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  1. Reverse engineering vs. clean-room by jameson · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Linux SCUMM Interpreter

    Reverse-engineering is the 'straightforward' path. The problem with this is that it raises copyright problems; if LucasArts cared, they might try to sue them (the Win32 only NAGI interpreter has the same problem).

    The FreeSCI project (and, for the most part, Sarien) have chosen the more painful path of a clean-room reimplementation for this reason: One group does the decoding and documents everything, the other group implements (and, occasionally, guesses). IANAL, but as far as I know, this is perfectly legal.
    (OK, reverse engineering for interoperability purposes is legal anyway, but not in some foreign countries like the US).

  2. "googler" does a similar thing... by mikecheng · · Score: 1 · on Don't Eat the Yellow Links

    I wrote a little proggy which does something similar to kazaa... except it's not dynamic. You can statically change *all* text in a html page to links to google/ bablefish/ everything2 etc. It's as useless as hell, but i'll think of a use for it someday... later mike (and yes, i realise it could probably be done in one line of perl)

  3. "googler" does a similar thing... by mikecheng · · Score: 1 · on Don't Eat the Yellow Links

    I wrote a little proggy which does something similar to kazaa... except it's not dynamic. You can statically change *all* text in a html page to links to google/ bablefish/ everything2 etc. It's as useless as hell, but i'll think of a use for it someday... later mike (and yes, i realise it could probably be done in one line of perl)

  4. "googler" does a similar thing... by mikecheng · · Score: 1 · on Don't Eat the Yellow Links

    I wrote a little proggy which does something similar to kazaa... except it's not dynamic. You can statically change *all* text in a html page to links to google/ bablefish/ everything2 etc. It's as useless as hell, but i'll think of a use for it someday... later mike (and yes, i realise it could probably be done in one line of perl)

  5. "googler" does a similar thing... by mikecheng · · Score: 1 · on Don't Eat the Yellow Links

    I wrote a little proggy which does something similar to kazaa... except it's not dynamic. You can statically change *all* text in a html page to links to google/ bablefish/ everything2 etc. It's as useless as hell, but i'll think of a use for it someday... later mike (and yes, i realise it could probably be done in one line of perl)

  6. Mirror by Xenex · · Score: 2 · on Konqueror Embeds Mozilla with XParts
    Due to a possible Slashdotting, here is a mirror I just chucked up on my ISP's webspace.

    Embedding external parts into KDE

    Straight URL is
    http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pjmenz/K/lars xpar ts.html

    Have fun.

  7. Re:General... by PHr0D · · Score: 1 · on John Carmack On Consoles Vs. Personal Computers

    I hate -- absolutely HATE -- NTSC...it is just aweful and I am still amazed we tolerate it daily.

    I can tell by the context that you don't actually mean that NTSC fills you with awe

    But what about John Carmacks Brains?


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