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Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking
An anonymous reader writes "Windows 8 has been confirmed to not only ignore, but also modify the hosts file. As soon as a website that should be blocked is accessed, the corresponding entry in the hosts file is removed, even if the hosts file is read-only. The hosts file is a popular, cross-platform way of blocking access to certain domains, such as ad-serving websites."
APK? Android application package file?
APK is a False Programmer. His very existence degrades the quality of everything in the world.
He needs to switch to Gamemaker. He needs to return... to Gamemakerdom! Gamemaker can do anything. The HOSTS file is nothing compared to Gamemaker. Gamemaker transforms pathetic, worthless individuals into upstanding True Programmers. There is nothing you cannot accomplish with Gamemaker.
Return, return, return, return, return to Gamemakerdoooooooooooooooooooom!
"APK's sole existence seems to be reliant on advocating the hosts file as a means of host filtering, despite more modern, flexible, easier, convenient and powerful alternatives existing." -
As promised in my last post, & since you said that? Well...
I suppose it's time to "dispel your notions"!
(OR rather, your attempts @ mocking me, since I can do that to YOU, easily metrix007 & you KNOW it, I know it, and everyone else can too now... I suppose I can let others know a few samples of it too now, fair enough?)
Here's only 1!
I.E.-> Where you RAN from disproving my points in favor of hosts files for end users gain in security, speed/bandwidth, efficiency, reliability, & even anonymity to some extent (vs. DNSBL's) & more:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34459018
(Should I post the rest? Just ask, I can & will upon request... I have, oh, another 8 or so on the EXACT same lines, you running from disproving my points on hosts files!)
Anyhow/anyways:
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873
AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing
I'm sorry, but there is no reason to change to a Mac
For a subset of meanings of the word, there's snobbery.
Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.