[RndTbl] Learning a little about /etc/hosts

Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 17:13:47 CDT 2010


On 10-08-07 04:49 PM, Sean Walberg wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mike Pfaiffer<high.res.mike at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>         That's already included in Firefox isn't it? Then I already have
>> that
>> running. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't always block up popups. It will
>> get about 80% of them but the additional 20% can be just as annoying.
>> Then there are the banner ads too. The increase in speed by blocking
>> just a few of their servers is noticeable.
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> I don't know what kind of sites you visit, but I don't get many popups these
> days. Now that my day job involves Internet marketing, I'm actually
> interested to see how people monetize their sites and what's being
> advertised out there, so I don't use any ad blocking.

	It's going to sound childish for someone my age... I visit comic strip 
pages. For example comics.com and gocomics.com. I really admire people 
who can express themselves through drawing. I was commenting to one of 
the sysadmins how their site was slow. I suggested they were running 
Windows. They got indignant and said they were running Solaris. ;-) As I 
said, blocking the ad sites makes a noticeable result in page load 
times. Of course other sites like Digg seem to be having generic 
problems regardless of the ad sites I block.

	The teacher at the lab is absolutely sold on the idea of using the 
hosts file to block out places like porn sites, gambling sites, 
facebook, and places like the pirate bay. For classroom machines I can 
see his point. Particularly since they are going through a different 
subnet than we are.

> Sean

				Later
				Mike


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