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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 in Chief: Dan Butler Contributing Editor: Al Gordon This issue is for Thursday, June 8, 2000 - Vol. 3 No. 12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Windows 2000 3rd Party Utilities (CD-RW): Part 3 (by Al Gordon) ** 03. Is It Too Late for Privacy? (by T.J. Lee) ** 04. High-End Clock Radios (by Al Gordon) ** 05. Featured Web Site - Keen.com Live Answer Community ** 06. Featured Product - Xenu's Link Sleuth ** 07. Featured Entertainment - Game Guides ** 08. Featured Book - "The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the- Universe(s) Report" by Timothy Ferris ** 09. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 10. We Get Mail ** 01. Letter from the Publisher We'd like to thank all of the TNPCers who wrote to us about QUE selling the "Unofficial" title and thereby orphaning our book, "The Unofficial Guide to PCs." We really appreciate the moral support and the physical support displayed by those of you who have purchased a copy. Speaking of which, thanks to all of you who have purchased any of the books we're recommended on our books page: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?bookspage This is a great way for you to show your support for TNPC since we make a few farthings whenever you purchase something from Amazon using one of our links. We have an Amazon search engine form on our books page so you can search for books, music, and videos right from that page. In this issue Jim muses on what privacy really means in the computer/marketing age, and Al reviews more Windows/Windows 2000 utilities in his continuing series, plus an informative anecdote about Al's new CD clock radio. Meanwhile, Dan has been on assignment in Houston and Lee is busy with a major software development project building a custom Outlook 2000 application and overseeing an 80+ Word template project. As always, reader support is what keeps TNPC free, so PLEASE help us with our subscription drive and pass a copy of TNPC on to co- workers and friends (no spam please!) and remember to always say "I saw it in TNPC!" So now you know. +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ Don't lose valuable data! Protect your system and get a UPS! Uninterruptible Power Supply systems protect your computer from power surges, spikes, sags, & brownouts. Power irregularities can fry your system and cause you to lose valuable data. PEI is a master distributor providing quality and reliability based on our experience in the industry. We buy, lease, rent, sell, and trade new and refurbished models. We have the know-how to set you up with the machine best meeting your needs! 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Accordingly, I have tested some alternatives, and look favorably upon Ahead Software's Nero 5 from Germany. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?al1 It's $69 plus $9 shipping if you want a disk and manuals; $49 if you download it. I deliberately subjected it to a torture test, having it burn a CD while numerous functions were running on my computer. Nero went ahead and did the job, compensating for the other program's competition for system resources. The job took more time, understandably, but the end product was a working disk. Version 5 now fully supports Windows 2000. Nero's interface is straightforward, although slightly more complicated than Easy CD. The only limitation of any consequence is that, while Nero does have software for printing CD labels and covers, you have to manually set the printing dimensions whereas Adaptec provides templates for popular label packages. (You also get tested in metric conversion, as Nero's dimensions are in millimeters.) Another contender is CDRWIN from Golden Hawk Technology in New Hampshire. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?al2 CDRWIN offers CD burner diehards a wide range of user settings for recording or creating image files, allowing nearly full control over the burning process. It's not the easiest interface in the world, though, and it does not support CDDB Internet retrieval of music CD track information. More problematic, Golden Hawk neither supplies nor supports ASPI layer software (the software that your system uses to communicate with the CD burner), deferring to Adaptec's package. If something is amiss on your system, you are out of luck. For me, the software ran on Windows 98 but ran into problems with the ASPI layer in Windows 2000, simply would not run, and tech support declined to do anything other than refer me to third-party Web pages. [Listen up guys: the fix is, you put a copy of wnaspi32.dll in the WINCDR folder.] You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:algordon@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ >> SPEED KILLS...EXCEPT ON THE INTERNET!!! INCREASE your Internet SPEED right NOW. This easy-to-use and inexpensive software will bring smiles to you and Web cruisers all around the world. Check it out at... http://www.thenakedpc.com/t/312/tr.cgi?sponsor2 Turbo-charge your Internet experience...NOW! +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 03. Is It Too Late for Privacy? (by T.J. Lee) I saw a small notice in the trades that Ticketmaster.com is going to start offering tickets to events that you print through your PC on your printer. Sounds very convenient. And convenience, it turns out, is a trade-off for privacy. What got me thinking about this was a quote in the Ticketmaster article from executive vice president Tom Stockham, "We now know where a customer is going to be on the night of certain events," he said. "This offers us opportunities to link up with restaurants, bars and other merchants that do business in the area that the venue is located." His point being that with 8 1/2 x 11 inches of "ticket" surface to play with, Ticketmaster could sell space for discount coupons and banner ads for merchants in the area of the event you'll be attending. Ticketmaster knows where you'll be and when. I don't really worry about someone stealing my credit card information from some online Web store because my liability is limited to $50 under the Fair Credit Billing Act, but I'd hate for burglars to get their hands on this type of information. This got me to pondering on the idea of privacy versus convenience in our Internet-driven computer age. Privacy is a big concern according to the computer press. Just consider the hoo- haw over companies like Real Networks, Aureate/Radiate, or Conducent Technologies that profile your habits so that they (or the marketers they sell your profile to) can bombard you with ads targeted to your tastes. Or Comet Cursor that tracks the sites on the Web you visit for the same purpose. There's even counter "spyware" software available like the free OptOut from Steve Gibson that helps you prevent companies gathering information without your knowledge on your computer. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?priv1 I'm wondering if it's not just too late to try cry foul over the privacy issue given the huge role computers play in our society today. And I'm not talking just about the Internet. Computers make it possible to record your purchases and buying habits. In some supermarkets a cash register hooked to a computer prints our your receipt and then adds a number of printed coupons to the tape. The coupons are for the items (or similar items) you've just purchased on the theory that these are the types of things you'll be buying in the future. Is this a convenience or a major compromising of your privacy? It gets sticky when you don't pay cash but use a credit/debit/store charge card or check to pay for your groceries. Now the store can match your purchases with your name and store all this in its database. Then they can sell your information. Who you are and what you buy is valuable information to folks who want to find you and sell you their stuff. And selling is what it's all about. The same day I saw the TicketMaster piece I came across another news tidbit about a device marketed by Alabama start-up Mobiltrak that monitors and records what radio station a person is listening to on their car radio. This device is being used by concert promoters to see what people are listening to as cars enter the parking area for a concert. This tells them where there advertising was effective. The developers say it's not tied to individuals so there's no invasion of privacy but how hard would it be to associate the car license plate with the station information? I'm not saying that what you listen to on your car radio is a major privacy invasion but you see the pattern emerging. Everything you do has some marketability so someone is going to try to profile what you do and store it in a database somewhere. Face it, the trade-off in convenience is that not only your buying habits are tracked but it is becoming easier and easier to pinpoint your physical whereabouts. Every time you punch the button on your cell phone it's possible that your exact location could be determined. That's what 911 emergency services and the cell phone providers have worked out so that in an emergency a 911 call can be tracked and located physically. Now the big question is this... is the trade-off in convenience versus privacy a bad thing? If it is a bad thing, exactly how bad is it? What you eat, what you drink, what you buy, where you buy it, what type of sites you surf, it's all target-able information. What you read from Amazon, what you watch when rented from the local Blockbuster, it's all in a database somewhere. Coupons you're likely to use as opposed to stuff you'd just toss out makes sense, but are we exposing too much of our personal habits for the convenience? One alternative is to stop using plastic and start paying cash for everything you buy but really, how practical is that these days? Do privacy issues keep you awake at night or is it a non-event in your life? I imagine the thought of having a communications device installed in every home was a chilling thought to some in the pre-telephone age. Let me know what you think. Next time I'll discuss what some companies are doing about privacy in the workplace and what the Federal government has to say on the subject. You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com ** 04. High-End Clock Radios (by Al Gordon) A belated Christmas present finally arrived last week: the best clock radio-CD around. And no, it's not the much-advertised Bose Wave Radio, but the Model 88 CD from arch-rival Cambridge SoundWorks. It's a stretch to call it a computer-related product, although both companies sell computer audio equipment and do say their radios can be hooked up to a PC. But it is kind of cool. And I like the idea of price competition creeping into the clock radio-CD market. Make that the high-end clock radio market. We aren't talking sub-$100 units here, but pieces that go for as much as $500. Dr. Amar Bose, patron of the eponymous company (sorry about that folks, but I have been looking for a chance to work "eponymous" into an article for months) and Henry Kloss, of Acoustic Research, KLH, Advent, and now CSW fame are certified legends of the hi-fi world. Both are based in Massachusetts and both are famed for their "my way" approach to design. "Stubborn" is the frequently used term. There is one big difference, though: Bose's product lineup evokes the old Clint Eastwood flick, "For a Few Dollars More," Kloss goes for a few dollars less. Bose is devoted to his "acoustic waveguide" design--at the risk of shrieks of protest from the Bose HQ in Framingham, that essentially means that there is a long tube folded up inside the Wave radio to boost its bass response. Bose contends that this approach allows a small radio to approach the sound reproduction of a much larger system. But it has two problems: it's pricey--a Bose Wave radio-only goes for $350 and the radio-CD for $500 (no discounts offered anywhere). Also, it's non-adjustable, so if you don't like the Bose view of bass response, tough. Kloss' method for increasing bass is simply to put a subwoofer inside the