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March 20, 1997
Issue 70
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CONTENTS
My Notes:
1=> Future Issues!
2=> Link to Us!
3=> This Week's Winner!

Reviews:
3=> Product: HotPage
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
4=> Product: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Resource Kit (book 
and CD)
Reviewed By: Paul Baker mailto:pbaker@facstaff.wisc.edu
5=> Product: QuickSound 
Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org
6=> Product: Webmaster in a Nutshell by Stephen Spainhour and Valerie 
Quercia
Reviewed By: Doug Reed mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
7=> Product: You Don't Know Jack Sports
Reviewed By: Craig Bull,  mailto:bull@udayton.edu

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Patrick's Notes
1=> Future Issues!
Thanks for reading another issue of CompuNotes! We're striving to give 
you the honest results from using the software, hardware and books 
that are out there today!

We have a few special issues coming up. First, we will be having an 
ALL QUAKE issue go out next Sunday. This will feature in-depth reviews 
of Quake, Quake Addons including Acitivision's new release, Quake 
utilities and Quake websites. Face it, if you are a Quake fan you need 
this issue!

The other special issue we have coming up is an all WindowsNT 4.0 
Server issue. We'll be reviewing WindowsNT 4.0, BackOffice including 
Exchange 5.0, WindowsNT resource websites and other WindowsNT 
utilities. This will be our first very technical look at an entire 
product line and we our challenging ourselves to make it a reference 
article for all networking professionals.

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have a complete archive of all CompuNotes sites up and about 30% of 
the reviews we have done!

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Send the details of your page to Patrick Grote. 
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3=> Product: HotPage
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
Requires: Netscape Navigator 1.2+, Windows

 HotPage is a small little utility designed for web designers and 
addicts to be used in conjunction with Netscape Navigator. According 
to Documagix, HotPage is "The Easiest Way to Save and Manage Web 
Pages!". Essentially it provides a simple and easy way to save web 
pages so that you can go back and look at them off-line or send copies 
(via fax or email) to friends. HotPage also provides a way to organize 
and manage your favorite webpages so that you can easily find them 
again. 

HotPage comes on three 3.5" floppies and installs quickly and easily. 
Once loaded the computer has to be restarted to update changes in the 
registry and system, most of which are only noticeable the next time 
you load Netscape's Navigator. A little HotPage menu appears on the 
Toolbar. Pulling down the menu reveals three options - HotSave, 
HotPrint, and HotSave & HotPrint. HotSave maintains a local copy of 
the current page, preserving all of the graphics and other components 
that make up the page. You can print files a "virtual" copy of the 
page in black and white, which can then be printed, faxed, or emailed. 
The HotSave and HotPrint option merely completes both commands at the 
same time. Both copies retain hyperlinks to the original document on 
the web, making it easy for you to compare and look for changes. 

Now I'll have to admit when I first received this and read the manual 
I said - "So what? You can save your pages with Netscape itself." 
While this is true, if you've ever tried it you know that Netscape 
fails to save the graphics associated with the page, leading to a 
rather odd-looking document when you load the saved file later. If you 
are a web designer this is a very handy little utility - one of the 
best ways to learn and improve upon your designing abilities is to 
browse the web and look at other sites. With HotPage there is no need 
go through all the tedium of saving the page and the graphics 
individually, then attempting to reassemble the thing (as would be 
required with Netscape alone or any other browser). Even better, these 
pages can now be examined off-line! Using HotPrint you can keep off-
line "records" of sites you've designed and can print or fax these to 
potential clients (or use them for hardcopy ads), the only 
disadvantage being that they will be in black and white. HotSave 
preserves the original page intact, which is very handy for peeking at 
the source code to determine just how the designer managed to achieve 
the look and feel of the page. Documagix mentions that pages saved off-
line can be accessed faster, however, this is only true as long as the 
off-line page matches the page on the web! And we all know how 
websites are almost always "Under Construction". 

