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I walked into a Harvey Norman store in Sydney, into the computer section look- ing for the small Mac software area amongst the massive area for PC and con- sole systems. When I could not find it, I inquired about where the Mac software was, to be told that Apple had withdrawn from the retail market altogether. Do you know what the hell is going on? It was bad enough owning a superior system with much less software, but, it was better than none at all. Rhapsody had better be good — it looks like the only thing that can break Apple’ fall. Owen Tieli via Internet Apple Australia has decided to reduce its pres- ence in the retail mass market and concentrate on specialised outlets such as Apple Centres. This leaves the mass market open for compa- nies like Mitsui (with Power Computing clones) or the other clone distributors to move into the lower end of the market. It has always been difficult for Apple to compete in that sector of the market, where sales staff tend to be knowledgeable only about Intel-based PCs and Windows software. While it's easy to sell someone on the advantages of one computer over another because it has a faster processor or a bigger hard drive, it’s far more difficult to express the advantages of one OS over another, so many sales people simply didn’t bother. Apple was throwing money and resources into a market that was not willing to support it. | am, of course, not referring to any retailers in particular. Lately it has been even more difficult for Apple to compete for the consumer market, since the profit margins are much smaller than on high-end equipment that gets sold to pub- lishers and businesses. In the medium term, Apple needs to concentrate on increasing its profitability, and the mass market is not the place to do that. The downside of this is a lack of visibility for Apple hardware on Myers, Brashs and Har- vey Norman shelves. However, if you consider that most of that visibilty consisted of Macs sit- ting disused with a screen saver running in the corer gathering dust while the sales staff demonstrated applications and games on Win- dows, | think it's visibility that the Mac can live without. Apple in the US is planning a very large marketing campaign for the release of Mac OS 8, and while Apple Australia has not announced any plans, it would be a good opportunity to raise awareness of Apple innovation and remind people that the Mac is far from dead. —MJICP. Correction T noticed an error on page 19 of the July Australian Macworld. Tt says “. . .users who are running OT 1.1.2 must install OS 7.6.1 immediately after they install OT 1.1.2” OS 7.6.1 uses OT 1.1.1 and would require OT 1.1.2 to be reinstalled after installing OS 7.6.1, not vice versa. David Bakkers, Apple Customer Response Centre, Sydney Oops. — MJC.P. Pavlovian response I begin to salivate before your mag is due out! Keep up the good work. I'd like to point out one minor thingy regarding your May HTML article (page 20). You state that the World Wide Web Consor- tium uses the abbreviation “W3C”. This is, technically, incorrect — I would imag- ine that they use a superscripted 3 as this is.a standard in the technical world? If this is not the case, then I’m sure you'll enlighten me with a suitably curt and biting reply. David Trainer via e-mail I think the best response to this minor thingy is to show you the W3C logo, as downloaded from the W3C Web site at http://www.w3c.org/ W53C Mashbaltibinive For “curt and biting”, | recommend that you read magazines about Nirvana and Mike Tyson. — MJCP, DOS things I run a DOS-based system at work, not by choice: it’s the only alternative in my industry. Once per week I have to format and initialise a floppy disk to send claim data to a government department — they still haven't heard of modems. I have been doing this for the past five years. Last week the DOS system decided not to format the disk in drive A; it thought it was time for a change and for- matted drive C (the hard disk)! Every last scrap of data gone. I bet a Mac can't do that! Is it that DOS has an in-built empa- thy for the concept of voluntary euthana- sia? Have we upset the planetary alignment by landing on Mars? I put these questions to the technician who rebuilt the system. His reply: “Ies just one of those DOS things.” I know what I would like to do to those DOS things — give me my Mac any day. John Dolton, Erina Heights, NSW .. ; WWwW.idg, coma 8 SEPTEMBER 1997 THE BEST. SyncMaster” The world’s most awarded range of monitors. THE NEXT. 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The announcement came just weeks before Apple announced a smaller than expected quarterly loss ($US56 million) and less than a month before Mac OS 8 was delivered to customers. Officially, the board fele that Amelio was not sufficiently “customer focused” to lead the company, and was not able to meet the shareholders’ expecta- tions of profitability and growth. It said that his “profile” did not fit with Apple’s imme- diate goals. In plain English, they got impatient with him failing to meet his own timetable for profitability and, as one Apple exec put it, “he was so focused on the micro- processor level, he couldn't see the bigger picture”. The news of Amelio’s departure was met with jubila- tion from some quarters and. ambivalence from others. Almost no-one — seemed unhappy to see him go. Amelio 10 SEPTEMBER DOCTOR AWAY had been strongly criticised for his management style both by sections of the press and, pri- vately, by some within Apple. In the months prior to his departure, he had reportedly become remote and removed from the day-to-day operation of Apple. By contrast, when he joined the company he was applauded for his understand- ing of the technology and his “hands on” approach to learn- ing how Apple operated. Amelio was brought into the company in February 1996 when the board fired Michael Spindler after months of spec- ulation and internal division. At the time, the company’s stock price was diving, sales were plummeting, the Copland project was wandering aimlessly, licensing the OS was marginal on the company’s agenda and damaging issues such as quality control were affecting Apple's image and legendary customer loyalty. Seventeen months later, the company has a coherent oper- ating system strategy based around Rhapsody, many of the features of Copland are about to become real as Mac OS 8, the company has strong and F997 innovative products such as 233MHz_ notebooks and 300MHz consumer-level machines, quality issues are tightly controlled and, most importantly, Mac clones are an accepted part of the Mac OS landscape. Yet, Amelio has been shown the door. Intel Be p14 CHRP premieres pt High-end gets higher p17? Workflow in cyberspace p20 QTVR gets mainstream p24 ‘As Apple Australia’s General Manager Steve Rust told AMW; “There are different imperatives for an incoming CEO to what Gil found. Now, we're not bleeding badly, our hardware and software strategies are work- ing and in place, people are set- tled into their positions and they're keen to get on with the job. What we need to do now is improve our communica- tions, improve our marketing, We have to be a lot more aggressive.” Until a new CEO is found, Chief Financial Officer Fred Who's the boss? Jobs and Amelio in January Anderson will be Acting CEO, and Steve Jobs will have “an expanded role” in advising the board. Part of that role will be selecting the new chief exec- utive, as part of a committee that includes Jobs, Anderson, board vice-chairman “Mike” Markkula and Edgar S. Woolard, Chairman of duPont chemicals and, reportedly, the man who asked Amelio to go. Hancock FOLLOWS AMELIO Ellen Hancock, the VP of Technology who followed ‘Amelio to Apple from National