At 2/24/14 08:33 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 2/24/14 07:20 PM, slugrail wrote: Second day of uni and we're going to be getting into networking in a couple of hours. Had to make a Cisco student account and read through a whole load of crap I think has nothing to do with the subject.

We had to install ubuntu for some reason. The terminal terrifies me. No idea why we have to use it right now, eventually we program GBA games in C, but that's not for a while.

That's definitely way better than a 3 hour tutorial talking about rollover and straight cables. It took 2 whole hours to plugin and setup a router and a switch with this Cisco terminal crap. Just punching in a list of ipv6 install, ipconfig /all, enable commands blindly from a textbook and not understanding anything the terminal spits out is what the first tut consisted of.

At 2/25/14 07:56 AM, slugrail wrote: That's definitely way better than a 3 hour tutorial talking about rollover and straight cables

rollover, crossover, and straight-through* :P

At 2/25/14 12:41 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 2/25/14 07:56 AM, slugrail wrote: That's definitely way better than a 3 hour tutorial talking about rollover and straight cables

rollover, crossover, and straight-through* :P

Man this thing kills me, who knew a router would be this complicated to setup. So rollover is for config, crossover is for devices with the same port and straight through is for connecting to the router?
Some clarification would be awesome since I didn't even bother listening in class especially the difference between crossover and straight throughs.

At 2/26/14 09:01 AM, slugrail wrote: Some clarification would be awesome since I didn't even bother listening in class especially the difference between crossover and straight throughs.

Those are the two most common!
Omitting a bunch of stuff and oversimplifying for clarity:
Crossover is client to client (computer to computer)
Straight-through is client to server (PC to router, router to network)
Rollover is because fuck you that's why

At 2/26/14 12:37 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 2/26/14 09:01 AM, slugrail wrote: Some clarification would be awesome since I didn't even bother listening in class especially the difference between crossover and straight throughs.

Those are the two most common!
Omitting a bunch of stuff and oversimplifying for clarity:
Crossover is client to client (computer to computer)
Straight-through is client to server (PC to router, router to network)
Rollover is because fuck you that's why

Your oversimplified definition is two folds more descriptive than what the prof explained LOL

Adobe lied to us: ints can be keys for associative arrays or object maps or whatever you call Objects tryna be Dictionaries. Also I hardly have time for gamedev right now sadface

At 3/3/14 08:52 PM, MSGhero wrote: Adobe lied to us: ints can be keys for associative arrays or object maps or whatever you call Objects tryna be Dictionaries.

That's because of ECMAScript's retarded way of handling numbers and strings. It's just converting the integers to strings when used in that context, which is the same reason crap like this happens:

At 3/3/14 09:45 PM, Diki wrote: That's because of ECMAScript's retarded way of handling numbers and strings. It's just converting the integers to strings when used in that context, which is the same reason crap like this happens:

But then he grabs the key from describeType, adds 1 to it, and (if it's an int) it gets treated like an int. So you're saying it gets converted during [key] access?

At 3/3/14 10:26 PM, MSGhero wrote: But then he grabs the key from describeType, adds 1 to it, and (if it's an int) it gets treated like an int. So you're saying it gets converted during [key] access?

Yes, since that's what the ECMAScript spec says should happen. As for ActionScript being able to determine that the given key was originally an integer that's just a goofy special-case scenario that was included for whatever reason; if you use any other type, such as Number or a class with a toString() method, the key will be considered a String. Either way that behaviour is not part of ECMAScript, as you can see with this JavaScript code.

I've been having a lot of issues with haxe/openfl in FD lately. It doesn't connect to the debugger during flash export, there's always some error with a plugin that doesn't check if the project is in as3 or haxe, and code completion never works. Anyone have a working workflow with it? I'm on one of the latest nightlies, but the main release had worse problems.

So a couple days ago (in class) we were assigned topics for our persuasive speeches. We got to semi-choose ours, I chose the one that said "security and encryption" because that kinda sounded like my thing.

