May 2005 - Ryan's Blog - Extended64.com

1 Million Hits as of 3:30 PM!

Extended64 has reached the 1 million hits mark for the first time!

Published Fri, May 27 2005 3:45 PM by Ryan Hoffman

More About The 16-Core IWill Box

People have been requesting new bechmarks that I should run on the IWill 16-Core box - and I will - as soon as possible. I'm hoping to get some cool interviews with the people that made this machine, and I'm still evaluating more ways to show everyone...

Published Fri, May 27 2005 12:07 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: Extended64.com

Prediction: Over 50% of machines shipping Windows Longhorn will be x64

I'm blogging this so we don't forget that I said this. I was in a conversation with Steve Sinchak, best selling author and owner of TweakXP, and I made this bold claim: Steve Sinchak says: you are in a niche Steve Sinchak says: that's for sure Ryan Hoffman...

Published Tue, May 24 2005 8:48 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: Personal

AOL Does Not Work on x64

America Online does not work on Windows x64 ( not AIM, which works fine). This is because AOL uses a special "AOL Dialer" to connect to their servers - and this requires a hardware driver (it's virtual hardware). This is not a problem for me, but it's...

Published Mon, May 23 2005 7:19 AM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

Why do you need .NET 1.1 when .NET 2.0 is installed?

A great question was asked on the 64-bit NG: "Why do you need .NET 1.1 when .NET 2.0 is installed?" (.NET 2.0 is 64-bit and 32-bit, and .NET 1.1 is only 32-bit) The way the Microsoft created the .NET Framework allows for multiple versions to run side...

Published Fri, May 20 2005 8:12 AM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Applications

Planning my new x64 PC [BYOB64 (3)]

It's about time to put the CPU (AMD Athlon 64 4000+) and Video Card (GeForce 6800GT) which I got at the x64 VIP Launch to good use ;-). It's going to be pretty hard to top VolkerW's BYOB64 (2) , which was basically the best "Build Your Own Box for 64...

Published Thu, May 19 2005 10:54 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: Personal

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Games

A great tip was posted by Tripp Park on his MSDN Blog : If your game seems to be running "too fast" on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, try modifiying your boot.ini to add the "/USEPMTIMER" switch. It can be done with this command: bootcfg /copy ...

Published Sat, May 14 2005 10:44 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility, x64 Applications

Windows x64 IIS 6 running 32-bit App Pools

Internet Information Services in Windows x64 is 64-bit. This means, if you want to run 32-bit ISAPI DLLs with IIS6 on Windows x64, you'll need to apply a small tweak. Open up a Command Prompt window, and type this command to enable 32-bit Application...

Published Tue, May 10 2005 7:24 AM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

AMD Processors, Intel Processors, x64, AMD64..

I've seen a few people get confused about having an "AMD64" machine. Basically, the "x64" architecture is rightfully called "AMD64" under the hood in Windows (AMD did invent it). So, if you have an Intel or AMD processor which runs under Windows x64,...

Published Tue, May 10 2005 7:18 AM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

Outlook Express in Windows x64

Problem Spell checking in Outlook Express does not work in Windows x64 Background When you're on a clean installation of Windows, Outlook Express has no spell checking support . Only when you install Microsoft Office, Outlook Express uses parts of Office...

Published Tue, May 10 2005 12:21 AM by Ryan Hoffman

DRM Music works in x64

Rafael just blogged about MSN Music , and because people don't often read a whole blog entries, I was just asked if DRM music worked in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The answer: YES Here is a screenshot of WMP10 playing a DRM file, and a screenshot...

Published Fri, May 06 2005 7:40 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

Building x64 Apps with the Platform SDK and VS2005

Gilles Vollant, creator of WinImage (a program I use daily!), has posted an article on how to use the Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK and Visual Studio 2005 to make an x64 build environment. Go check it out, it even has nifty screenshots.

Published Thu, May 05 2005 9:08 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Development

Compiling C++ Applications for x64

I just found a great thread on the MSDN Forums about how to compile C++ applications targeting the x64 platform. Excerpt: There are three ways to compile x64 code which can be loosely defined as 1) Compile with Visual Studio 6; 2) Compile with Visual...

Published Wed, May 04 2005 10:52 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Development

Extended64.com is now 200+ Users Strong

Add 200 Users to the list of milestones Extended64.com has reached. Yes, this might not compare to the almost 7,000 users registered at Bink.nu, but it's a start. Consider this: we had less than 100 users just four weeks ago.

Published Wed, May 04 2005 7:18 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: Extended64.com

[Fixed] Found a bug on the forums

I just found a pretty big bug on the forums. If there is anything with more then one page, you get an error moving to different pages. I'm debugging now. Edit: Fixed. The bug had to do with paging. I'm pretty sure this was specific to my custom CS code...

Published Tue, May 03 2005 12:01 PM by Ryan Hoffman

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1 Million Hits as of 3:30 PM!

More About The 16-Core IWill Box

Prediction: Over 50% of machines shipping Windows Longhorn will be x64

AOL Does Not Work on x64

Why do you need .NET 1.1 when .NET 2.0 is installed?

Planning my new x64 PC [BYOB64 (3)]

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Games

Windows x64 IIS 6 running 32-bit App Pools

AMD Processors, Intel Processors, x64, AMD64..

Outlook Express in Windows x64

DRM Music works in x64

Building x64 Apps with the Platform SDK and VS2005

Compiling C++ Applications for x64

Extended64.com is now 200+ Users Strong

[Fixed] Found a bug on the forums