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Last month we asked readers to tell us what they loved or hated about the Internet in ~oo words for a chance to win a Canadian Geographic CD-ROM. We had lots of interesting responses, and the winning letter is on page 1o.

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Nothing left to give?

If the words of our writer's have helped you drain your financial resources and you'd still like to do something for your fellow man and/or woman, consider donating your old hardware and software to one of the many charities that refurbish and recycle old systems.

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work (no pain, no gain) you can find almost using it for no more than two years. I' ve seen everything you need. And the fact that you the incremental jump in bandwidth clog due don't need a degree or a diploma to put the to the incredible information content within information online is even better.

Advertising on the Internet is not as bad as the article says. It's just like advertising on the

the lines of the ISPs. For example, I could transfer at about 15oKbps with a T1. And

TV, but in TV it makes you loose more time because you have to wait for it to finish in order to watch your favorite program..... And if you don't like receiving those "funny" emails, then you should be more careful when giving away you email address....

Maybe it's a little expensive to get on the

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that cost no more than $25o to build, a ter-

minal program called "Telix" and a $25 per year account at Vancouver CommunityNet. Another friend uses a system that costs no

being a newbie?) And sometimes, even if you

buy a TV set; if you want to listen to the radio, you have to buy a radio. It just happens to be that a computer is a little more expensive.

That's why some companies are releasing new products that will let you get online cheaper.

If your ISP [Internet service providerj doesn*t give you the software you need to get on the Net, then change your ISP. If their service is bad, they don't deserve your money....l think that's ail I have to say for now.

BTW, except for all the above, I really like the magazine, laniv Schweber, Vancouver

type the correct address, emails get lost.

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plain, complain"]. What's wrong with your life?

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What can these old systems possibly do?

According to CFS, a 286 can run word processing applications such as WordPerfect 5.1 or Word 2.o for DOS, spreadsheet applications such as Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS, and graphics application packages such as Harvard Graphics 2.1 or 2.3. And a 386 is sufficient to run graphical Windows versions of these same programs.

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Comphdtotm, complaints, complaints...

I agree with almost everything in the artide (" Complain, complain, complain" by Caryn Mladen, in the November issue of CP!1,with the exception of what she says about newbies and lost emaits. Most of the times the problem is a wrong address, but that can happen to anybody, not, justto "newbies." (How much time do you have to spend online to stop

cle by David Rosen [" Reason to complain, com- In youl' November 1997 issue of CP!,Caryn The Internet is as unreliable as the (snail) mail Internet and were discussing how frustrating the mighty Net can be to the average user. system, but it gives you 1,ooo percent more. else can the people speak freely about anything they want? And that doesn't mean that all that information is junk. rArtth a little bit of

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more than $2o to build and, again, a $25 per

year account at Vancouver CommunityNet. Sure, they have to download the graphics if they want to see them. But they don't need graphics. And I can quite easily turn graphical displays olf in Netscape. So is price really an issue? Only if you like those pretty graphics.

The Internet is largely a resource and a tooL There's information available that, as pointed out by Caryn, would be difficult to retrieve without the Internet. I have access to gigabytes worth o f p r ogramming information, technical documents and nifty Area 51 technology reports that I simply couldn't have

dreamed of years ago.... It's slow, it's bulky, and it's beautiful. Complain about it and you won*t get anywhere. Learn to use it, and it' ll

open up to you like nothing else.

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research and development at the Neil Squire Foundation, a Burnaby-based national organization that assists individuals with severe physical disabilities to become more independent. Birch's team is recognized intemationally for its work with robot design, computer input hardware and software design, speech r e cognition s y s t ems, e l e ctro-

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9. Doth put it under the tree • In the thrill of the season, drinks or. the water from the tree holder can spill, damaging your expensive new present. If the computer is on the llnnr. the liquid will find it. Pine needles and sap can get into the key pad and gum up the g. Oorh forget the little things • You' ll need works. The floor may he ton cold I'nr the a mouse pad, tlnppy disks, and printer acces- machine. Besides. ynu really don't want anysories'. such as paper and printer cartridges one shaking the wrapped computer tn I'igure ('black nnly or CMYK tnr colour printers), You out what it might be. Keep the computer sepmight also want dust covers, isnprnpyl alcohol arate from the other presents before and after (tn clean the mouse, keyboard. and nther com- the unwrapping. ponents) and a plastic disk holder. The box protects against magnets that can damage or destroy any digitally stored files. As there are magnets in your monitor. telephone, and speakers, a plastic box is a good investment.

hinking of picking up a new computer for Christmaso There's more involved than going to t h e store, plunking down your credit card, and taking the boxes hnme. If ynu want your technological additinn tn the family tn perfnrm on Christmas morning. ynu ve g<y tn t h i nk ahead. Here's a checklist nf details ynu should deal with hetnre that special some<inc unwraps the gift.

