-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |-=>CompuNotes<=-| -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Notes from The Cutting Edge of Personal Computing March 20, 1997 Issue 70 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Managing Editor: Patrick Grote -- mailto:pgrote@inlink.com Assistant Editor: Writer Liaison: Doug Reed-- mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com Graphics Editor, Webmaster: Judy Litt mailto:jlitt@aol.com Archives: ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/compunotes/ LOOK NEW WEBSITE!!!!! Website: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7462/ email: mailto:notes@inlink.com fax: (314) 909-1662 voice: (314) 909-1662 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= CONTENTS My Notes: 1=> Future Issues! 2=> Link to Us! 3=> This Week's Winner! Reviews: 3=> Product: HotPage Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com 4=> Product: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Resource Kit (book and CD) Reviewed By: Paul Baker mailto:pbaker@facstaff.wisc.edu 5=> Product: QuickSound Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org 6=> Product: Webmaster in a Nutshell by Stephen Spainhour and Valerie Quercia Reviewed By: Doug Reed mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com 7=> Product: You Don't Know Jack Sports Reviewed By: Craig Bull, mailto:bull@udayton.edu +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= CompuNotes is: Available weekly via email and on-line. We cover the PC computing world with comprehensive reviews, news, hot web sites, great columns and interviews. We also give away one software package a week to a lucky winner for just reading our fine publication! Never dull, sometimes tardy, we are here to bring you the computing world the way it is! Please tell every online friend you know about us! 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Face it, if you are a Quake fan you need this issue! The other special issue we have coming up is an all WindowsNT 4.0 Server issue. We'll be reviewing WindowsNT 4.0, BackOffice including Exchange 5.0, WindowsNT resource websites and other WindowsNT utilities. This will be our first very technical look at an entire product line and we our challenging ourselves to make it a reference article for all networking professionals. 2=> Link to Us! Well, we have a new website up and running! Please come visit us! We have a complete archive of all CompuNotes sites up and about 30% of the reviews we have done! We would also like to offer a link on our LINKS page to you! All it takes is you putting a link of us on your page! We'll then add you to the list of CompuNotes supporters who have their own page! We even have a neat graphic for your to use if you would like! Send the details of your page to Patrick Grote. mailto:pgrote@inlink.com. 2=> Winner! This week's winner is mailto:dpinkard@concentric.net! Send them a congrats message mailto:dpinkard@concentric.net! 3=> Product: HotPage Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com Requires: Netscape Navigator 1.2+, Windows HotPage is a small little utility designed for web designers and addicts to be used in conjunction with Netscape Navigator. According to Documagix, HotPage is "The Easiest Way to Save and Manage Web Pages!". Essentially it provides a simple and easy way to save web pages so that you can go back and look at them off-line or send copies (via fax or email) to friends. HotPage also provides a way to organize and manage your favorite webpages so that you can easily find them again. HotPage comes on three 3.5" floppies and installs quickly and easily. Once loaded the computer has to be restarted to update changes in the registry and system, most of which are only noticeable the next time you load Netscape's Navigator. A little HotPage menu appears on the Toolbar. Pulling down the menu reveals three options - HotSave, HotPrint, and HotSave & HotPrint. HotSave maintains a local copy of the current page, preserving all of the graphics and other components that make up the page. You can print files a "virtual" copy of the page in black and white, which can then be printed, faxed, or emailed. The HotSave and HotPrint option merely completes both commands at the same time. Both copies retain hyperlinks to the original document on the web, making it easy for you to compare and look for changes. Now I'll have to admit when I first received this and read the manual I said - "So what? You can save your pages with Netscape itself." While this is true, if you've ever tried it you know that Netscape fails to save the graphics associated with the page, leading to a rather odd-looking document when you load the saved file later. If you are a web designer this is a very handy little utility - one of the best ways to learn and improve upon your designing abilities is to browse the web and look at other sites. With HotPage there is no need go through all the tedium of saving the page and the graphics individually, then attempting to reassemble the thing (as would be required with Netscape alone or any other browser). Even better, these pages can now be examined off-line! Using HotPrint you can keep off- line "records" of sites you've designed and can print or fax these to potential clients (or use them for hardcopy ads), the only disadvantage being that they will be in black and white. HotSave preserves the original page intact, which is very handy for peeking at the source code to determine just how the designer managed to achieve the look and feel of the page. Documagix mentions that pages saved off- line can be accessed faster, however, this is only true as long as the off-line page matches the page on the web! And we all know how websites are almost always "Under