HotPage also provides "file cabinets" to group and organize your saved 
pages so that you can quickly and easily find the page you want to 
examine. Since the saved page maintains it's links to the original 
site, you can seamlessly connect back to the original website. The 
file cabinets are a very handy organizational tool, borrowed from 
Documagix's document filing program PaperMaster. If you have 
Documagix's PaperMaster, which organizes the important documents 
stored on your computer, HotPage will upgrade PaperMaster to the 
Documagix ContentSuite - essentially it just combines the functions of 
PaperMaster and HotPage. 

HotPage is a great little webpage "capture" tool for web designers, 
however, it does have own major flaw. HotPage only works with 
Navigator! Now, it should be pointed out that Netscape does own the 
lion's share of the market, however, Internet Explorer is rapidly 
gaining ground and other browsers also exist. Almost all third-party 
products that have been released are cross-browser, so I am at a loss 
to explain why Documagix made the decision to limit HotPage only to 
Navigator. I can't really find any thing wrong with the program - 
there is no doubt that it is both user-friendly and easy to use, but I 
doubt that HotPage will appeal to everyone. For the majority of people 
there is little need to save off-line copies of favorite websites, 
especially with unlimited access becoming the norm. For web designers, 
however, I could see where HotPage would have tremendous appeal, and 
so I listed web designers as the User for HotPage. 

Documagix
2880 Zanker Road
San Jose, CA 95134
1-408-434-1138
CompuServe: Go Documagix
Web: http://www.documagix.com

Installation: Gold
User-Friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
User: Web Designers

4=> Product: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Resource Kit (book 
and CD)
Reviewed By: Paul Baker mailto:pbaker@facstaff.wisc.edu

This hefty book weighs four pounds and contains 1,350 pages and a CD-
ROM. It provides information on installing, configuring, and 
troubleshooting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation software. 
Although it will be used primarily by MIS professionals, it will 
interest anyone really curious about NT 4.0. 

In brief, the book explains of the architecture of the NT Workstation 
components and supportive technologies; discusses optimizing NT 
Workstation (using performance monitoring tools included on the CD); 
explains file system options, reliability and recoverability; 
preparing for and implementing multiple boot options, including 
details of what happens at start-up; and discusses the Windows NT 
Registry, including configuration management and a guide to using the 
two Registry editors. A networking section provides an overview of the 
networking services in NT Workstation and the TCP/IP transport, and 
there's a general troubleshooting section. 

Administrators will benefit from the detailed section describing 
strategies for deploying NT 4.0 in large organizations and 
compatibility with other network and operating systems that may 
already be in place. This resource kit is intended as a companion to, 
not a replacement of, the printed and on-line documentation included 
with NT 4.0. Nevertheless, it is quite comprehensive. 

Part 1, Windows NT workstation and deployment, discusses deployment 
strategy and details, customizing setup, deploying NT Workstation on 
an existing client-server network, and planning for a mixed 
environment. 

Part 2, About Windows NT Workstation, explains NT 4.0 architecture, 
security, printing, and fonts. 

Part 3, Optimizing Windows NT Workstation, includes chapters on 
performance monitoring tools, detecting memory bottlenecks, processor 
bottlenecks, disk bottlenecks, cache bottlenecks, and monitoring 
multiple processor computers. 

Part 4, Reliability and recovery, explains disk and file system 
basics, choosing a file system, what happens when you start your 
computer, preparing for and performing recovery, troubleshooting 
startup and disk problems, and disk, file system, and backup 
utilities. 

Part 5, Windows NT Registry, discusses registry editors and 
administration, configuration management, and initialization files. 

Part 6, Compatibility, includes chapters on migration, OS/2 
compatibility, and POSIX compatibility. This is obviously a pretty big 
issue, so here are some details: 

* With Windows 3.x: Windows NT provides "a straightforward upgrade 
from any Windows 3.x operating system," yet some things are not 
migrated, including, but not limited to: MS-DOS drive letters, font 
information for character-mode command windows, and any changes that 
have been made to Accessories, Games, Main, and Startup groups in 
Windows 3.x. 

