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On(.-tuKd BocXh Photographic Lid, was nol a corupuur diKiibutor, but a photographic products distributor. my lotcccu is digiial photography, and invited mr because one of the seminar sesstoos was devo^ to rme-art inldet papers and archival inks. Booth had set up a small ara at the back dispdaf. Amid the muslin backdrops and silvet ceBeclors and ocher photograpfak gear was a u&ctums 1 dldn'l recognize. But that svas just Ihe beginning of an afternoon of revelauolu. The topKs presented and the iâons from sum of inkjet pnniers, loks and ppers amongst jriiwography enthusiasts is quite dtflemi from a discussion aroongit computer users. The pri- orilies and concerns are worlds apart. for example, when TCP conducts prmler reviews, we often judge a pnniirr Co be excellent because you can't tdl its output from the pruics youget back from the local photofinish- er. For a serious photographer, henvever. this is merely the startup point for aszsiing the qu^ty of iniqel prints. Tonal range, colour accuracy and image per- (4uxograpbcn cate abouu And ctsrretu icikiel technology does nol score well on those dimen Sfons— or at least not well enough to kire pho- tographers away Irom traditional prinlmaking. the audience owned an inkjcl printer. 1 was sur- prised that about 30 percent did not. nar presented products that will make inkiel needs. For example, lack nf image permanence has been a tna}or and longstanding concern with inkiei pruiix Whereas the photographer thinks of pnot lifispan m terms of multiple years, Ihe best that inkjet manufaclurers have miruged with their ink formulalioiu is bngevity measured in multiple months. Companies like Bruish mk developer Lyson Inc have already established a good track record Idr loogrviiy with one line of perma. neru inks, and the recently introduced tuK uf inks under the Fotonic brand that are opti mixed lor phutogrephic unages H1iiJe Ihe cUim is still being tested by independent labs, the Folonk inks promise fade resistance cum- pirable to tradiiionai photographic pnntk Lyson has abo loiroduced s Quad Black ink set (only for the Epson 3000 so far] which sub- liidges with three shades uf black. This product addresses anolhei limilarion of inkjets in photographic pnntmaking: their inability to crate Mack and white pnnls without uitroducing unges of colour. ITk Quad Black ink set has becD tested utdependenily and has on estimat- ed Ude resistance of more Hun 100 years. Printer manufacturers ate not bUnd to permanence with papers and inks for Us new 170 series cd prinieii. These hare been rated from this rating it's not just Ihe inks that are Lffiporuni— ink and paper interact to determine how king your image will last. TCP has tested a vanety of inkjet papers, and has reported differerKes between the various brands. But again, a serious photographer's demands are dilTerent than a computer users.' Mol only do photograjHiers want permanence. they warn vanety m slock woghls and surktee frnishes ^non and Hewlett -Packard ofter good ciHoing from outside the computer mdustry. Fur example, inkjet papers are available in grades and finislies that more cloiely match photo papers. Some minufarturen are nflering slacks that are more like ihe papers used by vims Ibr painting and sknchuig. This u an interesting crossover, because ulkjel photographic prints ihemsrisMs have become a recognized an form. 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It's not drives are any more, the real bottleneck in DV editii^ is the speed of your system processor and how long you're willing to wan far your edited sequence to render. The iMac comes with a 10 GB dnve, as yrsu mentioned, which is mutr than enough far basic iMovie editing. Nobody SIS through a 30- minute birthday video anyway. By haviog somewhat limited drive qiace. the movie naker computer, which a whai editing should be. Even professionats review their tape and log the scenes they want to use befere importir^ them inso Ihe computer. To do any lung-farm editing in iMovie is almost hkc shouting muiself in the foot. Thar’s what Final Cut Pm is far, and of course, with a price tag that matches' Phil Rang Apple Produci Professiotial Waterlogged reporting In the AptiJ issue of TCP. a 'WliaiS New' item discusses Xvbecnaut Corps wearable computer powered bv fuel cells that run on water. This is impossible, Fuel cells produce water, they sk> water and efectricitv. 