Archive for April, 2008

Limiting the bandwidth of incoming traffic

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

A backup server was saturating the DSL links of remote offices every time the backups were running. To prevent this, I had to limit the incoming bandwidth of the TCP-connections that were used to back up the remote hosts, but not touch the ones that were used to connect to the servers in the local network. Here’s how to do it.

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MediaWiki Image Links

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Here’s a description how to do it without any extensions:

http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2008/01/21/how-to-make-image-links-in-mediawiki

This extension will allow you to use more comfortable markup:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageLink

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