Linux

I am constantly adding images to my genealogy database. The final destination of these images is the web. The annotation of these images is stored inside the image file itself. I use jpeg images and I annotate the images with RDFPic. RDFPic is a java application that stores metadate using the RDF (resource description framework) format in the comment section of the jpeg file. Unfortunately the program can handle only jpeg images and not tif or png images.

I wanted to activate the wheen of my USB mouse, but everytime I went to Yast2 > Hardware > Mouse the X server crashed and threw me into a text console. Also using SaX2 didn't work (there is a button under Input devices > Properties > Activate mouse wheel). Funnily the wheel usind to work in 9.1.

Configuring the firewall by hand using iptables is quite difficult. When we still used RedHat 8.1 we have been doing it but now not anymore. We have been using yast2 now for firewall configuration. An alternative to yast2 is fwbuilder. We tried it once and it seems to work although the code it produces is quite large compared to manual configuration. An obvious advantage is that fwbuilder can be used together with many different types of firewalls and operating systems (e.g. also Mac OS X).