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TE1 Videoconferencing enters the mainstream

TE1 Legal implications of Year 2K
readiness inquiries

18 Staging the jump to higher education

24 So you wanna be a techie?

The winding paths to a technical career

TE2 Canada to require fiscal report

of Y2K readiness
TE3 Videoconferencing: coming soon
to a PC near you
TE6 Corel's quandary:
profit vs interesting products
TE9 Dell plans to sell 50 percent
of its PCsonline
TE11 Dynamic Web demandsnew tools
TE18 Are you properly insured?
TE22 Do you need a videoconference suite?
TE23 Mobile computing a lifestyle thing
TE24 Computer-based training gets wired

42 The virtues of virtual ed

Online education is gradually becoming a reality

50 2Learn teaches teachers to usethe Web

60 The joy of safe computing

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32 In search of the sub-$1,000 (Cdn) PC

38 Sub-$1,000 (Cdn) PCchart
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94 The king of laptops

75 Sallmer namedPresident of Microsoft

77 Digital cameraspassprice,
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96 Goodall offers environmental lessons

78 C omdex Canada:

98 Never too young for computers

97 Print Artist delivers engaging craft software

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TCP's lab test

SEPTEMBER1998 THE COMPUTER PAPER GREATERTORONTO EDITION www.tcp.ca

When it comes to the "value PC," local

companies have the advantage of flexibility.

application or entertaining yourself, one

large will buy you a lot of computer. It could

COlilPPiii PilPii

manager, Sean A large manufacturer doesn't want to retool even be a computer of high quality, if you
Carruthers was-

the assembly lines to run off a few thousand

don't equate quality with the latest technolo-

n't too pleased PCs with end-of-line components. A local gies,

when I suggest- assembler makes PCs one-at-a-time, or in
ed that we test small batches. Production "runs" using end- End ofthe enthusiast era
$1,000 PCs for of-line components such asPentium proces- Manufacturers big and small may not like
this month's lab sors or lower-capacity hard drives, create no this message,becausethey are predicting
report. No one

logistical problems. Computers like these will

future growth on the model that has worked

will participate, be inexpensive, but the question everyone in the past. However, a fundamental shift in
he insisted. As it wants answered is if they' ll be any good.
product differentiation seems to be occurring
turned out, he was close to being right. We

This is tough to answer, mainly because in the PC market one that has not gone

received fewer than 10 candidates for this of the variability at the local assembler level. unnoticed by the major PC makers. It's simWith large scale manufacturing, you have ply this: power alone no longersells computmonth's lab report.
Many of the manufacturers we normally
invite to participate in our lab tests were
reluctant to play for a few reasons;. First, the
profit margins are better on higher-priced

quality standards that control failure rates, ers. Today's computers have enough power

component specifications, fit and finish and capacity to do the things that most users
quality and other product parameters, to a need and want to accomplish. The next stage
level acceptable to the company. Like the fare in the evolution of home computers will be

computers. Second, manufacturers realize at fast food chains, the product will be a
that they can't give proper support at this known commodity, wherever you buy it.
price band. Third, national brand namemanAt the local scene, technical standards
ufacturers do not want to gain a reputation as and skill
and consequently, product qualibeing discount parts bin assemblers. They'd ty are more variable. We all seek a true
rather be perceived asinnovators and market craftsman but the harsh reality is, it's hard to
leaders, not clearing houses.
And yet, there is another reality. If you
look through the pages of this publication,
you will see dozens of local retailers offering
computers for under $1,000. Industry statis-

know who we' re dealing with. As with other

retail relationships, the things that seem to
consistently reveal the quality establishments are reputation, word-of-mouth, and
length of time in business.
tics say that low-priced computers made up
Another variable is that often, quality
the biggestportion of salesvolumeslast year. and value are confused with component evo-

to addressaspects like quality of design, ease

of use, convenience and, of course, cost.
If you look to the evolution of two other

consumer product categories, you see apath

this industry could follow. At one time, you
couldn't buy a hi-fi system without getting
an earful of statistics on amplifier power, sig-

nal-to-noise ratios, etc. Today, you buy the

system that sounds good to you and has the
CD caddy just where you like it.
Likewise,buying a camera a decade ago

meant absorbing lessons on the resolving

power of various films and lenses and the

lution, the argument being that low-end PCs benefits of weighted spot metering. Today

Cheap vs Inexpensive

usually contain older technology, and older you use your pocket camera and enjoy the

The time-honored business credo is to offer a technology is inferior. Therefore, low-end snaps of the kids' last Hallowe'en party.
What's instructive about these two examfair product at a fair price in other words to PCs are inferior.
balance quality and price. The magicmix will
As a general principal, this was certainly ples is that the market for high-end audio
be different for a local assembler than for a easy to demonstrate in the past. Each genera- gear or for pro-quality camera gear didn't go
national manufacturer.
tion of application or operating system away, nor have developments at the high end
A national company has larger overhead. seemed to strain the capacities of existing ceased. Likewise, there will always be a marSelling in national volumes means the com- hard drives, video cards and CPUs. But at this ket for high-end computer gear, whether for
pany needs some kind of manufacturing point in the evolution of the personal com- business or for a home user who gets a rush
from having the best the industry can delivplant and distribution system. It also needs puter, we seem to have reached a plateau.
to create a national support infrastructure,
Take the profile of a typical sub-$1,000 er. There will be an enthusiastic constituency
toll-free phone lines, branch offices, etc.
PC, circa summer 1998: 266 MHz Pentium or for Intel's just-announced 700 MHz chip.
Of course, large manufacturers can rely 300 MHz AMD processor, 32 MB RAM, 3 GB
However a new kind of simpler computer

on economies ofscale, or may actually manufacture many of the components themselves. On balance however, even with the
latest PC designs, local assemblersseemto be
able to offer comparable systems at lower
prices.

hard drive, 24x CD-ROM drive, 16-bit sound, appliance is about to emerge. And it won' t
accelerated graphics with 4 MB of video necessarily be made of last year's PCparts. It
RAM, 56K modem. If you havespeciflc needs, will follow its own path of innovation.
you may find them wanting in one or several areas. However, for doing homework, surfInteresting times ahead,
ing the Web, running any standard business
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Data should be backed up.

Withall of theseissueshandled, I leaveryty
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days most computers are burned and tested convenient. Some users claim that the reduced
on thepower-supplytransform er(s)actualprior to shipping and so leaving it on 24 strain
I was wondering, is leaving the computer on
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ly increases
system life, Of course, I f rafan fails,

uring an OS, but wants to try Linux, this is a

viable alternative. Some of these suppliers
also provide technical assistance.
Luke Rollins also mentioned, and I quote,
"...he can forget about Linux's 'tech support,'
which consists of a bunch of hackers you

a month, ... is not bad for the computer. Is your CPU could overheat and you could be in have to track down on the Internet." I think
this true? I thought heat is the worst enemy serioustrouble.Som e newer systems have heat Mr. Rollins hasn't seen Linux in the last coufor electronic equipment. Furthermore, the sensorsthat can automatically deal with this, ple of years. Red Hat's Linux distribution pronew Windows 98 software, is it not designed toO.
vides 30 days of email technical support, and
'

-for computers [to] be left on all day? I'm just

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if this isn't enough, you can also buy commercial support in either Standard or Gold

the monitor is tumed off, just the CPU is on)

packages for 12 months.

I normally don't like to get involved in OS

since I'm planning on having a digital debates because they tend to point out the
It also comes with a manual, which conanswering machine for voice and faxes.
already well known fact that no one OS is tains step-by-step documentation of how to
Sheila Patel
right for everyone, but I'd just like to dispel set up, and configure a Linux system, plus
G.B. replies:Generally, monitors shotaid be some misinformation I read in Luke Rollins' what to do if things gowrong. I just checked
protected
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selves og with powermanagement. Somerisers jLettersTCPAugust, 1998].
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For one thing, there are a few places(on (http Jlwww.suso.corn/Customor/suppnrt.html).
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ty, and doubt) spread by Microsoft zealots,

Ious; it is obviously a statement made to make

The situation Mr. Rollins described, where people feel good and saysWow,I'm a hacker!"
whether to pay for Linux, and get technical
support, or download it free off the Internet,
and set it up yourself with the help of the
aforementioned "hackers" (buying a good
book has never hurt anyone either).
I honestly don't feei that Linux is a viable
alternative for everyone, but for people out
there who are contemplating trying Linux
out, I'd like them to be able to base their decision on facts rather than FUD (fear, uncertain-

I write code for a living, even try and find

someone installing Linux wipes out their hard

drive, is a good example of FUD.

security breaches in common software for fun,

Gord Peters, via email

Knew your terminology

Regarding Jacqueline Emigh's article "Know
your enemy" [TCP August, 1998J, some of the
terminology used in the article is incorrect.
Wyly Wade's comment about hackers being
anyone who writes program code is ridicu-

but I wouldn't even dream of calling myself a

hacker. The term "hacker" implies a great deaf
of skill and dedication to finding and fixing
flaws, The send user who scripts Microsoft
Word macrose is doing nothing to h elp
expand the security of computer software.
The term efracker s should be spelled
ephracker.s Nowhere have I ever seen it

s ln an artispelled with an sfs in placeof "ph.

cle about "hacking," at least try and use the

spelling of the hacker subculture.

AdditionaBy, I must point out another
error in Mr, Wade's comments. He states that
"the earliest crackers ... desire[dJ to help build
better products." This is a definition of a true
hacker. The term "cracker"was coined by
hackers who didn't want the clean image of
the hacker to be tarnished by the illegal breaking into of networks,
H e also mentions that "many of t h e
newest breed of crackers are kids who are
unaware of cracking's roots." Calling such kids
"crackers" would be a compliment that is
undeserved: many of the "newest breed of
crackers" are simply "script kiddies." Such
script kiddies merely take other people' s
exploit scripts and programs, and then run
them blindly hoping it will work they don' t
understand how to do the exploit themselves.
Finally, the article mentioned that DoS
(Denial of Service) attacks are a form of cracking. At the beginning of the article, you stated
that crackers are individuals who break into
networks. Since a DoS does not involve breaking into a network, this is a glaring contradiction.
For those readers who would like to know
about the new security holes being found
every day and how to protect their systems
from them, they could check out one of the
following sites:
Fyodor's Exploit World:
http//www.insecure.org/sploits.html
Rootsheil: http: //www.rootsheil.corn/
CERT Coordination Center. http: //www.cert.org/

Andrew Martens
Vou say phraMng, I say phreaking
Teko (phone) hacking has been around a long
time...and it is not refered to as "fracking,s but
"phreaking.e
As an ex-hacker/cracker/phreaker, I do
agree that the original motivation of freedom

of information has been replaced by greed,

elitism, and mischief. I attribute that to the
Internet. Before, we had to live and breathe

"the scene," work on 2400 baud modems,

Pentium ll with a 56K modem, and do a

Now any kid can sit in front of his [or her]

with terminals, Commodore Vic-20s, learn

electronics a-la Radio Shack, network through
local bulletin boards, midnight meetings at
dumpsters, etc., etc. You had to work for it.

Hackers and phreakers will never go away,

r

the Internet just made it easier to get in.

Lucho Zuniga

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s

sot I I

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search for hackz, crackz, warez, etc.... and all

of asudden he's[she's]a hacker?Idon'tthink

e I e

Your PC is in the mail

I'm considering on getting a new computer.
All the prices seem to be cheaper if I order
them [by mail]. My dad is a little worried that

mail orders aren't "safe." How can I convince

"

es

Mall order revisited

him that mail-orders are "safe"?

Bailey Ling
GB replies: Mail ordersaren't safe, unless the
cornpan) has a good reputation. Dell and
Gateway, for exrunple, are /nail-order companies
with goodreputations. Dell is a safe bet.

I wrote earlier about how safe mail orders are

and Graeme [Bennett] replied that mail orders
weren't safe unless they were bought from a
company who has a good reputation. My

question is [does] Ultinet have a good reputation?

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Contact: Apple Computer www.apple.corn/

divisions, and selects current arts news, interviews, features and events listings.to enliven
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The iMac,designed and marketed as an CBC launches online arts and culture
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the Internet age, wit h a s p ecial Apple English language version of its new Web-based partnerships with Canada's cultural commuAdvantage in usability and enhancing creative arts and culture magazine, InfoCulture. The nity. It demonstrates how the CBC is embracapplications, is the first shot in Apple's cam- site draws on the vast stream of arts and cul- ing new media to serve Canadians in new and
paign to become amajor force in the comput- ture content from CBC's radio and television innovative ways." The French language ver-

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T ECHNOLOC Y I N

EDUCATION

Sports for the mind

?

Ron Scoins, assistant dean of the Faculty of

Both versions include personalized study Mathematics (home of computer science} at
plans, strategies and practice tests. The best the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, likes
feature is the analysis of test taking skills by to stress that there is no substitute for indimath/verbal, question type, topic and tech- vidual effort in students. The same can be said
nique. So it might show that your algebra for parenting. And one way of stimulating
skills are good but geometry needs improve- this individual effort is through competitions;
Scoins sees academic competitions in
ment or that critical reading skills are excelmathematics
and computer science as a way
lent but analogies are weak. Therefore, with
this data you can develop an effective training of "teaching students individual responsibilischedule. The interactive study skills improve- ty. There is no substitute for individual effort.
ment program would be useful for most stu- The bottom line is to challenge yourself." He
dents. It aims to improve reading speed and is a fervid advocate for challenging students
comprehension, critical thinking, more effec- to excellence.
"In music, dance and sports, if kids have
tive note taking and communication skills.
The Learning Co. and The Princeton talent, then they expect to practice and spend
Review publish a competitive product called many more hours practicing a week. Those
Inside the SAT, PSAT Er ACT '99, which was with talent get more practice. The same
just released. (PSAT is the practice or pre-SAT should be true for academics. Those who are
test taken in Grade 10 or 11.) Like the other talented should be getting more practice. But
test software, this disc includes profiles of typically the better kids do homework in class
more than 1,600 colleges and universities and rather than doing practice at home. These
a 288-page book called Paying for College kids need enrichment."
Scoins practices what he preaches by headWithont Going 8roke. While only dealing with
t he Can a dian M a t hematics
U.S. colleges, it is a good primer on U.S. finan- ing u p
cial aid for those considering studying there Competition (http: //math.uwaterloo.ca), which
and the chapter,"How to Pick Colleges" is now attracts 225,000 middle and senior
generalenough to be useful to Canadians.The school students annually. The competition is
search engine for colleges is rather detailed p art of T h e C e ntre fo r E ducation i n
with 24 options. A Remind-0-Rama reminds Mathematics an d C o m puting a t the
University of Waterloo. Students write these
applicants of critical admission deadlines.
The tutorials for SAT, PSAT Sr ACT create a contests at their own school. Enriching teens
customized study plan and will evaluate is a joint effort of teachers, parents and prostrengths and weaknesses with ten full-length grams such as the one Scoins runs.
Where teachers do not have the time or
tests and hundreds of practice drills. Also
included are video sequences of Princeton resources to organize and operate math clubs,
Review instructors teaching test-taking strate- contests become a way students can work at
problems that they have not seen before and
gies.
A companion product from The Learning sharpen their problem solving skills. Scoins'
Co. And The Princeton lteview called. The group publishes six sets of problem books and
Princeton Review: College Prep contains six solutions from past contests. A new series of
CD-ROMs covering algebra, trigonometry, test books present more dialogue on "how to"
preparation and vocabulary for the SAT, a entitled Problems and How toSolve Them, Vol. 1
multilingual (French, English, Spanish and 6r 2 for students in Grade 9 and up. Details are
German) dictionary and a reference collection listed at the University of Waterloo Web site.
Next year, success in the Descartes Contest
that contains ten searchable volumes of encyclopedias, dictionary/thesaurus, a writer' s (for students in their last year of high school)
handbook, atlas, home medical guide, world will be a requirement for application to mathe matics and c omputer science at t h e
history and more.
There are also a number of CD-ROMs that University of Waterloo. Students can order the
are straight teaching resources heavily spiced Math Preparation Manna/ for Post Secondary
with video presentations on a wide range of Stiidies to boost their performance on the
topics. These can be useful to stimulate inter- Descartes test. Scoins hopes it will fill the gap
est and enrich a home-schooling curriculum for students who do not have a math club
or a less-than-inspiring. school curriculum. available.
Waterloo has also run a programming conSometimes parents need to ste'p in and take
responsibility for enriching their children' s test for three years, the Canadian Computing
academic interests,
Competition (http;//math.uwaterloo.ca:80/-ceo/).
Clearvue and Zane produce a catalogue Professors Barry Ferguson, Jo Ebergen and Ian
of 200 such programs on a wide range of top- Monro along with two high scbool teachers,
tcs, Clearvue also produces teacher versions Richard Clausi and Jim Bowman, and corpoavailable with or without lab packs. Each rate help f rom Sybase (then Watcom),
CD-ROM set contains an encyclopedia, dic- launched the first contest with 670 particitionary, glossary, indexes and quizzes. Zane pants. Some 1,553 students wrote the contest
p ublishes the consumer version of t h e this year.
T he top scorers were invited to t h e
Clearvue products. Zane was established to
"bring the best teacher of every subject to University of Waterloo for stage two and three
every student."
of the contest. Four of the top students are
The company sent me a sample of the also invited to represent Canada overseas at
200 programs: the H i story o f E n glish the International Olympiad for Informatics
. Literature (four discs), Isaac Asimov's Library (IOI).
The focus of the competition was not
of t h e U n i verse ( a s i n gle C D-ROM),
Biochemistry (two discs) and Cell Biology knowledge of computer science, but problem
(two discs). The fare is similar to what is solving involving elements of math theory,

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E D U C AT,ION

0 ou w anna e a e c i e .
By Rod Lamirand

t's simple. Get into computers and you' ll

make $100,000 a year in no time. Like

most myths, the preceding statement contains a grain of truth.
Sure, there are people employers are willing to pay a king's ransom. "We deal with Gen
Xers who are making six figures in their 20s,"
says Dudley Brown, managing director of

and telephone penetration. The World

Economic Forum ranks Canada as having the

The winding paths to a technical career

(http: //www.hitechcareer.corn), a Canadian hightech recruitment service.
Some of the best places to find specific
details of the shortages of technology workers
are the high-tech industry's trade associations.
Trade associations work on behalf of their

strongest technology potential of the G7.

Canada's phone and Internet charges are
among the lowest in the world. And, lastly, we

The Canadian Advanced Technology

Association (CATA) is another trade organiza- have the highest level of post-secondary
tion representing over 1,000 enterprises.
President John Reid is so concerned about the

school enrollment in the G7.

shortage of skilled employees that under

his leadership CATA (http://www.cata.ca)
BridgeGate LLC, a recruitment firm specializ- members primarily in two ways. They lobby is looking outside Canada to make
governments on behalf of their constituents, up the shortfall: "The
ing in technology.
Yes, it is possible, but the road from here to

and they create a channel through which

The Job tichet(s)

The days of building the new Apple in your

garage or selling an operating system. to IBM

are long gone
at least until the next revo-

goal of visiting

lution. Starting up a. Web design company

their members can exchange information, f o r e i g n

with a few high school buddies had the

route to a successful career in the technology

concerns, and ideas.

makings of the next revolution, but Web

industry?

The Information Technology Association

of Canada (ITAC) is the largest technology

publishing has quickly become a big business populated by big (and rich) com-

there may be long

and steep. So, what is the
Whether it's your son or daughter starting
.college or you looking to retrain, there is no

trade association in the country,

petitors. Still, if you have an

shortage of educational choices. "Please help ITAC members account for 70

m e make sense of all of t h e schools out

there!?" wrote TCP.reader Jason Kincaid

recently. "What will get me further in the long
run, and also in the short run, when I'm out
there looking for a job with $6,0
student debt?"
Like many others, Jason want
know who is hiring. Are there
really jobs out there? How

entrepreneurial bent, you

have your own ideas about

percent of the $54 billion in annual rev-

enues of the

Cgf C
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indus-

aptitude are not important, only that

they mean little if you can't get your foot in
the door.

kets is to

g1

determine the skill

Technology training is available through

sets available, assess the feasibility of relocation and immigra-.

mail order courses, PhD programs and everything in between. The cost ranges from a cou-

tion and det'ermine the costs of recruiting ple of hundred dollars to over $60,000.

