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osx assisted anti-procastination hack?

Most of my procrastination comes in the form of surfing the web, reading RSS feeds, or checking email.
Do you know if an applescript can turn off airport for a specific time?
This would be a great anti-procastination hack. Even better if it would be Password protected and is shouting "Cheater" at you if you try to bypass the lockout ;)

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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Turning off airport

There's a way to disable airport from the terminal:

sudo ifconfig en1 down

Where en1 is the interface for your Airport Extreme Card. en0 is usually Ethernet, and en1 is usually the Airport Extrewme card. To bring it back up, just type:

sudo ifconfig en1 up

I don't know much about UNIX or applescript, I got this from someone on another forum.

Is there a way to link this to an applescript that will keep you offline for a certain amount of time (instead of AT a certain time)?

Will power isn't cutting it these days.

 
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