Re: cable modem connection slower than dial up

2006-11-24 Thread Gianfranco
Hi all! I've the same problem... On the same pc, with windows xp internet is fast (about 80k) but with the latest debian etch, internet is very very very slow (about 25k)!! I've installed debian sarge, dist-upgrading to etch and the download speed is about 80k. But installing the deb linux-image

Re: Output Plugin for xmms

2003-04-05 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
utput Plugin 1.2.7 3. Disk Writer Plugin 1.2.7 And non of them seem to work. Exactly the same error message I got. I know you got it working with artsd but I figure that others might want to know how to fix the problem otherwise first. Gianfranco Berardi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

2003-03-20 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Paul Johnson wrote: There's a couple false assumptions here: User lists aren't generally comprised of personal friends, but rather loose collectives of people who, for the most part, aren't more than long-distance acquaintences. Second, spoken language is vastly different from written language. You

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

2003-03-19 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course, a virus, if anyone had any doubts. j. OYou mean Microsoft DIDN'T send a patch to fix my

Re: startx as a normal user

2003-03-19 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Burkhard Ritter wrote: It nice value doesn't matter (at least for me, I think it is not that important). To check why X does not start properly have a look at the logs (/var/log/XFree*) and your .xinitrc . Burkhard X starts up just fine. I am just saying that before it does, a message is spit

Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

2003-03-19 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Wendell Cochran wrote: I receive way more e-mail than I have time for. So far my filters are only mental, but configuration of grey cells definitely flags `newbie', `please help', & any vacuity like `Strange Problem with Debian' -- & I skip on to prospects more promising. Oh, you say I'm missing s

startx as a normal user

2003-03-19 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
t know if it is considered "wrong" to simply startx as a user. Thanks, Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fluxbox with and without Debian menus

2003-03-16 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Rob Weir wrote: That is odd, I'm certain that fluxbox has integrated into the Debian menu system for me in the past. See, what is really odd is that fluxbox installed all sorts of default files, like keys, init, and menu, into ~/.fluxbox/ and /etc/X11/fluxbox/ on my laptop. On my desktop, those

Re: Fluxbox with and without Debian menus

2003-03-14 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Joey Hess wrote: Gianfranco Berardi wrote: Now I know I installed the Debian menu packages (and KDE 2 is using the Debian menu mixed into the KDE menu), and there isn't anything installed on my laptop that is not on my desktop. Are you sure you have the debian menu package installed on

Fluxbox with and without Debian menus

2003-03-11 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
I installed Debian on my laptop a month ago, and I immediately put fluxbox on it as 300MHz wouldn't be fast enough to run much else. B-) In any case, I installed fluxbox, some debian menu stuff, and voila, I have a working fluxbox with a menu that has a lot of my installed apps listed. So I go

Re: Ext3

2003-03-11 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 06:43, Metnetsky wrote: I'm trying to install Debian, and was wondering how to use the ext3 File-System as opposed to ext2? The installer defaults me into cfdisk which only has ext2/swap as far as I can see. Suggestions? Oh yeah, I'm using the Debian-30r

glob(7) man page is confusing

2003-03-04 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
ed? I tried to see if other people had issues with this but Google didn't return anything but HTML versions of man pages or information on how glob was a security risk on ftp servers. Thanks, Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gamepads

2003-02-27 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
eople have suggested MS Sidewinders, which I will consider, but I wonder if a cheaper solution exists (correct me if I am wrong, but I last remember it going for $25-$30 (USD)). Thanks, Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Open Office 1.0.2 formats differently on different OSes

2003-02-20 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
s and Open Office for Linux render the same file differently? Is it a font installation problem, or some settings in Open Office? I tried to look up what I could, but msttcorefonts was the only information I found about it. Thanks, Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Terminus game and libstdc++.so.2.8

2003-01-01 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
tried to simply add a line to sources.list that replaces stable with potato, but it had issues when it got to that line. Thanks, Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pthreads man pages not in Debian 3.0r0?

2002-11-26 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
ave to use 'info libc' or use the web to find the man pages. Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mutt and Mozilla mail

2002-11-13 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
message, Mozilla mail will display the wrong email. Has anyone else experienced this/found a fix? Thanks, Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

2002-10-25 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
gle, since that is what I did and how I found the line about the font server. Good luck! Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-23 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
I submitted a bug report stating that some of us would like a debian-gamedev or debian-devel-games mailing list created. We'll see how it turns out. B-) Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 4:10 am, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: In the topic called OT: Programming books, it was mentioned that some people would like to get a group going that would develop games for Debian. This is just to see

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 4:10 am, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: In the topic called OT: Programming books, it was mentioned that some people would like to get a group going that would develop games for Debian. This is just to see

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Vinai Kopp wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:10:20PM -0500, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: In the topic called OT: Programming books, it was mentioned that some people would like to get a group going that would develop games for Debian. This is just to see how many would be interested. If enough

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Edward Guldemond wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:10:20PM -0500, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: In the topic called OT: Programming books, it was mentioned that some people would like to get a group going that would develop games for Debian. This is just to see how many would be interested. If

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-16 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
mailing list. I am still new to the Linux world (used Win98 as my main system until I finally got set on making KDE/OpenGL/SB sound work together), but I would love to be part of a group of programmers/developers of games. I have some experience but it is mostly hobby stuff. I made a Pacman

nvidia drivers

2002-10-16 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
vidia drivers. Should I have apt-get installed them instead? Will there be problems with using something that was not packaged for Debian? Or does using the newer drivers have no effect other than getting the coolest special effects (Quake 3 Arena never looked so nice!). Thanks, Gianfranco -

2.4.18; 3c509 NIC not getting IP

2002-10-15 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Size: 27816 Used by: 0 Not tainted: [3c509] Now I read something about a Red Hat system on Google that had similar issues, and the response was to remove isa-pnp, but when I try to it says it is busy. Any ideas? Thanks, Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Daniel Santamaria wrote: > java is s dog slow! way too slow for serious game development! > Actually Java is making decent inroads into game development. They have a 3D library now, and it is only getting better. I don't think it is too slow to make any kind of game. It is just slower than

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:04, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > >>Crispin Wellington wrote: >> >>While most games are developed for Windows systems, you can find a lot >>of useful information at gamedev.net and such. > > > Oh yes!

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
es you through the design process in a way that will make you organized. The "Game Programming Gems" books might be a good reference for different coding samples/ideas. As far as walking you through from start to finish, Gamedev.net is your best bet. Warning, it is Windows-centric mostly, although there is a *nix forum and I find the forums to be very helpful. Hope this helps! Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]