Demand exceeding supply

It seems like every organization,

whether corporation, government

education, plain and simple. Today yoti need a piece

of paper. That is not to say that
personal skills, experience and

io,.

straightforward questions
answers.

If it's a job you' re seek-

ing, however, the ticket is

QC,, -~

can I- get one? What are

they paying? These are
without straightforward

how to make it in the tech

industry.

e~~

try and
'350,000 of its

department or educational institution, is increasing its spending on

technology. A quick look in the news-

candidates."
Even the federal government recognizes

One route follows the formula promised

by higher education in general. Achieve high

the growing importance of the technology. In grades in high school and get into a good uniemployees. ITAC's a speech to the industry Canadian Industry versity. Get a degree in computer science or
board of governors and list of minister John Manley reminded attendees electrical engineering with a focus on comdirectors reads like a who's who of
the Canadian high-tech industry, including

that the government had provided an additional $260 million over three years to

"Right now Canada needs 50,000 high-

Canada, Motorola Canada, Lucent, Hewlett-

and CANARIE (Canadian Network for the

Another option is to attend a college and

tech workers each year," proclaimed a CBC Packard, Nortel, Microsoft Canada and more. Advancement of Research, Industry and
ITAC's research shows that, "knowledge- Education) in its most recent budget. Manley
News feport in March. The repoit went on to

take a certificate program. Certificate pro-

say schools are turning out only about 30,000

qualified candidates. This leaves a gap of
20,000 jobs that industry says it is having
trouble filling. And it's not going to get better:
"We expect the current industry shortfall of
20,000 professionals to increase exponentially
within the next 10 to 15 years," offers Debbie
McGrath, president of The CEO Group Inc.

based industries are growing faster than any

other sector of the Canadian economy." A
research paper entitled Information Tec/rnoloy
and the Impact on Employment, commissioned
by ITAC in 1997, states there is a "gap in the
supply and demand for technical human
resources that is impeding the growth of the
Canada's software sector."

said the government's stated objective is to

make Canada "the most connected nation in
the world by making information and knowledge infrastructure accessible to all Canadians
by the year 2000."
This shouldn't be too difficult as the minister's own speech makes the following points:
Canada leads the G7 in home computer, cable

paper shows jobs going unfilled in pro-

gramming, database specialization and network management.

puters. Follow this with a masters in your area

of study or business management. Upon gradnames like ATRT, Bell, Apple Canada, Xerox SchoolNet, the Community Access Program, uation contact a recruitment company.
grams are usually two years of full-time study.
Like some university programs, they may have
a co-op component where students spends
time at a company in their area of study.

College programs usually comprise a common

first year covering the basics of computer
hardware and software. Then studerits branch
into specialty areas such-as automation and
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and those of us who write about it) have a ten- warranty like on the machine? Is it really
dency to pay the most attention to what' s worth it, or would a higher-priced machine
new and what's hot.
better suit your needs'?
Consequently, people who are looking to
buy their first computer can feel left in the
dust. Whether or not a system has all the
newest toys is mostly irrelevant to them. More
important is having a computer that can run
a set of basic applications such as a word
processor, accounting package or CD-ROMbased reference works. They might also want
to log onto the Internet and

The contenders
With all this in mind, we presented this
month's lab test as a challenge to our usual
gang of suspects: "Can your
company build a

system for

PCs for Students lab test,

we tested so-caBed entrylevel computers. They

formance punch.
Overall, the VB system offers a lot for the
money, and for those interested in upgrading
the system later with more components, there
are lots of slots left open for cards, and a lot of
space for additional fixed and external drives.
Ern$aac Aaura
Street price: $1,055

Pro:
' lots of expansion slots for both cards and RAM
' case design features "sliding" motherboard, for

play a few games.

Seme perspective
Last September, for our

K6 chip onboard, Intel

purists may be wary, but
it certainly packs a per-

u nd e r
$1,000? If not, how
close can you come?" We had no

easier access
' good warranty period
' respectable speed,

prerequisites other than this, and we waited to Con:

' outer case a bit awkward to get on and off

see what the vendors would come up with.
mainly came with 166 MHz Pentium procesOf those we asked to participate, a good ' only 32 MB of RAM included (an extra 32 MB
sors, although some had 133 MHz processors. number politely declined. Those that rose up
would boostsystemperformance)
Hard drive capacities on these machines to meet the challenge offered a variety of sys- ' no modem
ranged from 1.3 GB to 3.2 GB, with most in tems, with both Pentium and Pentium II,
the 2 GB range, The fastest composite Sysmark Cyrix, and AMD processors represented. Some
Although it didn' t
benchmark score was 187, and the slowest opted for the overall system approach, and
q uite m ak e t h e
was 104.
others went more for a higher-performance
$1,000
tar get,
Empac's Azure came
This year, all of the candidates had hard bare-bones system with upgrade potential. In

drives of 2 GB or greater, and most used sixth other words, for your 1,000 bucks you can get

fairly close; .With

generation processors, from Intel, Cyrix or

the only Pentium

a minimally equipped machine with a CPU

AMD, Benchmark scores ranged from 115 to that smokes, or you can get a machine that
308, although the 115 was a bit of an anom- won't have the fastest processor, but does
aly since most scored closer to 200. In other

have other amenities a modem for exam-

words, the typical benchmark score for candi- ple that you might consider important.

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roundup, the Azure
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of the other systems).
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a lot of goodies hardware and software. For
those looking for a good overall system for the

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Street price: $989

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the Celeron chip per- ' AMD CPU, if you're an Intel lan
forms a lot slower than the more upscale Difierent:
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keep the price down. Overall, a good system
this system, and video memory is taken from sysfor the money, and great as an Internet starter
tem memory, adjustable on the BIOSfrom I MB
machine.
through 4 MB
266 MHz Celeron CPU
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Mynix Illycomp Prima

Distributed by Supercom, the Avado system

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' fast processor
Although the setup with the video memory is
' lots of room for expansion, including a full 5 PCI
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* larger hard drive, at 4.3 GB
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4MB

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How much money have you got? What
do you want to use the computer for? What
year did you ask this question in?
lf you don't have any money, then all
c omputers are t o o e x pensive. I f y o u
absolutely must have a computer for your
business no matter what, then you might be
willing to take out a second mortgage on the
house to pay for it.
If you asked the question in 1976, the
state of the art personal computer might
have 16 KB of RAlvl, a 13-inch monochrome
display, 300 bps modem, 120 KB floppy
drive,and would be a good deal at $3,000.

have all combined increases in capacity with

rapid drops in price. As earlier models of
component partshave been replaced by
faster, higher capacity versions (Pentium
CPUs replaced by Pentium Ils, 1.2 GB hard
drives replaced by 3 or 4 GB drives), the

older parts have dropped in price to a frac-

tion of their former value. This means that

today a PC can be assembled from parts that
18 months ago might have cost a couple
thousand dollars, but now cost only a few
hundred. A PC can be assembled from "last
year' s" unused parts for a very attractive
price.
There's nothing i n t r insically w rong
with making a computer system out of
parts that are no longer considered state of
the art. However, a computer is more than
the sum of its parts. There is an element of
So, it depends.
risk if the various components of a PC
What's not in doubt is that over the last haven't been carefully selected and tested
year, it has become possible for Canadian for compatibility. Especially with small volconsumers to buy a remarkably powerful ume PC makers, care has to be taken that
personal computer for a remarkably low PCs assembled from small batches of parts,
price. Are these new, ultra-low priced PCs a of varying a ges, m anufacturer b rand
bargain, or is the consumer paying any hid- names, and quality, are tested carefully
den costs when buying a computer for
before being sold.
$1,000 or less?
The major brand name PC makers such
as Compaq, IBM, Dell, NEC, and HewlettTrickle down theory and budget PCs
Packard all spend considerable money on
As is usual in the technology business, a e ngineering and quality control to try to
major shift in the computing market has reduce the number of potential conflicts and
come about due to a number of factors defects in their products. Fven with the
working together. In this case, the "sub- greatest care, there will be instances of hard$ 1,000 PC" has been born due t o t h e ware or software incompatibility, or defects
relentless improvement i n t h e p e r for- that require service under a new computer's
mance of t h e m a jor c omponents that warranty.
'I'he biggest risk with a "bargain" PC is
make up a PC.
For example, the main processing chip that when you take it home, it will break
(the central processing unit, or CPU), hard down, or it won't run all the of your software
drive, CD-ROM drive, and graphics card, (games, Internet browser, business applica-

tions) because of incompatibilities rising

from the combination of parts.
In c o n versation w i t h TCP , D el l
Computer founder Michael Dell said his
company is not very interested in the sub$1,000 PC market. He referred to it as a
"parts liquidation" business model. Add in
the fact that sub-$1,000 PCs typically offer
very slim profit margins to retailers, and you
can seewhy not allthe brand names have
offerings in this category.
However, market leaders Compaq and
IBM recognize the importance of the sub$1,000 PC in the consumer category, and
they both have lines that include entry-level
models close to this price, based on AMD or

Cyrix processors and "last year' s" (quality)

components.

Digital democracy
One very powerful argument in favor of the
affordable PC is that it makes computing
accessible to more and more people, giving
opportunities ranging from learning, to
starting a business, to communicating with
friends and family around the world. At
$3,000 per system, relatively few families or
individuals can a f f or d c o m puters. At
$1,000, many more people can find the

money.
About three years ago, Larry Ellison, the
chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation
floated the idea of the "US$500 computer,"
an affordable, networked, multimedia computer that would make computing truly
democratic.
Today, that dream has become at least a
partial reality in the form of the bargain PC
clone market, You can get a very respectable
PC, complete with a modem and an Internet
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been most difficult to deliver visually. We' re
In the old days, that meant correspon- also learning how to deliver university engidence school or "guided independent learn- neering lab courses online."
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complete that process with practically no help of problems to be solved."
or feedback from the instructor. Online eduThough still a long way from rompletely
cation, however, has the added dimension of embracing the technology entirely, a number
rlass discussion and real-time tutoring. It can of colleges and universities are beginning to
also offer vir tual labs and presentations.
consider entire online programs ence issues
Enter a new Canadian development a like academic standards and credibility are
sophisticated collaboration of schools and worked out to the satisfaction of both the acateachers under t h e u m b rella t i t le o f demic community and the working world.
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Excellence ('I'eiel.earning NCE).
spokesperson for the University of British
Under the leadership of Linda Harisim and Columbia explains that "there is definitely
I'om Calvert both of Simon Fraser University the vision of people someday being able to
in British Columbia the "mission" of the take their entire degree from some remote

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demonstrate effective knowledge building courses that are accepted by all the universi
pedagogics, implemented through telelearn- ties as transferable credits."
ing; to support the development of a knowl
"But there are many negotiations to go
edge economy and l earning society in
through before that can happen. We have to
Canada." In other words, Telel.earning NCE look at not only what is the student being
explores and tests the potential and practical- taught and what are they learning that' s
ity of multimedia technology in distance edu- paramount but also the level of comfort that
cation.
the faculty must have in using this medium.
To this end, they conduct a variety of pro- It's not as simple as taking your lecture notes
jects inrluding the Virtual University, or
and dumpingthem on the Web and then you
Virtual-U. Though it sounds lil'e an actual have a course. There are intrinsic aspects of
online school, Virtual-U is the name of a soft- the Web that foster types of interaction that
ware package developed by TeleLearning NCE you couldn't achieve in the classroom. There
specifically for the design and delivery of
are also ropyright issues to consider regarding
post-secondary courses.
what materials can be used on the Web."
The key to Virtual-U is a set of Web teols
Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C.
that allows such things as class discussions, is currently unique in having dealt with most
presentations, giving and receiving assign- of those issues. It offers its entire Advanced
ments and even class evaluation. And it must Psychiatric Nursing diploma on the Internetbe an eff
ective package because more than a that is, start to finish without ever having to
dozen universities and colleges are currently attend classes at the school.
testing or using Virtual-U as an alternative to
Ray Foumier, an RPN, was responsible for
campus attendance for the delivery of specific putting together the online program at
courses.
Douglas College for the fall of 1996. As he
"Virtual-U is the set of tools an education- explains it, basic nursing and psychiatric nursal institution uses to present their courses on ing programs still have to be taken in tradithe Internet," says Collette Ostler, of Virtual tional fashion and successfully completed
Learning Environments Inc, which produces before Advanced Psychiatric Nursing can be
Virtual-U. Courses taken this way are credited studied, When the program's 10 online rourstoward a degree or diploma at that specific es have been successfully completed, students
institution.
can further enroll in traditional distance eduAs Ostler explains, some universities have cation courses through B.C,'s Open Learning
come u p with their own systems for delivering Agency to begin a Barhelor of Health Sciences
courses via the Internet, but Virtual-U is degree. Douglas College's online program is
increasingly popular because the tools, imple- only one of several stages toward a full degree,
mentation and technical services are available but it is a complete program available entirely
as a package, which is much more economical online.
than developing a proprietary system.
"The program itself has existed since 1990
"Delivering a course over the Internet but was originally designed for traditional disinvolves a lot more than just publishing a tance education to be completed in paperWeb site," Ostler says. "Instructors need to be work fashion at that t i m e," F ournier
able develop course content and class notes as explains. "We now offer it through Virtual-U.
well as upload that information and confer I was involved in figuring out how online
with students either individually or groups."
offerings worked and I happened to run across
Where business courses were almost the Virtual-U at the time I was putting the online
only thing available over the Internet two program together. It was exactly what I'd been
years ago, Virtual-U has made it possible now, looking for."
to take courses in almost any field. The develEcheing Ostler, Foumier explains that the
opment of real-time conferencing tools allows main difference between online offerings and
courses in the humanities, and the creation of traditional distance education is in conveying
virtual lab environments required for the a sense to the student of actually being part of
more scientific courses.
a class: "Online students receive the same
"We haven't discovered any particular lim- package of materials as the regular students.
its to courses and course enhancement,"- But, instead of preparing a series of papers to
according to Calvert, "While our focus has earn the grade, the Virtual-U software allows
been on post-secondary education, 'particular- us to develop conferences so the study packly in the social sciences, we' ve learned that age is divided into a series of conferences that
Virtual-U technology can support workp/ace are run on a bi-weekly basis and a particular
training and high-school courses too. We
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topic is addressed by way of questions and

discussion. Students are expected to react to
their classmates in this online environment
and their grades are determined by the quality and quantity of the presentations they
make on a daily or weekly basis."
However, despite the multimedia possibilities described by Ostler and Calvert, virtually all of the Douglas College program is
conducted as online text.
mlthink animations and real-time broadcasts of classes and such are beginning to
happen," says Fournier, "but the technology
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in Thunder Bay with a 486 and a 14.4
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participate in things like that. So it's more
practical right now to forgo the luxuries,
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designed to allow for that kind of stuff."
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program remains one of kind. A more common example of how the Internet is incorporated into post-secondary education right
at the moment is provided by the University
of Waterloo, which offers individual credit
courses in Environmental Studies. The
courses offered simultaneously online and
on campus are considered equivalent.
An important issue as yet to be settled is
the cost to students for taking online courses. It is common now for most institutions
to charge the same fees for online classes as
they do fo r r egular ones. Despite the
absence of geographical boundaries in the
virtual world, most Canadian colleges, universities and governments continue to
impose hefty additional fees to "foreign"
s tudents considered undeserving of t h e
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indigenous.
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online course might cost a Canadian student $150 from anywhere in the world, a
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1996. Similarly, Francis reports that in 1997
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half of 1998.
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moving toward using technology to accommodate more and more individual educational needs. It's certainly tempting to get
back into learning when the restrictions

imposed by time and money and lifehave been largely alleviated.

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Risk and opportunity the two are never

very far apart. If you want to get a computer at the most attractive price, you
should invest some time in researching
your purchase, to reduce the risk of buying

Fujitsu hard drive? ATI or Matrox graphics

card? Creative I.abs Sound Blaster audio
card?)? Check the components to ensure
they are in fact the same as the configuration stated by the sales rep. If you aren' t
sure which components are the best, check
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{hltp://www,tcp.ca). Do y o u r h o m ework
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model lettering sanded or scraped off. An

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A nother major consideration i s t h e
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iMac peripherals such as floppy dri-.

ves, scanners, keyboards and printers~,
-~"'->and-the group is working

a lemon.

clocked" to give a higher frequency speed or three years for a VC, for parts and ser-

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1998 THE COMPUTER PAPER GREATERTORONTO EDITION www.tcp.ca

TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

- INDUS SYSTEMS

2Lea r n teaches
teachers to use the Web

Why should you go for

Nlicrosoft certification?

Hereareatleastfourreasons...
I. A salary survey shows striking increases in compensation for MCSEs.

with an Internet connection. Knowing

how to use it to its maximum potential is the
great challenge for educators at all levels.
Thanks to a c ooperative relationship

3. Microsoft's certification is recognized worldwide.

Whim you tell prospective employers that you are an
MCSE, they understand the level of your knowledge.

Systems Engineer

of interest to parents, kids and teachers. The

2S- to SO-word descriptions for each link
should speed research and help filter Web

pages.
The information is so well written, organized and presented that a print copy should

be available in every school in Canada. The

between TELUS (a Alberta telecom company) site wilt help kids researching projects on the

individuals.

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resource library available to anyone

2. Rescitrch indicates that Microsoft cenificauoit has

significant benefits for both employers and certified

being added. The list now includes 1,29S sites

By Jean Allen-Iheson

Bright Futures Foundation, th e

Teachers Association, the Alberta
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Education, help is at hand.

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exams in their internal certification programs.

