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How can I block a bunch of contacts in Skype on Linux?
I am using Skype (Beta) 2.2.0.35 on my Ubuntu and after some trial I believe that it is not possible to block a whole bunch or group of contacts all in one move.
It would be a very handy feature: ...
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Can I see list of all IP blocked by my firewall and router?
I am using inbuilt firewall of windows 7. ( I am also using Microsoft security essentials ). My router is Netgear WNR1000v2 . Now can I see list of all IP which are blocked by either my firewall or ...
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How to block someone that redirected his email spams to your email address?
I have two friends (yes, belive or not they are my friends) that are redirecting all the email spam they receive to my email address. This makes my Hotmail account receive 30 spams per hour (that not ...
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How to bypass FortiGuard? [closed]
How to bypass FortiGuard?
There are alot of sites which are blocked because of FortiGuard.even the https
the proxy are blocked also .
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Is there a way to make a zenity dialog modal?
How can I make them modal? With modal I mean: The dialog should block the desktop so the user has only two options: Either cancel the dialog or enter text into it. (I want this basically because new ...
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Email provider that doesn't block spam/blacklisted emails [closed]
So I'm playing around with an SMTP server and trying to send and receive mail. After a lot of work, I was finally able to receive mail. When I tried sending mail to Gmail or Yahoo addresses, my ...
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IPFW not locking people out
I've had some brute-forcing of my ssh connection recently, so I got fail2ban to hopefully prevent that. I set it up, and started testing it out by giving wrong passwords on my computer. (I have ...
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Can we lock the computer apps so only browser can be used? [closed]
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Can I get Linux into 'Party/Kiosk-Mode' like status?
People can go on http://www.example.com using Firefox - and I will max the screen. I don't want them to navg ...
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Kaspersky is blocking my batch file
I made a batch file that is seen as malicious by Kaspersky. How can I tell that it is an acceptable file? I've found how to add an exception, but I can only add .exe, not .bat.
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Touchpad does not respond when I am holding key on the keyboard
I am experiencing strange problem with using my touchpad and keyboard simultaneously under Windows 7.
I have HP tx2550ew (convertible tablet), and when I hold some key under Windows 7 (eg. ...
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How can I prevent users from circumventing the Windows hosts file?
I realized Windows hosts entries can easiliy be circumvented by just setting a system proxy or use a webproxy like hide my ass.
How can prevent my kids from circumventing my hosts file that blocks ...
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Block specific URL on web browsers
I want to block certain URLs on browsers. I don't want to block whole site. For example, I want to block Google Reader, but not whole Google domain. Is there any way I can do it?
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Flash block in IE9 and click to play
In Google Chrome and Firefox there are plugins which allow to block Flash by default and start it, by clicking on it. This behaviour allows me to reduce CPU usage and too aggressive advertising.
In ...
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Chrome adds an entry to block all images since v17 upgrade?
I just upgraded Chrome to v17, and all of a sudden no images load anymore at any website. I was notified by an icon in the address bar with a link to the options screen. At the options page, there was ...
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A server blocks my IP for an hour after I send too many files over FTP [closed]
I asked this on serverfault and they sent me here...
I was publishing a website through vs2010 and later on a different IP with filezilla and both times after some 10-20 files are transferred ...
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Temporarily only allow network-access via (sshd-socks) Proxy
I am alot on business trips using the hotel's hotspot.
I connect to my solaris-server using putty/ssh and establish a socks-proxy.
Using Chrome and Proxy Switchy, I surf via the sshd's socks-proxy.
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How can I ban a user from accessing my router?
How can I ban a user from accessing my router – or how can I end his session?
My router is a D-LINK DI-514.
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IE 8 blocks Google as “unsafe”
So, out of the blue, I open up Internet Explorer to get my iGoogle page. Instead, I get a blood red background with a white rounded box quote "This website has been reported as unsafe - ...
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Mumble, connection throttling/redirecting, and how to bypass it
My university has mechanisms in place to throttle/redirect the internet connection if it detects the use of utorrent, etc. The problem is that it also blocks the use of Mumble and Skype.
I spoke with ...
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resolve big lists of domains into ip addresses
I am trying to programme my own Anti-Distraction tool. It should block Facebook and similar websites. I use IP blocking, therefore I have huge lists with website domains that I need to resolve into ...
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Win7/IE9 Blocking All Sites Except Few
Setting up a PC for a 5 years old. I want to allow access to the Internet to a handful of sites only.
Tried IE Content Advisor, but it doesn't support blocking all (or I missed something)
I tried ...
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Can't access to my VPS
I try to connect to my VPS but I can't, even if i use an another computer. But when I use a different connection (other IP) it works.
So I was wondering, why my VPS blacklist my IP ? And where can I ...
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Is my ISP blocking the ports 5050 and 6060
I want to find out whether or not my ISP is blocking the ports 5050 and 6060 which I need for my voip software on my iPhone. I'm using a 3G stick with a prepaid plan, and I'm using the internet ...
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Block multiple programs through Windows 7 firewall quickly
I know how to block a single program through the firewall quite easily, but I have to do this for several applications now and the process becomes tedious. Is there any way to block multiple programs ...
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Way to block internet while allow intranet for some users only
What is a good way for blocking internet while allowing intranet/local-network/private-ip (over wifi) on Windows Vista/7 computers, for only some user(s)?
It would be best if this can be done using ...
