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These would have been at the front of the PC would there be any value in continuing with
pack a year ago, and if you currently have no a course in Windows NT or should I switch
computer,
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power is at least comparable to that of colteagt tes

who took the obvious route and upgraded their
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influenced by whether you choose the older product or the newer one.
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industry.
Addressing for the first time the key factual issues in the government'slong-running antitrust battle with the software giant,

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cast Microsoft as a voracious monopolist

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certain practices to po ssibly forcing
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Just as desktop publishing was the rage
of computing in the '80s, with multimedia and the Internet playing similar
roles in the '90s, the hot term today
is convergence a
reference to the
anticipated merging of traditional media,
such as radio, TV and computer games,
with new digital technologies

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by Tetris creator Alexei Pajitnov and is suitable for all ages and genders. There is also a
new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator,
the most popular flight sim in the world, and
Links LS 2000, the latest edition of the bestselling golfing sim, which was recently
acquired by Microsoft.
For home productivity, a new version of
the Microsoft Works Suite 2000 boasts a
redesigned, task-oriented user interface, and
features an integrated version of the industry
standard Microsoft Ward, The company also
Keyboard Pro and continues to challenge Intuit's Quicken perInternet e r gonomic sonal finance and small business software
k eyboards, and t h e
(http:
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sleek optical-sensing place but we try harder" title, Microsoft
Intellimouse Explorer pointing device.
Money 2000 Deluxe. This versian of Money
A new line of games controllers includes also features a redesigned, task-oriented user
interface, and includes many j
the SideWinder Force
new tools for online banking,
Feedback Pro Joystick, the
investing, and college and
Game Pad Pro, and the
retirement financial planDualStrike
"3D
character
of the sting out of configuring and upgrading
ning, as well as day-to-day
game controller." The
a PC sa it becomes more flexible and conver- Nlcrosoft: Ceelrs hearing gifts
money management.
gence-friend)y. (Apple Mac users can argue, Microsoft (http J/www.microsoft.ca) held its Dua5trike would be a parOn the personalcreativity
with justice, that the Wintel PC is just now annual holiday consumer software launch ticularly interesting and
front, Microsoft has launched
approaching a level of usability that the Mac just in time for this article's deadline. As unique gift for the serious
Microsoft Home Publishing
has had all along.)
Microsoft Canada product manager Natalie "keyboard-and-mouse"
Suite 2000, a competitor to
As the PC is being simplified towards Tehrani hopefully put it, "Microsoft's range player of f irst-person
popular consumer design
is
consumer electronics levels, so consumer of products for home computer users con- shooter games. I t
software
off e re d by
electronics devices are gaining mm puter-like tains something for everyone on your holi- designed to offer t he
Broderbund
(http
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and
flexibility
of
day
shopping
list.
This
year
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will
be
easy
to
capabilities. The new Sega Dreamcast game
b und.corn) an d
Cor e l
machine has good Internet capability built find just the right gift: the only difficulty will control over 3D charac(htlpJhrww.coral.corn).
in, for instance. Does this make Dreamcast be in deciding what to give and what to ters in action games that a
keyboard-and-mouse
an Internet appliance, a kind of network keep!"
ISN: The
player only gets after
computer? The Palm Pilot is an
of a
B e that as i t
wlresI home
"sub-PC" device whose simplicity and porta- may, this y ear
long hours of practice.
IBM has the biggest
Among Microsoft's
bility makes it superior to the PC, for a limit- Microsoft is offering
research and develan
entirely
latest consumer softed range of information tasks.
ware offerings (httpJ/
opment capadty in
There are seven companies whose finger- revamped version
the computer induswww.microsoft.corn/
prints are all over the convergence caper. of its hugely poputry, but it has tended
lar
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electroni)amos)
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These global brands had the vision, the
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technology into mnsimulation game Ageof
produce key technologies and products that line. In its most lavEmpires, and a beautisumer p r oducts,
have made personal computers appealing ish form, the new
until recently. The
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Continued on page 22
cidentally, these companies have aII pro- Suite 2000. It is a
duced some really nifty personal computing
products just in time for this holiday season.
Microsoft, IBM, Sony, Apple, Hewlettn terms of personal computing, convergence today is expressed in the increasing Packard, Intel, and 3Com, despite radical difabifity of even an ordinary, plain vanilla ferences in business modelsand individual
PC to inexpensively handle many more product lines, have all retained a very strong
forms of network connectivity and digital interest in personal, consumer digital techmedia than before. Without much cost or nology, as well as higher end professional or
trouble, anyone who wants to can use a cur- corporate markets. Aside from simply
rent PC to create or playback high quality addressing an existing consumer mardigital video, generate fantastically good 3D ket, these companies all have longgame graphics in real time, get connected to term agendas. Producing attractive
a high bandwidth Internet service or local consumer products helps them build
area network (LAN), or publish on the Web. brand recognition that carries over
Although still a longway from approach- into the corporate market.
They also seeconvergence as the
ing the ease of use of consumer electronics
like TVs or audio CD players, today's PC has major opportunity for future growth, and
benefited from recent efforts to make it sim- consumers buying into convergence in their
pler to use. Innovations such as Plug and personal lives, and for their kids, will be the
Play, universal serial bus (USB), and PC Cards key to making it a reality. Here"s what they' d
for notebook computers, have all taken some love to put under your tree this year:

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Continued from page 20
pushing a l i n e o f l e a ding-edge home
automation and small networking solutions
aimed at leading the evolution of home and
small business networking into a standard
feature of daily life.

home and small

business suppliers. IBM has also
just released its
World
Book

Encyclopedia on

ed a great deal of the computer industry's underlying technologies and com-

ponents. Sony founder, Akio Morita,

who died recently, was one of the most

visionary technology developers of this

century, combining

CD-ROM and its

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c onsumers
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ironic, since a decade ago, the paper

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ranked among the most popular and
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IBM Canada
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a wired mobile home a spedally fitted bus
that contains a full home networking solution. At the moment, the full implementation of an IBM-style home network and
automation solution requires the services of
a professional solution provider and a fair
amount of money, but IBM believes it is
establishing a leadership position in the next
frontier of networking.

At a more mainstream level, IBM's Aptiva

line of consumer PCs, and its ThinkPad I
series notebooks are popular choices for

Sony: The king of convergence

Three years ago at the annual Comdex computer show in Las Vegas, I was stunned by
the depth and breadth of the technology
offerings at the Sony booth. Like some kind
of computer age Aladdin's cave, Sony's space
was piled high with digital cameras, mass
storage media, new digital video products,
personal computers, state-of-the-art monitors, and all kinds of portable gadgets that
married consumer audio and video with digital computer features.
Unlike the computer companies that are
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media, Sony is a media company that invent-

'r.' a

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World
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Apple is riding a wave of increased
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notebook PC. Apple is pushing convergencewith both of

these products, by emphasizing easy connection to the

Internet, and integrating the latest dig-

The digital camera and all-in-one markets are also heavily populated with competitors. Xerox, in particular, is now
active in the all-in-one segment, with several new models,
including the XK35 color flatbed device.

ital media technologies, including

FireWire high speed connectivity,
USB, MPEG QuickTime, and ATI
graphics.
Although still facing longterm challenges in a Microsoftdominated universe, Apple's

multiple PCs to share one Internet connection, transfer

and print files, and play multiplayer games. It's a very

speed (320 to 480 Mbps, up from USB

1.0's maximum of 12 Mbps), a new serv-

good entry-level, do-it-yourself home network.

Th e Barbie and Hot Wheels "theme" PCs were also deve
oped by Intel and Mattel, and manufactured by Canada's
Patriot Computer Corp. These two home PC models are
aimed at specific demographic groups, young girls and
young boys. While some might complain the girly Barbie
PC and "ruff tuff" Hot Wheels PC reinforce sexist stereotypes (and they might be right), these products are basically an extension of kid play reality into the PC market.
Very economically priced, the two Celeron-based systems
are packed to the gills with Mattel entertairunent software. The Barbie PC comes with the Barbie digital camera
as well, while the Hot Wheels PC comes with steering
wheel and pedal game peripherals. According to Intel

er input/output standard, and a new dig-

Canada's Doug Cooper, "Who can think of a more fun

Intel: The joy of paranoia

The company whose former chief executive
famously stated that "only the paranoid
survive" seems remarkably cheerful for a
company with such a motto. At the Fall
Intel Developer Forum, it announced a
series of cooperative computer industry
agreements, establishing a USB 2.0

recovery is astounding, and

indicates that the company has

standard with faster data transmission

regained its touch for creating

the world's most humane, and

enjoyable computing experiences.

Although not exactly at
stocking stuffer price points,
iMacs and iBooks will be very

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ital flat-panel display standard. These and

other technologies Intel announced and
demonstrated won't be available this year,
but they' ll make everything you buy now
obsolete in time for Christmas 2000.
On that happier note, here's what Intel
unveiled recently for the Canadian consumer PC
market:
The InteLPlay QX3 Computer Microscope. Hands down,
bar none, the neatest gadget this writer has seen in the last

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3Com (httpi/www.3com.corn) emerged from the usual obscurity of the network component market into mainstream comproblem of success, however, is shortputer user awareness when it acquired the Palm handheld
age of supply: there are currently back orders for more than
computer line.
200,000 iMacs, and similarly long waiting list for iBooks. If
The Palm computing pl
which has become the
you want one for Christmas, you'd better place your order
most successful handheld computer in the history of comwell in advance.
puting, is used by hundreds of thousands of Canadians for
few years. A kid's personal electron microscope, for $149. personal messaging, scheduling and info management. It has
IIeerlett-Pacltard: Oood engineers
Jointly developed by Intel and toymaker Mattel, the overturned all the other handheld computer initiatives, leavHP offers one of the widest ranges of consumer computing
QX3 which we had an opportunity to test is basically a ing its competitors scramblmg either to copy the Palm or to
products, including scanners, printers, handheld, notebook
digital video camera mounted in a translucent plastic move into other form factors and market niches (such as suband desktop PCs, digital cameras, monitors and mass storage
microscope chassis, and equipped with lenses that can notebook Windows CE-based computers) that don't try to
devices. The company has a vision of integrating imaging
magnify objects up to 200 times. Digital video images, in compete directly with Palm. In the meantime, any and all of
into a seamless stream, from capture devices such as cameras,
the form of still shots, animations, or time-lapse photog- the current Palm models would make a terrific stocking
to the personal computer and onto the Interne.
raphy sequences, are transmitted from the microscope via stuffer.
One consumer category where HP is achieving notable
a USB connection to your PC. An amazingly flexible and
The price of Palm devices varies according to which
success is the multifunction, or as HP likes to say, the all-insimple software package allows the images to be displayed, model you choose, ~anging from under $400 for the Palm IIIe
one device market. These devices combine the functions of
stored, edited and saved in various flle formats. The edu- to nearly $1,000 for the latest models. 0
several peripherals, such as scanners, printers, copiers and fax
cational potential of this thing is so varied and so fun as to
machines, into one integrated system. HP announced several
defy easy description. The magnifying unit can be disAlice IRfaters online.':-.'.
new all-inde devices earlier this fall.
mounted from its microscope standand directly applied
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Convergence provides opportunities to
>tore more things than just text or num-

bers. But all that content needs a place to

reside. So, some of the truly useful gifts for
the converging computerist are devices that
store or playback rich multimedia content
By JefF Evans

desktop and notebook models.

I ne x p e n s i v e

The Year of DVD maybe

Since the early public demonstrations of

graphics cards
and g r aphics

DVD (digital versatile disc) technology in

c hipsets f r o m

1994 and 1995, the conventional wisdom

has been that this next-generation optical
data storage format would replace CD-ROM.
Until 1999, however, progress in terms of
sales of DVD drives and players seemed slow.
It's worth noting that this slow initial takeoff
is not unusual with a new
technology.
During a visit
to Toronto
in 1995,

companies such

past, with s t reet p rices of

around $260 to $350 or less
(older end-of-line CD
burners are, periodi-

cally, being advertised at prices

that dip under
.~ plO
$ 200). All o f
these improvem ents m a k e
the recordable
CD
dri v e ' s
greatest virtue really
low per megabyte storage costsnearly irresistible.
There are two broad flavors of record-

tested two current HP SureStore recordable

CD-ROM drives recently. One was an internal model, the other an external parallel port
model. They both installed easily as per the
included instructions, and we found them

very useful for backing up large files, or for

making system backups before reformatting

the hard drive or updating the operating system of the PC. The advantage of an external
CD burner is that it can be used on multiple
machines in an office, or taken on the road

