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do with the tangle of cables behind
the computer. Maybe we' ll need
something like an advanced cordlefo
technology before we can prune back
the wire garden growing behind our
PCs.

4,

revision. I believe mainly that if

some technology works well
today, it will work even better
tomorrow. For the most part I
think this is true. The abundant

exceptions to this generaliza-

le 8 0 -20 fgrtx rule

Still, all in all, I think we' ve progressedfrom
the days of looking for the elusive
WordPerfect printer driver. It's just that
we want to do so much more
and
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maintain my skepticism. Thus, I'm

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of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix
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re member g o ing

through the same driver

do so much mor~with our PCs

searches as the reader men-

these days.
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tioned above. And it didn' t

stop once I found the WordPerfect

driver I had to follow the same procedure
with for all of my applications. Windows 3
represented a big step forward in printerand other device
management.

20 rule: for example, 80 percent of

required a serial connection. Another used your revenue comesfrom 20 percent of your
an AC adapter, which connected to the customers; or 80 percent of your complaints
tablet at the serial plug. The third also used come from 20 percent of your products.

the serial port, but drew its power from the

Today, with Windows 98,once you've keyboard port, so it came with a Y-splitter
loaded the appropriate Windows printer dri- that allowed the tablet and keyboard to
ver, or modem or sound card, you have share the port. The QuickCam needed the
accexs to that service from any Windows parallel port but also drew its power from
application. With Plug and Play, device ser- the keyboard port, and also came with a Ysplitter.
vices are largely automatic,
As it stands now, only one of the tablets
created problems during installation. The
The wire garden
During the past few weeks, I' ve been gener- PC wouldn't recognize it as a Plug and Play
ally pleased, and somewhat amazed at the device, and the device would not show up

When it comes to futzing around with our

PCs trying to get things to work, the same

rule fits: 80 percent of our aggravation

comes from 20 percent of our devices and
software.
I don't know if anyone has sat down and
tried to empirically test this rule, but true or
not, it serves as a comforting reminder (or
maybe illusion) that things are mostly OK.

amount of stuff you can hang off a PC. But when the computer wasrebooted. The other

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Comdex Canada West dlsalspoints

I went to

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Comdex Canada West this year] on Monday

(jan. 11) and was disappointed that there
were no "new products and systems available for viewing with the exception of the
large, costly Toshiba and Panasonic notebooks and welcome Linux products and 0/S!
What was very noticeable was that both
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erage of industry developments.

There seems to be growing interest in

sions) can run on that OS.

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Linux these days, and I was wondering

whether you'd consider doing an artide on ..And slseahlng of Unnx
Linux for PowerPC and Intel, performance I just wanted to send a quick response to
benchmarks, availability of software, and the your dedsion to support Linux in your pubpossibility of temporarily running non- lication (see "Solaris 7, Linux 2.2 alternatives
Linux apps through emulators. I'm consider- to NT" i n t h e January 1999 issue).
ing installing Linux on my PowerMac G3 but Congratulations!
I' ve often wondered when the media was
am reluctant to do so until my mainstay
graphics applications (in my case, Mac ver- going to catch on to the fact that Linux is

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As a test, try doing searches on the Web

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absence! This is extremely strange since

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Cognos made a simple presentation of its
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deviated from the "pure Java" standard to
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vors," in a fashion comparable to the fragmentation of UNIX into a number of proprietary, incompatible v ersions. McNealy
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Corel gets licence to Lamarr's image

OTI'AWA (NB) Corel Corp. and actress Hedy Leman announced
they have settled a lawsuit filed against Corel by the actress last
March. I.amarr was the embodiment of movie star success in the
1930s and 1940s but was far from being just another spoiled

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celebrity. Lamer is credited

and held patents for technology
that has become fundamental to today's wireless communications.
She recently received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer
Award for that early work

Ironically, artist John Corkery, using Corel's CorelDraw vector

graphics program, created an image celebrating the early Lamarr
and took Best of Show at the 1996 Corel World Design Contest.
This gained the image widespread reproduction and Lamarr sued Corel to gain
control of what was, after all, her personal image. Exact terms of the settlement
were not disclosed but Corel says the actress has granted Corel a five-year
exclusive licence to use the image. Look for her on Corel packaging.

Transparent expands language apps

HOLLIS, N.H .
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the biggest speakers into their cars, making
their vehides roving boom-boxes with bass

response heavy enough to register at nearby

seismic stations. But these people are still limited to the amount of music they can play in
their car at any one time on such things as
CDs and audio tapes. Now, a small British
firm is planning to release a car stereo player
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vocabulary and syntax."
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language dialogues, scramble and then re-sequence those dialogues back into their original order.
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speaker. Pronunciation, grammar tutorials, a Berlitz interpreter word translator and a multilingual word
processor are also built into the full-motion, native interactive CD-ROM.
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come with the system are for Windows-based PC systems. The product sells for US$49.95 per language.
Transparent Language, http: //www.transparent.corn

Utilizing mpeg compression, a hard drive

and the means to transfer music from a com-

puter, empeg Ltd, plans to provide people

with up to 34 hours of non-stop music playback capability in its base unit..:,,
Made to flit into a standard car stereo slot,
the empeg-car is designed for easy removal-

handy both for security reasons and to

update the. tunes from your PC. At the time of
writing the empeg-car had not yet gone to
manufacture, but the initial standard unit is
planned.to come with a 2.1 GB hard drive, a
RDS FM tuner, docking station, cables (USB

and serial), Windows software, home PSU,

manuals and an installation guide.

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stereo audio per gigabyte, the standard unit is
capable of playing almost three days worth of
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Dolch Diablo: The computer that goes places I wouldn't want to

Dolch Computer Systems, the makers of the least "me-too" portable PCs and flat-panel monitors on the
market has announced the new Diablo series of flat-panel
computers, designed for "harsh duty in explosion hazard
zones," and other fun places.
Offering up to 233 MHz Pentium processors and extra
high intensity, daylight readable LCDs, the Diablo can
function in impossible environments such as oil exploration (it meets industrial standards for protection against
flying particles and water intrusion, of course). The
Diablo brings new meaning to the phrase "cold boot," as
it is rated for starting up at temperatures as cold as -40 C,
using a special built-in electrical pre-heating system.
According to company president Volker Dolch, "Not
only will these systems run in hell, they will still be running when it freezes over." Also according to Dolch, his

company's ruggedized computers and displays are the

fave pick of battle tank operators, warship builders, and

space explorers worldwide and beyond.

Oolch, Tel; 510-861-2226, htip://www.dnlch.corn

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to the task. If they are intimately familiar

with creating applications that can be
used on desktop computers, then they
will bring that familiarity and experience to the design of a converged

lot has been written about the "convergence" of personal computer

and telephone technology in the

past few years, but so far it seems that few

really innovative devices have come from
the marriage of these technologies. If you

phone/computer.
None of this is to say that the
Nokia 9000i is a perfect example of
what can be achieved in a conver-

look at why more progress hasn't been

made, it is probably because telecommunications companies and computer companies

gence product. There are lots of

innovations that could and I am
sure will be added to the design of
successor products. A color screen, a
Web browser that can more easily be

have each had a proprietary starting pointcomplete with a built-in bias on what the
device should look like.
For computer companies, the end-product of
convergence has typically been something that runs
Microsoft Windows, uses a processor from Intel and
looks, acts and feels pretty much like any other PC. The
only telephony functions in such machines are some form
of phone dialer/address book and perhaps an application that
allows you to send and receive faxes. In short, PC companies
produce a PC that can do a bit of phoning.
Telephone companies, meanwhile, aim to re-invent the

updated and expanded, beefier onboard applications and so on.

But all of t hese improvements
start from a base of something that is
worth building on. As Apple fellow
and computing pioneer Alan Kay is
fond of saying, this kind of product is
"good enough to criticize." It has
enough existing good ideas that you
can add to the mix in future versions,
rather than junking what has already
been produced and starting again.
Of course, this is merely one opinion, The Nokia 9000i, selling for about
$1,500, is not flying off the shelves and currently
does not represent any kind of significant threat to
the established order of either the computer or telecommunications industries.
It could, however, be the Apple L'isa of a converged future.
Those who have been involved with the computer industry

wheel around overgrown telephones. The typical "screenphone" from a telephone company uses a non-standard
interface, provides some form of speed-dial directory, a
Caller ID system, a Web browser and email system.
The Internet screenphone announced by
Alcatel at the giant CeBIT '98 computer trade
show in Hanover, Germany last spring is a

good example of this approach. Alcatel

designed its screenphone so users could

Built, but will they come?

Ironically, there is a "Web phone" already in existence that

functions (including Caller ID, voicemail, Short Message for a long time may remember Apple's original graphical
Service, speakerphone, call logging and call waiting). It also computer, released in 1983, which blazed a trail that was later

has a quite reasonable set of basic computing applications followed by the Apple Macintosh, the Commodore Amiga
(such as a text-processor, contact management, Web browser,
email applications, software to send and receive faxes, a calculator, music composition tool and an import/export tool
for PC data).
While the software built into this device is proprietary, it
was designed by Geoworks, a very PC-savvy company that
started life producing Macintosh-style interface applications
for home computers, including the original Commodore 64
and the IBM PC. Geoworks' original graphical operating system software required far less in the way of computing power
than its competitors (such as the early versions of Digital

seems to have taken a pretty good stab at properly merging Research's GEM and Microsoft Windows 1.0 through 3.0),
telephony and computing capabilities in a single device that
makes the best of both platforms. It is the Nokia 9000i
Communicator, a handheld telephone/computer that first
became available in 1997.
This single device contains most common telephony

er
and perspective that their designers can bring

By Ceof Wheelwright

simply plug it into the phone line, insert a

"smart card" and begin using the built-in
Web browser and email software. The company calls this the "plug 'n' surf" approach to
screenphone design.
While this style of device may be simple and easy to uselike a telephon~it does not allow the user to easily download and run the many new utilities, games and applications
offered on the Internet for Microsoft Windows and Apple
Macintosh-based computers. And although it runs the pJava
(personal Java) operating system (and should thus be able to
use standard Java applets), it is not clear just what percentage
of Java applications this device will be able to run when it
starts shipping later this year.

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but it did not have the market clout or cash of Microsoft and
eventually settled into niche markets. And one such market
is in designing software that runs on mobile phones.
The point of this little history lesson is that convergence
products will probably succeed or fail based on the context

and, of course, Microsoft Windows itself. The Lisa was a critical success, but a commercial failure. And many of the ideas
used in its design came from another grand flop, the Xerox
Star, but they clearly captivated the imaginations of other
hardware designers and ultimately computer users.
One measure of the potential suggested by the Nokia
9000i is that every person who sees it seems to have a different idea of how it could be useful to them. Some people
would like to have email that they can carry in their pocket,
others like the idea of being able to send a fax from anywhere
they happen to be. But all of them like the notion that these

functions are provided in a device they are already comfortable with: the mobile phone.
So while it is not the ultimate in converged computer and
telecommunications technologies, the Nokia 9000i points us
in a direction that many will be following. The real question
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Iy Ceof Wheelwrlelht

that a union can enhance both use of the PC

and use of the telephone.

or years computers and telephones have
attempted marriage, but aII too often
the result has looked like a uruon of

tion of this partnership. You can actually use

the Call Manager software to track incoming

Like the partners in most good marriages, and outgoing calls (the former requires a
the PC and the telephone need to be able to Caller ID feature on your phone line), act as quickly hear the ones you really need as
operate independently of one another, yet be a voice mail system and even integrate with opposed to wading through several long
more of the sum of their parts when they Microsoft Outlook to retrieve email messages chatty messages before you get to the one
work together.
using the telephone line.
from your bank manager asking you to call
This appears to have been the design phiWhen you dial into the Call Manager before 3 p.m, if you want your loan
losophy behind the new Microsoft MP-900 from an ordinary phone (simply by calling approved.

convenience. Things are fine for the first little while as users merrily dial calls from their

keyboards and recall numbers from the

phonebook stored on their hard disks.

