On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:45:43 -0500, Steve Wertz
> wrote:

>Visiting the FoodTV.com (www.foodnetwork.com) is a PITA on slower
>dialup modems. I've appended these entries to my 'hosts' file and
>the FoodTV pages now take about 1/3rd of the time to load.
>
>127.0.0.1 adsremote.scripps.com
>127.0.0.1 images.scripps.com
>127.0.0.1 www.scripps.com
>127.0.0.1 scripps.com
>127.0.0.1 www.diynet.com
>127.0.0.1 www.fineliving.com
>127.0.0.1 www.hgtv.com
>127.0.0.1 te.hgtv.com
>127.0.0.1 www.shopathometv.com
>
>For Windows 95/98/ME the file is c:\windows\hosts
>For Windows NT/2000/XP the file is c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts
>For Unix's and Linux's the file is /etc/hosts.
>
>Note that this turns off the HGTV, FineLiving, and DIYNet
>websites, too. So if you visit those sites, don't add the
>respective lines above. The most important entries are the
>scripps.com entries (FoodTV's parent company?) which is where they
>get their ads and set most of their cookies.

I have a file named HOSTS in

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC

(WinXP - Home)

Is this what you're talking about? It *is* maddening to go to the
FoodTV site. Thanks for the hint.

Frogleg wrote:

> It *is* maddening to go to the
> FoodTV site. Thanks for the hint.


Considering the worthlessness of their programming it really hardly matters.

--
Best
Greg

"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
...
> Visiting the FoodTV.com (www.foodnetwork.com) is a PITA on slower
> dialup modems. I've appended these entries to my 'hosts' file and
> the FoodTV pages now take about 1/3rd of the time to load.
>
> 127.0.0.1 adsremote.scripps.com
> 127.0.0.1 images.scripps.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.scripps.com
> 127.0.0.1 scripps.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.diynet.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.fineliving.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.hgtv.com
> 127.0.0.1 te.hgtv.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.shopathometv.com
>
> For Windows 95/98/ME the file is c:\windows\hosts
> For Windows NT/2000/XP the file is c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts
> For Unix's and Linux's the file is /etc/hosts.
>
> Note that this turns off the HGTV, FineLiving, and DIYNet
> websites, too. So if you visit those sites, don't add the
> respective lines above. The most important entries are the
> scripps.com entries (FoodTV's parent company?) which is where they
> get their ads and set most of their cookies.
>
> I do this for all the websites I visit often, but are littered
> with obnoxious ads that take forever to load. My hosts file is
> over 500 lines long.


Wow, sounds like magic. Trouble is, Web pages chgange. Just how helpful is
loading cached web pages when they change often and you have no mechanism
for refreshing your cache?

Get broadband dude, and stop playing computer expert. You aren't one.

Paul

"Paul M. Cook©®" > wrote in news:39QIc.48299
:

> Get broadband dude, and stop playing computer expert. You aren't one.

His guidance was correct. Spoof entries in /etc/hosts are a great way to
black hole servers that you don't want to get content from.

I can never remember where Windows hides this file, so I just do a find
file for a file named "hosts" in a directory named "etc". (MS keeps moving
it from version to version.) Fortunately my text editor makes it easy to do
this search in about a second. I just have it look for the file "\win*\**
\etc\hosts" and it pops up any matches, of which normally there's only one.

"ScratchMonkey" > wrote in message
. ..
> "Paul M. Cook©®" > wrote in news:39QIc.48299
> :
>
> > Get broadband dude, and stop playing computer expert. You aren't one.
>
> His guidance was correct. Spoof entries in /etc/hosts are a great way to
> black hole servers that you don't want to get content from.

Sure, you can localhost them. You can also do this for adservers. But it
becomes extremely hard to maintain when a free piece of software does it for
you. Better yet a firewall.

> I can never remember where Windows hides this file, so I just do a find
> file for a file named "hosts" in a directory named "etc". (MS keeps moving
> it from version to version.) Fortunately my text editor makes it easy to
do
> this search in about a second. I just have it look for the file "\win*\**
> \etc\hosts" and it pops up any matches, of which normally there's only
one.

Paul

"ScratchMonkey" > wrote in message
. ..
> "Paul M. Cook©®" > wrote in news:39QIc.48299
> :
>
> > Get broadband dude, and stop playing computer expert. You aren't one.
>
> His guidance was correct. Spoof entries in /etc/hosts are a great way to
> black hole servers that you don't want to get content from.

Sure, you can localhost them. You can also do this for adservers. But it
becomes extremely hard to maintain when a free piece of software does it for
you. Better yet a firewall.

> I can never remember where Windows hides this file, so I just do a find
> file for a file named "hosts" in a directory named "etc". (MS keeps moving
> it from version to version.) Fortunately my text editor makes it easy to
do
> this search in about a second. I just have it look for the file "\win*\**
> \etc\hosts" and it pops up any matches, of which normally there's only
one.

Paul