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    Right click stops working on Magic Mouse

    Nope. Don't have magicprefs installed. I'll give it a shot. It's been a pretty good mouse so far - does what I need it to and I can switch it off between hands when one of them gets tired. It doesn't have tons of buttons that I'll never use. And...it was free! Pretty good mouse for free if you...
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    Right click stops working on Magic Mouse

    I have a fairly new (came with a refurbished iMac I bought in April) Magic Mouse that will intermittently stop responding to a right click. I have to flip the switch on the bottom of the mouse to disconnect it and then reconnect it and it'll work fine for a random period of time (sometimes...
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    Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

    Yeah, I remember the whole IBM Deathstar debacle. Wasn't that why IBM ended up selling their hard drive division to Toshiba? I remember thinking it was such a shame because they were some of the largest drives you could get at the time (80GB maybe?) and I'd wanted one so badly. I just bought...
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    Win7/Win8 support for 5.25" floppy?

    I think that it would be a lot easier to emulate the game instead of trying to get ancient hardware like that to work on a modern system.
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    Slow Laptop Issue

    I can understand about the curiosity. I'm curious too, so please let me know what the results are :) The hard drive being the issue makes a lot of sense. I've had some experiences with laptops where they'll throttle down their CPU frequency enough to cause pretty severe hangs due to thermal...
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    Slow Laptop Issue

    Of course, that also doesn't account for the update theory...which I think is certainly valid. The only tricky part there, is if it IS the updates that are killing it there isn't much that you can do except for look for a hotfix (which rarely work for me) or maybe see if a driver update will fix...
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    Slow Laptop Issue

    Ah! Okay, I was mistaken. If it's hanging like that then it's most likely hardware related. I'm not super familiar with Orthos, but crashing twice suggests that there's a hardware problem...as you said: healthy hardware doesn't crash when stressed like that. There is the possibility that it's...
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    Slow Laptop Issue

    The processor in that machine isn't much of a processor (1.65GHz AMD APU)...it's at least a dual core, but I would start trying to cut down on system resource use as much as possible. Toshiba probably ships the laptop with a ton of bloatware (assuming you used a Toshiba restore disc to reload...
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    Slow Laptop Issue

    My general rule of thumb for users is to trust that the computer is, in fact, running slow...and to ignore all of the rest of the comments about how it's "only" being used for Facebook and Yahoo. Every user lies about what they actually do on their computers and I hardly ever have a user come...
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    Stuck at windows startup, partially fixed

    If you uninstall the drivers again, does it go back to normal? I would do like Nenu suggested and check the PCI-e connections to make sure they're clean and there are no bent pins. I would also check the cards themselves and make sure that a bent pin didn't scratch the surface of the contacts...
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    Code Keyboard -- new favorite keyboard

    I just got my Code Keyboard last week...and I'm in love with it too. I was worried at first that the greens would require too much force for me to type comfortably; but they're lovely to use and much quieter than the blues in my old keyboard. The build quality is excellent (which is what I...
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    Metro: Last Light Released for Steam

    It looks like they released Metro: Last Light for Steam yesterday, here's the link: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwMzk Personally, I'm pretty excited about the prospect...I take it as a sign that gaming on the Linux platform is really starting to take off with a...
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    GTX 760 on Battlefield 4

    Thanks y'all...that's what I was looking for. I think I might spring for the 4GB version if BF4 was using 1.8GB of VRAM.
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    GTX 760 on Battlefield 4

    30fps isn't my goal, it's my minimum. Is Physx really not worth it?
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    GTX 760 on Battlefield 4

    I suppose the other thing that I should've mentioned is that I'm primarily a Linux user. I dual boot to Windows to play games, but that's the only thing I use Windows for; all of my other work is done on the Linux build. AMD GPUs are a pain in the ass under Linux and I've been reading that...
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