Archive for October, 2007

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Electrical Problems

I have been unable to access the internet over the weekend as a storm on Friday afternoon has destroyed a number of electronic devices inside our house including the ADSL modem. It may take a couple of weeks to get it all sorted out. In the meantime I will attempt to do what updates I [...]

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Book Reviews

Over the last couple of years I have supplemented the help pages on the site by writing book reviews of a wide range of books on computer related subjects.
You can find links to all of the book reviews I have ever written listed at Book Reviews.

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

JavaScript

The JavaScript secion of the site has not been getting as many pages added to it in recent years as it did the first few years. There is a very good reason for this and that reason is that for the past three years I havve been responsible for providing all of the JavaScript content [...]

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

WAMP5

After spending several hours attempting to track down and fix all the errors in the various config files that XAMPP managed to totally stuff up (by inserting \ insead of / and leaving off drive letters), I still kept getting errors all over the place when trying to access web pages I copied there. As [...]

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

XAMPP Installation on Windows XP Pro

Over the weekend just gone I spent a rather annoying amount of time attempting to install XAMPPlite onto my Windows XP computer. The download of the self extracting file and running of that file to extract it all onto the D: drive of the computer ran without any errors. Rebooting and then opening a web [...]

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Operating Systems

One section of the site that I haven’t been giving as much attention as I perhaps ought to lately is the section covering the various operating systems. I have sections covering a number of popular operating systems. See if the answers to your operating systems are there and if not then please suggest some additional [...]

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Birthday Gifts

To celebrate the seventh birthday of my web site felgall.com, I am giving away a special gift of 12 web page templates to everyone who signs up for a free membeship of the “Ask Felgall” Member’s Area.
Note that this offer is available via the above link only and NOT via the regular signup form.

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Happy 7th Birthday felgall.com

What was to become the felgall.com web site first went live on the 20th October 2000. Since then I have added well over 1500 pages to the site across a wide range of computer related topics. To celebrate the first anniversary of the site I started producing a monthly newsletter which has been sent out [...]

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Web Site Construction Award

One section of the site which doesn’t get much traffic is my web site construction award. This award is intended to recognise those sites that are properly constructed so as to download fast and function correctly on all the major browsers. This is something that very few web sites actually achieve and is probably the [...]

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Strange Political Ad

There is a political ad that I have been hearing a lot on the radio lately where either the person who wrote the ad has made a huge mistake, or the political party that introduced the legislation that the ad discusses think that it has major flaws and will take years to fix (if so [...]

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Web Site package Deals

Do you belong to a community or hobby group that does not yet have a web site but which wants to get on the web? Well, I have special pricing for creating your site for you so that it will only cost a few hundred to get your site up and running compared to [...]

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Internet Explorer 7

For those of you who insist on using Internet Explorer rather than a modern web browser and who are running Windows XP, there is no longer any reason to continue to use Internet Explorer 6 with its 600+ security holes.
Internet Explorer 7 was released about a year ago but the install process insisted on your [...]