Cordless PC Phone System, which went on

sale in late 1998.
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speak the text of your recent email messages, voice command features, I can really take

In doing so, the system allows your PC to

extend its reach beyond the keyboard,
And all of that can be done without ever
and . charging touching the cordless phone, thereby achievc radle al o n g ing the goal of enhancing the productivity of
with a "base the PC without tying it to a specific teles tation" t h a t phone. So, in many ways, it would seem
But what if they want
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connects to the Microsoft's phone system perfectly fulfills
: s erial port o f the criteria for a successful marriage between
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to get up, get away from
the keyboard and call a
your computer. PC and phone.
friend or be able to continPerhaps most imporThe really telling part, however, comes
ue a conversation when they answer the tantly, it also provides Call Manager software when the PC and phone are called on to
door or make a cup of coffee'? At some point that lets you customize, control and log the work together. Do they create something
it becomes a pain to be tethered to the com- operation of the cordless phone.
that is more than the sum of the MP-900's
Once you set it up and have the Call parts? After spending a few weeks with it, I
puter, and the idea of using a PC to make and
manage phone calls begins to lose its appeal. Manager software and base station running have to say I am not sure.
The computer begins to accuse the phone on your Windows PC, the MP-900 can sit in
It was certainly very useful to have a log
of ignoring it and making calls using "the its charging cradle anywhere in the house and of all my calls and have the number of any
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user you will appreciate being able to scroll
through a list of 10 voice mail messages and

them or leave them. I have never been a

great one for trying to order people around
by yelling at them and, when I have tried,
it has usually failed. Just ask my kids. So I
have no intention of starting to bark commands at my phone just because Microsoft
has invented a voice command system that
lets me do so.
And while I appreciated the technical
hurdles Microsoft overcame to create a system that would allow you to have email messages read out to you over the telephone line,
I found it was just as frustrating to wade
through tons of email in a "serial" fashion
(i.e., one after the other) as it was to listen to
voice mail in this manner. As I get lots of
email messages every day, it was not really
helpful to wade through them one by one

other line," while the phone claims "you be used in the same way you would use an incoming call displayed on the screen as over a phone line.
only want me to get to the phone jack so you ordinary cordless phone. To that end, it ful- soon as the phone starts to ring. When you
Overall, the MP-900 is a good first
can send faxes and connect to the Interne."

fills the criteria of being able to operate inde-

are working to tight deadlines, it is helpful to

And all too scen the computer and the tele- pendently in the maniage of PC and comput- be able to discriminate between calls that
phone stop talking to one another.
But it doesn't have to be this way. Most

er. You do not have to be anywhere near your

PC to use the MP-900, although you will

attempts to marry computers and PCs have experience greater benefit by doing so,
failed in the past because they consider ways
The same is true of the desktop PC por-

you really must answer and those that can

wait until after you have met your deadline.
I also apprc iated being able to work

bly be needed before,you can declare this

through my voice mail messages in the order couple hitched for life.Q

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ll too often, integration of the telephone and the computer is represented as something that happens merely
when telephony functions are added to a
desktop computer or computing functions
are built into a phone. More recently, of
course, it has been represented as a melding

of handheld computer and mobile phone.

STL Phone Server
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Email: [email protected]
What appears to be forgotten in this dis-

cussion is the potential for integration

between networked personal computer technology and corporate telephone systems. But
a tremendous amount of development work
has taken place in this area over the past
decade, aimed at bringing together the

attempt by Microsoft to marry the PC and

the telephone. I am not convinced yet, however, that this marriage will last. A lot of
counseling and further nurturing will proba-

in our server

power of PC-based network servers and tradi- server. It can also be integrated over a LAN
tional switched telephone systems.
(local area network) to provide trunks, extenOne of the players in this sector is
sions and voice-processing resources on a
Richmond, B.C.-based Sayson Technologies single board, which AltiGen says would othLtd., which offers a computer-based phone erwise require multiple boards.
system that indudes a phone switch, voice
Sayson boasts that up to 10 Quantum
mail, auto attendant and email/network boards can be installed in the same Phone
serves
Server, for an installed capacity of 120 ports,
The company's pitch is quite simple: tra- Unlike typical PBXs, the company says its

Windows NT operating system (the latest

version of which has been dubbed Windows
2000). It comes bundled with Alti6en's
Altiware software, which claims to be compliant with both the TAPI and MAPI program
interface standards, so third-party software
can be used to customize your phone system.
And that customization is over and above
the basic applications that come with the
ditionally phone switches, voice mail and Phone Server can grow with a business with- system. Sayson includes PBX, automated
computer networks are separatesystems
attendant, automatic call distribution, voice
that out a lot of additional investment.
have to be connected by communications
If you need more ports in the future, messaging, email server, networking,
links and are expensive and hard to adminis- Sayson says you simply add another intranet/Internet "mixed media messaging,"

ter. Sayson also suggests that such systems Quantum board. Since the Quantum board is and TAPI 2,x service provider tools for interare difficult, if not impossible, to upgrade as both the switch and the voice interface, the
a business grows and do not i n tegrate automated attendant (e.g., "Press 1 for sales,
smoothly with the computer network.
2 for service" and so on) and voice mail feaAs you would expect, Sayson sells a sys- tures automatically grow with them.
tem that claims to offer a solution to these
And unlike some other PBX/voice mail

face with any dient-based software you may

problems. Known as the STL (Sayson

Technologies Ltd.) Phone Server, it is built
around a Quantum board from Fremont,
Calif.-based AltiGen.
AItIGen's Quantum boards provide PBX
and voice-processing features on a standard

combinations, Sayson pledges that none of

party TAPI+ompliant software to allow users

the extension lines are needed to establish

communication between the PBX and the

to control their phone system from LANbased stations. Incoming calls are displayed

ISA card that fits inside a conventional PC

the STL Phone Server uses the Microsoft

have, as well as Java applets and an IYR

(interactive voice response) application.
The STL Phone Server can also be used
with STL's client based software or any third-

voice mail system. They are integrated from on the workstation screen and calls can be
the outside.

routed to voice mail, taken out of sequence

As with many PC-based server products, or forwarded to another station by dragging

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to small business software heavy hitters Act!
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ny/datacomm functions, including fax, data,

email, voice telephony and Internet data.

where the Internet, fax, data or telephony

modules are not visible. CP uses a familiar

According to the company, by June 1998, answering rnachine model to make it easier
Communicate! Pro was the top-seffing retail
telephony system in North America. A large

and quicker to use, but unlike any answering

machine or phone I' ve ever seen, this one is

rate technology strategies. The ability offered by integrating phone operations on measure of the product's success is that it has
to combine telephone and computer systems his or her PC.
buried a great deal oi functional power under
offers many potential time and money sav- The goal o f
Mis s issauga-based 01 a deceptively simple and intuitive user intering improvements, including voice and fax Communique Lab Inc., when founded in
face, employing an on-screen image of a feamessaging, caH tracking, and faxwn- 1992, was to make integrated communica- ture-packed telephone set to guide the user's
deinand. These features are widely requested tions easy and accessible for ordinary com- activities.
for call centm handling retail sales, busi- puter users. The first version of 01's integratCommunicate! Pro requires a Windows
ness-to-business communications, and ser- ed communications software, Communicate, PC with a compatible voice/speakerphone
vice/help desks.
was launched in September 1996. The com- modem (either external or internal), with the

enormously customizable. There is some

danger in this, since it means the user has
both the opportunity and challenge of mod-

in the on-screen phone display for telepho-

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Windows NT. We tested it on a PC with a 200
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versations.

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The 244-page manual is logicaHy laid out,

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earning

CP has fuH-featured modules or "shelves"

ny, Internet, and fax/data options. Basic
phone features include a receiver for speaker-

phone conversations, a speed dial list, and a

the voice and audio functions, a micro- taperecorder forrecording messagesorconContinued on page32

speakers were also required.

lnstaHation i n v olved

Crl isn't just reserved for large businesses, however. Many of the advantages of an
integrated mmputer and telephone system
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horne office running on a PC. Two products

are especially noteworthy in the "small" Cri

sector. Canadian-made Conununicate! Pro, a
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Communicate! Pro from the included

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space was required). After restarting

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interface appeared on screen,
pany began shipping the current version,
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small businesses need.

The basic appeal of CP is its integration of

features, which may be enough for many

CP'svirtual phone set allows you to log

incoming and outgoing faxes and calls, and
easily re-send communications from the log

In many cases, making customized selec- email and the Interne, I simply haven't had
tions involves moving beyond the telephone occasion to use any of my old datacomm
graphic to a requester window, but in most
cases navigation is limited to one or two lev-

packages. As for the image editor, it would be

tions are accomplished by simple clicking or

have a need for that.

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to set up and operate

useful for modifying bitmapped faxes and

individuals or very small businesses to use book Sending faxes and emails (including els of requester windows, and most selec- scanned pages of text but again, I rarely

for all contact management, faxing and messaging needs. There's a built-in contact manager utility, with user-definable phone books,
sorting, querying and searching functions.
It's less full featured and powerful than

voice mails) over the Internet and sending

pager messages are all well supported. dragging and dropping. Still, a careful readBroadcast messaging uses a relatively simple
point and click method to attach multiple

ing of the manual will probably be required

for the first few attempts.

earning

voice menus, and Internet email and a con-

recipients to an item (fax, email or voice) to

Two slightly odd feature sets in this pro- nection to your Web browser of choice (CP
Symantec Act!, for example, but it is simpler, be sent, and then puts in a queue and tries to gram are a data communications module has a couple of locations within the program
more compact and may well be all many send it.
and an image editor. Since the advent of that allow you to launch Microsoft Internet
Explorer or Netscape Navigator). There's also
an Internet Phone option, to allow users to
make long-distance phone calls over the
Internet, which we did not test.
Altogether, installation of CP took about
20 minutes, and learning how to use its basic
functions required a c o uple o f h o urs.

Exploring and testing userdeflnable features

required several more hours, and there were
still parts of the program we didn't get to in
time for this issue's deadline. We suspect

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minimum of 32 MB of RAM), as well as one or
two compatible modems, a microphone,
sound card and speakers. The manual recom-

call return, and caller ID, and TalkWorks

includes options for integrating these fea'tures within the program. This is not very
intuitively laid out, however.
Like Communicate! Pro, you have userdefinable options for setting up your answering machine galkWorks supports multiple
users on an NT system, and supports multi-

both programs that Communicate! Pro is a

better-integrated, more compact and more
economical solution, especially if bringing
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files are scattered around a highly fragmented In general, we have to conclude after testing Communicate! Pro Suite. When you add Act!
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at about $200, the Symantec two-title solution is nearly five times as costly as the
Communicate! Pro solution.
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is a "lite contender in the contact management or. fax areas, it is still a worthy
choice due to its better telephony integration and all-inane user interface, lower
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T E C H E NTERPRISE

The practical guide to V2K readiness

Continued from page 96
use. The Cinderella Project (http: //parsifai.membrane.corn/y2k/cinder.html) is one of the better
Web sites for dealing with the Y2K problem
especially for older software and spreadsheet
programs.
If you run or own a small business you
are most susceptible to Y2K-related problems. Most small businesses do not have
the financial resources to fix o r r eplace
their aging computers and software, nor
can they afford the high price of bringing
in a consultant or programmer to fix old
software.

OS, applications and data

Once you have fixed your BIOS problems, or
hopefully discovered that you have no BIOS
problems, you need to look at the operating
systems, software programs and data stored
on your computer. A great site for checking
the compliance of various software packages
is at EDS's Web site http: //www.vendor2000.corn.
This free site lists products by vendor so if
you know who makes your software or operating system you can start here.
can handle the leap year. Using the DATE
Checking your applications and their
command in DOS set the date to 2000, 02, data for Y2K problems is no easy task. There
29. If you are able to set this date then your are dozens of products on the market that
computer will report the correct date and claim to do everything from compiling
Just as critical are the spreadsheets and time to the operating system and various inventories to fixing the BIOS and date-relatdatabasesthat reside on the computers. If applications that may require it from then ed problems in spreadsheets and databases. I
you do your own accounting,budgeting, on. But you should consider replacing this have reviewed about 10 of these products for
sales or keep any records on your computers computer as soon as it is financially feasible my client. However, that review would take
there is a chance these files may not function for you, or your company.
up several more pages. After my lengthy
properly, or be lost, when the new millenniIf these manual tests fail, all is not lost. search for a product that would help my
um starts. But there are a lot of things you You may be able to get a BIOS upgrade from client deal with its Y2K survey, Check 2000
can do now to prevent this from happen- your computer manufacturer. Check its Web from Gr e enwich Me a n Tim e -UTA
ing and some of them are free,
site. Or you can try off-the-shelf products like (http: //www.gmt-2000.corn) proved to be the
Check 2000 or Norton 2000. They both offer best all-round product with Norton 2000,

BIOS check
First, you should check the BIOS of all your

DOS prompt, CA, type DATE then type in a

year 2000 date like 2000, 01, 15. If you have
Windows 95 or 98, restart your computer in
DOS mode. You can set the date within
Windows but it is better to try this test at a
true DOS prompt. Once you have set the new
date, turn off your computer and restart it. If
the new date is still there you will have to set
the new century date only once in the year
2000.
But you must also check that the BIOS

Most of the other vendors sent me evaluation copies of their products and left it at
that.
One of the hardest things to deal with' .
when reviewing products are client's questions about the companies that make the
products you are recommending. What kind
of company are they? What level of support
can we expect? How willing are they to work
with customers to solve problems? Will they
blame our technical difficulties on other vendors' products?
When I' ve never worked with a company
or its products before I ask myself these questions and others. My reputation rides on my
successful analysis of a problem and likewise
the success of my recommended solution.
.

Treating V2K as a pro)ect

Once you have used aproduct like Check
2000 to survey your PCs, you will have
detailed reports and, hopefully, recommendations on what to do. If your Y2K effort is a
large one you will need a plan.
I suggest that any firm with more than

automatic BIOS fixes and you have nothing from Symantec, finishing a very close sec- three computers consider making its Y2K
investigation a project, especially if it relies
to lose by trying their solutions. Both ret l ond.

computers for YZK compliance. The National

"The year 2000 affects PCs on all five lay-

for under $100.

