Watch 4OD and skip Adverts

 Software  5 Responses »
May 242010
 

4OD Channel 4 television, on demand, for the UK

So 4OD has a great collection of TV series that you can watch back to back. After watching about five episodes of peep show I found the adverts repetitive and annoying and decided to have a look at removing them. A brief search on the net and I found Steve Larsen had found a method. His instructions state that by redirecting three hosts to your loopback the adverts will not be played. I did this and for some quick tests I found it to work.

My setup, following instructions

I set my router’s parental control to redirect the following URL s to 127.0.0.1

s0.2mdn.net
realmedia.channel4.com
webstat.channel4.com

I did this in the hope that I would not have to reconfigure the hosts file on the various computers around my house.

Problem

I found that on machines that had viewed 4OD then adverts did not play but on machines that have never been to 4OD they hung while attempting to play and showed nothing but a blank screen.

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Visual Basic 2010 Express – Debug / Release Problems

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May 072010
 

To do an update on a piece of software I downloaded VB Express 2010. Converted my project and started hacking away. I found that none of my breakpoints would fire as “no symbols have been loaded for this document”. Upon a little investigation it appeared the project was in “Release” mode. A mode that was in older version of Visual Studio but removed from Visual Basic Express 2008. Now getting it to change to debug mode, I had to dig the button from a context sensitive menu and add it to the standard tool bar.

View -> Toolbars -> Customize

Commands -> Toolbar -> Standard

Add Command…

Build -> Configuration Manager

Now you can use the Configuration Manager to change the mode from release to debug, and back again!

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Sysinternals Suite

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May 052010
 

Sysinternals Suite for windows is a must have for anyone how knows more than nothing about the windows OS.

Process Explorer is the most useful tool. It can replace the task manager and shows you far more details about what is running on your windows box.

Process Explorer

Best of the rest

Auto runs shows you all the locations that can be set for the automatic running of programs.

Shell run as enabled you to run programs under different credentials.

VM Map shows you where your memory is going.

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Turning off unwanted Windows 7 services

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May 052010
 

As usual windows includes the kitchen sink turned on by default. Having unneeded services are a security risk and also adds to the the load of your computer. The following services on my machine were started and set to either manual or automatic should be disabled if not required.

Edit the launching of services by launching services.msc via the run box (windows button + R).
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Windows 7 Firewall

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May 032010
 

Seems like windows 7 is quite a fine OS, found one missing feature, or something that I can’t figure out. If you tell the firewall to block all outgoing applications unless they have a rule for it, it will not notify you about blocked outgoing connections and it is not possible to get a notification. It seems to completely ignore the allowed applications and only takes settings from the “advanced security settings”.

Sphinx Software have made a tray notification that tells you what’s been blocked and add exceptions for blocked programs.

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Extreme Tube Video Linker

 FireFox Plugin, Greasemonkey, Javascript, Porn, Software  1 Response »
Mar 102010
 

Extreme Tube

Below is the code for my grease monkey script for generating links to porn videos on ExtremeTube. With this you can download the FLV videos which the website does not generically allow you to do.

You will need to install Grease Monkey to use this, which is a plugin for Firefox. I have not tested this script in any other browser.

Grease Monkey : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748
 Script at Grease monkey depositary : http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/66261
Code at Grease monkey depositary : http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/66261

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