standard, Now that the W3C has adopted SVG„we're using SVG rather than our implementation. TCP: You made refererrce a moment ago to bad text. What did you mean by that — content wise or format wise? JW: Format wise. (Laughs.) It's bad writing if it's content. TCP: How are your other products doing now that people are thinking that the Web is the newreality? JW: It turns out that about 93 percent of all Web publishers own Photoshop and 60 percent of all Web publishers own Illustrator [both Adobe products]. So, we actually make more money onthe Web than probably anybody else„because we sell primary authoring applications to the Web developer. Now, with GoLive, we have the best professional Web publishing tool. That, along with lfiustrator and Photoshop and I m ageWriter and ImageStyler, gives us a very powerful arsenal. TCP:Are your customers who develop for the Web different than the customers who develop
for print? Do they have different demands? JW: They are today. I think that distinction is going to disappear. It's because most of the Web developers are also HTML programmers. There's a very strong technical bent to Web site developers. They have to have a very strong technical bent because they have to author in HTML, bufid CGI scripts, Java script rollovers and all those kinds of things. In the future, as more sophisticated tools like GoLive come out, you [will be able to] turn that job over to designers — people with a very strong aesthetic sense. The details of the HTML are hidden from them and they don't have to code. And yet, all the features like pulldown menus and rollovers and all those things are supported in GoLive, TCP: What is your marketing strategy for rolling out InDesign? For example, it could be very hard to get production departments to
change f'rom using QuarkXPress. JW: We' re trying to make it really easy. We have a very reliable input filter that
allows you to load any of your Quark files... save it in InDesign, [and] it's an InDesign file. Now, rather than having to convert all your EPS image files to import into Quark, you can just take direct Photoshop files, Illustrator files, in Photoshop and Illustrator format directly with all layers in place. If you have an adjustment layer and you don't like the wayitlooks you can go back and change it in Photoshop and it expresses itself in the InDesign document,.. . I t's not repetitive steps over and over again, You can make changes much more easily than you could in the past. If people are very used to the Quark keyboard shortcuts, [they] can load them into InDesign. So, we' re trying to make it really easy for production teams t o m o v e [ t o u s i ng InDesign). And, once they see the typography that comes out of InDesign there's no contest.. . . T h e type that comes out of InDesign is the best type I' ve ever seen. TCP: So you think you' ll be able tosell it on the merits of the teclurology and the corporate culture will shift? JW: Well, I think so, because they [production departments] already use a lot of our products. They are used to the palettes and menus. InDesign is very much like that — it' s not a big learning experience. A lot of the feature sets are equivalent to the Quark feature sets but a lot of the feature sets are brand new — wonderful things that you can't do in
N E W IN E D I A g Q the optical keming. That means that every letter is compared with every other letter and the kerning spacing between them is adjusted. So, the color of the type is incredibly uniform as you look at a paragraph. The third feature is called optical alignment that you can turn on. What it does is it looks at the shape of each character on the boundary of the line break and adjusts its position so that it looks optically straight, So quotes hang out a little, dashes hang out a little — it's beautiful type. It's visually [Irst pleasing. The color is nice, especially in a newspaper or magazine format where you have fairly narrow columns. It makes a huge difference. TCP: It sormds like you really like typography, You must shake your head when you see Web corrtent with fairly low resolution. JW: Yes, bad text. But I think with SVG, it solves it because there, you have the possibility of specifying kerning and character positioning. There's 500 years of history in type, and a lot of computer providers forget that, and forget that there is really a huge amount of cultural tradition and quality associated with how text is displayed. TCP: ls that one of the reasons why Adobe Type1 fonts have always been considered among tire best digital fonts? JW: Becausewe've always insisted that they be the best. When we first started Adobe we had this lady who worked for us and we kept being so picky about the type, And she
Quark. We' ll ship [InDesign] with 20 dictio- said, "Why are you being so picky about the naries, so you' ll be able to do all languages with essentially the same product. We' re just trying to make it easy for the customer to make the switch. The customers who are seeing the product and have played with the product say "I'm gone." TCP: What will happen to PageMaker? JW: For people who are now using Microsoft Publisher, we are targeting this as . something they should upgrade to. So we' re moving it down market, lowering the price slightly, and targeting InDesign for the professional market. TCP: You' ve rrrerrtiorred type a couple of hrnes, and the impressive output qualities of InDesign. Why is that? JW: One of the features [of InDesign] is that it uses a multi-line composer. So, in figuring out where hne breaks should occur, and where hyphenation positions should be, it actually looks at up to 10 lines at the time, and it globally makes the best decision on how to distribute the hyphens over those 10 lines. So you have much less probability of taking rivers, or lines with bad spacing. The other thing is that you can turn on
type?" And I said "Well, that impression of that Times Roman A is probably going to get printed 10 trillion times and you really ought to get it right." Even though the type business has sort of gone into disfavor in some sense, we' ve always been very picky about type and very picky about the way type is laid down by the product. TCP: Do you tlrink it matters? Do people rrotice? JW: Yeah, it does. If you put a Quark document next to an InDesign document and go through a blind taste test with 10 people, they won't know why it's better but they' ll say well, I like this page better. This page looks better. And I think newspaper people, and some magazine people are really fussy about type, TCP; Has your type business srrffered because of forrt clones and krrock-offs that are now available? JW: Yeah I think it has, but among the professional graphic arts community I think they still like Adobe type, and appreciate it. So, we keep the quality standard high for the small number of people who care. 0
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By Nathan Segal ryce 4 has arrived. This latest update in the Bryce series heralds some major changes that will delight users. One of the many changes is the Sky Lab, updated from the previous version into a full section of its own. Another new feature is the Links Menu, where you can click on any link and be taken to that site on the Internet. Let's have a look at how this new version works.
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New export options make it possible to output fully t extured 3D t e rrains to Wavefront (.obj), LightWave (.lwo, .Iws), AutoCAD (.dxf), Ray Dream Studio (.rds), Infini-D (.id4), MetaStream (.mts), USGS
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Timain data of Mt. St. Helen's(downloadedfran Oe IL%8 Wohsite) In Bryce4 before medtticattono.
Sky Lab This section allows you to precisely contiol all aspects of sky creation. It allows you to manipulate the sun, moon, strata and cumulus cloud cover, atmosphere, starfields, comets, rainbows, fog, haze and more. Sky
Lab offers apreview mode, so you can seethe changes before you apply them. Links menu The Links menu gives you access to specific Bryce-related Web sites. They include the Bryce Community, Bryce Forum, Bryce Newsletter and the U.S. Geological Survey (for downloading terrain maps). A link to Bryce Talk gives you access to a forum for sharing information, getting access to technical support personnel, and a place to post links. You can also configure the Links menu, adding your own links.
Users now have the ability to import U.S. Geological Survey Digital Elevation Map (DEM) and Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) file formats. These terrain options are significant. This means you can download,
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or theInternet. Use of these terrain models could be valuable to real estate developers who want to show an aerial view of properties to buyers or investors. They could also be useful for architectural imagery as well. On the downside, there are no tools given for precise mapping information with the files.
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Rendering can be processor and RAM intensive. The more complicated your scene is, the longer it will take to render and that could mean waiting many hours for your animation to be completed. Simplifying your scene could save a lot of time. This Is a closerview ei the sameMount Sl. Helen's terrain Ioliowiny somesimple modifications Once you' ve created an animation, you In Bryce 4. Toadd the texlure, I went to the Materials Lah, cliched onMaps: Planes S Terrains, can view it using the Nano-Preview — a choseClassicBryceSnow, andmade some minor adjustmentstotheshy. frame-by-frame view of your model. If needed, you can make subtle refinements using Updated terrain editor the Advanced MotionLab. The terrain editor has the functionality of I found Bryce to be a fun and interesting earlier versions of Bryce, but with some new tiling, twirl, gradient designer, spheroid past, I lamented the fact that there were limprogram. I spent many hours experimenting twists. In Bryce 4, there are more than 2O designer, texture explorer, and vortex tiling). ited import and export options —especially choices of base terrains, including lava, clas- Included with the package is an extra CD- for exporting terrains into other 3D pro- and tweaking images, to get them "just sic fractal, fractured and mud cracks. To fur- ROM filled with a variety of presets, scenes, grams. But that has changed with this latest right.'" If you' re a perfectionist and want to release. It has the ability to import and give yourimages a special touch, Bryce 4 ther manipulate landscapes, Bryce includes animations, objects and tutorials. While I enjoyed using Bryce 3D in the export objects and terrains from various could well be the program for you. 0 six effects from Kai's Power Tools 3 (planar
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models from scanned and/or digital photographs. Canoma 1.0 From: MetaCreations http: //www.metacreations.corn For. Windows or Macintosh Suggested retail price: $850 (based on US$599)
Not true animation Stack and Align: 7he white buildings are duplicate ahapea.
In Canoma, you can create motion where the camera zooms into the model, moves around it, or f l ies above it. However, Ca noma i s not meant to be a full
ronment (for example, terrain, nearby objects or buildings) might make this difficult, A photographer's studio, on the other hand, affords you a greater degree of control over the photo session. Angles and measurements can be mapped out fairly accurately and objects more precisely photographed. Canoma could be effectively used to create 3D models of smaller, individual objects for an oniine catalog, for example. Other applications include interior and p ackaging
designand game development. Advanced modelingtips Here are some techniques to simplify your modeling using Canoma: • Ad d guidelines to establish perspective. • Du p licate objects with the same dimen-
As MetaCreations representatives recently told TCP,Canoma turns 3D object creation on its ear. Normally, to create a 3D sions. 3D animation appliobject, you start with primitive elements to • Add helper objects, such as a box, for cation. For that you create the form, then wrap the form with an more accurate perspective and scene will have to use 3D appropriate texture to achieve the effect you orientation. You can replace the box programs like Ray want. With Canoma, you start with the texD ream Stud i o , later with a m ore defined shape, if ture and extrapolate the 3D from it. T r u e s p a c e , required. Specifically, with Canoma, you start with Lightwave and otha digital image — a picture of a building, for ers. Canoma's ani- File resolution tip example — and using it as a background, you mations are output While you can save a variety of image sizes, "pin" various objects to elements on the QuickTime Canoma depends on the original quality of as photograph. Once the objects are pinned Mirror Textures enabled and before any retouching. movies or as sets of the bitmaps that you use, as do many 3D into place, Canoma uses that information to still frames. programs. If you want high quality output, create a 3D model that is then mapped with first, then check the perspective in View the original images need to be high resolumode. A good practice is to pin the basic the pixels from your photograph. To use tion. Pass the ladder please shape, then zoom in and refine the placeCanoma, in-depth 3D knowledge is useful, , ment. To place a corner you cannot see, use To create a 3D scene, you have to photobut not absolutely necessary. the beads along the edges of the object to graph an object from both sides, which may Summary not be easy. For example, if you are standing While Canoma can generate good results, it define the corner. The main working window on a hill taking a photograph of a building, has its limitations. For example, it is not Pinning corners accurately takes practice, In Canoma there are no floating palettes. All the features are integrated into the work- but if you don't get it right, there are 10 lev- you will need to match the perspective when designed for modeling trees, people, or terspace that covers the entire screen, At the top els of Undo you can use. Alternatively, you you take a second picture on the other side. rains. Programs such as Bryce 4, Poser 3, 3D left is the 2D Image Palette that displays can simply delete the shape and start again. If there is no hi)I on the other side, you Studio Max, Truespace or Lightwave are more thumbnails of images used in your project. Note that when pinning an active object, it is might have to use a crane or a helicopter to suitable for these tasks. Canoma was designed for individuals At the top centre is the Floating Toolbar, red and all others are yellow. If the scene gets get to the same elevation. That can get who want to create complex 3D imagery expensive and complicated. The challenge is complicated, you can activate the Solo from which you can choose Select, Glue, without having to go through an extensive to find a perspective that works from all sides On/Off button, which dims all wireframes Z oom, Pan, etc. At th e b ottom of t h e of the object. However, the immediate envi- learning curve — and this it does very well. 9 except the one you' re working on. Canoma window are the Creation and When building objects on top of one Animation tabs. Under the Creation tab there is a selection of primitives you can another, use Stack and/or Align (located %un r 26 pal ee cannmo" 14 File Edit View C leate Teems Anlm~n H t I D choose for your scene — box, pyramid, table, under the Creation tab) before selecting another primitive. Use Glue to align objects stairs, etc. 0 On the bottom left are the camera con- pri.cisely. 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On June 15, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco found that the Rio MP300. device,manufactured by Diamond ers and the Internet in the MP3 format does Multimedia, does not qualify as a "digital not fall under the jurisdiction of the nation's audio recording device" and so is not subject to the 1992 Audio Home Recording Act, anti-puacy laws.