Software Testing Laboratory (NSTL) offers a
However, while I have reviewed both
free tool called YMARK2000. Industry and products, I have had no reason or chance to
computer professionals around the world use test their BIOS fixes. Luckily the computers I
it to certify the compliance of computer have tested for my clients already have Y2Khardware. Toshiba, ASUSTek, DELL and compliant BIOS chips. Your decision must be
Packard Bell NEC are a few of the companies based on the level of risk to your business
that have had their products certified by the represented by the failure of this computer
NSTL. Youcan get a copy of YMARK2000 at
to function properly in the year 2000.
http: //www.neil.corn/html/netl~2k.html.
It is also possible to get a BIOS chip
There are other tools that perform the upgrade from a company like Unicore, which
same BIOS tests. Symantec offers a free ver- offers MR. BIOS chip upgrades. MR. BIOS, as
sion of its BIOS Test and Fix from Norton of revision 3.42, is supposedly YZK compli2000. I recommend YMARK2000 because of ant, but I have had no exposure to Unicore's
its wide support and use in the industry, plus products so I can't recommend them. But
NSTL isn't trying to sell you other services or you can get more details on the company's
products.
Web site at http: //www.unicore.corn.

on the goods and services of other firms to

ers: its hardware, operating systems, software conduct business.

Most of the Y2K Web sites offer their own
layer, user data and the data exchange capabilities," notes Karl Feilder, chief executive of
Greenwich Mean Time. Check 2000 comes
in a client/server and PC version so is suitable for standalone and networked PCs.
According to Trevor Nadeau, GMT-UTA's
national manager for Canada, Check 2000's
biggest selling point is its ability to determine Y2K compliance on all five levels of the
problem. "Most products check the BIOS,

interpretation of the basic project' principles.

One of the best Y2K plans I have found is
from the Global Millennium Foundation

(http: //www.globalmf.org) Web site. I have para-

phrased the steps in this plan here:

1. Inventory: The inventory should be
high level and focus on identifying items
that are crucial to business survival.
2. Create plan: Using the inventory, determine which elements are the most critihave a database of compliant and non-comcal, which need to be replaced, which
pliant software but don't consider user data
need to be fixed, and which need further
or the data exchange level."
investigation. Regardless of strategy
One of the things that impressed me
choice, everything needs to be tested.
more than the Check 2000 product itself was
I am wary of any third-party software
There are many companies offering add- Nadeau's willingness to help me during my 3. A'rrange resources: Funding and/or
staffing need to be'arranged or approved.
fixes for the BIOS. Not that they don't work, on cards that reportedly fix BIOS-related Y2K technical analysis of his products. He providIf existing staff do not have sufficient
I' ve just never tested them and it's another problems; Unicore, Micro Firmware and ed me with a technical support contact,
expertise, outside resources will have to
MICRO2000 to name a few. However, I have other technical contacts that reviewed Check
thing that can go wrong.
be contracted.
- For more information on this subject had no chance to review these products and 2000 and all the documentation I could han4. Execute and test: Focus on small work
read the FAQ provided by the NSTL at
since they only deal with the BIOS level of dle.
units. These are easier to track and overhitp J/www.nstl.corn/himl/ymark2000 faq.html.
the Y2K problem you may still need other
Sadlythough, Nadeau was the only comall progress is maximized. If multiple
If your BIOS isn't Y2K ready NFK sug- solutions to make your computers Y2K com- pany representative who went to t h ese
lengths to prove the viability of his product.
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riences and

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Connect with other organizations to

maxindzeyour looming and take advantage of new developments.
5. Clean managementand conthggency:
After everything is fixed and verified
through testing, it is important to consider hoer you will inaintain your level of

stands with its overall Y2K effort. I also

agree with its recommendation for local,

small- and medium-size businessestake

provindal, national and gloM leader-

compliant This program may be suspended now due to the fact most students have gone back to school but you

the important first step towards YZK

ship and standards to help fix the Y2K

problenL
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lem, I suggest the Global Millennium

Business Service Centre. It is a joint program offered by the Student Connection

Foundation's (GM) Web site. The GMFis

William Joidan is asenior tochnkal soivha represen-

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lly workProgram (SCP} and the Canadian ing wilh theWorkers' CompeasatianBoardot Brihsh
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on gs Year2N0 compganca project

quite the doomsayer, but it is well-round-

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readiness,
A simple suggestion is to check new products before they are installed as well as repeat
your tests on existing components on a regular cycle until the end of 1999. Create a
basic contingency plan that assumes problems will occur aud ensure qualified staff will
be available to work on Jan. I, 2000.
Another contingency option to consider
in case there are extended problems with

infrastructure components such ashydro, or

telecommunications, involves the prepara-

tion for manual operation. Can your busi-

ness or department operate for some period

of time without technology'
If you have access to the Internet you' ll
find no end to the information available to
help businesses deai with the YZK problem.
There are a lot of government agencies that
have Y2K pages at their Web sites and even

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the more helpful sites below. Good Lucid
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Stratelllsr This is Industry Canada's
YZK Task Fogcehome page, the federal

government's premier Y2KWebsite for

business in Canada.
htlpy/stiatogis.ic.gc.ca/sc mzngh/y2k/
ongdoc/homopagoJrtml

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Board YZK Web site.
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FEBRUARY1999 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EOITION www.tcp.ca

T ECH EN T E R P R I S E

ow secure is our networ ?

Sy Ross RlacDonald

companies are creating dedicated informa- devastating impacts if stolen," Soper says.
tion technology (IT) security positions

ecurity is a number one issue for employing experts specifically to evaluate

anyone wanting to do e-businesselectronic commerce," says Phil

the risks involved, review and/or create security policy and to implement that policy for
Soper, the general manager of systemsman- protecting the company's information assets.
agement and networking services for IBM
A recent Pricewaterhouse-Cooper study
Global Services. Soper's group comprises of U.S. companies doing US$1 million to
management consultants, technical archi- US$50 million worth of business annually
tects and information technology (IT) spe- reveals that the fastest growing of those studcialists who collectively give sage advice on ied are those employing IT the most. Further,
IT infrastructures and network security.
when the chief executive officers of all surAs the Web gains importance as a vehicle veyed companies were asked what they saw
for commerce, network security becomes a as the biggest barrier to increased adoption
central concern.
of IT, 84 percent cited security as the top con"It's something that has to be addressed if cern whereas a similar survey performed two
we' re to take advantage of the explosive years earlier showed 77 percent of the chief
growth of Internet-based business," says executives citing security concerns.
Soper. "With all the new connec-

tivity between partners, suppliers

and customers, there is increased
exposure to risk because there' s
potential exposure to breaches in
security with every connection,"
according to Soper.
The actual value of what is at

risk is hard to quantify because

"It's quite easy to see where money can be

lost when trading information is acquired
from a stock brokerage, for example, but how
can you fi
gure out a value when somebody' s
personal medical information is exposed?
"The economic valuemay be very low,"
he continues, "but the emotional value or
legal value of such information is very high.
And the organization that let that information be acquired can suffer extremely from
the loss of public confidence. Governments
in particular can't afford to have private citizens' data exposed, This is something we all
hold very close to our hearts and we trust the
governm
ent to look after that kind of information."
B.C. residents might find the latter a particularly salient point as
they saw much news in
the latter part of 1998
about the failure of a
shredding sub-contractor
to adequately secure and
destroy sensitive governm ent p a perwork. O f

It's quite easy to see where money can

be lost when trading information is
acquired from a stock brokerage, for
example, but how can you figure out
a value when somebody's personal
medical information is exposed?

greater concern, however,

native numbers using the same numbering

scheme and try them all out with a war
dialer. A good percentage of the resulting
combinations actually worked and, through
a flaw in the bank's security process, the
thieves were able to extort funds. The thieves
were based in Asia and the bank was in the
U.S. and the money just flowed!"

Putting up a fence
Business network policy tips from Soper
include dividing a business into zones of
security control trusted, untrusted and
semi-trusted to which different levels of
security apply.
Trusted and semi-trusted zones would
incorporate different passwords and access
codes to individuals within the company
whereas the untrusted zone addresses things
like a company's intranet and remote dialing
access, which require more stringent security
like firewalls and data encryption.
Another basic tip is to make sure any
business partners with network access have
the same type of defences in place.
In terms of the costs involved, a simple
rule is to determine whether the expenses
related to security are greater than the value
of what you' re trying to protect. There are
security technologies available
suited to even the smallest businesses that
don't require a large capital outlay: "As long
as these technologies are installed and implemented according to the manufacturer's dictates, they will provide the value. But all
companies should treat network security not
as a problem you react to.but as something
preventative like any other kind of business

is that news of most netbreaches in network security do

work security breaches
not always directly involve
never reaches the public.
money. What many businesses
"Organizations a nd
have to consider right from the
the people involved tend
start is not the potential loss of
corporate monies, but instead
Phil Soper,IBM Global Services to be very mum about
security exposures for very
the possible value of business
understandable reasons,"
lost.
"An important thing to realize is that says Soper.
Financial data is one important category
The solution to this growing problem lies
of information, but other types of files can be security is a business issue, not a technology
issue," says Soper."'Technology heightens in addressing the efficiency of a company's
of equal concern.
"Security risks come in a number of dif- the potential for exposure to risk but the vast security policy as well as the level of enforce- insurance," Soper warns.
ferent forms," saysSoper. "Some of them are majority of security exposures come from ment. Often, for example, someone might
Continued oa page$0
as simple as loss of reputation or a negative places that have been risks for some time. A simply call a technical support line saying
reputation resulting from network security security policy shouldn't be looked at as a they' ve lost their password and quite readily
breaches."
negative thing. Rather, it is an enabler for get the information necessary to hack into
Several examples of reputation loss have business in an increasingly connective com- the system despite a company policy in place
against giving that type of "help." Another
occurred in the United States, where compa- mercial community."

type of flawed policy occurswhen a compa-

ny Web pages have been hacked and links

added that lead to "undesirable" places.

ornog
raphy

These include gaming sites, p

sites and sites promoting racism. The resulting "loss of reputation" can lead directly to
the loss of customers or even official complaints from more sensitive members of the
public.
Even more acute is the potential damage
that can be incurred by large companies that
retail exclusively online Amazon.corn

Security is a
business issue, not
a technology issue
Phil Soper, IBM Global Services

(books), or Egghead (computer equipment),

for example
for whom even minor security
Inside job
problems can lead to untold losses. Such com- It turns out that the largest area of risk is
panies are vulnerable even to rumors or per- rooted in a firm's own employees. In the
ceptions of smmity problems, because they same PricewaterhouseCooper study cited
can be just as damaging to the public trust as above, it was shown that the largest group of
security exposures originated with employany genuine compromise of the system.
A recent study by the Computer Security ees authorized to access sensitive informaInstitute showed an increase in network tion. The second largest group involved
security breaches despite increasingly sophis- unauthorized employees, while former
ticated prevention technology. Soper esti- employees comprised the third largest group.
mates that approximately 64 percent of peo- Collectively, these three groups accounted
ple directly involved in network security for 75 percent of all network security breachreported at least one breach of their system es. Only the remaining 25 percent could be
in 1997 a significant increase over 1996 attributed to hackers.
"If you look at many of the companies for
numbers, and with a greater monetary lossas
whom security is very important
things like
welL
telecommunications companies, health organizations, government agendes, financial
New career track

ny issues network authorization codes. with

so many characters or in such volume that
employees write them on a sticky-note and
paste them to their monitors.
Soper has a litany of these types of security risks even where solid security policies
are already in place: "IT departments have
been known to turn off virus scanners or suggest that users do so during peak periods
because of the resulting increase in system
performance. That's a very short sighted and
dangerous thing to do.
"Elsewhere, I recall a company that had
one of the best network security policies I'd
ever seen" he says. "But it wasn't ever audit-

comm
ercially

Network security
- check list

Informatforr assetprotIler An inventory

of a company's critical information assets

and summary of security requirements.

Security health check:.A review thatidentifies strengths and weaknesses in an organization's IT security controls.
Security process ussesmrent: Identifies
strengths and weaknesses in an organization's IT security processes.'
Application. security assessment: The
evaluation of'security functions in applications newly introduced to the network,
and identification of any modifications

required to comply. with security policy.

assessraent:Evaluating

secure

ed for employee compliance. An employee

Network

brought his own modem to work and

hooked it up to the Internet at his desk. The
IT department didn't know about this

internalnetwoiks.
System secrrriry assessment: Identifies

because the employee simply neglected to

tell anyone and a hacker was able to access
the system through that modem by a ran-

dom hit from a war dialer [automatic dialers

that systematically dial every possiblecombination of phone number digits].
"Another interesting case involved a
flnancial institution in the U.S. that had an

image of one of their credit cards on their

Web site, It was an actual credit card but cre-

the types of information ated as an inactive dummy. What these

One notable manifestation of the rise in con- institutions etc.
cems about network security is that many being protected vary widely but can have thieves did was create a whole bunch of alter-

the security:,controls implemented for

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the vulnerabilities that might exist on

key, internal operating system platforms.
Site security assessment: An in-depth
review of the site security controls and

processes
within an organization.
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,:design to determine how effectively it iso-

lates.: untrusted, outside. networks fmm

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sentiment may be treasured by collectors and students of antiquity, it
has rarely been popular in the digital world,
where last year's technology is always seen
as being inferior to what you can buy this

year,
In my continuing seaKh for the perfect
mobile work tools, however, I recently discovered that sometimes an older computer
could offer a better solution than a new one.
The p
facing me was simple. After a
lot of travel with all kinds of brand-new, fully
loaded $10,000 notebook computers
and a
variety of different handheld systems and
portable phones
I' ve conduded that I really do need to take some form of notebook
computer with me when I travel.
I have tried travelling without a notebook computer and relying instead on the

roblem

somewhat sparse environment of handheld

computers like the Sharp Mobilon HC-4500
or the Psion Series 5. While they were effective tools for quickly drafting and sending
email, they did not easily give me full access
to the huge volume of data and applications
that I use on my desktop system at home.
For a while, I did try using Symantec's
excellent pcAnywhere for Windows CE to
dial into my desktop computer at home and
"remotely run" the applications on the desk-

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computer. At this point, I noticed the used
notebook computers at the front of the shop,

tion would run somewhere around $2,000.