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with a notebook PC. The disadvantages of an
playback.
external drive are somewhat slower speeds,
You can get an intermore tricky installation (a parallel port
nal DVD drive for
device attachment is still not ideal; USB
around $300. If you
would likely be easier), and potential for
have reasonable computer skills, you may be able to install able CD technolgy: CD-R (CD-recordable) breakage.
one using a DVD drive kit. However, and CD-RW (CD-rewritable). The former
Other removabledrives
for another $50 to $70, a dealer will allows you to record on the media only
usually install a drive for you. To once, while the latter, like a floppy diskette, By comparison, all the other consumer mass
play full screen MPEG-2 movie allows you to erase previously recorded data storage formats may have advantages of their
titles, however, your PC will also and store new data on the same media, own, but can't match the price/performance
need a good current graphics card More drives these days offer both CD-R and of do-it-yourself CDs.
The Iomega Zip drive has been the tradithat specifically features hardware CD-RW capability. Both can store more
and/or software support for MPEG-2.
than 600 MB of data on a single disc. tional leader in consumer removable mass
It seems certain that the "next big thing" However, the media are not interchange- storage, but it has a relatively high per
in mass storage will be recordable DVD. If able you can't use a CD-R disc for a CD- megabyte cost (15-20 cents), and not all
other PCs have a Zip drive, which leads to
compatibility and performance issues can be RW recording.
Microsoft chief
Blank CD-R discs cost between $1.70 and data portability problems. The Imation
executive Bill Gates remi- settled and prices drop further, recordable
nisced that when he first saw a demonstra- DVD could begin to replace recordable CD $3 each. CD-RW blanks are around $10 each. SuperDisk (also called the LS-120) has the
tion of CD-ROM technology around 1990, technology in the next couple of years. For The per megabyte storage cost works out to advantage of backward compatibility with
now though, a CD burner is still a great bet. be around 0.5 cents for CD-R and 1.5 cents the 3.5-inch floppy format, and has a somehe thought every computer user would
what lower per megabyte cost than Zip carfor CD-RW. Another thing CD
immediately rush out and buy a CD-ROM
tridges. However, the SuperDisk is slower,
Recordable
CD
burners
have
going
drive. In fact, it took nearly five years for the
noisier, and a bit more fragile than Zip techCD-ROM drive to become a standard feature Recordable CD drives, or CD burners as they f or them i s
nology.
in desktop PCs, and another year or two for are popularly known, have been around for a that virtually
Other less common mass storage
it to become similarly common in note- few years now, but t hey have steadily all current PCs
options include the Iomega Jaz 1 GB or 2
books.
become a better bargain. Initial problems h ave a C D GB cartridge drives, the Iomega
According to some industry analysts, with non-standard disc formats and incom- ROM drive for
Click! 40 MB mini
th e
DVD has finally broken through as a main- patibility between different recordable disc reading
disc,
Com p a ct
recorded
discs.
vendors
have,
for
the
most
part,
been
solved.
stream technology this year. Sales of conFlash memory modMajor vendors
sumer DVD players this year have increased Installing a CD burner is also, generally, a
u les (common i n
bu r n ers
sixfold over sales the previous year. DVD dri- good deal easier than it was a couple of years of C D
digital
cameras), and
i
nclude
Ri
c
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ago.
ves are becoming increasingly common on
the Sony Memory
mid-priced desktop and even notebook PCs.
Most compellingly, however, recordable Mitsumi, Sony and
Stick. Q
Apple Computer embraced DVD in its latest CD drives are now far cheaper than in the Hewlett-Packard. We
as ATI now offer
MPEG-2
(the
standard video
f ormat for D V D
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A variety of add-ons for the

sophisticated notebook nomad
By Ross MacDonald
ortable peripherals have been around as
long as portable PCs, as entrepreneurial
engineers addressed the many compromises computerists on the go had to make.
However, as notebook PCs became more
sophisticated, products from t h ird-party
manufacturers also evolved, enhancing
instead of simply filling in the
m issing necessities o n t h e
portable PCs of yore.
Following is only a small

sample of some excellent

peripherals now available to
make portable computing
not only more practical
but more appealing and
convenient as well.

WOWthing
From: SRS Labs Inc.
Tel: 800-243-2733.
http:I/www.wowthlng.corn
Estimated street price: $50 (based on US$30)
This device is currently available only through
mail order from the U.S. (pricing does not
include shipping charges), although retail
availability is in the works at time of writing.
The WOWthing is a great little extra for
both laptops and desktops because it combines several electronic audio enhancements
in a handy box that's only 10x12.7x2.5 cm
(4x5xl in.).

Portable PC users will especially appreciate the new dimension it adds to their substandard sound systems (whether integrated
or not). Desktop owners will be equally surprised by the impressive enhancement the
WOWthing adds to even the most sophisticated PC speaker system.
In addition to boosting the high, low and
mid-range imaging of any sound system via
ampiiflcation and a virtual equalizer, the
WOWthing incorporates what SRS Labs calls
TruBass technology, which audibly enhances
bass reproduction from speakers or head-

phones. As with all of th e WOWthing's

enhancements,
TruBass can be controlled and
adjusted either directly from knobs on the

unit or through an onscreen control panel.

However, it is SRS Labs' established "psychoacoustic technology" that makes the real
difference here. The company says it
"processes ambient details to increase the
width, depth and height of any stereo
image." In essence, it means that what you
hear from two speakers sounds
l ike mo r e
l ike h o m e
theatre surround sound.
R eadi n g
about this economical device
simply
ca n ' t
communicate its
impact. But once
you hear what the
W OWthing c a n
do, there' ll be no
going back to plain
computer audio.
MultlTech MultiMoblle USB
From: MultlTech Systems Inc.
Tel: 800-785-328-9717.
http Jtwww.multitech.corn
Estimated street price: $299

a re other r e asons t o co n sider t h e

MultiMobile USB. Power users who look to
employ more than one modem connection
simultaneously, for example, will appreciate
the ability to add this as a second modem.
Because it i s c o n t roller-based, the
MultiMobile USB assumes most modem
functions, which offloads CPU cycles in contrast to soft modems and those without controllers. This means faster downloads and
faster applications when downloading in the
background.
Installation is simple under Windows 98
and online diagnostics permit the user to
verify the performance of the modem connection. Other features include flash memory for updates, comprehensive diagnostics,
self-resetting lightning
protection, and three-

number storage for

Marketed as t h e w o r ld' s
smallest c o n t roller-based
external modem for USBe quipped computers, t h i s
3.3x2.5x7.9 cm (1.3xlx3.13 in.),
56.7 g (2 oz.) V.90 modem is, handily, built right into the USB telephone
cable. Also, as with so many portable
accessoriesthese days, the design frees up
the PCMCIA slot traditionally employed as
the modem interface, and eliminates COM
port bottlenecks.
Of course, many laptop PCs already have
a built-in modem so some of the form factor
advantages of this device are moot. But there

automatic dialing.
Though somewhat
expensive in t oday' s
modem market, the
MultiMobile USB offers
a number of features
that will appeal to a
wide
ran g e
of
Internauts.

the new Bantam CD-RW drive is virtually

identical to another Microsolutions CD-RW
we tested, which performed very well
through the parallel interface.
The first of the enhancements is the
Bantam's extremely slender form factor. It
has a 15.2x20.3 cm (6x8 in.) footprint and is
only 2.5 cm (1 in.) thick. And, weighing in at

only 600 g (21 oz.)~00 g (28 oz.) with cable

and AC adapter it makes for a considerably

more portable package.

The second new feature here is the PC
Card adapter, which is included as an alternative interface. Though using the adapter
does not affect writing and rewriting speeds,
it will optimize disc reading while freeing up
the parallel port.
As with the previous model, the Bantam
has a maximum write and rewrite speed of 4x,
and a maximum read speed of 20x. It comes
with the very friendly Adaptec software bundle, which consists of Direct CD (allowing
you to address your CD-RW like an additional drive), Easy CD Creator (for creating music
and multimedia CD-ROMs) and CD Copier
Deluxe (for coping whole or partial discs).

Bantam Backpack

Bantam Backpack
24x CD-ROM drive
From: Mlcrosolutions
Estimated street price: $329

CD-RW drive 4x4x20

From: Mlcrosolutlons
Tel: 41 8-231-2995. http:ttwww.micro-solutions.corn
Estimated street price: $599 (external)
With a couple of significant enhancements,

The form factor of the Bantam Backpack 24x

is virtually identical to the Bantam CD-RW,
offering a comfortable way to add multi
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one giant leap forward for kids and com- nucroscopes, which are difficult for children
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Christmas gift. But there have always been great for looking at blood cells or amoeba,

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discovering the variation in dots that make

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looking at things like bugs and small flowers.
O nce on the
screen, images can be saved
as still shots, video clips or time lapse
sequences! Kids can incorporate them into
presentations, add music, sound effects, or
manipulate them a digital image of a sibling's face could be put on the body of a bug
magnified by t h e Q X 3 , f o r e x ample.
Combined with inkjet printer kits, kids can
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The body of the microscope is detachable
for looking at objects that are too large or difficult to fit on the microscope, The Intel.plag
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the QX3 in their own ear or mouth while

fromtoporbottom. The microscope comes

with a CD-ROM, connection cable, slides
holders, plastic tweezers and
and specimen
an eye dropper. My only complaint is that it
does nothave a fine focus knob.

This microscope might be worth a look

for schools, as well. In a t ypical middle

school biology class, there is only one microscope for every two to four students, With
the QX3, the entire youp could view the
image simultaneously.
The QX3 obviously does not have the

same lenses as a$1,000 microscope, but such

a microscope doesn't have the QX3's photo,
video and time lapse features.
Although Intel. Play rates the QX3 for
kids six years of age and older, I think it
would appeal most to kids nine to 13 years of
age, or older teens with a specific interest in
biology. In all, the QX3 looks like great value

fora Christmas present.

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graphics card trade, 3DFX (hitpl/www.3dfx.cpm)

has lmn somewhat eclipsed by NVIDIA's success. 3DFX used to sell its chips to other card
makers such as Creative Labs (a role now
taken over by NVIDIA). However, at the 1998
Las Vegas Comdex technology tradeshow,
3DFX announced it was ending its contracts
with outside manufacturers, and intended to
integrate and sell its chips in cards made by
STB, a graphics card company that it had
recently acquired.
This risky strategy of going it alone
seems to have had some success, as 3DFX's
sales have continued to increase, but the rise
of NVIDIA has definitely blunted the edge of
3DFX's drive to be the next ATI. 3DFX is also
somewhat limited by its extreme identification with 3D gaming. This can be a liability
when trying to compete in the corporate
graphics market. 3DFX also faces potential
difficulties from its use of a proprietary 3D
software format that is not supported by all
of the software development industry, and
the historic inability of its earlier cards to
generate true 24-bit or 32-bit color palettes
in real-time 3D animations.
The current flagship products are the
Voodoo3 line, including the Voodoo3 3500
AGP, which claims to be capable of more
than 100 billion computational operations
per second, and the Voodoo3 3500, which
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s omething o f a com e back w i t h it s
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high quality areas of the graphics market
where its unique features (such as a dual
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and very high-resolution 24-bit and 32-bit
displays) give it an appeal to a more professional customer base.
Matrox has also been a strong competitor
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products, and networking hardware.

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By Tom Venetis
on't be fooled by its compact size and
funky look, the Barbie PC desktop is
made to convince a younger generation that PCs are cool.

"We put together a package for families

that wanted to use the computer for education and fun," says John Durst, vice-president of sales and marketing for Patriot
Computer Corp. in Markham, Ont. "It is an
educational message. It is cool to be computer literate and we have taken two cool brands
that will be exciting to have."
The Barbie PC from Patriot is priced at
$899 and features a 15-inch monitor, 333
MHz Intel Celeron processor, 32 MB of RAM,
a 3 GB hard drive, 56Kbps modem, USB

ports, sound card and speakers, and

Microsoft Windows 98. It captures the distinct look and feel of the now 40-yearold
Barbie brand, with a silver exterior and pink
and purple floral accents. It will come bundled with a variety of educational and entertainment software p ackages including
Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 2000,
Compton's 3D World Atlas; Math Workshop
and the Ultimate Writing and Creativity
Centre.

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as a company to make
technology accessible
for young girls
Dana Henry, Mattel
(The other "cool" brand Durst refers to is
the Hot Wheels PC, which Patriot is also
manufacturing for MatteL Similar in concept
to the Barbie PC, but targeted at young
males, the Hot Wheels PC uses distinctive
design elements like flame racing stripesthat reinforce the Hot Wheels brand.)
The Barbie PC also comes with a variety
of Barbie software, such as Barbie Cool Looks

Fashion Designer, Ocean Discovery, Screen

Styler and Photo Designer that can be used
with the Barbie Digital Camera, which is also
included as part of the package.
"The way we went about the deal was
Mattel came up with the original idea of
designing a computer for kids," Durst adds.
"They had a success with the Barbie digital
camera and the Barbie printer, so it made
sense to look at the next step of making a

computer. So we did a lot of discussions of

what it would look like and how we could
make it exciting, fun and unique."

Dana Henrv. a spokeswoman for Mattel

Inc. in Ei Segundo, Calif., says the ccmpany
beli' 'd there was a need to make a computer

for kids, "genially girls, who were often an

afterthought to many software and hardware
manufacturers. The company has spent the

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last several years bringing out successful games

and software packages aimed at girls.
"We havedone a lotasa company to make
technology accessible for young girls," Henry
continues, "Video games and computer games
were directed to a male audience, and many
publishers said they did not feel girls were
interested in playing games. We proved them
wrong... and it has been part of our initiative
to get girls interested in computers."
Henry thinks the Barbie PC will appeal to

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young girls who will be attracted to its

unique design and the Barbie name. Another
selling point for both parents and kids is the
small size of the system, which can sit unobtrusively in kids' rooms.
Steve Ashby, senior product marketing
for Intel Corp. in Portland, Ore., says the
small footprint of the system was achieved
by Patriot's use of Intel's Flex ATX Mini
Tower motherboard. The board is about onethird smaller than Intel's Micro ATX mother-

board, which helps reduce the overall size of

the system. The board was also designed to
be compatible with a wide variety of hardware peripherals, making configuration of
the system easier. And, according to Ashby,
the use of USB "will get rid of some of the
cabling in the back so you have a system that
is plug-and-play and ready to go.
"With this smaller board, you can get
into some creative designs, and the Barbie PC
is one substantiation of that," Ashby says. "It

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in a beige tower [PC] in there, it would not
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Though the new computer is being targeted at young girls, there is a large market of
adult collectors and Barbie enthusiasts that
has already expressed interest in purchasing
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While Mattel's Henry expresses some
doubt as to its appeal to adults, Debora
Martin, sales associate for the Toronto-based
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Patriot's Durst says he too has received
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is its versatility, which allows the same hardware box to
be transformed into a game console, artist's studio, kid' s

playbox or office desk just by adding the right software

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Following are a few broad categories of software to turn the
family PC into a multipurpose tool.
Utilitarianism
In the early days of MS DOS and Windows, there were so
many things lacking in the Microsoft operating systems that
they seemed almost designed to encourage third-party software developers to create utilities, such as file managers and
hard drive tools, to fill those gaps.

