One issue is software licenses. Many corporations have site licenses for software which wouldn't apply once the machine is donated. This may include the operating system.
Another issue is support. It may sound incredible, but there have been situations where a donated computer breaks and the school has called the donating company for support. That alone has stopped many a donation.
And even better, if you build a "JP1" cable to program your remote from your PC, you can program one of your buttons to be a two or three minute skip button.
The only thing to be aware of with the AVS Forum is that they have some relatively strict rules on posts. Whereas with Slashdot, the worst that happens to most posts is that they get moderated down, with AVS Forums, many posts are deleted or edited. I haven't looked carefully at the rules, but my general impression is that anything related to a stock discussion or flamewar between products is squashed.
On the other hand, I agree that for discussions of features and technical aspects, AVS Forum is a great site.
If you've been following the press, you'll see a distinct difference in attitude between TiVo and ReplayTV corporate marketing. TiVo seems to be working carefully to avoid upsetting the TV networks. When ReplayTV came out with a 30-second skip button for avoiding commercials and TV networks complained, TiVo said they would never include such a feature. Now the new generation of Replay boxes goes even further and will automatically skip commercials on playback. And taking it a step further, Replay 4000 units will even let you send shows to other boxes over the Internet (granted, they limit the number of copies you can make to keep from getting sued, and they probably also encrypt the MPEG files for the same reasons).
So while TiVo got a big boost from the open source world because they used Linux instead of a proprietary OS, I think ReplayTV is more in touch with the attitude of the community.
I have a ReplayTV 2020 (which I intend to soon upgrade with a larger hard drive). When I bought it, I didn't realize how much it would change my TV viewing experience. I've programmed it to record all the shows I'm interested in watching, so when I feel like watching TV, instead of channel surfing, I watch something off the disk. And I never watch commercials.
I think ReplayTV has several advantages to consider carefully:
* There is no monthly fee. I've heard of people buying units for as little as $199 (with a $100 rebate!) on closeout, so you don't always pay more than you would with TiVo for the base hardware.
* There is a 30-second skip button and 8-second instant replay button on the remote. This didn't seem like a big deal when I bought it, but it is incredibly useful. It is thanks to these buttons that I never watch commercials. I remember back when I used fast forward with a VCR on recorded shows, and this is just so much better.
* My.ReplayTV.com lets you access your box over the Internet. If I'm on a trip but have Internet access, I can log in and delete unwanted shows to make space, set new shows to record, and see what I have. This is especially important if you are running low on disk space.
I'm sure TiVo has its own advantages, but I'll leave them to a TiVo owner.
I don't recall Scotty reversing polarity, but I expect it happened.
The really famous line is from Doctor Who; the third Doctor was famous for reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. Apparently the line originated when the actor couldn't remember the scripted technobabble and ad libed. It then became a stock phrase.
My Sony VCR from a few years ago will crash when playing back Farscape. It works fine with everything else I've tried to record, and it records Farscape fine, but when playing it back, at least once per episode (regardless of record speed), the VCR will crash. The power goes off and the clock is reset.
So in this case, there apparently is some special signal that the VCR is noting on the tape that is, for some reason, a part of Farscape.
I figured that there was some residual programming in the computers to help humans, so they went out of their way to use people, despite the inefficiencies such a system implies.
This is from the one company that has previously partnered with ReplayTV. I didn't see anything about the software they're using; whether it's their own or from a partner. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they're partnering with ReplayTV on this, just like they did with the Showstopper.
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The components that will drop in price are the CPU, memory, hard drive, and DVD drive. If they're being clever, they'll set up their production such that those are the last items to be installed. Hard drives have been falling a few dollars every week, according to Pricewatch (granted, I'm watching higher-capacity drives).
It makes sense that they aren't in production yet. Consider that essentially what they're selling is a repackaged PC. Most of the components in there are the same components any PC has in it. Now consider how much those components may well drop in price between now and mid-November.
PC manufacturers try to keep a parts inventory measured in a few days (Dell actually has negative inventory, considering that their terms usually say they pay 30 days after receiving the parts, or so I hear).
Sure, they're going to have to do a bunch of advance production to keep up with the initial demand, but it makes sense to minimize this.
And that's leaving aside the marketing advantages of creating the appearance of a hit product by constraining supply to create shortages.
