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The Naked PC - http://www.TheNakedPC.com What You Need to Know about All Things PC Publisher: Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee Editor: Dan Butler Contributing Editor: Al Gordon This issue is for Thursday, March 18, 1999 - Vol. 2 No. 6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sender: owner-thenakedpc Precedence: bulk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Software Bargains Part IV (by Dan Butler) ** 03. NT: "No Trouble" or "No Thanks"? (by Al Gordon) ** 04. Privacy and the Evil Empire (by T.J. Lee) ** 05. A Serendipitous Install of Windows NT 4.0 (by Lee Hudspeth) ** 06. Featured Book - How Computers Work by Ron White ** 07. Featured Tip - The DLL Archive ** 08. Featured Product Recommendation - Encarta Encyclopedia 99 ** 09. Featured Web Page Recommendation - Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing ** 10. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 01. Letter from the Publisher In this issue Al Gordon and Lee Hudspeth take you on a sojourn through the Windows NT jungle. They take you on a quest for a reliable operating system and kick the tires of Microsoft's current flagship, industrial-strength operating system. More to come from them about Windows NT in future issues. We continue to be delighted by the positive and thought-provoking feedback that floods the TNPC underground labs after each issue. We love to hear about your real-world trials and tribulations in trying to make PC technology translate into productive work. After TNPC #2.5 we received an email from a TNPCer asking why we were listing CNET Shopper links to do price comparisons instead of their favorite site. The answer is simple, CNET is a reputable outfit and besides, they cough up a kickback every time someone clicks through one of those links. That's a great deal for everyone. Our readers get a free price comparison, TNPC gets a few cents, and no one is obligated to buy or do anything. If you purchase a book from Amazon using a link in TNPC or on the TNPC Web site's Library page, we get a cut of that action too. And the TNPCer making the purchase gets a convenient and cheap price on a great book. Everyone benefits and on one is obligated to buy. It's not like we were hawking things like Monica's book. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312240910/tnpcnewsletter Or touting that Tae-Bo Workout tape (does anyone know what that's all about anyway?). http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305242143/tnpcnewsletter But I digress [g]. Anyway, just so you know, clicking on our CNET Shopper links, buying books through our Amazon links, and visiting our advertiser's sites (sponsor and classifieds) all help us defray somewhat the cost of cranking out this newsletter. TNPC is a free bulletin but we try to earn an honest two bits wherever we can. As always, reader support is what keeps TNPC free, so please pass a copy of TNPC onto co-workers and friends (no spam please!) and always say "I saw it in TNPC!" +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ WinPlanet WinPlanet WinPlanet WinPlanet WinPlanet WinPlanet WinPlanet--a world of premium information for Windows users! WinPlanet gives you all the 32-bit Windows features, reviews, shareware, tips and fun you can handle! New files, discussions, how-tos, interviews, and full coverage of Windows2000! Check out WinPlanet at: http://www.winplanet.com/?nl.ex +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 02. Software Bargains Part IV (by Dan Butler) I've received lots of response to my previous articles on getting software at a bargain. Anthony pointed out that you can often buy new copies of software for less than the upgrade would cost you. This is a terrific idea and my take on it is to find someone who keeps up on the latest version and purchase their previous versions at a huge discount. Often they will just give you the product. Another reader, Larry, found some bargains at eBay and was wondering what the catch may be. I told him to be sure and follow up on the seller prior to bidding. eBay provides a link that lets you read comments left by previous purchasers. Write email to the seller and ask if the software is new, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), shareware, US or International, etc. I purchased a copy of Visio Professional 5.0 for $30. When it arrived it was the International English edition. While I hadn't considered asking that before buying it hasn't hampered my use of the product at all. Basically remember "buyer beware" and don't bid more than you are comfortable losing should you get a bad deal. Personally I've always been satisfied with my purchases. One TNPC reader, Ellie, is giving the Star Office Suite a go. This is a full featured office suite that can read/write Office 97 