Turns out, I'm now supposed to make a six-minute speech (with data backing it up) persuading people that encryption is not only a viable replacement to login systems and firewalls (yes, login systems and firewalls specifically) but that it should ALWAYS be used in place of those.

Soo... Does anyone know anywhere I can find good supporting arguments for this? Because I'll be damned if I know where to start looking for this particular rabbit hole.

At 3/6/14 10:57 PM, egg82 wrote: Turns out, I'm now supposed to make a six-minute speech (with data backing it up) persuading people that encryption is not only a viable replacement to login systems and firewalls (yes, login systems and firewalls specifically) but that it should ALWAYS be used in place of those.

A firewall analyzes and blocks packets, a login system validates login information; I don't see how encryption on it's own can replace either of these things.
Are you sure it's not about the importance of using encryption in conjunction with login systems / firewalls?

At 3/5/14 12:34 AM, MSGhero wrote: I've been having a lot of issues with haxe/openfl in FD lately. It doesn't connect to the debugger during flash export, there's always some error with a plugin that doesn't check if the project is in as3 or haxe, and code completion never works. Anyone have a working workflow with it? I'm on one of the latest nightlies, but the main release had worse problems.

I use Sublime text 2, it has a plugin for haxe/openfl, allows you to select target platform, jumps to compilation errors and has decent code completion (the build-in code completion from Haxe). I've got nothing to complain about. The only thing that is a major pain in the ass is combining haxe/flash and the debugger; but that's not related to Sublime text 2.

At 3/7/14 09:37 AM, Sandremss128 wrote: I use Sublime text 2, it has a plugin for haxe/openfl, allows you to select target platform, jumps to compilation errors and has decent code completion (the build-in code completion from Haxe). I've got nothing to complain about. The only thing that is a major pain in the ass is combining haxe/flash and the debugger; but that's not related to Sublime text 2.

A plugin had an update available, and it seems like that fixed everything (it wasn't checking the current project type, so it was doing as3 things to a hxproj). So now my issue is trying to get it to connect to the flash debugger and trying to understand @psvils' entity system.

At 3/7/14 09:25 AM, Sandremss128 wrote: A firewall analyzes and blocks packets, a login system validates login information; I don't see how encryption on it's own can replace either of these things.
Are you sure it's not about the importance of using encryption in conjunction with login systems / firewalls?

That's exactly what I said to the teacher, and yes I'm supposed to persuade people to always use encryption in place of these two.
Thankfully the people I'm persuading don't know much about computers at all, so it should help. I might be able to get away with incorrect facts and some made-up crap thrown in.

At 3/7/14 12:34 PM, egg82 wrote: That's exactly what I said to the teacher, and yes I'm supposed to persuade people to always use encryption in place of these two.
Thankfully the people I'm persuading don't know much about computers at all, so it should help. I might be able to get away with incorrect facts and some made-up crap thrown in.

how bout write a speech to persuade your teacher about what encryption actually is

At 3/7/14 12:34 PM, egg82 wrote: That's exactly what I said to the teacher, and yes I'm supposed to persuade people to always use encryption in place of these two.
Thankfully the people I'm persuading don't know much about computers at all, so it should help. I might be able to get away with incorrect facts and some made-up crap thrown in.

I could understand if they wanted you to try and argue a difficult point - and provide some insight as to why it's not valid. But to argue that it should always be used it a strange one.

Good luck :|

"Encryption is a completely viable alternative to login forms and firewalls, any questions?"

I don't know about you guys but I totally use a Caeser Cipher to log users into my applications. Just dick around with their login credentials and ta-dah they're logged in!

At 3/7/14 01:07 PM, Diki wrote: I don't know about you guys but I totally use a Caeser Cipher to log users into my applications. Just dick around with their login credentials and ta-dah they're logged in!