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ent purposes." The RIAA said it was disappointed with the result, but claimed that collaborative industry efforts had already overtaken the events of the Rio lawsuit. "The technology and music industries have already come together, in voluntary initiatives like t h e Secure Digital M usic Initiative [SDMI], to create a secure environment in which consumers can access the music they love in new ways," said the RIAA. The SDMI was established by the RIAA, with major labels like Universal, EMI, Sony,
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n tri na to corn ete wit CALGARY (NB) —Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. and Bell Canada, a unit of BCE inc. of Montreal, have formaliy launched their venture i nt o C a nada's tw o w e sternmost provinces in competition with ex-ally Telus
Corp. The new company is named Intrigna. Intrigna is part of a Bell Canada project to extend its services from O n tario a n d Quebec — the company's territory in the old days of regional monopolies — to the whole country. Through the alliance with MTS, which has traditionally served Manitoba, BeB will compete in Alberta and British Columbia with Telus, which was formed from the merg-
The companies also announced that Murray Korth, a former Telus executive, and former president and chief executive of computer services firm ISM Alberta, has been appointed president and chief executive of Intrigna. Intrigna has registered with the Canadian Radi o - television and
tomers, and will resell Nexxia's broadband a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). services in Alberta and B.C, The company said its initial targets are The new name has no real meaning, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. though it conforms to Bell's emerging praclntrigna will work with Bell Nexxia, a subsidiary that Bell formed last year to offer broadband services to national business cus-
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to check and view Farmer's heart beat live. Electrodes were applied to Farmer' s chest, which were connected by wires to a miniature heart monitor about the size of a matchbox. The monitor was connected to a small mobile phone that was used to provide the wireless data link. The runner carried the system in a small bag around his waist. T he data wa s t r ansmitted t o t h e Micromedical receiving centre where the heart rate was measured and the ECG data formatted. It was then sent to a Web server at the University of Queensland which sent the data over the Internet for display by a Java applet on a viewer's Web browser, The live Internet monitoring was part of a research project to study the effects of extended exercise on the heart and cardiovascular system. ''The fact that we can now detect and analyze heart signals from remote locations and during exerase means this study will contribute significantly to heart research," said Dr.
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SAN MATEO, Calif. (NB) — Top e-commerce sites are losing customers at an average rate of 60 percent every six weeks because they are concentrating o n b o o sting p r ofits instead of establishing loyalty, a new study claims.
Likening e<ommerce to an online version of a vending machine, the marketing firm Rubric Inc. found that only 16 percent of the 50 Web sites studied sent foUowup marketing offers to customers who had made purchases in the last 30 days. Of those 16 percent, only two of the
Only 16 percent of the 50 Web sites studied
an offer about women's clothing when he never indicated any interest in such a pur-
sent followup marketing offers to customers
chase, "There's still a lot of room for improvement," said Hal Steger, Rubnc's vice-president of marketing. "Everyone is talking about one-tonne marketing, but very few of these sites are doing it." The company plans to do two foffow-up
who had made purchases in the last 30 days "This could be due to the fact that these ewommerce sites are both older and much larger than the newer sites, which may limit their ability to interact with customers on a
replies to basic questions such as "Which model should I buy?" the study found,
failed to ask the customers if they would like
cluded.
more information on related products ser-
Customers seeking information from the sites found it difficult for the most part to get
response. Rubric also found many examples of mis- shopping season. 9
responses were personalized and nearly half vices, the study found. In conducting the study, Rubric asked 50 people to buy one item from 50 "leading" e-commerce sites. The c o mpany released the names of aU SQ sites, but declined to link specific responses to specific companies.
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t h e co m pany's clients,
Outpost.corn, was included in the study. The others included sites run by Amazon.corn,
CDNow, Etoys, Gap, Gateway, IBM, Lands End, Microsoft, ONce Depot„omaha Steaks, Playboy, Planet Rx, Sears, Staples, Starbucks,
Wal-Mart, Victoria's Secret and Sharper Image. The study found that sites peddling
books, music and videos performed poorly compared to emerging product categories like health and beauty.
Forty percent of email questions sent out studies over the next six months to see if e-
by the researchers went unanswered, includone-to-one basis," Rubric researchers con- ing sites that promised a time frame for a
commerce sites are re-marketing to customers over a longer period of time and to see how the sites do during the Christmas
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i oaster owere SEAm.E, Wash. (NB) — Microworkz.corn, the company that first gained notice for selling PCs over the Internet for around US$300, has announced plans to sell a PC called the iToaster for US$199. An official says the firm has developed what amounts to a new operating system (OS) for the device that makes Windows look sluggish, iToaster, scheduled to be available July 15, will run on an operating system based partly on BeOS, with its multimedia efficiency, and partly on Linux, with its stability and Internet e f f iciency, a c cording t o a Microworkz.corn executive. "It's very light on its feet, very fast," commented Mark Palmer, the firm's chief purchasing officer. "If you compare this OS on a 133[MHz]-speed processor with Windows on a
200 [MHz]or even 266PAHz]-speed chip, this is a lot fastec And there's virtually no boot-up time, because it doesn't have to go through aII the rigmarole that Windows has to.s He added, "It's a pretty seamless OS. We' ve been testing it for the past few weeks and it works beautifully. It would be a mis-
take to call it an Internet appliance, because - it does so much more." Palmer says the firm hopes to see people ordering multiple copies of the iToaster, "one
for each room." Though the device is intended primarily
for Internet use, it also will come with a word processor, spreadsheet program and graphics editor. Palmer says the productivity suite is a special iToaster edition of Gobe Productive, a BeOS suite published by Gobe Software, Inc., of Portland, Ore, The standard suite on which the iToaster version is based runs under BeOS on PowerPC and Intel(x86} machines. When turning on t h e i Toaster, said Palmer, the user is presented with a menu of choices that do not differentiate Web appiications from local ones.
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can accommodate faster digital connections, such as an external cable or digital subscriber
line (DSI.) modem. For addwns, it provides two industry standard architecture (ISA) slots and three peripheral component interconnect (PCI) slots, Palmer said. "This is exactly what people have been waiting for," said Rick Latman, chief executive officer (CEO), in a s t atement. He described the new PC as having uno virus
problems, no Y2K issues." He added, "Everything is set up at the factory for consumers so all they have to do is press one button and it's instant on, instant off — no boot up time required. They can immediately shop online, surf the Web, or send and receive email. And because it' s not a Windows environment, it's virtually
crash proof." Gobe Software, httpiiwww.gobe.coIII Microworkz.corn, httpliwww.microworkz.corn
Free-PC ships first 10,000 computers PASADENA, Calif. (NB) — Internet startup firm Free-PC Inc. began shipping 10,000 computers to users who have agreed to share personal i nformation and put up with desktop ad bannersin exchange forafree PC,emailand Internet access. Free-PC started shipping the computers in mid-June, said Steve Chadima, vice-president of marketing. The first 10,000 recipients of free 333 MHz Pentium III-based Compaq Presarios were chosen from more than 1.25 million U.S. applicants. The majority are middle-income Internet users ranging in age from 25 to 40, although other groups, such as college students and senior citizens, are also represented, Chadima said. The idea behind the free computers is to deliver ads targeting specific demographic groups directly to their computer desktops. The ads are based on the precise information the computer recipients provide to Free-PC. Advertisers signed with Free-PC so far include Amazon.corn, Beyond.corn, CarsDirect, Citibank, eBay, eToys, Investors Business Daily and PCFlowers. The ads appear on the right side and along the bottom of the computer screen, whether or not the user is online. Free-PC, a venture of Internet incubator firm Idealab, plans to ship more computers based on data it extracts from the initial recipients over the next 90 days, Chadima said. Applicants who fall into the user groups that qualify as "good customers" by the company will most likely be the recipients of the next round of free computer shipments, he added, Free-PC is has no plans yet to extend its offer outside the U.S. Free-PC.corn, http//wYIYr.free-pC.corn
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Ebetween to hardwire links into PCs Virus cbecker scans outbound email WASHINGTON, D.C. (NB) — The company that provides the soltware building blocks for more than 70 percent of the personal computers sold worldwide is getting into the
When a consumer first turns on a PC with the Ebetween extension built in, the consumer will receive a prompt asking if he or she would like to have links to Internet companies appearing on his or her desktop. Internet business — using relationships with motherboard manufacturers to hardwire If a consumer clicks a "no" button, that direct links to internet companies into new consumer's system will boot up normally, computers. displaying a standard Windows desktop. If Launched as a subsidiary of Phoenix the consumer clicks a "yes" button, that conTechnologies Ltd., Ebetween will o f f er sumer's desktop will contain links to no Internet service providers (ISPs), online more than five, non-competing Internet retailers, search engine sites and other online companies, according to Gharda. A typical
VANCOlJVER, B.C. (NB) — Electric Mail Company, Inc., a Vancouver-based email outsource service, has announced that it will offer its customers outbound, as well as inbound, email scanning The outbound service is a response to the recent spate of computer virus/worm bugs that send infected messages to addresses listed in a victim' s Microsoft Outlook address book. The most prominent recent example of such "mal-ware," as it is called, was the Meilssa email worm, which sent lists of Internet porn sites to people's Internet contacts. Aside from mail server overloads, the worst damage Mehssa caused was embarrassment. It could have been much worse. The ExploreZip worm was another recent example of using a 6rm's internal resources
to shotgun mal-ware to specific user addresses. Electric Mail calls its scanning service E-.mmunity'Outbound. It will be'provided free to subscribers to Electric Mail's E-mmunity inbound email vims scanning service. Cathy Munn, Electric Mail president, said the firm's E-mmunity service is targeted for all sizes of business and acts as something of a "super firewall".-email server'. The aim is
companies direct access to newly manufac- desktop would offer links to one ISP, one tured generic PCs. Phoenix purports to be the world's largest provider of basic input output systems (BIOS) for PCs. BIOS con6igure computers to run Microsoft Windows. Ebetween will offer Internet companies "the ability to deal with one entity — us —to get their products known to consumers," said Laurent Gharda; vice-president of mar-
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Internet companies will have to pay for the privilege of having their icons placed on Kbetweenenabied computers. And if early
Phoenix's goal is to make Kbetween ser-
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35 percent of «ll PCs sold. To date, 13 motherboard vendors, including ABIT, AOpen, Asustek, A-Trend„Biostar, Chaintech, Gigabyte, LuckyStar, MicroStar International {MSI), Shuttle, SOYO, Tekram and Tyan have agreed to distribute Phoenbr's
Internet read-only memory (ROM) extensions, which will enable the Kbetween
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to isolate and scan for mal-ware of all sorts before sending a message on; avoiding the
sion," Gharda said. That is unlike Hewlett-Packard, which indudes an America Online icon on its new coinputers regardless of what customers request, Gharda added.
interest is any indication, many will, Yahoo, Earthlink, Lycos, Snap.corn, Trend Micro, AOL, C/Net and Excite have all signed contracts to receive Ebetween services, according to Phoenix. In addition to charging Internet companies a flat fee for having their links installed on new computers, Ebetween will get a commission for every purchase inade through those links, Gharda said.
hassle of cleaning out bugs on customer sites after an infection hits.
