I'm heading for my exams the next three weeks, so I'm not going to be around as much on fedoraforum, IRC and for programming... I'm working on feature requests for fwbackups RC3, so hopefully that will be out in July when I have time to work on it again. Anyways the good news is I did my lab exam today and it was fairly easy.

firewing1.com and firewing1.info should redirect here now...

I did something random but rather amusing this weekend:

1. Take your favorite video, it doesn't matter what.
2. Use Avidemux2, a great video editor to export just the audio as a WAV. To do this, select WAV PCM as your audio codec and then select Audio > Save from the menu.
3. Open the resulting .wav in Audacity and use the Change Pitch filter on the entire file.
4. TIP: -30% sound like low-pitch and +35% sounds more high-pitch.
5. Export your Audacity project as a .wav PCM file.
6. Now, return to Avidemux and select Audio > Main Track. Choose External PCM from the dropdown and now locate your saved WAV from Audacity.
7. Change the audio codec to FFmpg MP2, 128kbps.
8. Change the video codec to DVD(lavc) and make sure the Container is 'MPEG PS+AV'
9. Save your new video and laugh

It usually takes a while to encode, and the quality won't probably be great... But it's still pretty funny. Some of my mpeg's didn't work, for that I had to play to fiddle with the framerate & filters among other things for an hour or two before they turned out right.

I'm updating all my howtos on FedoraForum.org for Fedora 7 and moving them here - They won't dissappear off FedoraForum, but the ones located here will have more information, they will be (hopefully) easier to follow and RSS enabled.

The Marvell LAN on my GA-965P-S3 board stopped working all of a sudden after a reboot the other day, and I franticly tried flashing the BIOS & firmware, I undid my overclock, even rewired everything inside. No luck.

The problem was due to the semi-broken sky2 driver... From what I've heard it's been broken for a while (and developers know it). Sky2 seems to work pretty well from my experience.. Apart from this.

Anyways the cause was the new 2.6.21 kernels, which is why it only started happening after a reboot, as I started booting new kernel. Reverting to 2.6.20 (in my case, the FC6 kernel) worked perfectly.

$ /sbin/lspci | grep Ethernet
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)