# 100,000th visitor!! Unclaimed prize!! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 12, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-000th-visitor-unclaimed-prize/681113 "2014-02-12T02:07:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-000th-visitor-unclaimed-prize/681113/21 "2014-02-12T13:54:48Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > … > And let me mention that I’m aware of that trick of filling your hosts file with > 192.168.0.1 > lines for sites you don’t want to see. I had a lot of those set up too, which I need to move over too. > > ETA: Funny thing though: Trying to get to a site that’s aliased to 192.168.0.1 is supposed to not produce anything, there being no server there. Turns out, I actually DO have apache running on my Linux box, so everywhere that happens I get a nicely formatted message saying that the URL can’t be found. But at least that’s just a minimal plain-text message and not a gig of images or worse. That’s because you are _supposed_ to be using 127.0.0.0, not a 192.168.n.n number. 192.168.n.n is addresses on your local network. 127.0.0.0 is the dev/null ‘bit bucket’. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-000th-visitor-unclaimed-prize/681113/22 "2014-02-12T14:23:39Z")
Re FF addons to disable Javascript, I like SettingSanity. Not only does it let you disable Javascript (which I rarely bother doing), but it ALSO restores the “Advanced Javascript Settings” options which also vanished when the option to disable Javascript went away. I have always kept the “Allow scripts to: Disable or Replace context menus” option turned off (which stops JS programs from intercepting your right mouse button). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-000th-visitor-unclaimed-prize/681113/23 "2014-02-12T21:32:58Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > That’s because you are _supposed_ to be using 127.0.0.0, not a 192.168.n.n number. 192.168.n.n is addresses on your local network. 127.0.0.0 is the dev/null ‘bit bucket’. OOPS! I mis-remembered when I wrote that. Upon checking my hosts file: I AM using 127.0.0.1 (not 127.0.0.0 and not 192.168.anything). (192.168.0.1 is actually my router, come to think of it.) Anyway, the result is as I described. 127.0.0.1 gets directed to my own server, which says, e.g.: > [@](#): > > The requested URL > /Adfusion.PartnerSite/categoryhtml.aspx > was not found on this server. > _Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) Server at > [noparse][www.adfusion.com](http://www.adfusion.com)[/noparse] Port 80_ Not sure if 127.0.0.0 will make any difference. I’ll give that a try. It’s okay either way – these error messages don’t bother me, they don’t show any distracting graphics or animations, they don’t contain insulting shit about me being the 100,000th lucky user, none of that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-000th-visitor-unclaimed-prize/681113.md?page=1)