You may have missed my response to a similar comment--I ment to point out in my original post that CNN and Akamai reinstated their contract on Tuesday.
I should have explained that CNN had re-Akamaized on Tuesday. My point of mentioning friends at Akamai was to indicate that I had knowledge of what went on there; I should have been more clear on that point.
CNN re-akamaized Tuesday; that's why they were up again Tuesday afternoon. I read the internal email sent out to Akamai employees asking certain groups to stay on to help with the process if they could.
CNN's main problem was that they had canceled their contract with Akamai a month or two ago to save money. Akamai works by having servers at or near most major ISPs so that the majority of traffic is served locally.
While the load was heavy, it wasn't anything Akamai wasn't prepared to handle.
Unfortunately, Akamai's co-founder was one of the passengers flying out of Boston on a hijacked flight Tuesday. I have friends who work at Akamai for whom he was not just a boss, but a friend.
The files in the distribution are irrelevalant. Who cares if Windows ships with all sorts of unrelated Microsoft.exe and.dll files?
What matters here is the user interface. If Microsoft had included Internet Explorer, but required users to download one key piece (that added the icon to the desktop and start menu; nothing else), then Netscape would have been on a level playing field. The issue is what's visible to the user, not the nature of obscure files that Joe User will never care about.
Of course, Microsoft's problem is that they bought into the government's arguement that the browsers and operating systems are legitimate markets to distinguish. Microsoft should have argued that they are really in the user interface market, and as such, the operating system and browser are naturally related.
It might matter what sort of server you're running.
It probably depends on what size of screen you're sending.
It definitely depends on what applications you're running.
It definitely depends on how much you're willing to tollerate lag.
Anyway, my experience has been with using a Linux client and a Windows NT server with a fairly small screen and a fairly calm application. (By "calm," I mean it's not changing things on the screen a lot.) I found that over ISDN, it was just too slow to be worth bothering with. Over a cable modem, it is perfectly usable. Hence, 128Kbps is not enough, but for my use, 1Mbps is adequate, though I still notice lags.
You can use a filtering proxy, like Junkbuster. Unfortunately, I find that Junkbuster slows down my connections too much, and doesn't forward error messages correctly, so it's not 100% transparent.
My favorite solution is to use/etc/hosts to list all the known ad servers and direct them to 127.0.0.1. I then run a webserver on my local box with the not-found error set to redirect to a transparent image. (I use IP aliasing on the loopback device for sites that use direct IP numbers for their ad servers.) This works for most sites, though some (like slashdot) serve ads off the same server that serves regular images.
Using the/etc/hosts method, I occasionally look through my cookies file and find indications of sites that need to be added. It's not perfect, but I'm satisfied with it.
Browser-based solutions are a good idea. I would love to block images that match certain dimensions (1x1) or have a URL that matches some regexp (/ads/).
Of course, the issue here is pop-up ads, which should be blocked by having browsers reject requests to open new windows that aren't in response to a mouse click.
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There are some problems with making donations.
One issue is software licenses. Many corporations have site licenses for software which wouldn't apply once the machine is donated. This may include the operating system.
Another issue is support. It may sound incredible, but there have been situations where a donated computer breaks and the school has called the donating company for support. That alone has stopped many a donation.
And even better, if you build a "JP1" cable to program your remote from your PC, you can program one of your buttons to be a two or three minute skip button.
The only thing to be aware of with the AVS Forum is that they have some relatively strict rules on posts. Whereas with Slashdot, the worst that happens to most posts is that they get moderated down, with AVS Forums, many posts are deleted or edited. I haven't looked carefully at the rules, but my general impression is that anything related to a stock discussion or flamewar between products is squashed.
On the other hand, I agree that for discussions of features and technical aspects, AVS Forum is a great site.
If you've been following the press, you'll see a distinct difference in attitude between TiVo and ReplayTV corporate marketing. TiVo seems to be working carefully to avoid upsetting the TV networks. When ReplayTV came out with a 30-second skip button for avoiding commercials and TV networks complained, TiVo said they would never include such a feature. Now the new generation of Replay boxes goes even further and will automatically skip commercials on playback. And taking it a step further, Replay 4000 units will even let you send shows to other boxes over the Internet (granted, they limit the number of copies you can make to keep from getting sued, and they probably also encrypt the MPEG files for the same reasons).