Construction". HotPage also provides "file cabinets" to group and organize your saved pages so that you can quickly and easily find the page you want to examine. Since the saved page maintains it's links to the original site, you can seamlessly connect back to the original website. The file cabinets are a very handy organizational tool, borrowed from Documagix's document filing program PaperMaster. If you have Documagix's PaperMaster, which organizes the important documents stored on your computer, HotPage will upgrade PaperMaster to the Documagix ContentSuite - essentially it just combines the functions of PaperMaster and HotPage. HotPage is a great little webpage "capture" tool for web designers, however, it does have own major flaw. HotPage only works with Navigator! Now, it should be pointed out that Netscape does own the lion's share of the market, however, Internet Explorer is rapidly gaining ground and other browsers also exist. Almost all third-party products that have been released are cross-browser, so I am at a loss to explain why Documagix made the decision to limit HotPage only to Navigator. I can't really find any thing wrong with the program - there is no doubt that it is both user-friendly and easy to use, but I doubt that HotPage will appeal to everyone. For the majority of people there is little need to save off-line copies of favorite websites, especially with unlimited access becoming the norm. For web designers, however, I could see where HotPage would have tremendous appeal, and so I listed web designers as the User for HotPage. Documagix 2880 Zanker Road San Jose, CA 95134 1-408-434-1138 CompuServe: Go Documagix Web: http://www.documagix.com Installation: Gold User-Friendliness: Gold Quality: Gold User: Web Designers 4=> Product: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Resource Kit (book and CD) Reviewed By: Paul Baker mailto:pbaker@facstaff.wisc.edu This hefty book weighs four pounds and contains 1,350 pages and a CD- ROM. It provides information on installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation software. Although it will be used primarily by MIS professionals, it will interest anyone really curious about NT 4.0. In brief, the book explains of the architecture of the NT Workstation components and supportive technologies; discusses optimizing NT Workstation (using performance monitoring tools included on the CD); explains file system options, reliability and recoverability; preparing for and implementing multiple boot options, including details of what happens at start-up; and discusses the Windows NT Registry, including configuration management and a guide to using the two Registry editors. A networking section provides an overview of the networking services in NT Workstation and the TCP/IP transport, and there's a general troubleshooting section. Administrators will benefit from the detailed section describing strategies for deploying NT 4.0 in large organizations and compatibility with other network and operating systems that may already be in place. This resource kit is intended as a companion to, not a replacement of, the printed and on-line documentation included with NT 4.0. Nevertheless, it is quite comprehensive. Part 1, Windows NT workstation and deployment, discusses deployment strategy and details, customizing setup, deploying NT Workstation on an existing client-server network, and planning for a mixed environment. Part 2, About Windows NT Workstation, explains NT 4.0 architecture, security, printing, and fonts. Part 3, Optimizing Windows NT Workstation, includes chapters on performance monitoring tools, detecting memory bottlenecks, processor bottlenecks, disk bottlenecks, cache bottlenecks, and monitoring multiple processor computers. Part 4, Reliability and recovery, explains disk and file system basics, choosing a file system, what happens when you start your computer, preparing for and performing recovery, troubleshooting startup and disk problems, and disk, file system, and backup utilities. Part 5, Windows NT Registry, discusses registry editors and administration, configuration management, and initialization files. Part 6, Compatibility, includes chapters on migration, OS/2 compatibility, and POSIX compatibility. This is obviously a pretty big issue, so here are some details: * With Windows 3.x: Windows NT provides "a straightforward upgrade from any Windows 3.x operating system," yet some things are not migrated, including, but not limited to: MS-DOS drive letters, font information for character-mode command windows, and any changes that have been made to Accessories, Games, Main, and Startup groups in Windows 3.x. * With Windows 95: No automatic upgrade path from Windows 95 to Windows NT Workstation exists. Why is this? "Because of differences in their respective registries and in hardware device support." You need to manually upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows NT by installing Windows NT in a separate directory. No system or application settings will be migrated, and you will need to reinstall each application after Windows NT is installed. An upgrade path is said to be planned for the next release of Windows NT Workstation. * With OS/2: The OS/2 subsystem allows OS/2 16-bit character-based apps to run directly with NT with essentially no modification. But you cannot run the following types of applications with NT 4.0's OS/2 subsystem: OS/2 2.x applications; Presentation Manager applications, advanced video I/O (AVIO) Applications; OS/2 applications on RISC- based machines, for example. Part 7, Networking with Windows NT Workstation explains Microsoft TCP/IP and related services for Windows NT, TCP\IP architecture, networking name resolution and registration, using LMHOSTS files, managing user