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Play GNU Chess On Your Scanner

Posted by timothy on from the time-on-hands dept.

leighklotz writes "Debian developer and Internet Mail Archive founder Jeff Breidenbach of PARC has made GlyphChess, a chess-playing copier using Python, GNU Chess and DataGlyphs attached to the bottom of the pieces. DataGlyphs are cool 2D barcodes made out of / and \ marks for ones and zeros that use the coding from CDs for error coding. If you don't happen to have a Xerox machine at home, it also works with SANE..."

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  1. This has to have something to do with linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    otherwise none of you sweaty fucks would give a shit.

    suck my cue cat

  2. Go RMS by McAddress · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I am sure that this was the last remaining wall between having free software and tyranny.

  3. Here's some flamebait. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GNU Chess lets most modern computers play a full game of chess. It has a plain terminal interface

    So did my commodore. Hurray for GNU.

  4. How about you GNU hippies create something useful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think getting Lunix on the desktop is a lot more important than jerking off onto a scanner.

  5. Re:This is the problem with Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You are a idiot.

    Whats more, your posts show that you have absolutely no experience with windows (here's a tip, media player automatically downloads codecs as needed), and no idea how to use a windows machine - one can assume you're another wannabe know-nothing who talks too fucking much and couldnt set the time on a VCR let alone contribute anything to the CS world.

    Please die and go wherever fat sweaty linux fucks go after their bloated carcasses rot.