compatible files and has versions for both Windows and Linux. The cool part is that the suite is FREE for personal use. You just download the 50 MB install file from the Internet. We'll keep you posted on how this office suite is working out. With Microsoft Office 2000 just around the corner (well, hopefully this year sometime) it's time to evaluate your needs. You can reach Dan Butler at: mailto:dbutler@TheNakedPC.com ** 03. NT: "No Trouble" or "No Thanks"? (by Al Gordon) Regular readers of this publication are no doubt familiar by now with our routine caveats: "your mileage may vary" and "go figure." They are a reflection of the computing reality that software and hardware performance varies with every single PC configuration; what works on one could be a disaster on another. This point recently was driven home to TNPC's contributors when several of us did installations of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, with widely different results. I attempted an installation on a new Pentium II 450 PC that ended in total disaster -- my hard drive was scrambled, the data lost, and it was necessary to restore from backup. Then, I took the very same copy of NT, tried it on a four-your-old Pentium 233, and the installation went through without any serious problem. Go figure. The main difference between my methods for the first and second installations, was that in the first case I had left the first partition on my hard drive as a Windows 98 system (for multi- booting) formatted with FAT32 and attempted the installation to a second, adjacent partition. The second time, following advice from Microsoft and PowerQuest (makers of PartitionMagic) technical support engineers, I made the first partition an empty FAT16 partition where I installed NT, and made the Windows 98/FAT32 partition second. Aha! You say; there's the answer. Nope. Two colleagues used the method that had trashed my hard drive, with complete success. As we say, "Go figure." Obviously, somewhere in the complex interaction among system BIOS, the hard drive itself and the boot records/partition tables/formatting thereof, plus any other hardware or software that would stumble into the picture, there always is the threat that Something Will Go Wrong. It's why they invented backup software, I guess. My exploration of NT came about because (a) I got tired of repeated Windows 98 crashes whenever a couple of applications were running in the background -- and often for no good reason whatsoever -- and (b) because I was able to pick up a copy at a discount. One definite conclusion: I do like it so far. It seems more stable than Windows 98 and -- contrary to advance billing -- applications seem to be running faster on my old system than in Win95 or Win98 environments. But I don't like it so much that I would pay the steep price dictated by the Evil Empire in Redmond's marketing policy that NT isn't available as an upgrade to another version of Windows and must be purchased as a complete new operating system. In discussing our respective results with my colleagues, however, it turns out that some of "go figure" also involves matters of personal preferences regarding system configuration, not just technical considerations. Some of the things I liked about it, for example, were things that TNPC's esteemed co-publisher Lee Hudspeth couldn't stand. Lee is of the "leave the computer running all night" school and hates NT 4's lack of support for Advanced Power Management. I, on the other hand, take the "when you're done, shut it off" approach and also have had APM lock up my system one time too many. Similarly, as noted in this space at considerable length, I am not extraordinarily fond of plug-and-play technology and do not bemoan its absence from NT whereas that lack complicated Lee's setup work. So, depending on your tastes and technology, "your mileage may vary." You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:algordon@TheNakedPC.com ** 04. Privacy and the Evil Empire (by T.J. Lee) Look for Microsoft bashing to climb to heretofore unseen proportions over the privacy issues surrounding the GUID number that MS creates on your Windows 98 computers and then stuffs into every Office document created on that machine. Here's the deal in a nutshell (according to an article on CNET): If your computer has a network card in it, Windows 98 generates a value called a GUID number that is unique to your computer. (Similar to the Pentium III branded ID that is also causing privacy groups to have conniptions.) The fact that this is standard procedures for UNIX and other operating systems (and has been for years) doesn't seem to matter since we're talking about "personal computers" and somehow being anonymous is of paramount importance. But I digress. Office applications stick this number in all documents created on that machine. Depending on