A l berta Web, and provides parents with a list of links

School on everything from pediatric medicine to parAlberta enting babies.
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vide online help in understanding, using and

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Their site (http;//www.2Learit.ca) branches out

Lectures Labs StudySessions Quizzes

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Canada to require fiscal report of Y2K readiness

By Martin Stone

of the seven leading economic countries) to

require financial statement disclosures relat-

companies, both public and private, are now

required to highlight in their financial stateTORONTO {NB) The Canadian Institute ing to Y2K preparedness.
ments the fact that they may experience probo f' Chartered Accountants (CICA) h a s
Michael H. Rayner, CICA president and lems relating to the Y2K Bug.
released accounting and auditing guidelines member of Industry Canada's Task Force Year
The bug is
expected to create some comon the Year 2000 ( Y2K) issue, making 2000, said that, under authority from the puter Failures on and afterJan. I, 2000.
Canada the first country in the G7 (a group Canadian Accounting Standards Board, all
"The Year 2000 issue poses an immediate

and significant challenge to businesses around

the world. Through appropriate financial
statement disclosure, these new guidelines
will ensure that the public investor is aware of
the issue," Rayner said,
The accounting guideline provides a balanced approach to disclosures about the Y2K
issue, he said. It discusses the nature and
extent of Y2K information that an entity may
wish to disclose, and the most appropriate
vehicle for doing so. In particular, it sets out
financial statement disclosure requirements
for two specific circumstances, the institute

said,

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future financial results. Such uncertainty disclosure, normally beyond the scope of financial statements, is required because ol the pervasiveness of the issue, its potential to cause
significant systems Failures, and the fact that it
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H owever,
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going concern is jeopardized because of noncompliance to Y2K. In that event, the financial statements will provide explicit disclosure
of the problem, according to the organizaoon.
As well as these minimum disclosure
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Y2K issue in annual reports or other communications with shareholders and other stakeholders, said Rayner.
Rayner stressed that the requirement applies
only to companies filing financial statements
under the terms of the General Agreement on

Trade and TarifF {GATT), but added that banks,

stock exchanges and other financial institutions
may soon also require similar disclosures.
He added that, even if a company feels it is
Y2K compliant, it will need to state that because,
if somewhere along the supply chain an entity is
unprepared, problems may be experienced. He
Further stated that it may be "legally unwise" For
a company to daim to be Y2K ready because of
the potential failure of a supplier.
Copies of these new guidelines, together
with the CICA's other Year 2000 publications, are available on the CICA Web site.
The CICA, together with the provincial
and territorial institutes of chartered accountants, represent a membership of 60,000
professional accountants in C anada and
Bermuda, The CICA sets accounting and
auditingstandards forbusiness, not-for-profit organizations and government. It issues
guidance on control and governance, publishes professional literature, develops continuing education programs and represents
the CA profession nationally and interna-

tionally. 0
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Videoconferencing: coming soon to a PC near you

f you ran a small- to medium-size business, would you he interested in videoc onferencing? My g uess is t hat y o u
wouldn' t. It still sounds too much like a geewhiz technology relevant only to big corporations
wit h
branch o f f i c es
distributed across
the planet. However, you' ll discover as you read
i ssue o F T e ch
Enterprise t h at
p roponents o f
videoconferenci ng ar e t r y i n g
very hard to make it a technology that any
business can use to its advantage.
I say "trying" because we' re not quite
there yet, although we' ve made considerable
progress in clearing the technological hurdles. In the '70s, as a university student, I
worked on a research project called "the
wired city," an early exploration into the
world of videoconferencing. The metaphor
that defined videoconferencing then was
television. The wired city consisted of a
number of rooms wired together to Form an
interactive closed-circuit TV system. And in
Fact, each room simulating a d i fferent
location within a city looked a bit like a
T V s t u d i o/control r o o m . Ea c h wa s
equipped with a Iew TV monitors, and a
TV camera. The technicians were TV technicians.
As with so many other technology-based

briefing a couple of months ago, we were We saw plans for a North American-style
taken on a tour of Aspire Park. Aspire Park subdivision, and we also saw some of the
is the vision of Accr chief executive officer single-family homes already under construcStan Shih and wife Caroline for an integrat- tion. Along with choosing the color oF the
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digital video camera suitable For videoconferencing, Oh, and you will need a PC with a
fairamounr of processing power and a 32-bit
versionof Microsoft Windows operating system (a system with a 100 MHz Pentium CPU
running Windows 95 or Windows 98 as a
basic minimum).
Although it is also possible to do Internerb ased v i deoconferencing w i t h A pp l e
Macintosh-based systems, this feature will
deal principally with Windows-based implementations simply because Windows is by far
the most common platform.
As for software, users of most new
Windows-based PCs will find thai their computers come equipped with a built-in conferencing system in the form o f M i crosoft
NetMeeting. I t c o mes with M i c rosoft's
Internet Explorer Web browser, and is part of
the built-in Web browser technology in
Windows 98. Assuming you have a videoconferencing kit (or you assemble one by adding
the components mentioned above) and have
an account with an Internet service provider
(ISP), you are ready to go with a product such
as NetMeeting 2.1.
Your first challenge may be in finding
someone withwhom you can have a videoconference. The ideal scenario is that you and
a business associate, friend or relative in different cities or even different countriescan simplyeach buy one of the dozens of relatively low-cost videoconference kits and then
arrange to meet over the Internet.
Assuming you both use NetMeeting, the
process is pretty simply. You either "dial" the
other person by typing their email ID into the
"call" box in NetMeeting or you select their

ence is the size of the data "pipe" down which

the sound and images travel. If you have only
a 28.8Kbps modem, Forexample, then you
are likely to see a succession of still images
instead oF full-motion video.
The faster the connection, theoretically
the better your videoconference. Remember,
however, that the connection will only be as
fast as the slowest connection. If you have an
8 Mb/sec. ADSL connection but you connect
with someone who has a 56Kbps modem on
a standard phone line, the connection will be
no faster than if both parties had 56 Kbps
modems.
But it's also important not to get too hung
up on the "video" of Internet-based videoconferencing as it may be the least useful aspect
of this technology. Sharing data files "live" via
NetMeeting may turn out to be more productive than a videoconference. While it is
certainly lots of fun, unless you have a highspeed connection and a relatively good cameras at both ends, you may find the novelty of
videoconferencingsoon wears off.
But as a fun way of seeing far-off colleagues, Friends or family "live" without the
price of a plane ticket, it is hard to beat even
with limited video quality and jerky move-

neous audio, video and data collaboration,

allowingusersto see and hear the remote person with whom they are talking, while sharing applications or discussing documents
rhrough an "electronic whiteboard."

It's Mom, calling from Paris

For those who have a hard time seeing how

this might be used, turn to the ever-popular
computer industry cliche of the busy executive who uses it For videoconferences with
business colleagues, as well as keeping in
touch with loved ones thousands of miles
away. A little real-world testing suggests this is
entirely possible with several caveats.
First, it means you and your spouse
and/or children will both have to have PCs
with videoconferencing kits and be connected
to the Internet during the call. Given the
sometimes complex nature of establishing an
Internet connection (particularly on older
systems) and the cost in some countries, this
alone may be a significant barrier.
And iF you are calling your children and
plan to do so using one of the many videoconFerence "directories" (this is a list of' all
people who are "online" with a video connection and ready to establish a connection at
any given moment), you may want to think
ments.
again.
Unfortunately, it appears the intrepid pioNotebook vldeoconferenclng
If you have anotebook computer on your neers oF the video sex trade discovered
business trip (and who is allowed to leave the Internet videoconferencing long before the
office these days without one?), you can now rest of us. Therefore, if you are scrolling
buy a portable videoconferencing kit. This through a list of people online to find the
allows you to hold a videoconference whenev- name of your beloved spouse, you may find it
er and wherever you can hook up your note- sandwiched between Big Jim and Lovely
book. While these kits don't offer the same Lucinda, each of who will be making lewd
quality or flexibility as a professional video- appeals for you to join their video chat.
And God forbid you mistakenly set up
conferencing suite, they are convenient to use
From your hotel room or a client's office, with your videoconferencesystem to "accept all
name From a list of people currently online either a standard telephone line or Internet incoming calls." You may find yourself suddenly participating in the kind of videoconand available For videoconferencing. If you connection.
choose the latter option, beware that you
These systems typically cost around $500 ference that would be more appropriate in a
may find your name wedged in between a lot and consist of a small digital video camera red light district than your hotel room or your
of moresalacious videoconference opportu- and an interface adapter (allowing you to
home office.It'
s the kind of videoconference
nities.
connectthe camera via a creditcard-sized PC
you can probably do without!
Once you place the call, the receiving Card inserted into the notebook's PC Card
Rent a conference
parry will be notified by an on-screen alert slot or printer port). The kits also come with
Perhaps you don't want to haul a portable
that avideoconference call has come in for the appropriate driver software and one of
computer
and videoconferencing kit around.
them and they can accept or decline it.
several standard videoconferencing software
Or
you
may
simply want something that proAssuming you are calling someone you applications.
vides
better
quality than an Internet-based
know and that they are expecting your
There are one or two uses for such a lowvideoconference.
A service bureau or business
call they will accept and you can begin talk- cosr package. It is cheaper than booking a
centre
could
be
what
you need. A growing
ing and looking at one another.
videoconference suite for a single meeting. It
number
of
such
operations
now provide
also allows For more spontaneous videoconvideoconference
facilities.
ferencing, and it operates over a standard
It may be neat, but Is It good?
Prices vary widely depending on which
Two major technology issues will have an phone line.
bureau
you use, and in which countries you
IBM, Toshiba, Compaq and other PC
impact on the quality of your call. The first is
connect
with to conference. Typically bureaus
makers offervideoconference kits as options
the qualit
y ofyour videoconference camera.
Many videoconference cameras are fairly with their premium notebooks. We had an provide professional-quality capabilities with
basic, with a simple manual, ring-turn focus opportunity t o t est t h e l atest Compaq excellent sound, full motion video, high-resosystem that does not allow For easy zooming Armada with its Portable Video Conferencing lution images and all the tilt, pan and zoom
capabilities you would expect.
or panning. Such cameras typically offer lim- Kit.
One of the pioneers in this area is the
The kit, which sells for $772, Features a
ited resolution of 640x480 pixels. If the image
Kinko's
chain of office service operations. The
is fuzzy with poor color and limited resolu- small, high-resolution color camera and is
company
says its 155 videoconferencing
tion, don't expect it to be transformed into a powered through a 32 bit "CardBus" interface
suites
worldwide
are used by businesses of all
broadcast-quality signal when you send it
(using the notebook computer's PC Card slot,
types
and
sizes
for
open Forums, talking to
thus eliminating the need for power cables
over the Internet.
vendors,
new
business
prospects or colleagues
If you are confident that you have a good and adapters for the camera). It is designed to
camera (such as a commercialcamcorder be compatible with Microsoft NetMeeting in different cities. The company also provides
hooked up to a video capture card), then the 2.0 and 2.1. Compaq says the portable video- a special "graphics camera" to help videoconContinued on page18
second big hurdle to an Internet videoconfer- conferencing kit supports real-time simulta-

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Merrill Lynch says Y2I4 no Armageddon

By Craig Menefee
NEW YORK (NB) Merrill Lynch has
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word, overblown. It just won't get that bad,
the ML researchers declare.
"Most companies have been working on
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one and a half years left," says the 450-page
report, released in early July. "Microsof't,
Latin America and communism all changed
radically in a lot less time."
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"We think this is the first time any brokerage
firm, or probably anyone at all, has taken such
an in-depth, wide-ranging look at how prepared corporations are around the world."
She continued, "One of theconclusions
we came away with and it seems obvious, in
a sense is that the more complicated a
process is, the more likely there will be glitches. But when you begin to talk with 3,000
companies around the world, you find that
most have been working on this issue for at
leasttwo years.They have another year and a
half to work on it, and most of the major corporations around the world believe they are
going to be ready for it."
"There won'tbe a domino effect,because
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L ynch analyst Jeanne G. T e rrile, w h o
authored the overview of the report.

Terrile said the result of glitches, which the

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Corel's quandary: profit vs interesting products

By Geof Wheelwright

orel Corporation president, chief executive ofFicer and founder Michael

Cowpland likes to be a winner, yet he
doesn't seem to mind backing a few losers
now and then as long as they put up a good
fight. You only have to look ar the Ottawa
Senators
N HL
hock e y tea m and
Cowpland's sponsorship of the Corel Centre,
where the team plays all of its home gamesto know the depth of this conviction.
As an avid sports enthusiast, Cowpland
watched the Senators eke out a playoff spot
this year in the race to win the Stanley Cup,
but then fail to make it past the early days of

this machine with the Unix-like Linux operating system (Red Hat 4.2) and is marketing
variations of i t t o d i fFerent sectors. The

Legal Impllcatlons of Year 2K

Continued from page7

NetWinder uses the RISC-based 275 MHz

(250 MIPS) StrongARM microproces-

their ongoing operations. This exchange of

information regarding the Y2K compliance of
products and systems and the Y2K preparedness
of business partners is an essential part of a Y2K
preparedness program.
Y2K inquiries and responses serve a number
of legitimate purposes:
raising Y2K awareness and encouraging business parmers and others to address Y2K problems in a timely manner;
obuining information regarding the Y2K compliance of products and systems acquired in the
past and to be acquired in the future; and
obuining information regarding business partners' Y2K preparedness.

sor. This chip was originally developed in the United Kingdom by

Acorn Computer and later codeveloped with Olivetti and Apple
Computer. It has been used in a
wide variety of non-Windows-based
computers in the past eight years.
The systems will be available
with 32 or 64 MB of

te

the playofF race in June.

Cowpland is now busy making sure the
same fate doesn't befall Corel itself: The corporation has been struggling over the past
year since entering a head-to-head battle with
M icrosoft C o r p . by acqu i r in g the
WordPerfect word-processing,spreadsheet,
database, and graphics suite of products.
While Corel "made the playofFs" with relatively strong sales for its f irst round of
upgrades to the Corel WordPerfect Suite in
the summer of 1996, it was soon blown away
by the release and subsequent huge success of
Microsoft Office 97. It is a blow from which
Corel has yet to fully recover.

Deep, necessary cuts

Like an NHL general manager "shaking up
the bench" to achieve better performanceand lower the team payroll Cowpland
announced in June that the company is shutting down the Orem, Utah engineering centre
where WordPerfect has been designed and
built since its creation more than a decade

and peripherals that 1'I or I ~

p .atI

woulcl be t ypically ~'Prestdettt eodchief executive officer, gicheet .<",=.;,-';

port, i n frared port,
1 6-bit s o und, a n d
The N e t W inder
WS i s w ha t C o re l
advertises as an "out of
the box Web server. It
ships with Linux 2.0.X
a nd Apache H T T P
1.2.6 server software.
The NetWinder DM

Date incorporated: 1985

Revenue:
filet sales of $83mtlon for second ',"' '::
quarter of fiscal 1998ending May31, 1998, ...;,:,;,,'
So f tware products: Include CorelDrew, Corel' .;"" ".
W o rdPerfect Suite, Corel Ventura, Coret Print
H o use INegic end Coret Pnut Office

Hardwareproducts: CorelNetWInderline of network computersdevelopedbyCoral Computer, a

subsidiary alsobasedin Ottawa

'

Y2K inquiries and responses may also havesignificant legal consequences. They may shift the risk
of Y2K problems and establish a basis for future
legal claims, such as breach of conuact, negligent
or fiaudulent misrepresentation, and breach of
duty to warn. Y2K responses may also establish a
basis for defences to future claims, such as the
defence of failure to mitigate. Accordingly, it is crucial that Y2K inquiries and responses be prepared
in a cateful and thoughtful manner, pursuant to an
established protocol, and with the benefit of legal
and technical advice.

Tel:813-728-3733.http://~.corel.corn
platform. A third vari'
Disclosure nsks and benefits
ation, the NetWinder
There are both risks and benefits in disclosing posLC will be out later
sible Y2K problems. Disclosure may disrupt existthis year and will serve as a Linuxing business relationships, hinder new relationbased workstation or small server.
ships,
or provoke lawsuits. On the other hand, a
Cowpland is playing up the
ago.
failure
to make timely Y2K disclosure may have
He says he expects this will save the com- appeal he hopes this computer will
Corel's NetWinder
similar effects or give rise to liability where there is
have
to
those
who
want
systems
that
pany about $33 million a year and will put
more than 500 people out of a job. But after do not make any money For either
suite sector by adding features like voice a legal disclosure obligation.
Disdosure may be seen as agood Eiith attempt
seeing its share value fall by some 80 percent Intel or Microsoft and which allow users to recognition. In M ay, Corel announced a
in the 1997 fiscal year, Cowpland obviously "innovate around a standard" (in this case, deal with D r agon Systems that added to assist business parmers and may result in the
figured he could no longer tolerate this kind Linux).
to
s peech-recognition
fun ct i o n s
timely, consensual resolution of disputes or difficul"The Linuxand Open Source communiof loss.
WordPerfect 8. The speech-recognition add- ties. In addition, giving notice of Y2K problems
"This decision was not taken lightly, ties have enthusiastically responded to the on allows users to dictate to their machines may oblige others to act to minimize the impact
rather with the best interests of our customers announcement of the NetWinder DM and its through a m i crophone and have words
and mitigate the lossesthey may sufFer as a result of
and shareholders in mind," he explained. potential applications," he proclaims.
appear onscreen, rather than having to type
the disdosed Y2K problem (which in turn may
And yet the NetWinder line is not likely words into a document.
"We' llsee increased R8cD synergies across
reduce the magnitude of future claims). Disdosure
to
have
much
of
an
immediate
impact
on
product lines and substantial cost savings
However, Lotus has already embedded
may also encourage others to solve or disclose their
Corel's
bottom
line.
He
admits
the
DM,
for
from this consolidation. h strengthens our
IBM ViaVoice into WordPro in a m i nor
products, strengthens our fiscal outlook and example, is a "development machine" and is upgrade to SmartSuite earlier this year, and own Y2K problems.
designed specifically for the power user, not has added voice capabilities to the Millenium
sets the stage for the next two years."
Under Corel's "consolidation plan," devel- for the high-volume market.
edition of its 1-2-3 spreadsheet application. A disclosure protocol
Cowpland is betting that this combina- Corel appears to be banking on the notion
opment o f
Wor d Perfect, Quattropro,
It is important to establish a protocol for issuing
Presentations and Open-J products will take tion of non-Intel hardware and integrated that Dragon's implementation of speech
and responding to Y2K inquiries in order to
"open source"software (Linux code isin the
place in Canada at Corel's Ottawa office,
recognition, which is widely respected, will
ensure they are made in a proper and consistent
from which Paradox, Ventura, CorelDraw, public domain) will give the NetWinder DM
provide it with an edge, or at least give it par- manner that maximizes benefits and minimizes
some
long-term
viability
as
a
development
Print Office, the Corel Print House Magic
ity with competitors.
risks of additional legal duties, obligations or lialine, Gallery Magic, and Professional Photos tool. During Comdex Canada, Corel was
Where Corel goes from there, however, is
offering
NetWinder
at
prices
beginning
at
less
bilities.
are produced.
very hard to say. Cowpland clearly has a
than $1,000.
The protocol should apply to both issuing and
tough job ahead of him in rebuilding the
responding to Y2K inquiries. It should require
Betting on Llnux
company, which has not made a profit in six
Shoring up the mainstream
The other big decision Cowpland made in
consecutive financial quarters. While the size that all Y2K inquiries and responses be issued by
June was to bring one of his pet projects back In the short term, however, Corel's salvation of the losses are decreasing and the company the person or group responsible for managing the
into the mainstream company kind of like will come from its mainstream product linehas portrayed recent results as "better than
business' Y2K problems. This will help ensure
the
pulling in some talent from the farm team. C orel's g r aphics p r o ducts a n d
predicted," this probably says as much about
inquiries are appropriate, and that responses are
The project in question was a spin-off com- WordPerfect Suite. While CorelDraw and its the level of diminished expectations for Corel
accurate and consistent with previous disdosures.
pany, known as Corel Computer Corp., ded- associated graphics applications are still
as it does about the success of its current
Y2K inquiries may also be made in an informal
icated to creating a "network computer" or strong contenders, the most drastic work
strategy.
manner
or be the subject of routine communicaneeds
to
be
done
on
the
Corel
WordPerfect
"thin dient" product as well as desktop videoTo return to consecutive profitability,
Suite
(which
will
soon
face
yet
another
chaltions
with
customers, business partners, and othconferencingsystems.
Corel may have to dump the biggest drain
ers. Accordingly, all employeesshould be edutmted
The first of Corel Computer's network l enge from Microsoft in the form of t he
on its resources the WordPerfect busiabout Y2K and its technical, business and legal
computer products made its public debut at u coming OfFice 2000 suite). WordPerfect ness and return to being a strong computso faces immediate competition from Lotus, er graphics software company with forays impliGitions, informed about the risks presented
Toronto's Comdex Canada in July. It should
come as no surprise that neither Microsoft which launched its SmartSuite Millenium into other sectors. If not, it needs to find a
by Y2K disclosures, and instructed to respond to
nor Intel will make much money out of this edition in July.
way ofbetterserving the ever-shrinking band
Corel
is
making
some
attempts
to
carve
computer.
of loyal WordPerfect users and of attracting
Known as the NetWinder, Corel is selling out a more identifiable niche for itself in the new ones. 0

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T ECH ENTERPRISE g g g g

ness reasons for this approach. Nevercheless, one

chem to an authorized spokesperson.
should carefully consider whether the potential
The pmtocol should ensurethat proper legal benefits of proaaive disdosure outweigh the
and technical advice is obtained in a timely man- porendal risks and liabilities.
ner. The pmmcol should also ensure timely reponing to senior ~
men t regarding the organiza- Generic inquiries.
tion's Y2K p~
ess a nd disdosures and the responses and prioritization
Y2K inquiries issued and responses received.
Some organizations are issuing generic Y2K
inquiries. Before adopting this approach, one
Dlsdosure obligations
should consider the additional benefits that may
It is important to determine whether there are legal result from tailoring inquiries to the recipient, irs
duties to make Y2K disclosures before issuing or circumstanczs, and the manner in which its prodresponding to Y2K inquiries. In some circum- uas, services, and operations are likely to be afeastances, a legal duty to disclose Y2K problems and ed by Y2K. A specific inquiry may result in more
preparedness may be imposed by statute or regula- useful responses and meanin~ information, and
tion, by common law, or pursuant to connaas may be particularly appmpriate for key produas,
regarding the purchase and sale of products and services, and business parmeis. One should consystems, the supply of services, or with business sider the possible Ieyl risks and adverse business
parmeis generally. Most disdosure requirements consequences of not responding to specific quesace of a general nature, rather than Y2K-specific, tions or assumptions.
but they may be bmad enough to impose an obligIn some cases, issuing and responding to Y2K
ation to disdose aaual or potential Y2K problems. inquiries can be a considerable burden, In those
In addition, Y2K-specific disdosure obligations circumstances, priority should be given to key
haverecendy been imposed by various regulatory products, services and business partners. It may
bodies.
also be appmpriate to issue properly qualified
generic inquiries or responses to less important
Proactive disdosure
business parmers.
Some organizations are making Y2K disdosuies to
their business parmers and others prior to the Legal rights and remedies
receipt of Y2K inquiries. There may be valid busi- It is imponant to ensure that Y2K inquices and

responses do not inadvertendy prejudice legal

rights and remedies. For example, existing contraas with business partnas may contain liability
exdusions or limitations and "entice agreement"
provisions. A party issuing a Y2K inquiry may
wish to do so in a manner diat seeks to amid the
application of those conccaa provisions. On the
other hand, a responding party may wish to maintain the benefit of those contraa pmvisions by
expressly referencing them in its response. These
and other such martets oughr ro be considered
with the benefit of legal advice.

