And here I thought I was going to have a fun evening. installing BT/Wi-Fi and a CF card into the mini.

of course not *nothing* worked

BT/Wi-Fi requires a special riser card > which would cost FAR more than I'm willing to spend on the machine. there goes the BT keyboard and audio.

Than the CF-IDE didn't work either. I think it's the cheap-o adaptor, in master mode the computer sees the card in system profiler, but does not see it as an available disk. with no jumpers it sees it as a disk, but it thinks its slave, so the optical drive is no longer seen and I just get an I/O error if I try to format it (already formatted with a card reader on my PBG4) as slave, nothing works... (I'm just guessing too, had no instructions) Guess I need cable select, which this does not seem to offer. Ordered a slightly better one(maybe?) from newegg.

Also got the USB to Ethernet thinggy, I'll play with that later... though I may not be able to run the mini in place of my router, my DSL requires some bandwidth shaping to work well (or else anytime I upload an image, screen share at work or our iphones back up to the cloud the internet chokes and becomes useless for anything else) Never used NAT in OS X server, but I'm guessing adjusting the bandwidth of blocks of (or individual) IP addresses is not one of the things it can do...