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District Court lodge Thomas Funfidd lachson in his April 3 cnnclu* Sion of law, “Muiosoft also... unlasvfuUv liiedl Its VVeb broseser to its operating sySeni." for ns part, Microsoft says Ihe battle is far “Today's ruling svas noi unexpected, given We've Even Convinced the Experts, '< 0 } Uhb a 720 dpi resolijdon, 9 p|Kn monuhramt and 6 ppin colour. Mk andPCcompitible. Canon's new BIC-MOO Color Bubble let* Printer. See bi jQuiself why iht BICSOOO it The Expen's Choice' Empowering you to do atnaying things - lhal's Canon Kaow How Canon KNOWHOW Saves Money ihe courth earlier findings,'' said mil Gates, MicmioFi't chairman, in a siatcmenl. “Dui there are several steps in this case. While we did everything that we could lo setlle this case, and will continue to look for new rqtportuni' ties to resolve ii. we believe that we have a strong case on appeal." larksob's decision came only daysr after talks between Micrtuch and its crurt adversaries, including the State of .New Turk, broke down. The arbitrator in those discussions, judge Richard A. Ibsner, said the warring parties could not come coan agreement, nor could he make them do so. “After more than four months, it is apparent that the disagreements among the parties coit' ceming the likely course, outcome and conse- quenen of continued litigatum, as well as the implications and ramifkatiorts of alternative terms of sertkmeni. are too deei>-seated lo be bridged," ftenerwrolein an April I statement,'' In his own slaiemeni from April I, Gates seemed unhappy that ihearbitratinn had ended “There were divisions and extreme views on Ihe other aide that brought us Ui the point where mediation wasn't going to be success- fttC he wrole. “And that's uoforluoaie, because it would have been in ihe best interest of con* sumers, the government and Mkrosoft if we'd been able lu come up with something.' The question now is, what will the justice Depanmeni do lo Micrasofi? Reports suggest the company will be divided three ways: one pan softwate, one pan Inlemei and one {urt operating system.s Some, ituwevur, say Microsoft would be even more powerful os three companies ihao it was os one. In a recetil brief. Enrrester Research, an Indusiry anaiyset firm from Caittb ridge. Mass., said the justice Department should create a “Windows tôrporation" for Microsoft's operating systems. The, will ensure that ihecomya* ny's most popular products— its consumer and business operating systems — do not sub- sidize its other. less popular producls. Forrester also recommends that the lustice Department creates legal standards for writing software. “Today's Microsolt shareholders would, at minimum, receive shares in both a monopoly applicaiions company," the brief read. “Meanwhile, users would get siable plalfbuiis, standaids, and competition, and the U.S. government wouldn't gel into the software babysitting business." Microsoft can uke atmie coniwiUiion from these recent events. Fnt example, in Kei state- meni, Posner sard he wanted “to emphassre that the collapse of the mediation is not due to any lack of skill, flexibilliv, energy, determina- Deparinient of lusljcc and Microsoft Corpotalion.'' fkisncrdid nix mention, however, the pnifessicinjllsni of Microsoft's iirher Cflun asiversaries, the I D stales siding with the lustice Depanmeni. The argumenis started late in lf9g after Microsoft's competitors complained the company wasn't pkyiiig fair by including its operating .systems, instead of selling it on the open market where it would face competition from other browsers like Netscape. 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Kearly every Linux utility is accompanied by a man (manual) page for quick reference. any given utility, consult the man pages (nun Isor man wc for example). Your pre^rass with Linux will bear a direct comdalion lo ihe amouni of lime you spend reading man pages. This simple example — having the syitem moRilor the status of the sendnuil passing when appmpnate — gives you a glunpsc of the hancL pu have unlimited, t^cn -ended opportunities lo cieate anything pu need. Unux is the ultimaie linkerer’s dream. Finding things in fHea .hfot everything has to be scripted, of course. Ytiu run many uuUcies hom the command line the pep fimiiy— giep. (gtep, and egtep— which are used to find pattern matches rn files. the HTML pages on pur Web site contain references to Linus Tbrvalds