The Old Tin Shed

Hey all, well have started the final purchasing for the stereo upgrade in the car.  Getting speakers, sizes, power and amplifiers is nothing short of a nightmare. Doesn't help that we have two ways of rating speaker power, and that I am heavily restricted to a small 5 1/4 inch front speakers as there is simply no way to put a larger one in.  The OEM speakers were hopeless and the back ones still are. I think im getting closer to a solution now with a custom built parcel shelf, thinking of putting in two 6x9 inch 1000w speakers and a set of 6.5inch three way 500w speakers.  Using a 4 way amp to run the front speakers and the 6x9 speakers and then use a split and a 2 way speaker to run the 6 1/4's. The fronts I think I have finally settled on a set of 5 1/4 in three ways 200 watt.  If they turn out to be a loss I will look at upgrading them to a 6 inch somehow,.  My primary issue is the mounting point in the front door does not allow for a smooth i...

Wow, is all I can say.  The software is finally installed and working, some 11 emails to tech support and struggling to get my head around why things were not working.  If linux has one fault when it comes to these things its that it is very complicated.  Each step in the process showed up because something had not been thought about in the previous step, so we were lurching from one error to another. Most of this can be countered however with a more comprehensive how to for the install of the vendor software.  Things like make sure you have all the updates installed, make sure you set your static IP in advance of any install, make sure you disable SElinux and the correct way to do that.  I have learnt about iptables and how to work those and firewall exceptions that are actually separate.  All in all have accumulated a large amount of data on how linux workings are different to windows. As per the last post if you have no desire to ever go to...