Symantec (http: //www.symantec,corn) was one of the early

leaders in offering professional, salable DOS and Windows
utility programs, such as the Norton Utilities. As Windows
has matured, Symantec has re-defined its product line to conform to the changing opportunities that Windows' limitations still offer. Other once-popular utility makers, such as

Quarterdeck and Borland, failed to adapt and went out of

business. In this writer's computing experience, Norton
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lost in hard drive crashes or other disasters.
In the Windows antivirus software field, Symantec and
arch competitor Network Associates (http'J/www.networkassociates.corn), publishers of the McAfee antivirus software and
other network security solutions, account for more than 80
percent of sales.
However, in order to grow, Symantec has had to find a
focus for its business outside the traditional utility market,
and is increasingly concentrating on. . . convergence. The
company sees its future role revolving around networking
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Currently, Symantec publishes Norton System Works
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antivirus, hard drive repair, crash guard, backup, Y2K and

other utility titles in one mammoth, comprehensive bundle,
for about $140.
Symantec also publishes the leading contact management
program, ACT!, the leading faxing program, WinFaxPro, the
leading remote PC management program, PCAnywhere, and
a variety of other mobile computing and telecom packages.
While there is a seemingly infinite amount of often good
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Creativityon the computer
One of the most fun aspects of computing is
the potential to express oneself and communicate with others through words, pictures,
video and music. Briefly, in terms of words
and pictures, there are plenty of consumerlevel creative software titles that we' ve tested
and recommend.

pie but powerful painting program, and

Dance Studio,. a do-it-yourself dance video
animation program are also aimed at the
general user.
For the serious student or professional
artist, MetaCreations offers Painter 6.0, Ray
Dream Studio 5.5 3D design and animation
program, Bryce 4 3D landscape and effects
program, Poser 4 3D character animation
program, and Canoma, which enables users
to create 3D models from 2D photos.

Broderbund (http: //www.broderbund.corn)

has a wide variety of simple-to-use home
publishing titles, many produced in association with the American Greetings card company. The PrintShop Deluxe 10 is the company's perennial bestseller, a comprehensive,
easy-to-use program for creating everything
from dinner menus to banner signs. Other
easy to use Broderbund design and publishing ti tles i n clude American Greetings
CreataParty!, American Greetings Crafts
Deluxe, 3D Home Architect Deluxe 3.0, and
PrintMaster Platinum 3.0.

Canada's Corel Corp. (httpi/www.corel.corn)

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most popular allin-one graphics
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THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tc .ca DECEMBER 1999

G IFT G U I D E

Once you experience the near-instant

gratification of high bandwidth, it's very
hard to go back to dial-up Internet service
By Jeff Evans

(Sympatico also offers ordinary dial up

accounts), and uses a regular phone line to
ne of the hottest computing gift ideas connect your PC with the Internet. You can
this season and one of the engines use your line for Internet access and voice
driving the move toward conver- calls simultaneously.
gence nirvana is fast Internet access.
ADSL speeds vary from province to
Regular dial-up Internet access, through an province, ranging from 4 Mbps (megabits per
analogue modem with download speeds of second) from B.C.'s Telus, to SOOKbps or I
up to 56Kbps, has become almost a "junk" Mbps elsewhere. We have a Sympatico ADSL
commodity in that it's very cheap, and users subscription in our house as well, and have
are often impatient with sluggish download found it to be quite reliable (though there are
times when trying to access multimedia con- certainly still occasional service interruptent such as streaming video.
tions, they tend to be less frequent and
The real excitement in the Canadian briefer than those of the @Home service),
Internet market is the rapid growth in high with generally faster and better technical
bandwidth Internet service. Up to 400,000 support.
Canadian homes have high bandwidth
Already Internet service providers (ISPs)
Internet service. There are two main types of other than the phone companies are offering
high bandwidth service, cable modem and DSL services and expect to see this type of
ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line), access expand.
with a third kind, short range wireless, gearing up to compete. On average, high band- Look, INaI no wires)
width home service costs around $40 a
The new kid on the high bandwidth block is
month, plus, in some cases, installation fees, the Look wireless Internet service. This techmodem rental, or other charges.
nology, which uses short-range repeater
broadcasters to blanket local areas with TV

Cable modems

and digital Internet signals, is a very intrigu-

The longest established high bandwidth

Internetservice isthe C|Home cable modem
service, which originally rolled out under the
name Rogers Wave in Newmarket, Ont. over
three years ago. This writer, as one of the
charter subscribers, experienced the pioneering cable modem service's teething troubles,
and lived to tell the tale, barely.
Our home still has its Rogers CaHome service, which despite occasional disruptions
and variable levels of technical support has
made Internet use much more productive
since its inception. The @Home service has
become an umbrella brand for cable modem
service in general, and is also available in
areas served by other cable carriers such as
Shaw or Cogeco.
Signup kits for cable modem service are
widely available at many computer/electronics outlets. Signup specials, in which one can
get a big reduction in the usual $150 installation fee, have been periodically offered.

ing new technology. Whether this latecomer

in the high bandwidth game gains large market share depends on many unknowns,
including whether or not it will be as reliable
as ADSL service.
Other high bandwidth options are satellite transmissions and ISDN (integrated services digital network). The Telesat DirecPC
service, which used satellite dishes for individual downloads, and regular land-based
phone lines for uploading data, had only
specialized appeal, and was never widely
used. The two Canadian satellite TV services
are attempting to develop digital Internet
content as part of their offerings, but so far
have also been stymied by the one-way
nature of satellite service, The 128Kbps ISDN
service offered by the phone companies is
still available, but is rather passe, as it offers
barely twice the download speed of a $35
modem connected to a $10 per month
Internet service. 0
Cogeco, http: //www.cgocable.net/wavindex.htmi
DirecPC, http: //www.direcpc.corn/
Rogers, http: //rogers.home.corn/
Shaw, hitp://www.shaw.home.corn/
Sympatico, htlp//www.sympatico.ca

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This drive is "hot p luggable" under

Windows 95 and 98.That means you can
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writing technology at their root, they either the parallel port or PC Card slot (if you
are quite different in just about all
have the adapter) without having to reboot
other technical aspects, so what follows is the computer which is all well and good if
not a comparison as much as it is an evalua- it works.
tion of each drive on its own merits.
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loyal to my Syjet cartridge drive for several
years, my experience o( recording CDs was
limited to evaluating machines back in the
old days when the immaturity of the technology made the process of engineeringand that's what it quite literally amounted
to your own discs a nightmare. The cost
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Part of my success is attributable to
are external and are almost always config- Microsolutions' succinct Quick Start guide,
ured to use the parallel port i nterface. but a larger part of the credit goes to the very
Microsolutions has negotiated around many popular Adaptec software bundle included
of the limitations of that interface by means with the hardware. The single software disc
of proprietary engineering applied to both
includes: Direct CD, which lets you use your
hardware and software. All of its products CD-RW drive like any other disk drive for file
tested to date have performed quite compet- transfer, storage or backup; Easy CD Creator,
a Wizard-based program for creating music
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discs at a speed of 4x, and reads CD-ROMs at audio CD (this is the one that makes the
20x. This is avery good perfonnance com- music industry and software industrypared with any drive currently available, and quiver because of its simplicity).
is the fastest available of drives using the parallel port.
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you don't like using the drive's built-in parallel pass-through. Unfortunately, the PC Fortunately, the TEAC 8 x 24 CD-R drive had
Card version costs about $100 more. the same software bundle, giving me similarMicrosolutions is planning to make the ly successful results, although, as a Fast SCSIadapter available as a separate unit at soine 2 device, it can take advantage of the rapid
point in the future but could not provide an data transfer rates of that interface. The
TEAC drive optimally reads at 3,600Kbps and
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before I could begin my first test of TEAC
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up by having to open the computer case to
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machine work extremely well together, but
again, thanks largely to the Adaptec software
bundle. In addition to the three Adaptec
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digital photos and images you might wish to
move off your machine and onto a CD-ROM.

PC with 32 MB RAM. I found through experimenting, however, that there were no error
messages when I dropped the writing speed
to Zx.
While making a CD was fairly simple,
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the TEAC only reads and writes. Rewriting PC Card version is a niche productbut may
requires a different component technology be attractive to notebook computer users.
and different blank media than writing, thus
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color photograph at the highest quality settings took more than 20 minutes.
We encountered some problems setting
the printer up, which were not helped by a
driver that crashed our system every time we
booted the computer with the PC Card
inserted. After Brother sent us an updated
driver, the printer was trouble free. The PC
Card is a parallel port interface that the computer identifies as LPT 2. When you install
the printer, you select that port if you are
using the PC Card interface, and LPT 1 if you
are using the regular parallel cable.
The MP21Cdx comes with a detachable
30-sheet paper tray, which clips on the back
of the printer and doubles its thickness (the
MP21C is the same unit without the tray).
The unit works very well and feeds individual sheets smoothly i nt o t h e p r i nter.

couple of features of the Brother MP21Cdx portable printer are sure to

make it very attractive to weary, overburdened travellers. First is its single-cable
access to a notebook computer. No more
packing along a thick parallel cable and a
bulky AC adapter. This tiny color inkjet
printer communicates with the computer
and draws its power through a PC Card interface. Its second attractive feature is its
weight: at 1 kg (2.2 lb.) it is one of the lightest portable inkjets around (Canon's BJC 50
is 100 g 3.5 oz. lighter, but is slightly
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MP21Cdx Color Ink jet Mobile Printer

From: Brother International Canada

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found that we had to support the paper until
the rollers had grabbed it.
The printer uses a two-cartridge system,
with black and cyan in one cartridge and
magenta and yellow in another. The blackcyan cartridge is larger, providing more
capacity for printing text in black. But "larger" is a relative term, as both cartridges are a
lot smaller than what you would find in a
desktop printer not surprising given the
overall size of the printer itself. A Brother
representative says cartridge life is rated at
about 250 pages (at five percent ink coverage), although we burned through a set of
cartridges after printing out just a few large
photographs (admittedly photographs are
notorious ink hogs).
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MHz for laptop PCs. According to Intel, the
new processors are 25 per cent faster than
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speeds.
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says the performance boost was achieved
though the use of an Advanced Transfer
Cache and bus design.
"Typically, on the cartridge there is the
CPU and some external chips that do the second level cache," Cooper adds. "In this product, we have integrated the cache on the
same chip as the CPU."
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design allowing the transfer between the
cacheand the CPU to match the dock speed
of the chip. This bus improvement will be
welcome to home users looking to make
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Digital options for film buffs

Kodak Canada is making life easierfor those
who want their images in a digital format but
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The latest film-to-digital bridge is in the
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and processed traditionally, ln Canada, consumers can choose to receive the digital
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TORONTO Gateway inc. is launching a
Canadian subsidiary and signing agreements
with Canadian reseilers and service providers
in a move to become a significant PC technology supplier to Canadian business.
Gateway Canada Inc. plans to offer businesses "a total computing experience,"
according to Van Andrews, president of the
new Canadian operations and senior vicepresident of the Lake Forest, Calif.-based
Gateway Business group, at the launch in
early November. "Businesses just don't buy
computers, they buy solutions and they
want to buy from a company they trust, One
that can support them from the initial acquisition through the installation, upgrade and
all points in between."
Gateway Canada is partnering with
Markham, Ont.-based Keating Technologies
Inc. and Mississauga, Ont.-based GE Capital
IT Solutions to provide marketing and support services. Gateway Canada is targeting
small- and mid-sized businesses and corporations, as weil as the education and government markets. It will i n troduce its Solo
portables, ALR servers, E-Series managed
desktops, and its Gateway Profile PC to the
Canadian market.
"Keating's role is going to be to represent
Gateway's strategies in Canada," said Phyllis

up with Gateway strategies for them."

However, there are questions about how
committed Gateway is to the Canadian market if many of its initiatives here are going to
be driven out of the U.S.
George Bulat, manager for PC research at
International Data Corp. {Canada) Ltd. in
Toronto said the ties to the U.S. between
Keatirg and Gateway Canada will only be
temporary. Keating's role will be to develop
the brand recognition for Gateway, which is
known to many here only through its success in the U.S.
"The Canadian market is not an easy
market to enter," Bulat said. "Once you see
the Country Stores [what Gateway calls its
retail outlets] land in Canada, you will probably see a more concerted effort to really
establish a fully fledged Canadian subsidiary.U

Others at the launch expressed some conMcCullagh, vice-president o f G a teway

Canada Inc., at the launch. "They will be
responsible for executing our marketing
plans and strategy, which is being driven by

Gateway [in the U.S.]."

