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In this TidBITS issue, we announce the first issue of DealBITS, a
   publication which brings you deals on Macintosh and Internet
   related products. You can also read the early impressions of a
   Power Mac 7200 owner, learn about a new update to  Netscape
   Navigator, and find out how the QuickTake 150 has changed Adam
   and Tonya's life. We also note Apple has resumed shipping
   PowerBook 5300s and that Quarterdeck has acquired StarNine.

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Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/02-Oct-95
    Welcome to DealBITS
    Some 7200 Impressions
    Netscape 1.12 Patches Security Loophole
    Digital Photographs as a Way of Life
    Reviews/02-Oct-95

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1995/TidBITS#297_02-Oct-95.etx


MailBITS/02-Oct-95
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**Apple Resumes Shipping PowerBook 5300s** -- Following the
  firestorm of negative publicity concerning safety problems with
  the batteries in its new PowerPC PowerBooks, Apple announced on
  25-Sep-95 that it was resuming shipments of the 5300-series
  PowerBooks, having replaced the original lithium-ion battery packs
  with nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) batteries originally developed
  for the PowerBook 190. (See TidBITS-295_.) Apple also announced
  new pricing for the 5300-series machines that should lower street
  prices by about $100. There are no known safety issues with the
  NiMH batteries (although I'm sure it wouldn't be a good idea to
  eat one for dinner); however, they're expected to deliver about 20
  percent less battery life than the original lithium-ion batteries.
  [GD]


**Quarterdeck Acquires StarNine** -- Hot on the heels of
  StarNine's acquisition of the Macintosh version of Microsoft Mail
  (see TidBITS-296_), Quarterdeck Corporation announced on 28-Sep-95
  that it has acquired StarNine for nearly 700,000 shares of
  Quarterdeck common stock. In case you're wondering who Quarterdeck
  is, you've been fortunate to live in a Macintosh-only world:
  Quarterdeck is a major developer of utility and remote computing
  software for DOS and Windows, including Internet products, a
  version of Mosaic, and the famous (infamous?) QEMM enhanced memory
  manager. This is the latest in a series of Internet-related
  purchases from Quarterdeck, and they're expected to take advantage
  of StarNine's Macintosh development experience to port its
  existing Windows and Windows 95 Internet products to the
  Macintosh, as well as ship StarNine's email software with its own
  products to provide "complete" cross-platform solutions.
  Quarterdeck is also expected to place a high priority on porting
  StarNine's WebSTAR HTTP server product to Windows NT and/or
  Windows 95. [GD]

http://www.quarterdeck.com/
http://www.starnine.com/


**English DeskWriter Drivers for PCI Macs** -- In TidBITS-296_, we
  noted HP has made new drivers available to address serial printing
  problems with DeskWriters and the new Power Mac 7200, 7500, and
  9500; however, we incorrectly said these drivers were available in
  versions other than English. Hewlett-Packard has (cleverly) named
  all its DeskWriter files in such a way that it's difficult to
  determine whether updates have been made. We apologize for any
  inconvenience - the URL for the English version of the drivers
  remains: [GD]

ftp://ftp-boi.external.hp.com//pub/printers/software/dw110en.hqx


**Apple Paris Expo Follow-up** -- We gave the wrong email address
  for Richard Erickson in his article in TidBITS-296_ on the recent
  Apple Expo in Paris; Ric can be reached at <erickso@world-
  net.sct.fr>. Ric also writes to let us know that Nomai strongly
  prefers the media for its new 540 MB removable media drive be
  called "diskettes" rather than "cartridges," since they're based
  on a flexible media and not compatible with SyQuest drives. Gee, I
  hope I don't get them confused with floppy disks, or CD-ROM disks,
  or magneto-optical disks, or.... [GD]


Welcome to DealBITS
-------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  We've decided to try something a little different. Today's
  computer industry continually pressures companies to lower prices,
  but at the same time the price of entrance for a small business
  trying to make a name for itself continues to increase. A single
  four-color page in Macworld reportedly costs over $30,000, and the
  other major magazines charge comparable rates. Yet advertising
  remains a necessity in the industry, especially in the less-
  traditional formats, such as the constant stream of
  MacWare/Mall/Connection catalogs we all receive every other week.
  Those catalogs aren't merely collections of software for you to
  browse and order - they're also big-time advertising vehicles, and
  the ad revenues no doubt go a long way toward keeping mail order
  prices low.

