From: fubar@ameritech.deleteme.net (Clinton Pierce) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,alt.hackers Approved: me@somewhere.im.not Subject: Re: Do I understand this? Followup-To: alt.hackers,poster Message-ID: <35a6bb5d.767573133@wingate> References: <6nuvgn$ie8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <6nv1sv$djg$4@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> <6o0pfj$40u@fridge.shore.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 28 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 01:58:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.18.31.78 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 20:58:04 CDT Organization: Ameritech.Net www.ameritech.net Complaints: abuse@ameritech.net Path: ccw.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news2.ais.net!jamie!ais.net!ameritech.net!nntp0.milwaukee.wi.ameritech.net.POSTED!not-for-mail On 8 Jul 1998 21:48:35 GMT, Scratchie wrote: >Tom Christiansen wrote: >: In comp.lang.perl.misc, >: geiger@cs.ucdavis.edu (Phillip George Geiger) writes: >: :I want to put some advertising banners on my web site. > >: Gosh, that'll sure win you a lot of friends. > >What planet do you live on? Earth. Not perl related, so the followups have been reset. ObHack: To eliminate those pesky ads, which often cause web-pages to take ENTIRELY too long to load: 1. On machine you wish to cleanse, put in a host entry for your favorite advertising site: 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net 2. On localhost (or wherever you redirected the ad to) simply run a web server which either a. denies the request or b. fufills it with some extremely low-bandwidth substitute. Nutrasweet advertizing! Remove something from the address to reply in E-Mail. Damned spammers... ###### From: "dave madden" Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Do I understand this? Date: 10 Jul 1998 14:23:11 -0700 Organization: WebVision Inc. Lines: 36 Sender: "dave madden" Approved: yeah Message-ID: <5490m18kow.fsf@paradigm.webvision.com> References: <6nuvgn$ie8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <6nv1sv$djg$4@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> <6o0pfj$40u@fridge.shore.net> <35a6bb5d.767573133@wingate> NNTP-Posting-Host: paradigm.webvision.com In-reply-to: fubar@ameritech.deleteme.net's message of Fri, 10 Jul 1998 01:58:04 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.15 Path: ccw.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!206.156.252.75!news.webvision.com!not-for-mail In article <35a6bb5d.767573133@wingate> fubar@ameritech.deleteme.net (Clinton Pierce) writes: => =>To eliminate those pesky ads, which often cause web-pages to =>take ENTIRELY too long to load: => => 1. On machine you wish to cleanse, put in a host => entry for your favorite advertising site: => => 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net => => 2. On localhost (or wherever you redirected the ad to) => simply run a web server which either a. denies the => request or b. fufills it with some extremely low-bandwidth => substitute. Nutrasweet advertizing! What annoys me about doubleclick & their ilk is not the ads, but rather the cookies they try to set. Different stimuli eliciting a similar response: I fixed the problem by configuring my nameserver to be authoritative for doubleclick.net and writing a little CGI script to deliver lo-bandwidth ads. Worked fine for all the machines here, and all the downstream sites that use our nameservice. However, I had to turn it off when one of the downstreamers got a wild hair up his ass and started threatening to shop me to DoubleClick Inc. I don't know exactly what illegal thing I was doing -- interfering with their god-given right to send their ads for free over my network or something -- but I shut it down because I don't have time to deal with more bullshit. I'll spin it up again when I have a chance to set up a separate nameserver for this guy. d. -- ============================================================================= v.p. engineering, webvision inc. || "drop it in the to-do basket" -- wally ============================================================================= header address is anti-spamified. use caution when replying to me directly at , because my real address omits the hostname. ###### From: abuse@verrine.demon.co.uk (Peter Corlett) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Do I understand this? Date: 11 Jul 1998 15:06:09 +0100 Organization: The Haunted Fishtank Approved: no Message-ID: <6o7rgh$724$1@verrine.demon.co.uk> References: <6nuvgn$ie8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <6nv1sv$djg$4@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> <6o0pfj$40u@fridge.shore.net> <35a6bb5d.767573133@wingate> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: verrine.demon.co.uk:158.152.182.193 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 900166598 nnrp-07:10400 NO-IDENT verrine.demon.co.uk:158.152.182.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Server-Date: 11 Jul 1998 14:06:09 GMT Lines: 23 Path: ccw.