What You Need to Know about All Things PC
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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, December 14, 2000 - Vol. 3 No. 25 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Search Engines and Paid Advertising (by T.J. Lee) ** 03. PC Upgrades Particulars: Buying Upgrade Components ** 04. Recounting Florida: Garbage In, Garbage Out ** 05. Our Most Popular Featured Items from 2000 (compiled by T.J. Lee) ** 06. Featured Book - "Absolute Beginner's Guide to PC Upgrades" by T.J. Lee and Lee Hudspeth ** 07. Featured Web Site - The Librarians' Index to the Internet ** 08. Featured Product - Page Look bookmarklets ** 09. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 10. We Get Mail ** 01. Letter from the Publisher Thanks to all the AOL users out there who took the time to tell us if the links in TNPC are working. Unfortunately, the answers were split between "work great" and "don't work at all" so some more testing is definitely in order. So for any of you experiencing difficulty with the links we are now putting the issue on the web and email. Use this link to go to the issue now: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/backissues/v3i25.html Jim chimes in this issue with more on how Internet companies like the major search engines are trying to come up with models that let them actually make money. For those of you who have wondered if upgrading your computer hardware is a task within your capabilities (it is!), we have an excerpt from Jim and Lee's latest book. Al Gordon, our resident political consultant (and senior contributing editor at TNPC), checks in with the technology side of the stall in the recent U.S. national election. He reminds us of an old computer concept: GIGO. We also thought we'd share with you what Featured items in TNPC have been the most popular over the last 12 months in case you joined us during the year and may have missed them. As always, reader support is what keeps TNPC free, so PLEASE help us 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!" http://www.TheNakedPC.com/refer/ +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ PHOTON-MICRO LIGHTS! It's time to start thinking about the Holidays and how our Photon Micro-Lights (the BRIGHTEST lights for their size in the WORLD) make great Christmas gifts! These little key chain lights offer reliable, incredibly bright light for any situation. We also sell lanyards, clips, batteries, and a nifty Accessory Kits to go with your Micro-Light. Comes in your choice of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Turquoise, Blue, and White. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?sponsor1 +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 02. Search Engines and Paid Advertising (by T.J. Lee) In the wake of all the DOT.com failures that are making headlines is a trend we've seen picking up speed on the Internet. The "new economy" is running headlong into what comedian Steve Martin once described as "the old profit deal." The Internet, for good or for bad, is thought of by most people as a place where everything is free. Free ISP service, free long distance telephone calls, free information, free software, free everything. And this has been one of the driving forces behind the popularity of the Internet. But we see an obvious problem with that and so do many of the companies that foot the bill for those "free" Web sites. At some point you have to show a profit, or at least the cash flow to break even. We felt the first tremors of this shift towards a profit model when the major search engines on the Internet tried to become one-stop portals offering you access to everything on the Internet you could want with the hope that you'd make their "portal" page your home page, the page you'd go to whenever you logged onto the net. They wanted you to do this so they could sell your "eyeballs" to advertisers. The problem with this model is that unlike television an ad can't jump out through the screen and grab you by the throat. If you don't think TV ads do this consider watching that late night thriller on TV, you're straining to hear the actor's dialog when a commercial comes on and busts your eardrums with loud sounds and flashy visuals. A Web page does not have the same advantages that even print media has, namely large spaces in which to display ad text and graphics to grab your attention. Most Web ads are limited to 468x60 pixel banners or less. And as Web surfers we've become adept at not-seeing banner ads and blinking, flashing, graphics. Portal page ads didn't pay for themselves so the search engines have quietly moved away from the portal model to something more direct. They let advertisers buy your eyeballs directly. Goto.com came up with a model where those who want to be prominently listed in search results bid on keywords. You could bid, say, 10 cents for a given keyword. If you are the highest bidder then your page will be listed first followed by lower bidders on the same keyword. If someone clicks on the link from Goto and goes to your page (no pun intended) then you are charged your bid price for that click. LookSmart, Ask Jeeves, and Google have also gone for sponsored link programs where certain pages are listed prominently when you use certain keywords, although these sponsor pages are presented differently from unpaid sites that are just listed in their search engine databases. Here the sponsors pay for how often their pages are displayed not when they're clicked on. Yahoo! has dropped their free listing service for what they call "business sites." To get a page considered for inclusion in the Yahoo! search engine now requires a $200 fee but that fee does not guarantee that the site will get listed. The effects of search engines trying to find a solid profit model are many, the most significant being that you're much more likely to get, as a result of your search, pages that have little or no relevance to your search request. Companies with the deepest pockets have bought up keywords that are popular, not necessarily just those that are relevant. How this will all ultimately play out is unknown. But you can count on an Internet where money plays a bigger role than in the past, and you need to be aware of what's going on behind the scenes. You can reach T.J. 