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Technology in the real world

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front row seat to watch new technologies emerge. Our writers bring
us stories on what's being cooked up
in research and development labs or
what's on the verge of hitting the
market as a commercial product or
service these stories tend to relay
the "promise" of a new technology.
The next cycle of coverage follows its release, when we
see if it matches the hype: will it change the way we
work, communicate, etc., or does it require a little more
tweaking back at the Iab?
Some products and services seetn to disappear almost
as quickly as they emerge. 'I'his was especially true following the burst of the dot-corn bubble. Remember
DigiScentsy That company was developing a personal
computer peripheral that generated synthesized scent,
which would be used to sell products online or to
enhance multimedia. It made the cover of h'ircci magazine as its hype peaked, and earned the headline "Sniff
company is a scratch," in the Standard.corn as its fortunes plummeted.
But all was not vapourware. Sotne technologies just
didn't make it as the commercial product originally
envisioned, they re-emerged in n' ew forms. Voice recognition for example, was very promising a tew years back,
with a range of commercial software packages targeting
business users. Instead of all that typing and mousing,
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were functional, in practice they were somewhat cumbersome and required a lot of training of the user and
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use, unless t)Tking was not an option for the user.
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We Mac peoplehave had a simple method

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Same CAT 5cable between them, but the
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TCP replies: For the third installment of his
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Out of focus
I usuallyenjoy the many indepth reviews
your people do. The recent reviews of digital cameras [cover feature, TCP July) have
me puzzled, however. No-one ever mentions aperture as a feature of a digital
camera,To get that info, one usually has
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I would appreciate it i f yo u could get
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In SLRcameras,aperture and lens quality isone of the most important factors.
But digital cameras come with such
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lenses that one has to learn the
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The mostannoying thing of digitalcam-
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the foreground overexposed, and everything beyond 3 m underexposed.This is
the same effectyou would have had with
a simple $25 box camera!
Who cares for many megapixels if your
picture is too dark?
Anotherfactor often overlooked is the
sharpness of the picture. After reading
many reviews on the Internet,I found
that "blurry images" rank as the main
complaint of many cameras. Usually this is
relatedto the quality of the lens, occasionallyto the focus mechanism. It seems
that camera manufacturersfigure that
with such a smalllens, they don't need
the quahty, aslong as they have the
megapixels.
So, please let's hear it from expert photographers: What are digital camera lenses really?
I have heard from one professional photographerthat many of them are starting
to buy digital bodies for their original SRL
camera lenses.
Duke Duyck
Some background on backing up

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Manufacturers drive development of telematics, in-vehicle wireless communications
ers to venture further before dropping
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By Sharlene Myers
he hrst cell phones were often
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even using the horn to get the attention
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Now that phones are smaller and we
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and still are advantages to having wireless communications built into cars. The
integration of wireless communications
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and a global positioning system (GPS),
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safer and more convenient. According to
the hype, it could allow us to avoid many
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jams, bad weather, accidents, breakdowns, getting lost, and the futile search
for parking spaces. The dream can be
pretty irresistible, but the question is
how much we are willing to pay for it.
What's available now

The most prominent option for those
looking for telematics in their vehicles
right now is the OnStar (wwwonstatcanada.corn) package offered with many new
GM models. OnStar, which must be factory installed, essentially combines a cellular phone, a GPS system, and a network of sensors in the car with a call
centre subscription service accessed
through a set of three buttons. Locked
your keys in y o u r c ar? OnStar can
unlock your car for you remotely. Lose
your way'. The call centre operators can
give you directions to get you back on
track. But what is likely the most appealing to inany subscribers are the safety
features, including remote diagnostics to
tell you if that engine light is signalling a
problem serious enough to leave you
stranded.
5,1ike Walsh, marketing communica-
Other options
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tions manager fo r O n Star C anada,

explains how this works: "If the owner of
t he vehicle presses the b u tton a n d
requests what we call a remote diagnostic, OnStar can connect to the vehicle
but with a data connection instead of
voice,and itcan read the onboard computer and find out why, for example, that
engine light came on." The operator can
then look up the diagnostic code and
advise the driver whether or not it's safe
to keep driving.
A radio ad illustrates the airbag notification service OnStar offers. The spot
features a crash, followed by an OnStar
operator paging the driver through the
system, sending emergency services to
the scene svhen she hears no reply. The
v ehicle places an emergency call t o
OnStar automatically when the airbags
are deployed.
According to Walsh, this function will
be e x panded i n f utu r e ve h i cles.
Advanced automatic crash notification
will be rolled out starting with the 2004
Chevrolet Malibu, incorporating more
s ensors around the vehicle that wi l l
allow OnStar to tell emergency personnel where and how hard the vehicle was
hit.
"One of the greatest causes of death
from accidents are the injuries that [the
paramedics] don't see, things like internal bleeding," says Walsh, "and if they
knew that they could expect that type of
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iniury because of the type of accident,

they would be much better off."
Essentially, OnStar is like an insurance
policy the most important features are
the ones you hope you' ll never need.
And like an insurance policy, it can be
somewhat painful to pay for.
The system itself will add about $700
to the price of a vehicle and it often
comes bundled with other options in a
higher end package. The first year of
service is included in the package. After
that, drivers who wish to continue the
service are offered a choice of three plans
that range in price from $24.95 to $87.95
per month. Those who wish to use the
OnStar service for hands-free personal
calling can buy packages of prepaid minutes at rates ranging from 38 cents to 67
c ents per minute, depending on t h e
number of minutes and how soon they
expire.
There is one limitation drivers should
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driving in remote areas. OnStar communicates via cellular phone signals only, so
if you're out of cellphone range, you're
out of the service's reach. While the GPS
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location, without a cell signal, there's no
way to communicate the data to the call
centre. Walsh did point out, however,
that because the system uses the vehicle's
battery, which is stronger than the typical cell phone battery, it will allow driv-
There are alternatives to OnStar, though

not many, and not usually on l ower
priced vehicles. Several manufacturers
also offer DVD-based satellite navigation systems, but they tend to be available on luxury models, and can add several thousand dollars to the bottom line.
i htercedes-Benz offers Tele A id , a
t hree-button system very si milar t o
OnStar that comes standard on most of
its models. A DVD- and GPS-based navigational system is also available on
some models.
BMW offers Assist, which is also similar to OnStar and Tele Aid, but which
requires a vehicle with an on-board navigation system and an activated BihfW
cellular phone system. The service is
priced at $190 per vear.
Lexus offers a DVD-based navigation
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software and try it out if at all possible.
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accident altogether would be an even
hetter option. It's a dream that inspires
ongoing research at Ford's Research and
Advanced Engineering division.
Ron Miller; a physicist who graduated
trom MIT. has been with Ford tor eight
years. His specialty is intelligent vehicle
technologies, and the results of his projects probably won't hit a car lot before
2008. The value in telematics, as he sees
it, lies in "real-time traffic and weather
reporting," and Ford has partnered up
with the Departments of Transportation
in Minnesota and Michigan to figure out
how to make it work.
Basically, the system involves three
steps; data is collected from vehicles as
they inove through tratfic; it's then sent
wirelessly to d i gital messaging signs
operated by the transportation departm ents; and t h e n b a c k t o vehicles
through a cell phone or radio signal as a
real-time traffic message.
M iller says Ford i s w o r k ing w i t h
Delphi to develop a radio that would fit
into vehicles and offer both a wireless
wide area network (WAN) and a wireless
LAN. This would move the system away

from a server-basedsystein to a more
decentralized virtual floating network,
in which cars talk directly to each other.
"By having these vehicles talk to each
other, multi-vehicle accidents are a thing
of the past," says Miller, "because somebody slams their brakes on 500 m up in
front of me, I norinally don't see that
until all the brake lights hit, and then all
of a sudden, I have to brake hard. If I
knew that ahead of time, I would have
slowed down in a non-aggressive manner, and the people around me would
slow down in a non-aggressive manner,
and we'd stop that collision or shock
wave that happens when events occur on
the highway. So i t c h anges all the
dynamics. It provides sustainable mobility, and it keeps people safe."
Safetyis a key message in the discussion around telematics systems, and for
good reason: studies have shown that
safety issues are the strongest selling
point in convincing car buyers to pay for
the systems.
A survey released in O c t ober b y
Driscoll-Wolfe Marketing and Research
Consulting found that of those drivers
with OnStar or Tele Aid ( o ffered in

Mercedes vehicles) installed who decided to renew the service after the first
year, 93 percent cited the emergency
notification feature as a motivator. And a
study by J.D. Power and A ssociates
released in December showed that consumers are more interested in safetyrelated technologies than they are in features that only add entertainment, comfort, or convenience.
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But not everyone is convinced that
telematics systems make vehicles safer.
According t o T r ansport C anada, as
telematics become more common, they
could make roads more dangerous, even
for those without the systems installed.
A discussion document published in the
Canada Gazette in J une argues that
many of the devices are poorly integrated with the car's system or are too complicated and require a lot of visual attention, possibly distracting drivers to the
point of causing accidents. Since the federal government has the power to regulate what is built into new vehicles sold
in Canada, it seems Transport Canada
has put the industry on notice that the

government is ready to step in and regulate the systems if it doesn't think vehicle
manufacturersare doing enough to keep
drivers focused on driving.
While the Transport Canada paper
alleges that human factors, or the way
users interact with the machines, are not
adequately considered in the design and
implementation of telematics devices in
vehicles, Miller points to ongoing and
extensive research Ford is doing in the
area.
" We' ve got a tremendous effort i n
that," savs Miller, adding that the company uses a t'ull-motion simulator to test
driver interfaces.
"You put people in the simulator, you
have different tasks they have to perform, you look at eye glance, lane departure, even small lane departures."
Recognizing that there are any number of things that can affect driver focus,
the testing program is not l i m ited to
advanced technologies. "It goes all the
way down to, how do we set up the interior, not only from the advanced technologies we bring in there," says Miller,
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even hands-free models, are less able to
process visual information due to "inattention blindness," and react more slowly to traffic signals and changes in the
driving environment.
GM claims its own research is based
on precise, real-world situations and
Navigating the real world