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!woodstock.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!verrine.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail Clinton Pierce wrote: > To eliminate those pesky ads, which often cause web-pages to take > ENTIRELY too long to load: [Description of diddling name resolution] Shamelessly stolen from the Scary Devil Monastery: # 199.95.207.x and 199.95.208.x are ad.doubleclick.net. # 205.181.112.113 is ads1.zdnet.com # 205.238.166.64/30 is gtplacer[1-4].globaltrack.com # 205.216.146.150/31 is ad.infoseek.com for i in 199.95.207.13 199.95.207.32/29 199.95.208.0/26 205.181.112.114 \ 205.238.166.64/30 205.216.146.150/31; do ipfwadm -I -S $i -a reject ipfwadm -O -D $i -a reject done HTH -- Peter Corlett, Moseley, Birmingham, England. Tel. +44 7050 603311 # The email address *is* valid. # ###### From: owen@nmia.com (Nathan Wallwork) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Do I understand this? Date: 12 Jul 1998 03:27:49 GMT Organization: NMIA Lines: 42 Approved: mickey@mouse Message-ID: <6o9afl$li8@hume.nmia.com> References: <6nuvgn$ie8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <6o0pfj$40u@fridge.shore.net> <35a6bb5d.767573133@wingate> <5490m18kow.fsf@paradigm.webvision.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.nmia.com Path: ccw.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!newsfeed.nacamar.de!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!news-lond.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-peer-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!pingflood.geo.net!newshub.sirius.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!nmia!nmia.com!owen >and all the downstream sites that use our nameservice. However, I had >to turn it off when one of the downstreamers got a wild hair up his >ass and started threatening to shop me to DoubleClick Inc. I don't >know exactly what illegal thing I was doing -- interfering with their >god-given right to send their ads for free over my network or >something -- but I shut it down because I don't have time to deal with >more bullshit. I'll spin it up again when I have a chance to set up a >separate nameserver for this guy. Why not simply add them to his /etc/hosts, and be done with it? ObGripe: I've been using Slackware for a couple years now and I've always found the holier-than-thou additude of 'slackware sucks, use redhat' annoying. I'm now working at a job which uses redhat and I needed to use the rescue disk. I get to a root prompt after answering a few pointless questions including 'Do I have any scsi devices?' 'no.'. I run fdisk and it defaults to /dev/sda. I wonder why it ask about scsi and I run fdisk /dev/hda. It tells me that /dev/hda doesn't exist. I look in /dev and sure enough there are only a small handful of files. I have to mknod hda, hda1, hda2, hda3, hda4. Granted it was redhat 4.2, but leaving out /dev/hd* seems like a boneheaded mistake, particularly for a distribution touted as 'easier for newbies'. ObHack: By tracking down some old (1993) paperwork and faxing it to Dec (oops I mean Compaq) I was able to get them to fedex the $70 hardware referance manual I wanted because it showed up on the price quote but there was no line item in the four page deliverables document showing what shipped. Now if I can figure out how to convince them that I should have the service manual as well I can look up thatt error code and try to find out why upgrading the firmware on a DEC 3000 AXP Series 300 model 300L caused it to loose the ability to netboot. sigh. -- Nathan Wallwork owen@nmia.com http://www.nmia.com/~owen [3.12] GAT d- s: a- C++ UL++++$ P+++ L+++ E W++ N++ o K w--- O- M- V-- PS++++ PE Y++ PGP+ t 5+ X+ R* tv-- b++ DI++ D--- G++ e h-- r++ y ###### From: rachel@virago.org.au (Rachel Polanskis) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Do I understand this? Date: 13 Jul 1998 09:42:16 GMT Organization: Virago Computer Systems Lines: 48 Approved: um tut sut Message-ID: <6ockpo$mgq$1@juno.virago.org.au> References: <6nuvgn$ie8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <6nv1sv$djg$4@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> <6o0pfj$40u@fridge.shore.net> <35a6bb5d.767573133@wingate> <6o7rgh$724$1@verrine.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au,grove@zeta.org.au NNTP-Posting-Host: d71.syd1.zeta.org.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.0 X-No-Archive: Yes X-Notice: mail from hotmail.com is refused Path: ccw.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!zeta.org.au!phaedrus.zeta.org.au!juno.virago.org.au!not-for-mail In article <6o7rgh$724$1@verrine.demon.co.uk>, abuse@verrine.demon.co.uk (Peter Corlett) writes: > Clinton Pierce wrote: > >> To eliminate those pesky ads, which often cause web-pages to take >> ENTIRELY too long to load: > [Description of diddling name resolution] > obhack # squid.conf: acl url_ads url_regex "/opt/squid/etc/ads.acl" # /opt/squid/etc/ads.acl: /adv/.*\.gif$ /[Aa]ds/.*\.gif$ /[Aa]d[Pp]ix/ /[Aa]d[Ss]erver /[Aa][Dd]/.