but you can't remember all the relevant pages. If the pages are ui a single directory, pu can type; S grq -9 >nus /boths/WIpoinpl/agenstiurca/' Mnii i otp -9 MtiB fittmmiiEiaqwiii/ixisiisavrce/' mmi \ > iTt89 -s'Tna Lfxjs Tcrrslds I9es' weCxnasier Crep IS frequently used hi search for pat- terns tn log flics. It peuvi Jes a quick way lo find that needle in the haystack For nample, one of your users may complain that a message he sent (implying, of course, that put server is at fault |. You can grep the system mail lugs under Ihc recipient's emaJ address lo sec if the out- r^ly"User unkiiuwn" is ui the logs as part of your user has mistyped the address Convincing the user that Ihtt might be Ihc case is a little easier when pu can provide the evi- Although the grep default is to di'iây the to have some context for that line, such as the line preceding and the line following the malching line. GNU grep. which Linux systems offer, provides conlexlual grep by either using Ihe -C context flag, whkh pcovidn two lines before and after, or by specifying the number of context lines you want Here's an example nf looking throng the mail kig on a Uebian GNU/Unux system with one line of context before and after the matching line: S gisp - 1 gwitMin ABChog/rtaa Dg Mai12H.93f34iUiinsanilmaii|Sl3] tAAf»513 Ironidool. snvfiO. ciaa=0.pri--3003a.mcpOct, fflSgi(N<20D003121 643 tAAODetlSlMlIan wSOuni 89 Waprooiaiocgfixisl Ha l2ll’43'34llefiiansendrrD9;5l3J tAA0a6l3 IWEiMtbumeitomg com. (lalay<00:00iia, maHeiviiical. sl3ii:i|ueiM Mal21229'14tKiiarstnantaiil545| Sras aatabsse /nywians so out o' oait c*ntexliul grep is particularly useful when inspecting documents or source files Quite ufien it's desirable to grep right down ihfuu^ an enure directory Iter. The traditional way to do this is by combining grep with another utility called find. 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On my Drbun GNU/Limix puruble, for uiUance (an elderly IBM ThinkPad), the /usrMoe directory occupies about 20 MR of did space. Using another useful utility, tail, here are the With the summary Sag, -s, 1 can get a snapshot of my personal disk usage: S Ai -Its yhonwgenen B57K mome/jenew 11‘seasy to see that with less than I MB, (his is a new setup It'll begin lo fill up in no lime. Another good slalc-of-ihe. system utility is free, Free gives you a snapshot of memorv us^, including virtual memory, or swap space (see Example 3 in table) Another essential system utility is (op. Top shows you the lop processes tunui:^ on your system. Il can be hi^tfy useful Ibr identilying memory hogs or a runaway process. When you type tup you sec a display similar to Example 4 (set (able). One of Use most ubiquitous Unn ulililies u ale tar Cles and ur backup tapes. On a fOe level, tar works m a manner somewhat similar to the Windows ZIP progrsms, except that, by default, tar does not compress files. 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MP3.<nn sUo links Imcnen lo Lu^y 7's awn site (rnig/AiwwIeellnsiluckypurik con). bend, find out about tour dalet, new n Bui whii bands like Lucky 7 Rnd moil u ful about online muiic distribuDon is the re tiotuhipi they bcpm to build with their ti People looking for muiic no ihe Iniernel u to be pickier and more loyal lu the music gi res and artists they like. One would have to as tracking down a song or alhutn online i be time consuming, especially If the ortisl I a lower proRIc than, say, the Backstreet Be But once they find something they li and even help proi Underground goe (underground muiic| well, so if you knew you might not ihose two defiaencics and grow the market tor variety of artists, many of whom are signed to ndependem labels. The sue a nul only a placi ' uf like-minded mus lencrs can come together. The Los Angcles-bsued band ■he InicnKi with liciping it fini by lead singer Kathy Fisher a arranger, keyboard player Ron AboiU two years ago, Fisher's si te farmer chief music officer and co-founder of Mew York-based Cductive.csm I which was recently acquired by distribution company os a way of promoting underground, elecironic, and dance music lo a by Tori \mos, whose fans ore extremely loyal. TlMy liked Breakable so much they sianed nCCOOlPUTERAiPEFI BftEATEP TORONTO EDIhON ONLINE & CONNECTED loiindind:, asking wtxrc they could gel Fiibei's CD. The problem wu Fisher was ciol sigocd with AUanlic, nor did il have a com- mercially availaUe CD. The faro ihen began Fisher, which prompted the band's move 'So ibe poncos we were in, ii would have been crazy not lo have our own Web site and that pushed us lo do a CD because we were getting requests fbi one,* Kalhy Fisher says. would post il,” Sibesry said.