While I was going through this process, I
happened to stop in at a local used comput-

er shop insearch of a keyboard for my

top system. But, in the end, it was only a partial solution because it did not support trans- priced from around $500,
fer of files or allow me to cut and paste anyI initially dismissed the idea'of a used
thing other than simple text. It was also notebcek computer. Knowing how hard I

cations that I typicafly nm and realized that

the Syquest Sparq drive I use on my desktop
computer for backing up files could easily be
attached to any notebook computer with a
parallel port. I came up with the idea of
copying the data from my application CDs
onto the 1 MB Sparq drive so I could install
them on a notebook that didn't have a CDROM drive.
With that research done, I went ahead

have used (and abused) these machines and bought thesystem,

hooked the Syquest

slow.

So I reached the conclusion that I do when I have traveled with them, I imhgine
need a machine that I can take on the road that all "pre-owned" systems must have sufthat is capable of running my own basic fered the same fate. But curiosity (and a
suite of applications (this includes Windows quickglance at my bank balance) convinced
98, Microsoft Office 97, pcAnywhere 8.0 and me that I owed it to myself to look harder at
Internet Explorer along with data transfer this option.
I went back to the used computer shop
software for my handheld computer and my
digital camera). And that means having and asked the salesperson to let me look at
some form of traditional notebook comput- an NEC Versa 4050C that was on sale for
er.
$580. I switched it on, looked it over and
Then came the problem of how topayfor began to think this machine might just do
it. Most of the notebooks I' ve tested over the the trick It came with 16 MB of RAM, a 10.1past year were in the $5,000 to $10,000 inch color, TIT active-matrix display, two PC
range. After some careful reflection, I deter- Card slots and an 850 MB hard disk. And
mined that all I really needed was a Pentium- that was about it no user manual, no box,
based system, along with a fast modem, I no carrying case and, most importantly, no
concluded that anything else could be done warranty. I also noticed the tiny LCD status
remotely via a pcAnywhere connection to panel above the keyboard didn't work and
my desktop PC.
that it only came with a 3.5-inch floppy
I scouted throughThe Computer Paper and drive and no CD-ROM drive.

onnect our
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n the January issue ofTCP, I described an

inexpensive method (using Winoate
proxy server software) of providing
Internet services to an entire office with a
single account an d c o nnection. The
approach used was independent of the
means of connecting to th e I nternet,
Everything is faster and more expensive
when you' re sharing a Tl line as opposed to
a 28.8Kbps modem, but otherwise things
work in much the same way under boih
setups,
What kind of performance can you
expect from either of these systems? The
answer is not precise and depends on the
kind of browsing being done. There doesn' t
seem to be any overhead associated with the
Winaate
pr o x y ser v e r sol u t ion
(http:ltwwat.wingate.corn), so the performance
with one concurrent user should be the same
as without WinGate.
Make note of what you are doing the
next time you browse the Web. You' re not
constantly requesting data from the Web. In

So I went away and thought some more,

computers capable of fulfilling my specifica- looked up all the specifications for the appli-

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ferring data at any instant. Thus, in a typical

browsing scenario, most users will report satisfactory performance. They will be unaware .
of the number of other active users.
I installed a 64Kbps ISDN connection in
an office with 40 users almost two years ago,
and they still don't feel the need to upgrade.
In another office, with 19 users and a
28,8Kbps modem, users still consider their
system adequate after a year of use. In both
situations, there are seldom more than two
concurrent users, and never more than five
(WinGate sees to that). Also, and this is significant, file downloads during business
hours are extremely rare.
File downloads impose a different kind of
fact, you' re reading and thinking more often load than browsing. If a single user initiates a
than requesting data from a Web server. Let' s large file download, then for the entire periassume five users are browsing the Web (but od of the transfer, the capacity of the modem
not downloading files) through WinGate. is reduced for all other users. A flle download
The probabilities of the situation make it is a steady stream of bytes. If you are browsunlikely that more than two or three users ing while a large flle isdownloading, you will
will be contending for bandwidth at the be aware of it as page loading becomes very
same time. That may happen, but it is much sluggish. With two or three concurrent
more likely that only one of the five is trans- downloads, most people will exit their

up to the NEC Versa and instafled Windows

98, Microsoft Office 97 and pcAnywhere.

Although it has only been a coupleof weeks

since my purchase, I am happy to report that
my experience with a "p
notebook

reened"

has been pretty good. The battery life on the

system is awful, but I don't mind because I

usually use my handheld computer when I

want to w rite something on th e go.
Anything I write on the handheld can then
easily be moved to the NEC Versa.
Now I can head off on a trip with a briefcase that contains the NEC Versa, my trusty
US Roboticsx2 PC Card modem, a handheld

computer (typically the Psion Series 5) and a

digital camera. The little "road warrior" kit
supplies me with the ability to send and
receive faxes, email and digital pictures while
I am on the move. Pll report back on my
future adventures. 0

to Internet: Part II
browser and try again later.
Although the Web is an important
resource, email is the killer Internet application. How does WinGate handle email?
If there is no mail server on the LAN
(local area network), the mail client goes
through Winoate to check for mail on the
ISP's (Internet service provider's) server. If
you use Microsoft Outlook Express, for
example, you must enter the IP address or
the name of the Winoate machine in the
SMTP and POP3 server fields. Under account
name, enter usernamepop3server where
pop3server is the name or IP address of your
ISP's POP3 Mail Server. The @ symbol is used
instead of the more coinmon (a symbol. The
configuration of other mail clients like
Netscape Mail or Eudora is similar.
Once this is accomplished, you can check
for mail either manually or automatically.
Either way, Winoate handles the connection. In actual use, this is fairly easy and convenient, but installing a mail server on the
LAN leads to better results. I' ve used
MDaemon, but other fine choices indude;
Lotus Domino Mail Server, Microsoft
Exchange, Novell GroupWise, SL Mail, and
Post. Office.
A good mail server like MDaemon

(httpJ/www.mdaem
on.corn) not only streamlines the process of routing mail to users, it

also savesmoney by allowing your company

to provide everyone with a private mail

ad4ress, while paying the ISP for only a sin-

gle account. This process is entirely legal,

and works weII in practice, but is not supported by all ISPs, for obvious reasons. (I will
elaborate on this method in my next column.)
We haven't discussed security, but fortunately it is fairly easy to use Wincate to
secure your LAN from external attack.
Security is serious, so count on devoting at
least an hour or two to the study of alternative methods. Initially, you could simply
bind all Winoate services to particular inter-

faces (Ethernet cards) by IP address. Since

you will probably use IP addresses for your
Ethernet cards like 192.168.0.1, which can' t
exist on the Internet, this will limit access to
WinGate services to your LAN users, and
effectively keep intruders out.
MidPoint Gateway 3.1, WinProxy, and
more expensive products from Microsoft,
Novell and Netscape are alternatives to
W inGate. At C o mdex Fall 1 9 9 8 i n
November, I was given a demonstration of
the aVirt Gateway Suite, an integrated einail,
proxy, and firewall solution, from aVirt, a

company founded in Naples, Italy in 1992,

that has since relocated to the United States.
I was impressed by its ease of installation and
administration. I intend to evaluate this
product in the near future, but if you can' t
wait, 'you c an fin d o u t mo r e a t

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been moved to the remote desktop system.

that is remotely controlling it. Performance your remote system and then connect it to
There are admittedly a few challenges to
also depends on how fast the changes to the the host desktop computer to transfer the
taking this rigorous approach to the use of
screen (which result from the movement of newly created documents.
ln pcAnywhere, you can do this by either remote control applications. The first is that
the mouse or entry of keystrokes) are reflected back to the remote user. If it takes several "pasting" data from one computer to anoth- you really need to have a good, reliable and
seconds for the screen to update every time er or by simple file transfer. Whichever way c onstantly available connection to t h e
you hit a key, then it is unusable for all but you do it, the theory remains the same the "host" system. If the connection is variable
the most basic tasks.
desktop system remains the central reposito- or prone to crashing, the whole scheme falls
In many cases, however, you would not ry for all your data. You could throw your apart. You also need to look at whether or
want to bother actually creating the data notebook computer out the car window, not you will need some form of wireless
You leave it in a taxi or drop it into the ocean and access,and whether that wireless access is
while you are connected
movements and keystrokes fmm the system would typically create the documents on you would not lose any data as it would have fast enough to reliably support the operation
of the remote control software.
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remotely that you simply could not do if you
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Personal exposure
Though network security is essentially a
business issue, the concern for consumers
lies in the ability of businesses to secure
credit card numbers, personal data, medical
records, tax or other financial records, in a
manner that will p revent unauthorized
access. Given that the possibility of a hacker
getting hold of your personal information
and using it for fraudulent purposes is very
slim, there are precautions we can take to
further reduce that possibility.
First, keep the amount of personal infor-

mation you provide on the Internet to a minimum. Next, if there are passwords involved,
never choose the same passwords you use for
access to your home or work machines. Also,
some of the more cautious among us have
thought of acquiring low-limit credit cards
specifically and exclusively for use in online
transactions, protecting the regular, higherlimit card numbers from Internet exposure.
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TECH E N T E R P R I SE,

LED vs. aser

With color printing on the rise, Okidata offers an attractive alternative to laser
By INegan Johnston

others. Okidata also offers a five-year warranty on the printheads.

The Okipage Sc series printers offer true
usinesses are just discovering the bene-

fits of color printing according to

Okidata's Lon Campbell, who was in

expanded to a maximum of 80 MB RAM, and

a 600-sheet letter/legal paper capacity. In its
campaign to win over business customers,
600x600 dpi (dots per inch) resolution. They Okidata offers toll-free customer support 24
come with 32 M B Ram, which can be hours a day, seven days a week. And, accord-

ing to Campbell, when you call, you talk to a

human voice.
Contact Okidata or your local reseller for

details on Canadian pricing. 0

Okidata, httpJ/www.okidata.corn

TCIPsVancouver office in late 1998 promoting his company's newest business-class

color LED printers.

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Canadian operations, cited statistics showing
the effectiveness of color business documents:
Invoices highlighted in color are paid up
to 30 percent faster than black and white
invoices, according to a study by Xerox
Corporation.
There is a 65 percent increase in retention of material when full color is used
instead of black and white, according to
a study by the University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School of Business.
According to a 1998 Dun and Bradstreet
study, businesses have picked up on these
numbers. The research firm found 50 percent
of small and medium enterprises plan to buy
a color printer in the next 12 months.
And Okidata hopes to capture a good
chunk of this market with a technology it
says is simpler, faster and has better results
than laser printing technology. Campbell
said LED (light-emitting diode) printing is a
technology whose time is just about to come.
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) focus light
through fixed precision lenses to electroni-

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Sc series printers is comparable to the cost of

similar class lasers. The color toner chambers
can be filled up separately, he noted, which
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are laid onto the paper then fused. With a
laser printers, the paper has to make four
passes (one for each color) to process a fourcolor image, and a fifth pass to fuse the color.
Because of t hi s s ingle-pass process,
Okidata says the new LED printers it is targeting at the growing color business market,
the Okipage Sc and Sn, are "approximately
2.5 times as fast as the 3 to 4 ppm [page per
minute] color laser printers."
With this single-pass process, LED printing is not only faster, the printed results are
more precise, Campbell says. As well, there is
also almost no paper jamming, so a wider
variety of paper types can be used.
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By Creeme Bennett

Apple unveils funky new G3s,

t Macworld Expo in San Francisco in

p

early January, Apple's "iCEO" (interim

hief executive officer) Steve Jobs
pleased Apple fans and industry observers

and fruit flavored iMacs

with the news that the iMac has not only

been the bestselling PC in United States
during the last few months, but Apple is
set to announce its fifth consecutive
profitable quarter. Jobs also made
some new product announcements to
the packed house at Moscone Center.

Rage 128 graphics chip, 16 MB of

graphics memory, up to 100 GB of
internal hard disk storage (!) and stylish, but to our eyes slightly garish, plas-

Jobs demonstrated the 400 MHz 63's

speed by comparing it to the fastest 450 MHz
Pentium 11 PC from Compaq. The Mac was
well over twice as fast in a number of benchrnarks and real-world tests. Jobs also delighted the crowd with a v i deo spoofing
HAL9000 from the movie 2001p A
Space Odyssey, in which HAL is so
jealous of the superior speed of the
63, he self destructs.
The new G3s, according to Jobs,
are also the most expandable omputers Apple has ever released,
despite the fact that they lack ser-

ial ports and a floppy drive.

