64bit version of Flash exists in Adobe internally.

Two out of three most requested features for Flash are related to Linux, and are being worked on.

(the two features are a bug in Flash where it shows on top of menus and other things, and better webcam support)

I have been running Ubuntu for the last year and in the process I found it to be an amazing distro which over that time became progressively easier to use and more fully featured to the point that installing is just a matter of putting the CD in and letting it run, while the gnome desktop environment far surpasses Windows. I also gained a greater knowledge of Linux over that time, learning how to use the terminal and even attempting to program. Now in this blog I hope to give back something to the community, by helping others gain the same insights as me.

Eventually I started to try other distros apart from Ubuntu, first I used Linux Mint for a few months (it is very strongly Ubuntu based) but turned back to Ubuntu with the release of Hardy Heron, then after experimenting with Zenwalk and Foresight (both good but not many packages available) I tried 64bit openSUSE 11.0. The first impression was amazing, the distro truly looks awesome:

After installing openSUSE the distro continued to impress, the power management was great; hibernation on openSUSE is lightning fast and so was resuming (about 15 seconds to hibernate and 10 to resume). One thing I was apprehensive of when installing was package management, I have in the past became very comfortable with apt and wondered how RPM based openSUSE would compare; to my surprise I found YAST to be an excellent package manager and the commandline tool, zypper to be much more efficient than apt-get or aptitude and the one-click install system to be incredibly useful.

Since installing I have encountered a few problems (many of which I hope to cover in future tutorials):

• openSUSE doesn't support my wireless card out of the box (nor does any distro I have tried), ndiswrapper is needed to set it up.
• Many multimedia codecs required manual installation.
• 64bit flash needs nspluginwrapper (but it think installs from the DVD includes flash out of the box)

Downloading openSUSE

You can download openSUSE from http://software.opensuse.org/. I recommend you get the 64bit version if your computer supports it (all Inspirons should) roas it is faster and if more people use the 64bit version it can become the standard sooner thus getting wider support, functionality wise you can still install 32bit programs so there is really no reason not to go 64bit. You can download openSUSE as a DVD or a LiveCD with GNOME or KDE; the DVD includes more stuff (it has GNOME, KDE4 and KDE3.5 which you can choose on install) but it will take a lot longer to download. I recommend you get either the DVD or the GNOME LiveCD but if you prefer KDE it is fully supported so feel free to try it. You can download either by bittorrent or normally, bittorrent may be a bit slower (depending on whether your isp restricts it) but it doesn't put as much strain on openSUSE's servers so if you have a reasonably fast connection i recommend bittorrent (it takes about 30min for the CD or 5 hours for the DVD on a 5 meg broardband connection). If you want to order a boxed copy you can here; it does cost money but it comes with both the 32bit and 64bit DVD plus 90 days support.

All I have to say is Windows 7 better be natively 64 bit, and drop 32bit altogether. We have the hardware for it, its about freakin time. Especially with the hardware Intel is announcing this summer/fall.

This arcticle is for those, who has better understanding how to publish the websites using IIS and who does not have indepth knowledge inside IIS

Difference between windows 32Bit and 64Bit

Difference between kernal and user mode

Compare IIS 6.0 with legacy IIS versions

Concepts of IIS

The difference between 64 and 32 bit processors

1.    Mathematics

Processor	Holds
32Bit	0 to 4,294,967,295
64bit	0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615

Obviously this means your computer can do math with larger numbers, and be more efficient with smaller numbers.

2.    Benefits

To academic institutions and private companies

Where large calculations are being performed

Huge databases are being accessed

Complex problems are being solved

The true benefits of this set up don’t come from the amount of bits

 A 64-bit processor is made

More advanced silicon processes,

More transistors

Faster speeds.

This is currently where the true benefit of switching to a 64-bit processor lays

3.    Products
AMD-64bit

4.    Disadavantages

         Not all software vendors have their applications are built on 64bit, so they arent efficient as they would run on 32bit, cant avail the power of 64bit

Difference between kernal and user Mode

1.    Kernel Mode

In Kernel mode, the executing code has complete and unrestricted access to the underlying hardware. It can execute any CPU instruction and reference any memory address. Kernel mode is generally reserved for the lowest-level, most trusted functions of the operating system. Crashes in kernel mode are catastrophic; they will halt the entire PC.

2.    User Mode

In User mode, the executing code has no ability to directly access hardware or reference memory. Code running in user mode must delegate to system APIs to access hardware or memory. Due to the protection afforded by this sort of isolation, crashes in user mode are always recoverable. Most of the code running on your computer will execute in user mode.

What Runs Where?

KERNEL-MODE

The kernel-mode programs run in the background, making sure everything runs smoothly - things like printer drivers, display drivers, drivers that interface with the monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. These programs all run in such a way that you don't notice them.

