Game Junkie Control

[jmar2]

I'm looking for a really simple program to put on my wife's computer. She wants to be able to go to www.gsn.com and play for ONE HALF-HOUR only, instead of the several hours the site sucks her into.

Ideally, a window will pop-up saying: "You have five minutes till shutdown." Then if she doesn't exit, the program would lock her out for twenty-four hours.

I vaguely remember reading about a program that did this, there was some super-long password key you could override the lockout with if your sex life became jeopardized, but now I can't find any programs except the net-nanny style that promise to tell Mom how many times you've gone to those 'bad' places.

Paying for the software is fine - I just want it simple: no reports, no electric shocks, etc.

Any ideas? (Yes, I already manually go into the hosts file and block her, but she's tired of begging me to lock/unlock. We'd really like to use a programmed version)

Thanks.

John

[CCT]

This sounds like a lack of parental supervision - call her Mom!


Or maybe just buy an Indoor/Outdoor timer and set it for the time she wants to play and hook the monitor to it (sudden power loss won't hurt it) and there ya go.

Or maybe this: http://www.buffalosoftware.net/pctimer.htm

[NooNoo]

this promises to shut down a particular program
Or
Schedule times during the day when Internet is enabled

I have never used either, but they look promising

[Ferrit]

Vista does that with parental controls right out of the box. It can be set for time, limited time, days of the week or whatever.

[CeeBee]

So why does she prefer playing with the computer over playing with you?
You can write a batch file and integrate pskill, after a predefined amount of time popup a message, then later kill the browser...

[jmar2]

Thanks all.

[NooNoo]

So which one did you use and does it do what you needed?

[jmar2]

I'm writing my own, thanks for all your help.

John

[NooNoo]

Interesting solution! What made you decide to write your own and what language will you use?

[CeeBee]

Interesting solution! What made you decide to write your own and what language will you use?

He's gonna write it in plain english:

if(endGame)
{
  moveTo(you,bed);
  hotAction(you,me);
  happyness(you,me);
}
else
{
  computer.unplugDelay(now(),1800);
  hotAction(me,hand);
  hotAction(you,toy);
  happyness(null,null);
}
now.Dammit();

[NooNoo]

I see you have had to write similar stuff before Ceebee

[CeeBee]

I see you have had to write similar stuff before Ceebee

No, my wife wrote something similar years ago about me having another joystick available to play

[NooNoo]

I see.... let's change the subject.