Definitions and exdusions

T hereare no standard,universally accepted defi
nitions of the terms "Y2K Compliant" (for produas) and "Y2K Ready" (for services and opera-

"Y2K Compliant" and "Y2K Ready" chat ace

specifically railored m the particular produas, services or operations that are the subjea of the
inquiry or response. This may not be praaicable in
all cases, buc should be considered for key produas, services, and busmess partners.
In light oF the uncenainties presented by
Y2K and rhe risks resulting from dependencies
on ochecs, an unqualified assurance or guarantee
of Y2K compliance or readiness should almost
never be given. Further, in some circumstances it
may be appropriate to warn that notwithstanding all reasonable eforts some Y2K problems
may occur.

Evaluation and follow up

Y2K inquiries should request responses within a

tions). Accordingly, Y2K inquiries should define reasonable time period. Reminder lateis should be
those terms. If a Y2K inquiry does not provide
acceptable definitions, the response should do so.
Ambiguity in an inquiry or a response may result
in unintended adverse consequences.
It may also be appropriate for definitions of
"Y2K Compliant" and "Y2K Ready" to expressly
provide for exclusions and qualifications to
account for problems caused by third-party equipment or data, problems beyond the responding
party's control, or the results of Y2K problems of
ochets.
It may be appropriate to provide definitions of

sent to delinquent recipients,

Responses should be carefully evaluated, with
the benefit of t echnical and legal advice.
Inadequate, incomplete, ambiguous, or otherwise
unsatisfactory responses should be che subjea of
further inquiries.
Responses that reference future Y2K remediation plans should be iollowed up after a reasonable period oF time with requests for status
reports and further inFormation. Follow-up
inquiries shout not explicitly or implicidy

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approve of the responding party's Y2K status,

preparedness plans, or disdosure.

plans may require a correcting disclosure in the

event those plans do not proceed as originally
contemplated. Accordingly, one's own past
Further disdosure and inquiries
responses to Y2K inquiries should be reviewed
Disclosure obligations might not be satisfied by periodically and consideration should be given
an initial response to a Y2K inquiry. In some to making additional disclosures.
circumstances there may be a legal duty to make
It may be appropriate for responses to disfurther disclosure in the future. For example, claim any obligarion to make future disclosures
responses that are subsequently discovered to be or correct
ions.However, such disclaim ers m ay
inaccurate or misleading may require correc- not be efFective, and there may remain either a
tion. Also, responses that reference future Y2K legal duty or a practical business reason to make

further disclosure.
Supplementary Y2K inquiries might be
issued on a periodic basis to ensure previous
responses remain valid and to seek disclosure of
recently discovered Y2K problems.

Legal effect
It is important to consider the intended and
unintended legal efFects of Y2K inquiries and
responses.
As a generalrule,one should assume
Y2K inquiries and responses will be used in evi-

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by documented objective tests and data.
Y2K inquiries often include statements
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compliance of its products, or the Y2K readiness
of its services. Such statements should be subjected to the same rigorous review as would formal responses to inquiries from others.
It has been reported thar some organizations
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Y2K compliance. Accordingly, consideration
should be given to independently verifying assurances of Y2K compliance regarding key products
and systems. It may also be prudent to request
documents and information to corroborate Y2K
compliance assurances, such as test methodology
and results, and information necessary to permit
independent testing and verification.
In some circumstances, regulations or directives of self-governing bodies may require organizations to take reasonable steps to verify assurances of Y2K compliance.

Documentation
All formal and informal Y2K inquiries and
responses should be documented for future ref'erence. Documented evidence of Y2K inquiries
may be crucial in order to support claims
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technical, and legal issues, with potentially significantlegal and business consequences. For
this reason, it is crucial that Y2K inquiries and
responses be prepared in a careful and thoughtful manner, pursuant to an established protocol,
and with the benefit of legal and technical
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Dell plans to sell 50 percent

of its PCs online
By )eff Evans

ell Computer Corp. has been the

wild card in the PC business since its
founding 13 years ago. As the principal exponent of selling PCs directly to end
user (by mail, phone, or more recently, the
Internet), Dell has shown the industry that
the direct sales model can result in a high
degree of success and customer satisfaction.
About 60 percent of Dell PC sales are to
large government and business clients, and
about the remaining 40 percent to small business and home PC markets.
Currently, about 10 percent of total Dell
PC sales or over $3,000,000 per day are
done via the Internet.
Dell's revenues in its past Four quarters The price of half-heartedness:
were US$13.6 billion, making it the number channel conflict
two PC seller worldwide behind Compaq, When asked what he thought about competitors' anempts to emulate the Dell direct sale
but about 25 percent ahead of IBM.
More impressive is Dell's rate of growth, model, through "build to order" or other
which averages four or live times the global direct sales models, Dell laughed and said that
norm. In the last year, its sales rose 52 per- many other PC vendors are "trying but not
cent. In Canada, Dell Computer's unit sales trying" to get into the direct sales model.
Instead of embracing the direct channel
were up over 90 percent. Obviously, many
whole
heartedly, they are trying to get some of
Canadian computer users, whether in business or in the home, have Found Dell's prod- the advantages of direct selling without cutting out their retail stores. This means the
ucts and business practices appealing.
Michael Dell was in Toronto recently, and direct market wannabes are stuck with the
problem of "channel" conflict with their
Tech Enterprisehad an opportunity to talk to
the man who continues to challenge the tra- retail dealers, where the consumer seeking
the lowest price has trouble seeing the advanditional way of making and selling PCs.
tage of buying direct from a manufacturer
Michael Dell In Hogtown
when some retailers will always be tempted
We arrived about half an h our early at
to offer a bit bener discount on the exact
Toronto's Prince Hotel, and located the ball- same product.
room where Dell was supposed to address the
No maner how you cut it, according to
Canadian press. The room was virtually Dell, pure direct selling cuts out a whole layer
empty, except for a dark haired man who of costs, and when done right, is inherently
stepped forward to shake this writer's hand, cheaper than the old style of PC sales.
saying, " I'm M i chael D ell." D e l l . and According to Dell, once his corporate cusCanadian president W. Scon O'Hare and I
t omers establish an o n line account, i t
had a very pleasant discussion for the next 20 becomes incrediblyquick and easy for them
minutes, followed by a wide ranging and
to order any number and configuration of PC
informal question and answer session with a systems. Dell can source parts and assemble
couple of dozen Canadian journalists.
systems on a "just in time" basis, without havDell was very upbeat on his company's ing more than a few days' inventory oF comrecent progress, especially in the Canadian ponents on hand. The Dell PC manufacturmarket. He said Canadians were buying a ing model is currently giving the company a
larger percentage of Dell computers over the 229 percent annual return on investment,
Internet than computer users in any other compared to an industry average around 20
country.
to 30 percent.
When asked about the safety of doing
business online, Dell claimed that "there are Applied research:
about five or six fraud anempts per 1,000" getting It right and on time
phone transactions, compared to about "10 When asked about the future of the tradior 11 fraud anempts per 1,000" Internet tional desktop PC, Michael Dell claimed
transactions. Almost none of the Internet there was still an advantage to a PC being in
Fraud anempts succeed, he said.
a case separate from the monitor, since it
Of more concern, according to Dell, is the allows users to expand and upgrade, or even
issue of privacy. Dell stated that his company r eplace, their system, without having t o
doesn't sell customer information to anyone. replace the monitor as well,
They also don't use customer data internally
Dell also looks forward to flat-panel disin ways that the customer hasn't explicitly plays eventually becoming the norm, though
permitted.
he believes they are still too expensive for the

average consumer. In specialty applications

such as the financial industries, flat panels are
selling well, due to the valuable space saving a
flat panel offers in crowded, high priced corporate offices. Dell said his company is going
to support the all-digital flat panel initiative
spearheaded by ATI, as a quick way to drive
flat-panel prices down.
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company is simply a marketing machine and
not an innovator is unfounded. He said Dell
Computer spends $280 million on research
and development annually, and employs
1,700 engineeringstaff.The company registers hundreds of patents annually, and
although it doesn't duplicate the research and
development efforts of basic technology makers such as Intel or Microsoft, its engineering
efforts result in products that are well integrated, reliable, with leading edge performance, and highly compatible with the most
current industry standards.

Down on the sub-$1.000 PC

for now
Dell defended his company's general avoidance of the "sub-$1,000 PC" market, claiming that rather than a real product segment,
the sub-$1,000 PC phenomenon can more
accurately be described as "an inventory liquidation mechanism." Obsolescent components can be assembled into PC systems very
cheaply, and the results are finding a ready
market, but buyers should be cautious oF
products that are based on whatever parts are
available at bargain basement prices.
For all the pitfalls of the low-end PC
model, Dell did concede that it is helping to
move computers into more homes around the
world. Businesses and "power users" have little interest in them, however, largely due to
persistent compatibility and quality problems.
In terms of the "next big thing" in computing, Dell pointed to higher bandwidth
networking i n h o mes and o f fices, and
declared his support For any and all faster networking technologies.
Dell's own direction is to build his company's sales in the home and small business
markets, while developing high-powered
servers and workstations for the corporate
market. He sees Internet sales as a key element oF the company's growth. "I'd like to see
50 percent ofour sales happening on the
Internet by the year 2000."
Dell sees the main opportunity in computing over the next several years as an extension
of current trends: Intel processors approaching
1,000 Mhz, average system RAM and hard
drives increasing in capacity, prices declining
slightly while capacities continue to double
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Dynamic Web demands new tools

In Part I, "Evolving Web demands new approaches," in the July issue ofTCP's Tech Enterprise supplement, author Jacques Surveyor pointed
out that the Web is quickly evolving from static to dynamic, from single to multi-user and becoming more interactive. In this second and concluding article, the author presents an assessment of Web authorlng tools and how they will be replaced or complemented by an emerging
class of tools for creating dynamic and database-driven Web pages.
By Jacques Surveyor

at,you may ask, have been the effects of the

major Web trends on Web authoring tools?
Surprisingly, there has been very little effect on
the original Web page editors. This is partially because
static pages still dominate the Web estimates suggest they comprise 90 percent of sites. To be sure,
dynamic pagesare used, but they arc undergoing
a shift away from CC'I (common gateway interFace) and proprietary coding schemes to
JavaScript, D H T M L
(d y n amic h y pertext
markup language) and Java. In addition,
though done in scripts, user-customized pages
work best with a server-side database.
The problem with databases on the Web is
that there are few standards and a big scramble
For market dominance. Thus we see Microsoft's
ASP (active server pages), Oracle and Netscape's
Web servers, and a whole range of tools using
JavaScript or Java to provide either explicit or
behind the scenes database support for dynamic
page creation and persistent/stored user proftles.
Multi-party, interactive pages are dominated by
Java applets. In Fact, Java is beginning to dominate the
top end of the Web scene, particularly server-side operations. This is becausJava interfaces radily with the Net and
can handle multi-threading, security, and database interactions effectively.
However, the bulk ot the Web is still static, so we will
begin by looking at thclassic Web authoring tools, and then
see how these and site management tools are evolving (or not)
in response to a more active Net.
These evaluations are based on Web site development
work, as well as comments by colleagues and co-workers.
Many of the performance tests were done on a Pentium 233
MHz NT4 server with 96 MB RAM and 100 Mbps Ethernet.

The classics:
textual and visual
There are five types of static HTiVIL editors broken down into
two major groups: text or tag-based editors, and visual Web
layout tools.

style templates and wizards.These allow you to:

create a site with a distinctive look and feel;
ge nerate many standard pages;
change complete style/look of site with template change.
PageMill 3 and Ho TMetaL Pro 4 have the most powerful search and replace Features. These allow you to
search and replace:

text string or regular expression across whole

site;
objects (image, sound, movie) across whole site.
Visual Page and Front Page 98 have the best
property sheets for quick change/edit of objects,
allowing you to:
right mouse click on object and change any
property;

use tabbed dialog for object, container, then

page set ti ngs.
Visual Page, Front Page and PageMill all excel at
visual layout with drag and drop operation for:
moving or resizing of tables and Frames;
im age and imagemap positioning and enhancement,

based and include HTML generation for tables or frames.

DHTML, CSS, and spots of XML, XSS, XSL code are provided as templates or macro Features. In sum, tag editors provide quite a leg up over use ot Notepad. An investment in
these will quickly be rewarded.

Visual Web layout tools

PageMill, NetObjects Fusion and Front Page are all tops at

sitemanagement of allW eb sitepages and resources.These
allow you to:
manage pages and resources in different views;
check For broken URL/links, orphaned objects and

spelling;

The drag and drop, visual Web layout tools also break down
FT P upload/download with timing statistics.
but into three categories: Microsoft-only tools like Microsoft
Front Page 98; open standard bearers like Macromedia's
Given this impressive lineup oF added Features, static tools
Dreamweaver, and SoftQuad's HoTMetaL 4; and lowest comrecommendations are easy to make. Go with visual tools; they
mon denominator tools Symantec's Visual Page, and Adobe's
have all the power of tag editors plus fast Web page layout and
PageMill 3.
change. Also visual tools are more suitable for change to
Visual tools are growing in popularity For a number of reasons. First, they provide multiplviews of your Web page and DHTML, XML, and the scripting direction the Weh is tak-

Web site. Most provide three views: drag and drop layout
view; quick preview (which is close to browser view); and
Text (tag) editors
The tag editors are Visual Notpad supersets of text-only edi- actual browser view (which th highest fidelity view, and
tors broken down i n t o t w o s ubsets: those that support strongest way to check work).
And with two-way tools. the link between HTML text
Micrsoft-only features like Allaire's HomeSite and those that
editor
view and the page layout is kept quite tight. Any
support open features like Bluestone's Sapphire Tag Editor or
Brooklyn Nonh's HTML Assistant Pro 3.
change in text editor immdiately shows in visual layout; and
In a recent survey, ir was discovered that over 35 percent any chang in visual layout shows in text editor at once. This
of Web masters still use Notpad as their HTML editor of alone makes visual tools worth thprice of'admission.
choice. Yet HTML tag editors provide a wealth of valuable
In addition, visual tools vendors are working hard to profeatures such as HTML 3.2 support, plus HTML 4.0 exten- vide more faithful reproduction in browsers. Visual tools are
trying such methods as using CSS as well as tables (used by
sions; text with font control and formatting that can be edited via dialogs; help or wizards for tables, Frames, and frame- such diverse programs Microsoft Publisher 98 and NetObjects
Fusion). Another strategy is to use XSS and DOM model to
sets; and image,' imagemap, objects, plugins or script
addons.
make positioning precise.
The problem is development of standards here has been
These tag editors provide a range of extras such as color
coding of tags and tag balancing (right mouse click on a tag delayed by the browser wars.

and the editor will jump to the balancing/closing tag). Some

have HTML t ag ' lists, macro processing and automatic
indenting or tag formatting. The latest features are wizard

Dreamweaver, HotMetaL Pro and NetObjects have best

programming aids and short cutsfor:
cue cards and other help for DHTML, XML use;
and wizards to assist in forms, database links and scripts.

Visual Web tools common features

Front Page 98 and NetObjects Fusion 3 are the best tools for

ing.

Among the visual tools there is no clear cut winner.

However, the following are three recommended tools.

Symantec Visual Page

Pros: Best combination of ease of use, value; Webdevelopment pack,
which includes Symantec Visual Cafe 2.5 is a bargain; strong visual layout
editor with two way tools plus preview modes; easy frame, table and
image editing made easier with property sheets; solid text/tag editor.
Cons: Few site-wide checks; no spelling, link verification, asset or orphans
tests; bias to Java over Javascript; little support for DHTML. XML, etc.
Adobe PageMIII 3
Pros: Strong visual layout capabilities; lowest common denominator
means you don't have to worry it will work; great search and replace
site-wide for text and objects; best table and frames editing; site view and
control.
Cans:Fewscripting, DHTML, XML aids; only basic use of styles/templates; average text/tag editor.

NetOb)ects Fusion 3
Pros: Verygoodvisual layout features; besttemplatesandstyles support;
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we just recommended. In addition, some
scripting support for dynamic pages; with Propack,
dynamic scripting tools add DHTML, CSS,
good tie-ln with Cold Fusion for database linkages;
XML, and ActiveX features.
uses some DHTML,CSS,XML.
However, the most important aspect of
Cons: Rough edges on frames, tables editing; find and
scripting tools is their ability to provide interreplace only elementary; fair learning curve.
actions with Web users including database
connections. Thus, most dynamic scripting
tools like Powersoft's Powersite, Lotus Notes
Designer or Borland's IntraBuilder provide:
forms for database interacAs developers begin including dynamic and drag and drop
tion,
database elements in their Web sites, they
cross into the realm of scripting tools and N- transparent handling of database connecrions,
tier processing discussed in Part I (see TCP
dy namic page creation/reports with preJuly 98).
set headers and footers on each page,
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ent code HTML, JavaScript, special tags in and more control of graphics, sound and
movtes.
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Thus, dynamic Web authoring tools can
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The latter two types of tools we call heavyweights because they tend to be used for large
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What do the dynamic Web tools do well?
First and foremost, dynamic tools support
scripting languages for dynamic behavior
(which is still primitive in HTML and even
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scripting languages are more robust for interacting with Web users.
Second, dynamic tools provide cleaner
more functional database connectivity.

functions; used by 21 million worldwide; many thirdparty add-ons and applications.

Cons: Very steep learning curve; tool is spread out all
over the place; visual layout tool awaits 5.0 revisions.

The heavyweights:
server-side tools
What the heavyweights deliver is simple: big,
reliable Web sites the ones that can handle
thousandsof usersper day.Yetthese same systems are not dreadnoughts to design and
develop. However, the key is their large-scale
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scalability from 10 to 100,000 users per

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reliability and security on client and server (auto-restart and recovery for clients
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flexibiliry;

HT M L c l i ent, scripts or applets (Web

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conferences, multi-player games; video
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customization and persistent memory
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flows);
In addition, the Web scripting tools present their own unique problems. Many tools
have had to adopt proprietary tags or extensions to JavaScript or its dialects. So unlike
Java tools, dynamic scripting tools are less
open and able to "run anywhere." Also, relative to Java applets, there is a performance hit
due to interpreted scripts.
Finally, JavaScript and the other scripting
languages (JScript, VBScript, LotusScript)
don't have the fullness of functionality available in Java. So choosing the right dynamic
Web tool is a tough choice. Do you use an
embedded tags-based processor like Cold
Fusion, which has the benefit of strong early
market penetration and fairly simple implementation, or go with a m ore interactive
scripting tool?
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Allaire's Cold Fusion

Pros:Tag-base works well with medium to large databases; Net0bjects ProPack makesfor easier development; numerous third-party ISPs support server.
Cons: Interactive capabilities a bit clumsy; no visual
page layout tool; does not scale well.

Sybase Powersite
Pros: Most open, versatile of scripting tools, supporting several scripts and numerousWebservers, databases, and DSes; visual layout tools are top notch;

Web tagediting andtesting is a breeze.

Cone: Requires proprietary sewer for complex data-

base interactions; fair learningcurve.

Lotus Notes/Domino
Pros: Easy to install on many popular ptafforms; very
reliable applications; many advancedWeb/message

manageability of large-scale Web applications (control centre for monitoring operations; performance data For load balancing, tuning, app partitioning).