Semiconductor, was asked to resign the day after Amelio received his marching orders. She has said that she did not feel that she would be able to function properly under the new management in Amelio’s absence, while other sources indicate that Steve Jobs, whose own role in the ouster remains unclear, did not believe that she was “technical enough” to han- dle such a responsible role in the company. Hancock spent more than twenty years at IBM before moving to National Semicon- ductor, where she and Amelio were credited with turning around that company’s flagging fortunes. When Amelio was recruited to Apple, Hancock was expected to replace him as Nat Semi’s CEO. The job did not eventuate, and she followed Amelio to Apple. ‘At Apple, she was responsi- ble for improving the company's quality control and technology strategies. She recognised that the Copland strategy was irre- trievably adrift and killed it, then set about searching for a replacement strategy. The NeXT acquisition followed, after which many of her respon- sibilities were taken over by incoming NeXT personnel, notably Avie Tevanian. Her dis- satisfaction with that outcome has been widely reported, and it has often been rumoured that she was on the verge of leaving. JOBS IN THE ASCENDANT? Speculation about who will replace Gil Amelio as chairman and CEO has been rife, and made more so by the fact that the board does not appear to have anyone waiting in the wings. The front runner in the betting is of course Steve Jobs, who has been acting as an adviser to the board since Apple acquired his company, NeXT Software, in December. Since Amelio’s sacking, he has taken much more responsibility in the company and has, effectively, been acting as its chairman. Be Speculation has centred mainly on the prospect of Jobs as chair- man of the board with a more business-like person handling the day-to-day role of CEO. Apple’s stock price has been buoyant and Mac fans and ana- lysts alike have rejoiced at the prospect of having a genuine certified Silicon Valley legend at the helm. The downside is that Jobs is infamous for his overbearing style and “whim of steel”, which may make life very difficult for an incoming CEO and may hamper Apple’s efforts to find the best person to work alongside him. Jobs himself has said he does not want to be CEO because it would take him away from Pixar, the computer ani- mation company he acquired from Lucasfilm in 1986 for $US10 million. His stake in Pixar is now reported to be worth $US500 million after the box office success of “Toy Story” and a ten-year, six-movie deal signed with Disney which will produce a sequel to “Toy Story” next year. Ina letter to Pixar employ- ees, he said that Apple had offered him both the CEO job and the chairmanship and he had declined, although he had agreed to step up his involve- ment with the company he founded. However, some have speculated that with the Dis- ney deal in place, Pixar could effectively run itself for the next five years, and Jobs would be free to provide vision and long- term strategy to Apple while someone else handled the details. A final announcement is expected at the Macworld Expo in Boston, where Jobs will be delivering the keynote address. Gil Amelio was to have per- formed that function. e OS, the operating system Apple left at the altar when it acquired NeXT last year, will be available for Intel hardware in January. A demonstration of Be OS running ‘on a multi-processor Pentium-based machine is expected at the Macworld Expo in Boston. Since the Be OS was built from the ground up as a multitasking, multiprocessing OS for PowerPC hardware, it was seen as a logical choice for Apple to acquire after the Copland project was cancelled. The acquisition of NeXT Software and its OpenStep operating system ~ took many by surprise. —— When asked by the press to justify the choice of Openstep over Be OS, Apple officials have pointed to the availability of OpenStep on Intel, and therefore the potential for the next- wwwW.idg.com.cu/macworld generation Mac OS to cross hardware barriers, as_ a key advantage. Be Inc is obviously out to reduce that advantage. Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée has said that the company needs to avoid limiting its growth potential to that of the PowerPC platform, and cites Apple's ongoing disputes over licensing arrangements as casting doubt on that potential. He has said that Intel approached him, rather than the other way around, but he sees it as an ideal partnership. Even though Be only started selling the final version of its OS a few weeks ago, it has been _ aggressively seeding beta copies to developers and has garnered a good deal of support. In addition, several Mac OS licensees, including Power Computing and Motorola, have licensed the Be OS. AUSTRALIAN MACWORLD oo é [Paice are Only Apple has built a computer thatruns both Mac and Windows. (Well, one of us had to be big enough to do it.) Introducing the Power Macintosh 7300/180 PC Compatible. Now, with the touch ofa button, you can go from using the Mac? OS to using Windows® 95 or Windows 3.1 or even DOS. (But don’t worry, you can always switch back.) Because inside the Power Mac 7300, there’s an actual PC. Complete with a 166 MHz Pentium microprocessor. So you can run Windows and Mac applications at the same time. And you can do it right out of the box, without any installation or an engineering degree. Which, if you happen to work with people who use PCs, can come in handy. Because there may be times when you'll want to log on to a PC network to check and send e-mail, to access printers or get on the Internet. And with built-in Ethernet you can. If you ever want to run a multimedia presentation on a PC, this PowerMac even has Sound Blaster 16 and ATI Video. In other words, it’s just like you went out and bought both a PC and a Mac. Because, well, you did. © Apple, the Appl logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc MOTOROLA'S STARMAX 6000 LINE FEATURES HIGH-SPEED CACHING ihe first of a new generation of Mac systems based on the Common Hardware Refer- ence Platform (CHRP) are about to arrive. Motorola Computer Group has announced the first CHRP Macs: its new high-end line, called the StarMax Pro 6000, will be demonstrated for the first time at Macworld Expo in Boston. In tests by Macworld Lab, the StarMax Pro 6000 machines pull far ahead of older machines, because they take advantage of CHRP’s 66MHz bus speed (most Macs today use 40MHz to 50MHz buses). They also gain much of their speed from the PowerPC 750’s (code-named both Arthur and G3) new caching scheme, called backside cache. Both backside cache and faster system buses help alleviate many of the per- formance bottlenecks of older systems, raising the overall per- formance bar for this new gen- eration of Macs. PPC 750’s SPEED SHOT In most Macs today, the CPU and cache communicate through the system bus — which typically operates at 40MI Iz to SOMHz speeds. But the PowerPC 750’s backside cache uses a separate, higher-speed cache connection reserved for CPU-to-cache (and cache-to-CPU) communications. The PowerPC 750’s backside cache communicates with the CPU in 1:1, 2:3, 1:2, 06-235 ratios. So, for example, a 300MHz PowerPC 750 can com- municate with cache using a 300MHz, 200MHz, 150MHz, or 120MHz cache bus — several 14 SEPTEMBER times faster than the previous lim- itation of the 40MHz to SOMHz bus speed. Set to ship by the end of September, the StarMax Pro 6000/233, the 6000/266, and 6000/266 XL provide 512K of cache, which communicates with the CPU in a 2:1 ratio, for 117MHz and 133MHz cache buses, respectively. The StarMax Pro 6000/ 300, expected to ship in October, will come with 1Mb of backside cache communicating with the CPU in a 3:2 ratio, for a 200MHz cache