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Monday, 30 January 2006
There’s a old but effective trick to block those annoying ads, banners. cookies and hijackers. When your computer makes a TCP/IP request, it first attempts to use your local hosts file before it looks at any public DNS servers, so it can translate the nice (human readable) domain names to numeric IP addresses.
The idea is to use this file to “map” any website you want to block to an “internal” address, thus making your browser think the data actually sits on your own computer, instead of the server you’re trying to block.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Apparently, Coke are pumping in some $18 million on the new “Coke Zero” campaign in the hope of getting lots of yuppies switching across to the new “no real sugar, just artificial sweeteners (but we guarantee that it’s good for you)” fizzy drink.
The new fake taste comes from aspartame and acesulfame potassium, a couple of seemingly popular fabricated sweeteners born in some laboratory, somewhere.
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Saturday, 21 January 2006
Wi-Fi is fast becoming the preferred way to network a small office or the home. The hardware is cheap and readily available and the setup and configuration is so easy that even a dummy can do it.
And a lot of dummies do.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2006
A couple of months ago, Charles Wright, the IT blogger for The Age, questioned why virtually none of the Australian banks used dual authentication, to improve security for their customers.
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Thursday, 12 January 2006
Q: When is a blog not a blog?
A: When the content is simply stolen, verbatim.
Investment Banking Central is one of those dodgy internet outfits which specialise in stealing other peoples content and posting it on their own website.
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