The approach works for some.,john Wilson, who describes himself as the "alpha geek" information services (IS) manager at Clark, Richardson gt Biskup, an engineering firm in Kansas City, Mo., said, "Since the Brst of june, I' ve received ll Outbound Emmunity notices — it quiddy spotted our organization's rogue users who hadn't installed or updated their AV files. It blocked their virus contaminated documents from leaving our system, which saved us the considerable embarrassment of sending infected files to
our customers," He added,-"I throw their virus notices into a foldhr on my desktop when they find one, and I' ve accumulated quite a collection — 52 viruses just since the 6rst of the year,
inbound and outbound." -;;r "The prevalence of email viruses is astounding," said Muim. "We' re currently 6nding an average of one infected message in every 500 that we scan, and the number has
actually been creeping up over the last year despite corporations' use of internal vuus scanning systems.";:; . , s :.„:.>~ .-..gw;;, ®. Munn says the firm uses Trend Micro's antiviius software fog its high-speed email , : . --
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In addition to the familiar controls, OSDs add a number of other image-manipulation capabilities, including correction for pinto switch to 17-inch displays, which in turn cushion and trapezoid distortion, and image drives prices down even further, rotation. OSD controls on some monitors Huying a 17-inch monitor for use at also feature more advanced image controls home has advantages and disadvantages. On like beam convergence, moire reduction and the positive side, the larger display means more image adjustment settings. h igher screen resolution, which in t u r n means you can display more information on Thank Sweeheee the screen at a size that's stilt easy to read. One of thecommon concerns about moniUsns of smaller monitors have most likely tors is whether they emit harmful amounts had to content themselves with screen reso- of electromagnetic and radio-frequency lutions of 640x480 or 800x600. Many 17- energy. (After being conditioned to not sit inch monitors can easily display resolutions too ctose to the television, it can be unsetof 1,024x768 or 1,280x1,024, and some will tling to sit for hours mne inches away from even handle 1,600x1,200. (Of course, the a computer screeni) Users of newer monitors
ability to display these resolutions also can rest easy, however, as they are so welldepends on the capabilities of your video
shielded that radiation is a very minor issue. card.) Over the years, Swedish testing authoriThis higher resolution can be a real boon ties have instituted a number of safety stanfor Internet users, allowing them to open a dards for monitor manufacturing, starting work window on one side of the screen, surf with MPR, and the subsequent MPR II, stanfor information with the Web browsn on dard. Since that point, the TCO standard has the other side of the screen, and chat with been introduced, with different levels of safefriends using ICQ in another corner. For ty. The TCO was first introduced in 1992, multitasking users (myself included!), the was revised in 1995 and again in 1999. At extra screen real estate provided on a 17-inch present, the TCO99 standard represents one of the strictest and safest standards available. monitorcan bea bigadvantage. The downside, of course, is the larger size of the monitor itself. To accommodate the Seceelleeg eeeeeelter terens larger picture tube, the outer casing of the Aperture grille:This type of display uses monitor has to be that much bigger as well, a number of "guide" wires running along
wire shadow might be confused with one of the horizontal lines in your drawing. The primary advantage of aperture grille is the richer color of the display, Shadow mask: These monitors use a perforated ceramic plate (usually made of a material caUed invar) to guide the color beams to the phosphors on the screen. This technology is generally cheaper
(red, blue and green) at luminescent patches of phosphor on the inside of the tube. Each beam must travel in horizontal strips from the top left to the bottom right corner of the screen, and then start again at the top. The refresh rate indi-
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Menitorlsts the situatiess Continuedfrom page 67 terns to appear on top of the image being shown. Typically, moir(. only appears at higher resolutions. The more moire that appears, the less suited the monitor would is for h ighly detailed graphic work, Some monitors come with moire cancellation" as an option in the OSD, but this option generally roughens up the rest of the picture. • Re gulation: Sudden flashes of color in certain areas of the screen can cause the rest of the display to shrink or expand. Some monitors are able to handle sudden variations with little change in the overall display, while the image jumps noticeably on others. • Viewable area: The descriptive size of a momtor, 17-inch, for example, refers to
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Suggested retail price: $399 • Screen type: shadow mask. • Dot pitch: .25 mm. The C72 is capable of an 85 Hzrefresh rate in 1,024x768 mode, and 60 Hz at 1,280x1,024. • At 15.6 in., the viewable area is smaller than any of the other monitors. Suggested retail price: $470 • The picture quality is great, with very little flicker, and minimal moird detected. • . Screen type: shadow mask. • Corner focus was excellent at both resolutions, • Dot pitch:.25 mm. • The OSO has a lot of image manipulation capabil• The monitor achieved a refresh rate of 100 Hz at ity, though learning how to use the buttons takes Although many are familiar with Daytek's 1.024x768 and 75 Hz at 1,280x1,024. There was a bit of work. more budget-conscious line, the company subliminal flicker at both resolutions, but not makes a number of higher-end models, includenough to be problematic. This model was featured in our roundup ing the Vista V17, The aperture grille technolo• Corner focus was quite good at 1,024x768. back in August of 1998, and it still stands up gy makes it a great choice for multimedia work, However, at 1.280x1,024, corner focus became well. The picture quality is great, and there' s and the price makes it accessible to those of us poor, and there were someminor problems with little in the way or flicker or moire. A was the without huge bundles of cash. No matter wh'at focus elsewhere on the screen. case a year ago, the monitor's picture quality your focus, this monitor fits the bill • Moire was minimal at 1,024x768, but became is good enough to compete with the highermore pronounced at 1,280x1,024. priced models. • Minor jumping was evident during screen regulaThe biggest problems you may have with tion testing. the C72 are the small viewable area and the Suggested retail price: $329 • The OSD controls take a bit of patience at first. slower refresh rates, when compared with the higher-end models. For customers on a Screen type: shadow mask. Aimed at professionals, but with an attractive budget, though, this one makes a great • Dot pitch: .27 mm. The pitch is a bit coarse, but price, the.25 mm dot pitch and good refresh choice, offering professional quality for just a should suit the needs of users looking for a genrates make the Argon an attractive choice. few dollars more than entry-level models. eral-purpose monitor. For users content to keep the monitor in Both Monitor Depot and STD Systems dis- • At 1,024x768, the Ecom monitor is capable of an lower resolutions, it should deliver the goods tribute the CyberVision line in Canada. 85 Hz refresh rate, and 6QHzat 1,280x1,024.
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with minimal flicker and moir6 appearing only at 1,280x1,024. Comer focuswasexcellent at both tested resolutions. Screen regulation was excellent, Although the OSDworks well, the layout of the controls on the front of the machine is awkward, Also, the color, size and position of the buttons makes them blend right into the case, which can make adjustments difficult in low-light conditions. IBM's P72 was also in TCP's1998 monitor report, and it also stands up welL Though priced slightly higher than others, the monitor offers great picture quality and great overall performance. It would be a great choice for users doing high-end multimedia work.
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Despite the problems with the OSD, the A700+ is a good monitor. Even with a coarser .28 mm dot pitch, the picture quality is great, with tiny amounts of flicker and moire noticeable only at higher resolutions. In the end, users can get used to the awkward OSD in order to take advantage of a high-quality monitor from one of the more respected names in the monitor game.
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$100. You' ll also need a SCSI cable for this external device. The back of t h e
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Canrtnued an page92
Tips for successful CD recording ecording,
or "burning," your own CD-ROMs has become a popular and affordable way to store data. With the declining prices of CD writers,
from-i both public. sources and els'e-.,
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nomenon known as a 'buffer underrun," which is typically caused by an interruption during the disc writing process. If the system can't continue suppl)dl+ data durmg the interruption (e.g., from a buffer), the write operation fails and the disc becomes just another expensive coastez While this ean stiB
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htlp Jtwww,laclo corn Laoe recipe for success, Housed in a stylish, Nlac safiwaro: Adaptac's Toast ultra heavy4uty ease, the 8x20x is the fastest 3.5,6 and DlrectCD CD-8 drive we' ve tested at 7CP Labs. And, Windows 95, 98 and NTsoftthanks to its large 2 MB buffer, it's also one of ware: Adaptec'sEasyCDCmalor 3.5b and DlrectCD the most reliable, too. ications:Traydesign Sanyo CRD-8008 As owners of older recordable CD drives Specif know all too well, the lack of a suffidently CD-R mechanismlna heavy4uty case,includestwa large buffer can lead to a disk-trashing phe- 50-pin SCSI connectors, tnrmlnatar switch, push-
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aCie has strengthened its reputation since its days as aMac~entric drive sup plier back in the hte '80s (a period in which Apple's then-flagging fortunes led to LaCie being acquired by Quantum and subse- @DR-R800$®a20x quently resold) by building high-quality Fram: LaCie
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Setting up the unit on a Windows or Mac happen with this (or virtually any) drive, the PC was no p Note, however, that the LaGie drive's hardware design and excellent CD-writing software (in our opinion, the very drive Ls a SCSI device and, thus, requires either a Mac or a Windows 95, 98 or Nlbest on the market) will minimize the grief.
puter ads, you may also encounter a tech- scratched (accidental damage notwithnology called CD-RW, which stands for CD-Rewritable. As the name implies, CDRW discs can be rewritten much like floppy diskettes. Blank CD-RW discs are more expensive than blank CD-R media. Most
more people can afford them. However, CD-RW drives will also function as a CDbefore you run out and buy one, there are R unit. The number one advantage of CD-R is a few things you need to know. price. Discs are relatively inexpensive, (as low as $1) and can store up to 650MBof Advantages information. Another plus is security, and vflnacfvantages of osinfl Cgf-R The technology we are covering in this article is referred to as CD-R, which stands for CD-Recordable. When you are out shopping, or browsing through com-
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standing), which protects the recorded information, This makes the CD a great candidate
for long term storage. CDs can be used for digital publishing, catalogues, software distribution, data archiving and
backup, audio, video, multimedia, and more. And assuming you buy quality dues and take care of them, they can last up to 100 years= at least that's the claim
made by some manufacturers {although most concede environmental pollution is likely to affect the CDs' polymexs well
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Tips for successful CD recording Continued from page SS On the down side, data can be written to a CD-R but not erased or rewritten (there are, however, some workarounds such as Direct CD or multisession recording, discussed later in this article). So if you make a mistake, you' ll have to write the data to another part of the disc or onto a new disc. In addition, CDs can sometimes crash during recording, mak-
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the scale, Plextor is considered to be the Rolls Royce of CD writers but it is also one of the most expensive. SCSI, IDE or parallel? As to which is better, SCSI or IDE, you may not n otice much difference these days. SCSI is still a better choice in some
cases, but in others IDE can outperform
SCSI. If you only intend to use your CD writer wit h o n e c omputer, you could ing part or all o f t h e CD unusable. choose either. Portable computer users, or However, there are steps you can take to those wanting an external drive, might minimize this eventuality. also consider a parallel port-connected drive. But if you want to use it with both How to choose a CD writer a Macintosh and a Windows PC, SCSI is Before you even look into buying a CD the right choice. writer, it's important to consider if it's the A few years ago, SCSI was the best right solution for y our storage require- choice for data transfer, as it was extremely ments. If you need to store 100 MB or less low on its CPU usage levels. An IDE system at a t i m e , a Z i p d r i v e , a n L S 120 of four or five years ago would often exceed (SuperDrive), or their equivalents would be CPU usage levels of 72 percent when writadequate. On the other end, if you have ing a CD. gigabytes of data to be stored, a tape drive Another potential problem is buffer might be a better option. That amount of underrun. It t ypically occurs when the data would require several CDs, which computer encounters an u n e xpected could create a storage problem of its own. delay in receiving data while writing as it However, if you' re into multimedia, graph- might if a network connection was temic design, photo manipulation, game play- porarily unavailable or a CPU or hard i ng, o r d o w n loading f i le s f r o m t h e drive was busy. If the buffer empties an Internet, then a CD writer is an attractive underrun occurs and you' ve got what is solution. essentially a dead CD because you can' t There is a wide variety of CD writers on write an y m o r e i n f o r mation t o i t. the market and an entry-level price of $350 However, buffer underrun is now largely to $450 will get you a decent drive. Some a problem of the past, so long as you recommended manufacturers in this price have a good system. range are Sony, Acer, Hewlett-Packard, When you buy an internal CD writer, I Yamaha and Mitsumi. On the other end of recommend you have it p r ofessionally
installed unless you are experienced in upgrading PCs. I would also recommend buying a new CD writer as they have corrected some of the problems that plague older drives.
or workplace is in an old building where the supply of electricity fluctuates. The best protection against this is an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) device — the bigger the better — with its own indepen-
Hardware requirements
dent power source, which will keep your system running when your regular power
With a PC, a good minimum requirement for an internal IDE drive is a system with a 100 MHz Pentium CPU and 64 MB of RAM. For an external parallel port drive, the minimum requirement would be a 100 MHz Pentium CPU with 32 MB of RAM. And if you plan to use SCSI, it will even work with a 75 MHz Pentium CPU with 16 MB of RAM, Newer CD writers only use about 23 percent of the processing power of the CPU, which is a drastic drop from the 72 percent or higher of a few years
ago. If yo u
source fails. Such a system costs about
$120. With the minimum hardware requirements, transfer of data is fast enough to record a CD from data contained on media in another devic~ such as a cartridge in a Jaz drive — although when you actually write the CD, the software will create a temporary file on the fastest hard drive, rather than taking the risk of going to a potentially slower drive. The software will then write the data to the CD.
h ave a s lower system,
installing a SCSI card is a good idea as it won't require any horsepower from your machine. The practical minimum requirements for installing a CD writer on a Macintosh
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If you' re just starting out, I recommend Adaptec Easy CD Creator or the Adaptec Toast s o ftware f o r t h e M ac i n tosh.
