@connorsoliver said in Troubleshooting Hard Drives - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

Is there a way to fix the physical hard drive?

Kind of.

All Seagate F3 firmware drives (most of the drives in the last 10+ years) have a known firmware bug. Seagate won't fix it but instead started their own data recovery company. You can fix the firmware if you have a PC3K from AceLabs. It will set you back about 10K. It's easier just not to buy Seagate.

You can do head swaps in hard drives but this is ONLY to get the data off.

It's not cost effective to try to fix a bad drive (nor is it practical)

I have the gear to do it (Deepspar, PC3K, Clean Room, etc.) since I do data recovery on bad hard drives, but as @IRJ said you fix it just to the point where you can get data off it, but not to keep using it.

Medal of Honor - Netflix

I can only watch an episode every few days. It's just unbelievable what some of the men featured went though. One of the best shows I have ever seen.

@dbeato said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@Pete-S said in Content filtering with granular settings:

What's the problem? Just put the workstation groups on different vlans and route their traffic differently. Block either in firewall, http proxy or dns.

Exactly what I am thinking even if it is Squid. @CCWTech what firewall do you have?

Unifi USG

@JaredBusch said in Content filtering with granular settings:

The only reason to do something like this is it these are public computers. If these are users in an office setting then the problem is management needs to discipline employees.

I agree. I think they are going to end up with something like PiHole when they hear the cost of doing what they actually want to do.

@DustinB3403 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@CCWTech said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@DustinB3403 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

Why the dumb request to block this content from just 1 workstation?

Not 1 workstation.

40+ workstations, some workstations would be locked down more than others.

Arbitrary requirements are arbitrary.

Not arbitrary in any way.

One group of workstations may be locking down social media sites, other groups may allow them.

This may be cost prohibitive for the client but that's what they want. The ability to assign different groups of computers to different settings.

@DustinB3403 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

Why the dumb request to block this content from just 1 workstation?

Not 1 workstation.

40+ workstations, some workstations would be locked down more than others.

My initial post was worded poorly.

@DustinB3403 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@CCWTech said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@dafyre said in Content filtering with granular settings:

Squid

facebook is just an example. They would want all weapons sites blocked, all social network sites blocked, etc... Can you imagine the size of the host file?

Well everything else is going to affect the entire site. . .so

Unless it's agent based.

@dafyre said in Content filtering with granular settings:

Squid

facebook is just an example. They would want all weapons sites blocked, all social network sites blocked, etc... Can you imagine the size of the host file?

@DustinB3403 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@CCWTech said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@DustinB3403 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@CCWTech said in Content filtering with granular settings:

I have a client who wants sites like facebook, instagram, etc. filtered on one computer but not another. They are looking for a very granular solution. I am guessing it's out of their price range to do something like this but they want more than just basic adblocking / Porn filtering (which I use PiHole for)

Any suggestions?

Remotely edit the workstations host file.

That would be a huge task. I need a list or lists based solution.

Okay, well it's free and it would work for just that 1 workstation

Right but they are looking for category based blocking and different blocking on different workstations.

@DustinB3403 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@CCWTech said in Content filtering with granular settings:

I have a client who wants sites like facebook, instagram, etc. filtered on one computer but not another. They are looking for a very granular solution. I am guessing it's out of their price range to do something like this but they want more than just basic adblocking / Porn filtering (which I use PiHole for)

Any suggestions?

Remotely edit the workstations host file.

That would be a huge task. I need a list or lists based solution.