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Ages ago I once started to do some research on domanin name availability (for my own personal domain) and I started getting online quotes for a specific name from a number of domain providers. But after I checked out what GoDaddy was offering I discovered that my wanted domain name (which was fairly unique) was suddenly owned by Godaddy. And if I still wanted the domain I had to pay for their services.

I then scrapped the idea of getting a domain for a while. As I was a little pissed that some providers do nasty Domain Camping tricks just to get your money. I have since moved on without paying them a cent and got a different domain name trough a different provider.

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Oh my god it's 10,300! I'm late!

Damn cheap batteries....

Somehow I knew I would somehow miss the end of the universe...

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I'll tolerate ads as long as they aren't as "in your face". I like the good ol' 480x60 banner ads (static or low animation and small file sizes) and text ads.

The rest I hate are misleading ads (those that mae you think you're clicking onto useful content or closing what looks like a message window), VERY animated ads (hitting the monkey never gets me my $20), ads with sounds (very irritating especially when reading a long article), spyware and popup scripts built to force more ads into your face regardless of what you're doing (even when offline) and track what you do to make sure you get maximum exposure to viagra and dodgy finance deals.

one such example was the day I started seeing the crazyfrog flash ads, it never fucking stopped playing music! - thus a new line was added to the /etc/hosts file on my net server to block jamster.com from that day forward! DIE FROGGIE DIE!

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I have 4 computers at home (2 windows, 2 linux), the one I use as my internet sharing server is a little p166 (32mb ram) chugging happily away with a linux distro http://www.ipcop.org/ with a little bit of help in filling my /etc/hosts file in sites to block Mike Skallas' Ad blocking hosts file as well as my own little shortlist of unwanted websites.

having a seperate computer as a firewall helps prevent a lot of spyware crap from raping my net connection with unneccesary data and prevent infection from easy exploits.

Combined with the fact I use firefox http://www.mozilla.org/ I get a pretty good ad-reduced experience. And if I want to kill a lot of adverts off when going for a browse onto possibly dodgy websites (be it crappy homepages, dodgy services, and porn [for those of you who still don't have girlfriends!]) depending on what I'm doing I'll kill client side scripting (Java/Javascript) to take things one step further.

As well as running "Spybot" occasionally and doing the odd "free" virus scan from a couple of antivirus websites. my net experience has been reclaimed to an acceptable level on a low budget.

If I'm feeling really paranoid I'll boot up my normal windows machine with knoppix instead of windows so I can go carefree onto any website without fucking it up with windows-targeted spyware

Oh yeah, my homepage is colinnashonline.com for those who are bored

it may not cost you directly, but drain the battery life of your device a bit to activate the sending and recieving of data.

Would be annoying if you travel somewhere with a small amount of power left (enough to do what you need it for) and find it flat by the time you get there.

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when I load with firefox with no scripting enabled, a lot of stuff doesn't show up, they are relying too much on javascript stuff to make the website useable. (apart from the search box itself) but then I guess most of the javascript stuff is useless crap anyway...

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Well I for one already have a similar setup (though probably not tweaked for "gaming" but does a bloody decent job of it) it is a little P-166, 32MB RAM running linux http://www.ipcop.org/ which is rigged as a firewall and router.

Plug in an ADSL modem and away you go!
(although I ripped out a few internal fans to cut down on noise to maintain sanity, no cpu fan and still tickin' good, in fact it is barely reaching 20% CPU capacity so it don't need a fan anyway)

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