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:
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.
Skype under Linux
Add the skype yum repo repository but do not make it active and use only installing once for non-regular update checks.
Add More Swap Space to Linux
Sometimes it is necessary to add more swap space after installation. For example, you may upgrade the amount of RAM in your system from 64 MB to 128 MB, but there is only 128 MB of swap space. It might…
Create Video Preview Thumbnails with Ffmpeg
See http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2008/03/29/creating-video-thumbnails-using-ffmpeg/ ffmpeg -ss -4 -i test.avi -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320×240 test.jpg ffmpeg -itsoffset -4 -i test.avi -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320×240 test.jpg
