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XM installed in Honda Odyssey

Paul Westbrook | 23 March, 2005 20:44

XM Commander installed in sunglass holderToday, we had XM installed into out Honda Odyssey.  We deicded to go with the XM Commander, since we didn't want to change our head unit, and we wanted a small interface. One of my main goals of this will to have the van still look stock, and not make it look like there is a lot of aftermarket equipment installed.

The XM commander interface was installed into the sunglass holder, above the rear view mirror.  With this installation, when it is closed, noone would be able to tell if XM had been installed at all.

While the XM was being installed, I asked the stereo installers to move the sound output of the DVD player from FM modulation to line-in though the CD changer port.  (The FM modulatio that was installed with the DVD player appears to not be shielded well.  While driving near high voltage lines, a lot of static can be heard.

The XM commander is using its FM modulator, but I am not that concerned about this one.  I had an XM Commander installed in our Jetta, and there were no problems with interference.

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Hard drive failed

Paul Westbrook | 23 March, 2005 01:11

Yesterday the hard drive in my laptop failed.  I knew that it was coming, as my computer was making a lot of noise and would slow to a halt.  With hindsight being what it is, I know I should have taken care of the problem when the noise started happening.

Since I needed to get a new drive, I decided to get the largest one that I could.  I got a 100 GB drive for $179 at Fry's Electronics.  I spent a lot of time last night attempting to recover the data from the bad drive.  Since the drive was still readable, I was hoping that I would be able to copy all of the data off the drive onto the new one.
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