SelfControl -- The Linux port!

The SelfControl page of Steve Lambert http://visitsteve.com/work/selfcontrol
The source for the Mac OS X version http://github.com/slambert/selfcontrol
From what I gathered from a quick look at the source and comments, the purpose of the program is to block access to certain web sites (Blacklist for a period of time with no easy way to unblock access. (SPOILER: It's always possible to get around something if you try hard enough, but we can make it not easy. **THIS IS RELEASE 0.9** This version for Linux systems uses the Perl language (should be installed on any modern distribution, some Perl modules (YAML, Gtk2 which may be installed via the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN or may be available as installable packages via your distributions standard package ma

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