  But isn't the Internet the great equalizer, the place where the
  little guy can appear larger than life? Yes, certainly, but it's
  never guaranteed, because (as I've said for some time now) you
  need content, but attention is even more important. Lots of people
  have great products and great content, but far fewer have the
  necessary level of  attention.

  TidBITS has that attention, if our mailing list of 26,000-plus
  readers and estimated total readership of 150,000 is any
  indication. And, we think we've found a way to use our strength to
  do something interesting. We call that something DealBITS.


**DealBITS** is a new publication of sorts, parallel to TidBITS
  but independent and rather different. Instead of offering
  editorial opinions, news, and reviews, DealBITS is devoted to
  straight-up advertising.

  I can almost hear the collective gasp. That's right, DealBITS is
  an unabashed advertising vehicle. This may seem out of character
  for us, but let me explain our two major goals for DealBITS, and I
  think you'll see how it fits in with our philosophies and ideals.

  First, we want DealBITS to serve the Mac and Internet communities
  by ensuring that every advertisement in DealBITS is a _deal_ that
  will interest the sort of people who read TidBITS (in other words,
  ads for computer stuff). Everyone's interested in getting a good
  deal on hardware, software, and services, and we require that
  companies advertising in DealBITS offer lower prices, free
  shipping, free t-shirts, or something that constitutes a deal. No
  deal, no ad. Along the way, we're trying to encourage some of our
  pet ideals - email addresses in every ad, Web site URLs when
  possible, and non-800 numbers and fax numbers for overseas
  readers.

  Second, we want DealBITS to help level the playing field between
  large and small companies. Sure, Microsoft can afford those mega-
  buck, multi-page ads in the big magazines, but most companies
  can't. We've set the price of advertising in DealBITS low enough
  that any company should be able to afford it. In addition, we've
  set some rules to keep things equal, including a size limit of 250
  words and a no-exceptions policy of one ad per company. And, of
  course, we'll be sticking with our standard setext format and
  clean HTML design, sans graphics, so companies will have to make
  themselves stand out by providing great deals. If DealBITS can
  help put some small companies with innovative products on the map,
  we'll be happy. If DealBITS can get TidBITS readers some great
  deals on cool products, we'll be even happier.

  In addition, DealBITS has virtually no impact on TidBITS. This
  article and a two-line announcement at the beginning of TidBITS
  issues is all the evidence of DealBITS you'll see. These
  advertisements will not appear in TidBITS, and TidBITS readers
  need only see DealBITS if they're interested.


**Details** -- As far as the details go, a new issue of DealBITS
  will be published on the first and third Monday of each month.
  Like TidBITS, you can get it in many ways, including email, FTP,
  and the Web.

* T o receive a single issue via email as an auto-reply, send email
  to <[e-mail]>.

* You can subscribe to a special DealBITS mailing list and receive
  each issue automatically when it's released. Send email to
  <[e-mail]> to subscribe, and you can sign off by
  sending email to <[e-mail]>.

* DealBITS will be available by FTP and the Web at the following
  URLs:

ftp://king.tidbits.com//King/pub/dealbits/
http://king.tidbits.com/dealbits/

  Everything will be run from our new Apple Internet Server 6150
  using Peter Lewis's FTPd, StarNine's WebSTAR and ListSTAR, and
  Apple's Apple Internet Mail Server. Assuming I've set the programs
  up right and assuming the 56K line provides sufficient bandwidth,
  everything should be copacetic.

  We won't be distributing issues of DealBITS on the commercial
  online services. All the commercial services offer free or
  inexpensive Internet email and most offer FTP and Web access as
  well, so there's no reason to look beyond the Internet.