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but also "how far those technologies are
from [my] reach... and then can I see
them and am I affected by regular ambint conditions that are outside of the
technology?"
Mike Walsh, of O nStar Canada, is
quick to point out that his company's
service is free of v i sual d i straction.
"There's a big difference between the
kind of service that OnStar provides and
things like a cell phone or the navigation
devices that have a screen," he says.
"When OnStar provides directions, for
shows that uso f t h e OnStar system

while driving is safe. The company has
the advantage of knowing exactly when
an OnStar call intersects with a crash
serious enough to deploy airbags. In
analyzing 8.1 million embedded cell
phone calls to Ongtar call centre advisors between October 1996 and ivlay
2000, GM found that during only two
calls were drivers on the phone at th
time of a crash serious enough to deploy
the airbags.
The dbate is only just beginning.
While those in favour of telematics point
out that drivers who eat, read, and chat
with passengers are also distracted,
Transport Canada countrs that while it
is not in a position to regulate what drivers can bring into their vehicles with
them, it is in a position to regulate what
is built into the vehicle and how much of
e xample, there's nothing t o l o o k a t

except the roads, and nowhere else to
put your hands except on the wheel. So
the person talking to you will give you
the directions, and they can stay on the
line with you as well, or just giiyou the
dirctions and you can hang up. There' s
nothing to look at, really."
But visual devices may not be the only
offenders. A University of Utah study
p ublished in th e M arch issue of t h e
/ ouriiiil of F3c/Ierimental Psycliology
found that drivers using cell phones,
that equipment is accessible and functional while the vehicle is moving.
What's it worth?
All the dreams, hype, and debated issues
may be moot i f t h e i n dustry doesn' t
manage to find answers to the bottom
line question: do people really want
telematics in their vehicles, and are they
willing to pay the associated costs?
OnStar has been available on 41 modls for 2003, and will b expanded to
seven more models in the 2004 lineup.
But despite the relatively widespread
availability, including entry-level models
like th e P o n t iac S u n fire a nd t h e
Chevrolet Cavalier, the system is only
installed in about 20 percent of new
v ehicles driving off G M l o ts. And of
those who have the service, only about
50 percent renew it for thscond year,
once they have to start paying for the
subscription. Subscribers who stick with
the servicefor a second year armore
likly to renew for the third year and
beyond.
Ford partnered with Qualcomm in
October 2000 to form Wingcast, a serv-
ice similar to OnStar, but then shuttered

the company last year without entering
the marl et.
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a c ontract w i t h ATX
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scenes for Mercedes Tele Aid and BMW
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While telematics hasn't expanded as
rapidly as some predicted it would a t'ew
years ago, it seems that automotive companies have not given up completely.
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customers. As part of this effort, they' ve
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Collaboration (AMI-C, at www.ami-corg)
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establish standards for electronic components in vhicles that will result in
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Simplifying security
Continuedfrom page~
mail, network passwords for your office
and home computers, passwords for
your office email and Web mail clients,
the "unlock" code for your PDA, and on
and on.
So what do you do? Write them all
down somewhere so you don't forget
them or make them all the same so that
anyone who guesses the right password
can "unlock" your whole life?
Anybody's solution
Or, wouldn't it make sense to be able to
eliminate at least some of the ID/password headaches in your l it'e without
comproinising the security of your personal or business information?
With biometrics, there is nothing to
remember. You can't forget your fingerprint, your eyes, or your face. You always
have them with you and should be
able to easily produce them when needed. The real issue is whether or not biometric solutions niake sense for the average home or small business user.
Biometrics for the home and small office

Do you really need a biometric security
solution at your home nr in your small
business? The answer lies in three words:
security and convenience. The added

security comes trom knowing that only
you or those people you' ve selectedcan access a biometrically protected system. That security also extends to the
mobile environment. It' you use a notebook computer or a PDA, there are a
growing number ot biometric options
that alloss you to ensure that the work
you hold on your mobile system can be
kept from hackers and computer thieves.
These solutionscan also offer convenience by giving you at least one fewer
ID/password combination to r emember freeing up those extra brain cells to
remember more important int'ormation
(such as your spouse's birthday). Only a
handful of the wide range ot biometric
technologies are available to the home
and small business PC user, although
that number seems to be on the rise.
Common biometric solutions

Here's a breakdown of the most common biometric solutions based on recognizing a body part:
Fingerprint recognition: It's one of
those wonderful quirks of nature that
no two human tingerprints are identical (perhaps at least until someone
breaks the ban on human cloning).
This ty7e of system takes a picture of
your fingerprint and compares it to a

previously taken picture ot your fingerprint to see if the two match.
Face recognition: This technology is
more a software marvel than anything
else. The hardware is fairly standard
c amera gear although it m ust b e
said that the better the camera, the
more accurate the results are likely to
b e. F a ceIt, a sol u t i o n from
Minnetonka, briinn. -based Identix,
works by looking at the unique geometrical relationships within a face
a rid comparing them t o a k n o w n
image of the individual. Others take a
different approach. Massachusettsbased Viisage's face-recognition technology, for example, was developed at
MIT and uses what it calls "eigenfaces," which map characteristics ota
person's face into a multi-dimensional "face space."
Ir is recognition: The major applications so tar have been aviation security, automatic border crossing controls, database access, computerl
ogin,
building entry, ATMs, and government programs.
speak, type, or write something:

Voice identification: Notice that this
t)pie of solution is called "voice identification" and o f " v oice recognition." While voice identification solutions need to recognize specific voices, their goal is to identify the speaker
rather than what the speaker is sapng.
Voice ID solutions allow vou to use
your voice to give commands to your
computer.
Ha ndwriting i dentification: Again,
handwriting identification should be
differentiated t r o m han d w r i t i ng
recognition. The latter is designed to
figure out what is written, while the
former tries to establish the identity
of the writer.
Keystroke authentication: There are
a few products based on this notion.
The best-known i s B i o Password
Wash.-based
( from
Bel l v u e ,
NetNanny Software), which learns the
unique way yo u e n ter c h aracters
using a keyboard. It's based on the
idea that "typing rhythm" is individual, so a intruder's will not be the
same as a computer's owner.
Quasi-biometric solutions
Putting yourself in the biometric picture
There are also several quasi-biometric

recognition systems that require you to
The real key to figuring out which bio-
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Stealth, smoke, and steel

TCP Lab looks at theft prevention, recovery, and other security solutions
computers. PC Phone H o me has no
monitoring tees or other costs.
By Dave Chappelle
hen you hear the term "computer securitv," you probably
think of f i rewalls and antivirus applications. They are important
products something many of us have
learned through experience (find more
about these products in archived articles
at www.CanadaComputes.rom).
Computer security also includes theft
prevention and recovery for hardware
and data,Eor this I.ah,we'vc broadened
our scope to include hardware and software products developed to prevent loss
and assist with recovery of stolen hardware or data and to prevent unauthorizedaccess and usage, data corruption,
or inadvertent destruction.
Securiock
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The software
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out any indication to the user that they

were being issued.
The email messages from PC Phone
Home contained all of the information
wc provided during registration, plus
the IP address, time connected, user
name, serial number, and even the silly
name sve forgot wc'd given the computer when we tirst installed the operating
system.
As PC Phone Home requires email to
svork, you might thiiik formatting thc
hard drive or d eleting the partition
would wipe out the program. Wrong! It
remains hidden as a separate, phantom

partition disguised as a bad sector. Even
if that is deleted, several key tiles spawn
on reboot. Format and Fdisk commands
don't work if the program is properly
installed. Registered users can, however,
request a special uninstall program lo
remove PC Phone Home. The company
reports that all 31 computers registered
with PC Phone Home that have been
stolen so far in 2003 have been returned.
None were tampered with, reformatted,
or re-partitioned.
The user's manual describes a technique to slow down a thief: make your
CA drive the first hoot device in your
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Requires: Mac OSBx,9x, OS X; Windows
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PC Phone Home helps get your stolen
computer back. Once the software is
installed, it sends an email message every
time the computer is connected to the
I nternet. D u r in g s etup, t h e system
requires your email address and outgoing mail server name. No email client
(email program or application) is needed. It's OK t o u s e y our ow n e m ail
a ddress; just make sure that i t y o u
change ISPs, you also change the info
listed with PC Phone Home. The ownership information you provide during
registration must be accurate if police
are to be notified or legalities arise about
providing false information on a svarrant.
We used the same email address for
sending and receiving, and each time we
logged on,an email message appeared in
the inbox within seconds. When connected on another telephone line using
another ISP, it took about three minutes
tu receivethe message. Dozens of information reports were sent stealthily, with-
s ystem, and p a ssword-protect y o ur