McCullagh said Keating and Gateway
Canada would leverage U.S.-based initiatives
for the Canadian market, although Keating's
more important role "will be to work with
distribution channels and allow the channels within their own customer set to come

cern that Gateway's traditional model of

direct and Internet-based sales could cause a
variety of conflicts between the value added
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Suggested retail price: $1,295
RealNetworks with its RealVideo,
or Apple and QuickTime 4.
If Sharp addressed these
Sharp estimates the
issues, it would broaden the
product will be in stores
appeal for the camera, which has
in early 2000, and has
a lot of endearing features.
set th e s u ggested
r etail p r ic e a t
Isroduct highlights
$1,295. The camThe ViewCam can capture video
era uses MPEG-4
at a number of frame rates. The
c ompr essi o n ,
most v i sually r e a listic is
which according
Superfine, which allows rates of 5
to Sharp, is a variable
to 1S frames per second (fps).
frame rate compression
Achieving full motion requires 24 fps,
method that results in very small files. As
a basis for comparison, Sharp says a 2 MB so the ViewCam's best case still falls short of
MPEG-4 file contains more than four min- that. The most obvious impact of the limited
utes of video, while an MPEG-1 file of the frame rate is the loss of lip sync and some dissame size is only about 10 seconds long.
continuity in the motion, although the variSharp has adopted Microsoft's Advanced able frame rate compression of MPEG-4
Streaming Format (ASF) as the playback for- seems to smooth out the jerkiness so characmat for this device, so ViewCam video can teristic of low frame rate video.
Another sacrifice is image size. The
be only be viewed through the Windows
Media Player or other viewers that support movies appear in a 160x120 pixel window,
the format. Included with the camera is a set which is fine for a talking head, but has limof software tools that allow for simple edit- ited appeal for other kinds of video content.
ing of the video.
A quarter-VGA option is available, but using
a frame that large drops the rate to as low as
2 to 5 fps.
V ery neat, but . . .
The camera weighs just 148 g (5.2 oz)
Sharp loaned us a ViewCam for about a week
in late October, and our overall impression and measuresS.lxS.9x4.2 cm (3.2x3.5xl.7
was, "Very neat, but.. . . u The neat part is in). The top of the ViewCam is rounded, and
the ease with which we could shoot a bit of the lens is located on a module that matchvideo footage and throw it onto a Web page. es the rounded contour of the body. The lens
In a quick test of its capabilities, we recorded module pivots 270 degrees, which means
a 35-second clip of a TCPeditor filing a you can record yourself, while framing your
mock news report. Then using the software head properly using the image information
that comes with the ViewCam, we edited it in the viewfinder. When the lens is returned
down to 28 seconds, crunched the complet- to the "home" position, the camera goes
ed file down to under 200 KB, and created a into playback mode; moving the lens anyWeb page with a hotlink to the file. When where within the full range of the pivot

we fired up our browser, leaded the page and shifts the camera back into record mode.
External controls include a record button
clicked the hyperlink, the movie played.
These results were impressive we managed

(a red dot appears in the viewfinder when the

to create a video "news report" that could be camera is recording) Continued on pageM

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An in-depth look at Cascading Style Sheets: Part 8

By Keith Schengill-Roberts

e continue our look at Cascading

Style Sheets (CSS) by looking at the
following set of CSS properties:
TEXT-ALIGN,
TEXT-DECORATION, TEXT-INDENT,and
TEXT-TRANSFORM.These properties are all, not
surprisingly, part of the text family of CSS
properties, which also includes LINE-HEIGHT,
LETTER-SPACING
and WORD-SPACINGproperties.
As a whole, the text family of properties
is designed to change the manner in which
text is displayed onscreen. Do not confuse
this with the way in which the font family
works. The font family of p r operties is
designed to help you set specific font-related
functions, such as specifying the type of font
to be displayed, or whether it should be rendered in italic, bold, or what have you. The
text family of properties is, instead, designed
to accomplish a number of typographical
display options, irrespective of the font being
displayed. Using the various text family
properties, you add extra spacing between
the words or individual letters in your text,
adjust the alignment of your text, the spacing between lines of text, and much more.

ORATION simply lets you add things like

The BLINK value works the same way as

underlines, overlines or strikethroughs to the Netscape-specific <BLINK> tag, and, unforyour text, or if you are so inclined, it can be tunately, offers additional control, such as
used as a substitute for the generally despised over the rate or duration of blinking.
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designed for use with block level elements
such as headers or paragraphs.
Anyone who is familiar with the ALIGN
attribute of the paragraph tag (<P>) will have
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the Macintosh does not support the JUSTIFY
value for TEXT-ALIGN. Netscape also has its
own peculiarities when it comes to implementing TEXT-ALIGN: it actually goes beyond
the specification by applying the alignment
values to non-block elements (such as text
that is italicized or bolded), which typically
occur within a line of text. Using TEXT-ALIGN
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The OVERLINEvalue adds a line above the
text being displayed, and has no HTML tag
equivalent. The UNDERLINE
value works in the
same way as another little-used tag, the
underline (<U>), placing a line under the text.
The NONE value is not as dull as it initially appears and can be put to good use. For
example, it can be used to remove the underline normally associated with hyperlinksview the following line of code in a browser
to see the effect:
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html' STYLE="TEXT-DECORA
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as normal text, but behaves
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='TEXT-INDENT:1IN'>The text in this para

<P STYLE
graph is indented from the margins by 1 inch.</P>
The TEXT-INDENT property is really meant
for use with b lock-level elements, like
paragraphs or headers, but to some degree
both major browsers go beyond the specification, though they can differ in th e
details. Netscape Navigator will always
indent the text onscreen, even if the TEXT-

='TEXT-TRANSFORM:LOWERCASE'>THIS
<H2 STYLE
ISALL IN LOWERCASE LETTERS</H2>
<H2 STYLE='TEXTTRANSFORM: UPPERCASE'>this
is all in uppercase letters</H2>
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<H2 STYLE='TEXT-TRANSFORM: NONE'>Nothi
special happens with this header</H2>
The TEXT-TRANSFORM property is fully
supported in both Internet Explorer and

Netscape Navigator.Q

Next tinea: The goalfour CSS1properties.

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httpJiwww.tcp.ca/.

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sentence. In a similar fashion, if the text

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the item, even if it i s not applied to a
block-level element. In a ddition, both
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in Netscape Navigator. Since I nternet have a line of text beginning off-screen if
Explorer has never recognized the <BLINK> you wanted.
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Despite the quirks, this property is otherthe TEXT-DECORATION property e i t her. wise fully supported by both major browsers.
However, Internet Explorer does implement
all of the other values associated with TEXT- The TEXT-TRANSFORM property
DECORATION.The only value Netscape TEXT-TRANSFORM is another CSS property
Navigator does not support is OVERLINE.
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from the left margin or from a block-level
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pixels or inches, as its value. It can also take affects the text it surrounds in the ways
a percentage value, which is relative to the described, though it should be pointed out
width of the browser window.
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can be quite handy for placing text exactly TEXT-TRANSFORM
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Continued from pageSO
that also acts as the play button when the camera is in playback mode; a rocker button controls audio levels and (digital only) zooming; a
menu button launches the onscreen menus; a
sliding switch offers the choice of movie or still
modes (the ViewCam will capture still photos,
but only at 640x4&0 pixels); an indoor~tdoor exposure switch; and an off ' s w itch.
The unit also indudes a built-in microphone,
speaker and color LCD viewfinder.
A sliding plate on the bottom of the camera covers the battery compartment, which
houses four AA batteries and the SmartMedia
memory card slot. A 4 MB card comes with
the camera.
The menu button will launch one of two
menus: the one for r ecording includes
options such as resolution and backlight; and
the one for playback includes shot selection,
cut, delete and other basic editing features.
We tried the ViewCam under a number
of lighting conditions: outdoors in bright
daylight, on a downtown street at night,
indoors in n o rmal o ffice lighting and
indoors in a dimly lit club. Even in the
dimmest conditions, the scenes were usable
and the white balance good.
A small editing toolset of four utilities is
included within a program called the PixLab
Media Browser.
Th e ASF Extractor is the video editor. It
allows you to edit start and end points

addition to using the ASF Extractor, you

can edit scenes within the ViewCam
itself. The edited segment is saved in a
file format called ASB.)
Th e Bitrate Adapter aHows you to save a
copy of your movie at various compression rates more compression results in
smaller files, but also poorer quality. We
compared 170KB and 23SKB flles, and
found, interestingly, that in the smaller
file it was the audio and not the video
that suff'ered the most noticeable degradation. However, the audio and video in
both low bitrate files were noticeably
worse than in the original file, which
occupied 604KB.
Th e HTML Creator automatically creates
the proper tags to allow the video to
show up as a hyperlink within a Web
page (clicking the link launches the
Windows Media Player, and the movie
plays within it).
Th e fourth utility in the PixLab Media
Browser, called ASB to ASF converter, takes
the ASB file and converts it to ASF format.

Condusions
We liked Sharp's Internet ViewCam, and
rank it among the top dozen most interesting products we' ve seen this year. However,
it's a first-generation product, and suffers
from a number of limitations. We'd like to
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Short memory?
The unknown factor at the moment is the
price of memory. In recent months, memory
prices have doubled and tripled since the
summer, and availability has been low.
Detikatlon to integration
Although many experts feel that we' re now
A member of my family recently upgraded through the worst of the memory crisis, othfrom an old 486 system not out of any real ers feel that it could still get a lot worse.
For this roundup, the RAM shortage and
perfonnance problems, but because the
newer equipment wasa gift. The fact is, most price uncertainty have had a couple of key
users aren't really bitten by the need to have effects. First, builders that would normally
the newest thing as it comes out. For these put 128 MB of RAM into their systems have
users, chances are that once they buy a sys- dropped that amount to 64 MB. Secondly,
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because of this. We' ve noted the volatility of
years.
the computer market before when talking
Computer makers have realized that
many of their customers won't be overly about prices, but it's probably worth being
demanding,and that once they have the very explicit in the face of this memory
computer, it may well remain unmodified. shortage. Because the price of memory is
The hardware manufacturers have come to subject to very rapid changes at the moment
this same realization. Intel's 810 chipset inte- (as are many components inside the comgrates both audio and video right into the p uter), the system prices listed in t h i s
motherboard, at a much lower cost than a roundup are subject to change. At the time
motherboard and two multimedia cards sep- of writing (the end of October), the pricing
arately. While these multimedia components was accurate.
aren't the tof f - t he-linemany users are
Some users will probably be asking themquite happy with performance given by this selves whether 64 MB is sufficient. The
more economical choice, and have little answer is that for most users it should be. For
desire to upgrade the components down the demanding users, the jump to 128 MB of
memory can certainly speed up perforroad.
For users who think they will want to
mance, but in the short term you' ll have to
upgrade down the road, a motherboard with decide whether the extra performance justithe 810 chipset should be avoided for a few fies the price difference (right now on the
reasons. First, these boards tend to omit an order of $200 and up). If it's not critical, you
AGP card slot entirely, since the AGP video is may be better off going with 64 MB now and
built in, fordng those who want to upgrade upgrading to 128 MB when RAM prices drop
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boards skimp on expandability in PCI or ISA
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The third reason, though, is probably the So you' ve picked out the basic configuration
most critical: processor support. Integrated for your computer... what about the extras'?
motherboards at the moment tend to use the Once the computer is unwrapped, you want
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810e chipset and the forthcoming 820 fix requires software and possibly some other
hardware goodies. Many vendors include
issues of incompatibility with Pentium HI
chips, but the fact remains that the chipset is software bundles to make the system usable
meant to most closely complement the right out of the box, and add value to the

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of Socket 370 processor interface, which is

currently Celeron-spedfic. Those who think
they may want to upgrade to a Pentium HI
down the road should make sure they' re get-

though'?

Going back to our example of the casual

or novice user, these package deals can offer
tremendous value. The inclusion of key

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pieces of software or hardware can make all

the difference between a good system and
one that's great and fun to use. Many of the
systems we received this month included a
good variety of software titles; for example, a
game, anti-virus software, or an office suite.
Other systems came with printers, scanners,
or both. Getting enough extras included
with the computer not only eliminates
putting together the extras yourself, but
often the items are cheaper when bundled in
a system.
Some users may still choose to put
together the extras themselves, for a few reasons. A cheaper printer/scanner bundle is
only a good value if you' ll use it. If you have
no desire to use one or the other, there's no
point in getting both. Similarly, if your bundle includes Printer X and Scanner Y, but neither are the brand you want, you' ll end up
spending money replacing them down the
road anyway. The same goes for software
packages. It's better to get what you need up
front instead of having to fix it up later.

