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Zach Buttram
College freshman with a passion for computers, gaming, and the Internet.
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About
- Zach "Thrawn" Buttram
- Web Manager of 18HFP
- Owner/Server Manager of sorcero.us Minecraft
- Computer Science Major
- Former Intern @ ARRC Technology
- All-Around Tech Geek
If you need to contact me, you can use the Contact tab.You can find links to my other sites in the home tab.A link to my Resume can also be found in the home tab.
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I now understand Facebook’s “it’s complicated” relationship status. I still refuse to use it, as I feel I may become less manly just by doing so. YEAH, MANLY MAN! Seriously though, that makes so much sense right now.
Today I drove around aimlessly for like 4 hours, wut?
Hey, I was the one that drove you! :D
Tumblr, a.k.a. Repost ALL THE THINGS.
Hey internet, notice me please.
Link to dA is good idea, yes. Yoda I am. Increase your linkage you must.
http://aquaoctopus.deviantart.com/It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.
A Deus Ex: Human Revolution Writer- You Need Additional Startup
As a follow-up to my previous post, my friend was unable decipher some of the autoruns in msconfig, so I came up with a simpler solution for him, as well as some more helpful info.
Here is his response to my previous help:
Zach, most of the programs are really abbreviated like “ehtray” and “stsystra” and I have no idea what those are. Help?
And here’s my solution:
I’d suggest downloading CCleaner:http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
It has a “Tools” section with a “Startup” tab that gives a bit more info than msconfig does by itself. I’d also recommend just doing a general cleaning with CCleaner as well. It’s one of the standard tools we install on every machine that’s brought in where I work, so it’s ARRC Technology approved!Also, if anything in there under Startup still doesn’t look familiar, Google it’s name. If you’re still unsure after googling it, it’s probably better left alone.
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- Sorcerous is BACK! http://t.co/dhiy7vRm
- SORCERO.US IS BACK, BABY!Nov 30, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @mollstam It's aliiiiiiive! Just got 1.0.0 downloaded. Excellent, my man.Nov 18, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @mollstam Minecraft 1.0 = Error 500! I love it! xDNov 18, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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- Jan 27, 12February 1 is change your password day. But don't make it a one-time thing. Password changing should be a routine you practice regularly. Like hand-washing, or trolling Facebook. Especially ones you've shared. More »
- Jan 27, 12iPhone: Perhaps you've seen the the jailbreak hack that allows you to use Siri hands-free but haven't wanted to jailbreak your device. Lucky for you, there's a built-in feature that'll let you use Siri without the need to press and hold the home button. To set it up, just follow these steps: More »
- Jan 27, 12Look at that badass up there! That, ladies and gents, is a Suriname horned frog, dubbed the "Pac-Man Frog." According to Prensa Latina, scientists in the South American country of Suriname found 46 new species of animals, from insects to fish to frogs. One of those frogs was a new species of Pac-Man Frog, which are called that because their bodies are almost spherical, and their mouths are large enough to allow them to wolf down prey that almost match them in size. More »
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Kinect's vision and depth perception technology could soon be integrated into laptops. The Daily has seen two prototypes, believed to be from Asus, that incorporate an array of sensors above the top of the screen, replacing the traditional webcam. Below the display are a set of LEDs. Sources at Microsoft confirmed to The Daily that the laptops contain versions of the Kinect sensor.
Asus has dabbled with Kinect-like systems before. Its Xtion PRO PC peripheral uses sensor and software technology licensed from PrimeSense—technology also found in Microsoft's Kinect sensor.
What the sensor might be used for is anybody's guess. The Kinect for Windows—a version of the Xbox 360 accessory with revised firmware to support close-up operation—will be released in February, and with that, third-party applications that use the sensor will start to arrive. Windows 8 might even include direct support for Kinect-powered features: documents leaked in 2010 hinted at Kinect integration with automatic user switching using face detection.
- Jan 27, 12We've all met a person who is always right, and we know how annoying they can be because they're often wrong. There's little that's more annoying than arguing with somebody who is clearly mistaken but won't admit it. The problem is, sometimes we're the ones in the wrong and we don't realize it. Everyone has the capacity to become stubborn and unyielding, but you can also notice when that happens and stop. Here's what you can do to recognize and admit fault when it is your own. More »
- Jan 27, 12The newest version of Minecraft greets players with the sentence "You are a NIGGER," if they switch their language settings to Afrikaans, the language spoken in South Africa and Namibia. More »
- Jan 27, 12I know that my alarm clock is the devil. It doesn't matter which physical clock I'm using. There's a spirit that moves from clock radio to cellphone to travel clock and channels evil at my motionless body. My subconscious is so sure of this that it wakes me a few minutes before the alarm goes off whenever possible. More »
- Jan 27, 12If the Droid Razr Maxx is anything to go by, idiotically terrible battery life on LTE phones might be a thing of the past. Laptop Mag ran battery tests on all of Verizon's LTE models and the Maxx crushed everything by a crazy margin. More »
- Jan 27, 12
On almost any given day, Twitter receives a handful of requests to delete tweets that link to pirated versions of copyrighted content—and quickly complies by erasing the offending tweets from its site.
