Owalog is a weblog focussing on php, mysql, windows,open source software, programming and related technology. http://www.owalog.com en-us Over the last few weeks Pingoat has been down with its service unavailable and in the meantime I have had to look for alternatives to use. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=82 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:20:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=82 Its been a month since Firefox 3 was released and at this stage most of the important add-ons that I use are now compatible with the new version http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=81 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:21:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=81 Once in a while I like to get information about the core components of a machine especially if somebody has just asked me to have a quick look at their machine for one or another. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=80 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:16:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=80 Recently I had to configure multiple https sites on IIS6 and I was using a wildcard server certificate and the problem I encountered was how to find the site identifier. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=79 Fri, 23 May 2008 23:47:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=79 There are a number of free PHP graphing and charting libraries but Libchart looks like the easiest to set up and use. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=78 Sun, 4 May 2008 00:23:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=78 Today AVG Technologies has released AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0 for home and non-commercial use. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=77 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:03:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=77 This weekend I decided to uninstall the Comodo Firewall v2.4 and install the newer version 3.0 but the process did not proceed as smoothly as I thought it would do. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=76 Sun, 6 Apr 2008 07:17:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=76 It has been a fast rise for Wikipedia from 2 million articles to 10 million in just in just six months http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=75 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:47:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=75 I recently installed a new instance of Open Office and one of the things I realised when I started a Writer document was that the dictionary was not installed by default and hence the spell checker was not working http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=74 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:07:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=74 There are some good free good alternatives to GoToMeeting for somebody needing a free web collaboration tool. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=73 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:41:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=73 During the week I had a problem where on switching on my computer it would not boot but just the fan run and the motherboard light would also go on and the LCD monitor would just say "No video input" http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=72 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:57:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=72 Last week the open source Content Management System (CMS) Joomla! release dthe 1.5 version of the software http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=71 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:11:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=71 Recently I moved from one machine to another and I wanted to get my Firefox setup the way it was before including stored passwords and extensions and not just get the bookmarks. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=70 Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:56:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=70 Increasing the memory size in the php.ini file in order to show photos. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=69 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:28:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=69 What's running is a utility that tells you what's running on your system including IP connections. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=68 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:36:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=68