Java
After installing Java, the trick is done by giving Konqueror the absolute path of the executable:

Konqueror -> Settings ->Configure Konqueror -> Java & Javascript

and set (in my case) to /usr/bin/java

Flash

Open a shell window and type:
sudo apt-get install konqueror-nsplugins flashplugin-nonfree

Konqueror -> Settings ->Configure Konqueror -> Plugins.->Scan for new plugins

Restart Konqueror.

• Performance - I cannot judge as he was using a different hardware configuration than me, but Sergio has admitted that the promised performance gain is not that great
• New icons - same as in Inventor: not that much important for us users
• 64-bit version - Inventor has it already
• SpeedPak - assembly simplification - looked interesting, in Inventor we are using LOD and other similar functions
• Geometry sensors in assemblies - it is called AutoLimits in Inventor (already there)
• BOM in assemblies - Inventor has it for many releases
• Filters in BOM - Inventor has it
• Dual dimensions - Inventor has it
• Assemblies larger than 1000m - I doubt many designers will need it but I have tried it in Inventor and it works there, no problems
• CircuitWorks - electrical functionality - some of the functions are there in Inventor Pro, much more is in AutoCAD Electrical
• Ribbon cables - already there in Inventor Pro 2009

There seems to be nothing new about the DWG. DWG file format compatibility is still very limited in Solidworks. And although Sergio claimed it works for him in most cases, we have digged out a couple of DWG files which were loaded incompletely into Solidworks' DWG Editor but loaded smoothly into Inventor.

For More info check out:

http://www.adobe.com/products/

Common Language Runtime Support

For the sake of this discussion, I’m going to assume some familiarity with the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and .NET development, but will dive into some of the details regarding its support for 32-bit and 64-bit applications. The 2.0 release of the CLR introduced a 64-bit version in addition to the already existing 32-bit version. Along with this, the capability to have your .NET code compiled to target a specific platform was also introduced. For instance, when developing with C# and Visual Basic, the developer can pass in the /platform switch to the compiler with potential values of x86, Itanium, x64, or anycpu with anycpu being the default if the switch is not provided. As you can see, this allows the developer to control exactly what platforms the compiled .NET code can execute on. For executables, what happens is relatively straightforward – x86 compiled executables run in 32-bit mode on all systems (WOW64 on 64-bit operating systems), x64 will only execute on computers that support the AMD64 or EM64T instruction sets, and for executables compiled with anycpu, the application will run as a 64-bit process on 64-bit operating systems and a 32-bit process on 32-bit operating systems. Similarly, .NET class libraries can be loaded by an executable only if they support the platform that the loading executable is running under. Therefore, a 32-bit process cannot load a .NET class library that is compiled as x64 assembly only and a 64-bit process cannot load an assembly that is compiled to be x86 only. However, if the class library is compiled as anycpu, it can be loaded by both 32-bit and 64-bit processes.

You can refer to the articles referenced at the end of this article for more information regarding how to build 64-bit applications using the CLR and the .NET Framework.

CRM 4.0 SDK Assemblies

To determine what platform a specific assembly is compiled to target, you can use the CorFlags.exe tool included with the .NET SDK. Simply running it with the file that you want to examine as a command line argument, you will be able to gather enough information to determine what platforms the targeted file supports. For instance, here’s what the output looks like when running CorFlags.exe on the 32-bit version of Microsoft.Crm.SdkTypeProxy.dll.

The important pieces of information here are the PE and 32BIT values. The breakdown for the various different platform targets and their associated values are as follows:

Based on this chart, we can see that this is indeed the 32-bit version of the Microsoft.Crm.SdkTypeProxy assembly. If we ran the same command on the 64-bit version, we’d see that it is compiled with the anycpu value. I won’t get into the details about why these are compiled as such, but given this information, we can start seeing where the problems might pop up during solution development and when it is appropriate to use the two different sets of CRM 4.0 SDK assemblies.

For more information regarding CorFlags.exe, refer to the link at the end of this post.

