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How to make facebook better

Posted by Simon Welsh | 22 July 2010 | Comments (5)

Making facebook better is really easy. Edit your hosts file with your favourite editor with root access (like sudo pico! (start the holy war!)) and add:

60.234.72.4	www.facebook.com
60.234.72.4	api.facebook.com
60.234.72.4	facebook.com

For non-windows computers, your hosts file is /etc/hosts. For windows computers, you're screwed anyway, so too bad. Try this though.


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  • 21's the code for mobiles originally on Vodafone's networks. Number portability means that's not always the case.

    Posted by Simon Welsh, 26/07/2010 4:15pm (2 years ago)

  • Amusing hack. When I checked out the whois (you didn't think I was going to add random IPs to my hosts without checking now, did you?), I had hopes that you'd come up with a cool proxy system that cut did greasemonkey-type rearrangement but alas no such luck. Also noticed the 21 area code in the whois, is that mobiles or wellington? Here in Ireland, 21 is the landline area code for East Co. Cork, and hence me.

    Also, there is an unix-format /etc/hosts buried somewhere under C:\windows

    Posted by David McCarthy, 22/07/2010 10:56am (2 years ago)

  • Wordpad, maybe. Never Notepad. Oh, and a little bit of edlin.

    Posted by Ed, 22/07/2010 10:19am (2 years ago)

  • Really? I thought real men use notepad.

    Posted by Simon Welsh, 22/07/2010 10:15am (2 years ago)

  • Real men use ed.

    Posted by Ed, 22/07/2010 10:10am (2 years ago)

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