That fact itself is probably unsurprising to people familiar with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown process, which gives sites like Twitter a "safe harbor" against lawsuits related to user behavior and uploads—so long as the sites don't knowingly tolerate pirated material or links to such material.
But Twitter has taken the unusual step of making DMCA takedown notices public, in partnership with Chilling Effects, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several universities. The site shows 4,410 cease and desist notices dating back to November 2010. While most of 2011 shows daily or near-daily activity, there is just one notice in January 2012, suggesting either that Twitter is suddenly receiving fewer DMCA takedown notices or that the database is not quite up to date. (If we find out from Twitter or Chilling Effects, we'll update the story.)
- Jan 27, 12Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional hive mind. Help Yourself is a daily thread where readers can ask and answer questions about tech, productivity, life hacks, and whatever else you need help with. More »
- Jan 27, 12It was kind of surprising that Mass Effect 3's multiplayer looked better than expected. But this trailer makes it look like must-play content. You'll see the various races of BioWare's sci-fi universe playing through skirmishes as several classes, with missions that appear to happen all over the galaxy. Does this make you more excited or less for Mass Effect 3's multiplayer? More »
- Jan 27, 12The Wall Street Journal's golden box of anonymous sources has rattled once more, this time with news that Facebook is finally going public. Now that's cooler than a million dollars. More »
- Jan 27, 12On January 22, an M8.7 class flare helped cause the biggest solar storm since 2005. Airplanes had to change routes, and the power grid and satellites were affected. It also caused some of the best auroras ever seen. More »
- Jan 27, 12Nintendo announced a bunch of actual news over the last few days—the release window for the Wii U, the Nintendo Network, a new Mario side-scroller for the 3DS—but Next Media Animation doesn't care about any of that. More »
- Jan 27, 12When a commenter on the website of Legend of Grimrock asked about clickable on-screen arrow navigation for the upcoming indie dungeon crawler, developers said they had no plans to implement such a feature. When they found out why the commenter asked, they quickly changed those plans. More »
- Jan 27, 12
Hewlett Packard is showing off a range of new printers at Macworld|iWorld 2012, largely aimed at the home office and small-to-medium business segments. However, a new feature of its latest printer models is what really caught our eye on the show floor. HP's Wireless Direct makes it possible to print documents and images from an iOS device via AirPrint without even knowing the name or password of the local wireless network.
All of HP's printers now include the company's ePrint feature, which enables options like wireless printing, sending documents to print via e-mail from anywhere in the world, and directly accessing documents in the cloud. These ePrint capabilities also enable support for Apple's AirPrint standard, according to Marketing Manager Annamaria Pardini, which lets iPhones and iPads to print to a networked printer without any setup, configuration, or driver installation.
- Jan 27, 12We've had a lot of discussion about SOPA and PIPA recently, the bills that want to cripple the internet, but there are still plenty of people who aren't clear on the issues. And although the bills have been shelved for now, similar threats (e.g., ACTA) loom and it's wise to stay informed of the issues at stake. This infographic lays SOPA's and PIPA's legal and technical technical details out pretty clearly. More »
- Jan 27, 12The highest court of the land scored a victory for your privacy versus the cops this week, but the worst threats of digital surveillance remain standing. The good news? These justices aren't backing down anytime soon. More »
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The rise of purely digital online game sales has changed the industry in a number of ways, but the most important change might be the introduction of games as impulse buys. Anyone with a credit card tied to their Steam account knows how scarily easy it is to, with just a few clicks, dump more money than you intended on a whole passel of games that seem vaguely intriguing. You might not have read any reviews, or even heard anything about the game outside of the Steam description, but when it's so cheap and the purchase process is so seamless, your consumptive id can often act before your conscious brain even has a chance to question whether you really want the game you're buying.
Digital stores on platforms from Sony, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have similar setups to encourage this kind of impulse purchase—enter your credit card once, then buy with a few clicks forevermore. Nintendo is the lone holdout, as it often is with online features, refusing to store credit card information for users with a Wii or 3DS. But that might change in the next console generation, with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announcing today that the Wii U will use near-field communication technology "as a means of making micropayments."
