With what we've been talking about in another post about not being able to view leverguns and other sites from a "work" computer I have a question. Not that I'm "up" to anything, but I was just wondering if it would be possible to put some kind of an aux. hard drive on a laptop and use that hard drive for cruising gun sites? Would it then be possible to keep the data on that hard drive separate from the rest of the computer to seperate business from pleasure so to speak?
Thanks, I'm not very puter literate,
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I am no computer expert, by any stretch of the imgination, but I think it depends on how you reach the internet. If you are like me, I go through a cable modem paid for by my company. When I am logged into my work systems, I don't surf. When I log out of work, I figure I am reasonably safe. I don't store any personal stuff on the laptop itself, but instead on jump or thumb drives and transfer this occasionally to my home computer. Still, the cookies exist on the laptop, so if they wanted to know really bad, I'm sure they could dig out where I've been...
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Rusty, there's no room for a second hard drive on most (all?) lap tops. Now, if it's a work furnished computer then there's no option for a second partition/operating system since their tech department would frown heavily on such shenanigans. However, if you've a personal laptop then there's the option of partitioning the hard drive and installing some flavor of Linux on it. And then there's the option of picking up a second hard drive and installing it in your computer and restoring the system to it. In some machines this takes a special CD from the manufacturer in order to create a "restore partition" on the new hard drive - with others it would be a simple matter of running the restore CD that came with the machine. BUT, swapping between the two hard drives (usually just a screw a tug a push and screw it back in) MIGHT cause problems with Microsoft (if you're running their Operating System) because Windows keeps track of hardware changes to cut down a bit on piracy and you might end up triggering some kind of alarm with them by swapping back and forth.
And then, there's the option of booting from the CD drive and running a "Live CD" or "Live DVD" of Linux from there - nothing done to the machine at all and you're actually using a safer means of extracurricular browsing since you won't be caching cookies and crud on the machine. There's even a version (Puppy Linux? I'm not sure) that allows you to save your settings and sessions to the Live CD or DVD - if you have a CD or DVD burner on the machine and can boot from it.
BUT if it's just to store gun related pictures and such, a thumb drive (jump drive, USB drive, etc) would work as slick as anything else with less hassle.
And then, there's the option of booting from the CD drive and running a "Live CD" or "Live DVD" of Linux from there - nothing done to the machine at all and you're actually using a safer means of extracurricular browsing since you won't be caching cookies and crud on the machine. There's even a version (Puppy Linux? I'm not sure) that allows you to save your settings and sessions to the Live CD or DVD - if you have a CD or DVD burner on the machine and can boot from it.
BUT if it's just to store gun related pictures and such, a thumb drive (jump drive, USB drive, etc) would work as slick as anything else with less hassle.
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A second (external) hard drive can be attached via a USB (or Firewire) port. I do it on my laptop all the time.
HOWEVER, the inability to browse gun sights is from work will not be solved by using external (removable) storage devices.
The reason you can't browse to some sites from work is because they've set their network up to disallow browsing to what they consider to be undesirable sights - usually porn, file sharing, or anything else that is not directly related to doing your job.
Windows also has a nasty habit of saving cookies and temporary internet files in a special folder on the hard drive. It's virtually impossible to separate work from non-work browsing.
If you're using your laptop from home and connecting to work, you're probably doing it through a VPN connection, and as long as you're doing that, you are at the mercy of the firewall rules.
If none of the above applies to you, ignore everything I said. However, the long and short of it is if you want to do non-work stuff, get your own computer and just use your work computer for work. Companies can and *will* fire you for trying to get around the security measures they've implemented. I've seen it happen, and it wasn't something I would personally want to go through.
HOWEVER, the inability to browse gun sights is from work will not be solved by using external (removable) storage devices.
The reason you can't browse to some sites from work is because they've set their network up to disallow browsing to what they consider to be undesirable sights - usually porn, file sharing, or anything else that is not directly related to doing your job.
Windows also has a nasty habit of saving cookies and temporary internet files in a special folder on the hard drive. It's virtually impossible to separate work from non-work browsing.
If you're using your laptop from home and connecting to work, you're probably doing it through a VPN connection, and as long as you're doing that, you are at the mercy of the firewall rules.
If none of the above applies to you, ignore everything I said. However, the long and short of it is if you want to do non-work stuff, get your own computer and just use your work computer for work. Companies can and *will* fire you for trying to get around the security measures they've implemented. I've seen it happen, and it wasn't something I would personally want to go through.