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applications and Web applets. These PC-side
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Borland Jbuilder 2, IBM V isual Age Java,
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have database, middleware, ERP (SAP, Baan,
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also offer a wide array oF templates, wizards
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Every year the partnership re-assesses that
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amount. Frequently the insurance policy is
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held byand paid for by the company. The
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partnership (if non-incorporated) or shareobtain this type of insurance from many
Health and dental insurance
holders (if incorporated) agreement.
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Liability insurance.
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you to show videotapes during the conference.
This service offers high-quality videoconference capabilities without spending thousands of dollars on a professionalvideoconference system. But you will be l i mited, of
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For the better rate, etc. service bureau videoconferencing does offer some flexibility.

should:
Arrive 15-30 minutes early.

will allow the other site to finish viewing

on screen and stop them from attempting
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monthly regional sales meeting.

Kinko's also makes a few suggestions on
service bureau videoconference etiquette that
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Le t staff show you how to use the control Videoconference broadcast

panel, document camera and ancillary How many people want to use such a system,
equipment if you are not familiar with it. and under what circumstances? For this
writer, such facilities were a real godsend
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when doing work for a national television
your objectives and time allotted.
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through a network instantaneously. There field" after a press event in California but did
is a usually a slight delay, so you need to not have the time or budget to arrange taping
give the person on the other end more by a local news crew.
I was able to use a videoconference suite
time to respond to your questions and
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comments than you would in person.
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Keep participants on th e other end
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an interview. The interviewer was visible on a

large screen at the far end of the suite, tilt and
pan Facilities on the video camera in the suite
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operations, such as Kinko's (which runs its
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the same time may cause rapid site

switching.

leader at each additional site.

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league of HP and IBM when it comes to
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Compaq's skill areas in outsourcing and vices offerings is from a custom delivery we need to enable them to go out and delivmanagement.
model to a volume delivery model. Pederson er those services while ensuring t h at
says the vendor will develop standardization Compaq receivessome money on the back
Beyond its top 200 customers, Compaq of services, common methodologies and end For providing the intellectual capital,"
will still rely on its legions of channel part- common tool sets in order to facilitate adop- he says.
ners to deliver services. And despite some tion and success in the channel.
According to Pederson, Compaq has
talk about the channel resenting Compaq's
"One of our first objectives with the already begun to put together its services
push to work directly with its top clients, channel will be to reduce the complexity of strategies and arrange its work force to facilthere should be opportunities For larger the services," Pederson adds.
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By Geof Wheelwright
ideoconferencing in a business setting
presents a diferent set of issues than
does consumer-based videoconferencing. Issues of availability, robustness, reliability and flexibility become more important
than cost issues.
Costs forvideoconferencing systems in
corporations are often justified by savings
stemming f'rom elimination of' the need for
people to travel. If just a few of the meetings
between executives at different company sites
can be eliminated, for example, then the system can justify itself within just a few uses.
Videoconferencing only works, however,
when all the parts work. If the cameras don' t
work properly, the controls don't behave or if the
high-speed connection isn't reliable, then confidence in the system will not be high. This will
significantly reduce the number oF people willing to use it in place of an "in-person" meeting.

everything that you would

want to do in a physical
business meeting is what
corporate userswant in their
videoconference systems

that can be used as a videoconference room

can have this capability.
To get the most f'rom the system, however, a linle care must be taken in the selection
of the videoconference room, and the placement ofmicrophones, speakers and cameras.
In addition, if data is going to be shared
between sites, the kyboard and mouse of the
controlling PC may also have to be within
easy reach. If you want to make sure your
videoconference time is used effectively and
not wasted worrying about lighting or camera angles, consider these elements before
selecting th e v i deoconference space or
installing the equipmnt.
Depending on whether or not you do the
Other considerations
One cannot discount the perceived prestige installation yourself or have the equipment
conferred on a c o mpany using corporate vendor do it, the extent to which you need to
videoconferencing. Despite the Fact that worry about such issues will vary. The other
Real-time interaction
thing to consider when sening up a corporate
One of the real benefits of PC-based video- videoconferencesystems arc becoming both
conference systems is that you can share live more common and affordable, they still have videoconferencing space is whether or not the
data as well as see the people with whom you enough of a mystique about them that they space is used for other things, and if it is, how
are holding your meeting. This live data can are still categorized with the corporate jet, the the space will be shared.
The temptation, for example, may be to
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photos ro pre-recorded video from a VCR or
corporate
boardroom. However, whenever
Perhaps in the old days, when you needed
from a digital video file on your desktop PC.
With the advent of corporate intranets, to rent satellite tim to host corporate video- the boardroom is being used for any other
the Internet and the World Wide Web, how- conferences and had to book them days in meeting, the videoconference system will not
ever, simple data conferencing may not seem advance videoconferencing was a luxury. be accessible. If you predict that the system
as awe inspiring as it used to. But it provides These days, however, anyone with an ade- will be used very frequently, it may make
a simple, direct and very easy way to share quate amount of money and aspare office more sense to have it located elsewhere. 0
Corporate videoconference users want to
be able to not only see one another in a twoway conversation, they want to be able to
share a video feed for electronic presentations.
so that all participants can, For example, view
a slide presentation. They also want to be able
to mutually view physical items such as product prototypes, photographs and marketing
materials.
Basically, corporate users can do anything
via their videoconference system that they can
do in a physical business meeting except
perhaps for the social aspects that tend to take
place after the meeting, which are much harder to replicate in a videoconference environment. (And, of course, the benefits of face-toface interaction should not be trivialized.)

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Mobile computing a lifestyle thing

obile computing is not just about

using computers on planes, trains,
automobi! es, buses and b o ats.
When used in conjunction with communications technology, mobile computers offer an
"unchained" style of working that provides
both flexibility and fun.
Being able to work anywhere, anytime
and in almost any situation means it is easy to
write a story during a short airplane flight or
while sining in a dentist's office. And when
you add wireless data communications and a
mobile phone to the mix, sending and receiving email is possible while you are mobile.
There are no longer any compelling reasons
to hang around an office.
Achieving mobility doesn't require anything particularly hefty. This column, For
example, is being written on a Windows CEbased handheld computer. When used with a
wireless data communications modem and
comm service, this column can (and will be)
sent from the comfort of my local Starbucks
cofFee shop without having ever gone near
an office
before reaching my editor's desk.
I am using Sharp's Mobilon for several
reasons, not the least of which are its small
size, light weight, considerable power, reasonable keyboard and b u ilt-in modem.
While I use the wireless PC Card modem
most of the time, the built-in modem does
allow me to use the handheld unit For Web

technology journalist has little to teach the

rest oF the working world. I am not so sure
about that.
If you look at the increasing numbers of
people who are becoming self:employedeither by choice or through an edict of their
GEOE WHEEL
WRIGHT
employers it may well be that my experiences oFFer lessons that go well beyond my
browsing when I get in the vicinity of a land
line. And w hen I d o , I c a n a l so use narrow circumstances. The primary issue
raised by it all, from my point of view, is actuSymantec's pcAnywhere software For
Windows CE to check any email messages or ally one that has little to do with technology
and much more to do with how you make
faxes that may have arrived on my desktop
choices about the way you live your life.
computer at the office.
Although I also currently have access to an
HP 620LX handheld Windows CE-based system which offersa bigger and brighter
screen,longer battery life,and a bigger keyboard than the Sharp it doesn't do as much
local travel. It is slightly bulkier than the
Sharp, does not include a built-in modem and
its battery life advantage is rarely an issue
when I am only going out for a Few hours. So
when I am roaming around the local neighborhood, the Sharp is my preferred machine
If,for example, you know you can take
as it is the easiest to slip into a jacket pocket
your
work with you and choose to take your
or my oversized wallet.
c hildren to the beach and sit o~ e s a nd
with a handheld computer and a mobile
You can compute anywhere,
phone how much better is that choice for
but should you?
So, you well be asking, what possible rele- you or your kids?
vance does all this have to your life? Surely the
While it does mean they can enjoy the
rather odd and itinerant life of a freelance knowledge that you are physically present

ON
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If you are not careful, you may

end up having mobile
computers
and technology
in general
sully many
experiences in your daily life

Dynamic Web
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enhanced as ease of deploying EJB, Beans,
and componentsproliferates.
and code generation capabil ities.
Finally, all of the tools will ofFer improved
Interestingly, the heavyweight tools pro- a pplication m o n i toring a n d control.
vide mixed support for visual forms design Controlling "smeared" Web applications will
and debugging. Either the heavyweight tools become essential.
offer visual support themselves as in the case
The five heavyweights to watch are:
of NetDynamics, Apptivity or Silverstream, Borland/InPrise Jbuilder with Oracle
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App.Server for best PC with server side
PC-Java visual tools. So for the time being
combo;
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well as the server-side developer.
absolutely robust performance;
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while they frolic in the surf, the fact that you

need to use the computer to do your work
while they play means that you cannot give
them the attention they expect.
"Look at me," they say, as they attempt to do
a handstand in the mud. And you miss it because
you were busy trying to establish a TCP/IP connection to send email via your mobile phone.
Likewise, using a handheld computer
while cruising around the harbor in San
Francisco means your attention i s split
between the awesome sights that greet your
eyes when you look up from the screen, and
the work that has required you to bring the
handheld computer along in the first place.
Now this does sound like carping but it
becomes central to the question of whether or
not you can make a mobile lifestyle work for
you. Being mobile should liberate you, yet the
reality may be just the opposite. If you are not
careful,
you may end up having mobile computers and technology in general sully
many experiences in your daily life.
The solution may be to find a way to
leverage your flexibility so you have the capability to work alongside play, but not have the
impact of one diluted by the other. This is
something with which I still struggle and I' ll
report back on my success. 0
Geof Wheelwright is a TCPcontributing editor and frequent road warrior.

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static Web pages up to the biggest Web
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obsolete in one half dog/Internet year. In
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Computer-based training gets wired

By Rod Lamlrand
ree years ago, computer-based training
(CBT) content was limited to what
could be included on floppy diskenes.
Today CBT can be designed For roomier media:
CD-ROMs, increasingly DVDs, and online
training (OLT), the hot new twist to delivering
educational content.
At the retail level CBT products still litter
the shelves and magazine ads. Walk into any
software store and you will find programs that
will teach you how to type, surf (the Net, not
the sea), talk, read, sing, play musical instruments or speak anotherlanguage. Whereas
CBT used to mean limited graphics and limited content, the proliFeration of CD-ROM drives means it is economical for CBT producers
to move to this more capacious medium.
Hence, tutorials and lessons are often very well
done. Sound, video, animated characters and
colorful simulations make today's lessons a differentexperience from thoseofa few yearsago.
A search on the Internet finds CBT products available For specialized areas of study,
such as nursing or programmable logic. If you
have training material you want to make into
a CBT product, there a numerous sites representing businesses eager to take your content
and bring it to life. If you have the need, you
can purchase software that will allow you to
create your own CBT titles. However, such

programs usually cost about $1,000.

For business, online training is the biggest
news. In the last year, the Net has been awash
with companies offering opportunities For individuals to upgrade skills, or for businesses to
educate employees. According t o S B
Communications, an A m erican I nternet
research company, CD-based CBT still commands a 68 percent share of the computer and
training market, but OLT (primarily on the
Internet and intranets) is gaining fast. OLT services offer a broad range of price points From $5
a month to thousands of dollars per employee.
In Canadaalone there are scores oFcompanies offering OLT. Many focus on computer
and network skills but others offer training in
other areas. OLT specialists usually work with a
company to come up with a per-person charge
in the hundreds or thousands oF dollars. The
driving force here is the savings realized by the
company, since they do not have to send
employees out or bring someone in.
There are other benefits too. OLT works at
the speed of the learner. Also, a company will
know whether a person has completed the
course or courses required. Many programs
include tests, which can be set up so the learner
must achievea preset score before moving on.
With more and more companies adding
Internet access to their local area networks
(LANs), OLT is becoming a realistic alternative.

$12,000 for 25 users. A similar but less expensive service is provided by Colorado-based ECon Ference.
There are a couple of Canadian CBT/OLT
companies. One firm, FirstClass Systems Corp.,
was recently listed by Ca nadian Businesr
Magazine as one of this country's 100 largest,
"hottest" publicly traded technology compa-

Another interesting development is the Formation of sites like that oF U.S. publisher Ziff
Davis. At the Ziff Davis Online University
(www.zdnet.corn) you can take courses in software programs,operating systems, or designing a Web page, among others. The cost is
US$4.95 a month or US$50 a year. Once
enrolled,
you can take as many courses as you
like. For someone with a good work ethic this
is a tough offer to pass up.
Another emerging trend that may help
online training become a more sophisticated
service is real-rime presentation. In such a presentation, students sign on to see and hear a presenter at a specific time.
The presenter uses a program such as
PowerPoint and sets the pace. Icons around the
presentation indicate other information such as
charts, bios, maps or definitions. Students Familiar with the material presented can investigate
the additional information if they desire. When
the presenter decides to show the next screen, all
participants are pulled to the next slide. At the
end of the seminar, viewers can return to any
page for Further investigation. The presenter can
conclude the lesson with a quiz, an open forum
chat or simply provide a series of related links.
Because the technology is in its infancy,
costs For real-time presentations are high at this
point. PlaceWare 2.0 Conference Center
(hnp://www.placeware.corn) charges about

nies. It is headquartered in British Columbia,

and offers 732 online courses primarily related
to computer programming, languages and operating systems. First Class allows users to try its
wares via i t s W e b s i t e b efore buying
(hnp://www.firstclass.ca).
In Ontario, A. Palmer Animated Training
develops and distributes CBT programs for
educational and industrial applications. Its site
even
(hnp://www.apalmertraining.corn)
includes a course on refrigeration."
In Fredericton, N.B., the investment by
NBTel in a 100 percent digital telephone network seems to be paying off with the success of
companies like Scholar.corn. Scholar.corn claims
to be the world's largest devdoper of information
technology training programs. The company
uses teams of advisors who monitor thousands of
online students every day. The online courses are
geared to training students For network certification, which makes Scholars.corn one oF the
largest online training providers of Microsoft and
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TECH ENTERPRISE

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Road warriors say technology indispensible link

"There is a blending of

Sy Linda Dalley Paulson

N EW YORK (NB) Frequent business travelers depend on the Internet and email to stay
well-connected with the office, clients and
home, according to t h e / 9 9 8 Am cricars
Express Road Warrior Technology Study.
This first-ever survey by the company was
promptrd byanecdotal evidence gathered by
observation while traveling and through conversations with customers. Some of the initial
results were surprising, company officials
said.
"Every business traveler is in search of an
electronic outlet," Christine Levite. director
of public afFairs, American Express Company
told Ncwsbytes. "Wralized business travelers arc using every moment of their travel
time to conduct work. This is evident in
number of' people who access laptops on
planes, cell phone users in the airport and
long lines at hotel phone hanks. All thse
were indications the traveler needs to have 24
hour connections while on the road."
Levite says their study found traditional
phone calls and voice mail werc the predominant communications methods for business
travelers, with 87 perent saying thy usc th
former and 61 prccnt saying they regularly
use the latter. "We were surprised by that,"
she says. "This is a hcavy online user we'rc

t alking to an d t h ey' re still h i t t ing t h e ability to operate a virtual office through use
phones."
of laptop computers.
Fifty-seven percent of those polled said
"There is a blending oF leisure and busithey always or almost always communicate ness travel that is a new phenomenon," says
via email. Of that number, 66 percent said Levite. "We see personal life coming into the
they access email once or twice each daily; 18 workplace with casual days and more virtual
percent said they check their email thrice offices. Now when you' re on vacation, that' s
daily or more while on the road.
not down time. You are expected to stay con"It goes along with the theme that people nected to the office; consequently, when travhave to communicate in a number of ways," eling for business, you have to maintain the
says Levite. "It's not enough to send a fax. same kind oF pace that you would from the
People send an email saying a fax on the way, office. Being away from the office no one
or they send thatsatne document as an cuts you slack For not keeping up even on
attachment to c-mail, or they will call to tell vacation. It's painful. It's leading to a lot of
s omeone to check their email and f a x stressed out travelers."
machine."
Too, this melding of business and leisure
"We wanted to look at not only what can beseen by more companies compelled to
equipment they were using, but also the
take advantage of' reduced airfares linked to
amount of time they work while on a trip,"
Saturday stay-overs. Employees are comshe says. "Not too many years ago the trav- pelled to take a subsidized weekend away
eler would come back to hotel room and
From home for their employer to realize a
watch TV or make personal calls. Now they cost savings.
are checking voice mail and email and are
T he s t u d y was con d u cted by
still doing heavy duty work while away N FO//net.source panel, a subset of t h e
from home."
National Family Opinion nationally projectThe survey also found that 96 percent of ed consumer panel of some 170,000 houseits respondents agreed that technology has hold online users. This particular study
improved business travel. The greatest bene- polled 546 business travelers who take at least
fits cited by those polled included improved 10 overnight business trips per year. 0
access to office and clients, time savings
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In Brief
Continued from page 1

The BackOffice server software provides file,

print and application services, Internet connection capabilities, and communications
systems. The servers have a three-year onsite limited warranty, and dedicated 24-hour
service and support, according to Acer.
Estimated street prices start at US$3,995.
http: //www.ace
r.corn
http: //www.microsoft.corn

At the moment, mobile phones are limited by local telecom standards. For example,
GSM phones are common in Europe and
Asia, but can rarely connea in rhe U.S., and

Plans call for Ericsson to offer the SPB

facility on all RBS 200Q cellular base stations
by the first quarter of nextyear,
http: //www.ericsson.se

the personal handy phone (PHS) standard

can only be used in Japan.