* With Windows 95: No automatic upgrade path from Windows 95 to 
Windows NT Workstation exists. Why is this? "Because of differences in 
their respective registries and in hardware device support." You need 
to manually upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows NT by installing 
Windows NT in a separate directory. No system or application settings 
will be migrated, and you will need to reinstall each application 
after Windows NT is installed. An upgrade path is said to be planned 
for the next release of Windows NT Workstation. 

* With OS/2: The OS/2 subsystem allows OS/2 16-bit character-based 
apps to run directly with NT with essentially no modification. But you 
cannot run the following types of applications with NT 4.0's OS/2 
subsystem: OS/2 2.x applications; Presentation Manager applications, 
advanced video I/O (AVIO) Applications; OS/2 applications on RISC-
based machines, for example. 

Part 7, Networking with Windows NT Workstation explains Microsoft 
TCP/IP and related services for Windows NT, TCP\IP architecture, 
networking name resolution and registration, using LMHOSTS files, 
managing user work environments, and using NT Workstation on the 
Internet. 

Part 8, Windows NT Workstation troubleshooting discusses monitoring 
events, NT executive messages, and the NT debugger. 

Part 9, The Appendices discuss "answer files" and UDFs, security, and 
a port reference for Microsoft TCP/IP. The book also includes a 
substantial glossary and Index. 

The book was written in cooperation with the NT Workstation 
development and support teams. I guess you couldn't ask for better 
qualifications. 

The Companion CD-ROM includes more than 100 goodies in the form of 
utilities, tools, and accessory software. For example, administration 
and configuration tools, diagnostics, desktop tools (themes, etc.), 
disk/fault tolerance tools, file tools, Internet and TCP/IP services 
and tools, network/server administration tools, registry tools, tools 
for developers, and user account administration tools. It includes a 
large Help file with explanations and user actions for the large 
majority of the messages included in NT 4.0, and a large Help file of 
Performance Counter Definitions. The CD is intended to replace all 
previous NT CDs. 

Design and Readability 
Like other MS Press books, this one is well designed, with plenty of 
room for screen shots, flow charts, and other graphics, and the text 
is not crowded looking. It's also well written and edited. Complex 
topics are well explained and illustrated. 

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Resource Kit 
1350 pages; $69.95 USA, $94.95 Canada
Microsoft Press
<http://www.microsoft.com>
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
Voice: (206) 936-7329

5=> Product: QuickSound 
Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org
Reviewed on: 486DX/133, 16 MB RAM, Windows 95, 2x CD-ROM, PAS-16 sound 
card
Requires: IBM-compatible PC with available serial interface, 
compatible sound card, Windows 3.1 or Window 95 recommended
MSRP: Street Price About $30

QuickSound is a remote control for your PC's sound system. About the 
size of a credit card, it attaches to your PC's serial port with an 
attached cable. The cable terminates in a 9 pin connector, but a DB25 
to DB9 adapter can be used to attach it to a 25 pin serial port. (I 
took this route, as I had another device attached to my 9 pin serial 
port.) 

I installed it under Windows 95, which did not automatically detect 
this new hardware. That's just as well, as you must run an install 
program from the supplied disk no matter what. Installation was 
straightforward and flawless. QuickSound installs a program (also 
called QuickSound) in your Windows 95 Start folder, which can be run 
minimized, where it shows up in the taskbar. The QuickSound keypad 
comes with rubber feet and tape that you can use to attach the keypad 
to your monitor, keyboard, or computer. I preferred to just leave it 
on my desk, so that I could push it out of the way if I had to. The 
User's Guide suggests that holding it in your hand would be "perfect 
for multi-media presentations." As it only controls the audio from 
your computer, I guess that would have to be an audio presentation, 
unless you had a need to adjust t the sound volumes during your 
presentation. Now that the technical prologue is out of the way, I 
will describe the features of QuickSound. It gives you one-button 
access to the master volume controls of Windows, without clicking on 
any program interfaces on you monitor. You can increase or decrease 
the volume, or even mute all sounds with the QuickSound keypad. Using 
any of these features brings up a small gauge window on your screen, 
which shows the adjustments you are making. Using the QuickSound 
software, this display can be turned off or positioned in one of six 
screen locations. QuickSound also controls the bass and treble levels, 
balance, and the volume of your audio line, CD, Midi, Wave, and 
Microphone input. The usual audio CD controls such as rewind, play, 
stop, fast forward, pause, previous track, and next track all have 
their own buttons on QuickSound. An eject button ejects the CD from 
your player. A record button is also present for other devices, which 
I was not able to test. 