CRM 4.0 Solution Development

Now that we have understand of some of the details about how the CLR executes .NET code in 32-bit and 64-bit processes and the differences between the two sets of CRM 4.0 SDK assemblies, let’s talk about what it takes to build a portable solution against the CRM 4.0 SDK. There are several different places where you may write code that links against the SDK assemblies, so let’s walk through each of them.

Plug-ins

Plug-ins could be one of the more challenging ones to get correct given the different factors making up who will actually end up executing the code. If the plug-in is registered to execute synchronously, it will execute in the IIS worker process, if the plug-in is registered to execute asynchronously, its execution will be in the MSCRM Asynchronous service, and if the plug-in is available offline, it will run in the Outlook client hosting process. Depending on the complexity of the CRM topology that your plug-in is running in, the “bitness” of the various processes that will execute your plug-in may be incompatible with each other. In this case, the best solution would be to see if you can compile your plug-in code using the anycpu option as this would allow your plug-in to execute in each of these processes without any changes. If you require your plug-in to be compiled platform specific, then you will need to take into account how the plug-in is going to be registered, the processes that may execute the plug-in, and ensure that your plug-in is compiled in a manner that is consistent with the bitness with which those processes will run. This may, however, limit the portability of your solution and require that you have different plug-in assemblies for the different environments you plan on deploying your plug-ins in.

Custom Workflow Activities

Custom workflow activity assemblies pose many of the same challenges as plug-ins. The one scenario we can rule out is having the custom workflow activity executing in the Outlook client hosting process. However, both the IIS worker process and MSCRM Asynchronous service may load the custom workflow activity assembly at various points in a workflow’s lifetime. Therefore, like plug-ins, if you can compile your custom workflow activity assembly with the anycpu option, you can rely on the CLR and CRM to do the heavy lifting for you. If you need to compile your custom workflow activity assembly to be platform specific, you’ll need to ensure that you are registering a version of the assembly that is compatible with the CRM processes that it will execute in for the environments you want it to have it registered.

SDK Client Applications

This type of solution is the one that developers hit most often as the code is not executing from within CRM, but rather an external process that is reading and writing data from CRM via the SDK. When the code is executing within a CRM process, the CRM setup process will ensure that the correct SDK assemblies are in place to ensure that your solution can execute given the CLR restrictions already discussed. However, when calling the SDK from outside of CRM, your application needs to link to the appropriate SDK assemblies so that they can be loaded into your process. Luckily, this is easy to fix using the two sets of assemblies that are now included in the CRM 4.0 SDK. If we look back at the information we gathered from CorFlags.exe earlier, you’ll remember that the 32-bit SDK assemblies are compiled to target x86 and that 64-bit SDK assemblies are compiled to target anycpu. Given this information, simply linking against the 64-bit SDK assemblies from your client application will do the trick as these can be loaded in both 32-bit processes as well as 64-bit processes. If you are building a SDK client application that is going to execute as a 32-bit process only, then you can use either set of the SDK assemblies without running into any issues.

Putting It All Together

As we’ve discussed, there are two sets of CRM 4.0 SDK assemblies – one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. This may pose problems at runtime for your code, but with a few simple checks and some configuration when building your code, you can make your solution portable across the various environments where your code may execute. The simplest solution is to build your code using the anycpu so that it can target both 32-bit and 64-bit processes and let the CLR and CRM take care of the rest. Luckily enough, this is the default setting in Visual Studio, so you don’t even need to do anything to add this capability to your solution. Just remember to link against the 64-bit version of the SDK assemblies if you are going to potentially run your anycpu code from outside of CRM. If you do need to compile your code to target a specific platform, then you are going to limit the portability of your solution. In this case, you will need to verify that the platform that your code is compiled to target is the same platform that CRM is going to be executing in when tries to execute your code.

To get the CRM SDK assemblies I’ve referred to, you can download the latest version of the SDK.

Additional Resources:

• /platform Compiler Switch
• 64-bit Applications
• Migrating 32-bit Managed Code to 64-bit
• CorFlags.exe documentation

Cheers,

Nirav Shah

Finally, 4 GB of RAMs is no longger an issue.