*l get a lol more out oC a personally. People see me struggling and come Torwaid with iheir eiperlise so dil- MP3.ca arrives Even more Canadian musicians and indepoid- eol hands wiU likely lake lo usuig the Internet and MP3 lechnology lo promote diemselves with ihe recenl launch of MPSca. While not aSihalcd with MP3.com, UP3.ca intends to follow the same formub of distributing and promoting artists as its Amencan coomerpan. MP3.ca will link up with individual artists and bands, and Iheir Web sites, and allow them to also be able to use MPS.ca to book bands. •We warn to act as a Canadian soum for Toronto-based MP3.ca. *The Canadian music sente is pretty strong and sigDifk.mtly difler- enl From ibe US. music scene. especiaDy in the independem area. And there are some big bands io Canada lhal are not malty in ihe Labels will not go gently Though musicians now have more coouol over marketing aod selling Iheir music independently, even many of the artists who use MP3 and the Inlemel olensively will admit that these lechndogies will novel niplace the People looking for music on the Internet tend to be pickier and more loyal to the music genres and artists they like, ophy 10 the Intemn lhal IJondadoes in letters of com plaint. If Honda receives a wrillcn mis- 'So ifweaicgellingeniail, possibly each one represents about 500 people," Wasserinan says, “And I thought maybe we have an audience Unlike Ihe Web sites for muln-iudboii CD seUisg arlisti, Fisher’s Wch site (mvi/niKweitg MsDundritl] keeps Ians up-io-daieon whal the band is doing The site foalures phoins ikken on the road, and perfbeming and backstage at a recent LA- awards ceremony. Wasserman also takes the time to respond ici euch email ihe band receives. “One of the ihutgswe really tried to create is Ihe House of Blurs and had lo cancel because Kathy was sick, the next day I had to answer 300 emails teUing peoph what her health svas bke. When someoiu picks up a CD in a store, ■here is not a sniwtiall's chasicc in bell they arc going to talk le anyone who svorks with Ihe AootlieT artist who is using ihe Web to du mure ihan dislnbvlc music is Toronto-based departure from a nujoi label, WamerfReprise. in 1996, Siberry started Sheeba Reconb and launched a Web site for her label. Sbeeba.ca iimpvmm.srnctiacs) not only distributes SUierry's music, buiacuasa resouste for fons wanting to find out about new releases and lour dales- The site is luxienily being 'The Canadian music scene is pretty strong and signifi- cantly different from the U.S. music scene, especially in the independent area." —Jeff Boryshnik, MPJ.ca redesigned, but she hopes fans will contimie lo give her feedback sboul ns direction. In the a kind of watering hikei a forun in wtuch gestions and ideas from visiion. 'I pul op a 'Jane Asks' area and people would wnle in with whai they knew and I IHEIXWSVTBtPiUiQI OflEATEJttCnONTOECniON ONLINE & CONNECTED ■When praplt ask >lace r«ord Iat>cU, -s Kiihy Ri m technology itsdf. The main re. 'Whal IS putting (lyces up and down Sunset lot example, can prohaUy find most lomg shows where they have to buy jazx legend's recordings onl idiets and do their own adveiiismg. It is fiat the fan, hut cenaln' t effntive way to gel your music GUI to company or ailisl lor America {RIAA}, which represents many the mayor labels, has gone as far as *edur the illegality of Web sites containing pira MP3 collections residing on campus serv In August, i Universily of Oiôn stud to posted MP3 fil e in MP3. 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In October, Sony Music also invested in the company. ’|■hBte is some suggeslion that Listen.com will be used as a plaUbim for ■he majoi labels lo distribute their music online, while still allowing them lo relain a the music landscape has already begun lo change because of MP3 and Ihe Inlecnet. will buy a lot of," says Tal Klein, a member of the New York-based duo Traacenden fhttilyfwwwBancatlihrctim). "On the Internet specific kind of music (hat (hey like, from country music to hardcore techno. And on the Internet you will probably find someone who combines buih.’ LI Weaving your own Web sHe Cbntioued from page 83 the lavaScript code instead of displaying iL By now you have an idea as to how a typical XHTML Web page differs from an HTML version of the same page. 