  Unlike TidBITS, DealBITS issues aren't meant to be kept around.
  Once a new issue comes out, it totally replaces the previous one,
  which will disappear from our site. Deals may only be good for the
  time the ad exists in DealBITS, so there's no point in archiving
  old issues.

  How will DealBITS interact with TidBITS? Not much. TidBITS will
  continue its sponsorship program, because the sponsorships provide
  a different (and more noticeable) form of exposure. There's no way
  we could fit the content of DealBITS into TidBITS, from both the
  perspectives of space and editorial mission. The DealBITS
  footprint within each issue of TidBITS will be just two lines at
  the top, much like the sponsorship mentions. As with the
  sponsorships, we'll mark when the contents of DealBITS change.

  If your company is interested in finding out more about
  participating in DealBITS, send email to <dealbits-
  [e-mail]> and we'll send along details about costs,
  content, and the like.

  The goal is for everyone involved in DealBITS to come out ahead.
  Readers can take advantage of better deals than would otherwise be
  available, and companies both large and small can present their
  products to Macintosh and Internet users on a playing field where
  company size and budget won't hamstring great products.


Some 7200 Impressions
---------------------
  by Einar Sunde <[e-mail]>

  As a new Power Macintosh 7200/90 owner, I wanted to pass on a few
  impressions and a warning. First the warning: Beware the
  kickstand! After opening the hinged power supply and drive
  assembly (which works great!), I installed extra DRAM and VRAM. I
  then moved to close it - there was a moment of slight resistance,
  then SNAP! I had broken the little plastic kickstand that is meant
  to hold the machine's swing-out assembly upright. It took so
  little effort to snap that it doesn't seem capable of providing
  much support. I then read with amusement three reports in
  <comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc> from people who did the same thing.
  One of them reported that after suffering on hold at 800/SOS-APPL,
  Apple sent them five new ones in the mail. Owners of the 7200 and
  7500 should be careful of this little kickstand.

  In terms of memory, I found out some interesting facts. My Apple
  dealer and also a RAM vendor were under the mistaken impression
  that the 7200 does memory interleaving. It doesn't, although the
  7500, 8500, and 9500 do when DIMMs are installed in pairs and in
  paired slots. This means that it's better for 7200 owners to get
  one 16 MB DIMM and save some money and a slot, rather than buying
  two 8 MB DIMMs.

  Finally, neither the 7200 nor the 7500 ship with a level 2 (L-2)
  cache DIMM installed, so price or performance comparisons with the
  8500 (which has a 256K L-2 cache DIMM) should take this into
  account. Also, the L-2 cache DIMM used by the PCI Power Macs seems
  to be difficult to find at the moment. Rumor has it that the L-2
  cache DIMMs are constrained by supplies of the high-speed memory
  chips used.

  [A quick check of memory vendors indicates L-2 cache DIMMs are
  more widely available, but many vendors were currently out of
  stock. -Geoff]


Netscape 1.12 Patches Security Loophole
---------------------------------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  If you do significant work with secure transactions over the
  Internet using Netscape Navigator, you might want to download
  version 1.12 of the popular Web browser, which patches a security
  loophole identified by Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, two U.C.
  Berkeley students, a little over a week ago. This version doesn't
  incorporate any new features of the forthcoming Netscape 2.0, but
  allegedly fixes a problem that could allow savvy hackers to
  decipher Netscape-encrypted transactions in a relatively short
  amount of time (estimates range from a few seconds to a few hours
  per message, depending who you talk to).

http://www.c2.org/hacknetscape/

  Netscape was very fast to respond to the discovery and (correctly)
  points out this is still a _potential_ problem since there are no
  known cases of it having been exploited. However, news of the
  problem made it all the way to The New York Times, The Wall Street
  Journal, and CNN, and one wonders if there wasn't some pressure
  put on the company by nervous investors holding their brand-new
  (and over-valued) shares of Netscape stock.

http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/random_seed_security.html


**Where to Find It** -- Netscape has released both a new version
  of Navigator and a patcher application to update 68K, fat, and
  PowerPC versions of Netscape 1.1 to version 1.12:

ftp://ftp.netscape.com//pub/netscape/mac/netscape-1.12.hqx
ftp://ftp.netscape.com//pub/netscape/mac/nscp_1.1_to_1.12_patch/

  As usual, read the licence agreement and export restrictions
  before you download a copy. Netscape has _seven_ FTP sites online
  right now, so if the URL above refuses connections, put the number
  2 through 7 after "ftp" in the site names above to access a
  parallel site. Note some of the links to the Mac versions on
  Netscape's own download pages are incorrect, since they point to
  version "1.22", which is correct for various versions of Windows,
  but not for Macintosh or Unix.


