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Block Advertisements in ANY Browser via /etc/hosts

I have been getting more and more tired of Firefox lately. Tired of the bloat. The unreliability. The gecko engine. I’ve been tinkering with alternate browsers such as Midori (which is *great*, assuming you can get >=0.1.6), Arora and Chromium. I think WebKit is the browser engine of the future, and with these browsers it… Read More »

User Feedback – /etc/hosts explained : Ubuntu (5.10 / 6.06.1 / 6.10)

One of you contacted me recently with a few questions regarding my previous post, Network File System (NFS) : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10). I wanted to post some follow up information on that to help clarify a few of the steps. Some of this may be very simple for many of you, for others it… Read More »