bus. OTHER BENEFITS In addition to improving raw per- formance, the CHRP specifica tion also helps create a more open platform, since the Mac licensees will no longer be using Apple- designed motherboards — whose circuitry is often partially undoc- umented, requiring the clone makers to turn to Apple for help. Clone makers should be able to move at their own pace and not rely on Apple for assistance. CHRP also uses industry standard components, so the Mac makers (including Apple) have a wider choice of suppliers, can buy components at lower prices, and are less likely to be faced with a parts shortage. And CHRP allows the faster adoption of emerging technolo- gies, such as the Universal Serial Bus and the FireWire high-speed peripheral bus, as well as of exist- ing technologies that would give Mac owners more choices. For example, the CHRP specification supports the PC’ ISA bus, which Mac makers could incorporate into their systems so Mac owners will be able to use any internal PC modem with their Macs. to reflect the change. JSTREAM OFFERS se dobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is great for “high-quality, precisely formatted documents. But PDF's huge file sizes can be a high price to pay, especially when sending the files over the Internet. JStream (http://www. jstream.com) believes it has the answer in its JPress Document Format (JPD), a proprietary compression technology based on the company’s text- handling libraries, which are written in Java. Built-in viewer JStream's WiredWrite publishing application, scheduled to ship this September, translates documents into the JPD format — which compresses them significantly — and attaches a small (70K), Java-based viewer. The resulting files retain all formatting, are rapidly searchable, and can be read on any computer running a Java virtual machine. Also, you can reformat text as you read it; if you resize the window, a JPD document reflows Java for portable documents AN ALTERNATIVE TO PDE Java limitations JStream has far to go before JPD will be widely accepted, largely because Java's printing and typography features are embryonic at best. Also, while many current applications can directly output PDF files, users must filter documents through WiredWrite to produce JPD files. And PDF, given its roots in PostScript and growing acceptance in the print world, will likely be the electronic document format of choice for high-quality output. 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Productivity improvements include “sticky” menus, “spring-loaded” folders and far greater integration with the Internet. Cosmetic enhancements include desktop pictures, allowing you to decorate the Finder with a single image, rather than tiling as in Mac OS 7.x, and new colour selection tools. For more details on new features in Mac OS 8, see the lead News item in last month's AMW. POWER MAC 8600/9600 AT UP TO 350MHZ Apple Computer has announced its new range of top-end Power Macintoshes, running on IBM's latest-generation PowerPC 604e processors. The Power Macintosh 8600 line will be accelerated to 250MHz, while the 9600 will offer processor speeds of 300 and 350MHz, both only in single processor models for the time being. Performance will also be increased by an Apple- designed 1Mb inline level 2 cache on its own 100MHz bus. 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NEW PRODUCTS BUREAU TO THE acintosh users in the pub- lishing business have long awaited the era of virtual manufacturing, a brave new world in which the service bureau and commercial printer become a seamless exten- sion of your desktop. Thanks to a host of recently announced software products and telecom- munications services, that promise is closer than ever to reality. OPENing Move The technology to enable this vision first appeared in the OPEN work- flow-management system from Luminous (http://www.lumi- nous.com), which lets service bureaus create pipelines where incoming jobs are automatically inspected, trapped, imposed, colour-separated, and printed with or without the involvement of a prepress operator. OPEN is both a product and a plug-in architecture; any OPEN-com- pliant prepress application can be added to the automated pipeline. A companion product, Luminous Virtual Network — formerly Adobe Virtual Net- work — lets your service bureau accept transmitted print jobs for automated processing through the pipeline. It has two compo- nents, a host program run at the service bureau and a client program that can be freely dis- tributed to customers. Lumi- 20 SEPTEMBER BRING YOUR DESKTOP nous offers a free generic version of the client on its Web site, but your service bureau can also gen- erate customised client modules for distribution to customers. Choose your service The cus- tomised client makes your ser- vice bureau appear as a Chooser-level output device. When you print the job, you fill out an electronic order form with instructions for handling 1997 SERVICE the file. The file is then auto- matically transmitted to the ser- vice bureau. Group Logic (http://www. gtouplogic.com), which devel- oped the core technology in Luminous Virtual Network, has released its own version, called Mass Transit. The company also offers a remote document-view- ing and annotation program called Imagexpo 2.0. ‘Tempus in a Teapot (hetp:// www.dka.com) has developed an alternative to OPEN, called “Tempus, that can handle native QuarkXPress and Adobe Page- Maker files in addition to PostScript and PDF; OPEN is limited to the latter formats. Current Tempus-compliant soft- ware products include DK&A’s InPosition and Trapper and EET’s Fiery Booklet Maker. DK&cA is inviting other software developers to create Tempus- based products. High-speed pipelines File-trans- fer software does you little good if you don’t have a fast data pipeline. Fortunately, several vendors have introduced prod- ucts and services targeted at the file-transmission requirements of graphics professionals. MCL, British Telecom, and Scitex have announced the Dig- ital Graphic Network service, which will permit high-speed file transfer among designers, adver- tising agencies, stock-photo houses, service bureaus, and printers. MCL also sponsored devel- opment of an Adobe Photoshop plug-in called Genuine Fractals, from Alta-mira Group (http:// wwwaaltamira-group.com), that compresses scanned images into resolution-independent Fractal Image Files of IMb to 2Mb. Once transmitted, these files can be enlarged to between 400Mb and 500Mb — even if the orig- inal scan was only 10Mb to 25Mb. Another company staking a claim for high-speed file trans- mission is 4-Sight (hetp://www. 4sight.com), whose ISDN Man- ager software uses standard ISDN connections to transmit jobs to service bureaus. ‘Agfa is using ISDN Man- ager in a new service called PrintCast that lets you submit jobs to facilities that have installed its ChromaPress digi- tal printing system. icrosoft has posted Preview Release 1 of the upcoming version 4.0 of Internet Explorer, and even this initial release has plenty of tasty new features sweetening the user interface and supporting new Internet technology. The most obvious change Is a new Explorer bar that runs down the left side of the browser window. On touching of one of four folder-like tabs (Search, History, Channel, and Favorites), the bar slides to the right, revealing a window where you can browse your favourite sites or surfing history, access Internet search engines, or click to content channels to which you've subscribed. Unlike the Windows release of IE 4, the Mac version will not come pre-populated with push channels, even though the same content works on either platform. IE 4 for Mac will also not be as tightly integrated with the Finder as s vendors like Luminous and Group