**The Nature of the Problem** -- So what's the fuss all about and
  should you be worried? The bottom line is that if you use Netscape
  to browse the Web and maybe buy the occasional book or CD, don't
  break a sweat. Typical Internet users very rarely use the security
  features built into Netscape, and the Unix versions of Netscape
  Navigator are the ones most exposed to this problem. However,
  these events illuminate some interesting aspects of the technology
  behind online transactions.

  The version of Netscape Navigator available for export uses a
  40-bit "seed" to encrypt online transactions. An individual bit
  can have two values - the fabled 0 and 1 - so 40 bits allows 2^40
  (about 1.1 trillion) possible combinations of bits that can be
  used for a seed. The idea is that these 40 bits are determined
  randomly - that is, it should be just as likely for one sequence
  of 40 bits to be used as any other sequence of 40 bits. Hence,
  clandestinely decrypting one of these transactions requires a
  hacker to use a "brute force" method (trying one combination of 40
  bits after another in order) until they finally stumble across the
  correct sequence that allows them to decrypt the message.

  Although testing up to 1.1 trillion combinations seems daunting to
  most folks, it's considered barely adequate by people involved
  with computer security, and in light of the explosive increase in
  computing power over the last few years, they're right. The not-
  for-export version of Netscape uses a considerably larger 128-bit
  key (allowing about 3.4^38 combinations) which is considered
  reasonably secure. However, 128-bit encryption keys are considered
  a munition by the U.S. government and, hence, cannot be exported.
  A 40-bit encryption key is the largest allowable under U.S. export
  law, so that's what the exportable versions of Netscape use.

  The problem with Netscape is not that Ian and David found some new
  algorithm to quickly break all 40-bit encryption schemes; instead,
  they found a problem with the way Netscape "randomly" determines
  the 40 bits it's going to use for the key. Some intelligent
  guesswork based on the time and process attributes of the Netscape
  application resulted in a substantially fewer than 1.1 trillion
  possible combinations of keys, making a brute force test of the
  remaining combinations much more practical. Ian and David claim to
  have determined the key used for transactions within as little as
  25 seconds on a high-end machine; furthermore, once you have a
  valid key, determining the keys used for subsequent transactions
  is apparently rather simple.

  Netscape has determined the problem will also affect the 128-bit
  version of its encryption scheme (although it still remains
  considerably harder to break); however, perhaps more significant
  is how the problem may affect users of the Netscape Commerce
  Server product. With the Commerce Server, it may not be simply a
  matter of installing a software update; users may have to generate
  and validate new digital signatures using the updated software.
  Netscape has had little to say about this possibility, save that
  it will issue a patch for Commerce Server customers.


**Security Through Obscurity** -- Netscape claims this key-
  generation problem does not affect its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  or other encryption technologies, but - at the moment - there's
  simply no way to know for certain if this or other problems might
  impact those features. In its public response to this problem,
  Netscape announced it will begin consulting with a group of
  external security experts to validate its solution to this
  problem, and "to work with Netscape's internal security experts to
  review the design and implementation of security in Netscape's
  products and to provide an additional measure of assurance that
  these products implement the highest levels of security possible."

  It seems to me that what's most important about this statement is
  what's not said: it implies that previously Netscape has _not_
  been consulting with external experts, and is only doing so after
  a problem was uncovered. When one considers the sheer number of
  client and server products Netscape develops, the nature of the
  security features they implement, and the length of those
  products' development cycles, there would seem to be a possibility
  that other, as-yet-undiscovered problems exist. For security
  software to be considered reliable, it seems reasonable that it
  should be subjected to wide-ranging, detailed scrutiny.