For those who are still trying to install Vista 64bit or Windows Server 2008 64 bit to fully utilize your 3 or 4 GBs of RAM, good news. All the required drivers now available.

However, straight from Acer driver DVD disc, graphic and motherboard chipset driver for 64bit OS is not included. Due to that very own reason, I upload both driver here.

Download Acer 4530 Graphics and Chipset driver here :

• Acer 4530 Vista x64 MCP Chipset Driver
• Acer 4530 Vista x64 9100M Graphic Driver (175.61)

Yep, I realize, new version of 9100M custom INF has been release but due to some unknown reason, whenever i try those version (176.37 for example, my vista index down from 4.1 to 4.0). 175.61 is the driver I used to achieve 4.1 vista index.

However, if you wanna test and experiment it by yourself, feel free to check this link : 17x Series GeForce Driver

Step :

Download both drivers (graphic and chipset) from the link above.

Install chipset driver first and restart. Then install graphic driver. Put your Acer driver disc in your optical drive and install other driver (bluetooth, wireless lan, ethernet lan, sound, quickbutton etc)- (for vista) as usual.

Now I assume you have the same questions I had when I heard of Minefield. Is it real? Is it FireFox? And can I trust it? I was able to quickly get answers for all those questions by installing the software. They are all yes. This is a "secret" type of beta for FireFox, which is why it's called Minefield. I suppose they gave it this name as the software is about as reliable as one, if you arent careful, it might blow you up.

So why would you download this browser? Well there is no real reason to get it unless you want a 64-Bit version of FireFox. There are some improvements to the software such as speed and most reliability. It scored 89/100 on the Acid3 compatability test. FireFox 3 only scored 71, and Internet Explorer 8 is in the negatives. (Visit http://acid3.acidtests.org for the test). So far the release is promising. I have it both for my Mac and my PC, running in 64-Bit on both (I assume it is on the Mac at least). Mozilla will have to work harder to reach the 100/100 goal which Safari 4 has achieved, and the iPhone Safari has achieved a 74/100.

Minefield will become the new FireFox 3.1 release, in which point Mozilla will be breaking off their development into two sections, further development of FF3.1, and FireFox 4.0. As mentioned before, this beta version seems to run quite well on my machines. There is still no Adobe Flash support, but then again we cannot expect to see a 64-Bit flash from Adobe before the next decade.

Above is a picture of the Minefield start page. As mentioned, Mozilla is serious when it comes to notifying users that Minefield is not a final or pre-release beta. Most may get scared off if they see this message, however there is no reason the average consumer should download this program anyway. FireFox 3 works well (after the first couple days of course), and most users should stick to that for the time being. However, if you feel the need to try this app out, you can download it from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/. This will not override any installation of FireFox on your computer, however you cannot use either program while the other is running.

There is no current timeframe as to when 3.1 or 4.0 will be released. Beta and Alpha software releases for both FireFox 3.1 and Minefield are available to download with the most current builds. Visit http://www.mozilla.com for more information on each product.

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Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Vista x64 - Tim Long

It's still very annoying that 64-bit Vista/XP still isn't on a par with 32-bit brethren as this isn't the first time I've ran into problems installing software but that rant can wait for another time :-)

This marks the company's first venture into 64-bit BIM applications and applies to Revit Architecture 2009, Revit Structure 2009 and Revit MEP 2009.

The English language versions of new 64-bit Revit software applications are available now to existing Revit Architecture 2009, Revit Structure 2009 and Revit MEP 2009 subscribers via the online Subscription Center. The 64-bit software will release in other languages at a later date.

For more information on the 64 bit versions of Revit refer to the following website.

If you've not seen any screen shots of Windows 7 yet, you can see them here (some say a lot looks the same in Vista). It also appears that Microsoft are moving away from including accessories in their operating system (such as Movie Maker, Windows Mail, Windows Calendar, etc) and rather using the new Windows Live online applications (means less overhead on the machine for those applications to run and Microsoft don't need to push updates to your machine when needed).