Approximately 90 percent of all the CD system are a Quadra or a Centris (an 040 writers on the market come with this soft' processor or better) with 32 MB of RAM. If you have an external SCSI writer, it' s important to note the potential for data loss if your total daisy chain of peripheral cables is longer than IS3 cm (6 ft.). It's especially important not to use the
computer or open any applications while the CD is being written. Doing so may cause the buffer to be completely emptied before it can be refilled which could crash the CD. A sturdy power supply is also rec-
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ware for Windows 95/98 or Macintosh. If you use Windows NT, however, you' ll have
to buy the Adaptec Easy CD Creator Deluxe package, which costs about $150, Another CD writing option is the Adaptec Direct CD Wizard, which assigns a drive letter to the CD writer, giving you the ability to save data as you would with a floppy diskette-
drag and drop. With the Adaptec Easy CD Creator software you open an Explorer-like interface Continued on page99
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Bx20x drive, incidentally, includes a switch one error in 20 discs recorded with Easy CD Creator running under Windows 98, and to set termination on or off, as required. And what is termination in this context? even then, the error didn't cause any data Well, imagine that the chain of SCSI cables loss. We tested the drive successfully under connecting the various devices to your computer has a signal that careens down the wire Windows 2000 beta 3, too. Although the from device to device. If the last section of Easy CD Creator package doesn't officially the SCSI chain is not electrically dampened support Windows 2000, Adaptec has released with resistors, the signal hits the last device an unsupported beta version for this OS (see
and, in essence, bounces back, causing con- htlpi/webcheckup.adaptec.corn/ecdc-w!n2k/). fusion in the SCSI chain. This can lead to devices not working properly. Adding a ter-
minator —either a clip~n terminator plug or via a switch, as on this drive — deadens the signal when it hits the end of the chain, solv-
ing the problem.
Umitationsand cost per megabyte As mentioned earlier, this drive does not support CD-RW media. However, CD-R discs are still less than half the price of the cheapest CD-RW discs we could find ($4 per disc at Costco). At $1.60 per 650 MB CD-R disc, filling them up is not an issue — just throw
Supported OSes Windows 95, 98 and NT are supported by the another disc on the burner. At current prices for media, CD-R repreincluded Adaptec software. Personally, we' ve had better success with the Easy CD Creator sents a nearly ideal storage solution for those package than with DirectCD. DirectCD write
who need to exchange files with other users,
operations, in our tests, failed or exhibited or who want to minimize ongoing costs. other problems about 10 percent of the time. Writing discs with Easy CD Creator, on the Conclusion other hand, was very dose to 100 percent This drive should be on your short list if you are shopping for a speedy and reliable CD reliable. Although Toast is still our favorite CD recorder. We'd also recommend looking at recording package on the Macintosh, we products based on the Ricoh MP6200S (CDwould rate its failure/problem rate at about RW), Plextor PX-R412C and Teac CD-R55S 10 percent, as well. In fact, on our test mechanisms. 0
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color is due to the dye used at the time the CD was manufactured, and is indicative of materials used to manufacture it and its shelf life after recording. A CD made with cyanine will be blue and has an expected shelf life of 50 years. A CD made with phtalocyanine will be gold, has a low light sensitivity and is expected to last for up to 100 years. Green CDs have a relatively short shelf life of 25 years. Your CD writer is colorblind, so figuring out which brand of CD-R media is best for you is a matter of trial and error and your storage requirements.
Continued from page91 and move files into it, much like a preset shopping list. When you' ve organized your files, you tell it to write the contents of the list, instead of having to write each file or folder individually. Toast is the Mac equivalent of Easy CD Creator and is excellent when you have to select multiple files. With it you bring all your files into one application and drop them as a whole onto the CD.
About multisesslou Multisession is a technology that allows you to write to the same CD multiple times — as
long as there is still space on the disc. (Note. Ceneral haudllug precautious this is not the same as rewriting.) To do this, Hold discs by the edge, being sure not to you simply leave the CD with an open session option, which allows you to put more data on the CD at a later time. Both Adaptec
touch the surface. Keep the disc free from dust and fingerprints. If the disc does get d irty, dean it w i t h c anned air. If y ou
Easy CD Creator and Toast have a multises- need to wipe the disk, use a use a lint free sion function. cloth (lens cleaner) and a cleaning liquid made for CDs. When wiping the CD, Verifying CDs wipe outward from the centre to the The software mentioned above allows you edge, never in a circular motion as this to verify CDs — i.e. check the discs for may grind the debris deeper and damage r ecording e r r ors — on bot h
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Macintosh systems. If errors are present the problem and you can take steps to cor- CDs need to be stored in jewel cases or rect it. Verifying CDs is a good practice. Verifying the contents of a disc takes about as long as recording the contents.
temperature for CDs is 15-25 degrees history. But you can still recycle it. Celsius.
Haudliug precautions after writing When labeling a CD, do not write on the surface with a hard tipped pen or pencil. Use a water-based pen containing no chemical solvents, which could damage the disc, Write only on the protective surface. If you plan to use labels, they must be perfectly adhered to th» disc. Bubbles or creases will create an imbalance when the disc is being read, and cause tracking prob-
lems and possibly noisy spin-ups. If the label is improperly adhered, do not attempt to remove it as you may damage the disc. If you plan to silkscreen a design
multiple CD holders called caddies. These are your best insurance against scratches. Avoid storing CDs in a stack without any protection. Store them away from direct
record CDs. Before owning a CD writer, I
used aJaz drive to store data. However, once I'1 tried a CD writer, I sold my Jaz drive, I encourage you to have a look at your storage situation to see if CD recording is in your future. I highly encourage it. Once you see the results, you won't be disappointed. 0
still works, copy its data to your system or
another disc immediately. If you scratch the underside of the disc, you' ve etched the polycarbonate (plastic). While this is not as serious as scratching the label side, it part of the disc. Error correction will take care of small scratches, but larger ones could cause disruption, creating audible glitches or CD-ROM driver errors. If this happens, copy the data to a new disc.
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About those colors sunlight and avoid excessive heat and What to do with crashed CDs When you shop for blank CD-R discs„you'll humidity, which could cause warping or If your CD crashed during writing and it find that they come in various colors. The condensation. The recommended storage isn't possible to recover the data, the disc is
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(This is not essential if the drive Web site regarding that operating system's working with disk-based mass - storage on Programs>Make Startup Disk. is not going to be your boot drive, but inability to access drives larger than 8.4 GB. computers, we were utterly content with disk Because we purchased an OEM (original doesn't hurt, in any case; the system files Windows users with a computer that has a readrives that stored a couple of hundred kiloonly take a few hundred kilobytes.) The sonably recent BIOS won't have a problem, and bytes — they were so much better than the equipment manufacturer) drive, it caine N command tells the system that you FAT32 largely alleviates the need to partition the tape drives we'd used previously! And then in a simple anti-static bag, with no manuals or cables. So we first had to get the want to name the volume. Answer Yee to available space into smaller logical drives. came the day I bought my first hard driv~ If your computer does not support required cable, which was an IDE cable. the Are yousure?prompt. After it is finit must have weighed about 20 pounds, and Your system may already have one ished, you will be prompted to give the UDMA/66, you can either use the drive with stored a whopping 20 MB! And here we are, volume you' ve just created a name. Give a standard 40-pin IDE cable as a UDMA/33 on the day I' ve just purchased my latest hard installed that is not being used. You may it a short alphanumeric name, for exam- drive, or you can purchase a UDMA/66 condrive: 13 GB (that's 13 billion characters also need a "Y" splitter to provide the worth of storage) for $260 — about one quarnecessary power to the drive. ple: 13GIG, If the drive you' ve installed is troller card, such as the $90 Ultra66 from Check the Master/Slave jumper and set a second hard drive, you' ll then be able Promise Technology Inc. 0 ter of the price I paid for my 20 MB drive 3 24 accordingly. If your system already has a about 14 years ago. hard drive and an IDE CD-ROM drive, they will usually be configured as Primary Master and Primary Slave, Quantum CR 13.3 CB hard drive respectively. This new hard drive could From: Ouantum therefore be the Secondary Master or http: //www.quantum.corn Secondary Slave, In our case, we' ll set the Street price: $260 jumper to Master and configure it as the Secondary Master. With the power off and the power cable I chose a Quantum CR, a 5,400 RPM drive disconnected, we opened the case, and that delivers decent performance and good inserted the hard drive into one of the compatibility at a low price. Yes, there are Celeron 400Mhz Pentium III - 450MHz drive bays below the floppy drive. You'll faster drives — 7,200 RPM models are increasneed a couple ofscrews(also not supplied Home System Business System ingly common and 10,000 RPM drives are already on the market — but these higher perwith OEM drives) the size of those that Intel Ceieron400MHzCPU Intel PenfiumIII - 4% MHz CPU I6' ATX Mid-TowerCase 19" ATXCase (250Wpower supply) hold your expansion cards in place. formance models generate more heat, higher ECS P6BXT-A+Mainboard ECS P6BX-A+Moiherboard(4408X} Connect the cables, being careful to orinoise levels, and have much higher prices. 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ost, t en oun PowerQuest software recovers infected drive By Steve Quinney
user whose PC had been infected by the
used after a fatal crash or virus attack. Most recovery software is designed to be installed and running up to the point your drive fails, after which you use the software's recovery
ChemnOby.vViru. The virus had unleashed
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However, I had recalled hearing about some new software from Poweguest, the makers of Partition Magic and other disk utilities. The mmpmy daims that the software, Lost Br Found, can recover data from hard drives damaged by vhus attacks or that have been acddentally erased or otherwise rendered Lost gr Found will not "fix" the hard inaccessible. Basically, PoweQuest daims if a hard drive can still spin, there is a good chance drive. However, it will allow you to transfer files to another drive.
Lost Br Found can recover its data.
to save them to one or more drives attached to your computer. Lost Sr Found is a single user product designed to work only on one
computer. For multiple computers, you' ll need to buy multiple copies, or use PowerQuest's Search R Rescue. The program itself is quite small. It boots up from a single floppy, with supplementary files, such as "restore long file names," on a second fioppy. When the program runs, it asks you which drive attached to your computer is damaged and which drive you would
I immediately ran a virus scanning utility on the recovered files and found 97 files corrupted with the Chernobyl virus. The virus had attacked many of the system files from Windows 98. I cleaned the infected files with
an antivirus program and began to move some of the recovered and cleaned files over to the original but newly formatted drive. If
you do this, note that some programs will cease to function properly without all of their resources intact (for example, files located in the system directory will have to
like to transfer the recovered files to. You have a choice of recovering directory structures or single files. I chose to recover the directory structure because of the chance that files located in different directories on the damaged drive have the same fi le name.
be re-installed).
Had I chosen to recover single files, the program would overwrite files with the same name. Since I had no idea how many files were on thedamaged 2.5 GB drive,Iused a 3 GB hard drive to hold the rescued files. I installed the damaged drive into the com-
process took me just a few hours from start to finish. To complete the recovery of the computer, I sent the unit out to have the BIOS chip reflashed, then re-installed the nowdean hard drive. Data recovery services have traditionally been a very expensive prospect, costing any-
I was able to "save" more than 75 percent of the programs with all their files and data after re-installing just a few programs and moving the files over to the "new" drive from the "recovered" drive. This whole
where from hundreds of dollars to thousands to recover lost files from drives. This program would take approximately 12 to 16 minutes did exactly what it claimed it could do for a to recover the files, and when it finished, I mere $70. 0 puter, chose the"recover all files" option and let the program go to work It indicated it
The software is designed to rescue files had a recovery drive with approximately 1.2 This program differs from other data Steve Quinney works InTC/Is MIS department recovery programs in that it is designed to be from the damaged drive and then allow you GB of data on it. • • i
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networking products that have traditionally been reserved for large networks. But now Intel and other manufactur-
ers have introduced models designed and priced for the small business market. I tested a print server and an eight-port 10/100 switch from Intel's InBusiness line. The print
Why would you want to use a print server? It allows you to situate your printers virtually anywhere in the office — you aren't limited to placing them right beside your computers. Also, a single connection to the network will
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server makes network printing more flexible instaiiation pointers and convenient, and the switch makes most
There are several points that merit special
local area networks (LANs) noticeably faster. attention. The cable you use between the Both are priced to be attractive to small businesses, although there are competitive models from other manufacturers that are even
Print Station and hub or switch should be Category 5, regardless of the speed of your network. The cable from the printer to Print cheaper. Station port should be stamped "1284 comThe Intel InBusiness Print Station is a pliant" and should be no longer than 2 m (6 very small device that is under 5 cm high (2 ft.). In principle, printers shouldn't be conin.) and has a surface area somewhat greater nected to computers with cables longer than than a CD. It has two parallel ports, a single this, but they often are, usually without any
RJ45 port, and an external power adapter. problems. You may choose to disregard You connect the power adapter, plug it into
a jack in the wall, connect the printer (or printers) to it, then install some software on each workstation that will b e using the printer. The Print Station can connect at 10 or 100 Mbps, depending on the speed of the port on the hub or switch you' re using. With auto-sensing hardware, you' ll get speeds of 100 Mbps. The Print Station supports networked computers running Windows 95/98, or NT, but not those using earlier versions of Windows or DOS.
either or both of these guidelines; doing so doesn't guarantee printing problems, but it does increase their likelihood. Incidentally, most printer cables are not 1284 compliant. Such cables are about four times as expensive as more standard cables. It's your call. Once the printer and network cables are installed, it's time to turn on t h e Print Station. When the status light turns green, you can start configuring individual computers to print to the shared printer attached to the Print Station. The status light can also
The Print Station Setup program checks turn red or amber — both of which indicate for NetBEUI or TCP/IP protocols. If neither is problems. installed, it installs NetBEUI on systems running Windows 9x. On systems running Windows NT 4.0, however, NetBEUI should be installed manually prior to installing the Print Station software. Installation of the Print Station is easy and quick, without any apparent pitfalls (the 'issue of compatible printers is noted below). I found the documentation to be lacking for less-experienced administrators. In fact, the printed documentation is the only problem area I encountered with this product.