So while TiVo got a big boost from the open source world because they used Linux instead of a proprietary OS, I think ReplayTV is more in touch with the attitude of the community.
I have a ReplayTV 2020 (which I intend to soon upgrade with a larger hard drive). When I bought it, I didn't realize how much it would change my TV viewing experience. I've programmed it to record all the shows I'm interested in watching, so when I feel like watching TV, instead of channel surfing, I watch something off the disk. And I never watch commercials.
I think ReplayTV has several advantages to consider carefully:
* There is no monthly fee. I've heard of people buying units for as little as $199 (with a $100 rebate!) on closeout, so you don't always pay more than you would with TiVo for the base hardware.
* There is a 30-second skip button and 8-second instant replay button on the remote. This didn't seem like a big deal when I bought it, but it is incredibly useful. It is thanks to these buttons that I never watch commercials. I remember back when I used fast forward with a VCR on recorded shows, and this is just so much better.
* My.ReplayTV.com lets you access your box over the Internet. If I'm on a trip but have Internet access, I can log in and delete unwanted shows to make space, set new shows to record, and see what I have. This is especially important if you are running low on disk space.
I'm sure TiVo has its own advantages, but I'll leave them to a TiVo owner.
Here are a bunch of resources for ReplayTV:
The AVS discussion forum. This is the leading site for discussion of ReplayTV. They also have a TiVo forum.
The ReplayTV Hacking Project at SourceForge.
A site for hacking the ReplayTV Remote Control
extract_rtv, a tool for extracting the MPEG files from the ReplayTV
You can archive mpeg files from a ReplayTV unit. The only problem is that you have to pull out the drive.
If you get a pair of 100GB drives, you could swap them every time one gets about full (probably once a month) and archive the shows you want to save.
Or just get one 100GB drive, and put the original back in for while you're archiving--less convenient, but cheaper.
I don't recall Scotty reversing polarity, but I expect it happened.
The really famous line is from Doctor Who; the third Doctor was famous for reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. Apparently the line originated when the actor couldn't remember the scripted technobabble and ad libed. It then became a stock phrase.
Yes, it is the same with different tapes, and it is only Farscape. I even tried switching between EP and SP for recording.
Now it's not an issue, because we don't use a VCR for time-shifting now that we have ReplayTV.
It's not a feature; it's a bug.
My Sony VCR from a few years ago will crash when playing back Farscape. It works fine with everything else I've tried to record, and it records Farscape fine, but when playing it back, at least once per episode (regardless of record speed), the VCR will crash. The power goes off and the clock is reset.
So in this case, there apparently is some special signal that the VCR is noting on the tape that is, for some reason, a part of Farscape.
Weird.
I was bothered by the same thing.
I figured that there was some residual programming in the computers to help humans, so they went out of their way to use people, despite the inefficiencies such a system implies.
This is from the one company that has previously partnered with ReplayTV. I didn't see anything about the software they're using; whether it's their own or from a partner. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they're partnering with ReplayTV on this, just like they did with the Showstopper.
The components that will drop in price are the CPU, memory, hard drive, and DVD drive. If they're being clever, they'll set up their production such that those are the last items to be installed. Hard drives have been falling a few dollars every week, according to Pricewatch (granted, I'm watching higher-capacity drives).
It makes sense that they aren't in production yet. Consider that essentially what they're selling is a repackaged PC. Most of the components in there are the same components any PC has in it. Now consider how much those components may well drop in price between now and mid-November.
PC manufacturers try to keep a parts inventory measured in a few days (Dell actually has negative inventory, considering that their terms usually say they pay 30 days after receiving the parts, or so I hear).
Sure, they're going to have to do a bunch of advance production to keep up with the initial demand, but it makes sense to minimize this.
And that's leaving aside the marketing advantages of creating the appearance of a hit product by constraining supply to create shortages.
You may have missed my response to a similar comment--I ment to point out in my original post that CNN and Akamai reinstated their contract on Tuesday.
My source at Akamai described the load as "heavy, but nothing we couldn't handle."
Good point.