Components
Processor. 500 MHzCeleron.
RAM: 64 MB of SORAM.
The Tyan motherboard features both Socket 370
and Slot 1 chip slots for flexibility for future
upgrades.
At 10.8 GB, the Fujitsu hard drive offers a reasonable amount of space for most users, and it
utilizes the taster UDMA66specification.
A 56KbpsUS Robotics modem is included.
The system comeswith Logitech's Internetenhanced keyboard and First mouse.
This month's systems
Mullimedia
For our last Test Lab of the 1900s, we asked The 15-inch Optiquest Q55 is a high-quality
vendors to put together a computer system
monitor, though a bit smaller than most of those
for Christmas. The criteria was that systems
included with othersystems
this month.
must include both the computer and a mon- The 6x Pioneer DVDdrive offers high-quality
itor, and must be between $1,500 and
DVD movie playback.
$2,ON). All other choices were left to their Matrox's G400 is included. It has 16 MBonboard
discretion, including any extra hardware or
as well as two VGAouts, for using more than
software, type of processor, and amount of
one monitor with your computer.
RAM. Because of this freedom, we have a Sound Blaster Live! provides high-quality envigood variety of choices this month.
ronmental audio.
Benchmarking was done using our usual The Mli 480 multimedia speakers comewith a
software package, BAPCo's SysMark98. Systems
subwoofer and provide good sound. Headphones
were tested with the display set to a resolution
are also included.
As abonus,the packageincludes Intel's USB PC
of 1,024x768, with a 16-bit color depth.
Pricing was obtained from the vendors or
Camera, for videoconferencing or snapshots.
their representatives and were accurate at the A game pad is included, for game players.
time of writing. Because of the volatility of Exp andability
the computer industry and fluctuations in As shipped, this system has two PCIslots free
the Canadian dollar, prices may be subject to
(or one PCI andone ISA). TheMatrox card and
some change.
cooling fan actually block off two slots instead of
the normal one. Users whowant to try to sneak
Advance Interface
a PCI card in right beside the fan may beable to
Express Micro Celeron $00
get an additional PCI slot out of the machine, but
Estimated street price: $1,999
the fit would be tight.
There are three slots for SDRAM.Only one slot
Soltware
Operating system: Windows 98 SecondEdition.
was in use in our test model.
A CD bundle features Webster 1999/2000
The system features two USBports and one
Encyclopedia, Corel WordPerfect 2000, Norton
game port.
System Works (with Anti-Virus), Redline Racer,
Full Throttle, Adam Body,Chessmaster 4000,
At the top end of our price range this month,
Mavis BeaconTeachesTyping, US/Worfd Atlas,
the Express Micro system nonetheless offers
and a bundle of video-editing tools.
excellent value, with a good software bundle,

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excellent video card and a few bonuses, like

the camera and game pad. The monitor is a
bit small, perhaps, but the system has a good
variety for the family, and things that will
appeal to game players.

Expandability
One PCI slot and one ISA slot are available.
The system has two slots for SDRAM.Only one
slot was in use in our test system.
There are two USBports and one game port.

Comtronk
AOpen AeroOpen Custom PC

The AeroOpen system, put together by

Comtronic, makes use of mostly AOpen and
Acer components, for a system that works
very well together. It has a good software
bundle, and comes with both a printer and
scanner, making it a great all-in-one solution
for the whole family. The included Ethernet
card is a nice touch for families who want to
make use of cable modem or ADSL.
(*Note: manufacturer's rebates will bring
the price down to $I,945.)
Creative/Empac
Slaster PC

Suggested retail price: $1,995'

Software
Operating system: Windows 98 Second Edition.
The system also includes a Microsoft bundle
(Encarta, Works, Money99, Picturelt), an AOpen
bundle (Norton Anti-Virus, Virtual Drive,
Cheyenne Bitware, and viewers for Microsoft's
Word, Excel and PowerPoint files), Kai Photo
Soap II, Ulead Photo Express II, Xerox Copier,
and Textbridge Classic.
Components
Processor. 500 MHzCeleron.
RAM: 64 MB of SDRAM.
The 9.1 GBQuantum hard drive has a spindle
speed of 7,200 rpm for faster performance, and
uses the faster UDMA66specification.
In addition to a 56Kbps modem, the system

Suggested retail price:

$1,999
Software
Operating system:
Windows 98 Second Edition.

Com
ponents

Processor: 500 MHz

Pentium II.I
RAM: 64 MB of SDRAM.
At 10.2 GB, the Quantum
drive offers a good amount
of space for most users and
uses the faster UDMA66 specification.
Thesystem includesa basic Windows-enhanced
keyboard and a Mitsumi scroll mouse.
A 56Kbps v.90 ModemBlaster modem is
includes anEthernet card,making it readyfor
included.
dial-up, higher speed Internet connections, or
Multimedia
The system will include a BlasterPC monitor. At
business networking.
The EZKeykeyboard is Internet-ready. The systhe time of reviewing, the branded monitors
tem also comes with an AOpen-branded Logitech
were not available, and therefore we didn't have
wheel mouse.
a chance to evaluate them.
Video is courtesy of an AGPGraphics Blaster
Muffimedia
The 17-inch Acer monitor provides a high-quality
Riva TNT card.
The integrated Sound Blaster Live! sound card
display.
The 8 MBATI RageFury comes with 8 MB of
provides high-quality environmental audio.
An FM tuner is integrated into the board, allowonboard memory, but it is integrated into the
motherboard. As there is noAGPslot onthe
ing users to listen to their favorite FM radio stamotherboard, all future video upgrades must
tions through their PC.
Thesystem comes with Cambridge Soundworks'
move over to the PCIbus.
TheESS Solo sound card delivers good 3D audio.
PC Works multimedia speakers.
The multimedia speakers are pretty basic. Most
The front of themachinefeatures anum
ber of
users should find them adequate, but garners
multimedia ports, including MIDI in/out, SPDIF
may want to upgrade.
in/out, and an optical port.
As abonus,this packagefeaturesan AcerScan
Expandabillty
Three PCI slots and one ISA slot or two PCI and
USB scanner andCanonBJC-1000SEinkjet
printer. Both are fairly basic, and will be good
two ISA slots are available.
choices for casual image input/output work.
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In addition to the multimedia ports, the front of
themachinehas two USB ports and a gameport.
The board has four slots for SDRAM, one of
which was in use on our test system.
A relatively new addition to the world of
computer systems, Creative's BlasterPC puts
a number of different Creative Labs products

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together into one Blaster-branded box. The

components included in this version of the
BlasterPC are all high-quality and work
together well, offering a great all-in-one multimedia solution. It is worth noting, however, that no software is included other than
Blaster-related software. While it's a great
choice for those looking for a bare-bones system with quality components, those looking
for software will have to spring for a bit
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Suggested retail price: $1,899
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Operating system: Windows 88 SecondEdition.

Components

Processor. 466 MHzCeleron (with an Intel board

featuring the new 810echipset).
RAM: 64 MB,
The 10.2 GBQuantum hard drive uses the new
UDMA66 specification for faster performance.

' Intel 4OEX/ZXChipset ATXMB

Gigabyte Intel 440ZXChipset M/8

Asus P3B-F/AbitBE6OBX M/8 for P-INII

Asus PSAATX100MHz M/8 for K6-ii/ill
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56K Int.V.90 Fax Modem
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3D Pre AGPBMBVideo Accelerator
1.44 MB Panasonic Floppy
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4x CD-ROM /Ampliged Speakers
Nvidia RivaTNTZ
Vanta16M AGPV/Card
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Celeroa 433/466 $559/63'9
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K6-Ill(3D)4NI450 $1099/1159
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K6-III (3D) 4NI 450 $879/939
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Intel Celeron 4NI 466 $NS/939
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160 Watt Speakers
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AMD K6 3D CPU Package
Windows Enhanced Keyboard
Socket 370 AT M/8, BMB Video Matsonic Super7 M/8,16 Bit Sound
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32MB PC100SDRAM,3D Sound 32MB SDRAM, BMB AGP Video
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Celeron 366/400
$26 9/289 K6-II (3D) 4N/450 $265/285
AMD K6-III 4N/4SO $645/709
$355
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AMD K6.II 4$0/SN $575/645
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$415 K6-III (3D) 400/450 $355/415
AMD K6-II 400
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The 17-inch J17A+ monitor from Azura provides
a good-quality display.
Video is integrated into the Intel 810e chipset. As
there is no AGPslot on the board, all video
upgrades must shift over to the PCI bus.
Audio is also integrated, with Creative's PCi128
on the board.
Creative Labs' SBS20 multimedia speakers ship
with the Azure system.
Expendability
Three PCI slots are available.
There are two SDRAMslots on the board, one of
which was in use on our test system.
There are two USBports and one game port.
This 810e-based system offers all the components needed for a basic system (except
maybe a printer), and includes a CD-RW
drive for users interested in making their
own CDs. The 810e board limits future
upgrade potential somewhat, but the Azura
makes a great system for those who aren' t
planning to upgrade. The biggest potential
disappointment is the lack of software with
this system. For those budgeting $2,OOO, the
system's $1,899 price tag leaves a bitof room
to add software or a printer.
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Pavillon 4S532

Si54MBIBMB PCI ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . 535/49

ATI Rage iiC 4MIBM AGP ...,,.... , . . . . . . . Call

ATi Xpen 99
RagePral 99 Rage1ZBAGPBM ....Call
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ATI TV
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Additional software includes a Microsoft bundle
(Works .5, Encarta 99 and Money 99). Quicken
Basic 99, QuickLink Ill fax software, and McAiee
Virus Scan.

Com
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Processor: 00 MHz Celeron.

RAM: 64 MB.
The 6 GBQuantum hard drive may be abit on
the small side for more demanding users.
The system comes with a 32x CD-ROMdrive.
A 56Kbps v.90 modem is installed.
Hewlett-Packard provides its own Intemetenhancedkeyboard and two-button mouse.

Multim
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Thepackagewe looked atcame with HP's 17-

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inch M70 monitor, which provides an excellent

display.
The video component is the integrated ATI Rage
Pro AGPchip with 8 MB of memory. Despite the
integration of the AGPvideo into the board, the
board also has a free AGP
slot for future
upgrades.
The Pavilion comes with Riptide audio and Polk
Audio multimedia speakers.
Thepackagewe tested also camewithan HP
Desk Jet 610Ccolor inkjet printer.
Exp andabilily
One AGP,
one PCI and one ISA slot are available
for future upgrades.
There are two slots for RAM, only one of which
is in use in our test system. It should be noted
that the slot is fairly inaccessible with the compact design of the 6532, so novices shouldn' t
plan to upgrade the RAMthemselves.
There are two USBports and one gameport.
As one of the major PC manufacturers,
Hewlett-Packard typically offers systems in a
higher price bracket, but this budget system
delivers the goods. Compared to some of the
other systems reviewed this month, the hard
drive on this model is a bit smaller and the
optical drive a bit slow, but the software bundle is good, and for just a bit more than our
minimum price, the package includes both a
htghguality monitor and an inkjet printer.
IBM
Aptlva E Series SSU

$2,000 price cap, manufacturer's rebates will

drop the price to $1,999,
LCF Advanced Technology
INet Pro

Estimated street price: $1,699

Software
Operating system: Windows 98 SecondEdition.
The system also features WordPerfect 2000
Suite, Christmas for Windows, and Compton
Encyclopedia 99.
Components
Processor. 500 MHzCeleron.
RAM: 64 MB.
The 6.4 GBQuantum drive may be abit on the
small side for more demanding users.
The iNet uses a 40xCD-ROMdrive.
There is no modem on this system, so users
who plan to go online will have to purchase one
separately.
The system comes with a Fujitsu Windowsenhancedkeyboard and a Logitech Firstmouse.
Multimedia
The new 17-inch TVM AS6S
monitor provides a
good display.
The video component is integrated into the Intel
810 chipset. Because there are noAGPslots on
the motherboard, future video upgrades will
have to shift over to the PCI bus.
The Creative PCI128 audio component is also
integrated into the motherboard.
MLi-699 multimedia speakers provide good

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audio,
thoughgarnersmaywanttoupgrade.
As abonus,the system comes with Epson's
Software
Operating system: Windows 98 Second Edition.
Stylus Color 440 inkjet printer.
Components
Expandabillty
Processor: 500 MHzPentium III.
There are four PCI slots available.
RAM: 96 MB.
The board has two slots for SDRAM,oneof
At 13 GB, the Quantum hard drive offers plenty
which was in use on our test system.
Thesystem has two USB portsand one game
of space, even for more demanding users.
A 56Kbpsv.90 m odem isincluded.
port.
The system ships with IBM's Rapid Access II
keyboard,
and a two-button mouse.
Almost everything that's wrong with this
Mullimedia
system can be summed up in two words: no
Our test system camewith a 15-inch IBM Aptiva
modem! Otherwise, the iNet offers a lot of
monitor, which has the multimedia speakers
value, with a good software package, good
built into the side.
quality components, and the bonus of a
The 6x Hitachi DVDdrive provides smooth DVD
printer thrown in. The system is well-priced,
movie playback.
too. Users who had budgeted for $2,000 will
Videois provided by an S3 Savage4 AGP card
probably want to bump up the size of the
with 8 MB of memory.
hard drive... and add a modem, of course.
The sound is the integrated ESSSolo chip.
Exp andabilily
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There are two PCI slots available, or one PCIand Mycomp Vantage-2000
one ISA.
There are two slots for RAM on the motherboard,
both of which were in use on our test model.
There are two USBports and one game port.
The monitor is a bit small, and the system
includes no additional software, but the
Aptiva E 55U may be worth a look anyhow.
The video card is nice, the hard drive is a bit
larger than others looked at this month, and
the system comes with the powerful 500
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The system also comes with Coral's WordPerfect

Suite 8 and Microsoft HomeEssentials (includingMoney98,Word 97and Works 4.5),

C
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ponents

Processor. 500 MHzPentium III.