box. Not as elegant, but there is a knob for adjusting bass up and down. Plus, Kloss provides a headphone jack whereas Bose thinks headphones are an assault on his acoustics. Not that Kloss has been all that user-friendly either. The original Model 88 table radio introduced in 1998 was intended to be purely just that: a radio to sit on a table. Period. The Cambridge SoundWorks marketing people eventually noted that the number of people wanting to gather around the family radio to listen to fireside chats and "The Shadow" was a little limited. A "control clock" unit--basically, a glorified remote control with dual alarms--was introduced to make the 88 usable as a clock radio. Finally, after a variety of production delays, the 88 CD has appeared, with the clocks and alarms built in along with the CD player. The Model 88 theoretically sells for $250, but is usually on sale for $200 and the control clock is $50; the 88 CD is $350--so they under-price the comparable Bose's by $100 and $150 respectively. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?hifi Mind you, the whole concept of spending that much on a clock radio boggles many people's minds. Sony, among others, have a range of clock radios and radio-CDs for much, MUCH less money. If your only need is to catch five minutes of weather and news in the AM before heading into the shower, the high-end units are not for you. In part the object of the exercise is to allow the picky music- lover to hear tunes that don't grate on the ear. The units also have some cool features such as being able to program the volume level when setting the alarm so you can play music softly to go to sleep and have it loud enough to wake you up in the morning. But an equal part is to have a unit that supplements your main stereo system. The "room-filling sound" that Bose and CSW pitch is a bit of a stretch, but not much of one. You can crank up the volume and get respectable results--better than a lot of speakers, boom boxes, and compact stereo systems in the comparable price range. Think of it as a mini-system with a clock built in. And a solution to the age-old "I want to hear classical; no, I want to listen to jazz" debates in your household. You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:algordon@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ >> Get up to 100MB of FREE webspace! X:drive gives you your very own Free Internet Hard Drive to securely store, access and share all your files from any computer, anytime. 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Religious holidays, car repair, parenting advice, you name it and you can become a per-minute paid advisor. You create your listing, set a price per minute and Keen.com handles the billing. Keen.com takes five cents a minute off the top and splits the rest 70% for you and 30% for them. You list the times you're available for phone consulting and calls are routed through Keen.com so a caller never knows your phone number. It's a wild concept and we have no idea if it'll work but you've got to give Keen.com points for imagination. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?fsite ** 06. Featured Product - Xenu's Link Sleuth If you run a Web site you know the tedium involved in keeping all of your hyperlinks working. Xenu's Link Sleuth helps you keep on top of your links. Simply enter a URL to start with and moments later Link Sleuth presents you with a report showing broken links, where to find them, a map of your site, URL's you can safely submit to search engines and more. I particularly like the site map near the bottom of the report. It's nicely indented and uses your titles as links to your pages. Here's a neat way to use Link Sleuth even if you don't run a web site. Upload your Netscape bookmark file (bookmark.htm) to the free web space you get from your ISP or to a free site like Geocities. Now point Link Sleuth to the file and let it check your bookmarks for you. We found Xenu's Link Sleuth a fine piece of software that does its job well. Find Link Sleuth at: http://www.thenakedpc.com/t/312/tr.cgi?fprod ** 07. Featured Entertainment - Game Guides Tired of getting your post-nuclear role-playing kiester kicked? Want to pick the lock on "Baldur's Gate," stop falling out of "Fallout 2," finally take command of "MechCommander?" On the Intelligamer Features page you'll find detailed walkthroughs and strategy guides for playing some of the classic computer games like these titles and more. You'll also find editorials, news features, and Q&As with some of the industry's movers and shakers. For submarine warfare fans, be sure to check out the preview of the "Submarine Titans" on the main page. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?fent ** 08. Featured Book - "The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the- Universe(s) Report" by Timothy Ferris This book grabbed me by the cerebrum and won't let go. I'm now starting my second reading, and hope to digest the bulk of Ferris' other work over the summer. Fellow cosmologists (amateur and professional alike), you will be inspired, challenged, and entertained by this marvelous work. Don't get me wrong, I am neither a physicist nor a practicing cosmologist, but oh how I long to walk that lofty path, if only in the shadows. Ferris takes the reader on a journey through upheavals in various physics sub-domains, with an emphasis on cosmology and cosmogony (the study of the origin of the universe). He explains the birth, maturation, and (sometimes) death of theories, along with anecdotes of their human creators, advocates, and opponents. Personally, I enjoyed his extensive endnotes as much as his manuscript. For example, endnote 3 of Chapter 3, "The Shape of Space." "While walking with [Werner] Heisenberg, the physicist Felix Bloch, who had just read Weyl's 'Space, Time and Matter,' felt moved to declare that space is simply the field of linear equations. Heisenberg replied, 'Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.' 