Some of you may have noticed the postings from RoboCodeDwarf in the "last pirate to post here gets the gold" thread. I needed to test out code for automatically posting web forms to a BOINC project (the way an AMS might, though that's not the only way it might be used). So as you can see, I got it to work. The "trick" to it is now in the PHP manual.

The name is a play on "RoboSciMon", which is a similar tool which makes automated entries in the LIGO electronic logbook. (The LIGO scientist who is on duty and making entries in the logbook is the "SciMon", the science monitor.)

I normally would not want anyone to run such a bot, so I'll turn this off now that it's working. I just thought I'd explain what's going on, and say thanks for letting us borrow the gold for a bit. :-)

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

If you ever cast the incantation to bring him back from The Locker, I hope you can teach him how to sound like a Pirate?

He never even uttered an "Arrr!" the poor tormented soul.