One of the other reasons I was not in a rush to upgrade to Vista was because it was too early to ensure most hardware manufacturers had been able to provide updated drivers that would make their hardware compatible with Vista - a little over 18 months down the line and taking into account almost another year before Windows 7 is finally released to the public, maybe by then it might be safrer to upgrade to Windows 7 and not have many hardware problems like those plaguing early adopters of Vista.

And for those who want to stay with XP but are jealous of friends with Vista and want the same look and feel take a look at this How-To-Geek guide on tools to update your XP to look like Vista.

Good source of 64 bit software, including 64 bit versions of the older software you're familiar with.

Recommended by Dave's Computer Tips Newsletter.

Ho iniziato oggi invece un nuovo esperimento: l'uso del sistema a 64 bit. Fino ad ora l'avevo sempre evitato perchè mi pareva che, per l'uso medio, fossero più gli svantaggi ed i grattacapi che i vantaggi effettivi.
Installata senza problemi la versione Alpha6 di Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex e per adesso tutto è filato liscio, anche quelle notoriamente rompine come l'installazione del plugin flash (che è solo a 32 bit), ed il sistema mi sembra un po' più snello, più scattante, ma forse è solo suggestione :)

Non sono proprio gli esperimenti dell'LHC, eh? :D

Bill Quick Pro 2008 or any date will not work with Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008 Standard or Enterprise according to bill quick they changed this support to only Bill Quick Enterprise only which cost a ton more.

Bill Quick Pro 2008 gives me an error when trying to do a Create New Database Error 880012 no message nothing but this error. I called BQE and they said just like they did for trying to Install Bill Quick on SQL 2005 Standard that you must install Bill Quick on the server and that will fix any of your problems. However, it didn't. I called back and they didn't have anyone that could help me and would have to call me back. Also couldn't speak with a manager because there wasn't one there.

So seems BQE's troubleshooting is down to:

1. Blame SA/Password (over and over they kept blaming my password because it wasn't SA, stupid to leave it SA and SQL 2008 requres by default Strong Password Enforment which they should)
2. Blame SQL 2005 Standard for not being Express (odd but whatever money greedy corporations)
3. Blame Remote SQL Database Creation (they've said everytime try creating the database from the server by installing Bill Quick on your server, it's fast and you wont have to reboot) This isn't true I did have to reboot and it didn't fix or do anything different then trying it from my workstation. (They still say the reboot isn't required but the software does ask for it)

Solution was Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components

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  X86 Package(SQLServer2005_BC.msi) - 11273 KB
  X64 Package(SQLServer2005_BC_x64.msi) - 18569 KB
  IA64 Package(SQLServer2005_BC_ia64.msi) - 23510 KB

The SQL Server Backward Compatibility package includes the latest versions of Data Transformation Services 2000 runtime (DTS), SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO), Decision Support Objects (DSO), and SQL Virtual Device Interface (SQLVDI). These versions have been updated for compatibility with both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 and include all fixes shipped through SQL Server 2000 SP4 and SQL Server 2005 SP2.

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1) WOW 64 support allows the 32-bit OCS 2007 to run on a 64-bit version of the Windows O/S

2) The OCS backend role, which is a Microsoft SQL database, can be run on 64-bit editions of Windows Server (without WOW64)

The OCS 2007 Administrative Tools can also run on WOW64.

The Microsoft "Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Supportability Guide" http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f8cc9b59-225f-425d-bd3a-e506396c6207 provides more details on 64-bit support, and specific Windows Server versions that OCS 2007 can run on. Page 9 and 12 detail support for 64-bit.

Microsoft has recently (late Aug 2008) committed to having full 64-bit support (in fact, no more 32-bit support) in the next release of OCS. More details can be found here: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/08/29/246.aspx..

It covers why 64-bit operating systems can handle more memory than 32-bit, does 64-bit actually use more memory routinely, is there an advantage to running 64-bit on only 1 or 2 GB memory PCs, compatibility questions, VPN client problems, and so on.