QuickSound allows you to store and recall up to five preset audio 
configurations. A set stored from Windows will not be available under 
DOS, as DOS settings are stored separately. I did not install the 
separate DOS software or test these features under DOS. Within Windows 
95, I also opted to use the native Windows CD driver, instead of the 
QuickSound CD driver. Doing this allows you to use multiple CD drives, 
use the playlist feature, and have the QuickSound fast forward and 
reverse buttons function as they would on a regular CD player. The 
QuickSound CD driver makes these buttons move your CD forward or back-
ward fifteen seconds each time they are pressed. 

The User's Guide says that "QuickSound support most features on many 
sound cards". If your sound card does not support separate bass and 
treble volumes, neither will QuickSound. All features worked with my 
sound card. QuickSound has a large list of supported cards, including 
the common ones I have heard of. But it would be wise to check this 
compatibility list before purchasing the product. 

One of the other benefits of QuickSound is the ability to adjust sound 
settings in your games without leaving the game itself, or exiting to 
the game's setup screen. Most of the games I play are real-time games 
where the sound is necessary for gameplay. So I would never mute the 
sound with QuickSound, and try to keep playing. I would normally just 
pause the game instead. If however, your spouse or parent is telling 
you to "turn that noise down!", it's nice to be able to do it without 
reaching for your speaker controls or saving and exiting your game. 
Another benefit is the ability to adjust the mixer at the sound source 
to reduce noise and distortion when creating audio files. 

This product does everything it claims to, and does it very well. The 
only, and I do mean only, problem I could find was after you press 
shift-display to open the QuickSound window. Pressing shift again 
displays a message to "press a key with green print", letting you know 
that the functions for keys with colored print below them are accessed 
by pressing the shift key first. But the keys on QuickSound actually 
have blue print. I know this is minor inconsistency, but I include 
only because I could find nothing else wrong. 

If you have use for a product that functions as I described, then 
QuickSound is the one for you! 

Labtec Enterprises, Inc.
3801 NE 109th Avenue, Suite J	
Vancouver, WA 98682
(360)-896-2000 (Tech Support)
WWW:  http://www.labtec.com  

Installation/Ease of Use: Gold
User-Friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
User: All

6=> Product: Webmaster in a Nutshell by Stephen Spainhour and Valerie 
Quercia
Reviewed By: Doug Reed mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
MSRP: $19.95

O'Reilly & Associates are known for producing some top-notch books, 
but among the most highly-regarded are the Nutshell books, desktop 
references intended for advanced computer users already familiar with 
whatever topic the book discusses. Having some web page creation and 
maintenance, as well as programming in Java and JavaScript, I can 
appreciate the difficult task of the webmaster. A webmaster must have 
mastery of a number of subjects, including setting up and maintaining 
the server, creating web pages, and maintaining the website. Webmaster 
in a Nutshell is intended to a be a desktop reference for these Jack-
of-all-trades, and I think most webmasters will find it a very 
valuable and handy tool. 

Sometimes it strikes me funny that even as the world becomes 
increasingly digitized it is a small set of books that I always turn 
too when programming in Java or creating web pages. Sure, most of the 
same information can be found on-line, and a good deal of it is stored 
on my computer. But I still find it much easier to just pull down the 
book I want, flip open to the section I need and find what I want. But 
then I guess maybe I'm just old-fashioned. Either way, Webmaster in a 
Nutshell is perfectly suited to me. Spainhour and Quercia have put 
together an excellent reference: the text is sharp and too-the-point, 
as would be expected from a book designed solely to serve as a 
reference. 