work environments, and using NT Workstation on the Internet. Part 8, Windows NT Workstation troubleshooting discusses monitoring events, NT executive messages, and the NT debugger. Part 9, The Appendices discuss "answer files" and UDFs, security, and a port reference for Microsoft TCP/IP. The book also includes a substantial glossary and Index. The book was written in cooperation with the NT Workstation development and support teams. I guess you couldn't ask for better qualifications. The Companion CD-ROM includes more than 100 goodies in the form of utilities, tools, and accessory software. For example, administration and configuration tools, diagnostics, desktop tools (themes, etc.), disk/fault tolerance tools, file tools, Internet and TCP/IP services and tools, network/server administration tools, registry tools, tools for developers, and user account administration tools. It includes a large Help file with explanations and user actions for the large majority of the messages included in NT 4.0, and a large Help file of Performance Counter Definitions. The CD is intended to replace all previous NT CDs. Design and Readability Like other MS Press books, this one is well designed, with plenty of room for screen shots, flow charts, and other graphics, and the text is not crowded looking. It's also well written and edited. Complex topics are well explained and illustrated. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Resource Kit 1350 pages; $69.95 USA, $94.95 Canada Microsoft Press One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Voice: (206) 936-7329 5=> Product: QuickSound Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org Reviewed on: 486DX/133, 16 MB RAM, Windows 95, 2x CD-ROM, PAS-16 sound card Requires: IBM-compatible PC with available serial interface, compatible sound card, Windows 3.1 or Window 95 recommended MSRP: Street Price About $30 QuickSound is a remote control for your PC's sound system. About the size of a credit card, it attaches to your PC's serial port with an attached cable. The cable terminates in a 9 pin connector, but a DB25 to DB9 adapter can be used to attach it to a 25 pin serial port. (I took this route, as I had another device attached to my 9 pin serial port.) I installed it under Windows 95, which did not automatically detect this new hardware. That's just as well, as you must run an install program from the supplied disk no matter what. Installation was straightforward and flawless. QuickSound installs a program (also called QuickSound) in your Windows 95 Start folder, which can be run minimized, where it shows up in the taskbar. The QuickSound keypad comes with rubber feet and tape that you can use to attach the keypad to your monitor, keyboard, or computer. I preferred to just leave it on my desk, so that I could push it out of the way if I had to. The User's Guide suggests that holding it in your hand would be "perfect for multi-media presentations." As it only controls the audio from your computer, I guess that would have to be an audio presentation, unless you had a need to adjust t the sound volumes during your presentation. Now that the technical prologue is out of the way, I will describe the features of QuickSound. It gives you one-button access to the master volume controls of Windows, without clicking on any program interfaces on you monitor. You can increase or decrease the volume, or even mute all sounds with the QuickSound keypad. Using any of these features brings up a small gauge window on your screen, which shows the adjustments you are making. Using the QuickSound software, this display can be turned off or positioned in one of six screen locations. QuickSound also controls the bass and treble levels, balance, and the volume of your audio line, CD, Midi, Wave, and Microphone input. The usual audio CD controls such as rewind, play, stop, fast forward, pause, previous track, and next track all have their own buttons on QuickSound. An eject button ejects the CD from your player. A record button is also present for other devices, which I was not able to test. QuickSound allows you to store and recall up to five preset audio configurations. A set stored from Windows will not be available under DOS, as DOS settings are stored separately. I did not install the separate DOS software or test these features under DOS. Within Windows 95, I also opted to use the native Windows CD driver, instead of the QuickSound CD driver. Doing this allows you to use multiple CD drives, use the playlist feature, and have the QuickSound fast forward and reverse buttons function as they would on a regular CD player. The QuickSound CD driver makes these buttons move your CD forward or back- ward fifteen seconds each time they are pressed. The User's Guide says that "QuickSound support most features on many sound cards". If your sound card does not support separate bass and treble volumes, neither will QuickSound. All features worked with my sound card. QuickSound has a large list of supported cards, including the common ones I have heard of. But it would be wise to check this compatibility list before purchasing the product. One of the other benefits of QuickSound is the ability to adjust sound settings in your games without leaving the game itself, or exiting to the game's setup screen. Most of the games I play are real-time games where the sound is necessary for gameplay. So I would never mute the sound with QuickSound, and try to keep playing. I would normally just pause the game instead. If however, your spouse or parent is telling you to "turn that noise down!", it's nice to be able to do it without reaching for your speaker controls or saving and exiting your game. Another benefit is the ability to adjust the mixer at the sound source to reduce noise and