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hi stephanie...sounds like you did it all just fine...stay tuned to this thread for when the next microcode becomes available for your Intel CPU...your speculative storage bypass is still vulnerable only because Intel hasnt put out an updated new microcode to mitigate it as of yet but dont really wo...

its not linux that makes it run hot as you can see by my temps i posted and im running a full blown desktop with all the horns bells and whistles...in fact i run 5 of my own personal computers including laptops...i do see by one of your posts though that your computer has had a tough, rough life...j...

hi GreenGoulash...whenever i need to install a really lightweight linux for someone with your specs, i do install peppermint 8 for them...its a dual xfce/lxde system that works nicely for those specs, and yes i still say this even though they gave me a lifetime ban from their forum...lol...DAMIEN

hi linux 1983...welcome to the forums...12 yrs old to linux?...that makes you a preteen then...lol...again welcome...DAMIEN

hi evil tim...the one problem i see is that your intel CPU is running to high a temp at 68 degrees C...(it should be in the 46 to 54 degree C range under normal load) your bios date is from 2007 so i am assuming an 11 yr old rig...im assuming with your background that you may already be looking into...

I concur as well with both michael louwe and mute ant with their observations i never keep external HDD devices plugged in and active at all times, only when i need something from them and as far as the heat situation, 69 degrees C is to high even for an intel CPU which tends to run higher heats tha...

hi absque...my experimental netbook is an "N" series too...lol...DAMIEN

hi stephanie...let us know how you make out with this...DAMIEN

ps-is The Governor Massey Inn in downtown Toronto still in business?

could you please enter, (copy and paste) the following code into your terminal/command prompt and post it here so we can all see what we are working with in order to help you further?...DAMIEN

Your very welcome...DAMIEN

Hi stephanie...that microcode in your driver manager is the latest one released thru the mint updater and recommended for your system...i always install the most up to date microcode recommended and have never had a failure...yes your system is "chirping" right along with the existing microcode, how...

What you need to do is to click on the "update manager" and go to "view" then click onto "linux Kernels"...you will notice the check marks next to kernels that are no longer in use but are still installed...you need to remove/uninstall all but the current kernel and the the one just before that whic...

It is now officially known as Spectre variant 3a and Spectre variant 4...following article discusses just which CPUs are vulnerable and once again telling us about staying up to date on microcode updates as well as any update patches to come...note also that atom processors are now also included...t...

Did you notice the third line down?... "Distro: /etc/ corrupted, use -% to override" ...this would normally have the name of the distribution, ie linux mint, ...the OS itself appears to be corrupted...did you check the "checksum" that is did you verify that the download to your USB stick was showing...

Moem is correct...just activating a browser to go on line is going to overwhelm your 900 MBs of ram...DAMIEN

variant 4 (spec-storage)...newest LTS kernel 4.4.0-127 as of today, and newest AMD microcode release 3.20180515.1 as of 5-19-2018...nothing new from intel as of yet...DAMIEN damien@DAMIEN ~ $ dpkg -l | grep microcode ii amd64-microcode 3.20180515.1 amd64 Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs dam...

Since i was a young boy, i was always perplexed by this nonsense of churning the clocks back and forth...i was taught in school that Ben Franklin was an early proponent of daylight saving time because with America being at the time an agrarian society, that this was beneficial for farmers...my quest...

I can honestly say i have never used a GPS unit in my life...anytime i have had to drive here in the U.S. whether around a state or anywhere in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Ireland, England, Wales, or Scotland, i have always used just maps and once in a while asked a "local" for directions...have never...

I would much rather take the few seconds time to type the password then the hours upon hours of time that it takes to troubleshoot and restore a windows system after some malware or defective windows updates that give you NO choice of what to use or not use as an update flubs it up because they do n...

I cant say that i know anything about the encryption services E.F.F refers to in this article but im posting this article from them for those of you who do know all about this...DAMIEN

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/a ... action-now