"Caeser Cipher Cannot be cracked. No one can find out the offset. Best way to log people in and to setup firewall. In my hours of experience every system I found using Caeser Cipher was completely secure, more people should be using this system."
-Swish

Does that work as a source for you Egg?

At 3/7/14 06:26 PM, swishcheese wrote: Does that work as a source for you Egg?

Brb updating wikipedia

Hey guys, long time no chat, after going on a hiatus I'm back into another dev spree. hows everyone doing? Swish hows the ninja game coming along?

At 3/10/14 08:57 PM, GeoKureli wrote: Hey guys, long time no chat, after going on a hiatus I'm back into another dev spree. hows everyone doing? Swish hows the ninja game coming along?

Sup georgie. Spree = lots of games or a lot of one game?

At 3/10/14 09:14 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 3/10/14 08:57 PM, GeoKureli wrote: Hey guys, long time no chat, after going on a hiatus I'm back into another dev spree. hows everyone doing? Swish hows the ninja game coming along?

Sup georgie. Spree = lots of games or a lot of one game?

I've got one short (stupid) game I wanna finish by Wednesday, after that maybe I'll finally finish my baseball game.

After looking through haxeflixel's documentation, I realize now that I basically wrote flixel for the RPG sequel. In other words, I'm using flixel next time, prolly openfl too.

At 3/11/14 04:03 PM, MSGhero wrote: After looking through haxeflixel's documentation, I realize now that I basically wrote flixel for the RPG sequel. In other words, I'm using flixel next time, prolly openfl too.

Flixel is what we've been using for Ender Story if I remember correctly.

At 3/10/14 08:57 PM, GeoKureli wrote: Hey guys, long time no chat, after going on a hiatus I'm back into another dev spree. hows everyone doing? Swish hows the ninja game coming along?

Heyyy. Good to here back on a dev spree. Ninja Game is going well. I am thinking it will be released sometime after pico day! How is the baseball run game coming?

At 3/11/14 06:59 PM, swishcheese wrote: Heyyy. Good to here back on a dev spree. Ninja Game is going well. I am thinking it will be released sometime after pico day! How is the baseball run game coming?

Baseball game is still where it was before, everything is done cept for level design. One day I'll bring myself to finish it. Glad to hear the ninja game is on its way.

At 3/11/14 04:03 PM, MSGhero wrote: After looking through haxeflixel's documentation, I realize now that I basically wrote flixel for the RPG sequel. In other words, I'm using flixel next time, prolly openfl too.

I highly recommend it, you can do just about anything and it's incredibly refined. Paired with a GUI like DAME you can crank out games like mad.

At 3/11/14 08:55 PM, GeoKureli wrote: I highly recommend it, you can do just about anything and it's incredibly refined. Paired with a GUI like DAME you can crank out games like mad.

I've already started playing around with it. I don't really need to redo the rendering engine, though (unless we change something major), so I could probably just reuse that code instead of re-rewriting it.

At 3/11/14 09:14 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 3/11/14 08:55 PM, GeoKureli wrote: I highly recommend it, you can do just about anything and it's incredibly refined. Paired with a GUI like DAME you can crank out games like mad.

I've already started playing around with it. I don't really need to redo the rendering engine, though (unless we change something major), so I could probably just reuse that code instead of re-rewriting it.

Oh yeah, if you have a game in progress then by all means stay the course, although you might still benefit from using Dame if your current game is tilebased, you can create a Lua script to export the levels in any kind of format, and you can place sprites and give them any custom property.

At 3/11/14 09:27 PM, GeoKureli wrote: Oh yeah, if you have a game in progress then by all means stay the course, although you might still benefit from using Dame if your current game is tilebased, you can create a Lua script to export the levels in any kind of format, and you can place sprites and give them any custom property.

Pretty sure @VoidForce likes placing thousands of trees by hand. Already have dame planned for later, openfl if I do flixel.