About This Server

• Hardware
  • Dell Optiplex: 1.7 GHz Pentium (since May 30, 2002), 1GB RAM, 36 and 20GB disks.
• Operating System
  • FreeBSD
• Web server
  • Apache, the most widely-used web server in the world
  • Access Statistics, prepared by wwwstat 2.0
• User environment
  • XFree86
  • emacs, the One True Editor
  • bash
  • gcc
  • TeX typesetting (specifically teTeX)
  • KDE desktop
  • Perl, naturally (you can get anything you want at CPAN)
• Word Processing
  • LyX (currently 1.1.2), a front end for LaTeX that purports to give you a WYSIWYM interface: "What You See Is What You Mean"
  • WordPerfect 8 for Linux
  • Ted, a very nice RTF (Rich Text Format) word processor and viewer.
• Graphics
  • The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
• Communications
  • Mozilla (when graphics are unavoidable)
  • Lynx (to get information)
  • The MH mail handle (I live within Emacs and use MH-E, with TM and BBDB)
• Security
  • OpenSSH
  • PGP (Pretty Good Privacy: here's my public key)
• And Just in Case ...
  • Wine (a Microsoft Windows emulator for Unix systems). Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. If
• My Daily Life
  • GNU emacs (currently 21), for writing just about any kind of document (in LaTeX mode), mail (in mh mode), maintaining web stuff (in html mode), programming (in lisp-mode, Emacs-lisp-mode, perl-mode, awk-mode, c-mode, c++-mode, tcl-mode, pascal-mode, modula-2-mode, or whatever), file maintenance (with dired), running system commands, connecting to other machines (with telnet or ftp), browsing the web (internally or externally), looking up email addresses (ph-mode), ... you get the idea.
  • Emacs packages I am fond of:
    • MH-E (interface to the MH mail handling system: allows use of a structured collection of folders
    • TM (MIME editing and handling): how I handle mail attachments, in conjunction with the above
    • BBDB (the Insidious Big Brother DataBase): Lurks while you read your mail, extracting names and addresses of your correspondents and keeping them in a database, with which it then permits you to do a host of things.
    • Mule (MULtilingual Emacs): a collection of fonts and input methods to support a very great many languages (from all modern European Latin alphabets, Cyrillic, and Greek, through Arabic and Hebrew, to Devanagri alphabets, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Tibetan...). In the near future, Emacs will move to Unicode support, but until then Mule is more than adequate.
    • CGreek, an absolutely wonderful package by Naoto Takahashi (one of the architects of Project Mule) that gives you on-screen Ancient Greek, direct importation of TLG files, incremental searching in Greek, printing, and such options as saving files in LaTeX (uses the Ibygreek package). Oh, and it gives you a nice facility for Latin-1 encoding (all the accented characters you'll need for European languages) and one for Japanese.
    • AUC Tex, in my judgment the best of the TeX support packages for Emacs.
• Software investment
  • Apart from a license for WordPerfect four years ago, $0.00