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Many popular programs (lor exam^r. four of the top Rve Web aulboring programs I iwewed Ibr an upcominB issue of skms with the atrility to save Qles. and no limits on siae of workmen or other runcTionaiity Increasingly, these programs can be (bund ai popular download Web sires, like TUCOWS (nOpy/mM lucoM com) or Downlosdxom inopy/ WM.QBMOU com]. It is remarkable that computers— those logical whizzes— are primarily being used not to enhance calculation or logic but communication and the arts. Sound like dureware? Indeed. And for its pan. diarcfware oSerings are becoming mote iike Inal versions of commerdal software, but ftom a diftereni starting point. Instead nf unlimited trial (Mriods, most shareware pn>- cnabled. insiead of oflHng the limited hinc- tionality of "light" versions of pn^rams. Shareware also igiofU all the pro featuecs like loot lips, wizards, rich help files, tips of the day, online tuioiials and decironic document auon. At many download sites ^ will see old- fuhioned shateware miied In with software from such big names as Adobe, Allaire. Macromedia, McAfce. NelObiecis. and Sybase. Of course ibc great equalizer is the InlemeL Both regular software and shareware vendors realize that because trial software can easfly be sites or ftnind on papular, free besl-of CD- ROMs. customers arc becoming less concerned aboul brand nameand more about the eSeciivcness of the prugrtms And since all vendon are moving to all-electronic docu- mcnlaiion and Web-biscd product support, there is little to distinguish brand name programs ftom shareware other than the quality of the code. With this in mind we weni id three major software download sires and Usied ibeir mosi popular downloads as of early March 200ft. From this lisi. augmented by input from TV CbmpsrrerfUperslafT.wechowour top 10 PC • ci>a>uTSiP»p9i opeaTEmaonoHnon INING UP TOUR PC utilitiM. Ai you will sm, nuny of Ihe pn^ranu on the lisl itretch the defmilion of a utility. ( Every propatn is a utility from the operating ryalcni’a ptniU of view^ and every ulilliy program u a caodtdaie to become a port of the ating system from MiciosoA's point of «.) How evolution ofthePCas 0 PC >flwan, but with this same broad definilion of a utility. By inspecting the most popular downloads from the fieewareitrialwafe/sbare' ware sites, one gels a feel lor the range of 'utility* solTware available today. SOHO (small > ments, some non-lradiiional caiegoiics have been included. We are really tryu^ to identity software, and especially (rulware, that adds a clligence WinZip set tf When etamining the most pcûUt downloads — IC^, NetZip, WinZip. CuteFTP, ColziUa, iSpeed, WebFcrret. Netscape, Inieroel ^lorer, Ge^ghl— it is clear that M:b uUli- The second most popular group include multimedia titles. WinAmp, Sonique, ACOSee, Wcbchols assd Paintôp Pro— audio players, and image cataloguing ulihites are all about those logical whizzes— are pimanly bang In cuDipiling this list.wc^so chose some OS add-ons— WinZip and PCAnywbere — which aic mote iradlUoiul utilities. But In keeping ticn — offeting Cut and efTWieni comptession Top 10 utility dotivnloads http /Avww.lobiscain load (you can aha ordet the Inal CO-ROM], but Notes, the iiaiulatil for coUaboralion, U available for a free UO-day trial period New Release 5 adds Web developmeni features like lava, lavasenpu XML, HTML 4.0, OLE. and advanced CORfiA/llOP support. Notes/Donuno provides a VMi develop- search and synchtnitization, plus workflow and rouling that can handle the divenc demands of e-business in a srdid messaging framework. And Lotus is not lestmg on iis lau- Notes/Domino messaging and synchruniza- iion, SameTime secure chtL plus QuKkPtace, TramRoom, and Lcarnmg%nce coUaborsuon m a toiovdedge man^menl portal. 