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Lee and Lee Hudspeth's Absolute Beginner's Guide to PC Upgrades," published by Que (ISBN 0-7897-2417-0) and reprinted here with permission. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu1 Buying Upgrade Components When it comes to buying upgrade components for your computer you have four choices. Mail order; brick and mortar superstores; local system integrator; or auction, swap meet, or person-to- person. In this section we'll discuss the good and bad points of each channel and show you where the best options lurk. Mail Order on the Internet There's a lot of talk about "e-commerce" like it was some new form of acquisition science but trust us, it's just mail order. Instead of poring over a catalogue and then talking to a human being over the phone, you're looking at Web pages and placing the order using a script tied to a Web form. But it's still the same basic process, with the same primary benefit of lower prices and sometimes the avoidance of sales tax. Plus a few added benefits and all the same old pitfalls of mail order. With mail order you don't get to kick the tires. You can't see the item you're purchasing and it gets shipped to you, putting it at the mercy of whatever delivery method is used to get the component to your doorstep. If there's a problem with the item you have to go through an administrative procedure (read: hassle for you). This procedure usually involves calling customer service, waiting on hold for a while, getting a return merchandise authorization (RMA) number, and arranging for shipment back to the supplier (sometimes covered by the manufacturer, sometimes not). If you return it because it turned out you ordered the wrong gizmo (say a SCSI drive when you really wanted an IDE drive) you'll probably have to pay a restocking fee. With mail order, you can only get customer support over the telephone or via email or a Web site, never eyeball to eyeball. These issues should not deter you from mail order, but you have to be aware of the potential for problems. What Internet mail order gives you over traditional mail order is the ability to search for a given component across many retail and wholesalers quickly. Let's say you want to buy a new hard disk. If you go to the Ask Jeeves site (www.askjeeves.com) and inquire, "Where can I find information on hard disks?" you could jump to the following retail suppliers (among many): NECX: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu3 Dell: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu4 The number of vendors you can query with very little effort using the Internet makes finding a bargain much easier and faster than traditional catalogue shopping. If you do your homework and know exactly the component you are after, mail order is a great way to go. Review Sites Research is something you have to do no matter where you wind up buying your computer upgrade components. The Internet makes researching reviews of given products and product categories easy. For example, if you were researching which drive in particular you'd like to buy you can find reviews for individual drives at sites like these: PC Magazine: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu5 PC World: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu6 Tom's Hardware Guide: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu7 Here you'll find reviews of hardware, systems, and peripherals, plus columns and a message board where you can post questions. MaximumPC: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu8 Great information on buying, upgrading, and fixing computers. Click on the Reviews button to access their review search engine. Computing Review.com: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu9 This site features reviews by actual users who post their experiences with a given product. CNet Computers.com: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu10 CNet publishes their own reviews and combines the editorial content with the ability to compare prices across several suppliers of the component in question. ReviewBooth.com: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu11 ReviewBooth.com is what's called an aggregator site, meaning a site that pulls together information from a number of other Web sites. Here you'll find product reviews from InfoWorld, PC Week, Storage Review, Windows Magazine, and Computer Shopper just to name a few. Sharky Extreme: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?pcu12 In-depth technical reviews of a wide variety of computer hardware can be found at this site, along with ratings across a number of categories. We were impressed with the volume of technical specifications provided in the Sharky Extreme reviews. (More to come in a future Particular...) Send comments to: mailto:upgrades@PRIMEConsulting.com ** 04. Recounting Florida: Garbage In, Garbage Out (by Al Gordon) The Florida voting dispute highlights one of the key problems with modern technology: people use it without understanding it. Long after the late-night talk show comedians have forgotten what was so funny about "pregnant chads," the consequences of this legal dispute may come back to haunt everyone in far-reaching ways that touch the very foundations of our new electronic economy. Little noticed in all the political brouhaha is the fact that all the legal proceedings have worked from the premise that the technology did not fail. Missing from the legal judgments are such key technical concepts as "fault tolerance," "mean time before failure," "downtime," "system faults," "disaster recovery," and all the other buzzwords tech companies use to convey the message that technology fails with some frequency in the course of normal operation. Most critically absent from the legalisms is the age-old computing principle "GIGO" ("Garbage In; Garbage Out"). If data is not entered properly, you can repeat the computer run from now to the end of time and still not correct anything. The stakes go far beyond voting. Rare is the individual in this day and age who has not had a conversation with a financial institution, store, government agency, or whatever in which the person to whom you are talking hasn't uttered the phrase "but the computer says..." It is crucial that the law recognize that--in commercial as well as political matters--what the computer says is not always definitive. Systems crash. Software has bugs. Humans make errors. What the Florida dispute has shown is that the law has not fully come to grips with this reality. At its core the Florida vote is classic GIGO: a fairly mundane data entry problem caused by untrained operators--that would be the voters and election officials--running equipment with a high error rate--that's the punch cards and readers. To "troubleshoot" (the high-tech equivalent of a recount) the problem, one would run the data back through the machines two or three times to verify that the counts were substantially the same. One would have to recognize, however, that the counts would not necessarily be identical because of the inherent margin of error in the technology. Then one would separate out the data that wasn't recorded--in the case of an election, that would be the so-called "undervotes"--and examine them to see if any data can be "recovered." The standard by which repeated machine counts would be considered "substantially the same" and the standards for manual interpretation of the unrecorded data, or if unrecorded data should be interpreted at all, are policy questions, not technical ones. But it is a technical reality that if there is a data problem with a data media, then the media reader will never be able to read it. This applies to any media: failing to fully punch a chad is no different from scratching up one of your CDs; the result will be something in which there is data, but it won't be accurately read by the machine. GIGO. It should be a matter of serious public concern that the Florida Supreme Court apparently had to invent law to order a manual recount of the undervotes, a procedure that should have been a first step. The U.S. Supreme Court has since ruled that there is no foundation in federal or Florida law to do that. The High Court may be right on the law, but they are sadly wrong on the technology. By this logic, if you were in a dispute with, say, the telephone company about whether you paid your bill, the phone company would be under no obligation to take another look at your actual, physical check. Or worse, suppose you made an online payment and, as most consumers unfortunately do, never bothered to print out or write down the transaction number. There would be no obligation to investigate the transfer. As our society, economy, and politics come to be increasingly dependent on technology, the law has to recognize technology's weak spots and ways in which human error can compound them. Otherwise, we will be left living out the old joke, "This system is completely computerized. Nothing can possibly go wrong... go wrong... go wrong..." You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 05. Our Most Popular Featured Items from 2000 (compiled by T.J. Lee) As this year draws to a close we thought we'd take a brief look at the things (in order of popularity) that most interested you, our readers. *-* Top Featured Books: "The Unofficial Guide to PCs" by T.J. Lee, Lee Hudspeth, and Dan Butler. This title is going out of print and may be hard to find (this title is out of print so don't order a copy - yet! We'll have more information on this book in a future issue of TNPC.) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top1 "How to Read a Book" by Adler and Van Doren http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top2 "The Magic Show" by Setteducati, Benkovitz, and Ellis http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top3 "Language in Thought and Action" by Hayakawa and MacNeil http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top4 "Use Both Sides of Your Brain" by Tony Buzan http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top5 *-* Top Featured Web Sites Computer Stupidities (TNPC #3.08) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top6 Home Radar (TNPC #3.09) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top7 Jail Cam (TNPC #3.20) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top8 Easter Egg Archive (TNPC #3.05) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top9 WinDrivers.com (TNPC #3.15) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top10 *-* Top Featured Products UCmore (TNPC #3.20) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top11 Photon Micro-Lights (TNPC #3.16) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top12 Password Revealer (TNPC #3.09) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top13 SiSoft Sandra Professional (TNPC #3.04) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top14 FrontX (TNPC #3.23) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top15 *-* Top Featured Tips WebData.com Area Code Directory (TNPC #3.05) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top16 Focus on PC Support (TNPC #3.06) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top17 Reassign Windows Default Folders (TNPC #3.09) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top18 iSpeed (TNPC #3.17) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top19 *-* Top Featured FAQs Windows Registry Guide (TNPC #3.21) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top20 Adaptec's Index of CD-R Information (TNPC #3.14) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top21 Upgrading Windows 98 to Windows 2000 (TNPC #3.18) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top22 Create a Home Network with Windows 98SE (TNPC #3.03) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/325/tr.cgi?top23 You can reach T.J. 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