Work without distractions

Block unwanted pages from your work life

You want to work but you can't? There are too many distractions out there on the Internet?
If only someone would smack you in the face every time you open Facebook, Youtube or another webpage that distracts you from work.
Or even better: Why could these pages not be just "gone" so you can't load them anymore?

We'll give you freedom. We'll give you the solution for a more focused working. Just block all the unwanted, time consuming pages on your computer.

You can add this code to your computer. It's absolutely harmless and will cause no damage. What it does is, that each time you want to open a page like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter — or what ever page distracts you — you will be redirected to Google.

Of course you can change the redirection to another page, but since Google is very clean and non-distractive, we used this page. No, we have nothing to do with this search engine ...

All Unix based computers

It's simple: Just add this code into your /etc/hosts file.

173.194.69.99 spiegel.de
173.194.69.99 facebook.com
173.194.69.99 bild.de
173.194.69.99 youtube.com
173.194.69.99 twitter.com
173.194.69.99 www.spiegel.de
173.194.69.99 www.facebook.com
173.194.69.99 www.bild.de
173.194.69.99 www.youtube.com
173.194.69.99 www.twitter.com
173.194.69.99 de-de.facebook.com

Don't know how to do this? Here's a little help on that.

Instruction using the Terminal

Open your terminal
Go to your root. Probably after openig terminal you're in your home directory. Try this one:
```
cd ../..
```
You now should be in your root directory. It should be indicated by a slash (/) and look like this:
```
localhost:/ your-name$
```
Go to your etc folder:
```
cd etc
```
Now we're going to open the hosts file with a programme called vi. But first we have to change the rights for this file. Otherwise we couldn't save our precious changes. (Maybe you get asked for your password):
```
sudo chmod 777 hosts
```
```
vi hosts
```
Okay, if you're not familiar with the vi editor, the next steps might seem a little bit strange and uncomfortable. You can do this!
1. You've open the file hosts in vi.
2. Type into your terminal a simple i. This tells vi to insert something.
3. Go to the end of the file and paste our code from above into the file.
4. Hit esc to tell vi you want to exit the editor modus.
5. Type :wq into the terminal. That will tell vi to write the changes into the file and to quit vi.
Now we wanna quick change the rights on the hosts file. To do this you type into yout terminal window:
```
sudo chmod 444 hosts
```
You're done and good to go! Next time you'll open e.g. Facebook in your browser, you'll be redirected to Google. Your stress-free work life can start now!

All Windows based computers

Instruction using just an editor

Find the following file on your PC: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Open this file with an text-editor (not Word!). We recommend Notepad.
Paste the list above into the file and save it.
You're done. Enjoy your less distracting work life.