RAM: 64 MB.
At 13 GB, the Quantum hard drive offers plenty
of space for most users, and uses the faster
UDMA66 specification.
Thesystem uses a 6x PioneerDVD drive,which
provides good DVDvideo playback.
A 56KbpsUS Robotics modem is included.
The keyboard is a BTCWindows-enhanced
model, and the Vantagealso comes with
Microsoft's Intellimouse.
Multimedia
The new 17-inch TVMAS6Smonitor provides a
good display.
Video is integrated into the Intel 810e chipset.
Because there is no AGP
slot, future video
upgrades will have to shift over to the PCI bus.
Audio is also integrated into the board.
No multimedia speakers are included in the
package, meaning users will have to pay more
for audio.
Expandability
There are five PCI slots free, as well as an AC97
modem slot.
The board has two slots for RAM, only one of
which is in use on our test system.
There are two USBports and one gameport.

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Performance is reasonable for this system,
though maybe not as high as it would have
been with a BX board. Otherwise, the system
comes with a number of good components,
including a DVD drive, a good-size hard
drive, and a good software bundle. The only
thing really missing is a set of speakers,
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A pair of multimedia speakers ships with the
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Expan debility
Two PCI slots, or one PCIand one ISA, are available.
There are two slots for RAM on the board, both
of which are in use on our test unit.
There are two USBports (one on the back, one
on the front), and one gameport.
The only system this time around to opt for
a non-Intel processor, NEC's Ready GT200
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RAM: 96 MB.
The system features a 13 GBMaxtor hard drive,
which should be large enough to suit most
users' needs.
In addition to a 40x CD-ROMdrive, the GT200

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Software

Operating system: Windows 98 Second Edition.

The system also comes with MidiSoft Studio,
Cheyenne BitWare, Recoil, Jungle Book, Mad
Dog McCree, Mighty Math, Peter and the Wolf,
Lotus Smart Suite Millennium, and Compton's
Encyclopedia 2000.
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Operating system: Windows 98 SecondEdition.
The system also includes Corel's WordPerfect
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Suggested list price: $1,898

Software
Operating system: Windows 98 SecondEdition.
The Ready system also comes with a Microsoft
bundle (Works 99, Money 99, Puzzles), Intuit
Quicken Basic 99, MGI PhotoSuite 8, FaxTalk,
CyberCoach, CyberWarner, and iRiS AntiVirus.

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128 to 64 MB would bring it in well under the
$2,000 limit, in fact). The system uses a full
Pentium IH chip, and the CD-RW drive will
allow users to bum their own CDs. Although
the reconditioned QuickCam Home camera
isn't quite as nice as a brand new unit, it's still
a fun addition to a nice system.

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high-quality display.
The SiS video is integrated into the motherboard. Because there is no AGP
slot, future
video upgrades will have to shift over to the PCI

Processor. 450 MHzPentium III.

RAM: 128 MB.
The 10.2 GBFujitsu drive should be roomy
enough for most users, and uses the faster
UDMA66 specification.
The system has a Mitsumi CD-RWdrive (with 4x
write and rewrite, and 24x read speeds) as its
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Only one was in use on our test system.
Thesystem hastwo USB portsand one game
port.
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Processor: 500 MHzPentium III.

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good photographic reproduction while keeping
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Expendability
There are three PCIand one ISAslots free, or
two PCI and two ISA.
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one of which was in use on our test system.
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components, including the full Pentium III
processor, good-sized hard drive, good game
and family software and the bonus of a
Lexmark inkjet printer. Performance on the
machine is also good, and although users
who plan to do any serious work will have to

spring for a productivity package, in all

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Estimated street price: $1,999

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Operating system: Windows 98 Second Edition.
At our price point, the extra software included a
bundle of utilities like Super Doctor and
Communicatel 32, as well as things like
Netscape. Other software is available, but for a
bit higher cost.

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upgrade potential a bit, but many users will
find that the system meets their needs as it
is, and the the lower price point allows them
to add a printer, too, without going over

$2,000.

Processor. 500 MHzPentium ill.

RAM: 64 MB.
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UDMA66 specification.
A 56Kbpsv.gg modem from GVC comes withthe

system.

A wheelmouse and an Internet-enhancedkeyboard from BTC

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except for verycasualusers.

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GNT5000A Speaker w/Subwoofer..$59

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64M PC-100 S DRAM
Panasonic 1.44M Floppy
6.4G UDMA Hard drive
Creative 52X CDROM
S3 Trio 3D 8M AGP Video Card
)trrave 3000 PCI 128 Sound Card
Motorola V.90 56K FaxNoice Modem
1T ATX Case w/250W power
Windows98 Keyboard PS2
A4 3D Wheel Mouse w/Pad
Juster-140W Multimedia Speaker
AOC 15 5E .2&dpi Monitor (3yrs wty)
First Month Free internet CD

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12&M PC-100 SDRAM
Panasonic 1.44M Roppy
Quantum 136 UDMA Hard dme
Cnuttive 5X DVD Dxr3 w/Tvout Kit
Creative RIVA TNT16M AGP Video Card
Creative SB PCI 128 Sound Card
Creathe V.90 56K Fax/Voice Modem
19" AlX Case w/250W power
Windows98 Internet Keyboard
Logitech Wheel Mouse w/Pad
Juster 3D-FX1 Speaker w/Subwoofer
AOC 17" 76lr .2&dpi Monitor (3yrs wty)
First Month Free internet CD

Gigabyte Intel 440BX PIUPIII ATXM/B

64M PC-100 SDRAM
Panasonic 1 44M Floppy
8.46 UDMA Hard drive
Hitachi 6X DVD/32X CDROM
Rhe TNT2 AGP 32M Video Card
Xkrave 3000 PO 128 Sound Card
Motorola V.90 56K Fax/Voice Modem
19" ATX Case w/250W power
windows98 Keyboard PS2
A4 3D Wheel Mouse w/Pad
Juster 320W 3D Multimedia Speaker
AOC 1T 7Glr .26dpi Monitor (3yrs wty)
First Month Free internet CD

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128M PC-100 SDRAM
Panasonlc 1.44M Floppy Drive
Quantum 13G UDMA Hard drive
Pioneer 1QXDVD/40XCDROM
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Creative SB Live Value w/Digital out
Creathe V.90 5&K Fax/Voice Modem
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Logitech wheel Mouse w/Pad
GNT5000A Speaker w/Subwoofer
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32M PC-100 SDRAM
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Delta 44X CDROM Drive
Sis620 8M AGP Video on Board
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KS-UI-400.......................$102 KS-SIC.......................$1621 PIU450/500.............$1516/1584 PIU450/500.............$2969/213
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Epox MVP3 AT/ATX .............$129/139
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Gigabyte GA-5A AT/AlX.....$110/115
Microstar 5169 ATX...................$115
Houston M589 AT/usb..........$110/120
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Abit BE6w/ATA66.....................$205
Aopen AXBBXC........................$165
Gigabyte BXC/BX2000..........$142/169
Gigabyte ZXC.................,.........$132
Microstar 6163 Pro ATX.............$165
Houston M748 AT/usb..........$129/139
Uogicet 370 M/B
Abit BM6/ZM& ATX..............$169/149
Abit P6B Dual Celeron ATX........$239
Asus BX/ZX ATX...............$159/185
Asus MES VM w/8M VGA..........$135
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Creative V.90 56k PCI ..................$49
Diamond V.90 56k win PCI............$69
GVC V.90 56k win PCI....,..........,.$49
Motorola V.90 5&k PCI..................$29
USR V.90 56k PCI/ISA............$69/105
USR V.90 56k External...............$219
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Creative PCI 128/Live Value......$55/79
SB Live MP3+/X.Gammer.... $145f149
Diamond MXMO ........................$95
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Celeron433/466/500 .......$119/149/219 Maxtor 20/27/36G..........,$285/339/439 Xpert128 16M/2000 32M........$149/185 19" G66/21" 6G...............$699/1169
P ll400/P III450 (Box)................ $229/289 Quantum CX6.4/10.2G..........$149/175 AII-in-wonder &M/128 16M....$165/239 Agg
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K7 600/650/700............$665/819/1069 Quantum KA 9.1G...., ..................$195
Quantum KA 13.6/18.26,.......$225/305 640032M Dual Reg/Max...... $269/329 21" P1250P .28dpi 1&GGX1440....$1499
8/16/32M EDO Ram..............$33/59/99 W.D. 13/18/20/27G...$249/329/35$405 6400 Single 16M/32M.......... $175/239 EanaggBIg
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19" 420GS/F400 .22mm.....$919/1529
Asus 40/50X..........................$69/85 Panasonic 1.44M Floppy...............$22 Voodooll 1000 12MAdd on Card..$129
Creathe 4&x/52X.....................$65/69 Panesonic LS120 Int/par........$109/195 Voodoolll 2000/3000 AGP ...$149/199 21" F500 .22mm.......................$2779
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Trio3D/2X4M/8M AGP.........$42/59 17" E771/E773/GF775.....$369/459/549
Hitachi 6X DVD Drive...................$115
Pioneer 6X DVD/10XDVD.......$125/145 MS intelllmousePS2/USB............$35/88 Thri2 32M w/WinDVD/Tvout...$139/159 19" E790/G790/PS790.....$619/759/779
Sis&326 4M PCI...........................$39 21" G810/P&10/P&15..$1239/1349/1459
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3COM 3C905lX10/100 PCL..........$79 Canon BJC 5100/6000.........,$229/329
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HP 9210i 32x/4x/&x SCSI cdwriter.$529 1T/19" ATX Case w/300w.......$75/79 D - Link 530TX10/10D PCI...............$35 HP 610/810/880C...........$149/229/389
RJ45 Cat& Cable (1' to 15')........$10 Lexmark Z11/Z31/Z51 ...$149/279/369
Mitsumi 24X/4N4XIDE cdwriter.....$329 UJLe~k
Yamaha 6416 Bare Dme..............$305 Juster 140W/320W speaker......$14/31 RJ45 Cat& Cable (18' to 25')..........$15 Lexmark 5770 photo..................$509
Yamaha 6416Value Kit..............$395
Altec ACS45.1 w/Sub................$119 RJ45 Cat5 Cable (51' to 1my).........$35 Uggmterg
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Processor: 450 MHzPentium lil.
RAM: 64 MB.
At 9.1 GB, the Quantum hard drive may be a bit
small for more demanding users, but it has the
faster 7,200 rpm spindle speed, and uses the
faster UDMA66 specification.
Skipping a standard CD-ROMdrive, the Voodoo
system opts for an HPCD-RWdrive (with 2x

write and rewrite, and 24x read speeds), for

archiving and burning personalized CDs.
A 56KbpsDiamond SupraMax v,90 modem is
included.
Thesystem comes witha Logitechwheelmouse
and aFujitsu Windows-enhanced keyboard.

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The included monitor is a 17-inch Serenity

model made by ADI.
The video card is a 32 MBDiamond SavageAGP
card.

Audio is courtesy of Creative's PCI128.

A set of Cambridge Soundworks multimedia

speakers(completewith subwoofer) is included.

As a bonus, the Tsunami RWIalso ships with

Lexmark's high-quality Z11 inkjet printer.
Expandabllity
Three PCI slots and one ISAslot, or two PCI and
two ISA, are available.
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only one of which is in use onour test system.
There are two USBports and one gameport.

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the Test Lab, and their first submission is
quite a nice little package. The case has a
very distinctive design, and it's filled with a
number of high-quality components like
the Pentium III processor and the HewlettPackard CD-RW drive. Demanding users
may want to bump up the size of the hard
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229
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Intel MMX 233/Cyrix MX333

Intel PentlumH 400

Printers
469/379

Cation BJC1000/2000SE

109/139

Canon BJCS100 11" x17"

Canon BJC 6000
Canon BJC 7000L 1200X600
Canon Multifunction C3500

219
309
469
369

EpsonStylus 440/660 l09/149(anat USS30rebate)

Epson Photo700/SSO
Brother HL1020/1040
Brother HL1050/1060
Brother Multi P2000DX

Fujitsu Laser pplQV

Fujitsu Laser PP16DV/20W
Lexmark 3200/5770

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369/439
519/S99
539
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HP LaserJet 1100
HP Deskjet 810C
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219
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Dynotak 6P 300x600 dpi
Scantak -12P 600x1200 dpi

79
89

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Acer 320/620USB 9 S/125(afterUS$20tebate)
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199
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45
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209
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2$9
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349
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159/219
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349/369
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679
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529
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106
19" Acer 99SL/ADI 666
579/639
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106
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470
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Intel SB440BX/Acer 440BX
16S/ 1 39
679
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21" PanaSync S110/PL1 10 .2Sdp 1049/1249
A SUS PSA Super 7 AT/ATX
129/ 1 3S
21" SonySOOPS/S20GS .2Sdp
1629/1419
Gigabyte Athlon GA-7
265
MicroStar ATX/ALI 100 Super 7 AT 109/$9
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Log1tec Video Camera USB
$79
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39
Zip/Floppy DRIVE
SIS
4M/SIS
8M
AGP
39/S4
1.44MB Floppy Drive
S 1$
Asus 3$00 TNT2 32M TV/Ultra
269 / 319
LS120MB Drive 2x
99
ATI AGP Rage H $M
79
Zlp Drive IOOMB
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ATI TV Wonder
11$
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ATI AGP XPERTtnPlay $M
9S
3-COM 90SB PCI 10/100TX
7S
ATI AGP AH-in-wonder 8M
119
3-COM 9$0TX 10/100TX Server
132
ATI AGP All-in-wonder 12$16/32M 239/329
D-Link DES40TX PCI Combo
37
ATI AGP XPERT9$/Xpert 99 $M
87 / 1 05
Acer Ethernet PCI/ISA Combo
16
ATI AGP Xpert 12$16M
13$
Acer Ethernet PCI 10/100 BaseT
22
ATI AGP Xpert 2000 32M
17S
SMC PCI 9432 10/100BaseT
99
ATI AGP Magnum/Fury 32M w/TV 179/179
Lanic 5 Port/8 Port Hub
37/47
Creative Banshee 16M
3-COM 16723 4Port/16722 SPort hab 148/329
99
Creative RivaTNT2 16M AGP
D-Link 4 Port Hub 100MHz
139
12$
Diamond Viper 770 32M OEM/Ultra 209/259
Ethernet RGSS/RJ45 6'/30'/50'/100' 5/12/15/29
Matrox G400 16M/32M
169/229
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12S
Matrox G400 32M Dani 300/3ai MHn 259/319
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Nvidia TNT2 AGP 32M/TV
149/169
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29/39
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169
16"/19" ATX Tower w/250w
3$/4$
Diamond Stealth 3 SS40 32M
119
24" ATX Tower w/250w
SS

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329/2$9

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117/ 1 3S
S ony DVD IH kit w/decoder card 2 3 9
Creative/Sony DVD Hl 6x
119

Multimedia
16 bit 3D sound card/Acer AW37 1S/18
Aureal Vortex 1/2/SuperQnad 28/42/63
Sound Blaster 16/AWE64
33/48
Sound Blnster PCI 12$
53
Sound Blaster Live Value
79
Speakers 120w/SQQtlt
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Mosorola 5SK V.90 Dntnpax Voice 26
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39/ 6 $
Diamond Supra S6K V.90 Voice
49
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63/ 1 0 S
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79
PCMCIA FaxModem 56K
79

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Win95/Fujitsn/USB Keyboard 11/17/35
Natural Keyboard
19
2 button Mouse
Serial/PS2/USB 6/ 6/1S
L ogitech 2 Button/scroll Mouse
9 /1 7
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99
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search tools are Copernic and WebFerret.

