"As I write this article, I’m using a program that disables my network connections for a selected amount of time and does not allow me to switch them back on, thereby forcing me to actually write instead of checking my e-mail or reading blogs."<p>That's from a pretty interesting article in The Atlantic( http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/multiple-personalities ). Anyone know which programs are able to do that, I guess for all three major OS(Mac, Windows, Linux)?<p>Thanks
I use a program called "Freedom" for Mac. It is very simplistic and it works exactly as described in the article. It has bugs though, if you type your root password incorrect the first time, it fails, you need to restart your laptop. Anyways, I can't complain it is free.
For Linux, and probably a mac you can do such a thing with a small shell script, possibly even running it from cron if you so desire. Just issue an ifconfig down for the appropriate interface, and possibly swap the sudoers file if you're really weak.
I suppose the article's author might have done something along those lines, but it's beyond what I know. You don't recognize any finished products that are intended to do just this?