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support two printers. In an office environ- Switch is such a piece of equipment. You can ment, users forced to share their printers connect anything to any of its ports; a comwith other networked PCs often find the traf- puter with a 10Base-T or Fast Ethernet card, a fic generated around their desks by people 10Base-T or Fast Ethernet hub, a print server, picking up print jobs distracting and annoy- or even another switch. Auto-sensing 10/100 ing. As well, if their computer runs into a ports mean no configuration is needed.
And now, let's switch to something entirely different. Hubs and switches perform many of the same functions, but the switch is a
Switching provides each user or device with a dedicated channel at 10 or 100 Mbps to the network. The best performance would be realized in the case where users and ports are in a one-tonne relationship, but excellent results can be obtained with a smaller number of switched ports. Even a four-port switch
more intelligent and powerful device.
added to a large LAN would produce a
Consider eight users connected to a 10 Mbps Ethernet hub. This is an example of a shared Ethernet network All users share the bandwidth, which is 10 Mbps. Similarly, in a
noticeable improvement.
problem, or a reboot is necessary, printing is impacted, A print server does away with these annoyances.
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with Fast Ethernet cards connecting to a Fast Ethernet hub, they share 100 Mbps of bandwidth. If each connects to a port of a Fast Ethernet switch, the 100 Mbps are dedicated, and the LAN has a bandwidth of 800 Mbps.
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Estimated street prices are under $500 and larger LAN with three 16-port Ethernet hubs $250, for the switch and print server respecand 40 users, there's still only 10 Mbps of tively. Each delivers excellent value for the bandwidth to be shared. Frequent collisions money, but if your budget is tight and you of packets are inevitable and performance, at can only buy one right now, your particular peak use times, can slow to a crawl. circumstances will guide you to the correct Let's replace the hub in the first example choice, 0 with an eight-port switch and connect each
user to a port. Each user now has 10 Mbps of
For fine-tuning the installation, the printed materials are of little use. A little digging in the help files will reveal some useful tips. For example, it is possible to spool print jobs on a Windows NT server. It offers stepby-step instructions for doing this. Printers that print directly to a hardware port on the computer cannot be used for network printing, and will not work with the Print Station. If you have any doubts about the compatibility of your printer, check out the helpful information available on the Intel Web site.
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an ambitious upgrade to its QuickTime multiinedia architecture for Macs and Windows
PCs in early June. Qislclr Time 4.0 From: Apple http: //www.qulckhme.apple.corn For. Macintosh, 32-bit Windows PCs Pnce: U8$29.95 (Pro), free (download)
In April, Apple i nitially released QuickTime 4,0 as a "public beta" — asneak peek at the software's new functions, which includes the ability to play MP3 audio files. That was followed by an update, posted May 14 on Apple's Web site, that added support
for Intel"s popular lndeo 5 video compressor/decompressor (known as a "codec'), With it, users running QuickTirne 3.0 Pro or better are able to create and playback Indeo 5-encoded video f iles. Th e Q u ickTime
Updater release in Juneupgraded beta users to the final release (if you installed a beta version of QuickTime 4.0, you can update to the
final version by launching the Updater, which is located in the QuickTime Folder). Unfortunately, in beta or final form, QuickTime 4.0 is unable to play MP3 audio
as Sorenson's Broadcaster (a US$199 product
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internet~entric format that downloads a broadcasts such as those enjoyed by PC users small instaBer that subsequently downloads via ShoutCast. QuickTime 4.0 also lacks sup- and installs various optional components. If port for MP3 files encoded with a recently you prefer, a QuickTime 4.0 Full Installer is developed technique called variable bit rate also available on an Apple FTP site at dolt.wise.edu/. (VBR) encoding. Hence, it can't play some ftp://apple. We' ve now had a chance to run through audio files, even if they are playable on the same system with Microsoft's Media Player. many of its QuickTime 4.0's new features. And, unlike Microsoft's player, QuickTime 4.0 Here's what's new and improved: wasn't able to retrieve the missing codec from • Su pport for Flash animations. the Web — it just failed with a blank white • Limited support for MP3 audio (CBR screen. When confronted with the same file, only). the Microsoft player successfully retrieved the • Better full-screen playback performance required decompressor from Microsoft's own (Pro version only). codec repository. An auto-update function is • New Movie Player (now renamed as provided in QuickTime 4.0 that can check QuickTime Player). with an Apple server to see if there is a newer Streaming support. version of the software or a missing codec available — hopefully, Apple will begin to sup- Streamles o support ply these missing pieces. QuickTime 4.0 improves upon the limited Other new additions in QuickTime 4.0 streaming capabilities of version 3.0, with include support for Macromedia Flash ani- support for both fast-start streaming (created mations and so-called "streaming video" by saving a movie with "hints") and true server-based streaming with support for RTP playback — meaning, it can begin to play a large file before it has finished downloading. and RTSP. Although Apple does not support Apple made theannouncement at the NAB streaming from servers running Mac OS, 99 show in Las Vegas, where it also released a third parties have already announced and long-awaited video editing package called shown Mac OS-based servers, such
TribeWorks' iSheII, a free media authoring tool for QuickTime streaming, is also worth checking out We' ve seen a demonstration in which Mac OS X streamed decent-quality video to 50 iMacs using QuickTime 4.0, However,
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f you read American computer magazines, WorfsnarHng, "It's big. It's bad. It's BOLT.' it's hard to miss Aiwa's ads for its new Bolt in his basso pafinu!0. tape drive. Inch-tall capitalized letters in a heavy typeface fairly boom, "10 GIGS. 149 BUCKS." (American bucks, of course.) The
first time I saw it, it nearly knocked me out of my chair.
Still, the sound didn't impinge on perfor-
mance. The external Bolt drive is said to have a maximum backup speed of 25 MB per Belt Orlve
minute under the best of cfxcumstances: that is, there is no BIe compression or other tasks distracting the CPU. After 6ring up Backup
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haven't felt Exec, I immediately backed up my hard in a piece of con- drive's entire data partition: 1.7 GB made up sumer electronic equipment of over 10,000 IHes, The whole thing took an in a long time. This may weH be the
AH of Aiwa's Bolt material —ads, press Am a zingly, the external, ECP parallel-first tape drive that can also be used for kits, Web site — leap out at you in the same port Bolt's outward appliance reflects its weight training. Also in the Bolt box is a slim instruction manual, a 6.6 GB Travan tape (curious, since the Bolt advertising so boldly pmdaims its 10 GB capacity), and Seegate's trusty Backup Exec software. The drive was easy to install I only had to plug it into the paraHel port and instaH the software. It was quick and painless, which
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was good because the manual, which is de appointlngly incomplete in phces, would not have been much help. {In the section 'Inserting and Removing Tapes,' for example, try to fmd out how to remove a tape.) A minor digression here: the included tape, despite the Aiwa ATP-106 part number, is actually a standard Travan tape — aTR-3, to be exact. In fact, the Balt can use Travan TR2 and TR-3 tapes, though they' re rated at 3.2 GB per tape. However, in order to get 6.6 GB out of a tape, you fust have to reformat it
hour and 48 minutes, which works out to about 15.74 MB per minute. I had left the
compmsion on as most people would, but since most of my data fHes use compmsed BIe formats, I only got a 1.01:1 compression ratio. While the Bolt wasn't a speed demon by randomwccess media standanis (I could have burned the same amount of data onto three CD-Rs in less time), it was certainly
quick for a parallel-port tape drive. I also had veri6catton switched off, but later tests con-
Grmed that verifying doubles the total backup time. Rrmtoring the data was a bit qukker, running at about 20 MB per minute. The usual argument for and against tape backups applies here. The slow backup speed, compared to random~ccess devices, is balanced by the low media cost (about 0.6 cents per megabyte). However, the Bolt takes the shag out af the speed issue, «nd the low cost of the drive coupled with the ease of instaHation sweetens the deal. With Aiwa's entry
into the market, the world of tape backups using the Bolt's propnetary formaL just got easier and cheapez 0 While formatting the tape (a seven-hour task), I discovered that the Bolt's designers Emm Townsend(emfu@pohnx.curn)ishackedupun might have taken iis heavy4uty design aes- fape andGO.
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you actually want to use at any given moment. The first problem with power-management systems is they are sometimes pretty
Power-management systems are sometimes pretty stupid and seem incapable of distinguishing between
of non-keyboardrelated tasks and o ne that i s t r u l y inactive. And that' s an important di fference.
a computer that is
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t ems d o t h i s b y putting t h e s e rial port, the hard disk, t he screen or t h e whole computer into suspend mode where little or no power is being used. The idea is that when you subsequently press the power button, the notebook will bloom into life again instantly, and allow you to resume whatever you were doing. In fact, power-management systems often end up shutting down the parts of the computer
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What's inthe Pro version? The QuickTime 4 Pro version sold through Apple's Web site provides an easy to use (i.e., limited) video editor and additional authoring and playback features (described at
http: //wvvw.apple.corn/quicklime/upgrade/), including several that were previously part of the 2.x release's freeware version, such as looping and full-screen playback. Mac downloaders may miss additional options the previous Windows versions of QuickTime never had, such as the now P rovenlySave Movie feature. Indeed, as many Mac users complained about QuickTime 3,0, Apple has basically crippled its freeware version of MoviePlayer and is making you pay for functionality that the old 2.x version provided for free (and still does, if
you saved a copy). Conclusion The new QuickTime Player is a slick-looking but functionally clumsy design, and its links to Internet content are undoubtedly revenue generators for Apple and its "featured partners." We were disappointed that QuickTime 4.0 does not support saving as MP3, or playback of the VBR MP3 files that are increasingly common on the Internet. These files are both smaller and play back with higher quality than CBR files. There is every likelihood they will continue to grow in popularity. We hope Apple addresses this issue, improves the quality of streaming video and adds more codecs in a future release of QuickTime. 0
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Welcome to Linux Inside, a monthly column devoted to tracking what's new and interesting in the Linux world. Unlike the companion training series, Linux for Newbies, Linux Inside is for those of you who already have Linux up and running. So, let's check out what's new and cool in Penguin land.
e most important Linux event of the year has been the release of the Linux
2.2 kemeL The kernel is the engine, or heart, of Linux and is the part that Linus
Torvalds created and continues to work on with his merry band of developers. As you probably know, Linux was named after Linus, who is something of a folk hero to us Linux users.
Kernel releases come in big jumps and little jumps. The changes from Linux 2.0.28 to 2.0.32, for i nstance, were minor. They cleared up a few problems or added a small number of new features. They were mainly update releases. While most of us were using the stable 2.0 series, the kernel development team was
on the box to give it new life.
