The Well-Linuxed Car

[Matthew Carpenter]

I wouldn't say "feeble", that was a pretty good list of not too-impractical things.  I like the use of gkrellm (even as a KDE fanatic) for the system monitoring :)


On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:24:07 -0600
Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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