Get what everyone needs <0 The computer ynu get is a lifestyle choice so consider everyone who will use it before making the purchase. If your children use Macintosh computers at school. get a Mac. If yiiur spnuse usesa PC at her oflice and wants tn bring work horne. get a PC. If anyone want~ to do ' high-endgraphics,geta superior cnmputer with at least 32 MB of RAM and 2 GB storage. If you want to play shnot-'em-upaction games, get a joystick and multimedia capabilities. The hardware requirements listed on software boxes are minimum system requirements — get the recommended amounts, But you dnn't necessarily need top-of-the-line merchandise if you simply want to do word processing, your finances, a bit of online communication.and perhaps a game or two.

xo.Keep the boxes, manuals, piasbc bags, and packing materials • They dn take upa lnt of space. but the bnxes are useful (in fact, necessary) if ynu have to return the computer for exchange orrepair,and they're great f<tr moving. Nest small bnxes inside the larger ones and don't (orget tn seal the h<fxes t<i keep dust out. + Caryn Nlladen ls a technology consultant and co-author of Th e Ca n adian Computer Handbook

6. protect yourself • Gnnd quality power bar/surge protectors are well worth the $40 tn $60 expense if ynu ever have any valuable infnrmatinn on your machine. Don't forget vower spikes can travel down telephone lines as well, sn get a modem surge protector. As well, get utilities to protect your files.

You don't want the kids downl oading viruses from t h e Internet or posting ynur tax returns tn t h eir favourite n e wsgroup. Virus-prntection s oftware keeps out m alicious p r o grams from the Internet and diskettes, and encryption software can lock out access to y o ur personal information.

a Order in advance • Over 60percent of computer sales occur during the pre-Christmasbuying season. That means ynu can't expect the exact model ynu want to he in stnck on Christmas Eve. You may be able to get the store to hold it for you so no snooping present hound tinds your surprise, but make sureyou order itin advance.

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THE gNLW 3 Transportation al text passages contain formatting errors that Bijou.'IT f)VVl('.E Houghton MINi n I n teractive detract from the overall product appearance.

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Those with a modem and Internet access can design a stamp. and send it electronically to the online World Stamp Book. A geography game helps children learn about each of the United States — as a patriotic Canuck. I felt rather left nut. The Jolly Post Olfice is a good introduction to computer use hest suited for very young children.

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dards like SET, the credit i n f o rmation doesn't even go to the merchant. but directly to the hank — how much safer can you get'."

These Canadian s i tes o l fer i t enls ranging from tradit i o na l t o unique.

Happy shopping.

hristmas is coming and so is the annual shopping frenzy. For t!iose of us who abhor crowded shopping mails tilled with identical shops, Internet shopping offers a sanity-saving alternative.

Last year, I did all of my Christmas shopp ing via the Internet. and I' ll be continuing the practice this year.

- But how safe is it to use a credit card over the Net'." I hear some of you asking.

"Very s afe," a c c o r din g to San d y Fleischer of Stria Communications (http: // www.stria.ca). "In August of 1995, Stria Communications launched Canada's first secure transactional World Wide Web site.

Since then, we have watched Internet cornmercegain acceptance inbothbusiness-tobusiness and c o nsumer m a rkets, w i t h online sales increasing steadily i n b o t h ilre as.

Ughtanupi A Pictoral Fortune Telling GameIt's all in the cards! http://www wzone. corn/mall/Iightenup

Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium: Books and g if t i t em» w it h g a y/lesbian theme. http: //www.Diamond Avenue.corn Marfaa Australian made leather. pigskin. and fur-felt hats.

http;//www.merfax.corn/hats

At Ba t CD - R OM: C omocopia G i f t Bas k ets : Man y Wonderfu!CD-ROMforagesg-!2. h t t p: //www.jambone.corn choices.http://www.cornucopia.ca B r o oksida Orchids: Great houseplants.