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Likewise the computer could respond m a context- looking 01 a computer screen, we might type tion — or point to them on a touch screen — icicly say u the onboard cc neni!' and have the co ilallyco technologies that will ptay a ro and a Rceoily iniroduced VokcXML fkation. These may diow up in muliilingual text-lo-speech systems like speech-enabled cs that people would be able to Voice technology research is one of IBM's longest ongomg projects, and Osborne said much of IBM's Mork to this poms has been devoted to "getting the plane to By— gelling Assistant that brings the coi compuimg inlertace to Pal Nahamou said, although he stressed that it Is a technology demonstration at this stage, not a commercial product. The Personal Speech Assislani provides speech recogni- Dnid Nahamou, director of human language tedtnology u IBM's Watson Research , Center inWestchesler (jaunty, N,y„said "we took the '70s to prove to ourselves that a new way of speech processing was possible. The '90s was the prûct phase." ll was primarily during the last decade that IBM and other companies iraruformed the lechnology into retail products that ers. But, said Osborne, creating relaJ voice- dictation products is nut the prmcipal focus of voKc Icchoology mearch and devdop- — making il a building block for a dig- Fosmt, blgs«r volcei lor apeach nob Meanwhile, the other two ma/or speech technology developers have decided lo join nology. L&H al DictajHione. Dragon is the b< I- public. (Continuous speech m longer i to put a er the In Osborne demonsi lion— interacting w Response (IVR) sys imple applica- boxes might be ar ,ing requirement of pre- vious generalioDs of speech processors! Dragon holds 3S patents related to speech and language ptocessmg. 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Bui he Categni warned, when everyone in the office secs wl se Close Using the left in dcTwiih menus and toolbars f lips are applicable to the pro make up Mkrosofts Office 91 ) corresponding programs if you'll be sure to discover plenty more that Descripiion to get an nplanalion. I'his doesn't affect your ability to place the command on a lonihai, it just affects what ton graphic. When you choose a command (hat doesn't have an icon, such as TooliAuloCotrect- fiTTiaiiguiHei, you can create nne vouiseIf.To right-click It. and choose Edit Ruiion Image. In the Button Editor dialogue bun you can chouse colours with the mouse and use them lo cieate an image for your button U'hen When an icon on the toolbar displays both tell andanim^.youcansei it to display the Continued on page Idd Finding things on a Linux system By Gone Wilburn larballs. Where dU the RPM pul that ese- th'hece'^ that PNG graphic I crea^ with the GIMP get stored? HndjDg things is somewhat easier on Linux than on some operating sysicms because Unuihasa logical file structure. You can usually find binary files, fer instance, by simply looking in Icâl places, such as /bin. /sbm, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/bln. eLscwliere, such as fopl/wp/bin or some other dl rectory such as /ust/XI lR6/hui Apache Web server, your HTML docs can be under either Apache itself f/home/hlipd/html example. Even though the kigic of the file system helps, when you are lonkmg fur something among the thousands of files that typically (hat there arc .tkU for finding things. Quick findnra Quite ofien you need a quick way to know where a binary file resides. Different Unix sys. terns hove sli^tly differing philosophies about where cenain things ore stored, and the sli^l variations sometimes need to be taken into account. If. fw example, you download a mem •l/ust/lral/liln/Hrl as the first line. If the there's a good chance your Peri is not in /usrtlocal/bin. To find out where it is, use the iwtilcb perl /usr/bln/pafi This displays the full path of a program. the harâih at ihe lop of the program lo k'/dS/lIWVpefl in the iciipt, or add a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/perl lo /usr/bin/perL LiKtut. which is simibr to u hnfl, provides a command-line fmni end to a database of all plays a considerable amount of output, so yvu may need to pipe the results through leu or for a program. For instance, the default vi editor in Red Hat Liniix is Vim. You know that Continued on pngs liO 33 OaEATBatORONTOEaTKlN w Review and consolidation By JpcqiMS Surveyor Ti J.Th a kxdi bi al Bask Tuiii ik back will undedme th interface white doing anoihcr daiabai poneni exercise. The reason we ate -icpealing" what programming in Ihe new millennium s really liliu. Yao. as programmer will he expected to quickly interconnect databases. Visual Basic working package. In fact, this is so imponam. 