  Although Netscape seems to be taking these issues seriously, their
  statement also makes no mention of whether it will supply these
  security experts with details of its security implementations.
  Releasing detailed information might seem counter-intuitive -
  after all, you don't give a thief the combination to a safe then
  see if that thief can open it. However, without releasing that
  information (even to trusted "external experts" rather than the
  general public), Netscape is relying on "security through
  obscurity" - basically assuming that if no one knows how their
  security software works, no one will be able to compromise it.

  It's worth noting that security algorithms don't have to be secret
  to be effective - the methodology behind DES encryption has been
  well-known for years, and recently t-shirts have been appearing
  with "munitions-grade" encryption schemes printed on them. By
  failing to make their security mechanisms available for scrutiny,
  users and customers must decide whether they _trust_ Netscape when
  it says its software is secure. In light of last week's events,
  that question is probably on a lot of people's minds.


**Mountains and Molehills** -- Again, it should be emphasized this
  particular problem does not impact the vast majority of Netscape
  users, and the odds of anything bad happening even if you are
  affected are pretty darn low. Also, Netscape's response to the
  problem was rapid and public, which is more than can be said for
  most software companies faced with issues of this nature. Still,
  combined with popular paranoia about computers and the Internet,
  these events make clear that online security and transactions are
  now a headline issue.


Digital Photographs as a Way of Life
------------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Tonya and I recently acquired one of Apple's QuickTake 150 digital
  cameras, and it's probably the Apple device that's most affected
  us since the PowerBook 100 (the machine I'm using to write this,
  by the way). The QuickTake 150 holds either 16 or 32 pictures,
  depending on whether you shoot in high or low resolution. You can
  switch between resolutions on a per picture basis, but we've
  settled on using only the high resolution setting. I'm not quite
  sure (and the manual is singularly unhelpful on this count, as it
  is on most technical issues) what the difference between high and
  low resolution is, since both claim to be 640 by 480 and 24-bit
  color. I suspect the difference is in the level of lossy
  compression performed within the camera.

http://www.info.apple.com/qtake/

  What's made the difference with the QuickTake over the previous
  cameras we've owned is that there's little or no penalty to
  shooting a bad picture with the QuickTake. Perhaps the only thing
  to concern yourself with is the number of pictures left at any
  given time. When we went to a friend's wedding several weeks ago,
  we solved the capacity issue by simply bringing a PowerBook and
  the serial cable necessary to download the pictures from the
  camera to the PowerBook's hard disk. Downloading the pictures is,
  for a computer person, probably easier and faster than changing a
  roll of film, and it's instant gratification.

  From a cost standpoint, once you've bought the $700 QuickTake
  camera (which isn't cheap, especially considering the low-quality
  optics), your only recurring expense will be batteries, and the
  lithium batteries that come with our QuickTake 150 have lasted for
  several hundred images with no indication of dying yet. You can
  buy a lot of film and developing for the difference in price
  between the QuickTake and a point-and-shoot camera, but if you
  take many pictures, the QuickTake will eventually win out. And, if
  you're like us, it always takes so long to get a roll of film
  developed that you forget some of the details of what was going on
  when you took the picture. We never would have taken 200 pictures
  in the last eight weeks with our regular camera, and we would have
  felt awful about the 50 or so photos that came out badly. With a
  digital image, a simple drag to the Trash solves that problem
  entirely.

  Although the physical dimensions of the camera make it a
  conversation piece (it looks a bit like high-tech binoculars and
  garnered numerous comments at our high school reunions this July),
  you can use it in some interesting and subtle ways because it's
  digital. For instance, most cameras make noise when the film
  winds, but the QuickTake, apart from a low click, gives almost no
  indication that you've taken a picture (assuming it's light enough
  that the flash doesn't kick in). Add this to the fact that you can
  crop and manipulate images in PhotoFlash - the image-editing
  application that Apple ships with the QuickTake 150 - and you
  realize that you can more easily take pictures from the hip, or
  holding the camera in a strange position in which you cannot see
  through the viewfinder. Sure, you might center the subject in the
  frame badly, but if you get it at all, you can fix the image
  later. It makes for some interesting pictures of people who aren't
  expecting to be photographed, although the quality on motion shots
  isn't good.