Although comprising 26 chapters, the book is divided into five subject 
areas that the authors thought were of prime importance to webmasters. 
The first area covered is HTML, the language used to create web pages. 
The book covers the HTML 3.2 standard, which is still a working draft. 
All standard HTML tags are listed and explained, followed by 
descriptions on how to use frames and tables in HTML documents. 
Chapters 6 and 7 discuss HTML issues such as color and the use of 
special characters. Chapter the last on HTML, covers the different 
tags used by Internet Explorer and Navigator and how to code for both 
browsers to achieve the same look. 

The second subject area is CGI, the common gateway interface. Chapter 
9 gives an overview of CGI while Chapter 10 discusses how to create 
forms in HTML documents that use CGI. Chapter 11 discusses environment 
variables while chapter 12 details the use of cookies. This is 
followed by a discussion of server-side includes and the different 
implementations on different servers. Chapters 14 and 15 discuss 
Windows CGI programming and Perl, respectively, which are the means by 
which CGI programs are create Part III covers HTTP, the language by 
which Web clients and servers talk to one another over the web. 
Covered are such topics as client methods, server response codes, 
headers used by clients and servers, and the Internet media types 
covered by HTTP. 

The fourth subject area is JavaScript programming. Although the book 
covers all of the functions and methods available in Netscape 
Navigator 3.0, the authors are careful to point out functions that are 
not available in Navigator 2.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0. Finally, the 
fifth subject area covers the configuration of most of the servers 
available on the market, especially all of those used on Unix systems 
and, of course, O'Reilly's own Website server (used on Windows 95 and 
NT). 

Overall the book is well organized and laid out, although I am a bit 
puzzled by the fact that the HTML and JavaScript areas are not right 
next to one another (since JavaScript is scripted right into HTML 
documents). Not that it makes any huge difference, it just seems a 
little strange. Java is not covered in this book because O'Reilly 
already has an excellent Nutshell book out on Java (Java in a 
Nutshell, written by David Flanagan). Webmasters will find a lot to 
like about this book, and I'm certain that the pages will quickly 
become dog- eared and the spine bent badly from constant use (anyone 
who creates or maintains websites knows that a superb reference is an 
essential tool). For webmasters and designers out there, O'Reilly has 
created another must-have. 

O'Reilly and Associates
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Sebastopol, CA 95472
1-800-998-9938
http://www.ora.com

Installation/Ease of Use: Gold
User-Friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
Audience: Anyone designing or maintaining websites.

7=> Product: You Don't Know Jack Sports
Reviewed By: Craig Bull,  mailto:bull@udayton.edu
Reviewed On: AMD 486DX4/100, 32MB RAM, Windows 95, 2x CD-ROM
Requires: 486/33, 8MB RAM, Windows 3.x/Win95, 2x CD-ROM
MSRP: $29.99

If you're one of those people who amazes everyone with your knowledge 
in Trivial Pursuit, this game may set you back a notch. This is one of 
the more interesting games I've played in a while. No weird aliens 
(just a cocky announcer). No shooting, no need for great hand/eye 
coordination. Just a knack for the stranger side of sports trivia. 

Berkeley Systems describes You Don't Know Jack Sports (YDKJS) as some 
extreme trivia. And they're not kidding! A sequel to the successful 
You Don't Know Jack series, YDKJS is a fast-paced, irreverent sports 
trivia game. You (and up to two other players) play contestants on a 
TV game show. Each is assigned a "buzzer" (the Q, B, and P keys on 
your keyboard). A question, worth a certain dollar value, is given 
from one of three categories, selected by the winner of the last 
question. The first person to buzz in gets a chance to pick the 
correct answer from one of four given. Get it right, and you win the 
bucks. Get it wrong, and you lose the bucks. 

