Valid for Fedora 9:
Verifying an ISO Image or CDR/CDRW
As usual, there are more than one way of verifying an ISO image, two of them below:
Using an ISO Image without Burning it to CD Media
One can mount an iso file and use it as a directory.
Blanking CD-RW or DVD-RW Media
Here are a few methods to quickly blank CD-RW/DVD-RW media:
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.