A few occasional blips during your workday are inevitable. But, if these distractions become consistent habits, they can hurt the quality of your work and productivity. While some productivity killers are apparent, others disguise themselves as necessary tasks. If you're not careful, these time wasters can easily sneak into your day and waste hours. Recognizing these activities and using appropriate tools to counteract them can help you regain control over your time. 1. Spike [1] to Reduce Email Overload Reading and responding to emails is one of t...
Starting in 1991, every copy of MS-DOS [1] (and many versions of Windows) included a hidden artillery game called Gorillas . It inspired a generation of programmers and drew the ire of computer lab instructors everywhere. Here's how it came to be—and how to play it today. The Simple Magic of Gorillas It's 1992, and you're sitting in your school's computer lab. In between assignments, you whisper to your friend, "Check this out." In the C:\DOS directory, you run QBASIC.EXE, then load up GORILLA.BAS. Before long, you and a friend are two gorillas battling it out atop skyscrapers with exploding bananas. If you grew up with an IBM PC compatible during the early-mid 1990s, chances are high that you've either seen or played Gorillas , a free QBasic [2] game first included with MS-DOS [3] 5.0 in 1991. It was distributed with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of PCs in the 1990s. Gorillas builds off a long, proud lineage of artillery ...
Diego Thomazini/Shutterstock.com [1] Discord [2] is the foundation of many online communities and a great way to connect with people to play online games. Like any online service, Discord can experience outages. So here's how to troubleshoot that issue when it arises. Update, 2/15/22 3:09 pm Eastern: Discord was down for about half an hour on the afternoon of February 15, 2022. It was back up a bit after 3 pm Eastern time. Check Discord's Status Page If you're having trouble connecting to Discord, first check whether the service is experiencing an outage. You can do this using the Discord status page [3] , which should report any problems. If you're having particular problems with one aspect of Discord, like notifications or calling, you can see whether these individual services are running as intended. If you find that Discord is having trouble and the "All Systems Operational" message isn't showing, it's time to sit tight and w...
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