Cotton-By-Post Quilting Studio: Quilting h t t p: //www.brooksideorchids.corn notions, mousepads. fabric.

C a nada Rower Market: Locate f!orists in http: //www.mainkey.corn/cotton-by-post ev e r y province.

Dinarnos: Dinosaur clothing for all ages ht t p: //www.islandnet.corn/-igm/florist.html http: //www.dinamos.corn

The Canadian Condom Company Onbne: DuthiesInternational Virtual Bookstore:

A» the owner remarked. "It's a good gift for some people."

"As is to be expected, the consumer area has been http: //www.islandnet. corn/Condomville more cautious in accepting internet commerce. Canadian Internet MalL A wide selection ol What (he industry as a whole needs to focus on is items. p ercep tion: consumers are frightened

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Consumen are only getting the hype — they need Canadian Paints Shoppmg MalL Items for to know the facts.

"Whenbuyingaconsumer good, I wouldrather submit my credit information through a securely encrypted Web site than entnist this information to an unknown clerk ai the mall. With new stan-

Nortflshola Stu and Board: Ski and snowboard equipment. http: //www.wzone.corn/ mall/northshore-skiand-board Muskln: Skin care products. http: //www.nuskin.net Paint-n-Play CD-ROM: Another wondertul CD-ROM for kids aged 3-7. http..//www.Paint-n-Play.corn Pam's Rower Garden: FTP service. http: //www.tstcanadianflowers.corn

parents and kids. http: //www.canadianparents.corn/mailfindex.htm

Hyparmardte Canadat Products from clients such as Future Shop. Club Monaco, Rene Rey Chocolates. http: //www.hypermarche.corn

Cafebnty Ughts Cookbook: Raises funds for Lagostina Stainless Steel Cookwata: Fine breast cancer research. http: //www.cdnbizwornen.corn/ clights/clights.htm

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On top of that, the transfer times don't seem consistent with even those speeds. A file of a mere ziti KB, which, at c9> bits per second should take less than four minutes, takes a half an hour for me to download. I' ve tried the same file in the wee hours of the morning to see if traffic volume was the culprit. While things went a little bit faster, the difference was not significant. A friend has a more powerful system than mine and I still have never seen rates on his screen of any higher than tzoo baud.

Can you lend any insight to what's going on during downloads, why such slow rates prevail„and why download times defy even the stated rates of transfer? Thank you for any assistance you can render.

Dave, via an ISP MacShrink Dave Rosen replies: I hear you.

Modem speeds can be very confusing and Internet transmission times can be tough to figure out. It may speed your understanding (pun intended) to think of how a modem is similar to a car. just as a car's speedometer can regis-

ter up to zoo kilometers per hour (or more), it doesn't mean people drive at the maximum speed — or at least, they probably don' t.

You can buy a really fast car, capable of race track speeds, but you would still be limited by a number of factors. These factors include speed limits; road hazards (such as potholes and twists in the road); traffic conditions (such as sitting in traffic jams or being stuck behind a pile-up); and weather problems.

Modems are speed rated for the maximum number of bits of information they are capable of transmitting. For example, your tA,goo bits per second modem transmits at approximately z,zioo characters per second (skipping the complex math, the rule of thumb is to divide the rated speed by io to get the number ofcharacters per second possible). In the good ol' days of text-only messages, i,zioo characters a second wouid mean that an onepage email could be transmitted in about a second — and that's pretty impressive. ln these days of multimedia-enriched files such assound, animation, graphics, and even full motion video, however, transmission speeds oft,zioo characters per second can be agonizingly slow. A s h a rdware speeds increase, software developers and content producers figure out more things to show (and send) you. Unfortunately, this means everything slows down to a crawl.

Nowadays,a 56Kbps modem is the standard

for surfing the Internet and downloading heavy-duty graphics. Some people are looking at cable "modems" that are rated many times quicker than the fastest traditional modem-at least for downloading.

Anyone who has ever used a modem has seen firsthand that they often fail to transmit at their maximum speed. Poor telephone lines, server glitches at your Internet service provider, problems on the Net itself, slowdowns at the host computer, and lots of other p roblems can cause th e s i tuation y ou describe. In addition, many folks run their computers "fully loaded," meaning their browser is just one of many applications their computers are juggling. Surfing the Net takes lot of processor power. Even the fastest Power Mac or Pentium-based computer will slow to a crawl if you ask it to do too much. Try surfing with only your browser running. You may see some dramatic speed improvements.

