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I’m playing with the FlexLab right now… it could use a decent amount of improvement. It appears to be some version of a reshelled VNC client-server paradigm. It has the same, annoying lag – maybe 100ms, minimum. Seems totally overrated – horrible interface and latency problems. It also doesn’t have any resolution to speak of: 800x600px – I don’t know what they’re doing.

The game robo.hack is the result of the last month’s worth of coding by myself, Karthik Viswanthan, and Virup Gubba. It is based on nethack, and should be relatively easy to learn.

System Requirements

The following are required for installation:

• Java Runtime Environment Version 1.60+
• Minimum of 2 MB space for game itself and about 100 MB including JDK
• Preferred 200 MB

Installation Instructions

Robo.hack can be run by clicking on the executable jar file with the aforementioned system requirements.

How to Play

Robo.hack’s controls are completely outlined on the title screen. Use the arrow keys to move and the q, w, e, a, s, d, z, and c to attack (eight different directions means eight keys, centered at s). The inventory and player status can be toggled using the ‘i’ and ‘p’ keys respectively. Once toggled, the up/down arrow buttons should be pressed to target the correct item or skill. Subsequently, hit enter to either add a skill point or use an item. To untoggle, use the escape or delete key, or press the enable key again.

Following the title screen, the player will be prompted for a profession. Pick the one of your choice by hitting the respective key.

Now just explore throughout the world and try to beat all the levels. Monsters will attack you on the way. They will drop various items and weapons for you to use on your journey. As you continue to fight, you’ll gain experience and skill points, which you can use to power up your abilities. Think wisely. Play wisely. Good luck!

Hopefully you won’t see this screen on your journey.

You can download the game here:
robo.hack.zip

robo.hack is released under the GPL v3, source available soon!

Leave any questions and/or comments below.

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For those of you who haven’t tried it, the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 is available for download.

Go here to start the download.

You probably want to download the 32-bit version, as it is more likely to work on your computer. The total download size is 684.84MB, so it will take a while to download.

While Microsoft will give you a key, here’s a few MAKs so you don’t have to do it.

• PYMDW-8DFY2-Y68BB-XHDGD-CT443
• 2PWHY-KT4X6-96PYW-XQR7V-HW2W9

After you have installed Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta, please follow these steps:

Step 1: Open Microsoft Word 2010 Beta and click on the “File” tab. This will take you to the Backstage view. Next click “Help” in the set of tabs on the left.

Step 2: Click “Change Product Key” on the right side of the screen.

Step 3: Enter the Multiple Activation Key (MAK) displayed above. Please check the box to activate automatically or restart the app to activate using the activation dialog box.

Step 4: That’s all you need to do. Entering the MAK key in Microsoft Word 2010 Beta automatically activates all the Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta applications. Click on the “File” tab to return to the Document view.

Source: www.amitbhawani.com

So I realized pretty quickly that manually updating a snarf site is quite annoying. I suppose it isn’t so bad if you’re Mr. Peck, but I just wrote a short little PHP script to go and update it for me.

They are as follows:

snarf.php Downloads a snarf XML file from a server, opens it, and downloads all of the projects listed inside of it. It then creates its own snarf.xml. Variables are on the top of the code, to download, right-click and save as…

create_snarf.php Goes through a non-recursive filename search through a directory, then creates a snarf.xml for it. It’s pretty easy to improve this one, but I never got around to it. Things for the future:

• Add recursion for folders
• Add folder-based categories

transfer.php This is the one that is both the simplest and the most time consuming. It reads a given snarf file, and downloads the projects. What took a really long time on this one was the “downloading” bit… It appears that PHP doesn’t have a built-in downloader that accepts inputs from my string… I just used wget in the end. Note: This will not maintain category structure while downloading, it all goes in ‘./’.

Currently, since Mr. Peck’s snarf isn’t back up yet, they are all coded to point at www.aeturnalus.com/snarf/snarf.xml. When the district’s server port gets opened up, I’ll point it at http://205.173.41.8/staff/peck_george/notemplate/apcssnarf/snarf.xml to mirror the snarf with one click.

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