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    [SOLVED] Is an AMD Opteron 4284 useable in a daily driver?

    TL;DR I'm looking at getting a new workstation with an AMD Opteron 4284, but I'm wondering if that's too outdated a CPU for daily use. Longer I built my current PC (full specs at the bottom) almost a decade ago and, whilst it's done an admirable job keeping up over the years I'm really...
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    Multiple OS' and storage partition on USB Flash Drive

    I have a 32 GB SanDisk flash drive. I want to be able to boot into Tails and Kali Linux (ideally both 32- and 64-bit Kali) from it, as well as having a large partition to act as a regular flash drive. I formatted the drive into two FAT32 partitions - `persistence` and `multiboot` (`persistence`...
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    Is my ExtHDD busted? Detected by Windows but given no drive, acts weird on Ubuntu

    I have a Western Digital 1TB ExtHDD (NTFS) I've had for a few years, and I think I dropped it (onto a carpeted floor) a few weeks ago and hadn't used it since. When I plug it into my Windows 7 machine, Windows makes the device detected ba-dunk noise and I get this in my Device Manager...