Hardware
Most work is now done on a DELL Inspiron 1300 Laptop.
It has 512Mb RAM, 80 Gig of disc split between XP (which I don't use much) and Linux Mandrake 10.1 (which I am hoping to replace by Fedora 7 as soon as I can persuade myself that won't be a disaster.
Wi-fi/Ethernet/Modem, DVD-Writer.
I havn't managed to get the Wi-fi to work under Linux yet, but am hoping to crack that when I have gone to FC7.
I have an old desktop for backup which has 128M RAM and a wierd assortment of old discs, and is now running FC7 which a ridiculously slow boot because there is something wrong with one of the discs.
When I have managed to get this system gehaving reasonably and doing my site build I will probably upgrade the laptop to FC7.
The web site development was orinally on Windows. but has now completely transferred to Linux.
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Software Used in Building the Site
There is quite a bit of heritage hand crafted HTML knocking about, which has never been under source control.
But all new material is now managed in a cvs repository and doesn't include hand crafted HTML.
This material is fed into a build process controlled by GNU make, which generates HTML and PDF files which when added to the heritage HTML makes up the web site.
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Software Used Under Linux (Red Hat 6.1)
- emacs
- TeTex (LaTeX)
- LaTeX2HTML
- PERL
- GNU Make
- xp and xt, James Clark's xml parser and xsl transformations implementation, used in translating XML to HTML for some recent work.
- Lots of other obvious things that come with Linux.
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