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About this Web Site
This web site is maintained by, and the photographs are taken by, volunteer members of the Non Smokers' Movement of Australia. No tobacco products were consumed while making this site.

HTML Editor: This web site was originally programmed mainly using notepad.exe, the world's simplest HTML editor, despite being a Micro$oft product. It is maintained using NotePad-Plus, a wonderful, free product which does all the things Notepad forgot.

Scanner: HP 5300 series scanner at 150 DPI from standard photographic prints until July 2008. HP 6300 scanner from August 2008.

Image Processing: Mainly Paint Shop Pro, Version 3, 1995. Also Paint Shop Pro, Version 7 as rquired. Also The Gimp.

File Transfer: WS-FTP Lite, version 5.08.

Page and Link Testing: Nikita the Spider at www.nikitathespider.com and the WWW Consortium's On-Line HTML Validator at www.w3.org.

Spellchecking: Wordstar, Version 4, April 1987.

Browser: FireFox, Versions 2 and 3 in 2008. Previously Firefox 1.5 but it's full of bugs. Lucky it's free, like, would you pay for a product that crashes out to a black screen and totally locks up your PC. The epitome of the Alice in Wonderland method of software development: Release first, test afterwards. At least Internet Explorer is tested before it's released. They don't make 'em like Netscape 3 any more. Firefox 2.0 is marginally better, but still full of bugs, not to mention a weird, new but un-essential emphasis on eye-candy. In this respect Firefox 3 is even worse, but at least it works properly.

Hosting: This web site is currently hosted is the USA. It was previously hosted in Australia, but the Aussie hosting industry is so pathetic and dismal that it is unable to meet any reasonable standards of price and performance. It should be avoided whenever feasible.
Not to mention the lying to the media, the lack of support, the unwillingness to take responsibility and the amazing ego-driven denial when things go wrong. RIP the Australian Web Hosting Industry. If the Call Centre has been moved India, then surely the web site hosting should be in Texas where even murderers pay the fair price. The Aussie web hosting debacle could have been avoided had the regulator penalised bad companies (as per his authority), and had the industry association quickly expelled the unethical rogues and non-performing no-hopers from the industry.
Shonks and rogues have triumphed. Don't believe the advertisements or the promises from Australian companies. You can't sort the sheep from the goats and neither can I.

    The Non-Smokers' Movement of Australia Inc, Box K860 Haymarket NSW 1240.  
This page was last updated on 22nd September 2008.
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