who you ask you get differing answers on why this is. These answers all sort of boil down to "Gosh, it seemed like a good idea at the time but we're not using it for anything right now." Then again, Yusuf Mehdi (Microsoft's Director of Windows Marketing) says that it was all designed "with user privacy in mind." Honest. This is from an open letter on the MS site: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/Articles/privacy.htm But what really has the privacy groups screaming for blood is that Windows 98 sends this GUID to Microsoft as part of the online registration process. Even if you explicitly tell the Windows Registration Wizard not to. Oops! So Redmond can determine whose machine a given document was created on using which application if it wanted to. Pandemonium reigns because of the implied threat to everyone's privacy. Is this just another piece of the Redmondians plot to conquer the world? Do any of you care? I can see where MS is going with all this... they want to eliminate software piracy and being able to identify registered software on specific machines would ensure that more dollars will flow into the Microsoft coffers. They want to get to the point where you won't be able to install that one copy of Windows on both of your computers. On the other hand MS is making pretty free and easy with your computer and having it send information you may not want MS to have without your knowing about it. Foul! It now looks like the FTC will reexamine if computer industry self-regulation on privacy matters is going to work or if the Feds should step in. Trying to control the damage to their already sullied corporate image, Microsoft has posted two utilities, one to make Office stop creating the unique identifier and sticking them into each document you create and another to remove the number from extant documents. Microsoft Office 97 Unique Identifier Patch: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/Off97uip.htm Microsoft Office 97 Unique Identifier Removal Tool: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/pf_setup.htm How concerned are you TNPCers about the privacy issues involved here? Should the FTC step in and lay down the law? You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ WANT TO GET YOUR WORD OUT? Classified ads in The Naked PC can be yours for the ridiculously low price of $15 per issue. Get your message out to over 21,000 TNPC subscribers. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/tnpcadvertising.html?v2i6 +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ ** 05. A Serendipitous Install of Windows NT 4.0 (by Lee Hudspeth) I recently reaped the benefits of a wonderful state of being: serendipity. You know, when something wonderful happens and you weren't expecting it. A long-time client needed some development work done specifically on a Windows NT 4.0 machine, so I set about installing it -- which I'll refer to as WinNT (without a version number) in this article for simplicity. The wonderful part is that I had been interested in working with NT for a while, but other work always intervened. As you read this, keep in mind several things that may be unique to my working environment: a. The PCs in my office are configured to multi-boot. Although that adds a layer of complexity, the risk is more than offset by the tremendous gains in using multiple operating systems on each of my PCs. In my profession, that's important leverage. b. I use PartitionMagic and BootMagic from PowerQuest for dynamic partitioning and multi-booting. There are other similar products, but I use PowerQuest's. http://www.powerquest.com c. The target PC is an HP Vectra VE Series 8 PII/333 with 64 MB of RAM and a 4.1 GB hard disk. It came from the factory with Windows 95 -- yes, Windows 95! -- pre-installed, and was advertised as "Windows NT ready." d. I wanted the PC to be triple-boot: first Win95 (from the factory), followed by WinNT, followed by Win98 (which I'd install later). Fortunately my copy of WinNT was "free." My Microsoft Developer Network subscription isn't free, but one of its features is an ongoing refresh of Microsoft operating systems. http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/default.htm If you want to buy WinNT over the counter and you're not already running an earlier version of WinNT, you'll need to spend somewhere between $200 and $300 (a quick Internet search shows a range from $225 to $285 before shipping, handling, and sales tax). Ouch! I'll leave it to our ongoing coverage of WinNT in future issues to determine if it's a worthwhile investment. I'll summarize my early perceptions at the end of this article. To buy a copy of WinNT: http://www.beyond.com/AF23174/PKIN004877/prod.htm Compare prices on CNET Shopper: http://www.shopper.com/prdct/525/102.html?pt.tnpc.ad These are the steps I followed when setting up WinNT for the first time. 1. I made sure PartitionMagic (PM) and BootMagic were configured to my liking on the Win95 primary partition (which I'll call "Primary-1"). I also verified I had good copies of the Win95 partition's boot diskette with real-mode CD-ROM drivers, a BootMagic rescue diskette, a PM 4.0 rescue diskette, and a PM 4.0 help diskette. Just in case. 2. I used PM to clone the Win95 primary partition to an extended partition for safe-keeping. 