I was initially impressed with the operating system. It told me I had 4GB of memory, something that the x86 OS wasn't able to detect, but mearly lied about. I was also rather impressed with the initial driver support. My Sound card finally worked, something that had been broken for about a month, video drivers worked at first with both monitors, and my keyboard and mouse work just the same as they did before.  However not all is fine and dandy in the land of Vista 64.

My first issue was with the video drivers. I have two 20" monitors, and my Cinema Display has a higher brightness and colour than my LG. I changed the gamma settings inside my nVidia control panel to match both monitors as best as possible. However the Cinema Display would always return to the original colour if the monitor was shut off, or the screen saver was enabled, or the computer was reset. I would have to go into the nVidia control panel and change the gamma by just 1% for it to set back to the setup I had for it. This issue was fixed with SP1.

Issue number Two came with my installation of the 64 Bit version of UltraMon, a multi monitor support program that gives you full control of your display settings. This program says it works with 64 bit systems, however it seems unpolished. The program does not work the same way at all as it did in the x86 version. I'm unable to change main features with the second smart-bar, such as opacity, and the ability to have 1 program on 1 monitor. As you can see from the screen shot below, The bar on the top is very different from the one on the bottom. The bottom bar is the UltraMon bar, and normally would look exactly the same as the Windows bar. Also there would not be the same program on each bar. This is a very annoying issue with this program, and is making me consider a change with my monitor set up.

For the most part, when it comes to drivers, you can find a 64 Bit version. My Saitek X52 joystick works with Vista 64 with no issues. FSX recognises it and allows me to play with it. Mice and keyboard controls work fine, and my sound card works better than ever. With 64 Bit processing being the way of the future for consumer computers, it is vital that software and hardware companies produce working drivers for both x86 and x64 systems. So far this support is great, however there is still one company that has not bothered to create a 64 Bit version of any software so far, and it is a very important addition that needs to be implemented.

Adobe Flash. Adobe currently does not support x64 with any of it's software. They did state that their new Creative Suite 4 programs will be 64 Bit compatible, but only on Windows based machines. Adobe Flash however is not supported on 64 Bit internet browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7 x64. You don't know how much you need flash until you can't use it anymore. This site requires flash for me to do almost everything, I am unable to use youtube, there are also issues on FaceBook, and PhotoBucket. Almost everything you want to do is impossible. I need to use the x86 version of IE7 in order to view these pages, which makes installing or using any 64 Bit browser useless. iPhone and 64 Bit Vista users have something in common now. This is a huge issue and needs to be addressed by Adobe soon. Consumer 64 Bit has been around since 2003, and even Saitek has created drivers. I know a joystick driver is much different than Flash, but the point is the same. Saitek knows it's customers want to use their product, so they put time into developing software. Adobe needs to do the same.

My final verdict on Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit Edition is still undecided. I don't plan on reinstalling a x86 version, however I am not as happy with the OS as I had hoped to be. Even with the slight speed increase, some of the short comings don't make the experience worth all the trouble. If you're a gamer, and you have 4GB of ram or more, than you will need to get the 64 Bit Vista on your system. It is definitely not for the average consumer.

From what I've read it's to do with the unified Live installer and not Live Writer

I've seen a couple of blog posts that mention if you can get the MSI file you can install it ok. Most of these posts had a link to a german site that has the file on it. I wasn't too keen to download an MSI file from a site I knew nothing about so decided against that.

Another post suggested installing Live Writer on a 32-bit system and copy the MSI from there. I tried that and couldn't find the MSI so that was scuppered

So I thought I'd try something obvious - what did I have to lose?

Download the installer file (WLInstaller.exe) from the Live Writer site, right click on the file and click properties then click the compatibility tab

Put the tick in the box to run in compatibility mode and click ok

Then run the program as an administrator and it should work!

I'm posting this on my Vista 64-bit system from Live Writer so it worked for me!

Klo udah ada yang baca posting gw mengenai gmana gw menggunakan OS 64-bit naahh, gw mo coba share program-program yang juga didesain untuk arsitektur proc 64-bit...

