LAMP programmers often come across MySQL database dumps or existing tables that have wrong collations or where table fields have different collations even within one single table.
Mass Change A Collation for Table Fields in MySQL

I have a couple of nice removable WD My Passport hard drives, one of them refused to automount ignoring everything except direct root mount to a directory.
I have noticed that ktorrent does not run properly after upgrading from Fedora 12. I suspected the reason is in some misconfiguration because of config files incompatibilities. The solution below is fairly simple.
I wish I could post on a more regular basis these days, but the other things keep me off doing so… Anyway, I came across another need of conversion between formats, this time from wavpack (.iso.wv). Wavpack is an audio…
I have recently purchased an Asus Eee PC 1001HA netbook (1Gb RAM, N270 Intel Atom processor, 160Gb HDD).
The lossless2lossy.sh script does not give enough good functions to split *.ape files into tracks. The below solves the problem in Fedora 12.