Even SCSI is gone
from the motherboard, 'and is
available only as a

US$49 aden PCI

card.
The key t o
th e
e xpandability i s t h e
USB (universal serial
bus), similar to that found
on the iMacplus a pair of connectors you
might not have seen before: FireWire. A
high-speed FireWire port, or IEEE 1394, as it
is known in techie circles, allows up to 63
devices to be cormected at the blazing speed
of 400 Mbit/sec. (UltraWide SCSI 2 yields a

maximum of 80 Mbits/sec throughput).

Combined with a pair of onboard USB ports
(which, with expansion hubs, can accommo-

date up to 127 USBdevices), the new 63s are

indeed highly expandable, and easier than
ever to configure, thanks to the dynamic
device driver configuration and plug-andplay installation o f U SB and F ireWire
devices.
The new 63s are easier to upgrade, too,

Store's 10 million hits per day), and a

version of WebObjectsactive server
technology, which was acquired when
Apple bought NeXT back in 1996. Full
implementations of BSD 4,4 Unix and
Java round out Mac OS X Server,
which Jobs said will be priced at US$995.

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of OpenGL from SGI, and offered a

number of examples of why this was

Studio Displays
three internal hard drives anu sockets for up

Along with the new 6 3s, Jobs

introduced a trio of Apple monitors,
including a 17-inch DiamondTron model
priced at US$499, a 21-inch Trinitron model
priced at US$1,499, and a "reskinned" 15inch Apple Studio Display active-matrix flatpanel display at a ne w l ower price of
US$1,099. The CRT models featured iMaclike blue-and-white plastics, with a unusual
tripod base. Jobs said the 21-inch inch model
featured "magic circuitry" that continually
compensates for changes in the display,

to 1 GB of RAM. Also standard, is 100 Mbit

Ethernet. Although Jobs didn't mention it,
the new desktops include the Apple Desktop
Bus port found on current models, which
should help solve some of the problems iMac
users have found running certain dongleprotected programs. Standard Apple
mice and keyboards, of course,
can also be connected via
ADB.
Apple says there will keeping colors properly calibrated.
be four standard models
Mac OS jfServer
of the new G3, plus a
number of built-to- Jobs stunned the crowd when he brought out
order options, includ- a rack of 49 iMacs and displayed different
ing DVD-RAM drives,
gigabit E t hernet,
and up to three
36 GB IBM drives.

According to Apple

Canada's

western
r egional m a nager K e n
Fordham, the new G3s will
range in price from the "mid$2,000s to about $5,000." Check
the A p p l e S t o r e on l i n e at

httpJ/www.store.
apple.corn for more details
on the new G3 desktop
models.
Fire Wired
FlreWire, as Jobs noted,
is ideally suited for digital

video and high-capacity

storage. In f act, Appl

e
showed digital cameras from
Canon, Nikon and Sony with
built-in FireWire ports and
demonstrated a real-time digital
video stream on the screen of a

via a dever (and lockable) door on the side of 63 PowerMac direct from the Sony
the case that drops the entire motherboard

Server.
Mac OS X Server, says Apple, is ln beta
now and will ship in February. The platform
is based not on Mac OS underpinnings,
but on Mach. According to Apple, Mac OS
X Server allows Macintosh clients to
"Netboot" starting up and accessing
applications from a server, even if the
client computers don't have their own
internal hard drives. The product also
includes Apache Web server (which

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tics, with "63" emblazoned across the

side in huge letters, protruding handles
on all four comers, and the same sort of
translucent blue and white polycarbonate

plastics that made the iMac an eyewatcher.

video served from

surprise a Mac OS X

Apple says it uses to handle the Apple

New 63 Power Mec deslrtop

models
Previously code-named Yosemite, the
new G3 models feature G3 processors
from Motorola and IBM (not Intel, as
Jobs stated) with speeds up to 400
MHz, a 100 MHz bus, ATI's hot new

digital videos running seemingly flawlessly on all of them at the same time, with the

camera. Better still, by connecting a second

out into the open, revealing 3 PCI slots, one FireWire-equipped Mac, the video appears on
oddball 66 MHz PCI slot, space for up to its monitor, too.

good news.
OpenGL is an industry standard 3D API
now used by nearly aII mainstream operating

systems (including Windows 95, 98 and Nf,

BeOS, a number of Unix-based workstations

and, ln a future incarnation, the Mac OS) to

provide the underpinnings'that allow real-

time shaded displays of 3D graphics such as

those used in highwnd 3D engineering and
design applications.
But 3D graphics are increasingly important to c onsumers, too. Why? Games.
Indeed, Jobs and Apple product marketing
vice-president Phil Schiller demonstrated the
63's graphics performance the way most of
us do: with a game. Playing Dark Vengeance,
the 400 MHz 63 displayed frame rates that
were about 20 percent faster than those of
the fastest 450 MHz Pentium 11 PC with a
$200 add-on Voodoo2 card.
Jobs said Apple is committed to
games ina big way, and he brought

John Carmack, co-founder of id

software, onstage to demonstrate the prowess of the new
G3 systems' ATI Rage 128
graphics chip at handling the
demands of id's next-generation
game graphics. Carmack said he
was onstage because Apple had "finally gotten its act together"
and d e m onstrated,
apparently for the first
t ime i n p u b lic, i d 's
p

forthcoming g a m e,
Quake Arena, and said
developers licensing id's

s oftware e n gin e wi l l
essentially ttet a Mae port
for free, noting that only
about 15KB of code in the
product i s
Ma c -specific.
Quake Arena, says Carmack, is
due for public beta some time in
March.

Also of interest to games fans was the

announcement of a S ony Playstation
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I I A C A R E NA.

US$1,199. (Existing iMacs are expected to

faster than its predecessors and features a Waldman boasted to scattered applause, are

drop in price, although Apple Canada didn' t

have speciflcs.) Apple said the new iMacs,
like the monitors and new G3s, are shipping

toolbar button that can autoaiatically fill in

forms that require name, address and other
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uring the past few years, the 3D accelerator market has evolved enormously, taking us from th e S3 Virge
"Wow!" era to the S3 Virge "Blech!" era in
next to no time at least in computer years.
To get into the right frame of mind for
this artide, I dug into the Pre-Cambrian ooze
and located an ancient ATI VGA Wonder
card. Still supported by Windows 9x, it
amply demonstrates how far we' ve come in
such a short time. The refresh rate on that
card was so slow that at 800x600/256 colors
it took almost two minutes (about one second per line of text!) to scroll through this
article on our 300 MHz test computer!
My advice to all those still hanging on to
one of these relics: let it go! Today, even an
inexpensive video card (such as any under$100 cards mentioned in this article) delivers
impressive bang for the buck.
The graphic accelerator market is divided

into many categories, including: gaming

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A great graphics card starts with a great
chipset. In fact,.there are relatively few

will be quickly supplanted by the Rage 128),

the 3DLabs Permedia 2 (ditto for the forthcoming Permedia3),the S3 Savage 3D and
the Matrox G200. There are many others
(the late-to-the-game Intel i740 is notable for
its low price, which helps make up for its
somewhat lacklustre performance), of
course, but we weren't sent any review units
and, hence, they weren't tested.
Choosing the bestgraphics card
In this test, we evaluated graphics cards
based on a number of criteria: 2D and 3D
image quality, ease of configuration, performance and features, Not all of the cards
requested arrived in our Labs, but tests have
been conducted on the following chipsets:
ATI Rage Pro
ATI Rage 128GL
Nv idia Riva TNT
3D Labs Permedia 2
Ma trox G200
S3 Savage 3D
3D fx Banshee

tive observations. Our test results, below, are

divided into a few different categories.
We tested the products on a number of
different systems. These include those based
on older processors (150 MHz Pentium, 180
MHz Pentium MMX) and newer ones (300
MHz AMD K6-2, and 266 and 350 MHz
Pentium Ils) that we feel represent a reasonable cross-section of PCs currently used in
homes and offices across Canada.
Testing the cards on both fast and slow
processors yielded some interesting results,
Some cards definitely require a fast PC to
really pay off. Users with older PCs may also
find these tests valuable to get a feel for how
different cards fare as possible upgrade solutions.

ATI All-In-Wonder Pro

The heavy shielding around the TV tuner
section of the All-In-Wonder produced excellent image quality, with no visible distortion,
even when the video output was routed
through a C reative Labs Encore DVD

We also describe some of the features decoder card and a Voodoo2 aden accelerthat 3D garners and graphics professionals ator card. Moreover, the card provided exceldemand from today's cards and look at the

lent AVI and MPEG playback.

We encountered no serious problems

chipsets driving the vast majority of today' s architectural advantages of AGP versus PCI,
sales of mainstream 3D accelerators. A few of Our benchrnarks are based on a number of installing the AII-in-Wonder Pro on any of
the hottest sellers include cards based on the
NVidia Riva TNT, the Voodoo Banshee (and
i ts add-on cousins, th e V o odoo a nd

Voodoo2), the ATI RagePro (which we think

popular test suites, including BAPCo for 2D

the systems tested, except occasional crashes

graphics tests and 3DMark99 for 3D features. when the beta OpenGL driver was installed.
We also ran a number of popular games and Driver updates have addressed most early
OpenGL-based 3D applications for subjecContinued on page7l

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Windows 98 and NT limitations and existing
drivers worked well under Windows 95, 98,
NT 4.0 and NT 5.0 (also known as Windows
2000). Although the card can operate without a dedicated IRQ, some functions, such as
those provided by Microsoft's WebTV for
Windows, require the IRQ jumper on the
card to be set.

SerloIIs display anomalies

On the downside, the All-in-Wonder -.like
ATI's other cards based on the Rage Pro
chipset is not a good choice for 3D gaming.
As our image quality tests reveal, there are
clearly visible texture-map artifacts and MIPmap anomalies, Also, garnes show grainy
images due to lack of trilinear filtering and
full-scene antialiasing. Thus, most games
have image quality problems and suffer poor
performance with the Rage Pro, The company's relatively poor OpenGL driver is also a
liability for garners and 3D buffs. Benchmark
scores for this card were the lowest of all
cards tested here: the PCI version rated 246;
the AGP version scored 536 in 3DMark99
tests,
A so-called "Turbo" driver released in
mid-1998 improved performance on some
tests, particularly the not-highly regarded
Winbench98. Even with this driver, the Rage
Pro is considerably slower than the TNT in
most benchmarks, rating a 317 in our BAPCo
test. AVI and MPEG-1 playback perforinance,
however, is excellent. Two-dimensional
graphics performance in desktop publishing
applications was also above average. (See the
AOpen review below for more details.)
To its credit, extensive color correction
and desktop configuration features are
included, A Inenu-tray icon and Display
Properties tabs provide access to various features. And, despite the fact that the beta
OpenGL driver exhibited some problems, it
improved performance significantly in applications using that API.
We tested the lonsdale b37x beta version
of an Open GL installable dient driver for
ATI Rage Pro with mixed results. The driver
increased frame rates by 50 percent over
Microsoft's non-accelerated software driver,
but we experienced a significant number o' f
crashes in Windows 98's iexplore.exe that
vanished after removing the update. A newer
driver (dated Dec. 8, 1998) is now available
at httpi/www.atitech,corn/betadN/index.htmk
The All-in-Wonder Pro includes TV and
S-video out, Dolby Digital out (optional),
video capture, closed caption keyword
search/capture, TV Magazine mode (captures
closed caption text and periodic images, and
formats them as RTF documents), audio
pass-through, and comes bundled with a
decent software s election, i n c l uding
Macromedia Director 5.0, MGI VideoWave
1.5, and the racing game Formula 1.
The All-in-Wonder Pro is a good 2D card,
a versatile multimedia solution, but a poor
3D card.

Diamond Viper 550

Based on the Riva TNT chip, Diamond's card

was the speedchamp
in our tests. However,
leading-edge performance comes with some
bleeding-edge caveats. We experienced compatibility problems on two of three systems
tested, and we were completely unsuccessful
in getting any TNT card to work properly
under NT 5.0 on our AX59Pro (Socket 7) test
system,although others report that the NT

4.0 driver can be used.