Software pertama yang pingin gw share disini ialah Firefox 64-Bit, kenapa? karena sebenernya cukup aneh klo developer sekelas mozilla tidak menyertakan versi 64-bit dari browser populernya, klo dicek ke websitenya di mozilla.com atau mozilla.org tidak ada informasi mengenai firefox 64-bit ini, setelah bertanya ke Google ditemukanlah Minefield... oow ternyata mozilla buat project baru dengan nama Minefield ini sebagai beta release dari firefox 64-bit, bagi yang ingin mencoba Minefield versi terakhir bisa didownload disini atau langsung ke halaman ini untuk lihat versi-versi sebelumnya dari rilis Minefield.

setelah download selesai kita akan mendapatkan zip file sebesar 7.7 mb extract lalu lanjutkan installasi seperti installasi firefox biasa... oh iya selesai instal klo mau coba jendela firefox harus ditutup dulu klo g minefield g mau jalan karena instance dari firefox *32 masih berjalan di task manager..

Setelah running, hmmm tenyata g ada perubahan significan kenapa ya?? ternyata untuk platform AMD64, SSE2 dari CPU AMD (Trion, Althon64 and Opetron) lebih lambat dari CPU Intel (kecuali Pentium M), karena MMX assembler tidak dapat bekerja dalam MSVC untuk AMD64, tetapi menurut website ini setelah melakukan benchmark terdapat perbedaan 15% saat decoding JPEG di win 64-bit.

karena Minefield sendiri masih tahap beta, add-ons dari firefox yang sudah terinstall ternyata memilliki isu kompabillitas dengan Minefield hyuuh.. jadi untuk sementara ini masih pake Firefox dulu deh, nunggu rilis resminya hehehe...

Customer of mine is currently going through a migration of their Notes environment to Notes 8.0.1. Of course, as any good customer would do, they want to re-evaluate their infrastructure and consulted with their favorite vendor, IBM. One of the questions that came up was, would it behoove them if they switched from a 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment in order to maximize performance and efficiency?

So here's the skinny and thanks to my teammate Matt Engstrom and IBM's Techline organization. Windows itself can't use anything more than 4 GB of RAM per instance unless you're running 64-bit Windows. If your organization is running 64-bit Windows, then you can also run 64-bit Domino, and take advantage of configurations that have more than 4 GB of RAM.

64-bit Domino is 100% compatible with both 32-bit Domino (so that you can run mixed server environments) and the Notes client. The only thing to be aware of is that upgrading a 32-bit Domino server to 64-bits will take a little bit longer (maybe a couple of hours) because database indices need to be rebuilt with the 64-bit indexing engine. It's a transparent process that happens automatically - no manual intervention required

Regarding 64-bit vs 32-bit support, the recommendation would be that if the servers are memory constrained then they would probably be better off with 64-bit, but if they are processor constrained then 64-bit probably wouldn't do much for them. For details see: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21296452.

I recently installed Vista 64 and a 9800 GT on a new dual-core system ... EQ2 runs beautifully.  I don't have any horror stories like some others.

I do have a couple strange issues, though.

FIRST ONE:

When I am running around, sometimes after a few minutes of non-stop movement, the screen will seem to "halt" or play catch-up ... almost like something's not in sync ... one second it goes -real fast- the next second it slows down to what I would say is a "normal" pace.

From what I can tell, it isn't related to framerate. I mean, it's not the kind of stuttering you get when your system is chugging ... it's more like ...

It's more like something is trying to "throttle" the output, and not quite succeeding.

SECOND ISSUE:

I had previously enable anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering through the Nvidia control panel on my odl 7600GT .. however, now, even though I "force" it ... it won't appear in-game UNLESS I actually modify the EQ2_recent.ini file and add the lines /r_aa_blit 1  and   /r_af_blit_1   (I don't know if that second one actually works but I thought I noticed AF working after I added that line ... the aliasing one definitely works, though).