BIOS settings. This prevents someone
f rom using a tl oppy or C D t o b o o t
around the protection (many systems
now ship with the CD-ROi%1 drive set as
the first boot option), and from readily
changing the hoot-drive order. It is possible to work around this protection, but
it's more likely that many alerts will be
sent before YC Phone Home is defeated.
We experienced one mildly annoying
event. When not connected online, the
dial-up networking adapter kept tr)nng
to dial a connection immediately after
we booted up the computer. After leaving our computer running all night, we
found dozens of dial-up attempts on our
taskbar so many that we couldn't close
them, and were forced to reboot.By
ex7erimenting, we learned that simph'
closing the hrst two automatic dial-up
attempts solved the problem. Note: if the
p rogram is contigured for use w i t h
broadband, this should not occur.
A tull version of the software can be
dnwnloaded from the PC Phone Home
IVeb site, as can a free 30-day trial version for those who want to try before
they huy. Enterprise version~ are also
available for organizations with several
From: SecurSoftware, www.secursoftware.corn

Estimated price: 5199 (1 key); 5278 (2 keys)
Warranty: 1 year
Requires: Windows 2000/XP; 1 MB disk space
A loss prevention device, SecurLock is a
USB key/sottware solut.ion for Windows
2000 and XP. (Note: key in photo indicates scale and is nol part of SecurLock
system.) When inserted into a USB port
on your system, it performs user logon
aiithcntication, file encryption, and storage for all of your passwords and logon
protiles. It can store this tyT)e of information forseveral userson the same system.
If lhe "key" is removed from the USB
port, you will he prompted to insert it
when you boot the computer. If you
insert it before turning on the system, or
did not remove it when you last shut
down the computer, you' ll be prompted
to t)ye in the PIN you selected during
setup. The computer can't be accessed at
all without the SecurLock USB key. As
well, SecurI.ock blocks access after three
incorrect PIN attempts. At this point,
only an administrator can unblock it. Of
course, if you' ve installed SccurLock on
a stand-alone system that only you use,
you are the administrator.
Right-click on a file icon to encrypt it
with either RC4 or Blowfish algorithm
encryption. While it provides stronger
encryption, Blowfish increases the size
of files, so RC4 is recommended for larger file.
Right-clicking also of'fers the option of
locking a file for transfer on tloppy disk
or hy email, or making it self-extracting.
Simply right-click, select the encryption
or lock you want, and choose a password. To read the tile, the recipient must
also know the passssord.
The Single Sign-On (SSO) feature
allows you to store all your logon names
and passwords in one encrypted location. Each identity is stored under an
icon with individual names. When you
go lo a Web site that requires a login,
HANDS ON
simply drag and drop the appropriate
icon onto the WLb page and click to
enter rather than typing in a name and
password.
Unlike some USB keys, SecurLock is
i nternal)y shielded to protect it f r o m
static electricity damage.
Kroll OnTrack Easy Recovery Lite

From: Kroll OnTrack Inc.,
www.ontrack.corn/easyrecovery/
Prices: 589 (Lite), 5)99 (Data Recovery), 5499
(Pro), 5399 (File Repair)
Requires: 486 or faster CPU; 150 MBdisk space
Kroll OnTrack Easy Recovery lets you
try your hand at retrieving data Inst due
corruption by viruses, accidental deletion, or d r ive failure. Fasy Recovery
probably won't cause a sudden decrease
in businessat professional data recovery
labs which On Track acknowledges by
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I-'or our tests, wc downloaded a version of Easy Recovery Lite (the 26.6 MB
file requires 2.5 hours to download at
33.6 Kbps). Through an easy-to-use
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data recovery and file repair, and is subdivided i nt o r e covery f ro m v a r i ous
events. Depending on what caused your
data loss, you can choose Formatted,
Deleted, Virus, Standard, and Raw data
recovery. Separate sections exist for
repairing damaged Word and Zip files.
Straightforward instructions are at the
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Easy Recover Lite to make an emergency
boot disk.
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and a "good" one that Easy Recovery can
write to. If not, you' re gently reminded,
"The destination path you have chosen
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difterent destination."
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metric solution is right for you lies in
figuring out why you need it, If you are
just looking for a little extra security for
your desktop computer, a simple lowcost, quasi-biometric solution such as
NctNanny BioPassword (which sells for
USS 29.99) using your existing hardware may fit the bill.
If you want something that's more
truly biometric, then the most costeffective solution will probably be a fingerprint-recognition
solution of
which there are many. A growing number are now being included in handheld
computers (such as HP's new iPAO
Pocket PC hS400 series) as well as being
part of add-on keyboards and computer
mice.
You' re likel> to enjoy the maximum
benefit of a hiometric solution if you use
a notebook computer a device that
you may not always be able to physically
protect from access. By protecting your
notebook with a fingerprint recognition
system, you' ll he able to ensure that prying eyes can't snoop through the contents ofyour hard drive, even ifyou've
just stepped out of a cubicle at a client's
oflice or have left your seat on a plane
for a few minutes to stretch your legs.
Notebook biometric solutions are
largely based on that plug into your
computer'5 USB port or PC Card slot. In
looking at such a solution, you want tn
make sure it's flexible, easy to use, and
makes sense for the way you work. If you
are right-handed,for example, and you
have a notebook computer that has its
PC Card slot at the rear left-hand of
your notebook, you may not want to go
for a PC Card-based fingerprint recognition solution that requires vou to awkwardly reach across the notebook every
time you want to use it.
Likewise, if you know that you are
going to be tvorking regularly in spaces
where you have little extra room (on a
plane, train, or in a taxi), you won't want
to have cords dangling out of the back of
your notebook as you work, so a PC
Card solution may be best.
And then, of course, there's the issue
of price. In the world of biometrics, all
the usual rules still apply. One of them is
that an@hing from Sony will be sleek,
good-looking, and work really well, but
you' ll pay a premium for it. That certainly true of the Sony FIU/SS2I (also
called the Puppy), which scl)s for around
US$300, but has garnered strong praise
for the integrity of' its fingerprint ID
security, its good looks, light weight, and
ease of use.
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cheerful" solutions, consider the Targus
( T ECH I N T H E R EA L W O RLD )
DEFCON Authenticator (available froin
the Targus site at wwwtargus.corn), which
comes in either USB ($119) or PC Card
($199) versions. One nice touch in the
USB version is that a two-port USB hub
is incorporated swithin it meaning that
you not only get extra security, you get
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biometric companies have recently been
acquired, gone t h rough m ergers or
struggled to g ain f u r t her f i nancing.
Others have largely abandoned the retail
market to focus on higher-priced solutions for industry or government.
At the same time, companies such as
Florida-based AuthenTec have started
supplying t i n gerprint i d e n t ification
solutions to c o mputer manufacturers
for as little as $6 per unit, making it a relatively low-cost add-on to a mid-range
notebook or desktop computer.
As demand grows and
in the struggling PC industry continues
to intensif) it's likely that some form
of biometric security will become common on many mid-range and highcrend systems. Over time, it may even
become a standard feature on entrylevel systems. And it is certainly looking
like it will have strong appeal on more
" personal" d i gital d e vices, such a s
mobile phones and PDAs.
So our final word of advice on looking
lor a biometric solution is: caveat emptor. You would do well to buy from a
more well-known supplier, and, if you
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months to a year anyway, think about
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From: SpectorSoft Corp., www.eblaster.corn
Estimated price: USS149.95, USS99.95 (via Web)
For monitoring unauthorized computer
use, eBlaster is personal spyware that
generates detailed reports about. the
computer n n wh i c h i t ' s i n s t alled.
Whenever that computer is used to
access the Internet,a report is ernailed to
you, in intervals of your choice, from
every 30 minutes to cvcry 24 hours.
Select the online activities you want
reported t o y o u f r o m t h e e R laster
Control Panel. Conlptl'ter Danie, riser
login ID, IP address, kc>~vord summary,
applications used, Wcb sites and chat
rooms visited, keystrokes typed, and the
screensaver type are all included. If you
set a Keyword Alert and that word comes
up in an a pplication, email, chat, or
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Ininutes you can have individual keystrokes, nullifying your subject's password protection.
When specilj~ng where you want the
reports sent, keep in mind that spam filters on nlany email servers prevent you
from seeing HTML m ail. Choose the
plain text report option for instant notification, and wait to view the t'ull report
later on the subject computer. At any
time you may test the reporting funct ion. Reports are sent to vo u l v it h a
bogus replyaddress, preventing a report
from returning to the subject computer
and possibly alerting the user.
There are no signs anyxvhere that
eRlaster is installed on a computer. It
doesn't appear in thc program files or
uninstall software. Few users are aware
o f t h e e x i stence of' t h e W i n d o ws
Registry; hut we looked thoroughly and
found nothing. It has to bc i n t h ere
sonlewherc, but cBlaster hides very well.
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block
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anti-virus programs won't stop even a
remote installation of eRlaster, because