Here are some of the highlights of Linux • 2.2: • Op t imizations in the kernel will make
Unnx on the desktop In addition to the new Linux kernel, the past year has w i tnessed extraordinary
d evelopments designed t o
b r ing a
Windows- and Mac-like environment to the Linux desktop. Although Linux has had X
Window graphical managers for a long time, the X environments available have tended to be less well-integrated than those for Windows and Macintosh. That's rapidly changing. There are now two competing leadingedge graphical environments for Linux: K Desktop Environment (KDE) and GNU Network O b ject M o d e l E n v i ronment (GNOME). Both have taken attractive features from Windows, Macintosh, OS/2 and
The PCI bus subsystem has been totally NextStep, plus some new ideas, and comr eworked, allowing Linux
t o w o r k bined them into desktop environments that
smoothly with a greater number of hard- even your parents would enjoy using. Linux even faster than before on KDE (httpJ/ww.kde.org) is the more mature ware devices. series. In the spirit of Linux, anyone was free machines with at least 16 MB RAM. of the two, having had a headstart in develto download the experimental kernel at any • Wh ile the Linux 2.0 series provided some • Laptop users will find improved power opment. KDE is now the default graphical management support . stage of its development to try it out, knowSMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) supuser interface (GUI) for Caldera, SuSE and • Parallel port IDE devices are now suping that it would be buggy in spots. port, 2.2 has scaled up the level of SMP Slackware and is offered as an option by Red ported in the kernel. The jump from 2.0 to 2.2, the latest staperformance significantly. If your next Hat. It is also easy to install into Debian. Last ble series, is a major leap. As Linux has PC is going to be a quad-processor • Huge improvements have been made in March KDE received the Ziff-Davis Software support for PCI sound cards. moved from being an underground success honker, rest assured Linux 2.2 will sup• Th ere is support for a number of TV and Innovation of the Year award at CeBIT, the to becoming deployed in corporations, it has port up to 16 processors. world's largest computer trade fair held radio tuner cards. acquired features that allow it to compete • In a d dition to I ntel, Cyrix and AMD annually in Hanover, Germany. • Li n ux continues to be one of the few head to head with some well-known comchips, 2.2 has been ported to Spare, KDE uses the C++based Qt graphics operating systems to support amateur Sparc64, Alpha, Motorola 68K, ARM and mercial operating systems. There are new fealibrary from Troll Tech. This has been a radio. Linux 2.2 adds support for the tures in 2.2 that will also tickle the fancy of Power PC processors. Want to do somecause of philosophical concern for some NetROM and ROSE amateur radio protohome users, hobbyists and g thing with that retired Mac? Pop Linux arners. members of the Linux development comcols. munity because Qt is a commercial product and there were licensing implications that Walt e while Disappointments? One big one is that uni- potentially affected distribution. For this versal serial bus (USB) support did not quite reason Red Hat originally refrained from make it into the 2.2 kernel. It's still being distributing KDE, preferring to support the Intif...Cali'.I'Oi™.'-':;"~, ~-"':"~.'=":.'- '- Intel® Pentium® Illlll worked on and will be released in the near totally open-source GNOME project. Processor-Based System Troll Tech (http: //www.troll.no) subsequentfuture in a 2.2 update. There is still no abilily adjusted its licensing for Qt. It is now Intel Pentium II'CPU w/512KInt. L2 Cache ty to read OS/2 file systems, though Linux 'hiht' legal to make KDE and Qt available on CDAbit BH6 Intel 440BX AGPSet MB 2.2 can read Microsoft NTFS and FAT32 parAcgr-.NlXSLtnt&'40LX'ABP8et $~8,'",:~;,."-", ROM free of charge. Beginning with release working on the 2.1 experimental kernel
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The Linux 2.2 kernel was released offi-
KDE is a thoroughly contemporary,
to customers. You can either manually install the new kernel into your existing Linux setup or update your system with a commercial upgrade. New distributions based on 2.2 include Red Ha t L i n u x 6 . 0 , C a ldera O pen Linux 2.2, SuSE Linux 6 . 1 and Slackware Linux 4.0. At the time of this writing Debian GNU/Linux is still 2.0-based with
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items: a calculator, yellow sticky notes, simple text editor, organizer, address book, fax viewer and, of course, games. There is even a kpilot utility for synchronizing Palm handheld computers with korganizer.
savers, desktop shortcuts and built-in mini-
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to settle in. If you have an important production server running on the 2.0 k ernel
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series, you should probably wait a few in the development community and months before even thinking of upgrading. O'Reilly R Associates (http J/Www.oreilly.corn/), For your personal desktop machine, how- the publisher of h igh-quality books on ever, you usually have less to worry about Unix, has recently released Programming and can jump on the new release as soon as
you like. Hats off to Linus and the development team for taking Linux to the next level of
sophistication!
with Qt to help programmers learn the environment. GNOME (httpJ/www.gnome.org) is part of t he G N U Pro j ec t (F r e e Software
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Autocomplete automatically added "Arts Ltd.,s thinking that I wanted to type in my fter its long-awaited release, Microsoft coinpany name. Fortunately, it seems to officially launched Office 2000 in have learned, Now, when I type NGraeme " it early June. I looked at the Premium pops up a tool tip containing my first and Edition of the suite and found it to be stable last name, indicating that, by pressing Enter, with some very powerful features for pubit will Autocomplete that text string. By simlishing to the Web. ply continuing to type, you can also override The Premium Edition tested included this feature. FrontPage and PhotoDraw 2000 — which are The program, which i n c ludes — and both excellent programs. requires — Internet Explorer 5.0 for some of The company claims system requireits functions, allows you to open Office Mi r Of t .-.ments for the suite haven't changed since documents via the Edit button on Internet Office 97 — but then again, 16 MB of RAM Explorer's toolbar. It also allows the openwasn't a realistic minimum memory coning of Web documents in the application figuration for Office 97, either. I tested in which they were created, or in other Office 2000 o n a v a r i ety o f s y stems suitable applications on your system. (For equipped with 40 MB to 160 MB of RAM, example, on our system, a Word document a nd CPUs ranging f ro m a 1 6 6 M H z extra RAM if your system is running on a saved as HTML could be reopened in Word, P entium t o a r a n g e o f C e l eron a n d minimum supply.) FrontPage or Notepad.) Right-clicking a Pentium II models — and even a dual-CPU The program's Autocomplete feature may document and choosing Edit opens the 450 MHz monster running Windows 2000 . seem intrusive at first, and you' ll probably document in the application that created beta 3, a l l w i t h r e a sonable r esults. spend some time using the Undo command it. (Windows 2000 adds a context menu Performance, however„was poor on a sys- (or Control+Z keyboard equivalent) to option to Open With as well; Windows 9.x tem with only 32 M B o f m emory. (At unravel its "help.' For example, when typing users can open documents with a choice of today's low prices, it is worth investing in my last name at the top of this article, Continued on page 107 ilfice ecol'
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site, the book quickly examines the types of Web cams available and how to find the one best suited to your needs and budget. Designed to help both Macintosh and PC users alike, it also takes a detailed look into downloading and setting up popular Web c er n s o f t ware l i k e M ic r o soft NetMeeting, BoxTop Software's iVisit, and M irabilis Software's I CQ . T h e b o o k subject, especially if you are a beginner and includes a quick teur of Web cern sites' are eager to get things going quickly. The around the world, devotes a chapter to book provides a friendly approach to the interviews with people who have already topic, and would make a good gift to someset up Web cams, and explores how Web one who has just received an Internet-ready cams can be lots of fun. digital camera. 0
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quickly grew and expanded into other venues, and now sells just about everything under the sun. If you are selling or looking to buy something, this is probably the first place you should check out. Just remember all of the prices at auctions are in American dollars.
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your Web pages. Used more subtly, you can also use it to either gradually space out the text on your text page, making it run longer so it appears to contain more text. The LINE-HEIGHTproperty can take one of three values: the default NORMAL value (which is equivalent to single-spacing), a specific height using a measurement value, or a percentage value that is relative to the
displayed font's height. If want the text on your Web page to look as if it has been double-spaced, it is best to use the LINE-HEIGHTproperty in conjunction with the FONT-SIZE property (this property was discussed in detail in an earlier article in this series). This way, you can simply set the exact size for the font of the text to be displayed, and then double that value for LINEHEIGHT in order to get the desired effect. The following code shows you how you can do this: ='FONT-SIZE: 10PT > (BODY STYLE <P STYLE='LINE-HEIGHT:20PT;">The text in this
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answering machine (call screening, if you plugs if you want to use the MessageSaver rationalized by the fact that all the compolike), and remote messageaccess aswith a through your sound card. If these addiTional nents of this systemappear to be of very high regular answering machine. All the features purchases are mentioned anywhere on the quality and backed by a 10-year warranty. 0 can be accessedthrough an illuminated keypad on the MessageSaver itself so you can, for example, listen to your messages without booting up the computer.
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hardware decoder aud is stfil your best bet. The only other drawback to the Voodoo3 is its lack of a shipping Open GL ICD drivex Don't be fooled by prerelease reports such as those from OpenGL that crowed "3Dfx will ship their first branded Voodoo boards with
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so they don't have to pay a royalty on every CPUs. 3df'x reportedly plans to be shipping an formance,goodsoftware bundle. put quality.) card shipped). Expect to pay about US$10 for Open GL ICD by the time you read this. But Casa: UmlledOpenGLsupport Driver version is The Voodoo3's image quality in 3D gam- the shipping/handling/CD fees. Apparently, for straight ahead gaming, the Voodoo3 1.61, and afewglitches should beexpected. ing is very good, but not great. This is because the hardware assistance doesn't extend to sup- rocks. We think it's the best choice in gaming it does not support 32-bit "tmecolor" full- port for motion compensation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a dedicated graphics cards, bar none. Q screen display modes. It uses some internal This is the fastest graphics card we' ve trickery to deliver an image the company says ever tested, and one of the least troublesome. is equivalent to 22-bit color, which certainly Look at these 3DMark 99 benchmark results: isn't bad, but in a side-by-side comparison with one of the competitors listed above in 32bit mode, you%I definitely notice the differ3dfx Vondoo3 nVldla TNT2 ATI Rage Fury
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system was created by Finnish graduate student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in 1991. Torvalds created the Linux
growing operating system on the kernel because he liked Unix but couldn' t planet. Linux is everywhere these afford a commercial veaion. He drew togethdays: it's being used by businesses, schools, stu- er a band of developea from around the supervision. Critically important parts of the
and the latest release, 2.2, positions it to challenge Red Hat as the leading distro for home users CaMera indudes a lightweight version of Partition Magic that helps you
rest of the operating system came from the
install Linux onto an existing Windows
Free Software Foundation GNU Project, the XFree86 Project, and various other projects.
95/98 machine. Furthermore, you can perform the entire Linux installation directly from Windows. If you want the easiest way into Linux, this is it. The 2.2 release includes Wordperfect 8, Star Office 5, KDE and the Linux 2.2 kernel It even sets up
dents, writers, sdentists, Web monkeys, programmers, graphic designers, and Dilbert's mom. A I'ree operating system that has grown from its hobbyist roots to deployment in major corporations, Linux now has an estimated 10 miHion users worldwide. If you' ve been tempt-
world and they have been working on the
ed to rtyout Linux for yourself, stay tuned, this
Linux combines the seasoned, mature features of Unix with support for modern hardware such as Zip drives, color printers, sound cards, Voodoo cards, PalmPilots, and
article is the first of TCPs new "Linux for Newbies" series, and is designed to help you
Linux kernel ever since, under Torvalds'
get Linux up and running. The series will lead you through setting up CD writers. One of the distinguishing feaand operating Linux on an Intel or Intelxompatible PC. Along the way you' ll leam enough basic Unix commands to administer your Linux system. To follow along with this series, you' ll need a PC you can use to run Linux. The
minimum system for character-based Linux (similar to plain DOS) is a 386 with 8 MB RAM, a 100 MB hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive. To use Linux comfortably with a graphical user interface (GUI), your PC should have at least 32 MB RAM and a fast processor, preferably a Pentium-level chip. Linux can coexist with DOS/Windows, OS/2, or Windows Nr. We' ll dig into the details next time, but plan-
The full, commerdal 6.0 release indudes directly from Red Hat or from your favorite the Star Office 5 suite of office applications, computer shop. 0 GNOME, KDEand theLinux2.2 kernel.I'll be using Red Hat 6.0 to illustrate this series. Gene Ilbum (njo@interlog.corn) is aToronto-based Caldera OpenLinuxis aho well supported IT manager, musician and writer who operates a
WordPerfect for you as a bonus. Very slick
tures of Linux is the amount of choice given to the user. There are at least a dozen GUI
and impressive. SuSE Linux, based in Germany, is the top
choices, ranging from simple interfaces to
distro in Europe and hasbeen rapidly gaining acceptance in North America. lt's a
the slick new KDE and GNOME environments. Linux is highly valued for its speed and stability — it's fast and it rarely crashes. Linux, which is named after Torvalds, is
normally pronounced lln-ix or lin-ux (as in
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partition for a reasonably well-appointed graphical workstation installation, and 1 GB or 2 GB if you want the kitchen-sink veaion. With disk drives being so cheap these days, you may wish to install a second drive just to experiment with Linux.
