IS THERE A WAY TO BLOCK ILE FROM YR COMPUTER?

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I'm wasting far too much time here.

― , Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is there?

― , Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You could throw your computer out of the window.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I don't want to do that.

― , Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have restricted myself to partaking of the fine intellectual fare on offer at ILE only in the evening, in the interests of remaining employed just that little bit longer. Presumably you could just pop in at lunch......blocking it will just make you pine and waste as much time grizzling.

― Wilfred the Beagle, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

net nanny!

― jel, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you go to your bookmarks and remove it? ( Managing your bookmarks?)

― Gale Deslongchamps, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had to actually take the internet connection out of the work computer. You could probably draw a graph of my takings, and the time I ws on ILE at work would be a big dip.

― Norman Phay, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I seriously feel like I'm compulsively checking ILE, and I need some advice as to how to stop. Work is suffering and I am feeling inable to concentrate. This is symptomatic of bigger problems. I don't blame ILE.

― , Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Norman's advice is blunt but practical. If that's not feasible...could you get your web browsers removed from your computer, or do you need them in order to work?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm on the web almost all day for work, ILE was my little breaktime but it seems to be swallowing up my work time.

― , Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Position your screen so coworkers can see what you are doing i.e. maximize the guilt quotient.

― bnw, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or you could try and set up something that blocks you from accessing the greenspun.com domain.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's gone from an exercise of freedom to an addiction, just like my co-worker who can't get out of the chat rooms. Think of it that way: you don't have freedom anymore. If you're going to slack, you should seek ways to do it that are beneficial: download reading material, make art with the paint software, write articles or stories or poems. If you practice, you will be able to wean yourself from ILE. It's not healthy: you're spending too much time thinking about strangers.

― Kerry, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The opposite advice might work; don't feel guilty about it, don't bar yourself from it, in fact, tell yourself that you're free to be saturated in ILE, think about looking at ILE for days and days on end and doing nothing else, force yourself to look at ILE for as long as you can tolerate, in every way remove its mystique and draw. The main point is, if you want to give up something you have to be bored by it, and it's easy to get bored by anything, so just think about how ILE can become boring to you. And on the other hand, you have to elevate the value of the alternates to what you're trying to give up. Think about yourself as a person who's 'better than that'; be a snob. Look down on other people who're addicted to the internet, with compassion, of course. Representative rituals sometimes work psychologically. For example, make a little drawing of a yourself looking at a computer and write ILE on it and burn it up and present yourself with something that represents the pleasures of life without ILE to you.

― Luke, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

say something on ILE that is so ridiculous that you are ashamed to come back.

― rainy, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy that obviously doesn't work, you're still around!

― ethan, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you're so lovely Ethan.

― rainy, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

save it for the love thread!

― maryann, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no.

― rainy, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is astonishingly addictive, isn't it? Why? Is ASCII the killer ap!

No, it's community (and intelligent community at that) which is the killer ap. That and the fact that, unlike the rest of the web, ILE changes every few seconds, and responds to what you do. Maybe spending three days with the adrenalin, the brainstorming, the give-and-take of a good thread is the best way you could spend those three days. But if it's every day...

My solution to addiction is to go away for three months or so. Take an ILE holiday. Contribute like crazy for three months, then don't even think about the place for three months. Or give up every three minutes, like Gainsbourg did with cigarettes.

What the hell, if it's compelling, it must be good (as the junky said to the vicar).

― Momus, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I seriously think Rainy's suggestion is the best one so far. Anyway, addicted to ILE? Are you on crack?

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am seriously expecting any day now that my employer will crack down hard on my flagrant abuse of internet access in the office and block access from my PC for me. Since I don't have a computer of my own, that will solve my IL* addiction problem hurrah! My advice is therefore to seek professional help: let slip regularly and often to your boss some obvious hints as to what's going on.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, maybe ILx being down just now helped break the cycle. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What the hell, if it's compelling, it must be good

I'm so glad to read this, I feel a lot better now. I can easily justify my behavior with this.

― Sean, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

could you get your web browsers removed from your computer, or do you need them in order to work?
Impossible if you have Windows 2000 and IE 5.0, I have wasted hours on trying to do that searching in the MS knowledge base and in newsgroups, phoning MS product support etc. There are all these court cases of something like 50 states against MS because of that and those bastards have never made a patch or whatever available to unistall IE from Win2000. All those judges are totally worthless. And MS even had bigger earnings last quarter. This world is unfair.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm assuming that you're coming here because it meets some need (the "bigger problem" you refer to). Although cutting ILE out might address your addiction (only you can determine if this would be appropriate), it won't address the underlying need that the addiction feeds. I suggest that you focus on addressing those underlying needs, thereby disabling the addictive process.

Because most addictions serve to distance you from your own personal pain, setting them aside to look at what is beneath can be very frightening, painful, difficult and even traumatic. For this reason, you will likely benefit from some form of support via a formal or informal therapeutic relationship with a counselor, friend, or family member, or an online or offline support group. You might want to consider some form of 12 step program as a start, but if that approach doesn't sit comfortably with you, try another one. There is no one path to wellness.

Do bear in mind that this is a process. It will likely take a minimum of months, possibly even a year or two -- it's not like throwing an on/off switch. You know what your problems are. Do some research on the net, find books on the subject, read, inform yourself, make a committment to you and your own vision of wellness. Start now.

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Monday, 21 October 2002 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not convinced that it's possible to spend too much time here. On the other hand, the only times I ever look at it during work hours are during my lunch break, plus on relevant days a quick look at a FAP thread late in the afternoon before proceeding to the pub, to make sure no one has moved the meet or whatever.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 21 October 2002 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

its quite addictive but you really got to learn to control it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 21 October 2002 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I feel addicted to the computer in general to the point that it's totally unhealthy. Spider Solitaire. Free Cell. ILE. All my email accounts... Eventually, though, my eyes start to feel sort of dry and I need to turn around and look out the window or maybe even - gasp - stand outside for a quick break. Of course, I am at work... but even when I'm really working I'm on the computer... My poor eyes!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 21 October 2002 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

its a good point. my eyes don't hurt but i get tired after a while.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 21 October 2002 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

''Eventually, though, my eyes start to feel sort of dry and I need to turn around and look out the window or maybe even - gasp - stand outside for a quick break. Of course, I am at work...''

break= a rest from all the work you've doing on ILE heh.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 21 October 2002 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 21 October 2002 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

please

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha that ethan post up there is so cold

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

cutty otm, so otm

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

there is no way

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

i was just thinking this today. ilx and winter is a terrible combination.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

HELLO FAETTEYS

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

the host file! it's the key to success!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

with faetteys?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

i am actually going to make a vow not to turn my computer on when i get home from work for six months.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

it wont work

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

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