The important thing to keep in mind is that your transmission speed depends on the slowest link in your communications chain. lylaybe it's your slow modem. Maybe you' ve connected using an old, noisy telephone line in the area. Then again, even if you buy a really fast modem, you' ll still have problems if your favorite Iiyeb site is running on an old Bo386-basedclone in some kid's bedroom.

Try connecting to a host known to be fast and downloading.Sites such as Netscape's

home page (http: //www.netscape.corn) or Apple's head office (http ://www.apple.corn) are niceand fast and have lots of 56Kbps modems. Otherwise, have a chat with your ISP supportpeople and figure out why your downloads are not up to speed.

Partitions galore!

Q; I look for and enjoy your column every month.Keep up the good work. Now Ihave a problem that I hope you can help me with. I have a 3 GB SCSI drive with to partitions in my computer. As a backup, I have an identical SCSI portable drive partitioned exactly the same way. When I want to back up my OS/z computer, I connect the barkup drive and XCOPY everything including the operating sys. tern. This works great! If a drive craps out I can just discard it, use the backup and con. tinue as if nothing has happened.

Now to the crux of my problem. I am contemplating purchasing a 9 GB SCS! so that I can backup several computers to the one backup SCSI drive. Problem is, OS/z won't recognize drives after drive "Z" and if I partition a 9 GB drive the way I want to, I' ll end up with 3o to 35 partitions. Is there a way around this?

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Q; I'm somewhat new to OS/2 and notice Warp rr.o doesn't come with a detrag utility. Is automatic defragmentation built into the HPFS file Propaganda piece missing? system or do you need to get a third-party tool?

Q: I was wondering whatever happened to Just Brian Add OS/z Warp OAOW)? Iused that little piece Kevin Linfiield responds: OS/z's HPFS is far of software to convince a lot of people to superior to the old FAT file system, and, to be switch over to OS/z. It would probably be honest,does not need to be defragmented for advantageous for IBM to make anew JAOW for the average user. There are commercial, shareWarp ri and Warp Server. ware, and freeware applications available that Andy will defragment your HPFS partition, but you Kevin Linlield responds: As far as I know, IBM has will probably not se e an y p erformance finished development of this tool and is not plan- increase after using them. The only time you ning on adding any Warp y or Server functionali- might want to consider it is if the drive is realty. However, you can still get a copy of JAOW from ly full and you work with lots of large files. If Itpi//service. boulder. i bm . corn/ps/products/ you want to try one out, go t o Hobbes os2/tooL/jaow/. (http: //hobbes.nmsu.edu) and download one of the freeware ones.

FDISK gig gag Q: I have a Quantum ST 6.zr GB hard drive and OS/2's FDISK just won't work with it. DOS's FDISK worked just fine but not OS/z's. It will not create any partition and will not read any partitions therefore I'm unable to install OS/2! Help!

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Sometimes it will read as much as zoo MB and then the next time I check it will only read

258 MB. I will go on the Internet (via B.C. Tel's Sympatico service) read CNN, USA Today, Sports,etc., and maybe bookmark a page to go back to later. Again, if I check the Windows menu, the hard-disk space available appears to go down. I do not download from the Net (I do not know how to), so why is the hard drive fluctuating so much? I am informed that the only time the hard-drive space should decrease is if I download or add a program.

Can you help me? Thanks for reading this.

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3)Unlike Windows 3.t, Win95 has a dynam. ic swapfile. This means it i ncreases and decreases the amount of your hard disk depending on how much virtual memory it thinksyou need. This can change by quite a large amount, and accounts for much of the ghost hard-drive activity that bothers some users: the swapfiile can quickly jump from just i MB or so to zo to 4o MB resulting in very differentreports of free drive space.

You can see how it's set up from Control Panel's System icon. Go to the Performance tab, and click on the Virtual Memory button.

Alan Zisman responds: There are several rea- The default is to let Windows manage the setsons why your free hard-drive space can tings, but I like setting a minimum amount of change dramatically, as you describe: t6 to zzi MB. This way, Windows will only alter t) Files could be building up in your Recycle the swapfile if i t t hinks it needs a larger Bin. These are not automatically emptied until amount, and your reports on free drive space they reach the maximum set in the Bin's will be much more stable. options. If you want, you can lower the default Leave the maximum amount setting alone, amount, so less builds up at a time. Right- however,unless you're very shortofdrive space click on the Recycle Bin icon, and choose (and then go out and buy a ne w drive!)

