At 4:56 PM -0500 11/29/2009, Al boone wrote:
I really can't figure out if this is a serious conversation or not.
Is it possible to end it because it doesn't seem to be going
anywhere? just my 2 cents.
Works for me. John and I will never agree anyway. :)
- Dan.
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Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't
financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be
expecting the service they provide you in exchange. I hate people who
steal financially from those
At 9:05 AM -0800 11/29/2009, Paul wrote:
Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't
financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be
expecting the service they provide you in exchange. I
On Nov 29, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Paul wrote:
Oh, so technology should only be used to make us spend more money, and
we shouldn't make use of technology that lets us save money and do
what we'd like?
No, simply do not whinge about what gift horses' mouths contain.
You want internet content
At 2:36 PM -0500 11/29/2009, John Musbach wrote:
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, so technology should only be used to make us spend more money, and
we shouldn't make use of technology that lets us save money and do
what we'd like?
Oh you can, just don't
On 11/29/09, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
So you believe that sites MUST have in-your-face obnoxious offensive
cpu-chewing advertising, or they'll fail? How does that work,
against successful models such as google's simple line-item ads? Or
the myriad of ad companies that offer only
I really can't figure out if this is a serious conversation or not. Is it
possible to end it because it doesn't seem to be going anywhere? just my 2
cents.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.comwrote:
On 11/29/09, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
So you believe
in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder
when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to IP
127.0.0.1
I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in macos
/tina
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On 11/27/09 3:57 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder
when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to IP
127.0.0.1
I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in macos
What a brilliant idea, though I
At 10:09 PM -0600 11/26/2009, Caleb S. Cupples wrote:
On Thursday 26 November 2009 17:48:57 Paul Stamsen wrote:
I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences
(Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet
TechTracker.
I did some research, and
On 11/27/09 3:57 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder
when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to
IP
127.0.0.1
I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in
macos
What a brilliant idea, though I
At 3:24 AM +0100 11/28/2009, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
oh, and the nice thing about doing it in the router of course is that all
the puters on the network benefits from it
Doable IFF you have admin type access to said routers.
And if you swap out the router, all those filters vanish.
And if you
Previously, referring to Twitter, the new cpu pig,at 3:19 pm -0500 11/26/09,
Dan wrote:
After beating Flash into submission with ClickToFlash, and blocking
various animated ads with SafariBlock, my browsing speed was pretty
durn quick!
But now sites have begun including globs of Twitter***t,
On 11/26/09, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks or a pop-in from CNet
TechTracker.
What would you folks suggest to combat them?
Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
computing power, even today, is very
At 3:53 PM -0500 11/26/2009, John Musbach wrote:
On 11/26/09, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks or a pop-in
from CNet TechTracker. What would you folks suggest to combat them?
Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth,
At 1:46 PM -0700 11/26/2009, Paul Stamsen wrote:
And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks or a pop-in
from CNet TechTracker.
What would you folks suggest to combat them?
Specific URLs, so we can look at 'em?
What ad blocker are you using?
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Previously, at 3:53 pm -0500 11/26/09, John Musbach wrote:
Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't
financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be
expecting the service they provide you in
Previously, at 4:15 pm -0500 11/26/09, Dan wrote:
Specific URLs, so we can look at 'em?
You know, I have no idea. Maybe CNET.com, but I have no idea where the NetFlix
came from.
What ad blocker are you using?
Same as you ClickToFlash, and blocking
various animated ads with SafariBlock.
I use SeaMonkey 2.0 with Adblock plus and NoScript. Both Add-ons do
really, really well.
NoScript has been doing most of the blocking and so on for me.
On a side note, Lowend Mac seems to be the site I have the most
problems with lately. ie. getting it to display properly. This is an
issue with
I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences
(Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet TechTracker.
Interesting name, huh?
p.
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On Nov 26, 6:48 pm, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences
(Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet TechTracker.
Interesting name, huh?
Yes, very interesting and appropriately named I must say.
On Nov 26, 10:42 pm, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
Previously, at 7:31 pm -0800 11/26/09, Michael G.M. wrote:
Yes, very interesting and appropriately named I must say. Sounds like
a no-brainer of what to do with that .plist file. I'm sure someone or
maybe even I could figure out
On Thursday 26 November 2009 17:48:57 Paul Stamsen wrote:
I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences
(Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet
TechTracker.
Interesting name, huh?
p.
I did some research, and the Trolltech plist is
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