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the highest possible quality searching for
professional or educational purposes.
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search tool called X-Portal Findware, which
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deduction types are limited, the program calamounts

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Advisor guides the user through the setup

and the steps necessary for a payroH run. It

also advises the user starting the program of
procedures that should be completed before
and deducthe next payroll run. E
tions are provided for you to simply dick the

costs can also be added. Many human

resource management fields have been
added. You can ffle T4 forms by Magnetic
Media an d d o mul t i ple W o rkers'
mouse on the selected options. You scan Compensation Board (WCB) calculations.
through timecards to modify hours worked Time dock interfaces and direct deposit are
and scan additional earnings screens
to enter available. PayMate can be downloaded from
vacation paid or other non-periodic earn- the company Web site and used free for 90
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with Crystal Reports for form modification billing version, available only in Windows
format.
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to install and set up. The payroll component

allows you to track theearnings anddeduc-

result of its flexibility, it requires good under-

standing of the payroH process when setting

up. The program tracks payroll history by

The program also has good import and

export capabilities.

general ledger, accounts payable, accounts provinQ5.

receivable, inventory control, job costing

and payrolLWe have reviewed and com- NVOB Accounting Plus

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Available in both English and French, mented on only the payroll component for MYOB Accounting Plus is a single-user fully
PayMate is full of features while being easy to this report.
use. PayMate interfaces with most popular
accounting packages. Typical earnings and
deductions are supplied. These categories can
be modified and new codes can easily be set
up. Context sensitive help is at your finger-

predefinedearnings or define your own. As a

Payroll reporting is very complete. It

includes T4, T4A, and ROE (record of
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correct. Reporting flexibility is good, you
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periods and does not print a r ecord of

employment. Some reports and forms are

customizable.
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which allows integration between accounting data and Microsoft Excel, Word or Corel
Continuedon page 110

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Lexmark predicts printing will be part of information management

By Tom Venetis

and printer to an early version of the

BOSTON Don't expect that, with digital

content delivery via the Internet, the much-

Technology International Data Group, was

Internet.

Bob Metcalfe, v ice-president for

promised paperless office will finally emerge. there on the auspidous day when that first
attend- Ethernet network went online. He thought
In fact, the nearly 200 j

ournalists

ing this year's Lexmark 2020 Vision on Print

Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre team was

Internet, then point that same phone to a

printer to produce a hard copy of the artide
or page they want.
Already, people are using the Internet to
download and print high-quality photographs and art work, said Tony Rojas, president of Corbis, an online catalogue of
images and art that can be accessed by newspapers, publishers and the public. Corbis
offers some 25 million images for download
and sale, including access to such collections

conference here were told to expect paper to taking the first step to developing a paperless
office. Sadly, that never came about.
"As a result of our research, the use of
paper there skyrocketed," Metcalfe said.
With paper and the printer firmly as the Bettermann Archive, Lynn Goldsmith
and the Internet was just a tool for sdentists," said Tom Lamb, executive vice-presi-. entrenched in the home and office, the revo- International, Digital Stock and Outline.
"We currently get some two million condent for Lexmark International Inc. "That lution underway now is not how to elimisumers
each month," Rojas added. "There is
nate
paper,
but
how
to
give
people
more
conyear, just a mere trillion sheets of paper were
trol over what is printed and how the infor- a huge pent-up demand for our services and
used in the office."
jpeople] come to our Web site to find hnages
Now, PCs are everywhere and almost mation will look on a page.
for greeting cards, prints or just images for
The
reason
for
this
shift
is
that
the
printeveryone uses the Internet and email. This
has driven paper shipments to nearly three er has moved from a standalone device to a their personal use."
To help people get more out of this growtrillion sheets a year as people print out their network-connected device that is central to
ing
digital imaging and digital photography
information
management.
The
printer
will
email and the results of their Web surfing.
be around for quite some time yet.
"In 1982, email was unknown, the personal computer industry was in its infancy

"That certainly confirms reports that

when email is introduced to an office, print-

ing volume increases by about 40 percent,"

become an important device for helping people get at the information they need on a
network, whether that network is a corporate

revolution, Lexmark and Kodak announced a

with th e

F rench Reunion des Musees

Nationaux (RMN) to develop a set of Print

Gallery CD-ROMs. These discs will have
some 100 works of art from the RMN's collection that can be printed and used in what-

ever fashion the purchaser chooses. The Print

Gallery collection will be induded with
Lexmark's Z line of inkjet printers.
Lexmark also announced new monochrome laser printers based on its Optra S
line of printers and a set of multifunction
solutions for businesses looking at better

documentmanagement on a network.
Eamon Ryan, vice-president and general
manager for the business printer division of
Lexmark Europe said that as printers take on

more functions and become connected to

networks, the role o f a c o m pany l i ke
Lexmark begins to change. It moves from

being a printer company to a document

management company.
"As copiers become digitized, the copier

collaboration to develop appliances for more now becomes a device that helps manage
affordable printing of digital images. Already, information," Ryan added. "If you were to
Lexmark is shipping the Kodak Personal characterize our own strength, it is that we

intranet or the rapidly expanding Internet.

Metcalfe predicts people will soon use Picture Maker printer that lets people crop, have been able to develop software that can
manage documents and information on netmuch of a surprise. When Ethernet was cre- network-connected devices, such as cell personalize, print and store photos.
works." 0
Lexmark
also
announced
a
partnership
phones,
to
access
information
on
the
ated, its goal was to network a desktop PC
Lamb continued.
Still, this trend should not come as too

Bleating the payroll

Canadian tax deductions are awkward to
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Linux graphics programs, being opensource,

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A full suite of painting tools induding

Bmsh, Pendl, Airbrush, and Gone.
Tile-based memory management so image

size is limited only by available disk space.

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Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for

high quality anti-aliasing.

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Full alpha channel support.

Layers and channels.

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space).
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programs is the GIMP (the GNU Image
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Vi r tually unlimited number of images can

be open at one time.
Ex tremely powerful gradienteditor and
cated, powerful, and frequently compared to
blend tool,
Adobe Photoshop. It offers layers, color chan- Lo ad and save animations in a convenient
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sors, blending modes, masking filters, text
Transformation tools including rotate,

effects, plug-ins, and its own scnpting lanscale, shear and flip.
guage, Script-Fu. Oh yeah, and it does screen Support for many fil forinats, induding:
captures.
GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG,
The GMP can be used to create Web graphPS, PDF, PCX, and BMP.
ics, retouch digital photos, generate desktop Will load, display, convert, and save to
wallpaper, asseznble graphic montages, design
many file formats,
magazine cover art in short, it will do just
Selection tools i n cluding Rectangle,
about anything you can do with a raster-based
Ellipse, Free, Fuzzy, Bezier and Intelligent
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tion of new file formats and effect filters.
imports a wide variety of graphics formats. The
Over 100 plug-ins already available.
GIMP's export capabilities are excellent
Supports custom brushes and atterns.
p
The history of the GIMP is a typical
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The feature set may not be something
authors, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, you'd expect from a free program. The GMP
were undergraduates at the University of
has given some users the very reason they
California at Berkeley, they decided to create needed to run Linux in the first place. If bezia Photoshop-like tool as a class project. The er curves interest you more than Perl proGIMP project was born, and before long the gramming, this is a product you should take
project attracted developers worldwide, who for a test drive. The GIMP is included as an
joined in its creation, extending its capabili- option on every Linux distribution CDties. Work progressed slowly but word spread ROM, and can also be downloaded directly
quickly and the GIMP was used extensively from the GIMP Web site.
before it ever reached release 1.0. At the time
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Although Linux itself can run on remark- Before the GIMP came along, the workhorse
ably low-horsepower PCs, running the GIMP for Linux graphics was ImageMagick, a colon Linux is like running any graphics pack- lection of robust tools and libraries forreadage on any platform. The more memory, ing, writing, and manipulating an image in
hard disk space and processor speed you any of the more popular image formats
have, the better. Even so, the GIMP's intelli- including GIF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, and Photo
gent use of memory makes it possible to run CD. ImageMagick is still widely used.
it even on machines with limited memory
Because some of the tools can be invoked
resources. It uses tile-based memory manage- from the command line (and hence froin
ment, which swaps out portions of an image scripts), ImageMagick lets you create GIFs
to hard disk when memory is insufficient.
dynamically, makingit suitable for Web
The GIMP benefits from top-notch video applications. The ImageMagick Web site
cards. For any serious work, a good 4 MB (httpf/www.wizards.dupont.corn/cristy/ImageMagic
card, capable of displaying a resolution of k.html) lists the following toolkit highlights:
1,15Zx900 with 16-bit color, is the mini Co nverts images from one format to

mum. The more video memory you have,

the better it performs. The GIMP does not
directly support scanners or digital cameras,
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another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG).

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with components of the Microsoft suite:

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the programs that comprise WordPerfect equivalent; Quattro Pro 9 goes up against
the Excel spreadsheet program; and Corel
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Netscape promises faster, standards-compliant browser as users continue to wait

the consumer market it has been dropping commanding lead a few years ago, is now the future of the Netscape browser is at stake
like a rock," suggests Rob Enderle, vice-presi- struggling with only 40 percent of the rnar- with Communicator 5.0.

By Tom Venetls

sers and analysts say Netscape dent of Giga Information Group Inc., an
Communications must release a compelling Web browser product soon or
it will lose out to its rival, Microsoft Internet
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"The product has almost coinpletely
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industry research firm based in Cambridge,

Mass. "I think it will be amazing if they can
get anything out."
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ket.

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released in September and offered some bug architecture to rewrite the mail, news and December, and will be fully functional,
However, the release may be too late for
fixes and a Shop@Netscape button that
networking engines of the product.
with an emphasis on standards compliance, some companies that are tiring waiting to
Netscape's parent company, America OnHne
"The basic idea was that there were things speed, cross-platform compatibility, and a
port products to NetKape.
Inc., plans to use to expand e<ommerce

we wanted to do with MoziHa, and what our

across its b~nds. He feels Netscape is ignor- contnbutors and Netscape wanted to do, that
ing more important issues, such as improving pl
compatibility and stabigity.
"I don't think Netscape has abandoned

atform

Communicator 5.0, but if it has been

were going to be near impossible in the old

code," says Mke Shaver, head of developer

relations for MoriHa.org in Toronto.
Shaver says a "beta" release ofthe

delayed, let's hope it was because Netscape browser should be available in mid-

wanted to actuaHy add soine useful features

small footprint, Still, the "beta" wiH not be

complete as there will be features that will
be added laterby the MoziHa.org team.
Because of this, Shaver is reluctant to call

the soon-to-bereleased version a "beta,"as

it implies a product is essentiaHy complete

except for some fmal tweaking.

Aris Zakinthinos, manager of research

and development for KCSL Inc., in Toronto,
deveiopers of the X-Portal search tool, says
Netscape's delays in getting a product to market have put companies like his at a disadvantage. KCSL has customers asking when a
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to the program," Eglinski adds.

Bany Parr, director of consumer mornmerce research for Mountain View, Calif.based analyst, International Data Corp., says if
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Access 97
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database tips

Using headers and footers

By Helen Bradley
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By Helen Bradley

field, open your table in Design View,

add a new field and set its data type
to Hyperlink. In Datasheet view, add a
hyperlink in the field by right-clicking a n d
s e l ect H y pe riink, Edit
Hyperlink. Complete the dialogue and
click OK.

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rather than typing a number in manuaHy, because it inserts a spedal code,

called a Field Code, into the document.
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number should go here. If you were to
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the text and the page number field and
format them using your choice of format.

