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osx assisted anti-procastination hack?

stangster | Nov 11 2005

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 ;)

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I'd guess that sudo "ifconfig en1...

Submitted by mwr on February 12, 2007 - 10:30am.

I'd guess that
sudo "ifconfig en1 down; sleep 3600; ifconfig en1 up"
would give you a one-hour outage, but I've not tried it. Worst case, make a text file called "airport-outage.sh" in your home directory, and give it the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig en1 down
sleep 3600
ifconfig en1 up

After that, pull up a terminal and run:
chmod 755 /Users/yourusername/airport-outage.sh
Now, you can change your outage procedure to:
sudo /Users/yourusername/airport-outage.sh
Any of these options will leave your terminal open the entire time. Avoiding that might require you to look into the 'at' command and its relative time specifiers.

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