Arthur's Journal

A journal of all the tidbits of information I gathered through the years.

Entries for October, 2010

Block ads with DD-WRT

I have been using a windows host file to block ads on websites for a while now.  The host file (http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt) redirects most ad links to 127.0.0.1 instead of their IP address.  By doing this, it shows either a blank page or “page can not be displayed” instead of the normal advertisements. I wanted to […]

Linux on Microsoft VirtualPC

Use Text Mode or Safe Mode to install Linux.