jamesd3rd

I've a ton of migrations and have always wondered if there was a way to migrate an entire Windows installation from one computer to a completely different hardware set up with apps and all and not have Windows completely choke. I've heard there are issues with the HAL.dll file and registry if it is attempted. I know the best thing to do is do all the installs on a new system and migrate working data, and other backed files. This is my standard approach but I was just curious. I've heard of tools that will migrate accounts, profiles and permissions for servers but that isn't exactly the same thing as a desktop.

I just set up a wireless dd-wrt router but decided to configure it as an AP rather than do the whole routing and switching thing. The reason being is even though I have the steps to configure my FIOS Actiontec modem/router as a bridge and let the dd-wrt take care of the rest, I wasn't sure if doing this would affect the DVR that FIOS provides. When I go into the Actiontec's network settings, the DVR does get an ip address. However it is not connected with an ethernet cable. It is connected downstream of the ONT by COAX. Somehow they are tied in such a way that it is a DHCP client. It is listed as an IP set top box. As I was setting up the Actiontec as a bridge and changing the ethernet settings, I got a warning stating that doing so could affect video service. At that point I stopped and re-imported the previous configuration file I backed up before I started making changes. That was I was able to restore everything. I didn't want to disrupt video service and render the DVR useless. So my question is if anyone uses the FIOS system for internet and video service? Have they added a dd-wrt router, turned their FIOS wireless modem/router to a bridge with their dd-wrt do all the work without any issues? Thanks.

It's precisely this SSID I'm talking about. In Windows for example, I would search for wireless networks. If I were in a place that just happened to have an SSID my computer remembered, would I see two instances of the network; the legit one and the Jasager impersonating when it responds to the probe?

From what I understand, the pineapple impersonates SSIDs a wifi user is used to seeing so if someone was interested in doing some sniffing, an unknowing user would connect to it. Now what if someone is in a coffee shop, airport or hotel and they have been there before so their laptop theoretically would already be aware of the network. If there is a man in the middle doing some sniffing, would there be two instances of the sameSSID when a user is looking for a wireless network? If so, how would one distinguish one from the other? Some venues like airports use an SSID related to their name but there is no real sign on. You are taken to a portal before you get to any other site. How would one know if they were going through a man in the middle or not?

I learned that it is indeed bootable from a flash drive after making some tweaks in the BIOS. I have to turn off Fast Boot and set USB as the first Boot Device Option instead of Bios Boot Devices. After that I used PhysDiskWrite to write FreeNAS to the flash drive and I was off and running. The Dimension 2400 has a funky drive bay set up but since we have a couple of them I can pull a tray from one of the others so I can drop two drives in. Now it's just a matter of getting a couple large IDEs to set up my RAID. I just wonder how much electricity the thing will use since it will be running 24/7.

Just got turned on to Hak5 a few weeks ago and really like a lot of the content. My question has to do with setting up a FreeNas box. We have a lot of Dell systems that aren't being used. The Dimension 2400s are small and look like they could be used as a NAS but I'm wondering if they can boot from a flash drive. I know the BIOS has a USB option but I have learned that when it comes to Dell that doesn't really mean anything. Booting from USB doesn't necessarily mean boot from USB flash.