new media, says that WebObjects, the the Windows version is with the desktop. This will not be a problem to anyone who upgrades to Mac OS 8, as the new OS features integrated Internet regardless of what browser you use. Microsoft has also tweaked features previously introduced in Explorer 3,01. For instance the autocomplete feature — in addition to automatically completing a URL as you type it — now offers a pop-up menu populated with likely matches for your half-completed URL. The Subscriptions feature in Explorer 3.01 would notify you if it detected a change on a Web page that you set it to monitor, Explorer 4.0 will automatically download and cache a page if it detects changes; you can also break your internet connection and browse cached pages offline. The preview release of Internet Explorer 4 for Mac OS is available from http://www.micro soft.com/ie/mac Gulker admits that the new workflow model is geared toward the largest : Logic strive to reduce the barriers between service bureaus and their customers, Apple is promoting its own Vision of a digital-media workflow. Apple’s former executive vice president, Ellen Hancock, recently presented a new model for media production that accommodates CD-ROM and Web authoring as well as traditional print media. The current model, she said, is driven by print production: at a certain point in a print project, a designer adapts existing text and graphic elements for the Web or CD-ROM. Under the new model, all elements used in print and new media are stored as objects in a central media database, from which various forms of print and online content can be generated in parallel. In addition to permitting the reuse of appropriate media elements, she said, the model is better suited to the immediacy of online communications, because production is not dependent on the print workflow. What is Apple's stake in this? Chris Gulker, Apple's business development manager for publishing, entertainment, and sophisticated Web authoring software that Apple obtained as part of the NexT acquisition, is the glue that will enable databases and other software components to work within this new-media-production model. The software currently runs under Windows NT and Unix, but Apple promises a Mac OS version by the end of the year. The current price tag is $US5000; however, Gulker says the price is likely to drop as Apple targets the software at a broader market. publishing operations — companies like Time Warner and R.R. Donnelley & Sons that manage huge volumes of information. And support for the model is far from unanimous. On hand for Hancock's presentation at Seybold New York, Quark chairman Tim Gill argued that the needs of electronic and print media are so different that few elements can be reused in the manner suggested by Apple's proposal. Design and Content | production |= for print} Design and creation | EB production |=». Consumers for CD-ROM Design and production for Internet, AUSTRALIAN MACWORLD 24 Only One Company Can Give You Removable Storage This Rugged and Reliable. Fujitsu. When rock climbing, you’d never compromise with the tools you use. 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(oe FUJITSU COMPUTERS, COMMUNICATIONS, MICROELECTRONICS A.C.N. 001 011 427 News pple’s QuickTime VR (QTVR) technology, until recently the province of a few pioneering multimedia developers, is stepping into the limelight. PictureWorks (http://www.picture works.com), Live Picture (http:// www.livepicture.com), and Pani- mation (http://www.panimation. com) has introduced inexpensive software packages that make it easier to create QTVR panoramas. Thanks to a new application programming interface (API) in QTVR 2.0, developers of graphics software can add QTVR authoring capabilities with minimal hassle. Still, Apple can't rest on its QTVR laurels because several competing technologies have emerged. ‘A QTVR panorama gives you the illusion of being in the centre of a virtual environment; scrolling with the mouse or cursor keys offers a 360-degree view of the scene. To create the panoramas, you shoot a series of photographs from the centre of the environment you want to replicate; you can also create panoramas consisting entirely of computer-generated images. Either way, you need a QTVR authoring tool to stitch the individual images into the full panorama and save it in QTVR format. Panoramas can also include object movies that let you view objects from different sides. NEw soFTwarE Apple offers free soft- ware that converts panoramic PICT images created in other programs into QTVR movies. However, creating the panoramas themselves is a time-con- suming task. The new authoring pro- grams — PictureWorks’ $100 Spin Panorama, Live Picture’s $100 Pho- toVista, and Panimation's $169 Nodester — make it much easier to stitch the images into QTVR movies or panoramic stills saved in PICT or JPEG formats. With their simple inter- 24 SEPTEMBER AUTHORING TOOLS Be Here's Portal $1 can capture a complete QTVR panorama in one shot faces and low price tags, they promise to bring QTVR authoring capabilities to a much broader market. They are especially useful in conjunction with digital cameras. With each product, you begin by taking a series of photographs, rotating the camera clockwise so that each shot slightly overlaps the previous one. You then import these images in sequence to create the panorama. Spin provides tools that simplify the stitching process: after you identify common reference points in adjacent images, the program causes these points to overlap, binding the right side of one image to the left side of the next. PhotoVista and Nodester automate this process, aligning and stitching the images with a single command. You also have the option of manually fine-tuning the stitch. All three programs include blending functions that minimise lighting differences between adjacent photos. However, none can produce an object movie. Nodester includes a simple built-in image editor, allowing you to perform basic image enhance- ments without using a separate program. A rapid-fire mode lets you capture a series of images using a digital camera tethered to the computer; the software then 1997 INTRODUCED automatically composes the images into a complete panorama. Spin and Nodester support QTVR only. PhotoVista supports QTVR plus Live Picture's own RealVR format, which was developed by Eric Chen, a member of the original QTVR programming team. Live Picture is currently working on an enhanced version of PhotoVista, to be introduced later this year, that will allow designers to add a variety of media elements to the panoramas, including FlashPix images. Competing formats RealVR is one of several technologies that have emerged to compete with QTVR. Its major advantage is file size: a RealVR panorama generally consumes much less data than the equivalent QTVR movie. The format consists of a JPEG image packaged within a VRML file; to view the panoramas you need to download a VRML extension from the Live Picture Web site. Other QTVR competitors include Ipix from Interactive Pictures (http://www. cylinder — meaning that you can look all the way up and down in addition to left and right. NetVR's Tornado is based on Java, so you don't need special plug-ins to view the content. Currently, Tornado generates in-line 3D objects — equivalent to QTVR's object movies — but the company is also developing a panoramic movie component. The pricing is similar to Interactive Pictures’ — you pay a sliding fee for each object you create. Panoramic camera Be Here, which introduced its Portal $1 Panoramic Capture System at the 1997 Macworld Expo in San Francisco, has reduced its original $US15,000 asking price to $US9995. However, it's another metered system: the base price buys you the right to