The Well-Linuxed Car

[Michael Hipp]

Kurt Wall wrote:

> The floor is open...

Ok, here's a (very) feeble attempt at creativity:

- Use a modified version of lm_sensors to read your engine's operating 
parameters.
- Display the results on the dashboard using gkrellm.
- Find a way to tune the engine using 'hdparm -tT'.
- Put a big LED scoreboard on the back trunk lid (taxicab style) that 
displays, similar to the infamous "death clock", the number of viruses 
discovered for Windows vs. Linux.
- Or have it scroll the latest dumb thing said by Darl McBride.
- Or the going rate for 'put' options on SCO stock.
- Take your owners manual and the Chilton book and transcribe them into 
man pages.
- Hold a contest to see who can find a way to pack the biggest 
Folding at Home farm in the trunk.
- Find a way to lock/unlock doors, remote engine start, alarm control 
using an infared Linux-enabled pocket computer. Or better yet, use WiFi.
- Use your cams and run them into a copy of 'motion' to record the cops 
beating you for going 63mph in a school zone.
- Have the car alarm go off in 2 minutes if someone starts the car but 
does not insert a flash mem card with the correct OpenSSH key in it.
- Put a server in the trunk and hold a LAN party down at the beach.
- Mount an 8 ft. tall inflatable penguin on top and go drive around the 
Redmond campus.

Well, I did say it was feeble,
Michael