How to find more useful information about your CDROM / DVDROM drive: cdrecord -scanbus
Zend Studio not Working in Fedora
This annoyance has a long history and is really funny because the same stuff is cured with different methods in different Fedora distributions. In the same time, stuff from Zend is heavily non-free, and I personally dislike the approach of…
MySQL latin1 Content Upgrade to an UTF-8 Database
The below is pretty useful if you have some databases in other than UTF-8 charset and simply importing dumps does not help.
Creating an ISO image from command line
Creating an ISO Image Here are a couple of different commands for creating an ISO image:
Create DVD MPEG file from AVI with Mencoder
The below are two single-line commands to encode a high quality mpeg file ready for writing to a DVD disk.
Multiplex Audio and Video Streams
The below joins audio and video streams into one MPEG1 or 2 file.
Convert Folder with flac Files to mp3
Sometimes you get all that music in flac format which is not understandable by hardware players, so you need the mp3s.