Fax market to top US$3 billion

The world phone will overcomes this by SAN JOSE, Calif. (NB) While the industry
switching between different digital modes: is buzzing over intranets and virtual private
GSM 900 and GSM 1,800 MHz, D-AMPS networks, the fax communications market
800 and D-AMPS 1,900 MHz, and the tra- continues to soar, according io a report just
out From Dataquest.
ditional analog 800 MHz AMPS systems.
In fact, such is the market for Fax transThe World Phone will be similar in size to
missions,
that Dataquest predicts this year' s
that of the Ericsson GF 788: about 10.5 cm
Smart card protection unveiled
long (4 in,), weighing under 135 g (4.7 oz.). revenues will top US$3 billion For the first
NEW YORK (NB) Aladdin Knowledge
The concept of a world phone is not entirely time up a healthy 17.7 percent over last
Systems has taken the wraps off SmartHASP,
new. Iridium has had a similar vision since 1985 year's figures. Dataquest projects that the
a smart card version of its HASP hardwaremarket For fax-enabled devices will continue
and claims to ofFer services in 239 countries.
based soFtware protection system.
to grow From 5.5 million units in 1998 to 7.5
http: //www.ericsson.se
According to Rami Kasterstein, vice-presmillion units in 2002.
ident o f
th e Isr a eli-based c o mpany,
The report notes that shipments of the
GSM base station announced
SmartHASP combines the traditional security
personal/low-end product segment, which
STOCKHOLM (N B ) Ericsson has
of HASP with smart card technology, making
includes multifunctional products (MFPs)
unveiled a software technology that allows
it suitable for a nctworked environment.
and single function fax machines, grew 81
two GSM transceivers on a cellular base staAccording to Kasterstein, SmartHASP
percent from 1.6 million units in 1996 to 2.9
tion to be linked together ro radiate on the
uses a CPU-based smart card with 496 bytes
million in 1997. This area of the market, the
same channels, effectively forming a much
of internal read/write memory that can coninformarion rechnology research firm says,
more powerful virtual transceiver.
trol access to different software modules, and
also had revenue growth increase 44 percent
The technology, known as Sofnvare Power
save passwords or other sensitive data. The
over the 1996 results.
Boost (SPB), is being offered on Ericsson's http: //www.dataquest.corn/dq/static/about/programs/
features support "innovative marketing and
RBS 2000 family of GSM cellular base stafmfp-na.html
distribution techniques" such as time limited,
demo, rental, or leased software, and have tions. According to company officials, using
only a simple software command, operators
FaxSav has broadcastlist manager
been field proven by MemoHASP, Aladdin' s
can convert the base station lrom a two-trans- EDISON, N.J. (NB) Internet faxing commost popular mainstream protection key.
"power pany FaxSav says the number of broadcast
SmartHASP works in conjunaion with a ceiver operational mode into the
boost" mode, where rhe two transceivers work faxes it handles for customers has doubled
PC/SC compliant read/write drive, and with
together as one virtual transceiver, so extend- s ince it launched rhe beta version of i t s
Aladdin's ASEDrive. The integration of smart
ing the range.
Broadcast Lis t Ma n ager s o f tware in
card drives into PCs, the firm says, is becoming
According to Ericsson, cellular downlink November. Broadcast List Manager version
more widespread in networked environments.
performance is increased by at least 3.0 deci- 2.05 is available now.
http: //www.aks.corn
bels (dB) at the cell border, reducing the
Accordingto FaxSav, the sofnvare uses the
number
of
sites
needed
by
up
to
30
percent
FaxSav
EZ-List Fax Broadcast Service, which
Ericsson plans World Phone
over
any
conventional
base
station
coverage
gives business customers 24-hour broadcast
HONG K ON G ( N B) Ericsson has
fax capability worldwide From a desktop PC,
announced plans For a "world phone" that network.
According to Tomas Fridstrom, the com- corporate system, or Fax machine. The the
will allow consumers to travel without worrying about local telecom standards. The phone pany's GSM base station marketing manager, new software allows users to create as many as
should be ready For commercial use by late because the SPB capability for the RBS 2000 1,000 unique broadcast lists of just about any
series is an entirely software-based technology, length, and add, delete or edit individual
1999.
According to L one M isikini, regional no special hardware modules are required, entries. The lists can be immediately submitt ed via an I nternet connection into t h e
product manager Asia Pacific, Ericsson con- and no new spare parts are needed.
"This
power
boosting
capability
is
espeFaxSav Broadcast System.
nects 40 percent oF the total wireless commucially
valuable
to
operators
when
they
are
Customized databases can be created from
nity in 90 countries. GSM (global system For
rolling out new coverage and for providing scratch using Broadcast List Manager, or
mobile communications) has currently 78
million users and D-AMPS (digital advanced maximum coverage efficiency in low-capacity external databases can also be used. Users can
mobile phone service) 90-95 million sub- traffic areas such as rural areas or along view created lists in detail, perform search and
roads," Fridstrom said.
replace Functions, sort entries alphabetically
scribers worldwide.

or numerically by individual fields, cut and

paste data, and print hard copies, says the
company. The software uses a two-level
encryption scheme based on RSA's 40-bit
encryption.
Internet Fax can be tried For Free at the
company's Web site.
http: //www.faxsav.corn

Freeapp diagnosesY2K conflicts

PHOENIX (NB) Viasoft, Inc. has made
the BIOS portion of its OnMark 2000 software suite available for Free download from
the firm's Web site. The suite itself is rebranded by Symantec Corp. to be sold under its
Norton 2000 brand name, according to a
Viasoft spokesperson.
The spokesperson said rhe OnMark 2000
BIOS fix will work on any Intel-based PC or
notebook. Once downloaded, it runs as an
executable to test the internal clock part oF
the system BIOS. He said the full suite is for
large corporations that "oFten don't even
know how many PCs or laptops are part of
the system." Those companies often put the
software on the company intranet to be run
From individual workstations. "It saves time
For the system administrator," he added.
The BIOS test and fix is one part of the
firm's OnMark 2000 family of software,
which addresses each phase of Year 2000
(Y2K) conversion both on PC desktops and
on client/server applications that need to
maintain precise dates. The programs are currently used in such date-critical industries as
banking,insurance, securities and manufacturing industries, plus several government
agencies.

O nMark 2QQQcan be downloaded From

the Web, which also has a really good question and answer seaion on Y2 K i ssues,
according to the Viasoft spokesperson.
http://www.onmark.viasoft.corn/fix-it
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GTE brings HotOffice to SOHOs

BOCA RATON, Fla. (NB) GTE Corp.
said it is bringing HotOffice Technologies'

Web-based software to the small office/home

office (SOHO) and small business markets.
GTE said the Hor OfFice product allows
smaller operations ro securely communicate
and collaborate on the Inrernet via a GTE
dial-up Net connection.
HotOffice reportedly creates an instant,

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secure virtual oHice over the Internet with a

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Internet telephony and travel planning.
The product provides many of the capabilities of a LAN (local area network), WAN
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SEPTEMBER 1998 THE COMPUTER PAPER GREATER

TORONTO EDITION

T ECH E N T E RPRISE

Trainifng, technology lacking in fight against fraud

By Martin Stone

The survey, which queried senior executives From over 11,000 major organizations,
TORONTO (NB) A survey of businesses was conducted by Toronto-based financial
in 32 countries shows that a startling 84 per- and business advisors Ernst Bc Young. The
cent of the world's worst reported frauds study is titled Fraud: The Unmanuged Risk.
were committed by company employees and
Don Holmes, practice director of the
that over 60 percent of'worldwide Fraud was forensic accounting group at Ernst 8t Young,
committed by management.
said that today's analytical software and a
The study pinpointed employee downsiz- return to old-fashioned moral values are the
ing, the removal of management layers, and keys to fraud prevention and detection.
"The difference between error and fraud
the growing use of' computers to keep track
of company assets, as prime culprits.
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"Traditionally, accountants and business

managers rely on internal controls to prevent
and detectfraud," he explained. "However,
in today's competitive environment, internal
controls have been badly mauled as a result
of downsizing, removal of layers of management, and employee empowerment. The traditional fraud model is not working. We
need a much stronger emphasis on training
and technology."
Holmes said training is r equired to
enhance both fraud awarenessand ethics,
while technology, such as computer analytical tools, can deal with the mounds of data
recorded electronically in a company database.
"Pretty well all frauds are computer-relat-

hot seat because your stewardship is brought

into question, your risk management strategies are in the spotlight, and your ability to
respond to the stakeholders is tested."
Survey highlights include the fact that 87
percent of respondents think the incidence
of fraud will increase or, at best, remain the
same and that only 13 percent of fraud losses have been recovered.
Only 26 percent of directors have a good
understanding of their business, the study
shows, while 30 percent of r espondents
report that changes to their control systems
lagged behind organizational trends. A full
70 percentof respondents say their staffhas
"Only
kickbacks
not received fraud awareness traimng.
ed today," Holmes said.
The survey also reveals a strong correlaoccur outside the b ounds of c o mpany
tion between the incidence of fraud and the
recording systems."
The survey reveals that normal internal understanding of the business by directors.
controls, such as segregation of duties and The study indicates that only 60 percent of
computer access management, were the most directors believe they have a good or full
useful Fraud prevention and detection tools. understanding of their core business.
Ernst 5t: Young's Forensic and Litigation
However, 30 percent of respondents reportAccounting
group has extensive experience
ed that changes to their control systems
in
investigating
allegations of Fraud, tracing,
lagged behind their organizational trends,
securing
and
recovering
assets, quantifying
leaving open doors to beckon would-be
claims, and supporting solicitors and counsel
fraudsters.
in l i t igation. Some recent assignments
"The new technology is interesting,"
include investigations into the alleged
Holmes said. "Some of the dynamite software runs audits with innovative analyzes of impropriety of a f u n d m anager, "rogue"
masses of data. We can look at cheque runs, derivatives by Foreign exchange and compayment systems, and spot characteristics or modity traders, procurement frauds and
kickbacks, computer analytics applied to a
anomalies. An anomaly is reflective of a
breakdown in controls. We can then back- company's payment process, and a number
oF high-value check frauds.
track, Follow an e-trail and a paper trail.
Holmes saidthe survey has not been anaEventually we depart from the electronic
lyzed for margin of error but that 1,200
trail and talk to the people."
"The risksmay be higher for the steward
responses were receivedfrom the 11,000
than the Fraudster," added Nick Hodson, recipients and that European and Asian
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0///tinued fro/II pngr 27
PKZip for Windows.
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library, Store the backups in a safe place.

If your computer system goes down, your
backups can be loaded onto another computer and you can continue to work, learn or

Theft

play. If you have acomputer for your business,

Com
puters a re extremely attractive items for

then you should have arrangements in place

to get a replaceinent PC i mmedi
ately if necessary. Most of the better PC vendors offer
onsite service and replacenient PCs, though
these extra warranty features may come at an
extra cost.
The larger the company, the more elaborate, comprehensive and swift the recovery
plan should be. For medium and large enterprises, this often means an ongoing relationship with a major disaster recovery firm, up to
and including backup sites ready to go on a
moment's notice.

Vlretses
Computer viruses are software programs, written by malicious or mischievous persons, that
copy themselves automatically to computer
hard drives or floppy disks. Once released into
the computer-using world, they may spread

for years. This is a very common problem for

PC users, where exchanging information over
networks, using disks supplied by another
computer user, or downtoading files from the
internet potentially puts one at risk with

every file transfer or email attachment.

running at all times is the main doorway to

infection of a PC or a network.

thieves, since they are easily soid for substantial amounts of cash. Also, the information on
the computer can have greater vaiue than the
computer itself. In soine cases, proprietary
business information, relating to bids on contracts, corporate plans, or the development of

new products, can be worth millions, Their

toss, or knowledge of the data by a competitor
can put a company out of business.
Notebook PCs are particularly attractive to
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annually.
Defences against hardware theft include
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common sense security measures, such as
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Most brand-name notebook computers
include a reinforced area surrounding a slot
that will accommodate a standard cable locking system designed specifically for portables,
Critical data should be encrypted so that
even if an industrial spy gains access to it, it
will be useless without the encryption key.
Security software that "turks" on a hard drive
can send an alert pinpointing the location of
a stolencomputeras soon as it is connected to
the Internet. Serial numbers can be electronically engraved on major computer system

The usual defense for an individual PC

user is to run a good, current anti-virus program such as Norton Anti Virus or McAfee
VirusScan. For a business, a virus scanner is
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enhance system performance." The

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could affect you in at least three ways. First, if

your computer or your company's computer
network fails on New Year's Day 2000, you
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other services outside your home or company
fail (such as the computer systems of your
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could be out of business. Third, if the nuclear
power plant down the road melts down from
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business.
If you are feeling adventurous, you can
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your computer clock to a few minutes to midnight, Dec. 31 1999. Once your PC's clock has
rolled over to the new year, you can turn it on
and observe what happens with your PC's
date, the dates in your applications, etc. Make
sure you' ve backed up your data before you do
that, however.
Many people are dumping their old, nonYear 2000 compliant computer software and
hardware, and replacing it with certified Year
2000-compliant p r o ducts. One m a j or
headache is converting all data files, ranging
from database entries to address books to
word processed documents into a Year 2000
compatible format.
If you have any degree of complexity in
your computing system, you should invest in
a Year 2000 consultant. Better hurry, though,
because they are in very short supply already.
Hacking

ln computer terminology,
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According to Galletto, the average hacker is a
young male who "is doing it mostly for fun
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Galletto says only about 20 percent of
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employing sophisticated hacking software
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efforts (fighting "'I'he System" ), or if they
develop a criminal aspect to their activities,
such as engaging in online theft or Iraud to
support their lifestyle.
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is alleged to have broken into many corporate
and governn)ent networks. was eventually
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wannabes honing their hacking skills is a
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video and online surveillance, maintenance
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a considerable task.

Maintenance,training and feedback

According to research by the Economist
Intelligence Unit and Arthur Andersen consultants in 1998, nearly two-thirds of large
firms have a formal risk management structure in place. However, only half of those
firms claim to "believe that their risk management practices are solid enough to meet the
challenges that confront global businesses."
In other words even the big guys with big
security budgets don't sleep soundly at night.
They attempt to manage their exposure to
risk, not eliminate it.

Locking the barn door

after the horse is gone
Let's say you either failed to initiate a security
policy, or you initiated it h at, for whatever
reason, something bad (fraud, hardware theft,
computer virus infection) still happened.
What do you do now? Here's checklist:

Investigate what happened

If, for example all the data on your hard drive
has disappeared, what caused this to happen?
A virus! A disgruntled employee'! A hacker?
An industrial spy? A hardware defect? Year
2000 problem? User error? I'ower loss while
writing to disk! You may have to call a consultant to deterlnine this. If you don't have a
backup of the hard drive data, you may have
to send the disk to a disaster recovery service
. to see if the data can be retrieved.
Collect evidence
You should keep an accurate record of the
investigation into the incident, and preserve
or make copies of any relevant evidence or
information. lviore and more companies keep
logs ot' computer, phone and network use, as
well as surveillance videos, and records of
building access card use. You may need an
"audit trail" of evidence to collect insurance,
to take legal action against an employee or
competitor, or to give police an incentive to
regard your case as real, solvable, and therefore worth their attention.

quiet about their troubles. Reasons include

the desire to avoid bad publicity that might
reflect on the company'5 reputation and scare
away clients, to protect the positions of the
executives or technology professionals who
should have prevented the security breach, or
to avoid attracting the attention of more
thieves, hackers or vandals.
Many companies will call in consultants
to analyze the security breach and implement
changes to prevent it from happening again,
but otherwise cover up the event as quickly as
possible. The long-term problem with hiding
security failures is that without aggressive
investigation and punishment, the bad guys
are still out there, only more experienced and
confident, and they' ll likely try again somewhere.

One ongoing requirement of a secure vletwork

is that it s security be regularly tested.
Consultants, with the client's permission, will
conduct "ethical hacking," trying every
known trick to break into a network. As they
identify holes, they make recommendations
on how to close them.
Very often, the flaws are human, not technical. It is very difficult to get most employees
to take security seriously, in the absence of a
proven threat. Human nature is not to perceive a danger as real until it is in the victim' s
face. One useful effect of ethical hacking is
that an employee who has been tricked by
"human engineering" (a deceptive phone call
from the hacker, for example) into giving his
or her password can very quickly be made to
realize how serious security lapse really was.
The limits of safety
As Galietto constantly emphasizes, there is no
such thing as perfect safety.'I'here are just different levels of risk.
A sensible security solution allows people
to go about their working, learning and social
lives relatively free of security concerns, giving an early warning as soon as something is
wrong, which keeps damage to a minimum,
and allows for quick and cost effective recoverv.

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Ballmer named
president of Microsoft

together,"' Gates said. "He's done things with

Gates said he and Ballmer would manage

the business together.
"Not only for our company but for our
industry, people like to think that we' ve come
so far and we' re near some finish line, but it' s
not that way,0 Ballmer said. "I'm excited to do
as much as I can to continue to change the
way that people live and work."
Ballmer said he will assume more responsibility for Microsoft's overall business performance. He emphasized continuing to intro-

his sales and marketing group that will allow

him to step up and help us now in new ways."

duce powerful new technologies while keeping customers happy.

By Iwatt Hines
REDMOND, Wash. (NB)
Microsoft Corp.
chairman and chief executive Bill Gates said
he was giving formal recognition where it was
due by naming executive vice-president of
sales and support Steve Ballmer as the new
president of the company.
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can do with products: making the interface
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ince first starting to noodle around with
digitai cameras in the late 1980s, I' ve
been alternately attracted by their convenience and computer compatibility, and
repulsed by their limited resolution and high
cost. Yet, with over two million digital cameras sold in 1997, that product category has
finally passed a kind of watershed.
Digital photography is now a vigorous and

generally accepted imaging medium, used by

vast numbers of general consumers, business

professionals and even professional graphic

artists and photographers. The digital camera,
in short, has arrived. So it was with great interest that I got my hands on two of the iatest
entries into the digital camera arena, each
noteworthy in its own way.
One cameraaddressed my quibblesabout
price by breaking the $100 price barrier (with

certain qualifications), and the other, at the

higher end, offering nearly 1.5 million pixel
resolution images for $949. Perhaps my digital
camera prayers are being answered at last.

The Game Boy Camera

Nintendo has developed a digital camera system for its handheld Game Boy entertainment
device,
which uses the Game Boy'sprocessing,
display and power systems to help keep the
cost of the camera system down way down
at only $69.95. The camera itself is a simple
digital video CCD chip camera, enclosed in an

camera has all of its software built-in, like a

videogame cartridge.
An optional $79.95 monochrome printer
allows the user to print images out on
paper that is about 1.5 inches wide.
Not being a Game Boy owner myself,
my son borrowed his friend David's
unit for our test. David's Game Boy
lacked a hatch on the battery compartment, so we had to hold the batteries in by hand or with the aid of a
rubber band. Installation of the camera,
however, was simple, just plug and go.
Video images are digitized in real time
and displayed on the Game Boy's monochrome LFD screen. The device is operated
with the Game. Boy's built-in game control
buttons. The software options are remarkably
flexible you can put digitized images into
pre-set "rock videos" and customize them
with a variety of graphic effects.
Essentially, this device is suited for taking

principles. It is a great, low-stress way to get

started in creative digital art and imaging. The
limitations of the system are pretty obvious:
monochrome only, low resolution, and no
way to move files to a PC. But in terms of
the fun/dollar ratio, it's unbeatable.
Contact: Nintendo http:I/www.Nintendo.corn

weighing only a few ounces. Second, it is

extremely easy to use, with a dial-shaped
mode selection wheel that is very simple and
intuitive. Third, it offers astonishingly, almost
unbelievably high-resolution images, up to

1.5 million pixels (1,280x1,024 pixels).

Finally, for that market, the price tag is low:

only $949.
There are some limitations, however. First,
portrait shots of people and then manipulating, modifying and animating them in gener- it is a real power hog if you run it from batter-

tures at maximum resolution. Part of the

problem seems to be that the MX-700 stores

its image in JPEG format, rather than the more
compact FlashPix format.
One workaround is to use multiple-memory cartridges, and move them to your PC using
the Fuji FD-AI floppy disk adapter, a special
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adapter, insert the adapter into your computer's floppy drive, and the pictures are auto-

matically transferred to the PC. This is easier

and faster by far than moving the pictures
over a cable connection.
Even with its minor drawbacks, this is a
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suitable for a wide range of applications, from

come (aside from carrying a big bag of spare

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ducesthe"beep" and "boop" sound effectsof batteries) by using an external power supply.
a regular video game, somehow making it a
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Higgins, group vice-president of interactive Ballmer then went on to attend the Stanford
media; Paul A. Maritz, group vice-president of Graduate School of Business. He is also a memplatforms and applications; and William H. ber of the Harvard Board of Overseers and the
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Comdex Canada:
News from the show fioor, panel discussions and keynote speakers
Skills crunch doesn't mean jobs for all
TORONTO (NB) There is still a debate about
whether the much-talked-about shortage of
skilled technology workers is real or a myth.
Panelists at the Comdex/Canada conference agreed, though, that employers had better be prepared to pay well for skills that are in
demand and to offer their employees an
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experience, and Paul Swinwood, president of
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key for high-tech workers, Swinwood said, is
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effectively. The ability to learn quickly is also resent a desired environment, such as a small
essential, he said.
room, a larger room, or outdoors.
Swinwood said workers in the technology
The SoundBlaster I.ive! hardware will be
field have to take the initiative to keep learn- able to support as many as eight speakers, and
ing new skills. "Lifelong learning I can say Stroud said it will help improve the perforno more than that." He said he has too often mance of speech recognition technology by
heard from job-seekers who last took a course isolating the speaker's voice from other
more than 10 years ago, and who complain sound.
that "my cotnpany didn't tell me to take that
Creative labs launched Environmental
Audio in May.
t ratn I ng.
At the same press conference, Mark
Employers need to go back to school too,
Swinwood said, if onl~ to recruit promising Jamieson, head of Creative I.abs in Canada,
students before they graduate. I'he rule should said the company has recently set up a service
be "co-op or die," he said, suggesting that depot in Canada so customers do not have to
those who show up at graduation time in
send hardware to the United States for service.
hopes of picl'ing up a few of the best students I'his has "made a good impact on our business
will be disappointed, because increasingly, here," he said, and Creative will be expanding
those people have been worl'ing as co-op stu- its serv>ce capabilities in Canada further in the
dents for con>panies which have offered them future.
Creative Labs http: //www,creat.corn
permanent jobs before they graduate.
Weir said
should resign themselves to paying well and probably more Intel's Maloney emphasizes simplicity
than they want to for skills that are in high 'I'ORON'I'0 (Nft) Making computers easier to
demand.
use and taking up less of people's time with
"Salaries are going up and that is a very administrative headaches such as virus checkreal fact." However, the panelists also agreed ing and security may finally allov' technology
that money is not everything in luring the to deliver the kind of benefits its proponents
best people to your company and keeping have been promising for years, said Sean
them there. 'I'echnology workers want chal- Maloney, vice-president and co-director of
lenge, and they want to work for a "cool" Intel Corp,'s sales and marketing group, in a
company,Roman said.He defined a coolcom- keynote address at Comdex/Canada.
The Web, with its widely used and easy to
pany asa well-managed one, where employees feel comfortable and are treated as indi- understand interface, will help in this. And
whether businesses are making money on the
viduals, not numbers.
Web or not, Maloney said in a question period with reporters after his speech, it is here to
CreativeLabs may bundle ViaVoice
TORONTO (NB) Creative Labs may bundle stay. "This thing is just moving into people' s
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with its SoundBlaster Live! Audio kit for per- said.
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The service, which uses a paging card codesigned by Motorola's Flex Architecture
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Creative, said Creative will be bundling power. Proponents of high-speed comrnunica- receive text messages to a maximum of 300
ViaVoice with SoundBlaster Live!, which is tions technology such as asynchronous trans- characters, Gingrich said. It will also receive
due for shipment later this year. Afterward he fer mode {ATM) have argued that, if they pro- updates to the I'almpilot's calendar as specialqualified that statement, saying the bundling vide a big enough pipe everything can be ly formatted messages. The device includes
deal is not official yet but is probably going to done on the server, he said, but that has not extra memory to increase the handheld computer's total capacity to 2 MB, company offihappened becausethere is always something
happen.
SoundBlaster I . ive! u s e s C r eative's new and useful that can be done on the client cials said, and when it receives a numeric
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"Intel is the primary provider of that com- Palmpilot's address book and identify the
according to company officials goes beyond
standard 3D sound to add such capabilities as puter power," Maloney told reporters, "and caller.
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the TV. He or she can change channels normally, except that a small semi-transparent
bar glides up from the bottom of the screen
displaying the channel and program informax

a a a a a e e e e e a a a a a a a a e a e

dow displays that program, and plays the

WebTV Plus owner can do amazing things on IR Blaster in front of it and voila: the IR Blaster

acres we iso)iis Iodsaeesuhse aNce>

a a

you scroll over a program listing, a little win-

optional wireless keyboard (uoptional e like

running shoes in a track meet) arrive in a big
box. I set it up without difficulty. The only
The excitement
At th e W ebTV l aunch event, WebTV, home decor issue is the long phone wire runMicrosoft Canada, and Sony representatives ning through the middle of the living room to
deliver the pitch, Sitting on a table is a very a wall jack.
Once again, the WebTV hardware and
large Sony TV upon which rests the WebTV
Plus receiver. Steve Perlman, president of online service work very well. The receiver
WebTV Networks, turns on the television and uses a 167 MHz RISC processor to coordinate
8 MB of RAM with 2 MB ROM, a 56Kbps
we seeMr. Dress//p on CBC.

