Comments for Paul Tow http://www.paultow.com Tech writer for hire Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:32:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by Runaway1956 http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Runaway1956 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:32:38 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-180 GREAT WORK!! I was a little hesitant to try this, as it seems just a little dated now. But, I read through it, thought about everything, tested the update site, scanned through the list of blocked sites, then tried it. After almost 2 1/2 years, this little how-to works perfectly. I'm posting a link to this page on G+ and Facebook. Hope you get lots of hits! GREAT WORK!! I was a little hesitant to try this, as it seems just a little dated now. But, I read through it, thought about everything, tested the update site, scanned through the list of blocked sites, then tried it.

After almost 2 1/2 years, this little how-to works perfectly. I’m posting a link to this page on G+ and Facebook. Hope you get lots of hits!

]]> Comment on How to: A more balanced iTunes shuffle by Matt http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/11/a-more-balanced-itunes-shuffle/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Matt Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:38:16 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=71#comment-179 This is to Pete Harrison: By default, it pulls new music because you have played it much less than you've played the rest of your library. To fix that, just add another rule to Been a While that says "Date Added" "is not in the last" [some threshold]. I went with one week, but you might want to go longer. This will keep it from being pulled just because it has a low play count, but it still could be pulled into your Randomness playlist. I think this solves your problem. This is to Pete Harrison:
By default, it pulls new music because you have played it much less than you’ve played the rest of your library. To fix that, just add another rule to Been a While that says “Date Added” “is not in the last” [some threshold]. I went with one week, but you might want to go longer.
This will keep it from being pulled just because it has a low play count, but it still could be pulled into your Randomness playlist. I think this solves your problem.

]]> Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by tido http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-178 tido Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:31:07 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-178 Unable to get it working thus far. I'm testing using the information found here "http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hostsfaq.htm#Frequently" marcin$ ping coolwebsearch.com PING coolwebsearch.com (64.15.72.102): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 64.15.72.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=43.241 ms 64 bytes from 64.15.72.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=42.110 ms It should resolve to 127.0.0.1, but it does not. Unable to get it working thus far. I’m testing using the information found here “http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hostsfaq.htm#Frequently”

marcin$ ping coolwebsearch.com
PING coolwebsearch.com (64.15.72.102): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.15.72.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=43.241 ms
64 bytes from 64.15.72.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=42.110 ms

It should resolve to 127.0.0.1, but it does not.

]]> Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by tido http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-177 tido Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:04:09 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-177 Great stuff, how do I know it is working? What's a good URL to test? Great stuff, how do I know it is working? What’s a good URL to test?

]]> Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by shekhar Joshi http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-172 shekhar Joshi Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:55:45 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-172 Excellent article. One change that I did was not have the 'Init' script or the 'WAN_UP' script. Instead I am saving the file to permanent store /jffs/adblock.conf. Of course I had to download the adblock.conf once using the telnet session, the cron job (scheduler) downloads the file once a week and following line in dnsmasq.conf loads the adblock.conf conf-file=/jffs/adblock.conf Thanks for sharing. Excellent article. One change that I did was not have the ‘Init’ script or the ‘WAN_UP’ script. Instead I am saving the file to permanent store /jffs/adblock.conf.

Of course I had to download the adblock.conf once using the telnet session, the cron job (scheduler) downloads the file once a week and following line in dnsmasq.conf loads the adblock.conf

conf-file=/jffs/adblock.conf

Thanks for sharing.

]]> Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by Jeffrey Clark http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Jeffrey Clark Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:18:22 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-170 I like ml's suggestion for using the mvp hosts file, but there is a much easier way to implement it. Follow the steps in this article and use this command in place of the wget commands: wget -O /etc/hosts.txt “http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt” On the last step, replace "conf-file=/etc/adblock.conf" with "addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.txt" Enjoy! I like ml’s suggestion for using the mvp hosts file, but there is a much easier way to implement it.

Follow the steps in this article and use this command in place of the wget commands:
wget -O /etc/hosts.txt “http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt”

On the last step, replace
“conf-file=/etc/adblock.conf”
with
“addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.txt”

Enjoy!

]]> Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by Nodds http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Nodds Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:21:09 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-166 Can anyone recommend a site that I could visit to check the effectiveness of the script. I can see some ads have gone while others remain. Not sure if its me or something else!!! Nodds Can anyone recommend a site that I could visit to check the effectiveness of the script. I can see some ads have gone while others remain. Not sure if its me or something else!!!

Nodds

]]> Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by Johno Crawford http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Johno Crawford Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:05:17 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-165 I had to modify the sed ml provided, did not seem to format the list correctly and dnsmasq failed to start up.. sed -i 's/127.0.0.1[ \t]*localhost// ; s/127.0.0.1[ \t]*/address=\// ; /^\#/d ; s/#.*// ; s/.$/\/0.0.0.0/ ; /^\/0.0.0.0/d' /etc/hosts.txt I had to modify the sed ml provided, did not seem to format the list correctly and dnsmasq failed to start up..

sed -i ‘s/127.0.0.1[ \t]*localhost// ; s/127.0.0.1[ \t]*/address=\// ; /^\#/d ; s/#.*// ; s/.$/\/0.0.0.0/ ; /^\/0.0.0.0/d’ /etc/hosts.txt

]]> Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by Paul Tow http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Paul Tow Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:32:24 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-162 Not that I know of, unfortunately. Not that I know of, unfortunately.

]]> Comment on How to: Block ads with a router by MrVile http://www.paultow.com/2009/06/10/how-to-block-ads-with-a-router/comment-page-1/#comment-161 MrVile Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:27:18 +0000 http://www.paultow.com/?p=65#comment-161 Thanks, works great! Is there a way to whitelist specific sites that were working before applying this script? Thanks, works great! Is there a way to whitelist specific sites that were working before applying this script?

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