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ROM. an electronic textbook designed to The gigantic CD-ROM contains case studaccompany offand on campus distributed ies.over 700 computer frames, 400 images, learning courses or to be used as a guide for graphics, text and searchable references relatprofessionalsand community groups who are ing to all aspects of watershed management. interested in watershed management and Over 400 reference titles are accessible and rehabilitation. searchablefrom anywhere on the disc. The According to research associate, Sandra' audience for the the CD-ROM includes pracBrown. the digital f ormat was selected ticing p r ofessionals, graduate students, instead of traditional print because of the resource managersand planners,regulatory interactivity that is possible with a CD-ROM, personnel and community groups. The techbut impossible in a textbook. niques covered are applicable for use in "When you' re working on an interdiscipli- development projects and are pertinent to all nary course that presents a problem -solving those interested in sustainable development, approachcombining issues from rural,urban, particularly in mountain and headwater areas. forestry, hydrology. agriculture and groundOne month after being released, approxiwater and stream pollution control, you need mately 30 copies have been sold to interested a format that allows people to interact with persons and community groups coming from the content, to look at different topics in dif- Europe, th e U n i ted S t ates, A ustralia, ferent dimensions," said Brown.

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Briefly, because of the way both DOS/Win95 First, I backed up the data, onto a portable and Mac file systems store information on hard drives, some space on your drive is lomega Ditto t a p e d r i ve . I i ns t a lled inevitably wasted; big drive partitions and PowerQuest's Partition Magic software, which lots of small files waste the most, and with allows repartitioning without destroying the the larger hard drives that have become com- existing data. (But back up anyway!) Without mon in the past few years, many users find that, I would have had to use the DOS FDISK that zo to 4o percent of their drive space is utility, which destroys the existing data and requires reformatting, any time you make wasted by the file system.

Again briefly, as I' ve explained in past changes to a drive's partitions.

Because the drive was more than half full, issues, there are a couple of ways to minimize this s o-called cluster-slack waste I couldn't simply use Partition Magic to create the partitions I wanted, instead, I shrank space: • Move to an operating system with a more the existing C: partition to about t.z GB, and inodern way of storing files. NT's NTFS or created an extended partition in the remainOS/z's HPFS virtually eliminate waste space, ing space. I then created three logical drives if you' re prepared to devote your hard drive within that partition (Partition Magic creates to those operating systems. the partitions and formats them in a single • Use disk compression. Any disk compres- step).

Then, I quit Partition Magic, and using the sion system eliminates waste space.

DriveSpace 3 (included with the Win95 Plus Windows 3.t File Manager, moved as much of Pack or the new Win95B version) can be set my existing data as possible from the still. to a t:t compression ratio (i.e. zero com- too-big C: drive to the other partitions. (DOS pression) to e liminate the performance XCOPY or Win95 Explorer are also good ways penalty from continually expanding and to do this). Then, back to Partition Magic, to shrink the C: drive to the desired 5st MB, compressing files.

• Win958 users can install the FAT3z file system, increase the size of the extended partition, getting more efficient use of their hard drive in and spread the free space out among the exchange for incompatibility with other operat- other partitions. When I was done, I had t5 ing systems and older disk utilities.

MB left over, and used it to make an addi• Create multiple smaller disk partitions rather tional partition. than a single large one; this doesn't totally That did it for the server. Because I had a eliminate cluster-slack waste. but does cut network, I needed to reset each workstation the amount lost by 5o to 75 percent. to recognize the new drives. This didn't take too long, as the network connections are Readers have been asking for the "best" made in a batch file: after changing one, I oppy disk,and way to repartition their drives... like creating saved thechanged onto a fl a system of folders (directoriies) to store data. cut andpasted on each subsequent machine.

There's no single right way: different schemes I didn't let the workstations log onto the new server C: drive, giving me additional security will work for different users.

Here's what I did recently, on one machine. for the server's software (they also don't log The computer in question is the network onto the little partition I tagged onto the end server on a classroom network. Its z GB hard of the drive, giving me a private little space drive was set as a single FAT >6 partition with to store my own data). a little under t CtB free space... meaning it As well, by repartitioning, I get more efficient use of the space on the hard drive... in used 32KB dusters, and wasted about 3o percent of its space. Because I needed to this case, gaining the about 45o MB worth of rontinue using DOS on this machine and did- storage. + n't want to use disk compression on a network server, repartitioning was the o nly Alan Zfsman can be reached for comment or option to reduce cluster waste. questions at azlsmanOrogers.wave.ca.