3. I disabled BootMagic on Primary-1. 4. I verified that Primary-1 was FAT32. If it was FAT16 instead, I had been told that WinNT setup might write itself directly over the existing Primary-1 without warning, so one easy way to prevent this was to set Primary-1 as FAT32, a file system that WinNT doesn't recognize. (It turns out that this trick worked, but it may have been an unnecessary step. If you know definitively either way, shoot me an email.) 5. I used PM to create a second primary partition (Primary-2) configured as FAT16. WinNT recognizes either FAT16 or its own file system (NTFS), but for the time being I wanted to maintain maximum cross-partition consistency and compatibility. 6. I created a set of WinNT boot diskettes (a.k.a. WinNT setup startup diskettes). It wasn't immediately obvious to me how to do this because I had WinNT on a CD but no boot diskettes. For folks who don't have these diskettes for whatever reason, or whose diskettes have been damaged, turns out that it's easy to make a new set. I discovered this by the time-honored "poking around" technique. I spotted a Setup.txt file in the CD's \386 folder (386 representing the Intel microprocessor flavor of WinNT), and this file had an entire section on creating boot diskettes. In a nutshell, you can create these diskettes from any PC running MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows NT Workstation, or Windows NT Server (the documentation doesn't list Windows 98, whether by oversight or not I don't know yet). You shove in the CD and from an MS-DOS command prompt switch to the CD-ROM drive and the target platform folder (again, \386 in my case). If the PC at hand is running WinNT, type "winnt32 /ox" (without the quotes) then press Enter and follow the directions. If the PC at hand is running any of the other aforementioned operating systems, type "winnt /ox" instead. You'll end up with three diskettes labeled exactly so (if you follow the directions to the letter): Windows NT Workstation Setup Boot Disk, Windows NT Workstation Setup Disk #2, and Windows NT Workstation Setup Disk #3. Don't forget to write-protect them. 7. I inserted the Windows NT Workstation Setup Boot Disk, rebooted, and followed the instructions. The setup was blissfully straightforward. The only tricky part came when setup said my Primary-2 (which it referred to simply as "Unknown 502 MB") was not recognized by NT, then instructed me to delete it, select the resulting unpartitioned space, and create a new partition onto which I could install WinNT. So I did what it asked, and it did what it said it would do. Piece of cake and no hiccups. 8. Once WinNT gets to its desktop you'll be on familiar ground if you're a Windows 9x aficionado. My next act was to install PM (but *not* BootMagic) onto this partition, make Primary-1 active, make Primary-2 hidden, then reboot so I could get back to Win95 to set my boot options. After booting straight into Win95 (Primary-1), I was able to configure BootMagic to include an option to boot WinNT, and with one more reboot I was seeing a BootMagic boot screen with the two choices: Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation 4.0. This entire exercise took about 90 minutes. Earlier I said there were no hiccups, well, that's not entirely true. The PCI LAN card I installed in this PC was readily recognized by Win95, but WinNT has refused to recognize it (an EtherPCI LAN Card II from Linksys). From the reading I've done and my discussion with Linksys technical support, this is because I had the PC's BIOS Plug and Play setting turned on but since WinNT is not Plug and Play compliant, if I uninstall the card, reboot the PC, turn the BIOS Plug and Play setting off, reboot into WinNT, and reinstall the card... all should be well. Okay, we'll see. Of course, none of this is documented anywhere in the card's User Guide, but that's no surprise in this industry where murky documentation is about the best you can expect. My first impression is that in spite of WinNT's speed, stability, and security versus its Win9x cousins, it has three tough strikes against it: no support for Plug and Play, no support for Advanced Power Management, and no support for USB. For me, those are severe disincentives. But meanwhile our client insists on it so I'll be using it heavily over the coming months and report my findings. 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