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The field name wall be IransCerred from the In Cube ctMnbu ben to the Out isf Cube combo bosL As Ihe Unii Price field is transferred between combo boxes it u also removed from the DynamiCube. Users appreciate Ibis capability because it allows them to sunpb^p or drill dossm into the data ui the ecset manner that they want. The programmmg trick is to load up the combo box with the field names that are being used in the DynamiCube, then to know how to do the transfers. Pthals Si£ Form.anwteO Dsn I AS ntsgei RXI’OTII Dalit .Database TaSeOetyf^TSTilMds Cum - 1 CcmOolAdilnm Dala1.Ddtf«eTdaelMsrUTST.RaUs(i| Name End Sub First there is Ihe (above) Etam.aclivaaifi code to load Conool (In Cube combo brn) with the field names from ibc CATS database. If you plan to do any amount of VBA and V6 programming you will have to get used to the naming conventions ofVB collection classes. 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And. in late Pehruary, .ATI annnunced a new, inlegralcd chipset, the SI-370TU aimed at the budget PC market, nlTering very high pncr/peifomsanee foe general purpose PCs. ATI showed II was urKe again ready to go head to head with NVIDIA and 3DFX, when it announced its Charisma Engine and Pixel Tapestry ArchilccUure in earls Mardt. ATT claims the new chips svill deliver a tenfold rrsetBue lo }U graphics power. No doubt, N'ViniA announcements ol new generations of 3I> chips m the months tii come I NVIDIA has been chosen lo supplv coming Micmsofl X-Ek)xl. 3Vhat all Ihe pbvers in the PC graphics market should keep in mind, hosvever, is that ihev are no longer playing in a PC-only world- Ovet iwo-rhirds of games software for video voniules. such as Sonv PtaySiaiion and S'inlcndu 04. This fall. PlaySlaiiiin 2 vrill land in the North Asncricau matkri, with an undoubtedly large ifn|iaci on Ihe Pi happens, ATI’s ownership of so many diflcrent pans cf the graphic market, and iu renlurrs inin digital telcviscun and rmibile computing, mav cushion it from the post- Plavbtalion 2 lallout better than its hotshot 3U rivals. J The once and future king (of graphics) Canada's ATI covers the PC graphics market from end to end, while playing catchup to NVIDIA in the 3D gamer ghetto ‘ATI Inside' The company nuintains a comprt hensive System builder Program that has recently been eohanced with a 'real -tone response" capabtli. ty. 10 try to get graphics compotsents shipped to PC manufactnrers imme- diately after an email lequesi is received. ATI was wiled the number one vendor al the PC iadtistry's System Btulder Summit last fall, on the basis of bow effecrivriv it has mei PC makers' needs. Outside of Nortit Amerien, ATI's products have been accepted by companiei such as Panasonir. which chose the mobile Itage I T Pro graph • Ks ch^ for Its WILL, ultra-compact PC Sony aiiDOiinced ui February that It had seiccled the Rage I2S Pro AGP 4X chip fur its VAID Slimlop LCD computet ATT has even moved outside the traditional personal compuier graphics market with a contract to sell ATI Rage 120 CL chips to Sun ' rosystems, Enterprise Wonders over the last few sears. ATI has concentrated enormous effoiis un delivering good iûalny MPFC video plavbaitL from its graphics chips. This has given ii a great advantage with makers of PCs that coiTve with a DVD drive. In December, ATI anitoonced its Rage 5DTV and Rage HDTV prod ucis, which It claimed were the "mosi highlv integrated scl-lop hot videofgraphics coniioUen ever developed." The ATI digital video controllen ate likely to appear over affordable digital video devices resolution, belter qualify digital video becomes a grosviog pan of the broadcast and cable TV Industry. ATT technology may become a standard for the sei top box and in -monitor electronics that will bring digital TV tn millicins ol North Aiitericoni ATI has also worked hard for IF years to establish siror^ relationships with both Its PC pnee/performance range from entry-level, budget PC* to high per- F oonJed in IMF, ATI formance, bigtickel power user PCi TedinologiesIiK.hasgrownlo The low-end ATI graphics cards become the largest maker of decent performance fee com- PC and Mac graphics Iiardwate in tnAn ca.4ts. such as running oftice Ihe world Yet, for the last two years, sotisvare and educational muttime- in the high-end, real-time 3D-gam- <•“ CD-ROMs, and cost less than ing segment, the Thornhill, Ont. *50 in some cases (and much less in based firm has been sur- hulk, or as chipsets ic passed bv two recently P mother- boardsl, making them popular in PO that ore cot intended for high performance games or FU software. 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