Thread: Bugbyte's 2001 New Beetle -Mac Mini Install

Isn't that all VNC does? Is there some other function of VNC that I don't know about.

Right now, the Mini has only 256mb of memory so VPC is out unless I drop $100 on memory. Also, VPCo costs $100 and right now I'm saving for some serial port adaptors and I may need to buy an Airport for the home Mac.

VNC is pretty much a stopgap solution. I intend to switch completely to the Mini but am in the very odd situation of it being cheaper for me to keep the PC for now. I suppose I could sell it and finance a lot of this but then I wouldn't have PC compatibility except via VPC.

Right now I prefer not to mix my OS's on one machine.

Although I've officially ended my worklog, I guess as I increase system capabilities I'll post them here rather than on some other random thread.

Tonight I built a mount for my Griffin Powermate controller. I've been using it with great success to control my Mini, volume, change songs, rewind, ffwd. Until today it's been living deep down at the bottom of my cupholder.

The idea was to put it in one of the three basically useless cupholders in my car. Since the Powermate has this blue pulsing LED on the bottom, I thought I'd try to take advantage of that by placing it up on a plexiglass platform and letting the glow show through.

Here's the platform, Powermate, and cupholder. I cut a hole in the side so I can eventually route the USB cable to the hub inside the center console.


Here's the components stacked inside the cupholder. The Powermate fits inside a circle I cut out of the plexiglass, so it sits pretty firmly in there.


Here it is in the dark. Came out pretty cool.

Wireless is working. Posting from the iBug in front of the house.

Unfortunately, I've gotten VNC to work just fine on my desktop when I've got the wireless router involved but in the actual car, I can't get it to connect adhoc. I don't seem to know the host address to type in for the VNC server.

Try setting the computers with static ip addresses, and have it to DHCP when you want to connect to your router....or you can just set everything up statically, the good thing about the mac is that you can have different "locations" with different configurations out of the box

are you trying to go from the mac mini in your car to a pc in your car? or to the pc at home?

Mac OSX already comes with the VNC server embedded into the OS. Just enable it in preferences. (that is if you want to access the mac from something else)

I love your install! Im putting a mac mini in my truck right now and im trying to figure out different routes I can go with the install. I think im going to put the computer in my headliner, I need to figue out if it can play DVDs upside down.

can that griffen knob turn on the computer?