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fter a week of WebTV I am both excited is the listings guide. Like a TV guide, the listand confounded.I am excited because ings show you the program schedule. When

the product has some very cool,

intriguing features. The slick factor is high,
indeed. I am confounded because I can't quite
figure out why I don't think it will work. All
the parts are there, it's well designed and marketed, but WebTV Networks, a subsidiary of
Microsoft, may have missed the mark.

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keyboard because you can enter URLs and resolution running through your television
email messages using the remote control and service provider (TSP). I say TSP because I
an onscreen alphabet. However, if you have don't know whether you will get television to
used a PC, you' ll likely want the keyboard.
your home via cable, telephone wire or satelOnce powered, the receiver polls your lite dish.
Meanwhile most of us are using computer
home phone tofind out what area code you
are in. It calls a number and finds out the local monitors at 600x800 or better to view Web
dialup number for your region. It then con- pages. Also, we generally sit very close to the
nects to that dialup number where you set up computer and rather far from the TV. Needless
an account. The cost is $34.95 a month for to say, small print and details on the Web blur
unlimited connect time. If you already have somewhat when viewed at a distance on a
low-res (compared to a computer monitor) TV
an ISP you could use it, but you would still
set. Secondly, the WebTV browser is more limhave to pay WebTV Networks $24.95 a
month.
ited than most Web browsers, so some Web
You must pay them for two reasons. One is pages that use fancy features don't view propthat your default home page and email are at erly. The good news here is that the receiver
WebTV. The second is that your receiver only can be updated by the company at will via the
knows what is on TV in your region because it nightly downloads.
Another downside is that the receiver
calls the WebTY server daily at 4:00 a.m. to
download that information. This takes about times out (i.e., disconnects) very quickly.
Every time I clicked on a link there was a
six minutes.
pause while the Internet connection was reestablished. Due to the nature of WebTV,
WebTV pluses and minuses
When guests see you click through the chan- where you might be watching a football game,
nels and pick one that then expands to fill the bring up a small window to surf to a sports
whole screen they' ll "Oooh!" When youscroll
page while still watching the game, this is
through the night's listings while the actual probably a good idea. However, for serious Net
shows display in a small window they' ll surfing it is not.
"Aahhh!" Then when you tell them you can
The keyboard is well designed but email-

now press a button and surf to any Web page ing with it perched on your knees, looking at
in the world they will want it. Add this to the
Canadian content links (CANOE, CBC, CIBC),
and the pleasant interface, and you have a
nifty new technology. Those are the pluses of
WebTV Plus.
Here are the minuses. Television sets display NTSC's 525 lines of resolution quite well.
However, HDTV wiil u p t h a t r esolution
although it is unclear to what standard.
Likely there wilt be more than one HDTV

small and distant text is strange. I.astly, if you

already have an Internet account, you are not
going to want to put out another 30 bucks for
this connection.
For these reasons I believe the target consumer for this product is someone that does
not currently surf or email. This is borne out
by the company's statement that well over
half of their 350,000 current American subscribers do not have a computer. WebTV

seems to be aimed at people who want access

to email and the Internet but may not be very
experienced.

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Professor PC teaches Windows 98

uct and, at its price, it is a good buy.
The documentation says Professor Teaches
From: Individual Software Inc.
Windows 98 requires Windows 3.x or 9x and will run
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this reviewer was suspicious. The program seemed
very
Estimated street price: $29.95
sluggish on a 200 MHz PC with 32 MB. Of course a
sound card is also required, as this is a multimedia
By Rod Lamirand
tutorial.
Following on its other successes with CBT conrofessor Teaches Windows 98, from Individual sumer-level products, such as Typing Instructor
Software, is a computer-based training (CBT) Deluxe and Professor Teaches Windows 95,
product that teaches the ins and outs of
Individual has become adept at combining the
Windows 98. True, the ins and outs of Windows 98 right mix of instruction, graphics, audio tracks and
are prettlf much the same as those of Windows 95, animation. This title is no different. After installabut Individual has done a good job with this prod- tion the program asks for a user name. In this way,

Professor Teaches Windows 98

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Windows98
Basic Pentium

Professional

Basic Pentium II

the software always knows where you left off in the

program. Other users can then sign on and their
usage will be tracked.
Did you know that Alt+F4 closes an open window on the desktop? How about this: What does
the Windows button pressed simultaneously with
the letter E button do? Well, you may have known
that this is the quickest way to launch Windows
Explorer. Professor Teaches Windows 98 isn't all
shortcuts and tips.
There are eight sections in t h e p rogram.
Managing Files and Foiders starts with the basics.

Windows Explorer covers navigation and really

goes quite deep in explaining the Send To com-

mand among other things.

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TORONTO EDITION www.tcp.ca SEPTEMBER 1998

rudimentary features of an advanced operating system such as Windows 98," says Mark
Haswell, product marketing manager for
Individual Software.
This is undoubtedly so. One of the best
things that Microsoft stumbled upon during
the evolution of Windows was the everincreasing redundancy o f n a v igational
methods. Thus you can get from here to
there any number of ways. For example, at
one time Alt+Tab was an essential keyboard
combination used by everyone with more
than a passing knowledge of the operating
system. Today many users still love and use
it, but th e addition of t h e Task Bar in
Windows 95 brought a new way of moving

ment has about 100 screens giving the CDROM many hours of value.
Another benefit, t h e d i s c i n c ludes
Professor Teaches Internet Explorer, a training
program for Internet Explorer 4.0, which is
included as part of Windows 98. Three of the
eight chapters include: What is the Internet;
Introducing Internet Explorer; and Working
with E-mail. I liked it as much as the feature

'

AuCt>On

program..

As alluded to above, the only problem

with this program is that it really needs a fairly fast computer, say a minimum of 200MHz,
to work properly. Otherwise it's a great little
tutorial.
For a p e r so n n e w t o Wi n d o w s,
between applications to the operating system. As Professor Teaches Windows 98 would be a
in the past, Microsoft has continued to support perfect gift. Even a more experienced user
would learn something. When you return
this, and other, small functions good idea.
Accessing the Internet, Multimedia and to the basics and take a little refresher you
Hardware Support, Managing Your System, often discover you didn't know quite as
much as you thought. This reviewer can
and Other Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts fill out
the other chapters in the tutorial. Each seg- attest to it. 0

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reliable" lie detector. Manufactured by MakhShevet in Israel, The Truster is the result of

that Richard Whately, the British churchman who coined that oft abused phrase, actu-

of screening out Arab terrorists trying to cross

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of mouth recommendations users shouldn' t
be letting on they use it. That's because secre-

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tiveness. Purchasers are reportedly extremely

happy with the product but, ironically, if
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the person is telling the truth... or not.

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unnaturally cautious tone.

Thus the dilemma presented by The
Truster and the wisdom of making important
decisions based solely on a perceived level of
honesty.
The Truster is a software application that
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The makers of The Truster stress that accuracy also depends on several other factors,
the most important of which are: I) ensuring
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In addition, it is crucial that, regardless of

whether audio is input through a microphone or telephone, it is necessary that The
Truster hears viily the voice of the person
under scrutiny. This could prove difficult
with a face-to-face conversation, as the
microphone must not only be hidden, but it

can only pick up one voice. However, The

Truster is said to be equally reliable in analyzing pre-recorded conversations, which

can be fed through the microphone from

any TV, VCR, or cassette recorder.
Interestingly, I' ve seen a demonstration
of The Truster on a TV news program testing
taped speeches by Richard Nixon ( r e:
Watergate) and Bill Clinton (re: sex) were
fed. The marginally surprising verdict: Nixon
lied. Clinton didn' t.
Blocking out all but the subject's voice
can be accommodated by a simple kill-switch
included with the software. With practice, it
is simple to accurately push the red button
when you speak and let it go when the other
person speaks
walkie-talkie fashion. And, as
a straight throughput device, you can hook
the switch up and just leave it in place
because it doesn't affect normal, non-Truster,
use of the phone.
The heart of The Truster is an algorithm
that detects a state of stress, measure its
degree, and pinpoint its cause. In other
words, the system claims to be able to distinguish between lying, excitement, exaggeration or emotional conflict.
As you speak to a person, several linear
graphs develop across the screen to illustrate
a relative measure of stress. A text window
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Subject is not Sure, Excitement, etc. in
keeping with the makers' ambitious algorith-

mic claims. When you' re done, a brief report

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read:
Profile report
The subject was highly excited during the conversation.
The subject was highly stressed during the conversation.
The subject was not confident in all his words,
According to the results, the subject lied a Iew times.
Profile summary:
The subject tends to think carefully when he speaks.
Based on the results
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This report can be either deleted or filed

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The Truster's ability t o
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Truster isn't called upon as a lie detector, but
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for example, and the excitement meter rises
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the other hand, you' ve probably low-balled a
little too far.
So, if I' ve interpreted the background
material correctly, it would be better in our
car deal scenario to ask, "What would you
say to an offer of three thousand dollars or
thereabouts?" instead of oWoodja take three
grand?" The former will get the seller talking
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between dry mouth and lying. But how
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plastic in the middle of the casing has a rubberized feel that makes it easier to grip when

you are mobile. These characteristics, combined with the sweeping curves of the design,
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Road Rocket, a cardbus expansion card that

allows you to hook up two additional 21-inch
monitors in millions of colors, while sharing
desktop real estate with the PowerBook G3

series once again clearly establishes Apple as

display.

able price-performance ratio in the market-

unit with the applications you plan to use

the leader in portable computer design and with it. The only other significant drawback is
performance. Apple's new pricing structure the weight. However, I suspect most publishfor this seriesoffers the consumer an unbeat- ing and multimedia professionals will gladly

pieces.
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place.
There are only two caveats. Although I

When you see and test drive one of these

new PowerBook designs you will likely want
three kilograms. Not exactly svelte for a user to have one. With its new sleeker design,
multiplicity of expansion options and raw
who spends a lot of their time on the road.
performance abilities, the PowerBook G3

Since this impairs the ultimate performance of

the processor, you may want to evaluate the

didn't get a chance to use one, the lower end

offerings based on the 233 MHz processor do

the previous generation PowerBooks, the

units in the G3 series still weigh in at just over

lug this portable around in exchange for its

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Peak performance
But the PowerBook G3 series is more than just
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Under the hood of the G3 turks fearsome computational power that is capable of putting
many desktop computers to shame. The top-

of-the-line, fully loaded model is decked out

with a 292 MHz PowerPC 750 RISC processor
with 1 MB of backside cache on a dedicated
bus running at 146 MHz, along with a system
bus clocking at 83 MHz. It is complemented
with a gorgeous 14.1-inch TFT display with a
resolution of 1,024x768, an 8 GB hard drive, a
20x CD-ROM drive and a keyboard with a
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televised sport.
o what did you think of this summer' s
This month, we check out a game that

understatement. Let's head to the pitch and

find out why.
The name of this game may be unfamiliar,
World Cup? Personally, I soaked up every seeks to recreate the game of soccer in general but World Cup 98 is essentially the next step
tradition-steeped moment that didn' t and the monstrous event that is the World in EA Sports' amazing FIFA Soccer series. One
hopelessly interfere with a) work; b) sleep; and Cup in particular. It is entitled, appropriately, need only compare it to any other soccer

u
dramatically EA Sports outdistances the competition.
From the. Tiibthurnping and otherwise

glossy introduction, to the top-notch commentary and undulating roars of a huge

crowd, and from eerily lifelike and ultra-intri-

c) food. And so did virtually everyone I know, World Cup 98 and to say it succeeds is an game from any other manufacturer to see how cate player actions, to killer 3D-accelerated
visuals, WC 98 is truly a world class achievement.

1.5 million pixels (actual size).

World Cup 98
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That's not to say it's a landmark achievement. Actually, last year's FIFA: Road to World

Cup 98 was the most recent big upgrade in the

series, and a stunner it was. WC 98 is merely a
minor update to what was already the best

soccer ever seen on a PC.

This time around, the action is centred
purely on the big tournament itself. Apart
from eight "bonus" squads, only the countries
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40 teams in all (compared to 300 for FIFA 98) hailing from such
questionable talent bases as Jamaica right on
up to perennial powerhouses such as Brazil
and Argentina.

Now put your eyeballs back in.

The Fuji MX-700. Can you believe something this compact

can deliver the high quality imagery of 1.5 million pixels, easily
merge images of brilliant quality into documents, presentations,
webpages, or the Internet, and still cost under SI0007 Seeing
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Training modes an8 exhibition games will

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tournament, and the usual bonanza of EA

Sports user options should get anyone up and
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lenging quest for even hardened veterans. WC

98 also offers unparalleled management possibilities, affording the opportunity to make

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ous in time that the programming sometimes

forces the issue. Suffice it to say that scores can
change drastically in just a few minutes, with
keepers turning from brick walls into sieves,
slow-footed strikers becoming s coring
machines, and usually far too many shots
finding the back of the net.
Of course, an EA Sports title wouldn't be
an EA Sports title without the flashiest graphics today's equipment can support, and its latest game has got them in droves. I won't go

widens, you' ll see authentic changes in the

size and shape of uniforms, quality of pitch

and even post-goal celebration routines. Heck,

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into detail because EA has utilized motionsuch coaching decisions as starting lineups, captured 30 players for quite some time, but
substitutions, team formations and offensive it can safely be said that players physically
and defensive strategies, many of them on- (and facially) resemble their real-life counterthe-fly.
parts and show attention to musculature and
More importantly, aH of the above trans- lighting details.
lates in a reasonably subtle and authentic
As a bonus, and a lovely one at that, winmanner. In other words, just because you' ve ning the World Cup at any difficulty level
chosen an aH-out offensive posturing, don' t unlocks something EA Sports refers to as
expect 11-man blitzkriegs around the oppo- World Cup Classics, a chance to replay signif-

nent's net and a complete abandonment of

defence.
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1982 Italy/West Germany tussle, you' ll move World Cup 98 is the place to turn for aH other
back in time through a series of eight note-

succeeds because it successfuHy conveys the worthy historic matches, finally reaching the
nuances of real soccer. For instance, ball carri- maiden game in 1930. As the time gap
ers continuously knock the ball ahead of themselves when moving downfield as opposed to
magically tucking it in close to their feet, as is
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how each individual expense contributed to that

amount. Stacked bar'and stacked column charts
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whole unit and how one whole unit compares to
other whole units.
A pie chart is generally circular and each slice
or wedge represents a category. A pie chart showIng expenses will illustrate how each expense

contributes to all your expenses, but it can only

show the expenses for a single year or office and
not for multiple years or offices. The situations in
which you can use a pie chart will be limited to
where you have only one series to plot or when
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Line and XY (scatter) charts are used to plot
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charts look similar, they actually plot data slightly differently. To ensure your data is always presented correctly, use a Line chart when your data
items are evenly spaced and an XY scatter chart
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or temperatures are not evenly spaced, then use
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the chart, select Chart, Source Data, and select
image appears in the chart.
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or "Series by column" to transpose the plotting.
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tion of Web tools is all you really need

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packages that not only help you create the of a word processor, allowing authors to

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beginner, but it will appeal to those experienced Web authors who are looking for a
way to automate things.

ability to automate simple page markup to

creating complex table and frame layouts Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes any comments,
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386DX40,4megram,125meghdd,3.5fdd,
lowercasekeyboardandmouse. Vgacard,
no monitor.$125.00.Call 905472-3153.
486 COMPUTER270mb/Bram-14"SVGA

$190 9054554I607,after 5pm.

486-33 $200with VGAmonitor SVGA14"
$125. 536-5853.
486DX2/6
6 SCSIhdd 8 cd,col,mon.2.88
fdd$335;386 monosystem 1.44fdd,hdd
8 monitor$90eall 905.884-3166,
486DX661.4
4fi
oppy,345mbhd,Bmbram.
snd blaster pro crd, cdrom,Windows95
installed,mse,kybd, spkrs,VGAcontroller
2mb, mdm/fax 14400,w/o monitor. Call
661-7346.
486DX66 SYSTEM $450 Win95

media/internet/home
ready416-252-6005.

586/100, BM, 340m, cd, soundblaster16,

fax/modem,speaker,kbd,mouse,Win95.
$350. SVGA
905-831-7813.
BX CD-ROM
drive drivers + manualincluded still underwarranty $40. 9054154I085.
ABIT INTEL
Txmbw/Pentium 233mmxcpu
8 fan $250 (Firm)askfor Matt 905-669905-946-8971.
5495.
REQ'DMSCEexp NT4.0. Fax 905-946- AGERLAPTOPPent. 13316mbram1.6gig
8971.
hd multimediafully loadcall 41646M814.
REQ'DNTWorkstation server4.0. Fax905- AMD K6-200MHZ,asking $85. Syquest
946-8971.
Ez135 with 4 cartridges, asking $160,
REQ'D
PROJ mgr/proj co-ord. Fax905-946- Phone416-994.6860andleavemessage.
8971.
ASUSPRL97motherboard,3 monthsold,
$120. CalMi
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VB PROG
RAMMER seeks I/t p/t 4164351420.
ATI 3DXpression+pc2tv 4mbsgramwith
WEBDESIGN, VB,SQ4 programmerseeks originalwarranty,$50.Email bquonfNcanet
ar 416-787.5737.
I/t p/t job. 416-835.1420.
BRANDNEW20 inch G200IBMmonitor
MAXRCS1600x1200 asking $1300.Please
call 905.727-5700.
$92 FOR
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lASERprinter only 3000pages
dead pc's416-410-3883.
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printedwith brandnewtoner anddrum unit
12" T(L monitor. Amber$20. 416-259- for $290.Tel905456-2193.
2484.
CANON
NEIWORKABLESCSI ink)et tabloid
14" VGA monitor $80, 4S6dx4/100 printer BJC820. asking $275. 416-236cpu+fanim/b+Bmb $fpp, cdrom 2x/4x 4760.
$25/35,28.8f/m $40.Steve6184216.
COMIIIIOD
ORE128 camputen colour moni15" HP ULTRA
vga Digibd monitor $240 tor, 5"poppydisk drive, keyboard$200. Cal
Nick at767&93.
416-321-2701.

