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Block website without forcing user to restart browser?

I know blocking a website is a popular question but none of the answers I've seen address my particular situation: I want to block a website (to be selected by the user, which must also have Admin rights, on Windows XP), without forcing her to restart her browser. The well known technique of modifying the hosts file requires some brow...

VMWare fusion NAT + host tunnel; access from vm

I'm having trouble accessing a port on my OSX host from a vm. I'm using NAT in VMware fusion. In my (OSX host) hosts file, I have the ip address for vmnet8 mapped to 'mac'. From my vm, I can 'ssh user@mac' and it works as expected: I am logged into the host. So, my hosts file is working. I have a tunnel from my OSX host to an Oracle s...