Sylthe - a digital life http://sylthe.com obviously Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:53:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Apple Airport Extreme with External Hard Drive Attached (Time Capsule, kinda) http://sylthe.com/apple-airport-extreme-with-external-hard-drive-attached-time-capsule-kinda/ http://sylthe.com/apple-airport-extreme-with-external-hard-drive-attached-time-capsule-kinda/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:31:00 +0000 asylthe http://www.sylthe.com/?p=35 I've know for a while now that you can hook up an external USB hard drive to an Apple Airport Extreme, and share the drive over the network.  The external drive can be shared to all of your network attached computers (Mac and Windows alike).  I was also interested in attaching the external hard drive for the purpose of using Time Machine (OSX backup mechanism) on my Mac mini.

I purchased a 1.5 TB Seagate external drive from the local Costco for $99.00 that was formatted for Windows (FAT file system).  I plugged the external hard drive into the Apple Airport Extreme with the supplied USB 2.0 cable.  At first the drive wasn't showing up in finder.  I ended up having to hook up the external drive to my Mac, and format it as Mac OS Extended.  I plugged the external drive back into the Apple Airport Extreme, and that seemed to fix my issue.  I did some light googling on the issue.  I wasn't able to actually find a list of supported file formats for the Apple Airport Extreme, although I didn't look that hard.

I now have a nice network attached storage device that I can backup my workstation to!

The following picture shows my internal hard drive, a 1.5 TB USB hard drive directly attached to my Mac, and the 1.5 TB external hard drive (FreeAgent) that is attached to the Apple Airport Extreme:

]]> http://sylthe.com/apple-airport-extreme-with-external-hard-drive-attached-time-capsule-kinda/feed/ 0 How to add a new MySQL Database and apply user privileges via the command line http://sylthe.com/how-to-add-a-new-mysql-database-and-apply-user-privileges-via-the-command-line/ http://sylthe.com/how-to-add-a-new-mysql-database-and-apply-user-privileges-via-the-command-line/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:56:05 +0000 asylthe http://www.sylthe.com/?p=30 mysql> CREATE DATABASE supercooldatabasename;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON supercooldatabasename.* TO 'supercoolusername'@'localhost'
-> IDENTIFIED BY 'supercoolpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

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Aastra 6757i SIP IP Telephone

T-Mobile G1 Android Phone

Netgear FS108P 8 Port Switch w/4 Port PoE

Samsung 24" Monitor

Apple Mac mini 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/Apple Remote

Apple Keyboard w/Number Pad

Apple Magic Mouse

Blue Snowball USB Microphone

Apple iPad 16GB Wifi w/Keyboard Dock

HP Mini Netbook w/16GB Solid State HD

PC Engines wrap1e103 in Enclosure

2TB External HD in Macally Enclosure

Sipura SPA2002

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In Game Screen Shot

]]> http://sylthe.com/flightctrl-hd-for-ipad/feed/ 0 iPad Revolution http://sylthe.com/ipad-revolution/ http://sylthe.com/ipad-revolution/#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:12:24 +0000 asylthe http://www.sylthe.com/?p=4 Sylthe.com has sat untouched for quite some time now. In light of the iPad craze (and today's purchase of one) I've decided to give the old blog another shot. I'm currently utilizing the official WordPress iPad app to draft up this first post. I intend to post a bunch of meaningless babble mixed with some tech savvy goo ra. Enjoy

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