power saving your linux box

[#1]

do you know how much power your linux box is using?  more to the point, do you know how much power your software is responsible for?
maybe this could help:

http://www.linuxpowertop.org/

[#2]

Shame it is a Belkin and not something good like Netgear!

[#3]

There's also some interesting stuff here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml
It's got a Gentoo slant to it,  but a lot of it is distro-independent. Pretty in-depth but there are also some quick tips in there too, especially adding the DPMS options to your xorg.conf