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1.44mb fd2mgati vc 104Win95kb+mse
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hd16mbram 24xcd1mb vc$950obo,call
416-510-2593David.
P200MMX
3.2GB16mb4" SVG
A1mbvc
24xcdrom$650obo. 416-510-2593David.
P233MMX,48 mb,3.2pb.32xcd-rom,14"
SVGA
kb,mouse. $1600,ar 1850with 3dfx
card, negotiable. Afi underwarranty. Call
41 6-709-9853.
PENTIUM150, minitwr, fgm, 1g, S816,
cdrom,fax/modem,spkrs, Win95.NEC15"
SVGA,$750.905-831-7813.
PENTIUM 2.1GB/32 ram multimedia
modem14"SVGA$590905&5-8607.
QUANTUM1.3GB hd $90.Desktop case
w/230wattspowersupply $152piece4mb
edo ram$10.Call 291-2768.
SCSICCD ROM 32xToshiba Brandname,
$180.00. Adaptecaha-2940uwultra wide
pci scsi host adapter, $240.00. Email
yctphwcn.org.
SEAGATE
1,08gb side hard drive, no bad
sectors, good condition $110. 416-3744942.
SVGAMONITOR$95,network card$10Call
905-712-9649
after 7pm.
SVGAMONITOR 14" blackandwhite high
resolution, great condition $60 416-9639069.
TIESERIES-4-24ts,handsets $25/each,
with display board $50/each, 36 station
busy boardPS. Call Abe 9054NIB7070
eve.
TOSHIBA300C
T-NotebookcomputerP133,
1.50 ghd, 64mgram, Int. Fax N)adam
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$1900.00.Call4(6-4104423.
TOSHIBAlAPTOP486 32mbram 800mb

hd 28.8faxcolour $550Pentium 12016mb

ram sndcdAgig $500. 287-8391.
TOSHIBALIBREITO70CT-Sub-Notebook,
1.8 lbs., P120,1.2ghd, 32mgram, Port
Replicator, Leath. Case, Ext. Monitor,
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$2000,00. Call4164104I423
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MACINTOSH
DEALS.Smoking G3 Power
DELLCOMPLETEsystem incld. Bmbram
Macs, Graphic Design, Digital Audio
monitor and more. $200Bob 4164I26Workstations.We'l work with you to find
8173.
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EPSON
STYLUS800 color printer andink
refill kit-$280-Jack-jbsurvinforamp.net.
WIN95/INTER
NET training in/out $25 hr.
Photos toCD.431-1513.
HARDDRIVE1.25 gig $95, hard drive
Printer Cllnlc
125mb$30, scsi adapter$65. Pleasecall
YOUR BACKUP SOLUTION: CD Copy
atter 6pm,Ron905-763-8981.
$10(blankCDinc.) Locatedin Oakvipe. Cal
nmrennensrnepscreLrsre
Joe (905)338-6724.
IS YOURPRINTER BROKEN?
HDD 850MB$85, 524mb (2.5") $70,
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a Prompt, Reliable Servlcre
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homeoffice, excellent condition $110.905.
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HP540 PRINTER
newprint cartrldpe and
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$160. Call 416-918-1430.
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IBM TURB
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INTEL486dx33,Bmb,1.44mb fd,sound905-305-1205
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board,mouse$160.416-2814)208,
INTEL P166mmxcpu w/boxtorig, cfan
2monthsold$90obo416-255-7441.
I
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INTELPEN
TIUM 166mhz, 16rnb, 1.44mb
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fax/modem,soundcardVGAmon,
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IONUSERGROUPS: Sendin your listing (madmum120characters) fortheOctober issuebyMonday,August 31,1998. Submissions
MACCLONESbrrmax 4000604ecpu200 ATTENT
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S/2USERS
' GROUPmeets 2nd
705.738
4578;Emailtonyc@kawart
hanet. ThursdayOof
MAC LC475-36/250, upgraded to 66040 voice (416)5684087.
each month, 7-10pm, IBM
w/FPU,
Ethernet card,runningsystem 8.1, CAMBRIDGECLONECLUBmeetsevery3rd NEWINTERNET marketing roundtabledis- CanadaBuilding, 3600SteelesAveEin the
lots of software,$600obo. Call Stuart 416- Wednesdayevening, 1111 Lanp's Circle, cussionpraupbasedin York Region, open auditorium. Free.Call (416) 299-3410.E784-3686
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MACPERFORMA 6400/180 32mb/1.6gfor
CLUB
CUBASE,aforumfor Steinberg users, will
to bedetermlnerLEwag Bil at: SYSTEMS.
$1300.Conrad599001t or canradh@
hotmeets the lastMondayof eachmonth at meetings
Nextmeeting:Sept 23rd,1998,
mail.corn.
Trebas Institute. 410DundasSt. Eat 7:30 biNpbetternet.
5:00pm TBA and 7:ggpm at Howard
pm.
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MACDUO
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p.m.,MetroHall, 55JohnSt at King, Speakers: Net Data8 Net Commerce,
extras$750obo, Paul-416-704-3310.
monthatGeorpe Brown Cofi
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knowledgeable, Evelyn Porter. Free of
o,in 3rd fioor,(416)535-1899,ext3,
MACINTOSH PERFORMA 6400/200mhz, Lamacampus,160KendalAve,Toront
charge to afiTUGmembers, light buffetat
56mb,Sxcdrom,nec17"monitor,28.8kbps the auditorium at 7p.m. Call the 24hour PERSONALCOMPUTER CLUBOFTORON- 6:00pm.
ContactWendeBoddy,Association
modem,2.1gig 3 yrs partsandwarranty info iineat(416)462-1702or theFirstClass TO (PCCT)meets 3rd Tuesdayof each Mpr. at (905) 607-2546, for outef-town
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obo. 905-502-1930Mickey.
MEGAHE
RTZ 28800 Pcmcia fax/modem
card for noteboaks.$60
416-281-1342.
MONITORADAPTOR Pc/Mac brand new
$40. Cal621-3290.
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OPTIQUEST 15inch, brandnew
in carton for$400.00.Cafi:905-2014I047,
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$1200905-737-3156.
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Hall, 55 JohnSt., Toronto, ON.Call (416)

535-1899.
DURHAMPCUSER'S CLUBmeets 2nd
Thursday ofeachmonth, 7-10pm,auditorium of the OshawaPublic Library (main
branch), 65 BagotSt, Oshawa.Free. Call
(905) 655-8013or (905)623-2787.
H.U.G. (Hamilton PC
UsersGroup) - IBM
and PC clone users meet on the last
Mondayofeachmonth in theauditorium of
the Hamilton Spectator, 44 Frid Street at
7:00pm. For further info contact Jim

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touchpad15bit sound $1100abo, 20m
INTERN
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flash card$200email: vphungeNbm.net.
(IPG)'s informal Downtown Toronto
NOVELL
4.X 25 user or above. 416-241- 'Get2Gether'meetingswill now beheld at
3774 ask
for John.
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LASERmodel 41ops-brand new- Toronto,(416)366-5234at7pm.Themeettop quality$350,neverused416-566-1143. inps will beheldon dateswith thenumber
"5" in themie. the5th, 15th, and25th of
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905-272-3269.
IRMAC
(InformationResourceManagement
P166SYSTEM, 1.25 giphd,33.6modem, Association ofCanada) offers meetings on
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sues
12x cdrom,sound card, 32mbram.Run
conce
rning Data Warehouse,
Win95/
NT.Askinp for$600.Ran905-763- Modelling, Information Planninp etc,
www.lRMAC
.caor via InfofiPIRMAC.ca
8981.
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TAF (TorontoAtad Federation) meets3rd

Wednesda
yofeachmonthat7:30pm,North
York CityCentreUbrary, RoseRoom. Free
for members, $2for non-members.Write:
5334 YongeSt., Ste 15, Wigowdale,ON
M2N 6M2Call (416)425-5357, BBS(418)
421-8999,
WWW
httpi/www.io.org/-schrtsNaf.html.
THE MISSISSAUGACOIuIPUTER CLUB
meets thefirst Wednesdayof every month
at the BurnhamthorpeCommunity Center,
1500GulledenDr. 1black westof DMeand
one block south of Burnhamthorpe, at
7:30pmYoumayreachthedubthroughthe
BBS at 905-270-3972 or by Email at
bn1654ptorfree.net.
THETORONTO ACT!USER GROUP.For
more information e-mail:[email protected] Call: (416)761-1963or Fax:(416)
761-1530.
TORONTOCYBERSPACE LIONS CLUB.
Word's 1stInternetServiceClub. Multiculturalmembershipin,terestedin communityserviceprojects. Meetings in persanandon
IRC. Educational meetings. $75. annual
fees.Contact Roger Roberts, 416-5159324, email roardpcybertions.corn, visit
www.cyberlions.corn.
TORONTODIGITALEFFECTSASSOCIATION
meetsthe3rdThursdayof everymonth at
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1998, AutomotiveBuilding NationalTrade
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largestcomputershowandsalewith over
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more, Hours:Friday10am-9pm;Saturday
andSunday 10am-6pm. Cost:$9 daily.
Phone416425-4533.
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SOHO
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USED PENTIUM120 motherboards (or
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ac ontrac
town to another.
The best solution is generally agreed to be
01TAWA (NB) When the Canadian Radio- some sort of database in which phone switchtelevision
and
Tele c ommunications es can look up a number to see to which carriCommission (CRTC) announced in July an er it is currently assigned. A consortium of
led by Bell
interim approach to local number portability Canada's telephone
Canada,
retained
Perot
Systems
to deveiop
(LNP), it was the latest step along a road to full
competition in local telephone service. That this. But Perot, one of two contractors that
road has proven bumpier and more twisted shared out seven LNP contracts in the U,S.,
than regulators and would-be competitors had began falling behind on its U,S. LNP projects,
hoped, but it now looks as if LNP may be it lost those deals to rival I.ockheed Martin
implemented in Canada more or less on the and decided at the end of February to get out
of the w hole LNP field, including the
original schedule.
The incumbent carriers have put their Canadianproject.Lockheed Martin has now
heads together over the past two days and taken over, but Canada's LNP development
concluded that they can do better than the effort fell behind in the meantime.
CRTC asked.
So MetroNet Communications Group Inc.,
Jacques Sarrazin, vice-president of local a pioneering CLEC based in Calgary, asked the
CRTC for a short-term fix. What MetroNet
interconnection and number portability at
Stentor, the consortium of established region- asked for was essentially that the carriers
al carriers, told Newsbytes that the companies would use ordinary cail-forwarding technolohave decided they ran get the full-fledged LNis gy to redirect calls. If you switched from Bell
system working on schedule, despite a setback Canada to MetroNet, your old Bell number
suffered earlier in the year when a contract would be call-forwarded to your new number,
with Perot Systems Inc., to construct the sys- one of a block assigned to MetroNet.
tem was cancelled.
As lain Grant, managing director of The
Local number portability is widely seen as Yankee Group in Canada in Brockville, Ont.,
critical to the success of new phone compa- noted, this would cause some problems.
nies that want to compete in providing local C alling-number identification would b e
stymied by the forwarding. Some other special
service.
it means a telephone subscriber can change features would not work. And a single subcarriers from the incumbent to a startup, for scriber who changed carriers just once would
instance
without having to get a new phone
tie up two telephone numbers for as long as
number. Without it, businesses= the most this approach was used. Canada's three largest
lucrative prospects for. competitive local- cities have all gone through area code splits in
recent years due to shortages of numbers; this
exchange carriers (CLECs)
would be leery of
switching because of the expense of changing approach would add to that problem.
The CRTC saw the problems, though, and
stationery and advertising and the loss of business that might result when the numbet cus- chose a different plan. Instead of call forwardtomers know suddenly stops working.
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comp
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be given blocks of numbers, typically entire be the basis of the permanent system, Since
exchanges, to assign to their customers. the technology to update this database autoChange carriers, and you would change num-

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bers just as surely as if you moved from one the telcos to update it manually.

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been "one of the big obstacles" to persuading
business customers to switch from incumbent
carriers, said Bill Terry, the CLEC's director of
marketing. And the approach the CRTC has

chosen will mean customers won't lose any of

their special calling features.
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Most businesses have many telephone lines,

with one of them being the company's main
listed number and znost of the others not listed but simply included in "hunt groups" so
that calls to the listed number can be switched
to the first available line rather than getting a
busy signal. According to Grant, there is no

reason a business with 20 phone lines cannot

munications consultant Eamon Hoey said the switch 19 of them to a CLEC, keeping the
interim solution would simply reduce the

main listed number with the incumbent cahTI-

pressure to complete the system originally

er to avoid changing it.

conceived, and possib)y distract from that

work. "It's kind of like putting a new task in
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boost revenue. wWhy all this rushing around
just to please, you know, one or two compa-

True in principle, said Terry, but that adds

some complexity for the customer, and quite

a bit for the CLEC sales person trying to make
the sale. Also, it won't work with Integrated

Services Digital Network (ISDN) lines.

The point is moot now anyway. According
to Sazrazin, full LNP should be working in

nies?" Hoey asked.

Vancouver and Calgary by the end of July and

Grant also suggested that the importance

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in Toronto and Montreal by the end of

may be

August
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"Shakespeare wrote a piny about local number

portability," he remarked. "It's called Mhrch
Ado About Nothing." The customers CLECs are
most interested in are businesses, he said.

be extended to about 15

major cities. The

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BM recently conducted
an "audit" of s elected

large corporations to find

out how many were "Year2000 ready." About 70 per-

lem is that most of the world's older software

won't understand that a year named 00 is a correct date. In many cases, computer operating systems or applications will crash, or generate

i'lghting for mindshare

Essentially, the reasons governments, industries
and Individuals have been so slow to wrap their
minds around the Year 2000 issue are:

errors, or simply refuse to continue operations, It hasn't happened before, so it is a danger

cent claimed they had the as will many "embedded" computing devices in
nobody really understands.
Year 2000 Bug (also known air conditioning, telephone, heating, lighting, Everyone has a full agenda of (seemingly)
. as the Y2K Bug, and the elevator, medical equipment, vehicle, military
more immediate priorities they do underMillennium Bug) beat. IBM
then sent i n te c h n ical
experts to test their readiness. How many turned out to be truly Y2K
ready? Fifty percent? Twenty percent? Five percent? Try zero.
When I first heard about the YZK bug seven
or eight years ago, I figured it was one of those
UNIX geek things that "they" would take
care of. Boy, was I wrong. In recent
weeks, a couple of things
happened to make

and other control systems,

The problems in curing this problem are

stand, that typically have to be dealt with

before YZK issues can move up the list.

many, but boil down to a conflict between the

huge scale of the work that needs to be done,
and the rapidly disappearing amount of time left
to do it. The clock is ticking, literally.

Most of Europe, for example, has lagged

behind North America in Y2K preparations,
since it has been distracted by the move towards
monetary union, as well as concerns about

No magic bullet

chronic unemployment, integration of the for-

Although the Y2K problem was recognized

decades ago, a curious "not my problem" mentality has persisted up to the present day. When
computer users are surveyed on their attitudes
me f ee l
as towards it, the results can be astounding. Most
though the YZK large businesses in Canada now realize how serious the problem is, but a large number of smallsituation is not
and medium-size businesses remain in denial,
under control at
all, and we will face a expecting "them" to fix the problem.
But there is no universal or simple fix, and
very messy New Year' s
Day on Jan. 1, 2000. Not neither Bill Gates nor the Tooth Fairy, nor anynecessaril
y armageddon, but a one else, is likely to come riding to their rescue.

merly Communist East Bloc into the European

Community, and wars in the former Yugoslavia.

big mess nonetheless.

Nobody doesitperfectly on first try

In Canada's largest city and province respectively, the amalgamation o f M e t ropolitan

Toronto's constituent parts into the megacity of
Toronto has distracted attention away from Y2K
issues, as has the Ontario government's pro-

grams of cutting expenditures and taxes. The

volume of screaming from Y2K doomsayers has

reached such a level, however, that even the

most resistant authorities have started to listen.

First,
Stati s tics Who's to blame?
Canada released a joint It isn't likely that the companies that sold Year

According to an IBM study, major technology

programs are completed close to the deadline
government/industry 2000 buggy products can be successfully sued for about 10 percent of the time, about 60 percent
"final r e port" on damages, in most cases. If you read the weasel take significantly longer than expected, and
Canada's readiness, words in the fine print on most computer prod- about 20 percent are never finished (the latter

and then a few days uct licence agreements, they have been carefully
later I chaired a seminar

on the Y2K problem at

Comdex Canada 98, held
recently in Toronto.
There is no Plan I
Close study of the statistics on Y2K readiness presented on these two occasions led me to con-

are typically overtaken by advancing technology, and replaced by new technology or some
lawyers worried about the Y2K problem) to let other business event such as a merger or bankthe manufacturer off the hook for any problems ruptcy, before being completely implemented).
worded (largely at the insistence of company

that may result from the use of their products.

This bodes poorly for many late-starting busi-

In any case,the problem could have been

nesses and government agencies being able to

dealt with easily at any time over the last decade,

but most end users didn't take it seriously until

meet their inflexible New Year's Day 2000 deadline.

In many cases, they will still have additional

the last year or two, many still aren't really conclude we really have very little idea of what we' re cerned, or actively working to make their sys- months or years of tweaking and bug fixing'
in for when the Millennium Bug problem hits tems Y2K compliant. Those who will be legally before they are fully ready to deal with the problem. Unfortunately, extra time
cannot be manufactured.

the fan in 16 months. Although

. there is now a generally high

awareness oftheproblem, itis
almost too late for many
c ompanies to flx i t i n t h e
time remaining.

The Year 2000 experts I

The SPeaker referred to the

trilliOn-dOllar legal Prohlem
that Year 2000 Will bring
to AmeriCa. An attorney

The headhunting daisy

chain
A s companies begin t o

panic upon realizing how

t alked w it h a t Co m d ex
Canada, although taking a
resolutely positive "can do"
attitude towards the problem,
StoPd UP QQd Q$ked
admit it is past the point of
no return. Rather than being
"In What Wpy dpeS that
fixable, in many cases the
best that can be done will be
to p r actice "triage" limit
damage, dump unfixable old
technology, and put total faith in untested new liable for most of the losses associated with Y2Ksystems that will probably have their own relia- related failures will be the users of the technology that fails, who will be legally liable for failing
bility troubles.
to fulfill their contractual obligations, or for any
damage or injuries that result.
The double digit deadline doom
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The Y2K Bug is a flaw in the world's computer

technology, based on the date conventions in A global litigation feast
virtually all old software. When the year 1999 Estimates of the global cost of getting ready for
turns over to the year 2000, the last two digits of Year 2000 range up to US$600 billion. Canada's
the year will roll over from 99 to 00. The prob- p o rtion of that bill may exceed $12 billion.
However, the total bill for the expected wave of
Y2K
lawsuits is estimated as high as US$2.5 tril7MI5
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lion dollar legal problem that Year 2000 will

little time is left, the other

key Y2K shortage, the tack

in qualified technical personnel, is becoming more

acute. Many newly desperate companies have concluded there is not enough
time to both train staff in
Y2K skills and do the work
required, so are frantically try-

ing to hire YZK experts away from other companies.

The increasing flood of customers for Y2K
solutions competing for a very limited pool of
experts is creating a bidding war for scarce skills.

Employment agencies or executive placement

firms "headhunters" in industry parlance are
helping churn a limited number of computer

experts through an increasing nuinber of clients.

What, me worry?
We could have avoided the dangers of the
Millenium Bug many years ago, by acting in our
long-term collective best interests. Instead, we
will have to scramble over the few months left,
to minimize the damage, and then perhaps

spend months or years cleaning up the problems

bring to America. An attorney stood up and and paying the bills. After the Y2K hangover is
asked, "In what way does that constitute a prob- gone,we can only hope thatwemake and keep
lem?"
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