A way I have fun... Whether it is at work or at a friends house, I open the hosts file and add entries to their favorite site that point to other sites.
Always funny to see them type www.yahoo.com and a site pops up that they were not expecting. Jacob At 10:43 AM 4/18/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Try this - for every ad company you find, add their IP to your hosts >file, like so: > >127.0.0.1 x10.com >127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com >127.0.0.1 www.x10.com >127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net >127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net >127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net > >Whenever an ad tries to load, you will get a broken image, which, 9 >times out of 10, is better than the ad. > >======================================================================= >Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia > >Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Yahoo IM : morpheus > >"My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:35 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: Interesting CF Website > > > > > > Speaking of unwanted sounds, have you noticed the horrible > > trend in banner ads where they are starting to add audio/music? > > > > I often have Kazaa running in the background downloading, and > > lately it will suddenly BLAST out the speakers with some ad > > (like the driven sly stalone ad). > > > > Scares the heck out of me. > > > > Lately I've had to shut down Kazaa if I'm listening to music, > > or else the extremely loud ads will shake the walls. > > > > Probably the last nail in Kazaa's coffin in my book. (But its > > sooo useful!) > > > > Jerry Johnson > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/17/02 05:40PM >>> > > Sites with sound that you can't turn off should be nuked. I > > HATE hearing > > music from a web site when I have MP3s playing. > > > > -rc > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:25 PM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: Interesting CF Website > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