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this off by pressing Alt+ F9.
You can add symbols and text to
your page numbers to jazz them up.
Forexample,you may want your numbers to be prefaced by the word "Page"
and to appear bracketed by hyphens,
as in: - Page 2-. To do this, you simply

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your document. As a result, it's likely

that you' ll upset the page numbering to
the extent that page numbers can
appear in the middle of some pages!
Your word processor's Headers and
Footer options are there to take care of
page numbering for you, allowing you
to add a spedal code to headers or foot-

Microsoft Word and Excel files in

your database. To add a Hyperlink

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get the number I on every page!

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two this causes a ripple effect through

Hyperlinirs
Access's Hyperlink data type lets you
include hyperlinks, such as Web and
email addresses, and l i n ks to

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amount of information on, say, page

popular package.

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f you' ve ever tried to add page num-

bers to a document manually, you' ll

a ppredate ho w w o n derful t h e
Header and Footer options in your word
processor are. It's hard enough to manually position numbers on a page, but if
you later make changes that affect the

icrosoft Access is a powerful

database management program suited to beginner as
well as advanced users. Here are some
great tips for making the most of this

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page number on each page and you' re

done. The word processor then makes
sure the page number is placed where

you wanted itand you can make

Shapely numbers

changes to the layout of your document I M Icrosoii Word, yoncan nseAntoShapesIo dress nppage
without needing to make changes to h like the oneshownhere.

StaticWeb output
Publish data from your database to
the Web as a static or dynamically
updated HTML file. You need access
to a special server for dynamic pages,

You can create some interesting effects

if you use the shapes on the drawing

your page numbering.
toolbar
to add backgrounds to your page
header
or
footer
is
simplidty
itself.
To
do
However, header and footer options are
numbers.
To do this, make sure you' re in the
this,
begin
by
selecting
View,
Page
Layout
to
handy for things other than page numbering, and in this month's column I' ll take a view your document the way it will appear Header or Footer area and display the Drawing
look at some of the neat effects you can get
using these options. I' ll be looking at
Microsoft Word 97/2000 because, in this
application, the Header and Footer area is
more like another layer of your document
and you can put just about anything in it,

but static pages can be published

without any spedal requirements. To
do this, select File, Save As HTML
and follow the onscreen steps. If
the option Save As HTML is not available, install t h e We b Publishing
Wizard from your Office CD-ROM
a nd (in A ccess 97) ru n t h e f i l e

when printed. Now, select View, Header and

tioned in the Header area. You can switch to

the Footer by selecting the Switch Between
Header and Footer button on the Headers and
from page and chapter numbers to water- Footers toolbar.
To add the page number so that it
marks.
appears at the bottom of every page, select
the Insert Page Number button on the toolPage numbering basics
Adding page numbers to the document bar. You should always use this button,

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road we' ll tackle PPP. (Note: this series is based on the inex-

pensive CheapBytes Red Hat Linux 6.0 i386/Intel CDROM, which is available at hiipl/www.chutphytes.col.)

puting on a Linux box.

ument. Set the Fill Color and Une Color using

the Drawing toolbar buttons, then rightMck
the shape and select Add Text. Click the Insert
Page Number button to add the field code to

your shape. You now have a page number

inside a fancy shape.
You can select the code that Word has
Continued on page 129

W in ow

A different path to the GUI

First, you should understand that the X Window System
e three major milestones (its full, offidal name) is based on a totally different design
in the early going for any philosophy than Microsoft Windows or the Mac OS.The X
Linux newbie are: I) instal- Window System is not a fundamental, integrated part of
lation, 2) X Window setup, and 3) PPP connect to the the operating system. You can set up a powerful, comInternet. We' ve worked our way through the basics of pletely functional Iinux box n .',hout ever putting X on the
installation and have started to leam enough Unix to work system at alL In fact, many Linux administrators prefer to
the system. We' ll return to this theme soon, but in this o mit X entirely on a production server. X Wi dow i s
i.e., personal cominstallment let's get X Window up and running. Down the intended primarily for workstation use
By Cene Wllburn

toolbar using View, Toolbars, Drawing. Select a

Footer and you' ll see the Header and Footer shape (oval, rectangle or an AutoShape) and
toolbar on the screen and you' ll be posi- click and drag to add the shape to your doc-

ponents: server and client. The server can actually be on

one computer and the client on another but in most
cases they' re both on the same machine. You need to
match a server with the video card you have in your system. There are X Window servers for VGA, SVGA, $3, ATI,
and a large number of other video adapter families.
The client side of X Window is essentially a GUI
toolkit, full of widgets and intrinsics (programming
calls). By itself, X does not even provide an interface.
That is the job of whichever windows manager you
choose to use on top ofX. Getting confused? It becomes

Because the X Window System was developed as a clearer as you go. The main thing to understand is that
networked GUI (graphical user interface), X has two com- the X Window System is layered and modular and

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IBIN puts e-comm security on slllcon

Continued from page1 19

receive a purchase order from you, it is you Verification Manager (UVM). The UVM
and not a hoax," Strum continues. "The allows different levels of access
and privileges
to be set for users.
Strum adds that the chip is also less vul- intent here is to open up the door ofemmRoger Kay, manager for International
nerableto outside hacking, which will be merce withsome degree of confidence."
The chip will make its debut on IBM's Data Corp.'s (IDC's) personal computing
valuable to those looking to add an extra
level of security to e-commerce transactions. 300 PL commerdal desktops, and will even- research group in Framingham, Mass., says
"People are doing business over the tually make its way into other IBM commer- hardware-based security systems, such as
Internet and conducting important business dal and consumer systems. In addition to
through browsers like jMIcrosoft I nternet] the security chip, the 300 PL desktops will
Explorer and Netscape [Communicator], and have an integrated client-based authenticapeople want assurances that when they tion and authorization system called a User

chological, saying that few people hesitate

to hand over a credit card to a waiter who
disappears with it for several minutes, or to
give credit card information over the phone,
bui they are reluctant to provide the same
information online.
"Everyone needs to be convinced that

IBM's security chip, should begin to address

doing business over the Web is safe and the

some of the lingering security concerns peo- problem is one of perception," he adds.
Kay also sees advantages for IBM in movple have about conducting business over the
Internet. Kay seesthe problem as largely psy- ing so quickly to put the security chip on systems. In doing so, it can build up momentum, helping the chip become a standard for
conducting secure e-commerce.

Everyone needs to be
convinced that doing
businessover the Web
is safe and the problem
is one of perception
Roger Kay, IDC
"They want to be part of that vanguard
providing secure environments for e-business and promote themselves as an e-business facilitator," Kay adds, "They would
then licence the technology or give it
away to the rest of the industry to make it

a standard,"
Steve Hunt, director of the Cambridge,

Mass.-based Giga Information Group, says

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many businesses will welcome hardwarebased security, especially since the IBM
Client S~ r lt y solution can be integrated

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to protect a desktop PC from internal intru-

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an outside hacker.
According to the recentComputer Crime
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agendes, financial institutions and universities in the U.S.

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C AREERS St T R A I N I N G

Access 97 and 2000 database tips

Continued from page l22
Y2K protection
To prevent errors creeping into your data, set
the date format for all date fields to display
with a four-digit year. When the full year is
used, you get a visual check that your data
has been entered correctly. The short form
date format can give unexpected results:

dates between 1/1/00 and 31/12/29, for

example, are assumed to refer to 2000-2029

w hereas dates b etween 1 / 1 /30 a n d
31/12/99 are assumed to referto 19301999.

table name onto the desktop to create the

shortcut, Change the shortcut's properties by
right-clicking it and select Properties from the
menu.

Table shortcut

Mailing labels

You can add a desktop shortcut to any Access Create mailing labels using data from
table to your desktop. To do this, size the your Access database by employing the
Access window so you can see part of your Label Wizard. Select the Report tab, click
desktop underneath and drag and drop the New, Label Wizard, select the table or

query containing the data and click OK.

Select your label stock, click Next and
proceed through the remaining steps to
select the label font, the fields to appear
on the labels and their placement. Select
a sort order and finally, name your label
file. Preview the results before printing
them.

Custom application name

You can place your own choice of application name in the Access title bar in place of
the words Microsoft Access if you choose
Tools, Startup and set the Application Title
area to your title text and click Ok.

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Non-Interl
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800x600 Ca 72 Hz setting, which is the setting
I select.
The next custom setting is vertical sync
range of your monitor. If in doubt, select the
50-70 option. My Dell monitor is capable of
a higher rate, so I select 50-90.
Now we come to Screen Configuration
where you are presented with two options:
Don't Probe and Probe. Probing attempts to
automatically determine the best video

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tings. If you select more than one resolu- GNOME, KDE or AnotherLevel as a window
tion per color depth, X Window allows you manager/environment.
to use keystrokes to switch resolutions
dynamically, but I prefer the simplicity of a
single resolution.
Last, we come to the Starting X test
screen, with OK and Skip for options. This
time you don't want to skip you need to see
if your settings work.
Xconfigurator will now start an appropriate X Server (it may install one first from the

Window managers
and desktop environments
Linux is about choices. Nowhere is this more
evident than in the choice of a window
manager or environment for X Window.
If you did not select GNOME or KDE
when you installed Linux, Red Hat will
default you to a window manager called
AnotherLevel, which looks quite a bit like
Windows 95. The match isn't 100 percent,
but it's close enough that you should find it

CD-ROM) and will display a dialogue box

that says Can you see this message?Yes / No.
mode and color depth for your system. The dialogue expires in 10 seconds, so if the
There is always a chance it could lock your attempt fails it will return you back to the very comfortable to use.
system, however. I always select Don' t Xconfigurator menus.
If you instaHed both GNOME and KDE,
Probe.
If you can see the box and the resolu- Red Hat 6.0 defaults to GNOME. The way to
Next is Video Memory. In my case, I select
4 mb. Then comes Clockchlp Configuration.
These are special settings needed by a few
older video cards. You normally select No
Clockchlp Setting (recommended) as the
option.
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Probe for Clocks with two choices: Probe and

tion looks approximately right, click Yes

and you' ll get another dialogue box that

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in a timely fashion. Check with its Web site
if you have a recent, unsupported card
you' re trying to use. Each new release of
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adapters.

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onboard video cards and displays of laptops
are non-standard. If your laptop doesn't easily configure, you may be able to find help at

t he Li nux o n La p t ops We b s i t e a t
s witch b e tween G N OME, K D E a n d http: //www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/llnux-lapAnotherLevel is to open a terminal session top/.

says Xconfigurator can set your computer to and type switch desk at the prompt.

automatically start X upon booting. Would

you like X to start when you reboot? Yes /
No. Select No. The Yes option puts your
Linux init sequence to init 5 level rather
than the standard init 3 l evel, and we
Skip. Again, probing could cause your system don't want to do that at this point. (We' ll
to crash and/or the screen to go blank. I
d iscuss init l evel settings later in t h e
select Skip.
series.)
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If all goes well, Xconfigurator writes a

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select a color. Select the Centre button on the
Formatting toolbar to ensure the number is
centred inside the shape.
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of the footer so the shape fits within its

cursor in the vertical ruler at the left of the

screen and drag the upper boundary of the

bottom left to the top right of a page, Use the

sizing handles to size it to fit.
footer area up the page. Alternatelyyou can
To adjust the formatting of the Word Art
select the Page Setup button on the Header select the Word Art object, then select Format,
and Footer toolbar, select the Margins tab and Word Art. Select the Colors and Uncs tab and
increasethe Footersetting.
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fancy page number using the drawing tools, Art text so the text on the page can be read
check out the AutoShape collection which is over the top of it. A light color or pale grey is
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page numbers, including stars, diamonds, Where Isthis docurnentP
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n our last tutorial we looked at Visual

t Basic (VB) looping and advanced conditional statements. In this tutorial we complete our overview of VB statements by
examining operators and assignments. One
cannot talk about assignment statements

Cemputatlenal assignments

value assigned in unexpected ways. In general, when a smaller variable type is assigned to
a larger variable type (Integer to Double or
Byte to String) no information is lost. But that
is not always the case, as when a Date variable
element val(i). However, in computational is assigned to just about any other variable
assignments a simple to quite complicated cal- type. Therefore Table I, which lists common
It is the computational assignments that
are of the most interest to VB programmers. In
simple replacements as shown in the examples, Ivalue takes the value 322 and Xdbl's current value is replaced by the value of the array

Computational assignments most often

involve string or numeric operations, but can
also involve date manipulations, object references or other operations. We shall use VB's
Immediate Window to illustrate some of the
rules of numeric and string manipulations.

culation is fbi performed and the resulting data conversions, is worth knowing welL
The most commonly required converwithout also mentioning operators. There value is assigned to the variable.
sions
are to and from strings. Programmers
are two types of assignment statement: sirnare
constantly
converting out for display as
Simple
assignments
ple replacement and computational assignstrings on forms. Likewise, data input from
and data converslan
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simple replacement: Ivalue = 322 or Xdbr

val(I)
computational assignments: FV = (1+rate)"
nyears PV or FinaIString = Prefix R " starts the
string " 8 Suffix

Simple replacement assignments are most

often used to initialize variables. A research
study showed that more programming errors
are due to failure to initialize variables properly than any other cause. Part of the difficulty is that when two variables in an assignment are not of the same type, automatic
conversions are invoked that can change the

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supporting infrastructure to be taken years. Intel executives sbsted in conversation
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assured by the lack of anything else that fundamental
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