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davfs2 (mount.davfs) alternatives that support streaming?
mount.davfs (from davfs2) allows one to mount a WebDAV server into the local filesystem. However, even if you want to read only one byte from a file, davfs2 will block until it downloads the whole ...
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How can I block a program from accessing the Internet?
I really want to know how can I prevent a program to connect to Internet with Windows 7 firewall?
I have smart security nod32 business edition installed on my computer.
should i do this job with ...
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How to block annoying facebook and other social network widgets
We have facebook buttons, twitter buttons, linkedin buttons, google+ buttons, stumbleupon buttons, younameit buttons. These social network buttons and widgets are creeping up the internets like the ...
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What unresolvable IP address should I use to block adverts?
I don't want to depend solely on in-browser ad blockers. I therefore created my own block list of advertisers' domains and pointed them all to a 0.0.0.0 IP address.
I now started a project and need ...
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Completely lock a computer and force it to use a single application
I'd like my windows 7 computer to use ONLY a single application developed in .net
No task manager, no nothing: just this single application automatically opening at startup.
I'd also like to have a ...
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Blocking a website after two visits in the same day in Google Chrome
How do I block myself from visiting a website after having already going to it twice before in the same day?
I'm trying to impose a self-block in Google Chrome, maybe an extension would help, where ...
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Why does Microsoft block .url attachments and not .htm in Outlook?
Outlook by default blocks .url attachments and not .htm – why?
Any dangerous URL that could be in .url file, could also easily be in a .htm file and could be launched using javascript automatically. ...
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OSX - Parental Controls - System Preferences - Unchecked - But Not Blocked - Why?
Why is it that using Parental Controls and unchecking the box for System Preferences sometimes does not block a user from gaining access to System Preferences ?
I have blocked other users accessing ...
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Is my Windows Firewall active?
I'm trying to set a simple public block for an application for both inbound and outbound connections. I'm using Windows 7, but my friend is still able to connect to the application. Steps I took are ...
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Wildcard blocking of bots in Apache
I run a site which provides Subversion & TRAC for lots of open source projects. This works pretty well with one exception: Many search engines do not care about robots.txt and DoS the webserver ...
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How to block/disable internet for one user in Windows 7 while keeping internet access for other users?
The internet is distracting me from my writing. I'm about to cancel it, but my wife wouldn't be too happy with that. She uses it for research, and so on. I'd like to block my account from having ...
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How to block IP's from certain countries in a virtual server
I have an online virtual server running on Windows Server 2008 and I need to block IP range for certain countries. what is the best way to do that ?
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Block Access to Internet on specific time intervals issue?
I have the Qwest/Actiontec Q1000 modem/router. I go to the IP address using my web-browser and open up advanced configurations -> access scheduler. I select a computer (and it automatically adds the ...
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Mac OS Modal Dialog Offscreen Blocking Google Chrome?
I have a MacBook Pro that I take from work to my house. I rarely open the lid and almost always hook up to an external monitor.
I frequently find, and I'm unable to find a pattern to consistently ...
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Block all one pixel pictures in chrome
Since 1 pixel images are primarily used in e-mail to tell the sender that it has been recived, I was wondering if there was a way to block them (not like there is something to see there anyway) ...
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Blocking a botting URL to an Linux server running Apache
I have a webserver running OpenSUSE 11.1 and I need to block a URL. The reason I want to block a URL is because it seems to have a different IP address all the time, but the URL stays the same.
I'd ...
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Blocking an unauthorised wireless extender
Our small store has for years put up an open unencrypted wireless router with the SSID storename-public, as a community service, with the 'public' in the SSID so that users would know not to transmit ...
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How to prevent some users in Windows 7 from accessing sites other than a set of certain sites?
I am using Windows 7 Ultimate with some user credentials on a single computer.
I want to prevent some users from accessing sites other than *.stackexchange.com and stackoverflow.com. How to do this ...
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Windows Firewall Configuration for Blocking Internet Access
I have a PC and a laptop. I would like to make my PC act as server and my laptop as a client. I want to implement a freeware HTTP proxy (freeproxy 4.10) on my PC so that it can filter certain web ...
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How do I block Steam?
Which ip addresses and/or ports/protocols do I need to block at my firewall to prevent Steam downloading updates?
I want to prevent my housemates from inadvertently downloading Steam updates when our ...
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Vim: how to paste a block of text at the end of multiple lines?
Say I have a block of text like this:
// Comment1
// Comment2
// Comment3
And I want to append each of these lines to the end of 3 corresponding lines of code:
foo = 1;
bar = 2;
baz = 3;
So ...
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Is there a tool that monitors and blocks installation if a software installation tries to install 3rd party software?
Software companies sometimes create an installation routine that if the user doesn't read carefully installs bunch of 3rd party software, such as Google toolbar, Yahoo toolbar etc.
Is there a small ...
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Internet Sharing on Mac OS X with Websites Control
I am successfully sharing my Internet from my Macbook with others but I wonder is there a way I can block facebook.com or other sites for my users keeping my access to them?
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How to prevent SPAM email from Yahoo Mail?
I am receiving same SPAM from Yahoo Mail. Accounts look to be different only having 8 random characters everytime like this:
hfirnybp@yahoo.com
ncbfkuop@yahoo.com
opaswtui@yahoo.com
How to block ...
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How to block access to https URLs by regex on OS X?
Is there any way in which I can, on OS X, effectively block against access (by browsers or potentially any process) to secure URLs by regex?
E.g. deny access to: https://example.com/foo/bar/.*
but ...