I should have explained that CNN had re-Akamaized on Tuesday. My point of mentioning friends at Akamai was to indicate that I had knowledge of what went on there; I should have been more clear on that point.
Yes, I am sure about this.
CNN re-akamaized Tuesday; that's why they were up again Tuesday afternoon. I read the internal email sent out to Akamai employees asking certain groups to stay on to help with the process if they could.
CNN's main problem was that they had canceled their contract with Akamai a month or two ago to save money. Akamai works by having servers at or near most major ISPs so that the majority of traffic is served locally.
While the load was heavy, it wasn't anything Akamai wasn't prepared to handle.
Unfortunately, Akamai's co-founder was one of the passengers flying out of Boston on a hijacked flight Tuesday. I have friends who work at Akamai for whom he was not just a boss, but a friend.
Is there any information on where she is going? In a perfect world, one of the Linux companies would hire her to keep working on Mozilla.
Gravity has nothing to do with it. A Kilogram is a measure of mass, not weight.
The files in the distribution are irrelevalant. Who cares if Windows ships with all sorts of unrelated Microsoft .exe and .dll files?
What matters here is the user interface. If Microsoft had included Internet Explorer, but required users to download one key piece (that added the icon to the desktop and start menu; nothing else), then Netscape would have been on a level playing field. The issue is what's visible to the user, not the nature of obscure files that Joe User will never care about.
Of course, Microsoft's problem is that they bought into the government's arguement that the browsers and operating systems are legitimate markets to distinguish. Microsoft should have argued that they are really in the user interface market, and as such, the operating system and browser are naturally related.
It depends on many different parameters.
It might matter what sort of server you're running.
It probably depends on what size of screen you're sending.
It definitely depends on what applications you're running.
It definitely depends on how much you're willing to tollerate lag.
Anyway, my experience has been with using a Linux client and a Windows NT server with a fairly small screen and a fairly calm application. (By "calm," I mean it's not changing things on the screen a lot.) I found that over ISDN, it was just too slow to be worth bothering with. Over a cable modem, it is perfectly usable. Hence, 128Kbps is not enough, but for my use, 1Mbps is adequate, though I still notice lags.
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# This also kills some user-tracking cookie servers.
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# This works best if you run a web server that sends a redirect to
# a transparent image for non-found errors.
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# This list has grown up over time. No effort has been made to verify that all
# the hosts listed here still exist.
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# A few servers serve ads with URLs based on IP numbers instead of host names.
# The following IP numbers are for hosts that serve ads:
# 159.33.1.57
# 199.172.144.25
# 208.143.212.30
# 208.178.101.42 ww2.salon.com
# 208.178.101.43 ww3.salon.com
# 208.178.101.46 ww6.salon.com
# 209.207.224.220
# 209.249.169.51 imgfarm.sjc.mediaplex.com.
# 216.34.88.243 ???.avenuea.com
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127.0.0.1 cw.cache.imgis.com
127.0.0.1 fp.cache.imgis.com
127.0.0.1 adforce.imgis.com
127.0.0.1 adforce.ads.imgis.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net m.doubleclick.net m1.doubleclick.net ln.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.au.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.uk.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.de.doubleclick.net
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127.0.0.1 fooladserver.fool.com
