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I would like to give credit to all those that have helped either directly or indirectly in the creation of this site. As with any club it is the membership that brings it to life, your contributions count.

Due to the nature of the internet images (GIFs and JPGs) are discovered, the have been photographed by someone at an unknown time, by an unknown person, scanned from an unknown source, posted and re-posted, many 'good sites' are 'reverse engineered' these days, there are even books that tell you of good sites, then tell you how to copy them. To me this is flattery, but as an example the UK has some of the most OTT (over the top) copyright© laws in existence (as with many of its other laws), and implies if you personally have not created an image then you must not use it - not the case elsewhere in the world.

Every efforts has been made to gain permission from image owners before their use, as I have given permission for images from this site. It is blatant thief is a bit insulting/hurtful, a quick 'is it ok' cost nothing and is a polite. However in the real world - mouse button 2 can save any picture you see on the net to your own PC for you own use, every Magazine that you buy, you can scan or copy, the police have other things to do than stand by every photocopier in the land.

The images on this site are composed of those that have come on CD-rom from packages such as QuickSite, Net Fusion Objects etc, also from professional photo collections (permission given), members submitting their image fr the advert, and other unknown postings from the net. Any in the later category, the original owner of the image may request the removal of the image, via an email to Topdog1@thedoghouse.org with the file name and the page that it was used in. If this was a profit making organisation I would offer to pay for images, but sadly we are not.

OS/2 Warp4 - Merlin

Used as my OS/2 of choice, all my authoring automation is written is REXX, using DLLs from Supersoft and REXX&Surf - available from Indelible Blue. REXX is one of the best String manipulation languages in the market, knows the socks off of Visual Basic for example, and is one of the most productive available - the bulk of IBMs office and automation systems are written in it. It also has native OS/2 Netscape.

Comment:

"Windows is OK for me I only have to reboot it two or 3 times a day." - That's OK?
Would you drive a car that stalled two or three times a day and says the car runs ok? Microsofts biggest and most dangerous contribution to the software industry may be the degree to which it has lowered user expectations.
This for me is the only stable operating system on the market. I love the GUI of Windows/95, but hate the number of times that I have to reboot it, the number of times it 'just hangs', the weakness in its inner design.
IMHO, it cannot be used for anything Critical. When OS/2 does fail, it is extremely rare for you to lose data. Os/2 was designed down from a Mainframe paradigm (IBM know a lot about Mission critical Mainframes - mission critical before the 'buzz word' was invented), instead of being design up from a hobbyist computer. Contemplating a mainframe having a Genera Protection Fault(GPF) in the middle of a payroll processing is impossible; OS/2 was designed on the same big system, big business view point, where your data is the most precious thing under the sun. OS/2 Workplace Shell will shoot itself rather than corrupt your work; that is what happens when the Work place shell closes up and goes away, rebooting its self a few minutes later.
Warp on the other hand really delivers what it says it will.

More detailed review:
OS/2 Magazine Jan 97, Page 21, by Esther Schindler, senior contribution editor to OS/2 Magazine.

Think Pad

 All development of this site is done on one of IBM's fab Think Pads.
There is a reason why IBM kit is more expensive, it needs some thought when you buy things. I am a little bias, I generally love thier products, so seems their compeditors, who copy IBM.

Hot Dog Pro for Windows

As buggy and slow as it is, it is still very usable. Runs well under OS/2 and Windows. It is not well suited to file names other than 8.3 format. Other Editors that are well suited to HTML authoring (if you are a programmer) are IBMs EPM editor, or Visual Slick Edit. EPM has good REXX integration, where as Slick Edit is not free but is like an evolved EPM (like it was written by the same programmers when they left IBM).

Paint Shop Pro (V 4)

Costs a lot less than Adobe Photoshop (is the best), is very powerful, conforms to Adobe's Plug-ins standard (eg get KAI Power tools). There are plenty of books on the market that can help with Graphics on the web. See Bibliography for more info.

Bibliography & useful sites.

• Title: Creating your own Web Graphics with Paintshop Pro
  An Excellent guide that comes with a CD-Rom, of examples, construction tools and loads of samples.
  Pub:QUE Publications,
  Contact:Computer Manuals
• Title: Deconstructing Web Sites
  Turing a web site upside down and adoption the reverse engineering approach.
  Author:Lynda Weinman
  Contact:Computer Manuals

Personal Opinion!

• 
  All this and more with Microsift products.
  Why waste time with quality control if some mug is going to buy it !
  Strange with Net Fusion Objects I have never had such a bug.
  Even with > 90MB of ram and 6GB of disk with Microsoft products,  I have had   to Ctrl-Alt-Delete the 3rd  time this afternoon, where as with IBM's OS/2 I dont NEED to reboot my PC.
  Remember this if reliablitiy is important to you.
  Would we think it acceptable for your car broke down every 95mins ?

• MS Internet Explorer/MSN: At first sight it seems a wonderful product, and then when it scans your system for a list of EXE files and then mails them off to Microsoft, I feel ike my privacy has been invaded, what next my banking details ?
  The notion is that MS are gathering useful marketing information, to give up better products, likewise it could go through your address book to fnd other people who might benefit from MS products, I guess when you get as big as MS concent is no longer really an issue ?
  They make some great products, that work most of the time, but invasion of privacy without concent is not always welcome.
  For good or bad I know what Netscape does, and does not do.

• Warning! Cheap Webpages - but check the demon quicksand.
  Check the small print before you set up your website: I greatly appreciated the free homepage service when it was introduced in August of last year. I constructed a popular gallery of images, which after becoming widely linked-to in the Internet Community exceeded the 512Mb a day bandwidth limit that they introduced late November. In my case I was informed that from February onwards, based on my current bandwidth statistics, I would be charged an additional £3900 a month!

This page of links is monitored by smart agents, much of these pages are cared for by documentation automation, many of the pages are 'published' form databases. The lack of human inspection sometimes might cause variations in appearance.

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