Is there some other thing I need to do in order NOT to have to enter those lines in and simply be able to enable it via hardware as I used to do, or are things just not going to work that way, anymore?  ;)  lol

Thanks

Please advise, if any of you know!

And yes, I have updated my drivers for both motherboard and graphics card, already.  (It's the first thing people seem to assume.)

My server sits in a dark room in the basement and all management is carried out via SSH on the console. As such I don't make use of X, KDE/Gnome, and other packages. I also don't want all of it installed for me either. When I finished the total footprint for the install was only 460MB!

The problem with running 64-bit is that SageTV is a 32-bit program. You need to install required 32-bit libraries for the application to function. Suffice it to say there is a solution and all the juicy details are after the break.

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I began installing 32-bit libraries via the pacman interface and after a few files, LDD was still not working right. In my search for the answer I stumbled upon a new project in the developer list. It seems that it is meeting with some resistance due to ArchLinux's approach to the 64-bit OS, but I agree with its principles. Determined to make use of this, I uninstalled all previously installed libraries, added multilib to my repositories, and pulled down the 3 required libraries for SageTV to function. (glibc, gcc, zlib)

There are other libraries which are missing from the multilib repository. They are

libTSnative.so
libiec61883.so.0
libraw1394.so.8
libavc1394.so.0
librom1394.so.0

I have sent a note to Thomas asking for instructions on setting up the compile environment. Hopefully, I will be able to add them soon.

this is your captain speaking, kekeke.. this will be my second post dan gw coba cari kategori pertama buat blog gw ini, abis jiper ngeliat blog ricoh..

ok let's start, diawali oleh pembelian laptop compaq v3802 yang dilakukan pada bulan juni 2008 gw dah niat pingin memaksimalkan pengunaan laptop gw, nah secara yang diinstall pada saat pembelian ialah vista basic home edition sedangkan proc yang digunakan AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 hmmm..

pada akhirnya setelah ditimbang maka diputuskan klo laptop gw beratnya sekitar 2.4 kg huehehehe... kembali ke laptop maka akhirnya diinstal lah vista ultimate 64 kekeke.. sebenernya sih mo diinstalin Ubuntu tapi apa daya hardisk masih blom mencukupi, apalagi masih dibutuhkan buat nyimpen yang "seger-seger" dari GA2008 hehehe.. hehehe.. jadi intinya apa sih?? oleh karena digunakannya OS 64 bit oleh gw maka disini gw akan membahas kelebihan dari digunakannya aplikasi2 64 bit dan apa keunggulan dari OS 64 bit.

32 bit vs 64 bit

jadi apa sih beda nya? oh ya lupa all of my post is based on my opinion so fell free to give me some comment if there is something wrong, hehehe..

oke kita mulai, salah satu benefit dari menggunakan 64-bit long: memberikan kesempatan untuk processor menembus batasan 4gb memory (<i>padahal laptop gw cuma support max 4gb juga de... </i>) selain itu juga memberikan ruang untuk General purpose register sebanyak 2 kali lipat dibandingkan proc 32-bi t(bayangkan saudara-saudara 2 kali lipat hehehe..) which explains why it is faster than a 32-bit processor/mode dan juga memberikan kemungkinan optimasi aplikasi 64-bit. BTW: Windows Vista 64-bit lebih cepat 10.9 % dibandingkan versi 32-bit, data didapat dari hasil benchmark pake GeekBench.

Tapi perubahan dari 32-bit ke 64-bit membutuhkan modifikasi Operating System yang tidak sedikit untuk dapat menggunakan kelebihan arsitektur yang baru ini. Dan selain itu software juga harus di porting untuk dapat menggunakan fungsi atau kemampuan baru yang lebih baik; sedangkan software yang lebih lama biasanya tetap di support melalui hardware compatibility mode (di mode ini processors baru tetap mensupport instruksi 32-bit sebaik 64-bit version), menggunakan software emulasi, atau implementasi 32-bit processor core didalam 64-bit processor (contonya Itanium processors dari Intel, yang mensertakan x86 processor core untuk menjalankan applikasi 32-bit x86). Oerating systems untuk arsitektur 64-bit  biasanya mensupport applikasi 32-bit dan 64-bit.

