Random Chitchat 2012-2016

[NiLSPACE]

I'm guessing the 20 bytes are always different? Perhaps it's a compressed date?

[worktycho]

Or a sequence number.

[xoft]

The last 4 bytes out of the 20 are the length of the JSON payload, but I can't figure out the first 16. Some of them seem like flags or status, because they are the same across all packets, some seem like a sequence number, but then not really.

Here's a Wireshark packet dump for the curious: http://www.xoft.cz/dvr-packets/

[worktycho]

Well the second byte seems to be a sender ID. Why you'd need that on a TCP stream, I don't know.

[tigerw]

xoft, For navigating command lines, zsh might offer what you need, but yes I agree, the *nix ecosystem has a lot of problems with fragmentation. For example the thing about history producing random chars, is due to the fact that there are at least 3-4 separate independent components involved in handling translating the up arrow to older commands. But a well set up termcap and .bashrc (or appropriate file for the shell of your choice) can usually fix any problems. As for IDE, I personally found the fact I can swap out my compiler has lead to significant benefits (Clang). And a lot of the feeling of slowness is probably not knowing the platforms. You're comparing a system you barely know to one you know well, then complaining about discoverability.

But generally *nix is for people who like to pick and mix, and windows for people who want the advantages of integration.

and the date/time on the Pies at school are still wrong.

Do you remember what you did to get it to sync with the internal server?

[worktycho]

Looks like the protocol was not designed for TCP. The fourth byte appears to be a fragmentation flag.

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Tiger: not after two years. It involved changing the ntpd config.

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But seriously, the best way to reverse engineer that DVR would be to poke it in various ways and see how it responds. Replay the first packet, send a keepalive every 20 seconds, and see when it sends alarm packets.

[xoft]

Yay, I just found out I can add, as a remote, a git repository over a SMB share. So finally I can test my changes on Linux without actually pushing them to the main repo - I change things on my Windows box, then ssh to the Linux box, fetch the changes, test them and if they work well, I can push from the Windows box Why did it take me so long to find this setup?

[NiLSPACE]

Whoah, I've just noticed that if you sort all plugins by author I got a whole page for myself: https://forum.cuberite.org/forumdisplay....&order=asc ;D

[PureTryOut]

[tonibm19]

Why micro?
If I want to add c++ to my vs comunnity 2015 (using c# for unity) I need to install windows 8.1 sdk for universal apps and all this trash.