the file is not a virus. Grisoft AVG was
installed on our test system, yet eBlaster
breezed right past it.
Our tests seem to indicate one or two
known W i n d ows e x ploits ( security
holes) are used to send the ke)svord
alerts. Chat and messaging programs
also have weII-known exploits, which
might also be used to send reports without a user's knowledge.
Two separate spyware detection applications c o u l d n' t de t ec t eB l a ster.
Removing a known Xifjcrosoft Internet
Fxplorer exploit disabled thc cBlaster
keyword reporting function, yet all other
sp>ing and reporting f u nctions still
worked. Th e v e r i f ication p r o v ided
makes worried parents and employers
obvious users of CBlaster. However,
SpectorSoft literature avoids mentioning
that untrusting spouses form the largest
portion of eRlaster purchasers.
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attached to the floor, will send a thief
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Without a key, your computer will be
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Adjustable front and rear steel flat bars
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compactness (four can be shipped in the
space of one assembled unit).
While relatively easy to insert, the
screws for assembling the Wrap are
cross-threaded to discourage, if' not prevent, removal once installed. The screw
heads require an u ncommon d r iver,
which prevents anyone from taking it
apart with a common slotted, Philips, or
Robertson screwdriver.
Anchoring the Wrap is slightly more
complicated than drilling into your concretefl
oor (over 90 percent of The Wrap
installations are on concrete) with a
masonry bit and Tapcons (typical hardware-store masonry screws). Unless
you' re experienced in concrete drilling
and inounting, pay a l i t tle extra for
installation. (Your insurance company
may insist on professional installation.)
If you have a wood floor, special mounting adapters are available that prevent a
thief with a crowbar or lever f'rom simply prying up the entire package.
Smoke Cloak
cles are one micron in size and nonbuoyant. A "cloak sensor" measures the
smoke level after the first "firing," producing more for half the duration if
needed.
As a room fills rapidly with Smoke
Cloak-generated smoke, thieves typically react by r u n ning from t h e " fi re,"
according to the company. We witnessed
a 140 sq. ft. room I III completely in
under 13 secoilds.
With an additional 7.5-second blast,
we couldn't see anything. With smoke
from a fire, the air is clearer if you get
close to the floor not so here. Even on
the floor, you can't see your hand until it
touches your nose. It's an eerie feeling:
an exit door and fresh air is only about a
m etre away, yet you' re unsure of i t s
direction.
Smoke Cloak backs up its reputation
with money: public liability and damage
loss insurance of up to Sn0 million on
unoccupied premises. The exception is
first page output from copiers and print-
From: Martin Secunty Smoke,

www.smokecloak.com
Price: from 53,000 (customized installation)
This loss prevention solution sports a
"zero dollar loss" record, ac.cording to its
manufacturer:nothing has ever been
stolen from locations which span the
globe where Smoke Cloak has been
installed.
Sinoke Cloak connects to existing
security systems, so installations are customized for each location, with fire and
police departments notified. It includes
a separate battery so it works even in
event of power failure at the location.
When the securitysystem isbreached,
the Smoke Cloak quickly distributes
smoke it has generated from distilled
water and pharmaceutical and foodgrade triethylene polyglycols, which
won't harm those caught in the room
with the smoke (though serious asthmatics might disagree). Unlike theatrical
smoke, it leaves no residue. Smoke parti-
ers, as the glycol on the drums could

cause a bit of smearing on the first page.
As well, norinal smoke detectors are
affected hy this smoke, so have to be
replaced (about $30 each) in the event
that the Smol'e Cloak is used.
The level of the fluid used to make the
smoke is monitored by the alarm monitoring station. The sensors shut down
the pumps to save them in event of fluid
depletion. Because the fluids evaporate
at different rates, a licensed technician
must service the system once a year.
Initially designed for banks and lescelry stores, this device now protects server
rooms, labs, and other rooms used to
house a lot o f e xpensive equipment.
Some home versions are installed near
the main hall, activated by a panic button in the master bedroom.
Smoke Cloak renders ugly exterior
window bars obsolete. Next time you
pass an unbarred building in a shady
area, you might be passing a Smoke
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T ECH I N T H E R EA L W O RLD
Kids in driver's seat of new wireless technologies

PNs+
By Jeff Evans
They were using Si3,IS, constantly, and as

easIIy as they tall ed.
bout a year a go, I w e nt to a

Toronto media briettng on short
messaging services (SMS), a
wirejess data technology that lets cell
phone userssend and receive short text
messages. A presentation showed houri
wildl)' popular S,'vIS was in japan and
Europe, and how the Canadian tejcos
were finally getting their act together to
make their next-generation cell phones
"interoperabje." alloIving C a nadian
I asked around, and was told condescendingly that "everyone" with a cell
phone was using SKIS. Except rne, evidently.
I talked with a couple of Canadian
wireless industry experts, Todd Beaman,
director of enterprise and mobile appjications forEricsson Canada <wwwencsson.corn/ca/), and David Neal, vice-president of new product development at
Rogers AT3<T Wireless (www.rogers.com),
to find out what had happened to the
technology and the market in the last six
wireless phone users to communicate

digital info with each other.
Fine, interoperable is good, and I did-
01onths.
n t ljllnk nltlch about It fter t11at.
Then, this spring I began to notice an

odd new behaviour;1Iuong many ot nly
kids' high school and college age friends.
They'd be talking with each other, then
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phone, silently read something on the
phone'sscreen, and tap in a quick reply.
Both Beaman and Neaje. as it turned

o ut, were v er y i n t erested i n what
Canadian kids were doing with S IvIS. It
turns out that there are two user groups
driving much of the progress ot' wireless
voice and data technologies around the
world.
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A healthy perspective
By Sean Carruthers
One Touch UltraSmart
icrocircuitry ha s become a
part of p r e tt y m u c h every
aspect of our daily lives, from
cell phones to portable digital audio
players, to navigation systems for our
cars. The ongoing miniaturization of the
technology is also helping people stay on
top of their own health, right at home.
We had a chance tolook at a few new
gadgets that will help you stay healthy.
According to the Canadian Diabetes
Association, over two ntijlion Canadians
have diabetes, whether they know it or
not. For people who are interested in
taking control over regulating and monitoring their blood glucose, computerized monitoring technology is available
in the palm of your hand.There arc a
number o f
p a l m - sized m o n i t oring
devices available from a handful ot companies; wc looked at t h e O n eTouch
UltraSmart, from LifcScan.
From:LifeScan Canada Ltd.,www.onetouch.ca

Estimated price: $99
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Thc package comes with thc glucose

meter itself, a device that's a touch smaller thana deck of cards,as w ellas a sampler that holds a lancet on the end of a
spring-loaded trigger. You stick a test
s trip into the slot on th e top o f t h e
meter, use the sampler to obtain a blood
droplet from either your fingertip or
forearm, and then apply the droplet to

the end of the test strip, which is sticking
out ot' the meter. The blood is sucked
into the inner core of the strip, where it
reacts with a small zap of electricity, and
in about five seconds, the meter gives
you a result.
What's nice about a monitoring system like this is that it allows you to add
comments to results you take, including
the food you' ve eaten, how you' re feeling, and any exercise you' ve done.
As the blood glucose result is entered,
the system is designed to display warnings or suggestions as appropriate if
your glucose is dangerously high or low,
it will display a large warning on the
LCD screen saying so, or if it's on the
verge it may just recommend a snack.
Also, along the bottom of the device are
specific buttons to allow you to enter
data at any time about exercise, general
health, medications taken, and meals
eaten. All of this allows you to better
track your blood glucose levels and how

they react to various daily occurrences.
The meter allows you to view the information either in log form or as a graph
or chart.
The OneTouch UltraSmart comes in a
small soft-shell case with a belt loop, so
you can ahvays have the ki t h a n dy
whether you' re at work, home, or out on
a walk. Two AAA batteries are included,
as is a 10-pack of sterile lancets. Testing
strips aren't included in the box, so make
sure to buy them separately. Also sold
separately is a serial cable interface that
allows you to connect the meter to your
computer, a s
we l l as O ne Touch
Management S o f t w ar e f or
yo ur
Windows PC, INote: the retail price of
the OneTouch UltraSmart is $99, but
there are incentives available through
qualified health professionals, which can
bring the price of the unit down to as
low as $29. Ask your DEC or doctor for
more information )
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Centrios Infrared Ear Tkermometer

Centrios Blood Pressure Monitor
From: InterTANCanada, wirw.radioshack.ca
Estimated price: 540 (thermometer), 560 (blood
pressure monitor)
Taking control of your health at home
doesn't necessarily mean drawing and
testing your o w n b l o od there are
always the basics, and ways to make
them even easier. Radio Shack's Centrios
brand now features two new products to
do just that.
The Intrared Ear Thermometer looks
almost like a t ube ot t o othpaste, but
with an LCD on one side and an infrared
sensor on the tip. When you press the
scan button on the side, the infrared
sensor takes 512 readings within one
second to determine your temperature.
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emphasize how you' re doing: a smiley

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an unhappy face ifyou're running a
fever. A memory setting allows you to
store 10 readings. The unit is powered by
a single CR2032 watch-sized battery, and
comes with a protective case for storage.
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should be; maybe I should take some
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Cleaner XL still must-have video

