digip : sailing the high seas of the internet

In order to save the environment, someone came up with a design for pizza boxes that saves on the need for extra materials to serve and store remaining pizza, utilizing a smarter, greener approach.

Just some wallpaper I created for my desktop.

Old School.

I use a HOSTS file to block ads and sites on a regular basis. Now, any site I add can be blocked. Or at least I thought so. One such site, has eluded me on several machines. http://67.228.130.66/

Navigate to the site. It will say, “I Can Has Ads?”.

Now add it to your HOSTS file to block it via an entry like
“127.0.0.1 67.228.130.66″

Ok. Save your hosts file. You can even try clearing your browser cache and closing and reopening(won’t make a difference). I tried this in three browsers, they all still connect to the site. I even tried it on several different computers. The only thing I can see that could be overriding it, is there is something in windows that greelights the IP range beginning with “67.228″ as multiple ad sites for that beginning range, bypass the windows HOSTS file. I have ended up using my firewall to block the entire IP block, and now the site does not load.

Test this on your own system and please comment your results. Linux uses can try this as well. I believe the hosts file for Linux is in “/etc/hosts” but don’t quote me on that, I haven’t bothered to look yet.

If your system does block it via HOSTS file in windows, please let me know. If it doesn’t please comment anyway, as I want to know who has the same problem.

Yeah, the RIAA may have gotten the verdict they wanted, but I doubt it will sustain the appeal, let alone a battle with Google or such.

source: http://alt1040.com/2009/04/the-pirate-bay-no-piensa-pagar-ninguna-multa

The alphabet, google maps style.

http://rhettdashwood.com.au/16575

Just logged into Comptia to confirm my details, and it is now official! I am CompTIA Network+ Certified!

http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/

Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial, but if anything, should just try to get a mistrial, not retry the case.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-lawyer-is-biased-calls-for-a-retrial-090423/

http://www.thepirategoogle.com/.

Take that, RIAA!

DigiP’s Cheat Sheet. I figured I would throw up my little cheat sheet that has helped me break down subnets. It may be confusing to look at, but if you have any background with networking and trying to divide your network into subnets, what subnet mask to use, CIDR notation, etc, this should make sense to you. It has been a great help to me. I’m still learning how to do these, but I can use this sheet and figure them out in no time at all.

Here is an example of a scenario and how I use the sheet to break down a subnet:sample.