'What he meant,' Bloch writes, 'was that it was dangerous for a physicist to describe Nature in terms of idealized abstractions too far removed from the evidence of actual observation. In fact, it was just by avoiding this danger in the previous description of atomic phenomena that he was able to arrive at his great creation of quantum mechanics.' Felix Bloch, 'Physics Today' 29 (12), 27 (1976)." The book's main objective is to "summarize the picture of the universe that science has adduced as the second millennium A.D. draws to a close, and to forecast an exciting if unsettling new picture that may emerge in the near future." (Where by "unsettling" he means "mind-bending." I can say this not because I presume to know Ferris' mind but because I have read the whole book and absorbed it in its whole context.) Chapter 1 provides an intriguing, informative history of how mankind has come to its present scientific understanding of the universe's age, scale, and evolution. Next he expands on (forgive the pun) how the theory of gravity ultimately predicts that cosmic space is expanding. Which leads directly to Chapter 3's endeavor to explain exactly what it is that cosmic space is expanding into. Along the way, we learn about curved, torn, and pinched off space, not to mention space foam. Next he reviews recent updates to the big bang theory, followed by a review of dark matter. "Regardless of whether there is enough dark matter to close the universe, there clearly is a lot more dark than luminous matter around." Chapter 6 studies the large-scale structure of the universe, noting that on a scale of billions of light-years the universe is isotropic and homogeneous but that at a scale of a few hundred million light-years, structure abounds. The extra-galactic taxonomy is BIG: groups, clusters, clouds, superclusters, and supercluster complexes (walls). "Superclusters typically measure 100 million light-years or more in diameter and contain something like ten thousand galaxies each... Once thought to be the largest structures in nature, superclusters are now understood to be subordinate to enormous walls or sheets, sometimes called supercluster complexes, that can span a billion light-years in length. That's more than 5 percent of the radius of the observable universe." Chapter 7 delves into the matter of the universe's evolution, and in Chapter 8 the ride gets really bumpy. Symmetry (realized and broken), invariance, quantum electrodynamics, string theory (ten and 26-dimensional varieties, choose your camp), superstrings, phase transitions collapsing six of the original ten dimensions... ouch. Leading to a discussion of the theory of inflation (an exceedingly rapid early cosmic expansion that occurred in 10^-34 second) and--in Chapter 9--the speed of space. Ferris introduces us to the notions of chaotic inflation, scalar fields ("[Andrei] Linde showed that the universe could have begun not with a single sort of scalar field with a particular value (an initial condition) but with a seething ocean of all sorts of scalar fields"), cosmic vacuum, and multiple universes. Chapter 10 tackles cosmogony's three paradoxes, "...the paradoxes of a first cause, of getting something from nothing, and of infinite regress." Chapter 11 is a tour of quantum weirdness and the implicate universe; fasten your seatbelts, folks. Ferris closes with a compelling contemplation of a "place" for human beings in the context of the universe he has just so deftly and humbly toured with his readers. I think it's a tour well worth taking. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?fbook You can reach Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:leehudspeth@TheNakedPC.com +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ WANT TO GET YOUR WORD OUT? Classified ads in The Naked PC can be yours for ridiculously low prices. Get your message out to over 52,000 TNPC subscribers. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/tnpcadvertising.html?v3i12 +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ ** 09. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff *-* American Express has decided to stop honoring credit card transactions from Web porn sites. In the face of a multi-billion dollar market this is quite a position to take but before you think that Amex is taking the high moral ground think again. The huge amount of disputed charges and charge-backs is what has Amex nixing the porn biz. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?news1 *-* Ed Foster has some reader perspective on the amazingly bad (for consumers) decision by Microsoft to stop supplying an installable Windows CD-ROM with computers under OEM deals. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?news2 *-* If you are a System Administrator you need to read about the System Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute's published list of the most often used security holes used by hackers to gain access to servers. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?news3 *-* Microsoft has released a fix for a bug in Internet Explorer that lets code from a "malicious web site" be run on your machine when you browse said site. The bad guys create a compiled Help file and IE runs it letting the program do anything you could do yourself on your system including "adding, changing or deleting data, or communicating with a remote web site". This is a potentially nasty vulnerability so get this fix if you use IE. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/312/tr.cgi?news4 Hey! Have you come across something newsworthy? Drop us a line: mailto:hottips@TheNakedPC.com ** 10. We Get Mail *-* We got a huge response to Jim's "Shutdown Nightmares" article last issue (see TNPC #3.11). A number of TNPCers have had problems with Windows not shutting down correctly. Many of you recommended this handy tip when you have a Windows shut down problem and want to power down without having to worry about a scandisk when you fire it up again: In the Shut Down Windows dialog, don't check the Shut Down option, select the "Restart in MS-DOS mode" option button. 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