Welcome Functions, one and all, to the wonderful world of the CyCon

[Drogue]

Hmmm, the game is password protected, but the password is on the forum (deleted by Googlie). However, if it won't let you DL, I'll email it. Lemme try and DL too, to check.

[Maniac]

I can't download either. I guess the only way to make it downloadable for us, is to upload it and link to it like you did last time.

[Method]

well i've sent mark a message about it, we'll see what he has to say.

[Drogue]

Actually, since it is still passworded, I could upload it on the main forum? Or I link it. Which is easier for the future?

[Drogue]

Have linked in the Turn Report thread. Hope that works.

[Method]

it does. time for a poll, now that i have a screenshot.

[Method]

ok, i think it's time we had some sort of general thread, rec commons-ish. i'd start one, but i think we need a consensus on the name first. Cyber Café, the Rhocreation ComMuns (or Comnicrons) blah, i don't know. i just think we need somewhere to get hammered post general things that don't fit in any particular thread

[Googlie]

Can binary/english translators be different?

For english to binary I'm using:

http://damnit.org/myself/binary/

but it doesn't translate back with:

http://www.plinko.net/binary/toenglish.asp

what gives?

(hence the confusing "googliespeak" in the general thread)

G.

[Corellion]

Hm, that would explain it, let me check them out

As for TKG's suggestion, I whole-heartedly agree. For a name, I think something simple, but computer-related would work... like the Network Uplink, or the Network Node (although Comnicrons has a certain ring to it)

[Corellion]

Hmm, Googlie's translator doesn't work. It outputs the wrong number of characters even. Each character that one can type on a standard character is represented by a series of 8 digits, each either a 1 or a zero (hence the 8 bits in a byte). Thus, each character takes up 1 byte. Thus, the number of digits in a binary message should always be a multiple of 8. http://damnit.org/myself/binary , however, gives a non-multiple-of-8 when translating. Everybody just stick to using these two sites... it'll keep things consistent.

http://plinko.net/binary/toenglish.asp

http://plinko.net/binary/tobinary.asp

[Corellion]

Sorry to drag this up again, but I still believe we need a new system for encrypting our binary messages. We could use a system that's simpler than our current one, even, but we need to do something about the chance someone will continually delete digits from the beginning until they get a coherent message. We could just do something like insert a single random character after the fourth digit of every message. It's simpler and more foolproof!

[Googlie]

Yeah - I've dumped the damnit site and use the plinko's both ways now (hence my edits in the last two or three general thread posts)

As an aside, I'm assuming the end-of-string matching number of #'s isn't happening

G.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Corellion
We could just do something like insert a single random character after the fourth digit of every message.

How about we insert a number after the fourth digit, but ikf that digit is a 0, we insert another one after it.

Thus Hello which is 0100100001100101011011000110110001101111 uncoded, can be written as either:
01001100001100101011011000110110001101111 (with a 1 inserted after the 4th digit) or
010000100001100101011011000110110001101111 (with a 0, ands thus another character, a 0 in this case) while in code.

[Corellion]

Sounds good

[DeathByTheSword]

we have the coding program of cedayon right? or do we put things infront of that code too?....i have been out of it awhile so give me an update