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Claris has announced it will retire six software titles, including some of the original MacIntosh software titles. Claris will cease developing and selling MacPaint, MacWrite II, MacWrite Pro, MacProject Pro, Easy Business Cards, and Claris OfllceMail as of Jan. 1. Claris will continUe to provide technical support to registered

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Bay Networks made a record profit in its first q u arter. Revenue j u mped t o an u nprecedented US$6ox.3 million, u p 1 S creation of a " National Grid for Learning" percent from t z m o n ths earlier, as net scheme. income reached US$A<.3 million versus Gates then declared he wa s d e lighted US$S.6 mitlion.

Microsoft had helped "to shape some of the But Bay e x pects t o d o e v e n b e t t er fundamental strategic thinking behind mak- thanks to a s i m pl e i de a t ha t b a sically ing technology an i ntegral part o f e very combines a ro uter with a s w i tch. Until aspect of British life." now, the two products had to be bought But ICL claimed the National Grid was its separatety. big idea. The London Daily Telegraph reportBut Bay says its Accelar routing switches ed ICL managing director, David Wimpress, as can be sold for the price of only a switch saying: "Nlr. G ates rode i n to t o w n and and the development gives it a commanding seemed to pick up all the bouquets. The PR lead as the next-generation local area netthunder was stolen from us. Frankly, we felt work market rises to $9.S billion by zooo. It pretty miffed." is also confident it can grab a big chunk of Microsoft, which i s d o nating US $xSo cabte-modem sales as companies,such as million, denies Gates tried to h ijack the Rogers in Canada, extend service to cusinitiative. torners.

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Waterloo, Ont.-based Open Text scored a big one when the Standards Council of Canada chose its Livelink intranet for its online operations. Livelink wil l m a nage workflows for hundreds of standards committees and streamline the Canadian companies' contributions to international standards.

Open Text scored an even bigger one when the general secretariat of the International Organization for Standardization also picked the software for a globat extranet to speed devetopment of more than x,ooo standards a

Ottawa-based electronic forms and enterprise workftow software developer Jetform has been named by Dataquestresearchers as the second largest vendor, with tS.zi percent of the enterprise workflow market, up from 6.i per cent in zz months.

And president and chief executive officer, John Kelly, who took the company from sales of $a million a year to $7 7 million, was named Ontario's INaster Entrepreneur of the Year. Kelly projects Jetform will reach $zoo mittion by zooo.

And, making the corporate smile even wider, the company announced record first quarter revenue of $z3.6 miltion, up SS percent from last year Net profit of $9S7,ooo replaced a $ziS.9 million loss tz months earlier.

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Based on the third-generation PowerPC G3 processor from IBM and Motorola, the new Apple designs i nclude m any t e chnical advancements, speeding things up, lowering overall costs, and adding more features.

Apple also claims that the G3 sedes wilf simplify the Mac product line, paving the way for a future product streamlining — something that's long overdue. By the time you read this, Apple says all four of the G3 systems should be available in stores.

• The Power MacintoshG3 at $z,899 isa z33 MHZ, 32 MB RAM desktop computer that supports up to 192 MB of RAIVI. It comes with a 4 GB hard drive; a z4X CD-ROM drive (maximum speed); z MB of Video SGRAM, and SxzKB of Level-z backside cache.

• The Power MacintoshG3 at $3,499 lsa 266 MHz, 3z MB RAM desktop computer that supports up to 192 MB of RAM. It comes with a 4 GB hard drive; a z4X CD-ROM drive ( maximum speed); an i nternal too M B lomega Zip drive; z MB of Video SGRAM, and SzzKB of Level-z backside cache.

• The Power MacintoshG3 at$4,399 isa z66 MHz, 3z MB RAM mini-tower computer that supports up to 384 MB of RAM. It comes with a 6 GB hard drive; a z4X CD-ROM drive ( maximum speed); an i nternal too M B lomega Zip drive; z MB of Video SGRAM, and SzzKB of Level-z backside cache.

