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I’m not really a gamer, I think this has to do with a lack of skill, its no fun playing Americas Army if you die in 30 seconds, and yes they have a Linux installer. One game that I do come back to every now and then is nethack, however just like Americas Army I still die every 30 seconds. My solution … cheat. I use two simple shell scripts (backup.sh and restore.sh) to cheat.

How to cheat

1. Save backup.sh and restore.sh in /var/games
2. Play nethack I use nethack-gnome
3. When you get to a spot you want to save, save and exit <ctrl + s>
4. Using a terminal navigate to /var/games and run sudo sh backup.sh
5. Reload nethack and continue to play
6. If you die or need to reload your save point exit nethack navigate to /var/games and run sudo sh restore.sh then run nethack again

backup.sh
[sourcecode language="jscript"]
rm -rf nethack.bak
cp -ra nethack nethack.bak
[/sourcecode]

restore.sh
[sourcecode language="jscript"]
rm -rf nethack
cp -ra nethack.bak nethack
[/sourcecode]

It would be really great if someone created a version of nethack-gnome with cheating built right in.

Tags: cheating, games, HowTo, nethack

So today I woke up and the first thing I did was order my OLPC XO from the Give One Get One program. I have had my hands on one of these a few times and they are great little toys and a good cause.

For me I think its a little peace of history (as well as a cool toy), despise the ups (could not find a link where they signed a country) and downs that the OLPC project has had I feel that they it has been largely responsible for the classmate pc and has even lent some credibility to walmarts gOS, and to a lesser extent Asus’s Eee PC.

So to me its a great offer and it only lasts till November 26 just in time for Christmas. I promise to post more when I have it.

Tags: charity, laptop, olpc, one laptop per child, third world