Exactly. When little Johnny wants to go to Pandora to listen to music instead of study or do research, we need to find a way to prevent him from accessing it.
Hosts files are the perfect means of doing this, which is exactly why we use them. Easy to update and change, easy to manage. Dan On May 23, 2012, at 10:17 PM, Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 20:45:46 -0400 Dan Penoff <lwb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Nothing like adding your favorite sites to the hosts file.... that's a >> simple workaround we used to do in the schools... > > Yes, indeed, but note the IPs he's assigned to them; a request for > facebook anything doesn't leave his box. > > > Craig > >> On May 23, 2012, at 8:42 PM, Allan Streib wrote: >> >>> Tim C <bb...@crone.us> writes: >>> >>>> About the only way I know to handle Facebook is Chrome, so when it >>>> misbehaves at least you can close just the one tab. >>> >>> I handle facebook like this: >>> >>> $ grep facebook /etc/hosts >>> 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com >>> 127.0.0.1 facebook.com >>> 127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net >>> 127.0.0.1 facebook.net >>> 127.0.0.1 ads.facebook.com >>> 127.0.0.1 ads.ak.facebook.com >>> >>> -- >>> 1983 300D >>> 1979 300SD >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > Craig > > ---------------------------------- > Present:'95 E320 Sebastian 108 kmi > '94 E420 Oskar 123 kmi > '82 240D/3.0 Bluebell 265 kmi > Past: '86 190E/2.3 > '72 220/8 > '64 190Dc Emma > '72 220D/8 Herman 186 kmi > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