Players have the choice of playing a 7-question tournament game or a 
regular 21-question game. I played a number of each. With over 800 
questions in the game, I haven't seen a duplicate yet. Each game has 
three types of questions: Multiple Choice, Gibberish, and Jack Attack. 
The 7-question game has one Gibberish Question. The 21-question game 
has two. All games end with the Jack Attack. 

OK, so you know how the basic game works and your thinking "Whoopee. A 
trivia game. How dull." Well, you're in for a lot of fun and a great 
surprise. The questions in this game are not what you would call your 
normal trivia question. For example, "Who won the 1967 World Series?" 
is not something you're going to see in this game. Instead, try these 
categories: 

     Grandpa & Natural Gas
     Association Against Breaststroking
     What Did You Say About Thrusting Your Bladder?
     How to Enjoy Being a Girl
     Why Didn't Fred Just Go In Through the Window?

Those are just a few of the categories that come up. Here's a sample 
question. The category - Let's Spike Mike. Think Brady Bunch. (The 
answer is at the end of this review.) 

If Mike and Carol Brady wanted to replace their bratty children with 
new kids, under the rules of U.S. Indoor Volleyball, up to how many 
kids could they substitute? 

1.  Just Greg
2.  Marcia & Greg
3.  Peter, Jan, Marcia & Greg
4.  All the kids


For the Gibberish Question, you are given a gibberish phrase. You have 
to guess what saying, name, title, etc. rhymes with that phrase. You 
start with $5,000 or $10,000. Every 1.5 seconds, a little money is 
taken away until the pot reaches $0. As it drops, up to three hints 
are given. Here are a few samples (answers are at the end of this 
review. You don't get hints here, either. Sorry!). As he says in the 
game, "Don't let the punctuation fool you." 

1.  What sports show does this rhyme with?  
     Some may bite, shutup all.

2.  What movie phrase does this rhyme with?
     Stiff brew: swilled it, peed till numb.

Finally, the last question is the Jack Attack. This is basically a 
matching question. One phrase grows on the screen. At the same time, 
potential matches fly by on the screen. When the phrase relates 
closely to the flying matches, press your buzzer. As an example, the 
last one I played had a Jack Attack category to the effect of "A rose 
by any other name." (As I write this, I honestly can't remember what 
it really was.) The name of a sports figure grew on the screen. You 
had to choose who played that t figure in a movie or on TV. For 
example, Babe Ruth was played by John Goodman. 

This game is a lot of fun! The questions are much different than what 
you would see in a normal trivia game. And the host, Andy Poland 
according to the credits, is a riot! He can harass you without 
offending you, and always has some smart comment after each question. 
His voice and manner really add a lot to the game. And a lot of the 
extra stuff going on makes it worth sitting and just watching the end 
credits. The beginning of the game is done as if you had just walked 
in to a studio and people are talking and asking you questions. Each 
question has some sort of animated lead-in. (Animated meaning floating 
the question number on the screen in some *interesting* ways, along 
with sound. "The German judge gives a... nien!") The ending sequence 
has audio of some "commercials" which are pretty entertaining. 

I've only got two minor complaints. First, having three people crowded 
around a keyboard can get a bit awkward, especially when you're all 
pounding on it because you know the answer to the question. I don't 
know what else they could do, but it would be nice if some other 
option were available, such as one on a joystick, one on the keyboard, 
and one on the mouse. I don't know. They certainly did the best the 
could with what they had. Second, I'd like to see some sort of high 
score table. I'd like to know what my best game was, compared to the 
current game. But these minor things certainly don't take away from 
the appeal of the game. 
 If you're interested in the You Don't Know Jack series, there is a 
playable demo available on their WWW site. Be warned; it's a pretty 
big download. 

One more thing, and this is straight from the manual:

"WARNING: This product contains mature content, including suggestive 
sexual references and language that may not be suitable for children. 
Besides, they won't get it anyway." 

Berkeley Systems, Inc.
2095 Rose Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510)549-2300
<http://www.berksys.com>
<http://www.berzerk.com>

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