  Once you've become accustomed to the relative freedom of taking
  pictures whenever you want, you start to realize how much
  additional freedom you're afforded by having the images in digital
  form. For instance, you can attach the images to email and send
  them to friends and family, you can put them up on a personal Web
  page, or you can easily edit them and send them in to the National
  Enquirer as evidence that communist space aliens have taken over
  the U.S. ketchup industry. Physical photos are a pain to
  duplicate, and you probably wouldn't get more than two copies of
  any standard image. But, of course, you can make as many copies of
  digital images as you want, which makes it easier to share them
  more widely. And since PhotoFlash is highly scriptable, anyone who
  knows AppleScript or Frontier at all well could write scripts that
  let you select images in a PhotoFlash catalog file and save them
  in an appropriate format and either attach them en masse to an
  email message or create a simple Web page using the captions you
  can add to each image.

  [It took me about 10 minutes to write Adam and Tonya an
  AppleScript which exports images selected in a PhotoFlash catalog
  to an HTML page. The only real problems were caused by Adam
  misplacing a hard drive. -Geoff]

  So no, the quality you'll see in the images from the QuickTake 150
  won't hold a candle to a camera even a quarter of the price. But
  you can make up for a fair number of the quality issues with the
  editing capabilities in PhotoFlash (or Photoshop, if you're more
  serious), and in my opinion, the flexibility and freedom afforded
  you by having the images in digital format is well worth the
  trade-off. Of course, the quality only stands to improve over
  time, so even if you don't feel the 150 is sufficient for your
  needs, how long can it be before Apple or another company melds
  the technology (which will improve with time as well) with higher
  quality optics?

  There are of course accessories for the QuickTake 150 that improve
  some of its capabilities, and there are also several other digital
  cameras that are becoming readily available. Tune in next week for
  another article on those two topics.


Reviews/02-Oct-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 25-Sep-95, Vol. 9, #38
    Super Coolscan LS-1000 -- pg. 55
    Macintosh Clones -- pg. 55
      Power 120
      Radius 81/110
    MicroNet DataDock -- pg. 58
    ClarisImpact 2.0 -- pg. 83
    SAS System 6.10 -- pg. 86
    Chagall 2.0.1 -- pg. 90

* Macworld -- Oct-95
    Power Macintosh 9500/132 -- pg. 60
    ClarisWorks 4.0 -- pg. 62
    Poser 1.0 -- pg. 63
    Apple Internet Server Solution for Web -- pg. 65
    MapInfo 3.0 -- pg. 66
    AppWare 1.2 -- pg. 68
    JAM 6 -- pg. 70
    KPT Vector Effects 1.0 -- pg. 72
    GeoPort Telecom Adapter Kit -- pg. 75
    PowerCADD 2.0 -- pg. 77
    Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3c -- pg. 79
    Nightingale 2.0 -- pg. 79
    Managing Your Money 7.0 -- pg. 81
    PhotoFusion 2.0.3 -- pg. 83
    TurboTalk 1.0 -- pg. 83
    Equate1.0 -- pg. 85
    QuickFigure Pro 2.1 -- pg. 85
    PointPad -- pg. 87
    Adobe TextureMaker 1.0 -- pg. 89
    Power Class 28.8 Data/Fax Modem -- pg. 89
    PhoneDisc 95 PowerFinder -- pg. 91
    StoryBoard Artist 1.5 -- pg. 91
    The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain -- pg. 93
    Nile: Passage to Egypt -- pg. 93
    PCI-based Power Macs -- pg. 96
      (too many to list)
    World Wide Web Browsers -- pg. 110
      (too many to list)
    Removable Media Storage Solutions -- pg. 118
      (too many to list)
    17-inch monitors -- pg. 126
      (too many to list)

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