Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:21:52 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> 
>> I did hear some guy who had is car stereo knicked. So he wanted to set
>> up a laptop running Xine on Linux to act as a music player. He was
>> asking how to wire a switch to the serial port and script it so he could
>> change tracks.
> 
> Over here you can get aftermarket removable stereos or with removable 
> faceplates (which takes the entire control interface off the radio).  The 
> thing is, if you get one of those, you'd better *always* take it with you.

Yeah, I used to have one of those. It's a pitty is you forget to take 
the faceplace with you... no music. :-(

My mum has this currently. And never removes it. But then, this woman 
can't find her car keys in the morning, so...

>> At this point, somebody said "dude, you just had your car stereo
>> knicked, so you want to park a *laptop* on the passenger seat??"
> 
> Hehehehehehehe

Yeah. Literally, is plan was to take a knackered old laptop and park it 
on the passenger seat with a bunch of wires going into the speakers. 
Hmm... ;-)

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