*\.[GgJj][IiPp][FfGg]$ /[Bb]annerads/ /adbanner.*\.[GgJj][IiPp][FfGg]$ /images/ad/ /RealMedia/ads/.* ^http://www\.submit-it.* ^http://www\.eads.* ^http://ads\. ^http://ad\. ^http://ads02\. ^http://adaver.*\. ^http://adforce\. adbot\.com /ads/.*\.gif.* _ad\..*cgi /Banners/ /SmartBanner/ # _EOF_ rachel -- Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia grove@zeta.org.au http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/ccd/ "Yow! Am I having fun yet?!" - John Howard^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Zippy the Pinhead ###### From: Ryan Watkins Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Do I understand this? Date: 14 Jul 1998 16:08:58 -0700 Organization: vamp.org Lines: 30 Approved: vamp@vamp.org Message-ID: References: <6nuvgn$ie8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <6o0pfj$40u@fridge.shore.net> <35a6bb5d.767573133@wingate> <5490m18kow.fsf@paradigm.webvision.com> <6o9afl$li8@hume.nmia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vamp.oz.net X-Trace: 900457742 21864 vamp 206.86.0.12 X-Url: http://www.vamp.org/vamp.html X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.6.23/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Path: ccw.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!ibm.net!nntpX.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!204.156.128.20!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail owen@nmia.com (Nathan Wallwork) writes: > >and all the downstream sites that use our nameservice. However, I had > >to turn it off when one of the downstreamers got a wild hair up his > >ass and started threatening to shop me to DoubleClick Inc. I don't > >know exactly what illegal thing I was doing -- interfering with their > >god-given right to send their ads for free over my network or > >something -- but I shut it down because I don't have time to deal with > >more bullshit. I'll spin it up again when I have a chance to set up a > >separate nameserver for this guy. > > Why not simply add them to his /etc/hosts, and be done with it? Because thats a hack and may break again if/when doubleclick changes DNS entries for machines. Its also not a great solution when the 'downstream' isnt a single unix host, but 30 random window/mac/whatever boxes. ObHack: Writing a couple perl cgi scripts to maintain a yahoo-like link directory, and storing the entries in a nice xml format. So when xml finally comes around into more widespread use and there are lots of nice tools and libraries to deal with it, all my data will be ready. -- Ryan L. Watkins In this world there are only two tragedies. vamp@vamp.org One is not getting what one wants, http://www.vamp.org and the other is getting it. - oscar wilde ###### From: James Lin Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Do I understand this? Date: 14 Jul 1998 18:14:09 GMT Organization: New York University Lines: 33 Approved: alt.hackers Message-ID: <6og75h$7tk$1@news.nyu.edu> References: <6nuvgn$ie8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <6o0pfj$40u@fridge.shore.net> <35a6bb5d.767573133@wingate> <5490m18kow.fsf@paradigm.webvision.com> <6o9afl$li8@hume.nmia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starr.econ.nyu.edu X-Trace: news.nyu.edu 900440049 8116 (None) 128.122.158.132 X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nyu.edu User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.5 (sun4u)) Path: ccw.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!ibm.net!peer.news.th.u-net.net!u-net!btnet-peer!btnet!newsfeed.nyu.edu!news.nyu.edu!finder Nathan Wallwork wrote: > I've been using Slackware for a couple years now and I've always found the > holier-than-thou additude of 'slackware sucks, use redhat' annoying. I've always found the holier-than-thou attitude of "windoze sucks, use Linux" annoying. I am not afraid to use the best of what Linux/Solaris/Windows/PalmOS has to offer. (I'm not used to X, still prefer multiple telnet sessions in Windows) Gripe: Hardware vendors who won't release tech specs. I'd convert a AST PowerExec 4/33 (Hello to the gent who posted the other day about his PowerExec!) to be a dial-up router, except Linux doesn't support old Xircom cards cause Xircom didn't see fit to give out programming info until recently. Sigh. Yesterday one of doubleclick.net's ads in Altavista had a Javascript bug, causing my Netscape to pop up error messages. They went into the hosts file real fast... Small Repair: A friend's soundcard broke; the output jack was held in place solely by its three pins, two of which broke since my friend abuse it somewhat. If I had a 8-bit soundcard, I would've just swapped a jack from that card. No spare card. So a short length of audio cable served as an extension; now the jack (with two short pins) hangs about 2" outside of his computer. A knot in the cable serves as a strain relief. Hack: Wanted to find out the amp-hour rating on a cell phone battery. Waited until the battery was dead, put the phone in Field Test mode, recharged the battery, and read off the mA-hours the phone put back. -James