July 2005 - Posts

Extended64 Open Source Porting to x64

Published 31 July 5 10:54 AM | Charlie Russel

I just saw that Extended64.com has started a porting project to port popular Open Source Web development tools to x64. Great idea, and I am really glad to see it. Now, if we could just convince them to port some of my favourite UNIX and Linux OpenSource...

Storage Drivers - PnP and F6

Published 25 July 5 11:42 AM | Charlie Russel

We've seen a lot of users having problems with storage drivers in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Mostly with SATA drives, either in RAID or normal mode. Windows x64 Edition does have native SATA support in the OS. But the problem is that many motherboards...

Mouseware Workaround

Published 25 July 5 11:11 AM | Charlie Russel

Several users have mentioned in the public newsgroups that Logitech seems to be in no hurry to provide an x64 version for their Mouseware software. Not a problem for me, personally, since I'm quite happy with the 2 buttons + scroll wheel functionality...

Acer Ferrari 4000 Drivers

Published 10 July 5 10:12 AM | Charlie Russel

The hot new Acer Ferrari 4000 has several of us excited, and I'm actively thinking about getting one here. But drivers for x64 Edition have been problematic at best. But now Barb Bowman, MVP and Wireless Networking Wiz, has located a European Acer site...

KB898060 on MS Downloads

Published 8 July 5 8:36 AM | Charlie Russel

"An issue has been identified with your Windows-based system that may cause network connectivity between clients and servers to fail." Patches: Windows Server x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 64-bit Itanium Edition Windows XP x64 Edition...

MUI Available

Published 5 July 5 11:3 PM | Charlie Russel

A special thanks to Bill Sharpe for posting the links to the MUI’s on the newsgroup The Multilingual User Interface (MUI) add-on packs for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition are now available for download for Technology Advancement Software customers...