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By Emrtt Townsend
any people who work with digital
video have it easy. They know
exactly where their video is coming from (say, a DV camera) and exactly
where it'
s going to go when they're done
with it (say, a Windows Media file). The
rest ofus never know where our latest
video is coming from, what condition it' s
in, or where it's going to go.
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So to cover every possibility, our hard
drives can become cluttered with multiple
programs for converting and cleardng up
video in every conceivable format. On the
other hand,there's always Cleaner, the
latest iteration of which is called Cleaner
XL. (The newest Mac version, for OS 9.1
and OS X 10.1, is Cleaner 6.)
Cleaner's job is to take a source video
file, convert it to exactly the video resolution, frame rate, and audio sampling
rate you need, and spitit out in the form at youwant. Along the way, it can cl.ean
up the image,crop the frame, adjust the
colour, and more.
The lasttime I used Cleaner was about
three years ago, when it was owned by
Media 100 and called Media Cleaner Pro.
W hat Iliked about it then was that it was
only ascomplex as you needed it to be.
Creatinga batch job was a matter ofdragging several video fiLes into the job queue
window,and assigning each file an output
profile say, a QuickTime file at 15 frames
per second (fps) scaled to half the original image size, or a 30 fps AVI. If you
needed to do some extra tweaks,like

changing the colour space or resampling
the audio,you would go to the appropriate subsection in the profile and select
only what you needed;the options you
didn'tneed remained hidden unless you
clickedon their tabs.Once you were done
with your settings, you started the baLL
rolling and found something else to do
while the file encoded.
Cleaner XL has a similar workflow, but
I'm not sure I hke its embellishments. For
one thing, every file in a job now has to
conform tothe same frame format (NTSC
or PAL, for instance) and aspect ratiobut isn'
t the whole point of using a batch
processorto let the computer sort out the
difference between different files?
In theend, the results are the same; it's
just thatifyou want to convert several
files that are i n d i f ferent formats or
aspectratios,you have to create separate
jobs, put files in the appropriate job, then
put eachjob in the queue adding several stepsto what used to be a streamlined
process.
Other than that,Cleaner XL performs
just as well as its ancestor. Selecting an
encoder gives you control over every possible parameter of the output file format;
the audioand video tracks can be extracted separately; colour and sound can be
adjusted almost any way you like. A splitscreen preview provides an easy way to
see how your settings will affect the final
look of your v)deo.
Some notableimprovements include the
ability to convert the same source file
into several output files simultaneously,
even to different Locations on your hard
disk, network, or ftp site.
The Watch Folders feature allows you or
other network users to drag and drop files
intodesignated folders forautomatic conversion.
Anotherbonus: CLeaner can ouput files
specifically fo r t h e i n c luded Kinoma
Producer, providing an excellent way to
preparevideo for Palm OS-based handhelds.
With its steep price tag, Cleaner XL isn' t
for everyone. But if you work with video
professionally or even if you' re just a
prolific amateur it's almost a necessary
addition to your toolbox. U
Emru Townsend (emru@pobox.corn) swears hjs
video didn't kill the radio star.
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Kids in drivers seat

Continued
Mm page 56
One group i s t h e b u siness power
users: financial industry people, stockbrokers and investment bankers and
such, who live with their phones, get
stock prices and news headlines, and
send and receive email and messages
necessary tor staying up t o d ate and
making fast decisions.
The second, larger group is young
peopl, who have eagerlyadopted the
successivewaves of wireless services as a
medium for staying connected with
friends, tlirting, chatting, playing games,
and picking up useful information while
it's still fresh.
Motorola's TV ads for th e " M o to"
lifestyle (direct. motorola.corn/hellomoto), with
wild club kids and chic cosmopolitan
stylishness, only show part ot the appeal
of wireless for the young. Wireless social
connectivity is a 24-hour a day reality,
not only a Saturday night fever.
About t ou r p e r cent o f C a n adian
phone users, or about 400,000 people,
have picked up the SlsIS habit most of
thm in the last six months. That num-
ber is expected to double and quadruple

over the next year, as the number of new
phones with SMS capability increases,
and more users discover the appeal of
SMS.
One reason SMS is such an easy sell to
young people,according to Bcaman and
Neale, is that kids were already big users
of Instant Messaging, email, and chat on
their computers, as well as dedicated cell
phone voice and pager addicts. SMS
c ombines the computer and p h o n e
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The importance of a private, immediate way to contact one's friends is shown
by the proportion of disposable income
young Canadians will spend on their cell
phones:monthly hills of 540to $100 are
common. A high percentage of kids buy
their cell phone time on a pay-as-you-go
basis.
Neale claims that there is a combination of group tashion and individual
freedom to SMS, which is very appealing
to young people.
"It's an intimate I'orm of communication," he commented, noting that this
demographic places a lot of emphasis
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and forming an individual identity. The
private nature of SIslS serves both needs.
Beaman looks ahead at regular waves
of new wireless hardware and applications hitting the Canadian market over
the next three to four years, as higher
speed services and m o r e p o w erful
phones with b etter screens, built-in
cameras, and the ability to run Java software become more common.
Bcaman also claims that photography
and even Webcam-style video over
phones will become popular over the
next five years, along w i t h g a mes,
enhanced email, and Web browsing.
In a recent Ericsson survey, 56 percent
of Canadian respondents claimed to be
using cell phones, well behind the 93
percent of respondents in a Swedish survy. Beaman notes that if the parts of the
population not surveyed (children, people living outside of cell phone coverage
areas) were counted, the actual cell
p hone using p o p ulation w o ul d b c
roughly 30 to 32 percent of the total
p opulation, o r
ab o u t 10 m il l i o n
Canadians.
The cell phone market is still growing
steadily, and looking three to four years
ahead, Beaman expects to see a real 50
percent penetration rate, or about 15
million Canadian cell phone users.
The next leading edge of wireless is
claimed to be m ultimedia messaging:
pictures, sound, music, and animations.
Some of thesesersices are already happening in the U.S, but there is a bit of a
lag in C anada, as the l o cal service
providers wait to sec how it tlics down
south.
Some of the first serious multimedia
phone offerings may be rolled out for
the holiday season at the end of this year,
and looking out a couple of years ahead,
there'
llbe more phones and more services capable of handling streaming types
of media: television, news clips, music,
live feeds from concerts, and other public events.
When the phone networks' servers
and switches are upgraded to third-generation or 3G technology, we may see
those streaming apps become very popular. And when every phone comes out
with a buiJt-in lsIP3 player, and there are
millions more users, the prices of the
new services will also come down.

When asked whether there'd be security and privan p r oblems with nextgenerationphones, Bcaman laughed and
"no more so than the Internet," which
was notvery reassuring. He said wireless
is just as secure, maybe more so than a
desktop PC, because it's not as easy to
capture data wirclessly due to phenomena such as frequency hopping. But even
if you dn manage it, the data's very much
the same, neither less nor more secure
than the Internt.
Phone fashion report

Next year, according to Beaman and
Ncale, almost all new phones will have
colour screens as a standard, with most
also having the capability of handling
multimedia messaging at current transmission speeds, with games and downloadable Java applets among the options.
Thc average cell phone user trades up
to a new phone about every 18 months,
so within a fcw years, most Canadian
users will be carrying a new generation
phone: depending on economic conditions, up to 20 million new phones may
enter the Canadian market, according to
Beam an.
According to Beaman, Ericsson curr ently has a s m a ller s h are o f t h e
Canadian cell phone market compared
to industry leaders Motorola and Nokia,
but its market share has been increasing
steadily in recent years, and it's looking
at its sophisticated new m u l t imedia
phones to give it an edge.
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young Canadians will always be disproportionately interested in new communication and entertainment technologies, but today's early adopter kids will
grow up and turn into business users
who are very tech-savvy and accustomed
to spending on telecom services.
Because ofthis group's acceptance of
svircless services, they' ll become more
widely spread even year, as today's kids
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Working on scenarios in Excel

preadsheets are
great at answer"what-if"
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questions: design a
works hect in w hich
you change a couple
of numbers and it will
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show you the results
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of t h os e c h a nges
instantly. Being able
to manage theresults
will help you test your scenarios, allowing
you toeasily switch between sets of data
and compare results side by side.
Enter Excel's scenario manager. This
tool letsyou save the sets of data you
place in cells of a worksheet model and
easily restore them rather than entering
them again.It can also be used to create
summaries for the scenarios you' re testing, allowing you to compare both the
data andresultsside by side.
This month, I'
ll show you how to use
the scenario manager to compare various
savings goals, so you can see how the
finalamount saved varies depending on a
number of scenarios. We' ll create a very
simple worksheetfor use with the scenario manager that will also be a fully
functionalworksheet model.
The savings planner will calculate the
amount you save over aperiod of time
based on an initial deposit and additional
periodical payments.
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amount you'
llhave saved at the end of 10
years ifyou invest $2,500 now and add
another $100 everymonth, earning four
percentannual interest calculated monthly.The negative amounts in the formula
are used because you are making payments out.
The result for this savings scenario is
$18,452.06. You will need to format cells
C3, C4, and CB to display currency and cell
C5 todisplay percentages.
Naming cells
Make it easier to read and interpret results
by naming the cells containing the variable information: i.e. cells C3 through CB.
You will change the values in cells C3
through C6 to test results in cell CB. To
name the cells, highlight the block of cells
from B3 through C6,click Insert, Name,
Create,select the Left Column checkbox,
and clickOK. Repeat this process to name
cell CB, selecting cells B * and CB, then
clicking Insert, Name, Create, etc.
The result will be that each cell in column C thatcontains data willbe named,
using the headings opposite the cell in
column B.Ifyou select cell C4,for example, the name in the formula bar will be
Additional monthly deposits. Using the
Name, Create feature to name cells
replacesany spaces in the name with an
underscore. Naming cells this way allows
you to refer to them by their names rather
than cell references. So, cell C5 becomes
Interest rate, making it easier to identify
itscontents.In fact you can, ifyou wish,
replace the formula in cell C8 with this
formula:
The basic calculator

