Strav's blog

Rain Sensor:
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/708020
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/247857

Ibus:
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/635646
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/635602
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/702694

Here are a number of links for M5 Audio related material.

Adding AUX input:
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/689645/
http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78198
http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76934&page=2
http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76934&page=3
http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=39246&d=1099212144
http://www.frontx.com/pro/p090v1_030.html
http://www.frontx.com/cpx075_4.html

Radio:
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/86059/
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/498696/

Navigation:
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/678035

M5 Sirius Install Tips:
http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e39-m5-e52-z8-discussion/55196-00-02-m5-sirius-install-tips.html

With UTF-8 encoding becoming the default, I've been noticing strange characters appearing when connected to newer linux distros via SecureCRT.  Turns out this is due to a combination of settings.  This site details a solution.

http://www.andremiller.net/content/getting-midnight-commander-line-drawing-work-putty

Basically, change the character set translation to UTF-8 and the line drawing to UTF-8 and the font to one that supports UTF-8 line characters (Lucida Console, Courier new work - others may as well).

 Here's a link for improvements to putty/SecureCRT:

http://dag.wieers.com/blog/improving-putty-settings-on-windows