Clleoalng e lBstllbNtlen Although Linux is free (you can download all the parts and put it together youaelf), it's more
convenient to pumhase a ready-made distribution on CD. Each "distro" has a slightly different flavor and texture. Once they' re up and
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running, they' reall pretty much the same, but
But first, a disclaimer. Linux is not for everyone. Linux can be challenging, frustrating and a bit too technical for some users. When
each distribution has different installation,
maintenance, andupgradeprocedures. They also vary in the amount, nature, and
acterized by a simple, straightforward, menu4riven setup. It's one of the oldest of the distros and the one that feels the most like traditional Unix. Its clear setup and simple approach to administration make it
a very satisfying distro to install and run. Slackware maintains a good Web site and has ahvays offered high quality. Its prind-
pal drawback isthat it has no easyupgrade path to new veaions. The latest release, 4.0, indudesKDE andtheLinux 2.2 kernel.
you start using Linux, you are embarldng on currency of the free software they indude. • D ebian GNU/Linux, the only non<ommeKial distribution, is a sophisticated disa major study. If patience and a willingness Some distrosindude "personal use"versionsof commerdal software, such as Wordperfect 8 for Linux. Every distro offers well over 1,000 free Windows and Macintosh. If you enjoy com- proglalll5, The major distros are: Red Hat Linux, puting challenges, however, Linux offers the Caldera OpenLinux, SuSE Linux, Slackware biggest bang for the buck — and the most fun. to leam new things are not among your stronger qualities, you should stick with
on Linux. If Linux is not canted in your local
store, you can order the distros directly from
Unfortunately, Debian GNU/Linux is a
the companies via the Web, or from online dis-
diamond in the rough. It's the most chal-
to $50 or more. For this series I'm recom- count stores such as CheapBytes or Linux mending the $1.99 special. Systems Labs. What ia Unnxy If Linux were a motor vehicle„ it could be a Volkswagen Beetle, a sleek Mercedes convertible, a Chrysler mini-van, a 18-wheeler Mac
Which distro should you pick? The best guideline is this: if you have a friend who is experienced with Linux, use the same distro he or she is using. Getting help will be much easier that way.
gen«e of a number of independent, grassroots Internet-based projects. The kernel, or engine, of the operating
lenging Linux to install for inexperienced usea so I In not reconnnendlng lt to newbies at this time. Debian has been selected by Corel Corp. for its forthcoming Corel Desktop Ijnux. Once Core) has smoothed
over the rough edgesof installation, we' ll revisit this release.
If you' re onyour own, herearesomerough
truck, or an all-purpose, ail-terrain Hummer depending on how you set it up. There is no guidelines about specific distros: operating system anywhere that can match it • Red Hat Linux is themostwidely useddlsfor versatility. tro. It's well supportedand there are several third-party booksdevoted to it. The curMore spedfically, Linux is a free Unixrent release is 6.0. Red Hat is a very good compatible multitasking, multiuser operating system that resulited from the conver-
Internet, in the spirit of the FreeSoftware Foundation. The Debian release is very c arefully crafted, w it h t h e be s t update/upgrade procedure of all the distros. The latest 2.1 release does not include KDE, GNOME, or the Ltnux 2.2 kernel, though these can be added.
So, all you need to participate is an avail- Linux, and Debian GNU/Linux . Thesedistros able PC with enough free disk space, a Linux are frequently sold at computer storesand are installation disc, and an attitude. Oh„yes — a frequently induded on CDs sold with books good connection to the Internet will really help. The cost of obtaining a Linux CD will fall somewhere between $1.99 plus shipping
tro favored by many Linux veterans. It is maintained by a group of volunteers on the
Cetkiny ready In the next instalhnent, we' ll look at the mechanics of instaHing Linux. If you want to
follow along step by step, get a copy of the Red Hat 6.0 for $1.99 fmm CheapBytes. You choice overall, and is frequently the pick of ran split the cost of shipping if you purchase professionalssetting up Internet servers. It multiple copies with a friend or two. If you' d also makes a fine peaonal workstation. prefer a version that indudes a printed manInstallation is straightforward and easy. ual and extra software, pick up a boxed set
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calculate salaries and other financial data are more likely than not to contain inac-
rect calculations. This means that t he documents we us e every day t o
This inonth I' ll look at the types of errors worksheets can contain and some of the
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curacies.
tools and design philosophies you can use to worksheets can contain. Some are easier than help ensure that your worksheets are error others to locate and fix. free. Syntox errors Types of errors Syntax errors are mistakes in applying the There are three basic types of errors that language of the program you are using. For example if yo u use a f o rmula like •
=add(a4:a20) you' ll get a s y n tax e r ror because the key word you' re using in the formula is wrong. It should be =sum(a4:a20). Syntax errors, as annoying as they are, are easy to find and fix simply because the program usually finds them for you. For exarn-
ple, try typing =add(a4:a20) into a cell in Excel and you' ll see the cell d i splays BYNAME? indicating that Excel doesn't recognize the text in the formula.
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A run time error is only detected when you actually run the program. For exainple, if you have a worksheet that contains a formula that performs a division based on the contents of two other cells, it will result in a run time error if the divisor cell at any time contains a zero. This may only happen intermittently or under circumstances that may be difficult to predict when you are
designing the worksheet. Run time errors are harder to find and fix than syntax Loelc errors Logic errors are the hardest of errors to
locate and fix because there will generally not be anything visibly wrong with the
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one you want. The correct formula is =(1+1P/o)'86.
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sheets is by making rough checks. You may have done these at school when yov began complex cakulations by first making a rough calculation of w hat t h e a nswer
should be. You then made a more accurate cakulation and tested to see if the answer
you got was about what yov thought you would get, For example, a mark up of 12.5 percent on a garment costing $175 is a little more than 10 percent, so say it's about $20. Your rough estimate would make the sale price of the garment around $195 (it' s actually $196.88). If you made this calcu-
lation using the logic error noted above, the result wovld be a s elling price of $175.10, which is well off the figure calcu-
lated in the rough check figure and would indicate something was wrong with th e
formula. Rough checks are "quick and dirty calcu-. lations" — they are meant to give you a rough answer that you can compare to the spreadsheet "answer," Not all rough checks are as easy to make as the one I just used but you can often check complex formulae by using simple
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figures and checking that the results are what you expect. If the simple figures work then there is a good chance more complex ones will too. Using known data is another way of checking complex formulae. For example if you know that an amount of $X invested for
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Keeping constant data visible is perhaps the easiest way to track errors. For example, if you addstate and local taxes to items in an invoice you can eliminate some errors by placing each of the tax rates in a cell by itself and refer to the cell in the formula rather than placing the rate in the formula. If you
place 7.S percent in cell A4 you might calculate tax on an invoice using the formula =InvoiceTotal'A4 rather than =InvoiceTotal'7.5%. Constants buried inside formulae are hard to find and to check for accuracy or alter if the situation changes in the future. If you place constant values in a cell by themselves and
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click OK. In Quattro Pro use Insert, Name, Cells, type the name, select Add and select
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the cell and dick OK. In Lotus 1-2-3, select Range, Name, type a namefor the range and
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come to the conclusion that it cakulates the state tax payable on a total figure. If you look at the second formula you can make that assumption from the wording of the calculation. Using "range" names like these make your formulae easier to read and understand. In Excel 97, you can name any cell in a workbook by choosing the cell and selecting Insert, Name, Define, then type in a name for
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You can paste a list of names and the ranges they refer to into a worksheet by moving to a blank area of the work-
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sheet that has plenty of blank cells below it and one free column to its right. In Excel, select Insert, Name, Paste, then Paste List. You will get a tw~ l u m n list with the names in the first column and the cells they refer to in the second. In Quattro Pro, select Insert, Block Names and select Output, and click OK and Close.
Chechlnlf your data need to understand the difference between is called absolute addressing and it's an Excel 97 has a neat function to help you absolute and relative cell addressing so you important concept to understand and use track down problems when you suspect particularly where you are placing there are errors in your data. It allows you to specify what is valid data for a given
constant data in a separate area of a worksheet and referring to these
range, then ask Excel to find and mark any
cells in your formulae.
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cell in the range that contains invalid data. To do this, select the area you want to check and select Data, Validate, select the Settings
Develop ahealthy distrust If you have the attitude that some-
Audit tools
tab and select the type of data allowed from You can see the data that contributes to a the Allow dropdown list. Depending on the formula by using your spreadsheet program's type of data you have selected, the dialog audit tools. This is particularly handy when will alter and allow you to set other paraa formula returns an incorrect result — you meters for that data so you build a profile of can quickly see where it is getting its data what data is allowed or what is valid. You from and which other cells are relying on it can set different definitions of what is valid
where in your worksheet is an error you' re more likely to be aware of potential problems and to look out for the possibility of a mistake or two. On the other hand if you take
for their inputs.
even the most obvious blunders.
the attitude that your spreadsheet is
problem-free you' re less likely to see
data for different areas of your worksheet.
Too many users believe implicitly in the accuracy of worksheet
When you are done, select OK. You can then set Excel to find any data that doesn't comply w ith y o u r s p ecifications b y =F2tSweTaa
information — they seem to think
thatbecause a computer produced
selecting Tools, Auditing, select . Show Auditing Toolbar and
the information it must be accurate. The statistics prove this assumption
select the Circle Invalid Data but-
is wrong — and if you put some of these tips to work in your worksheets, your work is more likely to
ton. Any cell containing data that does not match the parame- Planing eenelent dele enehas Inn rates In n separate ornaof ters you have set will be circled in red allowing you to check and your wedreheefmalus II eneler lo eee,cheekendnpdele.
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edit it . Th e C lear Validation Circles button will remove the can copy them correctly. When you refer to Next month we' ll look at some of the teameditcircles from your data. the cell A2 in a formula in cell A3 you aren' t ing optfons in yourword processor that youcan use
Addressing issues If you have a number of formulae to create across a row or down a column you should create them by copying them rather than building each one individually. Every time you write a formula you run the risk of making a mistake — if you write each one sepaUsing Bre lndlUng bulbar hnfionn yen ean frees fheee rately then a mistake will be hardprovide fhe lnpnl lnlo formulae. er to track and eliminate as each ln Excel 97, select the cell that contains formula will need to be individually checked. the formula you want to test and select Alternately, if you write one formula and Tools, Auditing, then Show Auditing Toolbar. copy it, even if it is wrong you' ll duplicate it Select the Trace Precedents button to see the so many times that, with luck, it will be more cells that provide data to the formula. Select obvious and tracking it wfil be easier because the Trace Dependents button to see where it will be repeated in every copy. Fix one verthe data from this cell is used in subsequent sion of the formula and you can copy it to formula. In Quattro Pro you can do the same replace all the other Incorrect copies. If you' re copying formulae that include thing using Tools, Auditing, Trace Precedents or Trace Dependents. references to constant values, then you' ll
really referring to cell A2 but rather to its position in relation to cell A3 (one cell above it), So, if you copy the formula A2i1
whenmorethan one person Isworldng ona document. HelenBmdleycanbe contacted at helen©helenbrndley.corn.
from cell A3 to cell B3 it will read =82+1 (try it if you don't believe it). The only way this
can be explained is to say that the formula in cell A3 is a formula that says "take the cell one above this cell and add 1 to it."