To createthis worksheet model, open a
new Excel file and enter the following
data intothe cells shown:
Cell D ata
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Ini t ial amount deposited
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A d d itional
m~onthl deposits
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you to name the cells, but it is recommended becausethese names (rather than
cell references) are used as headings in
the scenario report.
Create a scenario
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You cannow run a what-if analysis on this

worksheet. For example, check to see
what wouldhappen ifyou could get five
percent interest instead of four or if your
initial d e posit was $5,000 instead of
$2,500. Todo this, change the figure in
cell C5 to,05 (which is five percent) or
alter the figure in cell C3 to $5,000.
As you start playing with the data,
you'll want to save your changes and the
subsequent results using the scenario
manager.To do this, begin by putting the
data backto the way it wa s when you first
created the worksheet.Select cells C3
through C6, click Tools, then Scenarios,
and click Add.
The first scenario will be the original
data, soin the Scenario Name area type
Original plan and check that the Changing
Cells area contains the reference C3:C6.
Click OK. In the Scenario Values dialogue,
make sure the following appear in the list
from top to bottom (alter them if needed): 2500, 100, .04, and 10. Click OK.
The Scenario Manager dialogue will
appear again with your f irst scenario
appearing in the list under the name
Original Plan. Add another scenario by
clickingAdd. Type the name of this scenario as 5,000 initial savings and click OK. This
time you' ll test the scenario of investing
$5,000,so make sure the following appear
in the list from top to bottom (altering
them if required): 5000, 100, .04, and 10,
Click OK.
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Use the Scenario manager dialogue to enter data and

name scenarios in your worksheet.
Add a third scenario called 5 iyo interest

rate in which the interest rate is five percent. This time the settings will read (top
to bottom):2500, 100, .05, and 10. Click
OK to addthis scenario.
One final scenario will allow you to
compare the resultsof making monthly
payments of$110. Add this scenario, calling it Extra 510 deposit, and set the variables
to: 2500, 110, .04, and 10. Dick OK.
Back in the Scenario Manager dialogue
click Close to exit the Scenario Manager
dialogue and save your workbook calling
it savings plan.xls.
Viewing a scenario
To view a scenario, display the Scenario
Manager dialogue by c l i cking Tools,
Scenarios,select the scenario you want to
display from the list, and click the Show
button.The worksheet willchange immediatelyto show the results of the scenario
you' ve chosen. If necessary, move the
ScenarioManager dialogue to an unused
part of the screen by dragging its title bar
so youcan see the results of applying the
scenarioto the worksheet modeL
If you use the Scenario Manager a lot,
you can make iteven easier to view your
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different scenarios by adding a Scenario
dropdown listbox to your toolbar. To do
this, click View, Toolbars, Customize, and
click the Commands tab. From the
Categories list, click Tools, and from the
Commands hst,scroll down to locate the
Scenario dropdown list. With your mouse,
drag thisout of the dialogue and up and
onto one of your visible toolbars. Let go
and the dropdown list box will appear on

t he toolbar. Click Close to e xi t t h e
Customize dialogue.
Now you canview the results of applying anyof the scenarios to your worksheet
by choosingthe scenario name from the
Scenario dropdown list. If necessary, you
can edit a scenario from the Scenario
Manager dialogue to change the figures it
applies to your worksheet.
To do this, click Tools, Scenarios, and
click the scenario you want to alter. Click
Editand OK and you can change the figures in the dialogue to your new choices.
Click OK then Close to finish. Notice that
when you edit a scenario, the original version changes permanently. If you really
want a d i f f erent additional scenario
instead,use Add rather than Edit. Only
use Edit when you really want to discard
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You can also add new scenarios using
your New Scenario dropdown list on your
toolbar. To see how this is done, alter the
worksheet so cells C3 to C6 display as follows; $2,500, $200, .04, and 10. This will
test the scenarioin which you double
your monthlyinvestment. To add this as a
scenario, highlight cells C3 to C6, click
the Scenario dropdown list and type
Double monthly payments, and press Enter.
You'll now see that the new scenario
appears inthe dropdown with the other
scenarios you created using the Scenario
Manager dialogue. View it as you would
any other scenario by clicking its name.
c lick Tools, Scenarios, and click t h e

Summary button. From th e S cenario
Summary dialogue, click the Scenario
Summary optionand ensure the entry in
t he Result C e ll s a r e a i s CS (or
Total Amount saved). The results cell
contains the figure you' re interested in
seeing the amount we willhave saved if
we apply these figures to our model. Click
OK to conhnue.
A new worksheet will appear in your
workbook containingthe scenario summary report. This is a horizontal table that is
already formatted neatly in Outline form.
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tons alongthe top and leftof the workbook to collapse or expand different parts
of thesummary to show more or less of
your data.Each of the scenarios you create,as well as the values in the worksheet
at the time you created the scenario
report, will be displayed. Notice that the
cell names you assigned earlier have been
used as the row headings, so the information is easy to understand.
You can printthis worksheet as you
would any other Excel workbook and even
generate achart from the results.To do
this, drag over cells D3 to I3 (or E3 to I3
if the first column contains data from a
scenario that appears elsewhere in the
The scenario manager is a handy tool for

managing multiple scenarios. You can
storedata in it and, when you select a
scenario to view, the tool will replace the
currentworksheet values with those it has
stored for that scenario. Scenarios are
saved with your worksheet so t hey' ll
always be available for viewing and printing.
It is also possible to summarize your
scenariosinto a handy table so you can
compare the results of each scenario side
by side.To create a summary worksheet,
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Click the "+" (plus) and "-" (minus) but-
Create a scenario summary
table), then hold the Control key as you

drag over cells D11 to I11 (or E11 to Ill).
Click the Chart Wizard button on the toolbar andstep through the process of creating a chart from the data The chart will.
show the final savings for each scenario.
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Creating a chart from the scenario summary table is a

very quick process.
As you can see, scenarios can be an

important and useful addition to your
Exceltoolkit.Once you understand them,
you' ll find plenty of ways use scenarios to
analyze data, from calculating savings
plans and mortgage repayments tocost
and productionsituations. C3
Helen 8radley specializes in writing hands-on tutorials. Her columns appear regularly in a number of
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come lessthan a month afterthis generation of iBook started to ship. Here are
the new Canadian list prices for iBooks:
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52,149
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due to the currency fluctuations, as the
new iBooks were selling briskly. It's interesting that now the difference in price
between a 14-inchiBook and a 12-inch
PowerBook is only $100. Considering that
they havethe same screen resolution, and
the PowerBook is a slicker looking, we' d
be surprised if this move didn't hurt sales
of the 14-inch iBook.
We don'tthink these recent drops point
to any new iBook models Apple is likely
to updatethe PowerBooks over the summer but leave the iBooks the same
through theback-to-school season, with
a p ossible s mall s p eed b u m p i n
October/November, or, more likely, an
entirely new iBook in early 2004.
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laptop,and Apple is aiming to have 50
percent of its total units sold be laptops.
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think he could be right.
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QuarkXPressin Mac OS X.The new version,
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features are multiple undoes and full-resolution previews.
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and undo justthe third one leaving the
restuntouched. Otherwise, Quark 6 running under OS X looks al.most identical to
Quark 5 running under OS 9.
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What a difference a single slot makes

By Sean Carruthers
e recently t e sted a ne w
Pentium 4 processor teamed
up with a Canterwnod mothrboard both new products I'rom Intel.
During ou r t e sting, we r a n s everal
benchmark tests on that confi g uratio,
as wll as benchmarl tests on AMD's
then-newest Athlon XP processor and
the slightly older Pcntiurn 4 3.06 C9Hz
processor on an 845 motherboard. The
results showed the new Cant crwnnd

combination providing excellent results,
though those results lagged very slightly
behind those of the older Pentium 4/845
combination by a very small margin.
Well, a few sharp-eyed readers pointed
out that the numbers werc not all they
could be, and they are absolutely right:
one of the nicest features of the new
Canterwood boards i s d u al-channel
memory support, designed tn give bttcr
memory bandwidth and speed everything up. With tsvn matched memory
sticks, any motherhnard with dual-channel support will be able tn take advant age o f g r e ater p e r f ormance; t h i s
i ncludes boards designed for A ' MID's
Athlon XP, as well. The hitch and this
is what caused our results to suffer is
that they have to be placed into thc
proper slots in order tn put the motherboard into dual-channel mode.
A blast from th e p ast> Well, only
kind a.
Old-school readers who have been
interested in computer hardware may
remember back to the days when computers required pairs of memnry in all
cases. You couldn't just insert one stick
of memory, it had to have a partner in
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order tn function at all. That was evelltually done away with when SL)RAM was
introduced: suddenly you could use one
slot at a time and still bA-OK.
With new dual-channel boards, that' s
not exactly the case: You can usc one slot
nf DDR memory at a t i me, and the
board will run just frne. The catch is that
it ss~ll only run in single-channel mode.
As the testing last time around shows,
the results were still great, but as nur
readers have pointed oui., that's not good
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than happy to admit nur mistake here-
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If you' ve purchased a machine that supposedlyfeatures dual-channel memory,

you may assume it's configured correctly
simply because there are tsvo identical
sticks inserted into the motherboard. As
well, because many motherboards are
a utomatically configured to b oot u p
silently, there may be no way of knowing
the truth unless ynu bust your way into
the BIOS settings and confirm it. (Even
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when you'vc confrgured the BIOS tn