127.0.0.1 fooladserver1.fool.com fooladserver2.fool.com fooladserver3.fool.com fooladserver4.fool.com
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127.0.0.1 a32.g.a.yimg.com
127.0.0.1 us.a1.yimg.com
127.0.0.1 ads.weather.com
127.0.0.1 www.adclub.net
127.0.0.1 leader.linkexchange.com
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127.0.0.1 server3.pennyweb.com
127.0.0.1 www.burstnet.com
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127.0.0.1 adex3.flycast.com
127.0.0.1 360interactive-ad.flycast.com
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127.0.0.1 www.computercontrolled.com
127.0.0.1 image.eimg.com
127.0.0.1 jeeves.flycast.com
127.0.0.1 ads.fool.com
127.0.0.1 ads.adflight.com
127.0.0.1 ads.fp.sandpiper.net
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127.0.0.1 ads.freshmeat.net
127.0.0.1 banner.orb.net
127.0.0.1 ads.msn.com
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127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com
127.0.0.1 ads.ilife.com
127.0.0.1 UGO.eu-adcenter.net
127.0.0.1 image.accendo.com
127.0.0.1 banners.egroups.com
127.0.0.1 ads.station.sony.com
127.0.0.1 ad.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1 banner.linksynergy.com
127.0.0.1 adcreatives.imaginemedia.com
127.0.0.1 Ogilvy.ngadcenter.net
127.0.0.1 www.websponsors.com
127.0.0.1 image.ugo.com
127.0.0.1 netadsrv.iworld.com
127.0.0.1 ads.lycos.com
127.0.0.1 ads.idahostatesman.com
127.0.0.1 ads.admonitor.net
127.0.0.1 ads.ecircles.com
127.0.0.1 image.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1 websponsors.com
127.0.0.1 a1896.g.akamaitech.net
127.0.0.1 a8.g.akamaitech.net
127.0.0.1 a1868.g.akamai.net
127.0.0.1 a1444.g.akamai.net
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127.0.0.1 ads.tromaville.com
127.0.0.1 adimages.go.com
127.0.0.1 servedby.advertising.com
127.0.0.1 a.r.tv.com
127.0.0.1 banners.cyberrebate.com
127.0.0.1 retaildirect.realmedia.com
127.0.0.1 images.go2net.com
127.0.0.1 ads.nytimes.com
127.0.0.1 ups3.uexpress.com
127.0.0.1 adrunner.mycomputer.com
127.0.0.1 ads.tucows.com
127.0.0.1 lnads.osdn.com
127.0.0.1 s2a.realmedia.com
127.0.0.1 connect.247media.ads.link4ads.com
127.0.0.1 ups4.uexpress.com
127.0.0.1 ads1.intelliads.com
127.0.0.1 kcookie.netscape.com
127.0.0.1 voter-images.adbureau.net
127.0.0.1 media-adrunner.mycomputer.com
127.0.0.1 adserver.colleges.com
127.0.0.1 sfads.osdn.com
127.0.0.1 etad.telegraph.co.uk
127.0.0.1 www.vicinity.com
127.0.0.1 www.commission-junction.com
127.0.0.1 www.webspawner.com
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127.0.0.1 promo.cuica.net
127.0.0.1 adserver.matchcraft.com
127.0.0.1 fmads.osdn.com sd-images.osdn.com
127.0.0.1 www.qksrv.net
127.0.0.1 allegiantmarketing.com
127.0.0.1 media.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 www.domaindirect.com
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127.0.0.1 ads.quicken.com
127.0.0.1 ads.intuit.com
127.0.0.1 g.fool.com
127.0.0.1 images.cybereps.com
127.0.0.1 adfarm.mediaplex.com
127.0.0.1 img-sjc.wip.mediaplex.com
127.0.0.1 img-iad.wip.mediaplex.com
127.0.0.1 img-snv.wip.mediaplex.com
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127.0.0.1 www3.bannerspace.com
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127.0.0.1 global.msads.net
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127.0.0.1 stats.superstats.com code.superstats.com
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127.0.0.1 hc2.humanclick.com
127.0.0.1 www.naj.sk
127.0.0.1 view.avenuea.com
127.0.0.1 stats.lwn.net
127.0.0.1 ad.etech.sk
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127.0.0.1 ad-up.com
127.0.0.1 ad.adsmart.net
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127.0.0.1 ad.dogpile.com
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127.0.0.1 ad.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1 ad.mgd.de
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127.0.0.1 adbot.com
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127.0.0.1 adcontent.gamespy.com
127.0.0.1 adcount.hollywood.com
