StarCraft II

Finally.




Blizzard debuted StarCraft II yesterday\this morning\whatever in Korea. Why Korea? Korea LOVES them some StarCraft. There are Professional StarCraft players that spend all day (and a good chunk of the night) in training camps in preparation for nationally televised competitions. They're Fuckin Rock Stars. Huge props to Blizzard for taking care of their fans. All of their fans (even if the most rabid get first dibs). When I was there last year I was a bit thrown off at first when I turned on the tv and saw people playing StarCraft. Sorry Fucking Pwning StarCraft. It was kinda surreal. Based on their devotion, StarCraft II probably won't deviate far from the mold. That would be fine with me. Thanks StarCrafters of Korea.

NES Collab

Guilty Pleasure

Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||||||||| 63% Stability |||||||||||||||| 66% Orderliness |||||||||||||| 53% Accommodation |||||||||| 36% Interdependence |||||| 30% Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 70% Mystical |||||||||| 36% Artistic |||||||||||||| 56% Religious |||| 16% Hedonism |||||||||||||| 56% Materialism |||||||||||| 50% Narcissism |||||||||| 36% Adventurousness |||||||||||||||| 63% Work ethic |||||||||||| 50% Self absorbed |||||| 30% Conflict seeking |||||| 30% Need to dominate |||||| 30% Romantic |||||||||| 36% Avoidant |||||||||||||||| 63% Anti-authority |||||||||||| 50% Wealth |||||||||||| 43% Dependency |||||| 23% Change averse |||||||||| 36% Cautiousness |||||||||||| 50% Individuality |||||||||||| 43% Sexuality |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Peter pan complex |||||||||| 36% Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Physical Fitness |||| 17% Histrionic |||||||||||| 43% Paranoia |||||||||||||||||| 76% Vanity |||||| 30% Hypersensitivity |||| 16% Female cliche |||||||||||| 50%

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Stability results were moderately high which suggests you are relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.

Orderliness results were medium which suggests you are moderately organized, hard working, and reliable while still remaining flexible, efficient, and fun.

Extraversion results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.


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social, outgoing, worry free, optimistic, upbeat, tough, likes large parties, makes friends easily, rarely irritated, open, enjoys leadership, trusting, dominant, thrill seeker, strong, does not like to be alone, assertive, mind over heart, confident, controlling, feels desirable, likes the spotlight, loves food, social chameleon, hard working, concerned about others

Process Explorer 10.21 "fix"

I've been using the sysinternals freeware tools for some time. One of my favorites if Process Explorer. I've got version 10.2 installed on my laptop, but have installed the latest available on any other system I was troubleshooting. The current version is 10.21 (Nov 2006?) There's actually no changelog from 10.2 to 10.21 but the option of search engine to use has been removed. Previously (10.2), Google and MSN Search were available choices under the options menu. Right clicking on a process (among other options) allowed you to search online for additional information about the selected process. As of 10.21, search engine is no longer an option. Right clicking sllows you to "search online"... with msn search. I LOATHE msn search. It has (in my expereince) Always Sucked. Microsofts search is so bad, I generally use googles site search to look for information on Microsofts site(s), until MS links mysteriously started disappearing from google search results.

This change in one of my favorite tools was incredibly disappointing. Bygones. I found an interesting comment in the autoruns forums regarding a "fix" for this situation and it involves editing the hex in Process Explorer. Hmm. Never done that before. ^_^ Notepad++ to the rescue. I drag and drop the exe onto Notepad++ (yeah, I'm too lazy to file > open. That's not very legible... Plugins > HEX-Editor > View in HEX.

Oooooooo

Go to offset 0x852DF

or

Search (ANSI STRING) for "http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%s"

Replace with "http://google.com/search?hl=en&&&&&q=%s"

I tried to highlight the entire string and paste, but that didn't work (like I said, my first time editing HEX). After the third time I went in and decided to see if I could delete a character. It was immediately replaced with a ".". Hmm. What if I just start typing at the start of the string. Cool. The reason I searched for the string instead of just the offset is because the msn search string occured multiple time and I replaced them all. Save, close, run...

It Works! Search Online? Sweet, Sweet google search.

I don't consider myself a brand loyalist. I just want the option to use the tool that works best. MSN Search does not work for me, has never worked for me. If at any point it overtakes google in efficency and accuracy I will use it. Until then, google it is.