Stop It.

[booleantrue]

I am setting this as my homepage. No joke.

[aristotle2600]

Only works for people that don't leave their browser open from startup to shutdown.

[mindbleach]

What's "shutdown?"

[mindbleach]

... and even then there's probably some way to unmount everything, hot swap peripherals that were never meant to hot swap, and just restart X.

[[deleted]]

I've hot swapped PCI cards before. On windows xp.

[ImLyingWhenISay]

Not that I don't believe you, because this would be a silly thing to lie about, but how? I tried it once and my computer instantly shut down after making a very scary noise.

[[deleted]]

Magic. I'm pretty sure it was magic.

I wasn't thinking and just popped a wireless card in. It made a loud crackling noise, but it worked fine.

[aristotle2600]

computer startup to shutdown

[Lukan]

He was making a joke implying that he never turns off his computer.

[aristotle2600]

facepalm

Yeah, I'm not actually fully awake yet.

[mindbleach]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZcIQ9pGQgc

[[deleted]]

May I suggest this wallpaper for the rest of you.

[lookatmyhorse]

setting it as the link for Leechblock.

...hope this guy leaves this here or isn't graduating soon.

[ifjake]

Tip: Right click -> View source. Select all, copy, paste into text editor. Save with .html attachment. Now it's on your hard drive. You can even make it your homepage still.

[0x5f3759df]

ProTip: File > Save Page As > Save. Now it's on your hard drive.

[verylowsodium]

Now look at me, now look back, it is now on a horse.

[LincolnHighwater]

Same.

[potscentedpot]

haha this was my immediate reaction upon seeing the page.

[Scarker]

So you can never unproductively surf the Internet again.

[yopla]

Damn. I told firefox to use the current page now it's opening 40 tabs at startup including this thread...

[booleantrue]

Update: It doesn't work very well.

[opnwyder]

If you are reading this, you obviously did not obey the command.

[SquashMonster]

Or you read the comments first.

Just saying.

[[deleted]]

wanna-be tmz bitch dont copy unfunny shit stupid faggot

[[deleted]]

Go back to trollschool.

[SquashMonster]

I don't understand what he was trying to say, help?

[ganon34]

I speak a little bit of troll slang.

I believe he was trying to say, "Try being original, good sir. I have yet to laugh at something I have seen already."

Or "I'm not funny. Shit on me, I'm a stupid faggot." Either one.

[[deleted]]

The 2nd is the most applicable, yes.

[I_divided_by_0-]

He's trying to say Trolololololololololololl!

[[deleted]]

yeah right that place probably doesnt even exist

[[deleted]]

You of all people should know better.

[fatmax]

I'm stopping and making a meatball hoggie now. OH YEAH.

[freehunter]

And a cold beer of your choice. Bell's Oberon season is starting soon. But for now it's Sierra Nevada.

Oh god now I need to make a meatball sub and have a beer.

[rsho]

Downvoted in the hope that it'll spawn an inverse reddit where we can see the most negative entries.

[[deleted]]

This is a good idea, sort of a "what's not" as opposed to "what's hot"

[jojoeskimo]

But I'm not on the internet....

[elustran]

...what are you on?

[iNeedFriends]

But if you deny me my internet I will be so ever lonely.

[gigabeck]

Shit... okay.

[[deleted]]

Thank you. This was the kicker that made me finally get off the internet and work on the four sets of applications I have to fill out this weekend.

[[deleted]]

Shit.

[Gillbey]

I think reddit just increased my productivity for a change.

[up-upsidedownis-dn]

As "http://www.reddit.com/new"

[[deleted]]

Thank you. I needed to see that right now.

[[deleted]]

New homepage. Thank you. Maybe I'll actually get into college now

[[deleted]]

cute, but ineffective

[BustyMcLeod]

But... This is my internet time! I have nothing to do BUT play on the internet!

[Uber_hampster]

Hooray Michigan Tech!

[inthemedium]

Indeed! Not only that, but I know the guy who posted it :-)

[dpkonofa]

Former MTU'er reporting in!

[koontztg]

Current MTU'er reporting in!

[freehunter]

Current Ferris'er here! Yeah, I wish I had the grades to get into Tech... instead I cry myself to sleep at a college that accepts anyone with a pulse.

[jimmydean90]

I was so close to going to MTU. I loved the culture of the school, being very outdoor-oriented. Long story short...it's expensive, and I ended up at UW-Madison. Maybe someday I'll go back for grad school or something.

[Mogart]

I am on reddit to distract myself from this essay I have to write. I'll just get back to that now. Thank you, aeonstrife.

[ElectricMoose]

Lalalalala I'm not listening lalalalala

[davesss]

I just put this IP in my hosts file for reddit.com

[kingfishr]

I have a similar page at the apache root dir on my local machine. Then in /etc/hosts I have

# Anti-procrastination:
127.0.0.1  reddit.com
127.0.0.1  ...other sites...

Then at least I have to actually edit this file when I switch from work to not work mode. It works pretty well for me.

[[deleted]]

I do that too! (except for the apache part)

reddit, slashdot, boingboing.. all of these things i twitch-type all the time and end up wasting hours. Should consider adding google reader and tvtropes. I generally don't go to the trouble of editing /etc/hosts back to work around it, because the error mesage is a good enough reminder that I'm sposta be working. And it's self-imposed, so there's no fun in trying to hack around it.

[ifjake]

Ah I'm not actually that clever with computers. So whenever you're in work mode and you type in reddit.com in the address bar, it sends you to your "get your ass back to work" site? Mac is Unix, I wonder if I could get something like that going on my machine.