make 100 images; after that, you pay $US4 to $US5 per saved image depending on volume. The advantage of the Portal $1 is that it can capture an entire 360-degree panorama in a single shot. This lets you create ipix.com), and Tornado fromNetVR(http:// www.netvr.com), = Interactive Pictures (7p) (formerly OmniView) ie offers Mac-based authoring and viewing software, including a Macromedia Director Xtra, but instead of paying for a standard | Tm pa CT (a) software licence, you pay for each com- pleted movie, at a price depending on the quantity you produce. You can capture a complete panorama with two shots from a camera equipped with a fish- eye lens. In addition, images are mapped to the inside of a virtual sphere — rather than QTVR's virtual Panimation's Nodester makes it easier to create QuickTime VR panoramas scenes with people and other moving elements that would be impossible to produce with other cameras. At this stage the Portal S1 has no Australian distributor, but we understand that negotiations are under way. re The irrepressible koala is back in his sec- ond CD-ROM adventure with a third to follow. Based once again on an episode from the highly successful TV series, Blinky Bill’s | Extraordinary Balloon Adventure ($59.95) takes Blinky and his friends on an international trip where they discover interesting creatures from other countries. No installation is needed — this is one of the few discs that uses QuickTime’s AutoPlay feature — while high-quality animation, ease of use, and terrific music make this an Australian winner. Tacked on to the interactive story- book are lots of educational games, which although initially appealing to three to six year olds may have limited repeat value. Blinky Bill also has his own Web site, accessible via an HTML file on the CD- ROM or directly at http://www.blinky- bill.village.com.au. Contact Roadshow Interactive on (02) 9552 8700. Providing a way to use a standard medium format camera for digital photo- graphy, Phase One offers the StudioKit camera back. Available in configurations for Hasselblad, Mamiya, Bronica, Fuji and Rollei medium format cameras, the StudioKit has a 56mm x 56mm capture area that produces images with 3500 x 3500 pixels (uninterpolated). Images are taken in 36-bit colour and the camera back has an effective film speed of ISO 400. Phase One Flicker Suppression technology to allow the camera to be used with low-wattage tungsten lights. Bundled with the unit is Phase One's own capture software utilises which is capable of several functions including on-the-fly unsharp masks, CMYK separations, rotation and crop- ping, as well as colour correction. Priced at $16,500, Phase One's StudioKit is available through Australia Multicomm on (03) 9500 9907. AUSTRALIAN MACWORLD 25 © PRODUCT UPDATE Epson's imaging onslaught continues Scanning your snaps is a snap with Epson's consumeroriented 30-bit film scanner. The FilmScan 200 scans directly from 35mm transparencies or negatives at a resolution of 1200dpi and is capable of 4800dpi output. Included with the scanner is a film carrier which allows batch scanning of up to six images. The FilmScan also supports the ‘Advanced Photo System (APS) and comes bundled with PictureWorks's PhotoEnhancer, Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Presto! PhotoAlbum for image editing and display. Epson's imaging assault is not restricted to the consumer mar- ket, The Stylus Color 3000 is an edge-to-edge A2 colour inkjet printer that is capable of 1440dpi x 720dpi resolution. Targeted at desktop publishers, _ prepress graphic designers and CAD/ CAM users, the Stylus Color 3000 uses a long-life printhead technology called Micro Piezo which also helps to provide faster output. The printer is able to print anything up to 410mm wide and supports a number of media such as backlit film, canvas cloth and banner paper up to several metres long, An optional Ethernet card is available. The Epson FilmScan 200 is priced at $999, while the Stylus Color 3000 comes in at $3500. . . . But wait, there's more Just when you thought you'd heard all there was to hear, Epson decides to release even more products. Targeted at the work- group environment, the EPL laser printers are designed to be a nec- essary addition to your network. The EPL-N1200 is capable of printing 12 pages per minute (ppm) at 600dpi x 600dpi resolu- tion and incorporates three paper trays, allowing a storage capacity of 1250 A4 sheets. The system is able to use media of various sizes (including envelope and A6) and comes with 2Mb of RAM which can upgraded to 64Mb. An optional Ethernet card is required/can be added to the system which fully supports AppleTalk and TCP/IP protocols. The EPL-N2000 is the A3 version of the EPL range and already comes Ethernet ready. The print- er prints up to 20ppm for Ad sized paper or 11pm for A3 and prints at 600dpi x 600dpi. A stan- dard configuration includes 4Mb of RAM (upgradable to 68Mb) and has a paper capacity of 500 Ad sheets (expandable to 1000) and 150 A3 sheets (expandable to 400). The printer also supports double-sided printing with its optional duplex unit. The EPL- N1200 will hit your pocket for $2199 while the EPL-N2000 will cost you $3999. .. . Wait for it Not content to sit on its laurels, Epson is offering a significant price reduction on its range of LCD multimedia projectors. The top of the line EMP-5000, which is capable of display resolutions up to 800 x 600 pixels on a diag- onal scteen size up to 7.6 metres and comes with its own stereo sound system, is now priced at $12,600. The EMP-3500 and EMP-3300, which offer 640 x 480 resolutions, have been reduced in price to $9200 and $7400 respectively. More details are available from Epson on (02) 9903 9000. This can’t go any faster, can it? Just when you thought they couldn’t get any faster, Plextor is out to prove that there's no speed limit on CD-ROMs. The Plextor 12/20PleX CD-ROM drive is capable of data transfers up to 3Mb/sec which is roughly five times faster than quad-speed drives. The drive also includes a 512K buffer which helps to provide playback of full motion video straight from CDs and a brushless motor ensures higher reliability and longer working life. Priced at $375, the 12/20PleX internal drive is available through SCSI Corp on (02) 9894 6033. 26 SEPTEMBER 1997 Take it to the Talk about living life ‘on the edge’. It's a constant ‘rush’ to come up with something. new and alternative... different from the rest. Throw in ridiculous deadlines, 18 hour days, demanding clients and you're ‘on the edge’ before you know it! That's where GCC comes in. 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A wide range of accessories, including specialty lenses, 2MB and 10MB Picture as Cards, a flash sync cable for studio use = . and AC mains power adapters, are digital science” available separately. TAKE PICTURES. FURTHER.