On some of the systems we used to test
the Viper 550, a problem occurred when running a program that utilizes Direct3D. or
OpenGL, such as a 3D game. The program
froze after a few seconds and remained
frozen for about 10 seconds, after which it
would briefly unlock for a split second. It
then repeated this pattern, forcing a reset. In
other words, no matter what Direct3D garne
or OpenGL game was accessed, it would
always freeze after a few seconds.
In what is apparently a separate problem,
the high heat levels generated by the TNT
chip can cause problems on some TNT-based
cards that are not fan or heat-sink cooled,
such as the Viper 550. The Canopus Spectra
2500 provides an onboard, self-powered fan,
while the Graphics Blaster TNT includes a
heat sink,
We noticed a few other problems, too.
There was noticeable image distortion (jittery edges on images) when video output
was routed through a Creative Labs Encore
DVD decoder card and a Voodoo2 add-on
accelerator card. (No visible distortion was
noted when these cards were not present.)
- The card does not work properly unless
an IRQ 'is allocated for VGA in the PC's
BIOS an issue the manual neglects to mention. Although th e d r ivers are easily
installed, system lockups occurred periodically o n t w o o f o u r te s t p l a tforms
(SuperMicro Pentium II and AOpen Super 7
motherboards) when 3D f eatures were
accessed using August '98 or October '98 drivers.Many other users have reported similar
problems on Usenet. (There was no information on t his problem at the NVidia or
Diamond Web sites, however a troubleshooting article at http: //www.cetinc.corn/hardware/arti-

cles/graphics/video trouble.
html provides useful
tips.)
The original August '98 driver did not
work with AMD K6-2 or Socket 7 boards
based on the ALi chipset (and removing the
driver apparently trashed the registry on one
of our test systems!), however both are
addressed by the October '98 update from

http: //www.diam
ondmm.corn.
Meanwhile, as noted in a review on

http: //anandtech.corn, VIA recently released version 2.9 of its AGP GART drivers, which
addresses most of the comp
atibility issues
with that chipset. These drivers can be found
at http: //www.via.corn.tw. However, despite the
fact that the card worked correctly on all BX
motherboards we tested it with, it has widely documented problems with many Super 7
boards and some LX boards,and we encountered a bug when uninstalling it.
The August '98 Diamond driver disabled
our Windows 98 Display Properties dialogue
after uninstaliing the driver. Re-instafling
Windows didn't fix this problem, nor did
running the System File Checker. The
Diamond driver'is, by default, configured to
pop up when the right mouse button is
dicked on the desktop, which has the potential to confuse those who access the standard
Windows 95, 98 or NT Display Properties in
this fashion.
Minor texture-map and alpha-channel
anomalies (textures flashing about over the
rendered visuals) were noted with the packaged drivers, which also produced slightly
incorrect MIP-mapping. However, these
issues are addressed by updated drivers that
can be downloaded. Anisotropic filtering,
provided by the TNT hardware, is turned off
by default in the Diamond driver software,
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DVD playback. AVI and MPEG-1 playback Voodoo2 add-on accelerator card on one of
was good. The Viper 550 also includes TV our test systems, even when using the reverse
of the Spectra 2500, the Viper edged past its out, providing an opportunity for big-screen pass-through on the Canopus card to connect the Voodoo2. No visible distortion was
TNT-based competitors in several aspects of gaming fun.
evident, however, when these cards were not
The Viper 550's 2D performance is excel- 3D performance, scoring 1804 in our highpresent. Two-dimensional image quality was
lent. With a 2D Winmark score of 229, it eas- end (350 MHz Pentium 11) 3DMark tests.
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3D performance although not by much.
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operations were faster than the Viper 550,
though.

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The Spectra, like all the TNT cards mentioned here, supports 32-bit renderingmaking it capable of multi-textured, multilayered displays with no visible banding or
color artifacting, albeit at reduced frame
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PA70's TV out option supports only 640x480
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Problems in 3D tests
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3D graphics accelerators

Matrox's PowerDesk software is provided

for desktop display and color management.
Additional software is provided for video
capture, editing and output tasks. Some
tasks, such as changing refresh rates, are
cumbersome, however. The supplied video
capture software supports standard video for
The most egregious display error occurred Windows applications (induding Premiere,
during the section of the 3DMark99 demo in and Media Studio Pro), performs an array of
which a series of concentric squares pulsate tests, and makes suggestions to help you
and twirl on screen. The PA70 displayed a properly configure your monitor, TV, hard
horrible mess completely unlike the image drive, etc.
that was supposed to be there. Even the Rage
Pro, which also showed severe display anomalies during this test, was mostly correct.
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transparency values looked correct though,
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superior to all other cards tested.
Interestingly, our tests of desktop publishing
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that the Rage Pro, which the Savage3D
trounced in 3D tests, slightly outperformed
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MHz Pentium), the Savage3D was just behind
the TNT cards, scoring just 2.5 percent lower
than the Creative Labs Graphics Riva TNT.
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Composite and TV output are provided,
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Quantum SE and a Western Digital Caviar
drive. As you might expect, video capture
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The G200 is sometimes slagged as being
slow, but it still fell within about 10 percent
of the 3D performance of the leading TNTbased card with it s bundled drivers. A

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display of some transparent items in the
3DMark99 image quality tests and demo.
Using the AOpen Navigator PA70 driver
releasedated Dec. 3, 1998, the card failed
two tests miserably.

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The Marvel is available in two versions, with

or without a built-in TV tuner. The G200-TV
version we tested includes TV and S-video
out, closed caption keyword search/capture,
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more.
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Matrox's high-quality RAMDACs. We detected no visible image distortion; the card yielded well-saturated colors and provided excellent video for Windows playback (marred,
however by the fact that a dormant videoinput window causes interference in AVI
playbacks).
The G200-TV was the only card tested to
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G200 yields deeply saturated colors. A "prebeta" OpenGL ICD driver released Dec. 9,
1998 from http:/twww.matrox.corn, offers limited OpenGL support for games, albeit at
frame rates below that of Matrox's Direct3D
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Interestingly, the G200 not only supports

multidisplays in Windows 98 like all of the
cards tested here, but it can drive multiple displays under Windows NT 4.0 too.
A separate, high-quality breakout box provides video (composite, s-video, and cable)
and audio connectors. It produced truly excellent full-screen video captures and output to
VCR
much better than we achieved with
ATI's All-In-Wonder Pro. However, the Marvel
lacks the All-In-Wonder's TV Magazine and its
still-image capture quality is surprisingly poor,
even in highguality mode. Still, its video capture and output capability is outstanding for a
product in its price range (US$250 to US$300).
It supports Motion JPEG, yielding significantly higher resolution captures than the ATI
products, especially at i t s d i sk-hogging
704x480 maximum capture quality. Although
the video capture driver is still subject to the
infamous 2 GB file limit of Windows' AVI format, a downloadable update to the Matrox
PC-VCR Remote utility works around this
problem by automatically creating a series of
files, should the 2 GB limit be surpassed. It's a
bit kludgy, but it's better than nothing.
We were also very impressed with the
video editing suite supplied with the package: Ulead's MediaStudioPro 5.0VE (a free
update to version 5.2VE is available on

end (350 MHz Pentium II) 3DMark99 tests.

For comparison, on the low-end 150 MHz
Pentium-based system we also ran our tests
on, this card rated an even 1000.
Like other TNT-based cards, it requires an
IRQ and comes with good OpenGL ICD drivers.

Permedia 2 Cards

Creative Labs Craphics Blaster

Exxtreme
ShlkatrOnlCS DariuS lf

Leadtek Wlnfaat2300)
The cards presented no compatibility problems, other than some visual anomalies in
certain games. The Windows NT 4.0 driver

from http: //www.3dlaba.corn worked well under

Windows NT 5.0, and we had no difficulties
setting up dual displays under Windows 98,
using recent drivers. The Shikatronics Darius
LE (AGP or PCI) cards we tested exhibited no
problems when using the supplied drivers

(which appear to be based on 3D Labs refer-

ence drivers).
No color correction features are provided
in the reference driver; however, an Oct. 5,
'98 update on the Creative Labs site adds
Colorific support for the Exxtreme.
The 2D performance of the Permedia 2 is
good, although AVI and MPEG playback is
only fair. Although all of these cards score
Ulead's Web site at http: //www.ulead.corn). low in 3DMark99 tests (the Darius LE scored
Although the VE version lacks the Character 603), the Permedia 2 fared exceptionally
Generator and a few other features found in well in OpenGL and ViewPerf CDRS-03 tests,
the full version, it is both faster and in many where it outperformed the TNT in many
ways more capable than Adobe Premiere. respects. In short, the Permedia 2 is optiP articularly impressive is t h e "Instant mized for OpenGL, not for games.
Preview" function a vast improvement
Permedia 2 cards with 4 MB or 8 MB of
over Premiere 5.1's sluggish rendering.
video memory are among the most inexpenA coupon that comes with the Marvel box sive and cost-effective OpenGL accelerators
can be sent in for a copy of Avid Cinema, available.
another video-editing package.
Any one of the Permedia 2-based cards
listed here would make an excellent choice for
a Windows NT system (we tested these cards
successfully on Windows NT 5.0 too), or for
those users who don't plan to play many
games. Note, however, that 4 MB cards such as
The Graphics Blaster TNT is a fairly bare- the Graphics Blaster Exxtreme Value

Creative Labs

Graphics Blaster TNT

bones approach to a TNT-basedcard, offering

(http: //www.soundblaster.corn/graph!cs/exxtreme-

no special features and only a heat sink for

cooling.
The driver is supplied with anisotropic filtering that is turned off by default, and the
3Deep and Colorific drivers that ship with the
company's Banshee product. The Colorific utility provides superior color correction features
via a procedure in which you select a series onscreen images to assist the system in building a
color calibration profile for your particular
monitor. The utility automatically updates the
built-in ICC in Windows 98. Meanwhile, the
3Deep driver provides a cutesy interface for
tweaking display settings in games, etc. It

value/) offer only 256 colors double-buffered,

o r 6 5 ,000 c o l or s s i n gle-buffered a t
1,280x1,024. An 8 MB version (which we' d

vers are downloadable at http://www.creaf.corn.)

MPEG playback was only fair. However, the

recommend overa 4 MB model) handles

1,280x1,024 and 65,000 colors triple-buffered

or even 16.7 million colors single-buffered.
Indeed, Quebec-based Shikatronics only
sells 8 MB versions of its AGP or PCI-based
Darius LE cards. These cards provide exceptionally good OpenGL drivers, decent
DirectX drivers, plus support for Heidi (3D
Studio Max).
However, despite t h ei r i m p ressive
OpenGL performance, we do not recomallows you to alter the "gamma" (brightness), mend Permedia 2-based graphics cards for
which can greatly improve the display quality systems that will be used for games. We
encountered improper (and usually terrible
of games
many of which were optimized for
the lighter gamma defaults of Voodoo-based looking) displays of transparent alpha-channel bitmaps in games and benchmarks,
display products.
Like other suppliers of TNT cards, the dri- using a number of different driver releases.
vers have been updated several times since
Our ZD tests produced no visible image
the release of the product. (Creative Labs dri- distortion, but text looked "thin." AVI and
The manual does not mention that the

Permedia 2's 3D performance in Open GL

card does not work properly unless an IRQ is applications was very good
the best of all
allocated for VGA in the PC's BIOS. The driver supports multi-displays in Window 98.

chipsets tested here. The OpenGL ICD drivers nicely accelerate both full-screen and

Twodimensional performance was very windowed applications, albeit not as robustgood, rating a 388 in BAPCo. However, the
Creative Labs Graphics Riva TNT yielded the
lowest 3D score of the TNT cards with default
settings rating a laggardly 1537 in our high-

ly as the $1,000-plus cards.

None of the Permedia 2 cards tested

caused any fatal problems on any systemtestContinued on page 79

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3D graphics accelerators

sional lockups). The 3Dfx OpenGL ICD is weak

compared to that provided by most of its competitors, It only accelerates a few full-screen
games and even then not as quickly as TNT,
Savage 3D, Rage 128 or Permedia 2-based cards.
The Banshee scored an impressive 1029
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graphics mode (the maximum allowed by
Other than 3Dfx's lighter than usual (but the Voodoo2 chip) at just over half the price!
customizable) gamma defaults, image quality This is especially remarkable, considering the
was excellent better than that of TNT or Banshee we tested was a PCI model, while
Savage3D-based cards. Gamma defaults were the TNT cards were AGP-based. Unreal time
lighter than usual, with some banding in
demo frame rates were just 1 fps (frames per
multitextured alpha blends, due to the chip's second) slower than those of the TNT.
16-bit rendering. The 3DMark 99 texture resNo other problems were noted, with the
olution test yielded lower than expected exception of the lack of support for 24- and
bitmap resolution. In other tests, however, 32-bit 3D rendering an issue we think is
image quality relative to the reference images overrated in general. Indeed, the proprietary
was excellent: a little better than the TNT in Glide API used by t h e V oodoo2-based
some regards, and a little worse in others.
Banshee is arguably the best supported API in
In a basic configuration, we noted no the 3D games market at the moment. In
problems. However, the card provides no short, it is an excellent choice for garners.
support for dual displays if the Banshee is the
Like the company's TNT-based product,
primary adapter. It is i ncompatible with the Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee is a basic
hardware MPEG-2 decoders such as Creative implementation: just a video out.
It's worth mentioning the colordisplay
Labs Encore DVD, and our tests revealed that
its Open GL support is very limited (fulllimitations of the Voodoo or Voodoo2 cards.
screen only, e.g., Quake, Quake II, Hexen II). These chips can display a maximum of 16-bit
We alsohad some problems on a Socket 7 color during 3D acceleration. (The 3Dfx Web
test system getting the card to properly site describes it as "24-bit color dithering to
install its Glide (the proprietary API used by native 16-bit RGB, with 16-bit color 'expanthe Voodoo-series cards) drivers.
sion' to display near 24-bit quality.") Some of
The Banshee's control panel provides a today's texture-intensive games, which pile
number of customizable features, induding layer upon layer of transparencies onto the
gamma correction, MP-map dithering and a screen, can result in a dithered or banded disnumber of G l ide/OpenGL configuration play that points to the advantages of chips
options, plus an option to overciock the card's such as the G200, TNT or, especially, the Rage
3D hardware (which we found caused occa- 128 that can display 24- or 32-bit color. The
Continued from page 76
ed. The drivers worked well under Windows
95, 98, NT 4.0 and NT 5.0, although graphics
fidelity suffered in some games.

