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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:45 pm
by NoSleep
NoSleep wrote:'doubleclick' is the name of one of the main offenders, but the name can crop up anywhere in the URL at times. I take it that link above is bogus, BTW?
I rechecked. It's actually 'fastclick' but there is a Uk ad service called doubleclick... fortunately I'm only blocking an entire URL with no wildcard, so I can see the piccy!
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:56 pm
by Darkbee
ROFLMAO!!!
What have I started!!!
You've all gone mad.... every last one of you!
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:19 pm
by jonnycuba
Sorry to spin this most enlightening of threads OT but...
I found this tip for speeding up Safari, I know everyone's using Firefox/Mozilla now, well hey give it a go it really works.
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en ... 545036daa7
Let the madness reign
p.s. an Oolite search engine 'Oogle'
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:26 pm
by Darkbee
NoSleep wrote:Seems it would probably just clear all the icons/banners from a page, rendering down to HTML only.... I'll give it a spin...
Damn, you're right!! I blocked http://* and *www* and ended up, with what looked like, annoying HTML emails... not nearly annoying enough to justify me doctoring a mate's web browser!
In case anyone is interested, I took my blocking list from this website which seems quite interesting:
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/index.php
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:38 pm
by Murgh
hey that really did help my safari.
thx! Jonnycuba.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:08 pm
by Mad Dan Eccles
jonnycuba wrote:I found this tip for speeding up Safari, I know everyone's using Firefox/Mozilla now, well hey give it a go it really works.
the hell you say. Safari rocks.
Argh! My real name appears on that page! I'm mellllltinnnnnnggggggg
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:35 pm
by cmdr drayton
Last time I had religious zealots at my front door I tried to convert them to Buddhism. I thought I was doing pretty well at it too, until one of them suddenly remembered she had a dentists appointment to have all her teeth removed. (seemed like she was looking forward to it to, she was sooo eager to leave).
Strangely I've never been bothered since.
So my advice is to try to convert all missionaries to YOUR religion. And try to sell your carpet fluff or vacuum bag fillings to telephone sales people.
Works for me.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:47 pm
by jonnycuba
I use Safari sometimes & Firefox...& even I.E (the horror) for Odeon's stupid bl**dy webshite.
Argh! My real name appears on that page! I'm mellllltinnnnnnggggggg
Rumplestiltskin?
p.s. would you be scared to know I'm Peter Ceresole's son in law?
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:00 am
by Mad Dan Eccles
jonnycuba wrote:
p.s. would you be scared to know I'm Peter Ceresole's son in law?
Bloody hell. I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the smallness of this particular world.
If you're the one who recently got married then I know what you look like, too.
I'm looking forward to meeting Peter on Friday.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:18 am
by Murgh
you fellas know such stuff, and I'm very frustrated.
all my web browsers, have suddenly failed to receive quicktime. safari never had this problem before, but now it (loads the full file bulk but) only shows the broken plug-in icon.
firefox does no better, mozilla (impressively fast as it is) is the same. it's as if quicktime fails to register itself as an available plug-in, the way you used to be able to control in the old browsers..
anybody recognize themselves in this grief? anyone solved it?
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:21 pm
by NoSleep
All I can tell you is that, only a couple of days ago, I went to a site with audio content and all the links seemed to have something wrong with them. A brief snatch of each soundfile was all I could hear.
There's does seem to be issues with Quicktime itself at the moment...
http://forums.emuscene.com/viewtopic.php?p=4536#4536
Curiously enough, I have been using VLC to play mpegs recently, but had one file playing up on me, so tried QT, and it played fine.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:53 pm
by NoSleep
Well, I'm trying out Quicktime right now and it seems to be running mp3s off the net ok. There must have been a fault on the site I hit the other night.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:25 pm
by Murgh
hmm.
this, for instance, gave me the trouble you described. I knew it was too good to be true.
emuparadise.org/Wipeout..
is it just me?
all this worked perfectly b4
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:42 pm
by NoSleep
Murgh wrote:hmm.
this, for instance, gave me the trouble you described. I knew it was too good to be true.
emuparadise.org/Wipeout..
is it just me?
all this worked perfectly b4
Hmm that seems ok here. have you done 'software update' recently?
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:25 pm
by Murgh
maybe too much of that , is my problem..
thx