™ Kodak Digital Cameras are available from selected Computer, Photographic and Duty Free Stores, including: Kodak Brashs Camera House g | © PRODUCT UPDATE ee SS SSS SS 3D, Gamin | | i XclaimVR s&s Shout it from the rooftops Bringing 3D acceleration to the consumer market, ATI Technologies introduces its XCLAIM range of PCI-based graphics cards to Australia. The XCLAIM VR offers QuickDraw 3D RAVE support as well as QuickTime acceleration and Mac2TV allows you to output computer images to TV. Just when you thought you couldn't fit any more features onto the card, it also allows video capture at 320 x 240 pixels at up to 30 frames per second. The XCLAIM VR comes in a 2Mb SGRAM configuration (which supports millions of colours up to 832 x 624) and a 4Mb SGRAM version (allowing 1152 x 870 resolution with millions of colours). As well as a standard DB-15 monitor port, the card includes video-in and video-out as well as S-Video-in and S-Video-out connectors. A future option for the XCLAIM VR, called XCLAIM TY, will allow users to use their graphics card as a TV tuner as well. The XCLAIM 3D card is geared more towards the graphics professional and provides the same QuickDraw 3D and QuickTime acceleration that the XCLAIM VR does. However, the XCLAIM 3D utilises a 3D memory management utility and comes in a 4Mb SGRAM and 8Mb SGRAM configuration. The 4Mb version allows up to 1152 x 870 resolution and the 8Mb version allows up to 1600 x 1200 resolution, both in millions of colours. The XCLAIM VR is priced at $499 for the 2Mb version and $659 for the 4Mb version, and the XCLAIM 3D costs $519 for the 4Mb card and $709 for the 8Mb card. Further details can be obtained through BBF Components and Peripherals on (02) 9630 0941 or (03) 9761 4299. USTRALIAN MACWORLD © PRODUCT UPDATE APPLE’S NEW OFFERINGS How about a serving of data Putting more raw horsepower into its server lineup, Apple has introduced the 7350/180 and 9650/233 Workgoup Servers. The 7350/180 is enclosed in a desktop case (simi- lar to the 7300 model) which includes 48Mb of RAM (expandable to 512Mb), a 4Gb hard drive, three PCI slots, and a 180MHz PowerPC 604e with a 256K Level 2 cache. Rounding out the top end of the Workgroup Server line is the 9650/233, which is based around the 9600 design. A standard configuration includes 64Mb of RAM (expandable to 768Mb), a 4Gb Ultra/Wide SCSI drive, six PCI slots and a 233MHz PowerPC 604e with a 512K Level 2 cache. Three SCSI channels are integrated into the system: one internal Ultra/Wide SCSI-3, one internal Fast SCSI-2 and one external SCSI-1. Both systems come with 10Base-T Ethernet, a 12x CD-ROM drive, Apple RAID software for disk striping (RAID 0) and mirroring (RAID 1), as well as Apple's Applications Server Solution and AppleShare Server Solution software. The Workgroup Server 7350/180 will require you to fork out $4995, while the 9650/233 will cost you $9995. The Apple Internet Server Solution software can be bundled with either of these machines for an additional $500. ia eas mac Oe WaAREA The Leading Multimedia and Author, Author Boasting a more flexible approach to interactive applications, Macromedia pre- sents version 4 of its Internet/intranet development tool Authorware. Among Authorware’s new features is comprehen- sive Shockwave integration which enables developers to create applications which 30 SEPTEMBER 1997 Would you like some PC with that? Everyone except the terribly uninformed knows that a Mac can open and save PC files and use them as if they were Mac files. For those unfor- tunates who have to go a step further and use PC applications, Apple offers the 7220 and 7300 PC Compatible machines. Based on the existing 7220 (200MHz 603e) and 7300 (180MHz and 200MHz 604e) models, these machines incorporate PC Compatibility Cards which take up one of their PCI slots. The card has a 166MHz Pentium processor with a 256K Level 2 cache and 16Mb of RAM (expandable to 80Mb). Both systems come with 32Mb of RAM and a 12x CD-ROM and two free PCI slots. Pricing starts at $3495 for the 7220 PC Compatible, while the 7300/180 PC Compatible costs $4495 and the 7300/200 PC Compatible comes in at $5295. it came in a vision Supplanting the venerable Multiple Scan 20, Apple offers the AppleVision 850 display as its monitor for the professional market. Designed for desktop publishers and high-end graphic artists, the monitor comes with a 19in diagonal viewing area and is capable of displaying resolutions up to 1200 x 1600 support both Shockwave Director and Audio files. Separating content from an application has also been made possible thanks to the introduction of External Content Linking. This feature allows an application to make reference to an exter- nal media link. By doing so, items can be updated regularly without having to update the application itself, A Media Browser is incorporated into Authorware so that media elements can be easily locat- ed and referenced, Authorware also sup- ports full binary compatibility which enables users to produce a single file that will run both on Windows PCs and Macs. The Authorware 4 Interactive Studio incorporates Director 6.0, Backstage Internet Studio 2.0 (Enterprise Edition), Macromedia xRes 3.0 and SoundEdit 16 2.2. The suite includes an enhanced user pixels. The AppleVision 850 utilises a Triniton tube and includes Apple's DigitalColor and ColorSyne 2.0 technology to provide accurate colour matching with printed output. Elements such as resolution and colour temperature are controllable through software that inte- grates with the Monitors and Sound control panel. An ADB port is incorporated into the swivel base and the monitor complies with TCO 92 environmental recommendations for emissions. The AppleVision 850 is priced at $3400. interface which is consistent across all applications. ‘The stand-alone version of Authorware 4.0 costs $3145, while the full studio is priced at $3895. Further details are available from the fine people at Firmware Design on (047) 217 211. Let me take you down The portable storage gurus at Iomega are making it easier to carry around a gigabyte of data by reducing the price of their Jaz drives. The internal model is now priced at $599 (down from $749) and the exter- nal drive is priced at $799 (down from $899). Iomega recently reported that, during its two years of operation, it had sold over seven million Zip drives, two million Jaz drives and a million Ditto tape drives. More details are available from Iomega on (02) 9461 0601. Adding to the torrent of new print- ers this month, Brother presents an inexpensive option for the SOHO market. The HL-1060 is a 1200dpi x 600dpi laser printer which is capa- ble of printing up to 10ppm. The system comes with two trays pro- viding a paper capacity of up to 400 A4 sheets. Paper stock between 60gsm and 158gsm can be accom- modated and the printer uses Brother's Straight Paper Path technology to prevent paper jams and curls. A stan- dard 2Mb of memory can be upgraded to 32Mb; however, in order for it to work on your Mac, you'll require an optional $129 Mac interface. Otherwise, the HL- 1060 laser printer costs $1099 and more information is available from Brother on (02) 9887 4344. USTRALIAN MACWORLD BY MEL BECKMAN AND ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY ~ What you need to know to set up a small Ethernet If you're like many Macintosh users in small business these days, your computer count is growing. There's the Main Mac, your 200MHz PowerPC pride and joy (strictly for work, of course); your partner's Main Mac 2; the Auxiliary Mac for the occasional temp; plus a PowerBook or two; and you're contemplating a Web server. ou can save time and money by connecting this collection, along with your peripherals, with an Ethernet network, which will let you easily share files and resources such as printers and an Internet connection. You might think a local area network (LAN) is only for big companies, but you can reap the advantages, too, if you're will- ing to spend a little time and money. While the Mac’s built-in LocalTalk con- nection makes it easy to connect devices, its 230.4Kbit/sec (0.23Mbit/sec) transmission speed pales next to Ethernet’s 10Mbit/sec 32 SEPTEMBER 1997 network (or even 100Mbit/sec, if you want to invest the funds). Both the cost and the complex- ity of putting together an Ethernet network have been reduced so much that the bene- fits far outweigh the short-term expense. In this hands-on guide, you learn what you need to construct your own Ethernet network: the parts, how they interrelate, how to avoid problems, and how much it costs. You can put together an Ethernet network for a handful of machines for under $300. For most