64-bit arsitektur memang dapat membuat pekerjaan yang melibatkan data set yang besar dalam appliksi seperti digital vide, komputasi scientific, dan database yang besar menjadi lebih mudah, ada pertimbangan apakah dalam mode kompabilitas dapat lebih cepat  dibandingkan dijalankan dalam sistem 32-bit situ sendiri. Di arsitektur x86-64 (AMD64), sebagian besar operating system dan aplikasi-aplikasi 32-bit dapat berjalan dengan baik menggunakan hardware 64-bit. selain itu kecepatan bukan cuma satu-satunya faktor yang perlu diperhatikan dalam perbandingan processor 32-bit dan 64-bit. Aplikasi seperti multi-tasking, stress testing, dan clustering (untuk high-performance computing), HPC, lebih cocok untuk arsitektur 64-bit makanya IBM, HP and Microsoft banyak mengembangkan penggunaan 64-bit.

64-Bit Sofware Support

Terkadang x86-based 64-bit systems kurang kompatible terhadap software yang dibuat untuk arsitektur 32-bit. Masalah yang umum di temui di Microsoft Windows ialah device driver yang tidak kompatible, walaupun rata-rata software dapat berjalan di 32-bit compatibility mode (atau emulation mode) atau berjalan di 32-bit mode secara native (AMD64), hampir tidak mungkin menjalankan driver menggunakan mode
tersebut. Untungnya hardware/device yang dibuat saat ini sudah memiliki 64-bit driver.

Naahhh, oleh karena itu mungkin salah satu pembahasan di blog gw ini mengenai kesulitan yang saya dapat saat menggunakan 64-bit OS ini dan share informasi atau software 64-bit yang saya temui dalam perjalanan berselancar di dunia maya...

"64-bit ASP .Net is Registered. Required 32-bit ASP .Net to install Microsoft Reporting Service 2005 (32.bit)"

Die Lösung liegt darin, als Administrator die Kommandozeile zu öffnen und folgenden Befehl auszuführen:

The problem occurs randomly, but I'm pretty sure that I see it more after my MacBook Pro has resumed from sleep in Vista (Ultimate 64 bit).

The problem is that no sound will play out of the speakers even though the system is unmuted and should be playing sounds!

The only way I have found to get around this is to insert some headphones/speakers into the headphone jack and then remove them. This always restores the sound for me..... But, I will get on to finding out if there is a better solution than this and I’ll update this post if I find anything.

Does this work for you? Or have you found some other way to restore sound? Please let me know.

According to Microsoft itself... (more information is available here)

"The main differences between the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista relate to memory accessibility, memory management, and enhanced security features. The security features that are available in the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista include the following:

•Kernel Patch Protection
•Support for hardware-backed Data Execution Protection (DEP)
•Mandatory driver signing
•Removal of support for 32-bit drivers
•Removal of the 16-bit subsystem

One of the greatest advantages of using a 64-bit version of Windows Vista is the ability to access physical memory (RAM) that is above the 4-gigabyte (GB) range. This physical memory is not addressable by 32-bit versions of Windows Vista.

Depending on the version of Windows Vista that is installed, a 64-bit version of Windows Vista supports from 1 GB of RAM to more than 128 GB of RAM. The ability to address more physical memory lets Windows Vista minimize the time that is required to swap processes in and out of physical memory. Therefore, Windows Vista can manage processes more efficiently. This memory management feature helps improve the overall performance of Windows Vista."

According to Webopedia...

-Users would note a performance increase because a 64-bit CPU can handle more memory and larger files

-most benefits of a 64-bit CPU will go unnoticed without the key components of a 64-bit operating system and 64-bit software and drivers which are able to take advantage of 64-bit processor features

-Benefits of 64-bit processors would be seen with more demanding applications such as video encoding, scientific research, searching massive databases; tasks where being able to load massive amounts of data into the system's memory is required.

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