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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. fp by pair-a-noyd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    W00t!!!

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    Google U.S. Puzzle Championship

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  3. Is there anything like Slashdot only good? by nzyank · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someplace you can get useful info and useful *pertinent* submissions actually submitted? This article is crap and a waste of time. Please don't mod this offtopic. And who better to judge than me? I've been following this site for years under different guises.

  4. Jeff Breidenbach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm more impressed by his handmade LCD stand.

  5. first.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First "this guy is a LOSER" post!

    Or is that, GNU/loser?

  6. Linux Today: Munich goes with Open Source Software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please, read about the final decision of the city. It is official - 14000 computers move to Linux. Huge win for Open Source. The snowball starts rolling...

  7. Resources by blogeasy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is this an appropriate use of resources?

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    Browse the Information Directory
  8. Re:This is the problem with Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    millennium has two n's in there

  9. Can you imagine.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A Beowulf cluster of these badboys?

    Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore!

  10. Linux Today: Munich goes with Open Source Softwar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003052802126 NWDTPB

    Please, read about the final decision of the city. It is official - 14000 computers move to Linux. Huge win for Open Source. The snowball starts rolling..

  11. Webster.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...is your friend, especially when you can't spell.

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

    Nice troll, I've gotta admit :-)

    Got you, didn't he? And you even posted twice, including your post below.

    YHBT
    HAND

  13. A ha! by BLiP2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "DataGlyphs have been used in several Xerox products ... Applications may include document management, fraud prevention, inventory tracking, ID cards, parts marking or product tagging.

    So thats how all this watermarking technology on copy machines to catch counterfeiters works...

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  14. Re:This is the problem with Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    That would be "an" idiot. Not "a" idiot!

    ... idiot.

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

    You certainly are.