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display the configuration data for memory, hard drives, and processor the
information may blast past your eyes so
quickly that ynu won't be able to read it.)
If you' rc putting the machine together
yourself, you' ll be in a much better position to know if the settings are right. The
important thing is to read the motherb oard documentation, then r ead i t
again. Many people who h a ve been
building systems for a while may be used
to sticking two DDR modules into slots
directly next tn each other, but that may
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It's tempting to want to go into full-on

rant mode about this kind of nitpiclq
memory configuration, since most of us
were relieved to get rid of this "matched"
configuration years ago. That said, it
could certainly be a lo t w o rse.TTVith
motherboards supporting dual-channel
DDR memory, the wrong configuration
will send you hack to single-channel
mode instead of rendering your system
unusable. (Compare this to
thc other high-performance memory
technology from Rambus; with RIMMS,
you need all of your slots populated with
either memory or a pass-throLlgh nlodu le, and you g enerally have to u s e
RIIVIIVIS in pairs. In o ther wortls, it' s
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not be the proper configuration! In the

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WillExpert aims for legacy of family harmony

By leff Evans
hen I was a kid, I remember
seeing at least a couple of pictures each >ear in th newspap er, showing pople grappling in t h
dust on the sidewalks in front of funeral
parlours, working out famil >' problems
related to the passing of a loved one.
From: Intuit, wwv.intutca

Price 55q 95
Pros: Easy to use, informative, educational, Makes
an often difficult task easier and less expensive.
Cons: Annoying compulsory online registration
before use, program is not compatible with
Qte bec faw, so use is limited to TROC(the rest of
Canada). Requires some learning of terms and
concepts to use most effectively. fn some circumstances you may still want to get an opinion from
a lawyer to ensure no glaring mistakes.
In my innocence, I couldn't understand what reasons there might be for

people to bhave in such a strange fashion at such a solemn momnt. As the
years have passed, I h ave begun to
understand that the way we write our
w ills and p la n t h d i sposal of o u r
"estates" (th sum of' the property and
other assets wown) can have a deep
and lasting effect, for good or ill, on our
family and friends. So, when I heard
about WillExpert, a new Canadian will
and estateplanning sofhvare package
from tax and finance publisher Intuit
Canada, I was vr>. intrigued.
According to I n t ui t C anada's Brad
'Stromberg, WillExpert is designd to let
any person easily plan, write, and print a
basic will and related documents, such

as letters to executors and guardians,
powers of attorney, and personal halth
care directives.
S tromberg says about h al t o f a l l
Canadians have never composed a will,
and of those writtn, many are never
updated to account f' or changes in financial or personal circumstances. fhe
r suits of a p o o rly w r i tten w il l c an
include deeply hurt feelings, anger, and
conflict among surviving family members, and even substantial legal expenses
as survivorssquabbl over the estate.
Intuit Canada saw a market dllland,
especially amongst baby bvomers, 1'or
simpl estate planning software and
developed Will Expert.
According to Canadian estate planning experts and atithors Les Kotzer and
Barry Fish, there are good practical reasons to face up to the often difficult subject of making a will: "Planning ahead
can often prevent, or at least minimize
the risk of f a mily f ighting. Planning
ahead can avoid costly court actions and
it can ease the burden on your loved
ones, if and when tragedy strikes."
Kotzer and Fish have published a wellrceived book on estate planning, 'I)re
Faurily Fight: How to Ai oid It, (www familyf ight.corn/canadian/book intro.htm), w h i c h
makes a convincing case for planning
one's will caret'ully and promptly.
WillExpert incorporates Intuit's many
years of experience designing intuitive
user interfaces,offering a simpl question and answer format for step-by-step
creation of a legally sound, comprehensive will. The software was developed
with the aid of Canadian will and estate
Iawvers, and all its major features comply with Canadian law as applied everywhere hut in Quebec (as much of the law
govmingestates in Quebec is a provincial responsibility, a considerably different program would be required for use
in la belle province).
Out of the box

We installed WillExpert on a Compaq
533(> Pentium 4 c o m p uter r u n n i ng
Windows XP Home Edition (minimum
system requirements are a 133 M l-Iz
Pentium, or equivalent, processor with
32 MB RAM, running W i ndows 95 or
higher). Installation was simple: we
inserted the CD and followed the installation prompts. WillFxpert r equired
online registration to bc activated (if you
don't have an Interrrt connection, you
can gt your activation ky by phoning
Intuit). The software can only be used
on one PC, and the licence is limitd to
two finished wills.
The compulsory registration and limited user licence, increasingly conlrlloli
with new software, is a bit irritating, but
as with its tax software, Intuit is trying to
ensure that one copy of software doesn' t
get passed around to unlimited users.
The program is fairly simple to use
and is similar in concept to Intuit tax
sofhvare in that it has been simple to use
and tries to anticipate common questions. At every stage, WillExpert offers a
wealth of answers to basic questions
about wills and estates, definitions of
legal terms, full-motion video advice
snippets t'rom e x perts, and
on screen forms.
T here is still a l e arning curve t o
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WillExpert, though. I' m n o t a l e g al

expert, and it took me a whil to understand the trms and concepts, and practical and legal rquiref11ents of vel1 111>.
very simple will. I spent a couple of
hours clicking the Lam More button
and reading t h rough th e p r o gram's
Planning ad User Guide. According to
Intuit's Stromberg, for many Canadians
with fairly simple fmances and limited
property, WillExpert may bc the only
tool you need to create a decent, workable w il l
a n d r e l a ted d o c uments.
However, he cautions that in cases where
the estate is fairly complex, or where the
amounts of money and property are
substantial, it is still a good idea to show
Lh finished will to a lawyer. to ensure
that any glaring errors or oinissions are
corrected.
According to Stromberg, it' you have
any particular questions about special
circumstances a relative's disability
pensions, institutional care contracts, or
other situations that might affect the
disposition of a n e state's assts, for
example ask a lawyer. A half-hour consultation fee will still be a lot cheaper
than the full cost of a lawyer writing
your will from scratch, and in th course
of using WillExpert, you' ll have gained a
lot more understanding and control
over an important responsibility, and an
opportunity to i n crease your family's
long-term harmony and prosperity.
The briefest known will in histor > was
by a Czech gentleman, who
simply wrote a two-word Czech phrase
that means "All to wi te." Intuit's WiII
Expert isn't quite that simple, but it's a
big leap in the right direction. 0
compo
sed
simple
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Penguinsound bytes:Technology and society

he Linux world is
no stranger to
awkward l e gal
and s o cio-political
issues. On the legal
front, a dedicated
Linux
aff i c i onado
d evelops a n a t i v e
understanding
of
b asic
l egal e s e
between the proliferation of open source,
limited source, and other such licenses
tryingto get the balance between ownership and access "just right"; certain companies'attempts to scuttle the operating
system in the courtsof law and public
opinion; and more. On the social issue
front; well,in many ways, that's what
Linux and open source are all about. Let' s
take alook at some of the more interesting dilemmas and discussions amongst
the Linuxkernel's movers and shakers.
Linux communitywhy he'ssuch a trusted

name. Rather than allowing himself to be
dragged into political. and ideological
issues such as whether digital rights management (DRM) is evil and should be made
impossible in the Linux kernel or through
changes to licensing, he's simply stated
that technological.ly, DRM is possible
under Linux and he sees no need to make
sweeping changes despite his personal
views onthe technology.
After all, it's up to individual programmers and companiesto decide their own
policies,not to mention the users to
choose what they' re willing to use. That' s
what free choice is all about.
tems include integrated 802.11b wireless

LAN capability, requiring particular drivers
which currently do not run on Linux.n
According to a s o urce inside Intel,
every request for Centrino wireless networking drivers for Linux is forwarded to
the Centrinoteam within the company. If
there are enough requests, Linux drivers
will reportedly be provided. You can write
to Intel's technical support through the
Contact Uslink on its Web site, and you
can keep track of Centrino wireless's Linux
status through wwwintel.corn/produc(s/mobile
technology/centrino/.
Part of the problem with the drivers
may be related to an overall difficulty in
the wireless industry, an issue summarized
nicely on the main Linux kernel discussion
list. According to participants, the latest
cards all of the ones without Linux drivers, really, including Broadcom's have
programmable options for the frequency
used. There are a number of issues inherent inthis setup if the average Jane is
able tochoose any frequency she wants.
Centrino wireless under Linux still a dud

Intel's Centrino wireless capabilities are
still u nsupported under Linux. From
Intel'sown Web site's technical support
section, you can try to learn this by reading the following several times: "Linux
will run o n any I A b ased PC. InteF'
Centrino Mobile Technology-based sys-
Torvalds refuses to 'play politics'