distortion when creating audio files. This product does everything it claims to, and does it very well. The only, and I do mean only, problem I could find was after you press shift-display to open the QuickSound window. Pressing shift again displays a message to "press a key with green print", letting you know that the functions for keys with colored print below them are accessed by pressing the shift key first. But the keys on QuickSound actually have blue print. I know this is minor inconsistency, but I include only because I could find nothing else wrong. If you have use for a product that functions as I described, then QuickSound is the one for you! Labtec Enterprises, Inc. 3801 NE 109th Avenue, Suite J Vancouver, WA 98682 (360)-896-2000 (Tech Support) WWW: http://www.labtec.com Installation/Ease of Use: Gold User-Friendliness: Gold Quality: Gold User: All 6=> Product: Webmaster in a Nutshell by Stephen Spainhour and Valerie Quercia Reviewed By: Doug Reed mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com MSRP: $19.95 O'Reilly & Associates are known for producing some top-notch books, but among the most highly-regarded are the Nutshell books, desktop references intended for advanced computer users already familiar with whatever topic the book discusses. Having some web page creation and maintenance, as well as programming in Java and JavaScript, I can appreciate the difficult task of the webmaster. A webmaster must have mastery of a number of subjects, including setting up and maintaining the server, creating web pages, and maintaining the website. Webmaster in a Nutshell is intended to a be a desktop reference for these Jack- of-all-trades, and I think most webmasters will find it a very valuable and handy tool. Sometimes it strikes me funny that even as the world becomes increasingly digitized it is a small set of books that I always turn too when programming in Java or creating web pages. Sure, most of the same information can be found on-line, and a good deal of it is stored on my computer. But I still find it much easier to just pull down the book I want, flip open to the section I need and find what I want. But then I guess maybe I'm just old-fashioned. Either way, Webmaster in a Nutshell is perfectly suited to me. Spainhour and Quercia have put together an excellent reference: the text is sharp and too-the-point, as would be expected from a book designed solely to serve as a reference. Although comprising 26 chapters, the book is divided into five subject areas that the authors thought were of prime importance to webmasters. The first area covered is HTML, the language used to create web pages. The book covers the HTML 3.2 standard, which is still a working draft. All standard HTML tags are listed and explained, followed by descriptions on how to use frames and tables in HTML documents. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss HTML issues such as color and the use of special characters. Chapter the last on HTML, covers the different tags used by Internet Explorer and Navigator and how to code for both browsers to achieve the same look. The second subject area is CGI, the common gateway interface. Chapter 9 gives an overview of CGI while Chapter 10 discusses how to create forms in HTML documents that use CGI. Chapter 11 discusses environment variables while chapter 12 details the use of cookies. This is followed by a discussion of server-side includes and the different implementations on different servers. Chapters 14 and 15 discuss Windows CGI programming and Perl, respectively, which are the means by which CGI programs are create Part III covers HTTP, the language by which Web clients and servers talk to one another over the web. Covered are such topics as client methods, server response codes, headers used by clients and servers, and the Internet media types covered by HTTP. The fourth subject area is JavaScript programming. Although the book covers all of the functions and methods available in Netscape Navigator 3.0, the authors are careful to point out functions that are not available in Navigator 2.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0. Finally, the fifth subject area covers the configuration of most of the servers available on the market, especially all of those used on Unix systems and, of course, O'Reilly's own Website server (used on Windows 95 and NT). Overall the book is well organized and laid out, although I am a bit puzzled by the fact that the HTML and JavaScript areas are not right next to one another (since JavaScript is scripted right into HTML documents). Not that it makes any huge difference, it just seems a little strange. Java is not covered in this book because O'Reilly already has an excellent Nutshell book out on Java (Java in a Nutshell, written by David Flanagan). Webmasters will find a lot to like about this book, and I'm certain that the pages will quickly become dog- eared and the spine bent badly from constant use (anyone who creates or maintains websites knows that a superb reference is an essential tool). For webmasters and designers out there, O'Reilly has created another must-have. O'Reilly and Associates 103 Morris Street, Suite A Sebastopol, CA 95472 1-800-998-9938 http://www.ora.com Installation/Ease of Use: Gold User-Friendliness: Gold Quality: Gold Audience: Anyone designing or maintaining websites. 