Comments on: digg.com Decreases Work Productivity by 43% http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/ Custom Software Development Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:27:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Jason http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-2211 Jason Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:42:43 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-2211 Thanks Erik. More complete than mine - I like it! Mu Life - you can't judge a book by it's cover, but we do it on digg all the time anyway! Thanks Erik. More complete than mine – I like it!

Mu Life – you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, but we do it on digg all the time anyway!

]]> By: The Mu Life » Social Bookmarking: Vote != Bookmark http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-2060 The Mu Life » Social Bookmarking: Vote != Bookmark Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:37:47 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-2060 [...] A lot of the people voting on stories (especially voting that continues on even though content on the other side of the link is unavailable) are doing so because they want to bookmark the link to either read it when they have time, or to read it when the website is not down because of a sudden surge of traffic. [...] [...] A lot of the people voting on stories (especially voting that continues on even though content on the other side of the link is unavailable) are doing so because they want to bookmark the link to either read it when they have time, or to read it when the website is not down because of a sudden surge of traffic. [...]

]]> By: Erik http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Erik Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:54:48 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-53 Here is mine. I already had a modified host file, so this works better for me. Also, this is just one batch file that does both the blocking and unblocking. REM Remember to include the blockedhosts.txt TITLE Bock and Unblock Hosts IF EXIST %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak ( COPY %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts DEL %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak CLS ECHO Hosts have been successfully returned to normal PAUSE EXIT ) ELSE ( COPY %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak COPY %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts+%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\blockedhosts.txt /A %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts CLS ECHO Hosts have been successfully blocked PAUSE EXIT ) Here is mine. I already had a modified host file, so this works better for me. Also, this is just one batch file that does both the blocking and unblocking.

REM Remember to include the blockedhosts.txt

TITLE Bock and Unblock Hosts

IF EXIST %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak (

COPY %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

DEL %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak

CLS
ECHO Hosts have been successfully returned to normal
PAUSE
EXIT

) ELSE (

COPY %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak

COPY %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts+%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\blockedhosts.txt /A %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

CLS
ECHO Hosts have been successfully blocked
PAUSE
EXIT

)

]]> By: Game Producer http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Game Producer Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:40:36 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-42 Hah, great post. Is there some sort of blocker batches to coffeine addicts as well? ;) Hah, great post. Is there some sort of blocker batches to coffeine addicts as well? ;)

]]> By: Jason http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Jason Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:25:15 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-41 @arnott, you could write one easily for Linux. Linux uses a hosts file as well located at /etc/hosts - the batch scripts could be converted to a simple shell scripts (just change copy to cp and update the paths). then you would use cron to schedule it. The concept is exactly the same on both systems. @arnott, you could write one easily for Linux. Linux uses a hosts file as well located at /etc/hosts – the batch scripts could be converted to a simple shell scripts (just change copy to cp and update the paths). then you would use cron to schedule it. The concept is exactly the same on both systems.

]]> By: Jason http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Jason Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:23:17 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-40 Hey Moe, I noticed the same thing. Firefox must be caching DNS. But, it seems to expire after about 10 minutes or so. Hey Moe, I noticed the same thing. Firefox must be caching DNS. But, it seems to expire after about 10 minutes or so.

]]> By: Oropher http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Oropher Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:08:58 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-39 I am totally addicted to Digg... I am totally addicted to Digg…

]]> By: Rodney http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Rodney Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:08:27 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-36 I find digg saves me time by not surfing randomly, but nontheless this is a great idea in general to focus back on my work. I find digg saves me time by not surfing randomly, but nontheless this is a great idea in general to focus back on my work.

]]> By: Kris L http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Kris L Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:47:37 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-35 one suggestion, in case someone has a customized hosts file already. block.bat- copy %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak copy /a blockedhosts.bat+%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts unblock.bat copy %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts one suggestion, in case someone has a customized hosts file already.

block.bat-
copy %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak
copy /a blockedhosts.bat+%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

unblock.bat
copy %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

]]> By: C_c http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2006/09/28/diggcom-decreases-work-productivity-by-43/comment-page-1/#comment-34 C_c Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:01:24 +0000 http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=55#comment-34 Thanks, it will help for my digg addiction too :~ Thanks, it will help for my digg addiction too :~

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