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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 20, 2002 - Vol. 5 No. 13 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Spam Part VI - Definitions! (by Dan Butler) ** 03. Wired Over Wireless (by T.J. Lee) ** 04. Think Different? (by Al Gordon) ** 05. An Ultra Quiet Power Supply and a Plethora of PC Upgrade Tips (by Lee Hudspeth) ** 06. Featured Product - Feeling Groovy with Groove Workspace Version 2.0 (reviewed by Al Gordon) ** 07. Featured Web Site - Memory Upgrades from Crucial.com (reviewed by Lee Hudspeth) ** 08. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 01. Letter from the Publisher We're fast approaching the fourth anniversary of The Naked PC's premier issue #1.01, published on a lovely Friday July 3, 1998. Looking back over the wealth of information we've published, and the many subscribers and friends we've made along the way, that's a great feeling. Celebrate with us, and help support our effort to keep publishing The Naked PC for FREE, by forwarding this issue to a friend, a colleague, a family member, someone whom you feel will genuinely benefit from and enjoy our thoughts, experiences, rants, and raves. NOTE: We kindly request you include your genuine personal recommendation in the email along with the issue's content, that way you're sending content with your blessing as opposed to an unsolicited piece of email. Alternately, if you simply want to send a friend a message recommending The Naked PC without the issue content attached, here's an online form designed to make it easy for you to do so. (This form emails directly to your friend. We do not store the addresses supplied on the form or use them in any way other than to send your recommendation.) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?publet1 Last issue we mentioned that Dan was still recovering from having triplets. That should have been twins. Big difference! In this issue... Dan continues his spam series with some definitions of what spam is and isn't. Jim describes how easy and convenient it is to go wireless, both with wireless keyboard/mouse devices and with a LAN connection. Al muses on Apple Computer's continuing refusal to provide The Naked PC labs with a test Mac unit (Al longs to compare ease of use between an OS-X Mac and a Windows XP PC, in "where the rubber meets the road" fashion). Lee explores just how quiet a power supply can be, and walks you through his recent checklist for updating his PCs' hardware and software. 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I do understand the issues, from all sides. How do I define spam? I'll give you a brief answer to this complicated subject. First let's look at some common definitions you'll find floating around. Some people define spam as any email they didn't specifically ask to receive. That is an extreme position to be sure. It also falls down philosophically when you realize they would be spamming by their own definition simply to request that you send them an email! Others call spam any commercial email they didn't request. This often carries the initials UCE for Unsolicited Commercial Email. The key here being the word "Commercial." Solicitations for purchase. I really don't mind people asking me to buy things, if they are things I've asked them about or if I've purchased something from them in the past. People who follow the UCE track will tell you that a company has no right to contact them unless they specifically give the right. The company will maintain that the prior purchase does establish a relationship. I do tend to side with the companies on this view. The company is sending information or offers to people who have expressed an interest in their products or services in the past. The email is targeted. Unfortunately many companies don't understand the relationship and abuse it, selling your name to other companies, contacting you too often, etc. Those companies make it hard for the rest. Remember that a responsible company wanting to send commercial email to its customers has no interest in increasing the burden on their customers. They are trying to enhance their business through sales or other means. Possibly they are trying to pass information along that would be useful to users of their products. In any case it is a company communicating with their existing customer base. The type of spam we've been discussion in this series is what is called Unsolicited Bulk Email or UBE for short. It's the bulk aspect that makes spam intolerable from a system administration point of view. The sheer volume of the bulk combined with the bounces, complaints, and system resources makes for one giant administrative headache. I'm drawing a distinction between Bulk email and Commercial email. There is a difference. Understand this difference and you'll understand how to combat it effectively. Trying to shut down every reference to every company in every email you receive that you don't think you asked for won't solve the problem. You might feel better, but it hurts a lot of innocent people and wastes a lot of peoples time. People who could be spending their time creating ways to truly fix the problem. Using the definitions above you can see that email can be commercial without necessarily being bulk. Bulk email is what most of you are seeing when you think of spam. It comes in without regard for your interests, tastes, or age. It isn't above board. The headers are fake and other elements of the email are geared to trick you into opening it. Is that really the type of company you would want to do business with? I didn't think so. Remember, companies send spam because people buy from spam. In other words, spam is effective. Sad but true. On the other hand, well done commercial email can be very targeted and very efficient. It can save a company money they previously would have spent on postal mailings. Will the company pass those savings on -- well -- that's another matter entirely. Paul Myers has been on the net about as long as I have. We've corresponded over the years and compared views on spam among other topics. He's written a good article from both the