Rage 128 is already earning acclaim for its abil- V oodoo2. Yet, for sheer value and unsurpassed
ity to handle truexolor displays while main- compatibility with the bulk of today's 3D
taining frame rates comparable to t h e g a mes, it's hard to knock the Voodoo Banshee.

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for Garners: Canopus Spectra 2500:."::.',,",-;:,' -.:.;

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Voodoo Banshee

whether:to get a 2D card and a.Voodoo2 or a. ZD13D card with a

Riva TNT, we'd get a Riva TNT-based AGP card. You..can always ';.-'.

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A picture is worth 1,000 pictures

Continuedfrom page $0
also do some minor editing of individual
images.
The Get Photo screen is more trouble
than it should be. Selecting the images for
an album is just a matter of picking them
out of a standard file dialog or snagging
them from a TWAIN device, but heaven
forbid you should try to f ind a specific
image for any reason. While the thumbnails are displayed in alphabetical order,
it's hard to search visually, as the slider bar
doesn't quite function l ike a standard
Windows slider clicking above or below
the slider doesn't nudge it up or down, it
causes the slider to jump to your pointer.
That makes it all to easy to accidentally
lose your place.
Once you' ve created your albums and
at least picked the image for the montage,
you can go to the Build Montage screen,
stopping along the way to edit your picture
if you' re so inclined. From there, you
choose the albums you want to use (up to
five of your own albums, plus any of
ArcSoft's CD-ROM collections). You can
give each collection a priority level from
one to three; an album with a level of three
indicates PhotoMontage should give the
highest preference to pictures from that
album. A tip: resize and crop large images
beforehand, or PhotoMontage will crop
them for you, possibly in ways you don' t
like.
After choosing your settings (the numb er of m i cro-images, how o f ten t h ey
should repeat, captions, etc.) and getting
one last chance to pick a treasure or signature image, all you have to do is click Okay
and wait.
ArcSoft recommends a 486 system with
32 MB of RAM as the minimum to run this
p rogram. My system, with a 2 3 3 M H z
Pentium CPU and 64 MB of RAM, put a
medium-sized image (4,080x3,161 pixels)
together from 996 files with limited repetition in about 50 seconds. At first I wasn' t
too impressed the image looked rather
coarse. But when I stood back from my
monitor, I was stunned at how much of the
original image was preserved. Naturally,
some of the details were lost, but Rob
Silvers probably won't b e m aking any
$75,000 paychecks for this sort of thing

anymore.

image collection. Being a suspicious sort, I

cranked every setting to its absolute minimum, and still got the warning. Then I
deselected all of my personal albums, and
chose to only use images from the CDROM collection. Despite the CD-ROM having even fewer images than my albums, I
got no warning.
Out of curiosity, I created the same picture using only ArcSoft's sample collection,
and the resulting montage actually did
look better. (I also noticed that few of my

albums checked, the maximum number

allowed. With a total of 996 images, I figured I had enough for a good-sized picture.
However, when I clicked on Okay, I was
warned that I "may need more collections

to build a high quality montage." Of

course that meant using a commercial

choose more and better images for my

images cover the spectrum of colors and

shapes better, allowing PhotoMontage to
create more accurate composites. Maybe it
was blind luck. Whatever the case, ArcSoft
could have been more honest in its warning: users don't need "more collections,"
they need ArcSoft collections.
If I wanted to make a gift out of a mont age ArcSoft's Web site allows you t o
order posters made from the montages you
create I'd be willing to put in the time to

albums.
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of personal albums allowed in favor of
ArcSoft's own image collections, I w as
robbed of that choice. I can't say I'm very
happy about that, no matter how nifty the
software is, 0

Emru Townsend(smrucam.org) likes the picturein-picture feature on his TV, but this is taking
things a bit far.

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as diverse as spell checkers in Microsoft
Word, WordPerfect and Lotus SmartSuite, to
McClelland R Stewart's electronic version of
The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Kaufman unveiled his latest search product, X-Portal, at Fall Comdex 1998. In meetings at the Las Vegas event, and later at his
Toronto offices, he demonstrated what Xthe
Portal can do to speed up and i
quality of research and learning on the Web.

mprove

moves into enterprise and school markets). A

gigabyte of compressed reference works fits
into about 200 MB of hard drive space. The
X -Portal user interface is added to t h e
Internet Explorer browser screen, in the form
of a search window on the left hand side of
the browser window.
When you type in a search query, the XPortal software makes an educated guess,
based on probabilities of word context, and
begins to fire the highest quality matches it
can find onto the X-Portal window. Initially,

X-Portal consists of a CD-ROM loaded

with a range of 22 electronic reference works,
and a software utility that works inside a

Web browser (Microsoft's Internet Explorer

for Windows version is the first available, to
be followed by Netscape Navigator for
Windows and Apple Mac versions).

Out of the box

is designed to run
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from an individual PC user's hard drive (networked versions are feasible, as the product

the responses come from the reference

library on the user's hard drive, but X-Portal
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any number of user-definable search engines

or other Web sites, and dynamicaily re-ranks
and displays new, high quality responses to
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B3i Jcl'f Evans

remember long ago, in the daysbefore I

I
was a profenional computer j
had to buy softwarefor my businen. And

ournalist,

not just any kind of softavare $7,8$ per

Sofhvare theft and other PC crimes

hasgone from 44 percent of software in use

in 1995,to 42 pement In 1996, and 39 percent in 1997.

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nobody
paid
for
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still
have
three
copies
utility for the Amiga called Pageflipper,
which nearly everybody used, and nearly in the original shrinkwrap, Bob it wasn't industry has engaged in recently. Some of it
is also due to enforcement efforts, including

me stealing them!). Bob eventually went

copy typesetting software.

back to his teaching career, afteryears of warnings to software thieves, and occasional
developing high quality, popular software civil or criminal prosecution of thieves.

To ensure that I didn't cheat and copy the

software to more than one computer,
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Being active in the

Eisen also admitted that some of the

decline may be related to the demise of the
floppy disk as the basic medium for software publishing, and its replacement by
the CD-ROM. Not everyone has a CD-ROM
burne, but almost every PC user has a flop-

that people preferred to steal rather than

buy. So I never really bought the idea
that software theft is a " v ictimless
criine."
A series of recent announcements f r o m t he Can a d ian
Association Against Software
Theft (CAAST) and Microsoft
Canada brought the issue of
software theft to the forefront
of my thoughtsand I felt I
g
sho u l d write this article to outline th e ' current s i tuation
regarding software theft in our
country.

e arly desktop publish- g f

ing and computer
graphics community
Jk
of the mid-1980s, I
knew a lot of starving artists, students
and just plain scofflaws
who routinely c heated

software publishers by
accumulating and using a
complete library of unlicensed software. The Amiga
computer, in p asticular,
seemed to be a hotbed of
illegal software copying.
I knew a Canadian Amiga software developer named Bob Maludzinski
who produced a great animation playback

py drive.
In general, corporate software users are
much more careful about abiding by software copyright rules, out of fear of legal hazards of software theft, and better copy protection schemes have also had a role to play.
However that 39 percent Sgure for illegal
software use still indicates a long way to go,
according to Risen.

A little aatlenallzatfon
is a waanahefad thln9
People steal software because it means they

Coed news and had news

Onthe positive side, software theft
seems to have been undergoing a
slow but steady decline in ment years.
A ccording t o

don"t have to pay for it, even though it is as

much of a crime as stealing a computer from

a store. The justilcations are many:

s t atistics quoted by

Michate Eisen, a lawyer who wasformerly

1. BBI Gates is the richest guy in the world,

the chief counsel for GVSI; and now works

andI need my moneymore than he does.

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full time for Microsoft Canada, the software

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2. I want to try it before buying, so I don' t
get stuck with a software "lemon."
3. Everybody does it. Why should I be the
only sucker who pays?
4. I don't have the money to buy it even if I
wanted to.
5. I'm not hurting anyone.
6. It's nobody's business.
7. Information wants to be free!
8. I won't get caught.

To respond:
1. Bill Gates won't starve because of
software piracy, but many other people
involved in the legitimate software industry, including small software developers,
legitimate computer hardware and software resellers, legitimate business software
users (who have to compete with cheating
companies), and recipients of social programs (whose programs are denied any
share of tax revenues that aren't paid on
software that is stolen) are all injured to
some degree.

2. Most name brand software publishers

Whatever the accuracy of that estimate,

have demo versions, or a 30-day money software thieves are transferring large
back trial period, or some variation on
those themes, so purchasers aren't stuck
with a program they immediately dislike.
Also, there are second- and third-tier noname brands and shareware programs aplenty available in many product categories that software thieves want nothing
to do with.
3. About 61 percent of software is purchased rather than stolen, so not "everyone" does it. The legitimate buyers support
the software publishers, as well as supporting the software thieves.
4. If you can find the money for the
hardware, you could find the money for
the software, or else you could make do
with cheap or shareware alternatives to
Microsoft Word, or Adobe Photoshop, or
whatever.
5. Yes you are hurting someone (see
responses 1 and 3). CAAST statistics estimate that a 15 percent decrease in the piracy rate would result in over 13,000 new
technology-related j o b s in Can a d a.

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amounts of money out of legitimate workers' pockets into their own, and making
Canada a poorer place for it.
6. Is it anybody's business if someone
climbs in your window and steals your computer? What's different about stealing software?
7. Yes, information is free in terms of
public d i scussion and free speech.
Copyrighted software is created through
great expenditure of effort and money, and
those who go to that trouble and expense
deserve payment for their work.
8. Not getting caught is not the same
thing as being in the right. And, if you need
technical support to solve a problem right
before a crucial deadline, your thriftiness in
avoiding paying for software (and not qualifying for upgrades or support) may turn out
to be a very poor decision.
Aside from individuals knowingly copying or receiving pirated software, a serious
problem that obviously harms innocent victims is the phenomenon of software counterfeiting. Eisen claims 47 percent of "channel piracy," illegal software supplied by computer vendors to customers, is in the form of
software that has been manufactured and
packaged by criminals to look like legitimate
software. In this case, the damage to thecustomer is obvious. After paying for the phony
product, he or she discovers there is no way
to get upgrades or technical support from the
software publisher.
INicrosoft gets Into the act
Microsoft has decided to supplement the
enforcement activities of local police, the
RCMP and CAAST, by conducting its own
program of investigating reported piracy
and counterfeiting, and launching civil
actions against violators. In November,
Microsoft Canada announced legal action

against four Montreal area computer vendors whom it accused of distributing unlicensed software. Sweeps against copyright
violators in o t her Canadian cities are
expected during 1999.
E isen claims Microsoft is not out t o
harass the individual PC owner: "We' ve
never prosecuted a home PC user, and I don' t
know if we ever will however, the RCMP
have confronted people burningCD-ROMs
[making copies of CD-ROMs with a drive
called a 'burner] in their basement and distributing them on a significant scale." Eisen
says, "It's unfortunate that Microsoft Canada
has had to get directly involved, but from a
resource standpoint the RCMP simply don' t
have the resources to do everything that they
would want to."
Eisen believes the statistics on the scale of
software theft are reasonably accurate, and
that Microsoft, as the leading brand name
and the publisher of many of the most popular software titles, is particularly vulnerable.
"We aren't so naive as to think that we' ll ever
eradicate software piracy, but we are confident that we will significantly reduce it...as
more people understand the risks and the
costs, the rate will continue to decline in
1999." 0
CAASTTel: 800-263-9700, http: //www.caast.org
Microsoft, http: //www.microsoft.corn/canada/piracy
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the PC. According to Doug Cooper of Intel Canada, If the chip dock speed is boosted significantly faster than the design spec of the, chip, the obvious result is often an increase in
' the.tendency of the PC operating system to lock up: or:crash, due to timing problems of
the overclocked chip interacting with the test of the PCs hardware and software.
According to Cooper, some PC owners learn how to overdock their own chips and
'choose to do so for the extra zip this provides.' Intel recommends strongly against this,

,because of the possibibty of degrading system. reliability, and software performance.