LinusTorvalds has once again shown the
Forexample,what ifshe chooses an emergency band and it interferes with fire and
ambulancevehicles?
Open source drivers make it virtually
impossible to prevent people from using
certain frequencies since any limits placed
could just be removed by an industrious
programmer.Expect at least part of any
Linux driver for these cards to be "black
box."Of course, open source isn't the only
culprit. Folks are already breaking the frequency limitations with these same cards
in the Windows world. Experts anticipate
that the frequency controlcomponents
will be encrypted in the next generation
of cards, to further discourage people
from abusingthe technology.
Wither to internationalize
kernel error messages
Canadians are alltoo aware that not
everyone speaks or reads English. The
problem in the programming community
is that, while not all programmers and
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administrators speak English, every tiny
bit of code (text included) adds to a program's size. A regular issue brought up in
the Linux kernel development circles is
that of adding non-English error messages
so administrators around the world don' t
have to pull out t h eir dictionaries to
understandwhat has gone wrong with the
kernel,
Torvalds, a non-native Engbsh speaker,
summarizes the problem succinctlythough it's phrased for technical readers:
"I refuse to clutter the kernel with inane
and fragile (and totally unmaintainable)
internationalization code. The string
lookup can equally well be done in user
space where it isn't a stability and complexity issue."
In other words, "if it ain't broke, don' t
fix it." Any operating system kernel is a
massive collection of code. If you' ve ever
programmed or tried to maintain a system, you'
ve probably experienced the
platitude that fixing one problem always
seems to break something else.Torvalds'
concern, apparently, is that adding error
messages indozens of languages might
not only make the kernel even larger, it
might cause other problems that just
complicate the whole effort. Especially
since every time a new error is added, all
of the translations would have to be
added too;hence, his maintenance concern.
But he also offers an alternative. "User
space" means, in general, wnot kernel
space." In other words, there are programs whosejobs are to maintain logs of
kernel output. These programs aren't part
of the kernel itself, and are therefore in
user space,even if that user happens to
be root. It is within these programs that
non-English versions of kernel error messages canrest. A quick setting can tell
the daemon to log all error messages in
French, or Metis, or whatever language
the administrator prefers.
Of course, as always, this relies on having excellent translators to do the work.
Anyone who'scringed at the French translations on many products available in
Canada is all too aware of this.Q
Dee-Ann LeBlanc haswritten more than 10 computer books, many atticles, and taught classes
mostly involving Linux and its programs. Youcan
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TECH I N T H E R EA L W O RLD
Technology, Toronto, and the SARS outbreak

By Jef Evans
t is perversely fitting that Toronto,
the nation's high-tech hub, and a
maior portal between Canada and
the global economy, was the epicentre of
the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) outbreak in North America. A
traveler from Hong Kong brought the
disease into the city, and on b,larch 7, her
so, suffering from an unidentified respiratory illness, presented himself at
Scarborough Grace Hospital, and was
initially diagnosed with tuberculosis. By
March 14, SARS' presence was confirmed, and it had begun to spread to
health care workers, patients, and their
families in Toronto.
The technological weakness of t h e
Toronto Public Health department's disease colitrol system was exposed, as it
turned out t hat th e department had
failed to ever institute a computerized
database for t racking communicable
discase cases, despite sales pitches by
database vendors over the years, not to
mention the threat ot bioterrorism since
the terror attacks in Washington and
New York on Sept. 11, 2001.
According to one Public Health official quoted by the Toronto Srar and the
CBC, at the beginning of the outbreak,
records of all SARS patients, suspected
patients, and quarantined persons were
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were stored in cardboard boxes.
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route of SARS transmission, required
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of paper records, which took enormous
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which could have had a crippling effect

on the company's multimillion dollars
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At thebeginning of the outbreak, records of all SARS

patients,
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employees and 95 contract workers,
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a t Cal i f o r n ia-based
Nuance's annual V-Wnr)d user conference in San Francisco in late April. The
company is a leader in voice rccogrTitinn
and speech applications, producing a
range of solutions that arc often used in
corporate call-routing applications.
Rather than installing a system that
requires users to "press one for t his,
press two for that," and so on, interactive
voice-recognition (IVR) systems allow
users to strrte what they want whn they
call a company and then hav the IVR
system route the call to where it needs to
go. It not only allows customers tn gct
their issues dealt with quickly, but corporations can process higher volumes of
calls with lower levels nt staff (as many
queries can be answered with an automated response).
The theme ot t h e c onference was
"accelerating the value of voice" (i.. getting quick return on investment), and
o ne very interesting example of t h i came from representative of Avon's IT
d ivision whn gave a talk on how it i s
using voice recognition technology to
evolve its business.
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voice recognition technology to do so,
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customers in the U.S. still usc rotary dial
telephones.
This means that when they dial into
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through all the dial pad button option
messages before they' re put on hold to

get through to a human operator. By
using voice recogn!tion technology, all
those rotary dial customers are now able
to start getting help right away and
One ofthe fascinating things

she revealedis thatsomethinglike 28 percent of Avon
customers in the U.S. still use
rotary dial telephones.
customer s u ppor t a g ents can get
through tn th c calls that really need
huruan intervention more easily.
"Speech is adding substantial value to
businesses around t h e g l o be," said
Chuck Berger, president and chief executive of Nuance. " From Avon i n t h
United States tn UBS in Switzerland and
TELUS i n C a n ada, companies are
automating tasks, reducing costs, offering new revenue-producing services and
setting themselves apart from the comp etition with speech. The return o n
investment for these speech solutions is
staggering many pay for themselves in
a matter of months."
Industry analysts predict that revenue
trom voice-enabled services will reach
SI,4 billion by 2004 and analyst firms
such as Gartner Group are listing speech
recognition as one o f 2 003's top 10
"strategic technologies." One of the catalysts for market growth is the emergence
ot packaged speech applications that
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speed up the r eturn n n i n vestment.
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study blueprints about how they are
putting speech to work in retail, banking, an d i n s u r ance e n v ironments.
Keynote presentations from Avon, Bell
Canada, EnergySouth, Expedia, Lloyds
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By Steve George
ow much noise ts too m u ch
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one. In addition to ~vibrant colours and

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brought something else, something
unnoticed, t o t h e d e sktop. Silence.
Unlike its PC brethren of the era, the
IMac had no CPU cooling fan it kept
its G3 processor at optimal operating
temperature with a passive heat sink. If
Mac users can bencfit from some creative design and attention to silence,
then so can PC users.
The big chip manufacturers are aware
of the problem, Thermal management
without excessive noise is becoming a
mantra, though it's still drowned out by
the cryfor improved perl'
ormance. Even
Microsoft has identified computer noise
as one vf the big issues that will need to
b addressed in the next few >ears. And
there has been progress. Liquid bearings
on hard drives are a huge improvement,
Innovative designs in heat sinks and fans
are another. Some of the new breed of
CPUs and motherboards control fan
speed based on CPU load, meaning the
svstem remains relatively quiet until it
heats up.
So, have hope. Thc silent PC, or at
least the relatively quiet PC, is coming,
and probably sooner than you think. In
th meantime, for those who can't wait,
we offer some suggestions for putting a
lid on what may be the noisiest member
of your household.
led to believe, is th price we pay for perf ormance. Look at t h e evolution o f

today's CPUs even over the last couple
of years and it's easy to see why. Intel's
Pentium III C oppermine (500 to 750
MHz) output I3 to 19 watts, compared
to 49 to 75 watts tor the early Pentium 4s
(1.3 to 2 GHz), and 82 watts and more
for the Pentiurn 4 3.06 GHz chip. AMD
chips follow a similar evolutionary path.
Think of placing your hand around a
100 watt light bulb. Ouch! All of these
chips take some powerful cooling, and
that means fans, and that means noise
High performance CPUs and the fans
required to cool them arcn't the only
source of computer noise, of course, and
in some cases may not evn be the primary cause. Noise tends to corn from
live distinct sources: the hard drive, the
power supply and its fan, the CPU and
its fan, optical drives, and general electrical hum from components, including
the monitor.
Depending on your system, you may
also have one or more case tans. If vou
hav a dual-processorsystem, add yet
another fan. A cutting-edge system may
genrate noise in the range o('50 to 60
decibels (dBA), similar to a retrigerator.
Compare that to a whispered voice at 30
dBA, or big city freeway traffic at 70
dBA. Saying that a modern PC is as noisy
as a jet taking off may not be far off the
mark.
If all this makes you doubt that you
have anychance of achieving computing
silence in your lifetime, relax. It's been
done before.
XVhen Apple introduced the
iMac desktop computer five years ago, it
was revolutionary in m ore ways than
For existing systems

Drown out the noise: Open up your
favourite MP3 player and put on a few
tunes. Even low-level background
music is usually enough to drown out
the noise from a PC.
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rearrangement to place it between thc
side of the desk and thc printer stand,
t'or instance, can baffle a considerable
amount of noise.
Upgrade key components: Even a simple upgrade, like replacing your existing hard drive with a new drive with
liquid bearings, can make a dramatic
difference to system noise. Upgrade
the power supply, too, and you may be
well on your way to silence.
Join the mod squad: Modifying existing hardware is a passion for some, a
necessity for others. Your favourite
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desktop counterparts. Today's laptops
are powerful and have large screensusing one as your primary system is
perfectly feasible.
Become a switcher: Consider switching from PC to Mac, and check out the
new iMacs. Attractive and still relatively quiet (they do have fans now),
most iMac users continue to r ave
about thc silence of their machines. If
PC makers get the message that sales
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