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| Thread ID: 42711 | 2004-02-20 01:34:00 | Content Blockers | Murray P (44) | Press F1 |
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| 216783 | 2004-02-20 11:21:00 | Fun? well,adding a monitor was a big step towards making them fun,a box which consisted of 3 flashing lights and nothing else must have been boring. |
metla (154) | ||
| 216784 | 2004-02-20 11:26:00 | so where do the mouse and keyboard fit in? they have flicky lights too. beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 216785 | 2004-02-20 11:31:00 | They fed them bits of paper with holes punched in it. No mouse required. |
metla (154) | ||
| 216786 | 2004-02-20 11:45:00 | The hosts file is the way to go and while you are at it add any sites you visit regularly to it. eg PressF1 is 210.48.100.45 pressf1.pcworld.co.nz and to stop a site 127.0.0.1 The site you don't want.net Since I added my regular sites to the hosts file my cruising has speeded up quite noticeably. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 216787 | 2004-02-20 11:53:00 | this host file option where and how do you do this???? i am lost, i understand why it should work but dont know what to do to set it up. beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 216788 | 2004-02-20 12:13:00 | In Win 2K/XP go to Windows\System32\Drivers\etc and in 9x/ME go to Windows and open the hosts file.( use notepad) Mine looks something like this 127.0.0.1 localhost 202.89.128.27 pop.qsi.net.nz 202.27.208.242 pop.contact.net.nz 210.48.100.45 pressf1.pcworld.co.nz 212.100.234.54 www.theregister.co.uk 195.27.247.203 www.shortnews.com 209.240.133.249 www.aardvark.co.nz 63.236.73.20 linuxtoday.com 69.56.255.194 www.theinquirer.net 206.14.107.141 www.infoworld.com 203.167.227.118 tradpost.sendme.to 127.0.0.1 Site I don't want.net and all other sites I don't want pointing to 127.0.0.1 ( I have about a thousand advert site listed) Basicaly what happens is the hosts file is the first port of call for a lookup |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 216789 | 2004-02-20 23:25:00 | Hi Mike Are there ready made lists out there that you can add to your hots file? Off to google I go. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 216790 | 2004-02-20 23:40:00 | Hi Mike Tell me a little about site 127.0.0.1 and why ou don't want it. Pops up on my screen from time to time. Thanks |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 216791 | 2004-02-20 23:42:00 | Seriously you can't block off all the bad sites with a host file! The file would have to be 3Gb+ in size! You want something that filters out sites based on keywords on the webpage. I've used ZA Pro and its pretty good. I found out if they try disabling the program, it stops you using the internet until you reboot. Only problem I've seen was when someone tried to access their hotmail and it wouldn't let them near the page, because hotmail had a news article on it regarding the last superbowl. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 216792 | 2004-02-21 00:11:00 | Scouse: it's the one site you can't escape. I don't know what horrors might be available there. :_| (It's what is known as the loopback interface, "localhost.localnet": your computer. It is necessary for some network things to have it available.) The numeric addresses are what the Internet understands. The hosts file works in this application by translating a name "site.network" to a numeric IP address. If you translate a name to 127.0.0.1, that site is effectively invisible. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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