When this formula is copied to cell B3 it sfill reads the same way, if it is copied to cell Z100 it will appear as =Zggr1 and it still
reads the same way. Often you won't want the cell reference to change and you may always want to multiply something by the contents of a cell. In this case you can fix the formula so the cell reference to cell A4, for example,
will always read A4 if you refer to it as $A$4. So, for example, if you write the formula 4A$4 2 in a cell and copy it, it won' t matter where you copy it to — it will alway". read 4A$4'2. This form of cell referencing
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of the images appeared in the computer's the floppy adapter with full read/write comimage preview windows much more quick- patibility, albeit with 1.4 MB drives only. ly. We did not test the USB option, but preImage quality from the MX-2700 was sumably, it would provide similar perfor- good, although imagesare degraded by a fair mance to the 115Kbps serial transfers of amount of noise. This waseven more evident standard serial cables. in a 200 percent closeup of one image, which For sending pictures to a Mac, you can revealed a moderate amount of unsharp use the included Mac serial cable — unless masking built into the camera's capture ciryour Mac is one of the newer models that cuitry. doesn't include a serial port. Fuji also makes The camera provides four special effects an optional floppy disk adapter that accepts. in addition to a number of resolution
per image. Interestingly, although the company's pressrelease at that time said the camera supported universal serial bus (USB) as a method for transmitting images to a person-
al computer, it turns out that this feature is optional. The unit includes a color LCD capable of viewing up to nine images at a time. The display has a 2.5x magnification feature
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NX-2700 From:Fuji Estimatedprice: US$900 Proc: Highresolution output froma remarkably compact cameraUnitfeatures2-inch LCDscreen, builtin flesh,digihrlzoom,macromode, PGconnectiviiy, analogvideoout, andusesSmertMedia storage. Cons:Can'tturn offon-screenstatus readords, which makesthis unit lesssuitable than somefor videocon-
good for up to 250 shots when the LCD is tumed off, and 80 shots when it is on. In our tests, wetransferred picturesfrom the camera to a PC Windows via the induded serial cable and TWAIN~mphant ferenclng. USBconneclivliy option costs extra. transfer and viewingsoftware.The packagealso indudes Adobe PhotoDeluxe sofiware, which provides numenes imag~g p ossibilities. The camera records images on a removImages taken at the camera's highest able SmartMedla card that can be upgraded resolution, 2.3 megapixels, take quite a Cuing, going, goneI Continued from page111 9. lire to Play • An auction site aimed
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Railway unveils interactive timetable According to Matthias Pankert, Philips with the caller until it understands what is system went live late last year, but now the full system has come onstream, allowing Speech Processing's program director, needed. Because the system wasdesigned for natcallers to request instant train timetable Speech Mania is a s oftware package information. designed to allow people to carry out a ural language appliaitions, Philips says it is As a result, Telia says, callers are experi- genuine intelligent dialog with a comput- highly flexible and has built-in allowances for Allowing callers to interactively request details about trains and fares, the service encing no more hold times or awkward er over the telephone. In use, he said, the incorrect grammar and regional accents and men u A r iven sys t ems. system listens to the caller, interprets the dialects. Since the phased system startup in runs on a system supplied Telia and Philips. touch-tone The system is driven by Philips' SpeechMania Furthermore, call centre agents are relieved content and context of their request and November 1998, Philips says that the system has reported a 94 percent dialog successrate speech-recognition technology and is capa- from routine information queries and can gives the appropriate response. If a ble of handling several thousands of calls per focus on the actual reservation and booking request is unclear, the system will ask for and remarkable customer useracceptance. Philips, htlpJ/www.speech.philips.corn. Telia, day for the SNW. process, as well as dealing with specific and more detailed information, asking questions and carrying out a natural dialog hitpl/www.tells.rxlm According to Telia, the first stages of the more complex inquiries. VIENNA, Austira (NB) — The Swedish National Railway (SNW) has launched the world's first full scale, natural language speech-recognition system.
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LifeBook, weighs in at only 1.17 kg (2.6 lb.), yet nms a full vmion of Windows 98 very nicely thanks to its 233 MHz Pentium MMX proces-
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The first thing you notice is that the editor uses color coding: comments are in green; n the first Visual Basic Tutorial we took a VB keywords are in blue; and most other quick tour of the Visual Basic (VB) canvas code is in black. But as we shall see below, and the visual programming tools, such users can customize these settings.
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Notice that several subroutines are shown in the text editor at once. By dicking on the code toggle switch view shown in Figure 2, you can view just the subroutine you are editing, or aH the subroutines contained in that .frm or .bas file. This raises the final point on text editing. Just as a VB program can have several forms, it also can have dozens of Basic subroutines spread over many files. The .frm and .frx files contain both Basic subroutines and
Etgrgigg Creatlgeg a password proyram In this exetdse we shall write a program that checks for the password "Howdy from VB6" and then prints a short messsage. First we have to design the form. To do this, start up VB, enter FaxlNxw and choose the SXANnAttn
EXE (we' ll discuss other templates in future tutorials). N ow click on t h e f or m an d i n t h e Paorstrrtgs Sngxr change the form's CAFrtoN to "Enter Password." Drag and draw a label from the toolbox onto the top left of the
the controls and layout associated with each form. Also change the label's CArnoN propform. Now .bas files contain only Basic code erty to Enter Password." but this code can be accessed/called from any Next drag and draw a textbox just below subroutine. the label and extend it to the right edge of the form. Blank out the textbox's Tsxr property and change its PAsswoxnCuAttproperly to "' . This will cause the password, when Test filled in, to be displayed in asterisks with the sas aeesae string hidden but available in the VB prosesesas sea gram. Finally, add a command button to the form. Change its caption to "Okay." Select RtttelSTAxr from Vr s menu and the form
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Just as in Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect, Visual Basic allows users to customize their own working environment and how VB works. Figure 4 shows the Options dialogue in VB. It allows you to make a number of changes including Editor settings, how docking will work, and more. In Figure 4, we changed some of the color coding and font defaults used in the text editoz You find the options dialogue under ToorslOmates menu items. ted — so you have a quick way to catch Under the PaojzcrslPaoramss menu spelling errors. there is a second dialogue for configuring But there are a lot more conveniences how a spedfic project will work Many of built into VB's text editor. In Figure 2 we these setting will be covered when we get to point to the two combo box coding aids. the more advanced features of VB, like The first combo box lists afi the controls debugging and compiling your program into "
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I typed "te. AH I had to do was to hit the Tab key and Intefiisense SHed in the rest of the command. On completion of the line it checks the syntax and, if correct, immediately fancy formats the line. Fancy formatting indudes adding blank spaces around operators (Hke "+', "'", etc.), auto-indenting code To add new forms to a project click on the Pao~IAnn FoaM menu item. To delete blocks and capitalizing variable names that a form no longer needed in a project click on have been entered in aH lowercase. The latter the form in Project Explorer and select the is a good reason for induding at least one PINyacrlht ovs menu item. While it is a capital letter in aH VB names. If you misspell handy tool for adding and removing forms, a name its capital letter does not appear the most common use of the Project Explorer when the line is immediately fancy formatcode that can be used anywhere in a VB program. Clicking on the forms folder makes it expand out to show aH the forms used in a VB program project. In effect, the project file (.vbp file extension) keeps track of aH the resources used in a VB program. Project Explorer is a window into that project file.
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ties. Also, there was often a combination of violence and fringe sexuality and that made en I visited the Boston Computer youth-oriented Japanese entertainment M useum in 1993,Ihad achanceto untouchable to the big U.S. media conglomexplore the museum's free com- eiates and distribution channels. Yet there was much in Japanese popular puter lab — a fasdnating community outreach program that made computer technol- culture that fit the emerging cyberculture of the 1990s. The integaeon of human and ogy available to Boston's inner city kids.
By Jeff Evans
As is the case with many other U.S., machine in mechaadventures such asMobile Canadian and Western European dties, the Suite Gnndam, Appleseed,and Robotech;the youth of Boston has in the last 30 years come enormous entertainment value of Japanese
to consist of a mix of dozens of national, religious and ethnic groups from all parts of the world. What did these "global," multicultural hds want to do with computers? Some were conducting science experiments, building simple robots, or learning desktop publishing. Most, however, were creating art on the lab's Apple Madntosh computers. To mysurprise, although imagesfrom U.S. pop culture (TV shows, fashion, cartoons, rock music, and action films) were well represented, American pop icons appeared to be, literally, a minority interest to these computer kids. Instead, the bulk of their art was based on
Japanesesources, ranging from video games, through animated cartoons, to manga, as Japanesecomicsare called. Where had they learned about this stuN? I asked them, and their answers always led back to computer bulletin board systems (BBSes), the precursor to today's Internet. Something was happening here. Since
videogame hits such as Nintendo's Super Mario; the cuteness factor ofHello Kitty, Astro
Boy,and more recently,Kiki's Delivery Service all seemed to communicate well to technooriented kids. I began to encounter Increasing numbers of North American teens and young adultsmany eventually choosing careers in the growing information technology industries — whose personal dreamscapes were made up from a remarkably standardized media kit. They were commonly involved with some or all of the following: electronic,
punk or alternative music, sdence fiction
and cyberpunk books and movies, Asian action films on laser disc, and a grab bag of Japanese media, including video games, manga,and Japanese animation„known as animeor Japanimation. Although often a guy thing, animeseries such as Sailor Moon offered an heroic, exdting, adventurous role model for young girls.
that is mostly invisible in mainstream
Canadian and U.S. television, publishing, and retailing. Increasingly, however, if you want to understand modem North American youth culture, it seems you also have to understand Japanese youth culture, and to do that, you have to understand how the Internet now ties the two together.
From Godziar
to Gundam to Grrl Power As a childhood hn of JapaneseGodzilla monster films, I had been somewhat aware of the
increasing presence of aJapanese aesthetic in my favorite entertainment genres of science fiction and fantasy in the 1970s and '80s.
However, a number of bamers seemed to limit the movement of commerdal Japanese media into the Western mainstream. Partly, it seemed that Japaneseentertainment formats and content were simply too "different to easily appeal to massaudiences
outsideJapan. It seemedas if Japanesegame shows, romances and sports, for instance, could not be translated for Western sensibiTi-
In the above-ground entertainment economy of North America in 1999, Japanese pop culture's place is still spotty. The videogame market is the big exception, wlme Sony's Playstation sales in the U5. have exceeded Playstation sales in Japan (over 20 million versus 16 million consoles, respectively), and English language versions of Japanese game software are often bestsellers. Elsewhere„ Japanese pop culture, in dollar terms, is a small player in mass media and retailing. Japanese animation videos and DVDs are sometimes available in a small section of load video stores. Comic book shopscarry a few translated manga titles next to the more established titles, such as X-Men or Spawn. On the borderless Internet, however, Japanese culture is huge. In the online world,
of the U5. television seriesmentioned above. As a final comparison, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse has an astonishingly paltry 35,678 Web sites containing his name. This might be hard to understand, considering the global reach of the Mouse, until one factors in the Disney's litigious attitude towanh thoseinduding fans — who use its copyrighted characters on unauthorized Web sites. In fact, the phenomenon of Japanese animeand mangapermeating the Web is perhaps the perfect model for how the Internet is becoming the medium for a new global culture that does not depend on traditional corporate methods. As in the case of the MP3 music format, if the gatekeepers of commerdal mass media in North America can't figure out how to packageand sellJapanese culture, then it wiII spread —with almost no commer-
dal or corporate direction — via the Web. This an entertainment phenomenon can be mas- "Information wants to be free method of sive without leaving a large dollar traiL digital publishing has its ~ , t h ough. Part of the power of some Japanese media In a recent search using the AltaYista comes from the fact that it is based on search engine (hfip Jhww.altavisla.corn), I typed The dark side: American mass entertainment f orms. in a variety of keywords to see how many laud of the risiuB Otahu Modern Japan was created by a trauma that Web sites concerned themselveswith various There's an unhealthy or at least dubious side seems hard for Westerners to rememberor concepts, and found some interesting pat- to Japanese popular culture, which is well understand. After a century of trying to tems that give at least some hint of how per- known in Japan, and is becoming a concern become a major power by emulating vasive Japanesepop culture is on the Net. here. Many young Japanese men refer to European sdence, education and militarism, "Sex," as always, led the pack, with themselves asOtaku, meaning an obsessive Japan was literally burned down to its roots 21,073,920 Web pages concerned in some fan of particular video games, or pretty by the U.S. Air Force. Most major cities were way with that word, followed fairly dosely young pop stars, or animated cartoon series. nearly flattened — two of them by A-bombs. by "money, with10,166,980. "God" rated Increasmgly, Japanesewomen are revoltAfter unconditionally surrendering to mention in 6,364,820 Web pages. "Football" ing against the social pressure to marry these the Allies in 1945, Japan wasoccupied by the and "baseball had 4,641,600 and 4,043,720 very odd young men, prefemng the single U.S. Army. What followed was acrash course mentions, respectively. life, and leaving the men to their compulsive in American culture.However, the Japanese Hit TV series such as Bnl the Vampire collecting and consuming. Much of the reacted to American commerdal massmedia Slayer, The X-paes, Xenaand the entire Star anime, mangaand video games collected by as they had responded to the influx of Trekphenomenon had substantial but much Otaknis erotic and often violent — andis the Buddhism and classical Chinese culture: lower Web pagecounts of 255,210, 219,637, subject of more than one million Web sites. they adapted it into a uniquely Japanese 266,150 and 245,469, respectively. This is disturbing evidence that some of the form. American influences ranging from By comparison, "anime' showed up in Japanese culture spreading through cyberDisney cartoons to westems, to the science 1,752,100 Web sites, and "manga' in space is far from harmlessfun. For better and fiction of Starship Troopersauthor Robert A. 1,438,930! An astonishing Web presencefor a for worse,the Internet hasopenedaglowing Heinlein, morphed into a p eculiarly socalled fringe phenomenon. The anime window into a Japanese fantasy world that Japanese aesthetic that still resonates with adventure seriesEvangehonis referred to in entertains, inst r ucte d s educesthe — some Western audiences. 281,460 Webpages, more than Star 1Iek or any young of the wired world. 0
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