• The PowerBook G3 at$8,t99 isa zoo MHz, 32 MB RAM notebook computerthat supports up to z6o MB of RAM. It comes with a 5 GB hard drive; a zoX CD-ROM drive (maximum speed); a tz.i-inch active-matrix SVGA color display, and StzKB of Level-2 backside cache.

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Customers in the United States can now buy Macs directly from Apple via the Internet.

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The Hamilton. Ont., native is also living in a strange land. the United. States. But that' s where he and thousand» ofother Canadian animators have tn live if they want to ply their computer-generated animation (CGA) trade.

Buckley has been working for Walt Disney Studiosfor almost three years and he i» currently working on Diur>srn<r,a CGA movie set in the late Jurassic period. The 1>lm involves live-action backgrounds and computer-generated creatures, such as dinosaurs and lemurs.

As lead creature modeller on the movie, Buckley is responsible for the creation of the 3D dinosaurs. virtual sets and props, and controls that will enable the dinosaurs to talk.

Buckley, who studied photography at Sheridan College in Ontario. worked as a freelance photographer and a photographic technician with the provincial government w hile taking mght-school courses in f i l m studies, television production, and computers.

He was introduced to rudimentary computer-generated imagery (CGI) while working for the government. "This new medium

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intrigued me," Buckley says. Sn intrigued was he that, in 1987, he quit his job and went back tn school at Seneca College. where he studied computer graphics and technical illustration.

Beyond buttons "The lab they had at the time was state of the art and I knew this was for me." The foundation at Seneca was nnt how to push buttons on software packages, but rather how to create visuals. "The emphasis was on communication, nnt the tool," he says.

After graduating, he started an independent CGI company. He and two partners invested in a Silicon Graphic 4D20 workstation and software from Alias Communications, but they were slightly ahead of their time. The move did not pan out,as few companies were taking advantage of CGI in design and advertising.

T he experience earned him a jo b w i t h Alias., where he began working with designers to create toys, running shoes, glassware, tires, and cars on computer. While there. he started to sculpt creatures "using 3D algorithms as digital clay" and found himself on thy leading edge of the burgeoning CGI and CGA industry, Suddenly, Buckley's skills were in demand in the United States. Sonalysts, a Connecticutbased company, recruited him to work as a senior computer animator. Then Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) came calling.

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ILM a l ready employed several other Canucks, including Steve Williams of Star Wars fame, and the offer w as a dream come true. So, Buckley loaded up his car and moved to San Raphael. Calif., where he worked for 11 months on Casper the first feature animation generated totally on computer.

H e t h e n bui l t -r<: ., Draco the Dragon i n t h e mo v i e D rag onh cur t „ did some Stars War.s, tests and worked on Congo. ' -

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The Disney dream Disney offered him a job working on the Dinosa«r project and he had to say yes.-This is for me the greatest challenge yet, to create computer-generated animated creaturesfor the best animation company in the world."

Most of the artists at Disney are there because of the projects they get to work on, he says. "We studied hard and long to perfect our craft and we are excited about what

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also given Buckley the opportunity to work with talented artists from England, Ireland, Italy. Spain. China. Japan, India, and. of course, the U n i ted S tates. "Sometimes Disney feels as multicultural as Canada.

Everyone has a voice, and the individual backgrounds add to the creative spirit.'

Buckley lettCanada because comp anies h er e w e r e o n l y d o i n g effects work. not full 3D animat ion f o r e n t i r e f i l m s . N o w Disney has set up a direct-tnvideo a n i m atio n s t u di o i n Toronto and -the scene is looking brighter." but Buckley is not sure he would come home now.

"Disney has been good to me and has encouraged me to grow artistically." They have sponsored an artshow for him and are sponsoring another show early in 1998.

As well as things are going, though, there are times, Buckley confesses, heand his v ife.R uth, "miss the four seasons."

Perhaps if t h e C a nadian CGA indu s try m atu r e s, Buckley may f i n d h i mself b ack h e re-throwing s n o w balls in the winter and raking leaves in the fall. Until then, he is content to be a stranger plying his trade in a strange

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Fraeware of the month Most computer users who use multiple operating systems have minor problems transfer. ring files between them if they use each operating system's native file system. Now, OS/z users can access programs and fileson Windows NT's file system (NTFS1. The freeware program NTFS-OSz currently allows the user read-access to NTFS partitions, and the author claims that if there is sufficient interest, he will add write-access also.

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