June 9th, 2005On this day in different years

Angry Vash - Trigun

A question about drive enclosures

A quick question about External hard drive enclosures, and it's a pretty basic one, so excuse the n00bness.

I have an existing HDD, in NTFS and filled with goodies. Can I just slap this puppy in any enclosure, and have Win XP just recognize the drive and access the data within?

I know, pretty generic question, with lots of X and Y factors. This question is primarily aimed at the people who have experience in this field. Seeing that I'm pretty dead broke, I can't afford plopping 30ish bucks for something that might rendering my sweet drive empty, or pretty useless.
calvin

Wireless woes

Per my boss' orders I am trying to install a wireless access system and have it use Radius
Authentication via windows 2003 server IAS service. I have Radius setup for
users that dial into our network and it works fine.
However, the wireless
stuff requires a parameter called a LAT-group, which I can configure in IAS, to
determine access rights via wireless. BUT, the wireless, for some strange reason,
when I put a sniffer on the network traffic is waiting for type of reply from
the radius server, but I can't tell with the sniffer what the heck it is waiting
for.
SO, I ended ditching that and loading a server with Fedora Core 3 Linux and
installed Free Radius on it. It fails the authentication, and the user name/passwd/Lat group
is in the radius conf file, By this time it was 0130 am and I went home and
crashed and I am back here at it again. Anyone around here experienced setting up a
wireless system using Radius? Any hints???
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Does anyone here know what systems at the Pentagon Gary McKinnon managed to hack? I can't find this out anywhere, as, unsurprisingly, not many news sites go into too much technical detail. I'm just wondering really if he just hacked a windoze system or whether he hacked a proper system like OpenVMS
In case you don't know what I'm talking about...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/s…

[.EDIT] bloody hell! He faces 70 years if extradited and found guilty, talk about your overreacting! I guess this is what happens if you embarass the wrong people.
Recent Me

Bittorrent vs IM clients?

I don't know if it's just Azureus, or any Bittorrent client, but every time I open Azureus, it causes everyone on my local LAN to have sporadic random IM dropouts, on both AIM and MSN, on both the official clients and Gaim. I thought it was because it was saturating my connection in one direction or the other, but I've limited both upload and download speed (including, as an experiment, to some very small numbers) and it seems to be no different. When I exit Azureus, the problems go away.

Anybody have any experience/suggestions? I guess one answer is to limit my quite serious Linux distro collection, but I'd like some other answer. Maybe there's a "screw everything up" option in Azureus that I've accidentally toggled...?