In this article I look at how you can use the hosts file on your windows computer to speed up access to sites that you visit a lot. How it works is that the hosts file converts that domain name into the appropriate IP address for you so that the request can be sent straight [...]
I have been programming computers since the late 1970s, performing a wide variety of different computer programming jobs, and using a large range of different languages - mostly writing accounting and financial systems for mainframe computers. Since the market for mainframe computer skills moved offshore I have been writing about computers, teaching computer courses in the classroom, and also doing accounting work.
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