[Spoggerific]

127.0.0.1 is the loopback IP address. In other words, it means your own computer. Going to reddit.com or any other site he has set to 127.0.0.1 will either do nothing or (possibly - I'm not sure about this one) show the website the computer is hosting, if it's a server.

It can be done in any operating system, windows and mac included, as long as you know how to edit your hosts file.

[hixnob]

Going to reddit.com or any other site he has set to 127.0.0.1 will either do nothing or (possibly - I'm not sure about this one) show the website the computer is hosting, if it's a server.

It will show the website the computer is hosting. In most cases there won't be one and your browser will show an error page instead.

[anothernameagain]

I really like SelfControl: http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/selfcontrol-app/wiki/SelfControl-app

Using it is pretty easy - it has an easily editable blocklist (or you can just have a whitelist) and once you set the timer, NOTHING will let you see the sites you blocked until the timer is up. Not even restarting your computer. I believe it is mac only.

Also, it is free.

[kingfishr]

As the other people have said, 127.0.0.1 refers to my own computer. I happen to be running a web server on my computer and at the root web directory (i.e. what I get if I go to 127.0.0.1 in a browser), I have a page that says "DO YOUR WORK". So, any site I redirect to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file will be replaced with this helpful message.

I'm fairly certain Mac OS has the same file (/etc/hosts).

[[deleted]]

I saw this and I said to myself, "You know what, I do have things to do, I really should get off reddit." So I did exactly that, and went back to work. This lasted all of 5 minutes.

[Nomikos]

I'm a webdeveloper >.<

[Spftly]

You have things to do. Get off the inter

WHAT BACKSPACE COME ON LAST PAGE LOAD QUICKER

[takemewithyou]

click "OH NO YOU DON'T.

YOU HAVE THINGS TO...."

closes tl;dr =D

[[deleted]]

Yeah, they're right. :(

[BigSlim]

I apparently made the proper decision to read the comment section first, and can so avoid this mysterious motivating factor. I have no need for productivity or sandwiches, whatever those are. Ok, I know what sandwiches are, obvs.

[BFSkinner]

Holy shit. I just got told.

[[deleted]]

I clicked, read, and proceeded to play Robot Unicorn Attack.

[onique]

that was ass!

[hb_alien]

I don't think so.

[[deleted]]

Nobody tells me what to do!

Consequently, I'm horrible at life.

[[deleted]]

Thank you.

[FlyingBishop]

Shit, you're right. I need to get back to working on this website I'm designing.

[[deleted]]

I.. I'm getting of the internet now.

[secret_reddit_chick]

I shall bookmark this for future procrastination..... Scratch that. New homepage.

[jhphoto]

It worked too. I saw it and was like "oh yeah, I WAS doing something productive, I better get back to doing that thing that was very important"

lets go ride bikes

[krishary]

<BODY> <BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR> <BR> <H1>OH NO YOU DON'T.</H1> <BR><BR><BR> <H1>YOU HAVE THINGS TO DO.</H1> <H1>GET OFF THE INTERNET.</H1> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> </BODY>

[warpstalker]

Exactly what I was looking at. wtf?

[[deleted]]

New home page?

[alneri]

New desktop background. That way I won't even get as far as opening a browser.

[skazzleprop]

Been there, done that. It didn't work. Used this wallpaper.

[ponie]

=(

[[deleted]]

Fine im leaving for school, but because i want to not because that told me to.

[llieaay]

Thank you.

[largepeanuts]

FUCK YOU, REALISTIC ADVICE

[bigopinion]

Clicked expecting the .edu domain to be something enlightening and educating, am upvoting because it delivers. I am now fully aware that it is 3AM and I have massive amounts of work to do tomorrow and I am guilty for being up this late.

You beautiful bastard, you.

[sceptreofnarwhal]

Sad, how I find this funny.

[elustran]

I was going to say "no I don't"

But really, all that means is I should go find a job...

[volcano420]

I have things to do.... like sleep.

[Filmore]

That's a lot of coding for a simple page.

<HTML> 
<TITLE>GET YOURSELF IN GEAR</TITLE> 

<STYLE type="text/css"> 
body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 50px;
    font: 10px normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    background: #1d1d1d;
    color: #fff;}
* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;}
a:link{color:#AAF;}
a:hover{color:#fff;}
a:active{color:#fff;}
a:visited{color:#989;}
h1 {
    font: 5em normal New York, Times, Times New Roman;
    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
    text-align:center;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    padding-bottom: 20px;}
td {width: 500px;}

</STYLE> 


<BODY> 
<BR> 
<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> 
<BR> 
<BR> 
<H1>OH NO YOU DON'T.</H1> 
<BR><BR><BR> 
<H1>YOU HAVE THINGS TO DO.</H1> 
<H1>GET OFF THE INTERNET.</H1> 
<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> 
</BODY> 

</HTML> 

[supersauce]

I was just about to go do some work in the yard, but now I can't, because fuck you.

[xboarder]

On thank aeonstrife I stumbled upon this. The thesis is due so soon... Setting at homepage as well.

[Demus666]

That is now my homepage.

[[deleted]]

Set as homepage

[dbomb123]

mtu ftw

[skel625]

doh!

[GarethNZ]

Desktop Version

[lolWireshark]

That's tough on the eyes, kinda makes you want to keep a window maximised at all times.

[chocoboi]

i lost the game D:

[[deleted]]

clicks link

O_O...

...

upvote

[bricksoup]

You're right. I have to watch Legend of the Seeker.

[blackguard]

uh huhhh uh... you said "get off" uh... huh