127.0.0.1 adforce.adtech.de
127.0.0.1 adimage.blm.net
127.0.0.1 adimages.go.com
127.0.0.1 adisnet.com
127.0.0.1 adlink.deh.de
127.0.0.1 adone.com
127.0.0.1 adpower.de
127.0.0.1 ads.austriaonline.at
127.0.0.1 ads.bomis.com
127.0.0.1 ads.burstnet.com
127.0.0.1 ads.chickclick.com
127.0.0.1 ads.clickagents.com
127.0.0.1 ads.csi.emcweb.com
127.0.0.1 ads.enliven.com
127.0.0.1 ads.filez.com
127.0.0.1 ads.freshmeat.net
127.0.0.1 ads.guardianunlimited.co.uk
127.0.0.1 ads.i33.com
127.0.0.1 ads.ign.com
127.0.0.1 ads.imagine-inc.com
127.0.0.1 ads.imdb.com
127.0.0.1 ads.infospace.com
127.0.0.1 ads.iqweb.de
127.0.0.1 ads.jwtt3.com
127.0.0.1 ads.lycos.com
127.0.0.1 ads.mirrormedia.co.uk
127.0.0.1 ads.msn.com
127.0.0.1 ads.narrowline.com
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127.0.0.1 ads.newsint.co.uk
127.0.0.1 ads.ntadvice.com
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127.0.0.1 ads.realmedia.com
127.0.0.1 ads.salonmagazine.com
127.0.0.1 ads.smartclicks.com
127.0.0.1 ads.switchboard.com
127.0.0.1 ads.tripod.com
127.0.0.1 ads.usatoday.com
127.0.0.1 ads.washingtonpost.com
127.0.0.1 ads.weather.com
127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com
127.0.0.1 ads.web.de
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127.0.0.1 adserv.newcentury.net
127.0.0.1 adservant.mediapoint.de
127.0.0.1 adserver-espnet.sportszone.com
127.0.0.1 adserver.affiliation.com
127.0.0.1 adserver.bluewin.ch
127.0.0.1 adserver.findurl.com
127.0.0.1 adserver2.bluewin.ch
127.0.0.1 advert.heise.de
127.0.0.1 adwisdom.com
127.0.0.1 annonce.insite.dk
127.0.0.1 badservant.guj.de
127.0.0.1 banner-net.com
127.0.0.1 banner.arttoday.com
127.0.0.1 banner.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1 banners.internetextra.com
127.0.0.1 banners.nextcard.com
127.0.0.1 bannersolutions.com
127.0.0.1 bannerswap.com
127.0.0.1 bannervip.webjump.com
127.0.0.1 bizad.nikkeibp.co.jp
127.0.0.1 cash-for-clicks.de
127.0.0.1 click..wisewire.com
127.0.0.1 customad.cnn.com
127.0.0.1 dino.mainz.ibm.de
127.0.0.1 ds.austriaonline.at
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127.0.0.1 flycast.com
127.0.0.1 ganges.imagine-inc.com
127.0.0.1 globaltrack.com
127.0.0.1 globaltrak.net
127.0.0.1 hitbox.com
127.0.0.1 hurra.de
127.0.0.1 hyperbanner.net
127.0.0.1 image.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1 images.nytimes.com
127.0.0.1 imageserv.adtech.de
127.0.0.1 img.web.de
127.0.0.1 leader.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1 link4ads.com
127.0.0.1 link4link.com
127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 media.priceline.com
127.0.0.1 mediaplex.com
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127.0.0.1 messenger.netscape.com
127.0.0.1 newads.cmpnet.com
127.0.0.1 ngadcenter.net
127.0.0.1 nrsite.com
127.0.0.1 nt..imagine-inc.com
127.0.0.1 offers.egroups.com
127.0.0.1 pagecount.com
127.0.0.1 preferences.com
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127.0.0.1 pub.nomade.fr
127.0.0.1 revenue.infi.net
127.0.0.1 spinbox1.filez.com
127.0.0.1 swiftad.com
127.0.0.1 tcsads.tcs.co.at
127.0.0.1 tm.intervu.net
127.0.0.1 ultra.multimania.com
127.0.0.1 ultra1.socomm.net
127.0.0.1 uproar.com
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127.0.0.1 victory.cnn.com
127.0.0.1 videoserver.kpix.com
127.0.0.1 webcounter.goweb.de
127.0.0.1 www.adclub.net
127.0.0.1 www.ads.warnerbros.com
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127.0.0.1 www.clickthrough.ca
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You can use a filtering proxy, like Junkbuster. Unfortunately, I find that Junkbuster slows down my connections too much, and doesn't forward error messages correctly, so it's not 100% transparent.
My favorite solution is to use
Using the
Browser-based solutions are a good idea. I would love to block images that match certain dimensions (1x1) or have a URL that matches some regexp (/ads/).
Of course, the issue here is pop-up ads, which should be blocked by having browsers reject requests to open new windows that aren't in response to a mouse click.