Power Consumption
The iBook uses about 20 watts when the screen is dimmed, 28 when lit and in use. It is currently rare in use though. My former server, the eMac, used about 84 and 94, respectively.
Server Connection
- Alltel DSL: my ISP, provides decent service. Good uptime, though I do frequently have short connection losses. Plenty fast for me. Not too expensive, though companies such as SBC offer it cheaper. I pay $53 a month and get free local phone service.
- 2wire DSL modem: my modem and router.
Editing Software
- Taco HTML Edit is used to edit the html and php files on this server. Taco provides live previews of both html and php and does syntax highlighting.
- Vim is also used for editing files. It offers syntax highlighting and many other powerful editing features in a quite small footprint. It is a standard Unix text-editor, available on virtually every operating system. Can be run from both the GUI and CLI, so I am able to ssh in remotely to work on files.
Content applications
- Wordpress is used for my 'log'. It uses PHP with MySQL. For a while I used pblog.
- PunBB is used for my forums.
- PHPiCalendar is used for my calendar. It uses php to show the calendar files edited in Apple's iCal.
- myPhoto provides my image gallery. The project is now defunct, and I intend to find a new software for this purpose.
Design Information Sources
- W3 Schools
- Sitepoint has good tutorials on php and mysql.
- I use a search engine to find resources to solve most of my more complex problems.
- mostly Valid XHTML 1.0
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