blah.bash

# all defaults
matthew@bumble:~$ cat /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/deflate.conf 
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
          AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css
</IfModule>

matthew@bumble:~$ cat /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/deflate.load 
LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so

# gzip test @ http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
Results for: http://matthewrudy.com
Web page compressed? 	Yes
Compression type? 	gzip
Size, Markup (bytes) 	3,576
Size, Compressed (bytes) 	1,229
Compression % 	65.6