Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread A Mennucc
hi I did a similar thing some time ago; I used 'xdelta' on two versions of kernel and of tetex; the results were impressive; I could prepare a 'debdiff' that was < 10% (AFAICR) of the size, and that would recreate an exact copy of the new version of the package, given the previous version of the p

Re: Gnome on Knoppix?

2005-05-25 Thread A Mennucc
John Conover wrote: Anyone installed Gnome on Knoppix? Thanks, John look at http://www.gnoppix.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-24 Thread A Mennucc
Alex Grigorovich wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:53 +0200, A Mennucc wrote: one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any other application that draws white chars over black background, is much worse Try disabling font autoaliasing (Applications->Desk

Re: New disc kicks out CD-ROM support

2005-05-24 Thread A Mennucc
hi 1) are you absolutely sure that you have correctly set the pins on the two gadgets in the secondary ide channel, so that one is master and one is slave ? (It happened to me...) 2) go into the BIOS and check that there are no strange settings wrt to those drives (for example, choose "autodet

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-24 Thread A Mennucc
perly calibrate the CRT, there are many tutorials around...you may google around... I could partially improve the above problem by changing in Profiles/colors/scheme from "Linux Console" to "XTerm" This uses brightest colors, so the darkest parts in the Clive Menzies wrote:

poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-23 Thread A Mennucc
hi I just upgraded my box from woody to sarge overall the result is OK, but for minor glitches one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any other application that draws white chars over black background, is much worse I attach a snapshot of the window: as you can se

Re: Duedomande

2005-05-23 Thread A Mennucc
Luigi Testa wrote: Salve Ho acquistato tramite il lug di Teramo una release 3.0 di Debian Woody in 7 CD ed ora sono un fortunato possessore di un sistema operativo Gnu/Linux installato e quasi completamente funzionante. Vorrei dei chiarimenti rispetto ad alcuni problemi che ho incontrato: -

Re: Adjusting the speed of mouse-wheel scrolling [repost]

2004-02-12 Thread A Mennucc
also, read http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2199 a. On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:18:14PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > I may have a solution > > it is a "bug" in the default X config created in Debian; > the default config has two mouse stanzas, > one for a a /dev/

Re: Adjusting the speed of mouse-wheel scrolling [repost]

2004-02-12 Thread A Mennucc
I may have a solution it is a "bug" in the default X config created in Debian; the default config has two mouse stanzas, one for a a /dev/psaux and one for /dev/input/mouse0 It seems to me that: kernel 2.6.0 sends movement events to both devices, and then the mouse moves twice as fast note that I