7=> Product: You Don't Know Jack Sports Reviewed By: Craig Bull, mailto:bull@udayton.edu Reviewed On: AMD 486DX4/100, 32MB RAM, Windows 95, 2x CD-ROM Requires: 486/33, 8MB RAM, Windows 3.x/Win95, 2x CD-ROM MSRP: $29.99 If you're one of those people who amazes everyone with your knowledge in Trivial Pursuit, this game may set you back a notch. This is one of the more interesting games I've played in a while. No weird aliens (just a cocky announcer). No shooting, no need for great hand/eye coordination. Just a knack for the stranger side of sports trivia. Berkeley Systems describes You Don't Know Jack Sports (YDKJS) as some extreme trivia. And they're not kidding! A sequel to the successful You Don't Know Jack series, YDKJS is a fast-paced, irreverent sports trivia game. You (and up to two other players) play contestants on a TV game show. Each is assigned a "buzzer" (the Q, B, and P keys on your keyboard). A question, worth a certain dollar value, is given from one of three categories, selected by the winner of the last question. The first person to buzz in gets a chance to pick the correct answer from one of four given. Get it right, and you win the bucks. Get it wrong, and you lose the bucks. Players have the choice of playing a 7-question tournament game or a regular 21-question game. I played a number of each. With over 800 questions in the game, I haven't seen a duplicate yet. Each game has three types of questions: Multiple Choice, Gibberish, and Jack Attack. The 7-question game has one Gibberish Question. The 21-question game has two. All games end with the Jack Attack. OK, so you know how the basic game works and your thinking "Whoopee. A trivia game. How dull." Well, you're in for a lot of fun and a great surprise. The questions in this game are not what you would call your normal trivia question. For example, "Who won the 1967 World Series?" is not something you're going to see in this game. Instead, try these categories: Grandpa & Natural Gas Association Against Breaststroking What Did You Say About Thrusting Your Bladder? How to Enjoy Being a Girl Why Didn't Fred Just Go In Through the Window? Those are just a few of the categories that come up. Here's a sample question. The category - Let's Spike Mike. Think Brady Bunch. (The answer is at the end of this review.) If Mike and Carol Brady wanted to replace their bratty children with new kids, under the rules of U.S. Indoor Volleyball, up to how many kids could they substitute? 1. Just Greg 2. Marcia & Greg 3. Peter, Jan, Marcia & Greg 4. All the kids For the Gibberish Question, you are given a gibberish phrase. You have to guess what saying, name, title, etc. rhymes with that phrase. You start with $5,000 or $10,000. Every 1.5 seconds, a little money is taken away until the pot reaches $0. As it drops, up to three hints are given. Here are a few samples (answers are at the end of this review. You don't get hints here, either. Sorry!). As he says in the game, "Don't let the punctuation fool you." 1. What sports show does this rhyme with? Some may bite, shutup all. 2. What movie phrase does this rhyme with? Stiff brew: swilled it, peed till numb. Finally, the last question is the Jack Attack. This is basically a matching question. One phrase grows on the screen. At the same time, potential matches fly by on the screen. When the phrase relates closely to the flying matches, press your buzzer. As an example, the last one I played had a Jack Attack category to the effect of "A rose by any other name." (As I write this, I honestly can't remember what it really was.) The name of a sports figure grew on the screen. You had to choose who played that t figure in a movie or on TV. For example, Babe Ruth was played by John Goodman. This game is a lot of fun! The questions are much different than what you would see in a normal trivia game. And the host, Andy Poland according to the credits, is a riot! He can harass you without offending you, and always has some smart comment after each question. His voice and manner really add a lot to the game. And a lot of the extra stuff going on makes it worth sitting and just watching the end credits. The beginning of the game is done as if you had just walked in to a studio and people are talking and asking you questions. Each question has some sort of animated lead-in. (Animated meaning floating the question number on the screen in some *interesting* ways, along with sound. "The German judge gives a... nien!") The ending sequence has audio of some "commercials" which are pretty entertaining. I've only got two minor complaints. First, having three people crowded around a keyboard can get a bit awkward, especially when you're all pounding on it because you know the answer to the question. I don't know what else they could do, but it would be nice if some other option were available, such as one on a joystick, one on the keyboard, and one on the mouse. I don't know. They certainly did the best the could with what they had. Second, I'd like to see some sort of high score table. I'd like to know what my best game was, compared to the current game. But these minor things certainly don't take away from the appeal of the game. If you're interested in the You Don't Know Jack series, there is a playable demo available on their WWW site. Be warned; it's a pretty big download. One more thing, and this is straight from the manual: "WARNING: This product contains mature content, including suggestive sexual references and language that may not be suitable for children. Besides, they won't get it anyway." Berkeley Systems, Inc. 2095 Rose Street Berkeley, CA 94709 Voice: (510)549-2300 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= SYSOPS READ HERE! We want to make CompuNotes available on as many BBS as possible. Sysops who volunteer upload this newsletter to their BBS as a ZIP file will be listed in our sysops directory shipped with each newsletter. We'll also link to your website. If you are interested, fill out the following lines and return them to notes@inlink.com with SYSOPS as the subject. After processing this, we'll send you a weekly UUEncoded version of CompuNotes. 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