Browsing articles tagged with "rst - Admins Goodies"
Aug 21, 2011
tom

WYSIWYG Trac editor with reStructuredText

We’re using trac, and using it’s inbuilt reStructured Text throughout our wiki, since we process our trac wiki pages with another programme and convert them to another format. RST is a more widely available format. We’d like to have a WYSIWYG editor for editing trac wiki pages. There is TracWysisygPlugin, but that only works with trac’s wiki syntax. Is there a wysiwyg trac editor plugin that outputs rst? I am not aware of one. You [...]

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Aug 21, 2011
tom

Forged TCP reset packets

I am trying to better understand the net neutrality debate. Some have accused ISPs of sending RST packets to end hosts in order to block BitTorrent traffic. What exactly does this mean? I have a basic understanding of HTTP and TCP/IP (I’m a programmer) but server administration is something I am definitely not an expert in. Thanks. There are several flags in a TCP packet (SYN, ACK, PSH, RST and FIN). These are normally used [...]

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