people, the 10Base-T type of Eth- ernet is the best to use, since it’s easy to install and troubleshoot and uses the most preva- lent wiring type. With this article in hand, you will be able to sort through the dizzying array of network equipment (see the sidebar, “Pic- turing your equipment options”) in com- puter stores and zero in on exactly what you need to start enjoying the benefits of being connected. First, the Mac connection ‘To attach a device to an Ethernet network, the device needs an Ethernet connector — either built in or via add-on hardware — into which you can plug the network cable. Here’s what you need to know about the dif ferent kinds of connectors (to see what these look like, see the diagram “First, determine the right connection”). BUILT-IN 10BASE-T If you bought your Mac in 1995 or later, it may have Ethernet built in, in the form of a 10Base-T connec- tor, which looks like an overgrown telephone jack (it has cight conductors instead of four). This is the best kind of connection because it connects directly to a 10Base-T cable without any extra hardware. BUILT-IN AAUI Many Macs, especially older ones, have a connector type called AAUI (Apple Attachment Unit Interface). This requires a hardware adapter called a 10Base- T transceiver (about $100 to $200), a tiny box with a 10Base-T connector for the net- work cable and its own cable that connects to the Mac’s AAUI port. You don’t need any additional software. ADD-ON CARD If your Mac doesn’t have a 10Base-T or AAUI connector but has an expansion slot, you can add a 10Base-T con- nector via an internal card. Ethernet cards come in several varieties, including NuBus, PCI, Apple Communications Slot, PC Card, and LC (for the PDS slot). You install the card just as you would any add-on card: following the instructions included with the card, you open your Mac, locate the card slot, insert the card, and but- ton everything back up. Unlike the way it is in the PC world, there are no jumpers or switches to set on Mac cards — just plug and play. Cards might require you to install dri- ver software — read the documentation for requirements and check the vendor’s Web site for the latest version, Ethernet cards are commodities, costing as little as $125 to $175 (see the table, “Comparison shopping for your Ethernet network”). Buy your cards from a reputable manufacturer — such as Asanté Technolo- gies, Dayna Communications, or Farallon Communications — that offers a warranty and good technical support. EXTERNAL SCSI ADAPTER For Macs without expansion slots, such as older PowerBooks, or when expansion slots are already filled, you need an external SCSI 10Base-T Eth- ernet adapter. The vendor will include any software you need. SCSI Ethernet adapters are expensive, around $400. Second, the right cable Whatever type of connector you have — a port in the back of your Mac, a transceiver, an add-on card, or a SCSI adapter — the goal is to get a place to plug in a 10Base-T cable, also called unshielded twisted-pair (UTP). You may hear about thick and thin Ethernet; avoid these obsolete technologies. Here’s what you need to know about buying cable. SPEED RATING You want Category 5 cabling, the fastest possible (the scale is 1 to 5). The price difference between categories is not large, so don’t consider buying anything less than Category 5. Look for the Category 5 or CAT-5 designation printed every metre or so on the wiring’s outer insulation. Another benefit to using Category 5 cable is that it will accommodate faster network speeds, including 100Mbit/sec. LENGTH Measure your work area, and buy terminated cable lengths that match the dis- tances between devices as closely as possi- ble. Keep in mind that Kthernet has distance limitations — practically, a maximum of 90 metres. STRAIGHT THROUGH VERSUS CROSSOVER 10Base-T cables come wired straight through or crossover. You'll usually use straight- through cable; crossover cables are for spe- cial cases, such as connecting two devices directly. To distinguish between types, hold the transparent connectors from both ends of the cable side by side with the same orien- tation. In a straight-through cable, wire AUSTRALIAN MACWORLD colours inside the connectors match left to right; in a crossover cable, the colour sequence differs. Third, the hub In a 10Base-T network, you connect one end of the cable to the device and the other end into a hardware piece called a hub (also called a repeater). Just as the hub of a wheel connects all the spokes, a network hub con- nects all the devices of the LAN in what's called a star topology. In contrast, Local Talk devices link sequentially, in a daisy chain. The hub adds some expense (about $300 to $400 for eight ports) but connects mul- tiple devices, regenerates data signals to improve reliability, and simplifies trou- bleshooting by isolating a failing device to prevent the whole network from crashing, Here’s what you need to know about buying a hub. CHOOSE UNMANAGED Of the two kinds of hubs — unmanaged and managed — you want unmanaged; managed hubs are expen- sive and have remote-control capabilities you don’t need in a small LAN. Count the devices you want on your network and add two for growth — that’s the minimum num- ber of ports you need. Common 10Base-T small-hub configu- rations have five or eight ports. There’s not a big price difference, so don't scrimp — net works usually grow rather than shrink. Expect to pay between $30 and $50 per port. Make sure you count 10Base-T ports; one port is sometimes for connecting another ‘Company ‘Apple Computer Asanté Technologies Dayna Communications Farallon Communications Sonic Systems hub or different cabling type. DECIPHER THE LIGHTS You'll want to know a little bit about troubleshooting, but the information that hubs provide can make it as easy as it is to check Print Monitor when. you have a printing problem. Every hub has status lights indicating whether a port is connected properly and when data is moving to the port. Other lights show if there’s too much traffic or a failed device. I find it easiest to monitor a hub that has the connectors and status lights on the same side of the box. However, you might want to have the cables on the back of the hub so they're out of the way. Just make sure you can easily see the lights to check for trouble. As with cards and cabling, buy a hub from a reputable manufacturer that stands behind its warranty with good technical sup- port. Online resources are key for getting quick help, so check out a vendor's Web site for online documentation, tutorials, and troubleshooting aids. BRIDGE TO LOCALTALK If you have Local- ‘Talk devices, such as printers, that don’t have an Ethernet connection, you can use a Local Talk-to-Ethernet converter (some are just for printers), costing $350 to $400. If you need to connect to LocalTalk Macs, you need a device called a bridge. However, a bridge is expensive, about $500. You can also use Apple's free Laser Writer Bridge or $111 Local Talk Bridge software to turn a Mac into a Local Talk converter or bridge, respectively. Remember that Local Talk devices connected to an Ethernet network this way are still limited to Local Talk’s slow speed. A hubless alternative If you're converting an existing LocalTalk network to Ethernet, or if centralised hub witing is inconvenient, you might consider Farallon’s hubless 10Base-T architecture called EtherWave, which uses 10Base-T cabling and proprietary adapter cards and transceivers (each with two 10Base-T jacks). Ether Wave lets you daisy-chain up to eight devices Local Talk-style. Ether Wave transceivers and adapter cards cost about twice as much as their hub coun- terparts. IF you have AAUL-equipped Macs and need to buy transceivers anyway, the extra cost for EtherWave transceivers may be offset by the money you save not buying a hub, If you have some AAUI-equipped Macs, you can use EtherWave for those, but you'll still need a hub for Macs with only 10Base-T' connectors. You can connect an Ether Wave daisy chain to a 10Base-T hub. Do the maths. Generally, a hub is the cheaper option for Macs with 10Base-T buile in, since two EtherWave transceivers cost more than a hub and two transceivers. The software side As long as you've installed any required dri- vers for adapter cards, System 7.5 and above has all the software you need for common networking tasks, TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS The Mac OS Commsiot 1800 025 355 175 (02) 9935 2400 . EtherMac product line (02) 9975 2799 (03) 9820 9077 153 EtherWave product line (02) 9935 2400 none. All prices are company's estimated prices. 