marketing and end user view. His language is strong at times. I agree with Paul's views 100%. Read his article here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?dan1 Next issue I'll tell you some actual "horror stories" of how innocent people have fallen victim to the well intentioned efforts of people trying to combat spam. Until then remember you can find a link to the other articles in this series here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?dan2 You can reach Dan Butler at: mailto:danbutler@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ >> "How Many Ways Will You Use These Amazing Devices?" They're incredibly handy. When we first saw these amazing little devices we thought, "these will look cool hanging on my key ring." Then we started using them. WOW - every day we find more uses. How many will you find? http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/a/tr.cgi?swisstech +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 03. Wired Over Wireless (by T.J. Lee) As many of you who read my articles regularly know, I started out in my first profession as a bean counter (I've got a CPA ticket hanging over my mantel to prove it). Now, no one has ever accused accountants of being out there on the bleeding edge as most are of a somewhat conservative bent. I've always favored substance over form and for a long time I thought that all the hype over "wireless" this and "wireless" that was just that, hype. (For those of you who want to find out more about Jim you can check out his pages up on The Naked PC's Web site: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?jim1 -- Ed.) Well, having once tried a few wireless devices I can tell you that it takes very little time to become a huge fan of the technology. It started at the consulting firm where I work as a project manager. Word came down that system engineers and managers would be giving up their desktops and getting laptops. When my laptop showed up on my desk there was also a full-sized wireless keyboard and wireless mouse. Our enlightened boss decided that going cold turkey to a laptop keyboard and pointing device might negatively impact productivity at least when we were using our laptops in the office so he sprung for the wireless gear. There's a doohickey that connects to the laptop's USB port and this is what acts as a RF receiver for the keyboard and mouse. I almost didn't bother hooking it all up thinking these were toys that didn't mean anything to someone just looking to get their work done. I was wrong! It's very nice to have a keyboard you can comfortably position anywhere you want to without having to worry about the silly cabling getting in the way. But what is really great is the mouse. Left hand or right hand moving the mouse around is snap. I use the mouse with either hand depending on if I need to work the phone (mouse in the right hand) or the adding machine (mouse in the left hand). Having bought into the usefulness of wireless gizmos at this point I started thinking about my home peer-to-peer network of computers. I have a cable modem and when I wanted to VPN in to work I would first have to clear a spot on my desk upstairs (not an easy feat in itself) then connect my laptop into my router so I could get to to the Internet and then VPN to the office network. I thought it would be very nice if instead I could just pop open the laptop while at the dinner table downstairs, or in my easy chair, or even sitting on the patio in the evening and then connect to the office. I needed a wireless connection. Back in TNPC #5.02 I discussed how I bagged DSL and embraced cable and at that time I bought a Linksys Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch (model BEFSR41) for just under $100. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?jim2 The BEFSR41 router let me share my cable connection across the different computers on my home LAN. My network consists of several computers in my home office upstairs and one machine downstairs all of which are hardwired together through the Linksys router upstairs. But my laptop came with a slick wireless Ethernet card and all I needed was a wireless access point on my LAN and I could connect and VPN into work from almost anywhere in the house. I imagined myself with my feet up at home printing out reports at the office so they'd be sitting there when I walked in the next day. Once again Linksys had the answer, this time for $150 (up on Amazon) and I got their EtherFast Wireless AP+Cable DSL Router. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?jim3 As near as I can tell this is pretty much the same unit I got before except that while it has four RJ-45 sockets it also handles wireless connections via the little antennas sticking up on the back. My boss came over and we plugged the Wireless Router into the cable coming from downstairs, plugged the downstairs computer into the Router and fired up Internet Explorer to configure the device. It was almost anti-climatic, we reset the default IP so as not to conflict with the router upstairs, set up the features I wanted, and switched on the laptop from across the room. I was surfing the Internet using the cable modem upstairs without a glitch. I added my laptop identity to the Windows 2000 machines on my peer-to-peer network and was able to access those machines, move files around, access the printers attached to them, etc., with ease. The VPN tunnel worked as well but once the tunnel was established I could not access the local network. Still, sitting on the sofa while doing work at the office *and* without having cables running everywher is sweet indeed! I always like to hear from readers so if you have comments feel free to send them to me. You can reach T.J. 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(by Al Gordon) From time to time I get email from readers chastising me for having been PC-centric and failing to comment on how a particular technology works on a Mac. Hey, enough already. Don't write me -- contact Apple: Apple Computer, Inc. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 1-800-MY-APPLE I been requesting Apple's cooperation for six months for the loan of equipment to test how an OS-X Mac stacks up against a Windows XP PC in terms of real world functionality. In other words, who cares about lab performance benchmarking? We want to know if a Mac offers the ease of use that lets us get our work done faster and will less aggravation than a PC. The concept of OS-X -- the Mac interface on top of a UNIX core -- sounds like a great idea. Although it is in the midst of a major ad campaign aimed at convincing PC users to switch, Apple declined the request. See: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?al1 Apple also declined to help out a year ago when I made a similar request then. We do not have the budget here to go out and purchase scores of test units. We rely on companies being willing to provide us with loaners. And we think that is a valid measure of how interested companies are in communicating with The Naked PC readers. Apple is not alone in turning us down. Software companies usually say yes, as do accessory makers. Peripheral providers are 50-50. Getting a full computer system, however, is always a struggle. However, in the PC world that isn't critical -- I can test PC software on any PC. But to test Mac solutions, I need a Mac. Curiously, one company that has been a source of loaner computers to The Naked PC has been Dell. Dell is the #1 seller of personal computers in the United States. Evidentially THEY have figured out how to Think Different. (c) 2002, Al Gordon You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 05. An Ultra Quiet Power Supply and a Plethora of PC Upgrade Tips (by Lee Hudspeth) Recently one of my PCs experienced a power supply failure. I have long been intrigued by the idea of silencing my PCs, and this was an opportunity for me to get my hands on a quiet power supply from PC Power & Cooling, Inc. The firm makes seven different ultra-quiet power supplies. I bought a Silencer 275 ATX, priced at $79 with a two year warranty, and it is QUIET. The unit comes with screws, spare connector caps, and a power cord (I'm talking about the external power cord that connects the back of your PC-- the power supply actually--to an AC outlet; nice touch eh?). http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?lee1 I don't have a sound pressure meter on hand here, but all the reviews I've read indicate that these units are significantly quieter than traditional power supplies. The unit's spec sheet lists the noise level as 20 dB(A) for fan noise and 34 dB(A) for power supply noise. The company's FAQ states, "Fan Noise is the noise level of the power supply's fan, outside the power supply in free air. Although it severely understates the actual noise level, it's the rating given by most power supply companies. Power Supply Noise is the actual noise level of the power supply, measured at 1 meter. Due to back pressure and air turbulence from surrounding components inside the supply, this reading runs significantly higher than the fan's stand-alone rating. By either measure (both are given), Silencer power supplies run 6dB - 12dB quieter than ordinary units, a reduction of 75% - 95%." (I haven't yet found noise specs for competing power supplies, so if you have some resources you can share with me, I'd appreciate it.) The firm has written a handy article for calculating the power requirements for a power supply: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?lee2 With the PC's chassis open, I took the opportunity to order another stick of RAM. For information on where I shopped, see this issue's Featured Web Site article. Next I shuffled some drive partitions around to add a bit more space for data storage. I used PowerQuest's PartitionMagic, a tool we have often recommended in our books and here in The Naked PC. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?lee3 I used Microsoft's free Windows Update feature to upgrade all my PCs to Internet Explorer 6.0. You can get there by clicking on your task bar's Start button and then choosing Windows Update, or browse straight to it. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?lee4 I then applied Microsoft's latest "security rollup" that incorporates the dozen or more individual security patches and updates that have been recently released. See the Windows Update portal's "Critical Updates and Service Packs" section, or go here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?lee5 The only real surprise here was that for all the components I installed via Windows Update, whenever I was prompted to reboot the PC (and I elected to do so) it never actually rebooted the PC, I always had to manually intervene and restart it. Go figure. One important "to do" item I wasn't able to finish before this issue's deadline: updating my personal firewall. I plan to upgrade to the latest version of the personal firewall ZoneAlarm Pro (the most recent version is 2.6.362), priced at $49.95 for a single user commercial license. I'm running an earlier version of ZoneAlarm Pro here in my office, and although I don't anticipate any problems I'll keep you posted. I strongly recommend you run a personal firewall even if you have a router with integrated firewall protection. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?lee6 There's a ZoneAlarm version that is free for individuals and not- for-profit charitable entities: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?lee7 You can reach Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:LeeHudspeth@TheNakedPC.com ** 06. Featured Product - Feeling Groovy with Groove Workspace Version 2.0 (reviewed by Al Gordon) So what do you get if you cross Napster with Lotus Notes? A really big lawsuit, I suppose. But also something that looks a lot like Groove Workspace, Version 2. Standard version is $50 per user; Professional is $100. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?fprod Beverly, MA-based Groove Networks is the latest brainchild of software industry legend Ray Ozzie, the company's Founder, Chairman & CEO. Ozzie is the Godfather of Groupware, the guy who unleashed Lotus Notes on corporate America. "Groupware" has been used to describe many different kinds of software that can generally be said to allow groups of workers to share information and collaborate on projects. Notes was keyed to the server-client network world and amounted to a big database in which project participants could store documents, notes, source material, contracts, calendars, spreadsheets and all the like. Groove is designed to do much the same thing, with one big difference: it works on a peer-to-peer basis using the Web, much the same way that Napster did. All the shared data is stored on the PCs of the members of the workgroup. In the enterprise environment, this means that workers' hard drives get turned into a whopping big data storage drive. Bad news for EMC2 and others in the server storage business, I suppose, but valuable for making better use of corporate resources. However, the Really Big Deal is that Groove is a tool for outsourcing, hoteling, telecommuting, free-lancing, and other non-traditional work arrangements. So if you have a "virtual firm" comprised of sole practitioners scattered across the country, Groove would let you have a workgroup network without a central server. (Well, actually there is a server at Groove for managing the user accounts and like that, but Groove includes that in the pricetag.) Sounds cool. But does it work? Version 1 had a reputation for being balky and buggy. Version 2 has a glitch or two (the colleagues with whom I tested it and I all had to solve some setup problems), but it does function well and delivers some very powerful features. For example, I particularly liked the tools for allowing a workgroup to jointly edit documents in real time. From the Groove workspace, you can open up a Word file, make changes and, when you are done, they appear on your colleagues' PC. Then they can make changes, which will show up on yours. Groove also makes it easy to set up an instant message board by converting an email thread (ongoing subject) in Outlook. What doesn't perform adequately, however, is the interface. It is way too busy and way too complicated. You can sometimes find yourself feeling surrounded by a wall of browser windows. Similarly Groove has the ability to let you have instant messaging going on while you are working (also Internet phone), but you wind up bumping into an IM space everywhere you look. Also, don't even try to use it without a broadband Internet connection. 56K dial-up modems are supported, but don't try it unless your reservoirs of patience are unlimited. A major reality behind the current form of Groove is that last October Microsoft and Groove Networks announced one of those omnipresent "strategic relationships" in which Redmond invested $51 million in Groove and enabled Ozzie's company to more tightly link its product to Windows and Office. Accordingly, Version 2's interface is partially the original browser-based Groove design and partially direct integration with Office (joint editing of Word and Excel documents in Word and Excel) or Windows (Groove now uses Windows Messenger for IM). It is a little schizoid. Some of this is just incomplete feature sets. Getting contacts into a Groove workspace (in Groove-speak, a "space" is the information set for a particular project) requires importing v- cards. The program needs to have a method of importing from Outlook, for instance. One wonders whether long-term Groove is going to be a collaboration tool built into some future version of Office, or at the very least, whether you will be accessing Groove tools primarily from inside Office applications. Groove spokespeople declined to comment on future product plans. In the end, the importance of Groove 2.0 may be in the direction it points for computing tools. It advances the state of the art for collaboration software. With a more intuitive interface would be a valuable resource to help small firms and sole practitioners function as integrated project teams. (c) 2002, Al Gordon You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 07. Featured Web Site - Memory Upgrades from Crucial.com (reviewed by Lee Hudspeth) Crucial Technology's Web site makes it extremely easy to locate and buy the correct memory for your system. Start at their main page: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?fsite Then you can search for RAM in any one of three ways using their Crucial Memory Selector. Search by (1) component (more on this in a moment), (2) standard memory type, or (3) Crucial part number. Most of you will want to use the component search, whereby you either select your PC's or motherboard's manufacturer from Crucial's extensive list (by my count 146 PC manufacturers and 36 motherboard/RAID manufacturers). I have a clone with an EPoX EP- ZXA motherboard, and it took only a few seconds for me to see a list of compatible SDRAM PC100 modules. Crucial also maintains motherboard specifications on many of those in its database so if you've misplaced your user's guide you can study the specs right on Crucial's Web site. If you have a specific question about system memory, you can chat in real time in a pop-up window with a Crucial memory expert. Follow this link, then look for the "Use our Expert Online" link: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?fsite2 Memory is cheap these days, folks, so consider adding RAM to increase your PC's performance. As an added bonus, Crucial currently ships domestically using FedEx 2nd Day and it's FREE (or if you're in a real hurry you can shell out $11.50 for overnight delivery). The company ships very detailed and easy to follow printed instructions for installation. The firm's on-line RAM upgrade installation articles are available here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?fsite3 ** 08. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff *-* For all you Apple followers out there (ticker AAPL), Apple execs warn the firm's second quarter earnings will fall a tad short of stock analysts' 13 cents/share earnings projection, landing instead in the 8-10 cents/share range. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/513/tr.cgi?news1 *-* Do you reside in Iowa? Check this out... 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