From: Gentgeen <gen...@li...> - 2006-10-31 16:31:01
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:25:59 -0500 (EST) "Jay Lee" <jl...@pb...> wrote: >=20 > On Mon, October 30, 2006 11:19 am, Roy Souther wrote: > > I would like some ideas about what to do about this. I am running > > LTSP in a school of maybe 120 students and 60 terminals. At any > > given time there are between 20 to 50 people using the server and > > maybe half of them are on the Internet. The problem is web sites > > that use flash to show advertising, it is very common. We need Flash > > enabled because some educational sites use it as a teaching tool but > > the majority of Flash is useless crap. Flash is becoming the > > resource pig of the server. Just 5 people browsing a web site with > > Flash uses more system resources then 50 people running OpenOffice. >=20 > Consider installing the AdBlock plugin and searching for one of the > comprehensive list of block lists. Try using that. =46rom a slashdot posting a while back, I use the following regexp to block with AdBlock. It takes care of at least 90% of the ads I find. I have only had to "hand add" a few others. [Adblock] /\/(ad|commercial|marketing|promo(tion)?|shop|sponsor)s?\// /((double|fast|ad)click|click(xchange|sor))/ /(page|side|text)_?ads?/ /rcm.*\.amazon/ /(adsdk|a1\.yimg|akamai|amznxslt|atdmt|atwola|bilbo\.counted|bizrate|bo nnint|brides\.ru|edge\.ru|hitbox|falkag|maxserving|promote\.pa ir|realmedia|santa\.imho|servedby|spinbox|tribalfusion|qksrv|zedo)/ /\/ads?(\.[\w]*){2,3}\// /(ima?ge?|ad)serv/ /(ad|banner|sponsor)s?_?(id|ima?ge?|[0-9]*x[0-9]*)/ (Be careful of wrapping... each line begins and ends with / There are only 8 lines. --=20 http://gentgeen.homelinux.org ############################################################# Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem =20 your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone then in bad=20 company. - George Washington, Rules of Civility |