34 SEPTEMBER 1997 $111 software, Printers only. “Includes 100BaseT ° For a PowerBook includes transport protocols, the software needed to move data over a network. The protocols you care about are AppleTalk and TCP/IP (which the Internet uses). You should use Apple's current network architecture, called Open Transport (version 1.1.2 at this writing), which installs auto- matically with System 7.5 and is mandatory with System 7.6. Under System 7.5, you may have to enable Open Transport by running the Network Software Selector, found in the Apple Extras folder. (Apple has announced that it will maintain but not further develop Open Transport; instead it will use the Open- Step networking architecture in the new Rhapsody OS expected in mid-1998. How- ever, that’s not something to worry about right now.) FILE SHARING The Mac OS includes Per- sonal File Sharing, which lets network users share data on hard drives in what’s called peer-to-peer networking. For centralised file sharing, AppleShare server software, an extra- cost item, is necessary. You likely won't need AppleShare to accommodate data-sharing needs on a small LAN. Connect and test Once you've connected all the hardware together, take the time to make sure every device can communicate with every other device and measure network throughput by timing how long it takes to copy files between Macs using Personal File Sharing. Keep in mind that although 10Base-T theoretically transfers data at LOMbit/sec, Picturing your equipment options [A] A nus, such as Dayna’s MiniHub- 108: T network. The lights give you information erly and when data is moving to the port. see serves as a central cont ion point for devices on a ich as whether a port is connected prop- fou use 10Base-T cable to connect your Mac to the hub. If your Mac doesn't have a built-in 10Base-T connector, you can add one using hardware such as [B] an aDp-on carp, like Asanté’s PCI card, or [€] an AAUI TRANSCEIVER. see [D] Farallon’s ErHeRWave, a hubless alternative, uses 10Base-T cabling and proprietary adapter cards and transceivers (each with two 10Base-T jacks, pictured). EtherWave lets you daisy-chain up to eight devices. due to overhead you can only achieve about 60 per cent of this speed. Data rates of 6Mbit/sec are very good on fast Macs, and 4Mbit/sec may be perfectly acceptable. Keep a record of your baseline network perfor- mance so you'll have a comparison point if you have trouble later, The symptoms of problems can be as obvious as a nonfunctional network or as subtle as reduced performance or intermit- AAUI SCSi-to-Ethernet LocalTalk-to- Transceivers Adapter Ethernet Adapters Hubs Numberof Number of 108aseT Desktop PowerBook Devices/Price Ports/Price 194 5 5 * 5/8195 435 cree : 5 8/5244; 12/5445 o 506 : 8/8640 5/8189; 8/5275 6 a 5 75456, 815659 4/5194; 8/5241 194 : : 19/5494 ; 1/8582; 8175559 + 110 349 397 2/8498 ; 12/8501 oF $835 9/5293; 8/5517 tent failures, Most protocols that run over Ethernet have built-in error detection and correction, and they will forge on in the face of severe transmission problems. MAKE A DIAGNOSIS The status lights on the hub, adapter cards, and transceivers will help you diagnose a problem if trouble occurs. The link status light indicates that there's a proper electrical connection between a device and the hub ina hub-based network or between two devices in a hubless network. If this light is off, try replacing the cable; make sure you have the right type (straight through or crossover). The traffic light, sometimes labelled Activity or LAN, blinks when traffic is flowing, Better-quality devices have separate transmit and receive indicators (called TX and RX, respectively) to indicate the traffic direction. If you have a link indication but no traffic indications, suspect software misconfiguration or a failed hub, transceiver, or adapter card. Try swapping cables, then changing ports on the hub, to isolate the problem. The collision light blinks when there’s too much traffic for the LAN to AUSTRALIAN MACWORLD 35 Whether you have a bul transceiver or a card — depends on the vintage of your Mac. Tl 40Base-T of AAUI port, i! ‘<_>. Here's what the three options look like 7 > 40Base-T cable : 40Base-T port transceiver; cr0ss0\ AAU! port a<¢ 40Base-T tranceiver ‘Add-in Card Required If your computer has no network port, you an internal PCI (shown), NuBus, or need 10Base-T PCI Card handle. A few collisions per minute are normal — these result when two computers try to transmit at the same time. Frequent (every few seconds) or continuous collisions may indicate wiring problems, such as damaged cables or corroded connectors. Try simplifying your network configuration to just two devices and the hub to isolate the problem component. The jabber light indicates that a device is transmitting noise onto the network. Jabber occurs when a device malfunctions and usually indicates that the device's Ethernet transceiver or card has failed. You can manually locate the failing device by disconnecting ports one ata time at the hub. When the 36 SEPTEMBER 1997 ilt-in port or need extra hardware — @ to connect to a 40Base-T Ethernet ne p: to see if your Mac has a Jook for the Ethernet connector symbol Built-in Ethernet If your computer has a 10Base-T (also called RJ-45) port, you're ready to go—all you need Is @ ‘AAUI Connection If your computer has an AAU! port, you need a 101 you can use either a standard transceiver, which requires a vver cable or a hub, or Fatallon's Communications Slot an external SCSI-to-Ethernet converter stwork location How you confi : igure your ni devices you have (a letwork depends mainly on how man) dh na tow many you plan to add) as well as their The Simplest Ne il twork Connecti Peripheral such as a printer resanen een) Maes: OF a Mac and a )Base-T EtherWave transceiver The Daisy-Chain 0; Ethernet card or Hub-Centric a, devices in a star jabber light goes out after you disconnect a particular port, you've identified the problem. WIRE TANGLES Most Ethernet problems result from bad or improperly wired cables. Buying ready-made cables designed for 10Base-T helps prevent problems. Still, you should have spare Category 5 cables for test- ing suspected wiring problems. Bad cable routing can induce noise in an Ethernet cable. Avoid routing cables in parallel with AC power lines, device power cables, ot RS- 232 printer cables. Although you're not likely to reach 10Base-T’s length limitations in a small office or home, it’s easy to forget that 90 metre limit between hub and device. You can extend this limit by connecting up to three Ss ee Se Saag PProach A 10BaseT topology, Use straight seen ; equites only a single crossover cable x Saar eee ption With Farallon's EtherWave, devices Pn, erin a daisy chain, rather than to a hub hub connects more than two t-through cables hubs in a series (follow manufacturer instruc- tions for interconnecting hubs). 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