Category: Tech

  • Using my personal hosts file to block ads and more

    Using my personal hosts file to block ads and more

    Going forward with this website I will be maintaining a hosts file to block ads, trackers, malware, fraudulent sites, trackers and all other kinds of things. I’m using a lot of public sources that are merged together, cleaned up and then uploaded to https://www.jackfeschuk.com/hosts-file/ I’m personally using this with all of my computers (macOS, Windows, […]

  • The humble ping tool and how to use it with real examples

    The humble ping tool and how to use it with real examples

    ping‘s basic use is to determine the time it takes to send a packet to the destination and receive a response, the lower the time in milliseconds (ms) the better. The ping tool is the most commonly known network tool. I first used it decades ago as a child to test if websites were actually […]

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