. Much more serious, for both the consumer and Intel, is the fraudulerit overdocking of
:: Intel chips, which are. then sold tct the unsuspecting coiisumer advertised as a higher speed

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;: processor chips at. the:time of manufacture, and the'feud artists either grmd off the let'-::tering. otcover it: over:with:a sticke'r, to fool casual irispectlon. Cooper recommends buy, ers of budget-priced'PCs.check: inside the.:clase:
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MP3 files offer CD or near-CD quality sound at
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duced in the fall of 1996, the products from the various manuhcturers were
like peas in a pod. While there were minor
variations in case design and features, the
Windows CE operating system and software
suite provided a rehtively Sxed set of functions that varied little from one brand to the
next.

models appeared with color screens, or in

larger cases with nearly full-size keyboards. Express from other units we' ve seen. The

Estimated street price: $1,200

Spedflcations
Processor. SH3, 100 MHz
Dimensions: 23.6x15x2.5 cm (7.9x4.5x1 In}
Weight 030 g (29.3 oz}
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LG Electronics' Phenom Express bridges
this transition, being an upscale CE 2.0
machine that can be upgraded to CE 3.0
w ith th e a ppropriate ROM chip. T h e
Express is one of a handful of CE
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the smooth resistance of the
hinges and latches contributing
t o the quality " feel." At f i rst we
thought the thin plastic doors covering the

battery holder, which runs along the back

edge of the cbrnputer, folds down to reveal
full-size parallel and VG A p o rts. The
Express includes support for some HP
LaserJet and DeskJet, Epson Stylus and LG
printers. Most other handheld devices
included oniy a p roprietary
serial connector used prirnarily for linking with a
d esktop c o m puter, s o
these ports will add to
the overall functionality o f t h e m a c hine.
When folded down,
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angle many typists prefer. Two other nice touches
are the indusion of a built-in V.90-

standard 56Kbps modem and a digital

audio recorder. An external button allows
you to record sound even if the case is
dosed and the machine tumed off.

serial input/output and modem ports

would be early casualties of daily use, but
The application suite is the standard
the hinges are mounted in a flexible rubber Wrndows CK bundle (Pocket versions of

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compound that allows the doors to survive

forces that would have snapped them off
had they been set in the plastic of the am
itseIL This Phenom is also quite styiish,
with a contrasting silver and black case.
The larger case of the Express alilows the

64INB SDRAM 168pin DIMM 7ne PC100

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screen than many other CE devkes. While
still smaller than a full-size keyboard (the

Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint), so

there are no surprises or innovations on
this front. But these provide a basic set of

applications and are probably all most

users will need. Anyone who wants more
powerful applications or a different set of
applications will likely opt for a mini-notebook that uses Windows 98 and is capable
of running any Windows appUcation.

distance between the Q and P keys is 7.5

LG Electronics is a large Korean techinches on my full-size keyboard, and 6.5 nology company, with U$$9.7 billion in
inches on th e Express keyboard), the

worldwide sales in 1997. Canadian con-

Express aUows for a reasonable approxhna- sumers may be familiar with the company's
tion of touch typing. The color screen is Goldstar brand. LG wants to elevate its
about eight inches wide and allows the brand image, and part of its strategy is to

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menus, icons, spreadsheet cells, etc. to be

displayed at a size' familiar to Windows
95/98 users. However, the Phenom screen
offers only half-VGA (640x240) resolution
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ASUS P5ABa(AT) Super 7 AGP+3D Sound 145
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Brother Laser HL-1020I-1050 " " "-"379 I 549 Switch Box for System 2 way...................28
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Cyrix MX 300/333
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187
15" KTX/Voxon 0.28
187
15" Sceptre Dragon D50/D54
209/289
15" PanasynSSO/Acer54c
259/228
15" Sonyl00es 02$dp
365
17" Acana/Imptession 027dp
319/359
17" Hansol 701P/Voxon 0.26dp
429/345
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465
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539
17" Sony 200es 0.25dp
619
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778/659
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1279
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Canon BJC255 w/cable(suer
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Canon BJC4400SE
199
Canon BJC5000 11 "xl7"
359
469
Canon BJC 7000L 120Mpi
Canon Multifunction C3500
439
Canon Multifunction L6000 laser
759
Epson Stylus 440/640/850 2 1 5/278/485
E pson Photo700/Stylns74 0
359/ 3 9 8
365/465
Bmthcr HL1020/1040
Bmther HL1050/2060 1200dpi 559/1549
Brother Multifunctlon P2l)OODX laser 559
B rother HL2400C full color 4M
315 0
Fujitsu Laser PP10V
629
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Lexmark 1100/3200 (sa s4) re)me) 119/225
Lexnlafk 5700(etter atore)see)
279
Oki SW/HP LaserJet 6L
359/509
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SDRAM 32/64/12SM
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88
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155
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ASUS P2B 100MHz
209
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135/ 1 45
M icmStar/Matsonic Super 7
109/ 1 05
AcerOpen AP59/FIC2103 Super 7
119

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Acer/LankomEthernet Combocard 22/19
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Acer 32Bit PCI 10/100 Master
SMC PCI EzCard 10/100BaseT
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GVC 5 Port Hub
49
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148
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3-COM 16722 8Port hub
Ethernet RGSS/RJ45 6'/30'/50'
5/12/15
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3&OM 9&OTX 10/100TX Server
D-Link DE530CT PCI Combo

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79
Dynotek 6P color Scanner
Musiek color Scanner 6oom(after545rebate)69
99
Acer 610P 60&x1200
189
Acer 620USB 600x1200

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36
Trident AGP 4M
SIS AGP 4M
34
SIS AGP SM w/TV out
59
ATI TV Tuner/FM Ca@i
118
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ATI PCI XPERTplay 4M/SM
66
ATI AGP Rage II 8M
95
ATI AGP XPERT9& &M
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109/136
ATI AGP XPERTIPlay 4M/8M
113/145
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185/219
ATI AGP All-in-wonder 4M/8M
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Diamond Speedster SM/VSSO16M
Diamond Monstor Voodoo H 12M
239
Diamond Monstor Fusion Banshee 16M 1 8 5
185
Creative Blaster Banshee 16M AGP
169
Creative RivaTNT 16M AGP
Intel i740 &M AGP
54
Matmx Pmductiva G-100 AGP SM
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Aces/Panasonic/roshiba 32x 5 7 /65/73
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Panasonic 4x&x Writer SCSI
379
TecRam 310 SCSI Adaptor
58
Mltsumi/Panasonlc 4xsx Writer IDE 349
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Acer CD ReWriter 2x6x
Panasomc/Hltachl DVD Ill drive 1 &5
Creative DVD IH drive
218
Cmative DVD III kit w/decoder caid 358
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11.5
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$17
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38
Creauve Ensoniq PCI 3D
Diamond santetrapet/MonsterMssoo 39/139
35/54
Sound Blaster 16/AWE64
Sound Bluster PCI 64/PCI 128 5 4 /67
Sound Blaster Live/Live Value 239/119
Speakers 100w/320w/GNTSOOO 12/35/54
Speakers Altec Lancing ACS44
105
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56K V.90 DataFax w/Voice
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better measure a system's multimedia performance. The test also redefines the benchmarking standard, which is now a 233 MHz
Pentium II desktop system with 64 MB of
RAM. It has recalibrated the score, assigning
a value of 100 for the results turned in by a

benchmarking machine. (See next month's

Lab Test report for details on the new test
suite.)
The ThinkPad 1410 showed scores of 70
for Office Productivity, 76 for (multimedia)
Content Creation, and 73 as an overall
Sysmark 98 score. Since this is the first
machine to run through the new test suite,
it's hard to comment on the relative performance, except to say that it is between 70-76
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power cord with attached AC adapter, is
reality hasn't lived up to the hype until devices support), but the big $300 price tag
always required.
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helped keep this one near the back of the
Enough said about background, let's look
at the best of force feedback racing...
The problem? Well, aside from a number line.
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into their titles. But in the last couple of near-diagonal orientation of the wheel made
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been developed for this category. Why car
racing? It would seem the Powers That Be
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equaL I had the chance to test drive five of
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impressive right on down to quite frightful.
Guillemot Inc,'s Race Leader 3D Force
Feedback wheel and pedal set, for instance,
felt small, weak and cheaply constructed.
With desk clamps that fell out during use, a
broken switch on my test unit and problematic installation/setup, it was the worst of the
bunch.
Microsoft's SideWinder Force Feedback
Wheel fared marginally better, scoring extra
points for its mounting system, a quick
release lever that allows you to afflx or
detach the unit in less than five seconds.
Marvelous! Yet the Microsoft-generated FF
sensations
this is the only rig here that
doesn't use Immersion-based protocol
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ate when compared to everything else I tried.

mechanical sensation and good or bad

depending on the quality and design of
the unit.
One of the chief reasons FF driving isn' t
where it could be or will be in the next
year or two
has nothing to do with the
wheel manufacturers. Instead, and as
alluded to earlier, game developers apparently haven't been spending enough
effort to properly incorporate the technology supplied to thetn. Two games that
have managedtobuck the trend and succeed in this respect are Ubi Soft's Fl
Racing Simulation and Electronic Arts'
Need For Speed III, and word is that
many more are coming down the
pipeline, reflecting the sudden surge in
this form of racing peripheral.
As FF trends change and improvements
are made, there's a good possibility you' ll
have to shell out even more dollars on
new hardware. You see, sometimes it' s
not just the software that changes but the
chips inside the wheel too. So, you must by people who know their racing. From its
either a) be satisfied with the current high-contrast red color scheme (which
state of the art, b) look into upgradable contrasts so nicely against the

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as if they well up

from deep inside the

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real impression that
there's something
under your wheel,
not the wheel itself,

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our kids are tired of math drills and

reading games. The great Canadian
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Nintendo 64 game music with smash-'em-up
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is at hand!
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new and creative play for the five years and
older set girls and boys. These games also
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always at hand, however, in the form of

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advice along the way.
On their way to becoming flying aces,
kids can earn their bronze, silver and gold
flying wings and certificates. They can also
create and print pages for their souvenir picture book of locations they have flown over
and include flight notes, as well as pictures of
airplanes.

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included. A few international cities, including some in Canada, might have made for a
better view. Perhaps in Kid Pilot 2?

as eating, and complex behaviors such as

speech using the "learning computer." This
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repopulating.
As there are some written components to
this game, such as referring to help or hints,
and typing out new words, it is probably best
suited for players eight years and older. The
game requires some careful thought, plan-

Kid Pilot is rated for children ages five to 10,

but even my 12-year-old enjoyed playing it.
Pilot is the first realistic flight simulator for
young kids. It has the same "feel" as the
flight simulators that have been around for
years for teens and adults.
Kid Pilot flies kids over 3D, photorealistic
landscapes that include dozens of U.S. cities
and landmarks, and they navigate using a

simple control panel and tool bar. The fully

ning and exploration.

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choose from: the Tiger Cub, the Orca-40 and
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ers are advised to hatch one at a time, as singles are easier to deal with! I can believe this
as the creatures are constantly on the move
and need your guidance. And they don' t
always pay attention to what you offer them,
nor do they always behave in the manner
you expect. But there are a few solutions to
this: wave an object in front of them or if
they still refuse to pay attention, then "slap"
them with the cursor and repeat the waving

functional instrument panel includes gauges

that indicate speed, altitude and direction.
But players have to be careful: just as in adult
flight simulators, they can crash! Help is

and time of day.

During flights, kids are given "facts"
about that cities they are flying over unfortunately, for Canadians, only U.S. cities are

of the object. They like to be tickled, so cor-

May the forcebe with you

gent downward motion designed for sitting in front of a PC, their throw is quite
small and resistance extremely light. And
that makes for lots of accidental triggering,
a horrible thing to encounter in the midst

A nd t h a t , p e r h aps a t t r i butable t o
Logitech's cable drive mechanism, is a
blast of reality when it hits at just the right
time.
Overall, the WingMan offers subtle and
relatively authentic feedback and moves
smoothly from effect to effect, though the

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black housing) to its extremely pleasing

feel and perfectly angled placement, the

small, thick and slightly squared WingMan
wheel is a pure delight. Equally delightful of racing.
are the rear-mounted dual shifter paddies,

large enough for easy access during any

turn and sporting an audible click when
depressed.
The pedals, unfortunately, aren't cut
from the same cloth, Though affixed to a
base that offers plenty of room for even
the biggest feet and featuring an intelli-

cq 80!n

As for FF, the WingMan certainly isn' t

the most powerful rig out there, yet its
response is nevertheless quite pleasing. It' s
hard to put into words, but certain effects
feel as if they well up from deep inside the
unit, giving you a real impression that
there's something under your wheel, not
the wheel itself, producing the movement.

rect behavior is rewarded with tickling.

Your job is to teach basic behaviors such

seemingly smallish motor doesn't pump

out the G-forces as well as some of the
stronger units. As a controller for non-FF

include a doubling of the play area, new

applets such as the Neuroscience Kit and the
Object Injector, and a global weather systems
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material under headings like Civilization
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and Unit Attributes, each assigning numeri- deal more time with these discs. Along the
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(Translation: studies develop into habits)
By Ross IgfacDonald

aving been a wildlife biologist in a

past life, I have been able to boast

more proficient Latin t han t h at
learned by most people via the opening segments of Roadnrnnercartoons. And, contrary
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cess in picking up useful phrases and reason- don't know what will.
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thinking in the language of choice. The only five languages including English but not
exception for me so far has been Russian, due
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anything less than the most industrious
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grammar which makes the anarchy of

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It's nice that Transparent Language has
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gaining a great deal of popularity at universi- beginners something to get interested in
ties where there has been a notable increase while learning, plus they' ve thrown in a
in enrollment in such courses. Nobody compendium of relevant Latin phrases useful
seems to know why this surge in interest has for sprinkling throughout your office banter.
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er industry, squared off to pitch what seems, on the servers on its premises, handling high-speed connectivity
surface, to be two diametrically opposed views of the future and system maintenance, or Netcom will host clients' dataof computing. Gates pronounced that Microsoft's goal was bases on its UNIX servers.
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