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Working on it as we speak

Ellis Walentine

>Hang in there. I'm talking to the server gurus now.

Ellis

Traffic congestion

Ellis Walentine

>Call it the price of popularity. Tonight, we are using almost 3/4 of our total server capacity. Let's just say that that is an awesome amount of traffic.

I forsee another server move in the near future. Meanwhile, I hope you will continue to report any slowdowns.

Ellis Walentine, Host

Re: Traffic congestion

RobV

>> Tonight, we are using almost 3/4 of our total server capacity.

Every once in a while I will look at my server logs and was surprised to see that over 1/4 of the visits were by people who had image loading turned off in their browsers... this seemed like a very high number and was talking to another webmaster about it and he said that those were most likely robot crawlers looking for email addresses, backdoors, etc. etc.

Re: Traffic congestion

Guy Kroll

>Ellis it works great at 5:11 am in the morning.

Guy

Re: Slllllooooooowwwwwww

Randy Johnson Connersville, IN

>Hey Don, I was thinking about you yesterday. I was reading meters on Boulevard Street, the entire block, and wondered which one of the houses you used to live in.

Us pictures-off people

Dave Bair

>I have a basic dial-up connection. If I turn on pictures, it slows down-loads to a crawl, especially some of the high-res stuff here on WC. If I want to see the pic, I can right-click it and wait when I'm willing.

I really hate sites that use animation, especially macromedia's product. If you don't have it loaded on your PC, the program hunts for it for up to 5 minutes and then keeps asking if you want to download it. I've tried to spoof it (macromedia), to no avail. So I have to wait through the silly ads to get to the stuff I want.

I'm not going to pay 5 times as much for my connection to the cable company and ATT does not provide DSL in my area. So I'll stay pictures-off for the foreseeable future.

Eaton Rapids, MI

Kill Macromedia!

awh

>Dave,

I'm on DSL, but I still hate Macromedia! Here is a way to get rid of it for good (it can be reversed should you ever want to):

Open your "host" file in the "C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\" directory - use a text editor like notepad - then add these lines to it:

127.0.0.0 macromedia.com

127.0.0.0 www.macromedia.com

127.0.0.0 active.macromedia.com

127.0.0.0 download.macromedia.com

127.0.0.0 fpdownload.macromedia.com

That will keep Macromedia from finding it's home and downloading. To get rid of what is already installed on your computer, delete everything in the "C:\WINNT\system32\Macromed\" directory.

Tony Haukap

Home Page - http://www.cyberspace.org/~awh/

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HA, that's what virus writers do.....

Mark Goodall - ATL - tooljunkie

>That's a trick that virus writers use.......

Hmmmmm, where did YOU learn that ;) ;)

Happy WOodworking!

Re: HA, that's what virus writers do.....

awh

>That trick is as old as the internet.

You can even make shortcuts like:

209.92.19.38 .w # woodcentral.com

Then just type ".w" in the address bar of your browser and it will take you to 209.92.19.38 which is WoodCentral! This shortcut works as long as the IP address doesn't change (they usually don't).

FWIW I keep my host file set as read-only and hidden to prevent viruses from getting to it.

Tony Haukap

Home Page - http://www.cyberspace.org/~awh/

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Re: Kill Macromedia!

Dave Bair

>My problem is that I want to spoof having macromedia loaded. If I don't have it loaded, their adware hunts for it for a good long time before the "want to download" message pops up. This hunting takes longer than allowing the ad to load and run. Ideally, I'd like to bypass the whole thing, like turning pictures off in IE. Or is that what your code accomplishes?