tbray writes "Dave Edmondson wanted to play MP3's in his car; his
solution was perhaps a bit over the top. But then, why wouldn't you want an
E450 in your trunk? Check the pix."
Power consumption
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eltoyoboyo
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I did not notice how much he said about battery life on a car-powered 230vac computer system. But you probably do not want to be playing the music without the engine running...(Not that you could hear the engine over the sound of the E450 anyway)
It sounds like all he has is an 80GB HD, and it serves up files.
Couldn't an ultra tiny machine do this?
What a waste.
Site comes up for me
by
JohnnyComeLately
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I've shaken my head at PCs in a car, and some other oddities. This car, though, takes the cake. I'm not sure I'd really want to do this, even if I could. Enterprise servers aren't made for that vibration, and I've seen what a smoked power supply goes for (right after corporate decided to "save money" by dropping the warranties). Even with WiFi, Bluetooth, or wi-flavor of the month, you're just wasting resources. You might as well be in a Lambroghini Diablo, parked in traffic on the 5 in LA.
I'm not impressed
by
Y0tsuya
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Normal people actually use their trunks to carry things like groceries, tools & parts from home depot, luggages, etc. Hauling a big ass computer in the trunk creates a massive inconvenience in everyday life.
Do it better in 2 words.
by
CRC'99
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Mini ITX.
Nuff said. I have one sitting under the seat in my car. 7" touchscreen in the dash, GPS and navigation software. All in a mini-case and runs off the 13.8v straight from the car battery.
Yes, that looks geeky, but touchscreen works better:)
-- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.
This was to make life easy?
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jm91509
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Cool!
"...the interest in getting a large chunk of music into the car without carrying around and managing a big stack of CDs has remained."
So to avoid the hastle of managing a stack of CD's, this guy has installed an E450 and a SunRay in his car? And after doing all that (no mean feat I would suspect) the audio is connected to his car via a tape converter?
Funny, but me thinks we are having our legs pulled...
Sell monster 90's server; use money to buy iPod
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MrChuck
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Bet he coulda gotten $500 for a loaded E450 and maintained said investment.
That said, for
@work, I suffer with E450's because "They Are Suns". Even when I show that a 1CPU x86 @ 2GHz smokes it.
"and with one CPU, I can be assured that the machine won't lock up with multiple CPUs contending for one resource" (well, it's as reasonable as his thoughts about dedicated CPUs for decoding...)
As for power, a friend just hit a junk yard ambulance and got a 100A alternator (he runs emergency lights on his car going to fires). A 1000watt inverter and you could power the E450.
Just be careful turning with all those disks on.
I can see either a disk crash or gyroscopes causing car crashes;)
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I did not notice how much he said about battery life on a car-powered 230vac computer system. But you probably do not want to be playing the music without the engine running...(Not that you could hear the engine over the sound of the E450 anyway)
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It sounds like all he has is an 80GB HD, and it serves up files.
Couldn't an ultra tiny machine do this?
What a waste.
I've shaken my head at PCs in a car, and some other oddities. This car, though, takes the cake. I'm not sure I'd really want to do this, even if I could. Enterprise servers aren't made for that vibration, and I've seen what a smoked power supply goes for (right after corporate decided to "save money" by dropping the warranties). Even with WiFi, Bluetooth, or wi-flavor of the month, you're just wasting resources. You might as well be in a Lambroghini Diablo, parked in traffic on the 5 in LA.
Normal people actually use their trunks to carry things like groceries, tools & parts from home depot, luggages, etc. Hauling a big ass computer in the trunk creates a massive inconvenience in everyday life.
Mini ITX.
:)
Nuff said. I have one sitting under the seat in my car. 7" touchscreen in the dash, GPS and navigation software. All in a mini-case and runs off the 13.8v straight from the car battery.
Yes, that looks geeky, but touchscreen works better
Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.
Cool!
"...the interest in getting a large chunk of music into the car without carrying around and managing a big stack of CDs has remained."
So to avoid the hastle of managing a stack of CD's, this guy has installed an E450 and a SunRay in his car? And after doing all that (no mean feat I would suspect) the audio is connected to his car via a tape converter?
Funny, but me thinks we are having our legs pulled...
That said, for @work, I suffer with E450's because "They Are Suns". Even when I show that a 1CPU x86 @ 2GHz smokes it.
"and with one CPU, I can be assured that the machine won't lock up with multiple CPUs contending for one resource" (well, it's as reasonable as his thoughts about dedicated CPUs for decoding...)
As for power, a friend just hit a junk yard ambulance and got a 100A alternator (he runs emergency lights on his car going to fires). A 1000watt inverter and you could power the E450.
Just be careful turning with all those disks on. I can see either a disk crash or gyroscopes causing car crashes ;)