When the computer boots up, Windows calls the KERNEL, the main kernel-mode program that allows all the other programs to run, even the user-mode programs.

USER-MODE

These are the programs that you run when you want specific programs - e.g., MS Paint, MS Word, and Calculator. These are heavily restricted, as to not crash the system. Windows uses memory-protection services offered by the processor to prevent malicious programs from interfering with the rest of the system and corrupting it.

Compare IIS 6.0 with legacy IIS versions

Die neue Version 9.50 des beliebten Browsers Opera wurde endlich veröffentlicht.

Was am meisten auffällt, ist die neue Oberfläche. Mir persönlich gefällt sie ausgesprochen gut, farblich kein bisschen grell oder überladen, also angenehm fürs Auge. Man hat dabei das Gefühl, dass die Oberfläche an sich das Arbeiten erleichtert, obwohl streng genommen kein neues Element dazugekommen ist.
Es gibt auch neue Features, wie zum Beispiel Quick Find (optimiertes Durchsuchen des Verlaufs inkl. Seitentext) oder Dragonfly, womit Webmaster ihre Seiten untersuchen lassen können. Dadurch dass Opera der Browser mit der besten Unterstützung für Webstandards ist, ist dieses Feature natürlich ausgesprochen hilfreich. Apropos: die Unterstützung von Standards wurde ebenso verbessert wie die Geschwindigkeit und der Phishing-Filter.

Obwohl Opera leider eher ein Nischendasein fristet im Gegensatz zu anderen Browsern, so ist er doch technisch einer der besten der Welt. Von Opera stammt die Tab-Funktion, von der viele Nutzer des IE von Microsoft erst seit Version 7 ihres Programms was hatten. Grundsätzlich kann man diesen Browser wärmstens empfehlen. Leider gibt es davon allerdings keine 64bit-Version, was die Nutzung unter 64bit-Betriebssystemen erschweren kann.
Dadurch dass ich kein Windows mehr benutze, kann ichs auf selbigem System mit 64bit nur schwer testen, aber 64bit-Linux steht mir zu Verfügung und die Tests laufen. Sobald ich Ergebnisse hab, stell ich sie hier als Update rein.

So long,

- Bernhard

Update:
Ich muss mich korrigieren, denn es gibt doch 64bit-Versionen. Für Linux gibt es seperate Versionen, für Windows unterstützt der Installer sowohl 32bit als auch 64bit.
By the way: Hier kann man das ganze herunterladen inkl. Sprachdateien. Ich wünsche gutes Surfen. ;)

It took a while to figure out how to even compile for 64bit so I feel the battle is 80% over. But here are the first few that I've finished.

Side note: Always try and download from the authors site first. That way you are sure to get the latest version. Otherwise use mine as a backup.

Sound: http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=29;action=display;threadid=36312
Direct download: http://www.genecrucean.com/64bit/plugins/sound_x86_x64.rar

sRGB_Utils: http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/133
Direct Download: http://www.genecrucean.com/64bit/shaders/sRGB_utils_32and64bit.rar

TensionMap: http://www.claus-figuren.de/addons/tensionmap.php
Direct Download: http://www.genecrucean.com/64bit/plugins/TensionMap30_x86_x64.rar

CurvatureMap: http://www.claus-figuren.de/addons/curvaturemap.php
Direct Download: http://www.genecrucean.com/64bit/plugins/CurvatureMap_x64.rar

I'll update this post with more 64bit stuff as I do them so bookmark it now if you want to check back later.

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Issue #1:

ISAPI Filter 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_filter.dll' could not be loaded due to a configuration problem. The current configuration only supports loading images built for a AMD64 processor architecture. The data field contains the error number. To learn more about this issue, including how to troubleshooting this kind of processor architecture mismatch error, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29349.
[the link takes you no where]

Issue #2:

Could not load all ISAPI filters for site/service. Therefore startup aborted.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Trying to find a solution, I kept bouncing to the page
How to switch between the 32-bit versions of ASP.NET 1.1 on a 64-bit version of Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;894435

Finally I resolved the issue. The following steps will give you a better idea on how to resolve this cracker.

1. Goto your Inetpub folder and browse AdminScripts folder
2. Look for adsutil.vbs and double click it. It would ask if you wanted to enable cscript. Say yes and move forward.
3. Click Start>Run and type cmd to open the Command Window
4. Now type the following command to enable the 32-bit mode:

cscript %SYSTEMDRIVE%\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1
(here replace systemdrive with the drive letter, i.e. C: or D:)

5. Now install .NET 1.1 Framework. If already installed then using the command window type the following:
%SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
(systemroot is your windows path, i.e. c:/windows or d:/windows)

6. Make sure that the status of ASP.NET version 1.1.4322 is set to Allowed in the Web service extension list in IIS Manager.

After all is done, right click the Web Sites folder in IIS Manager and click on properties.

In the Services tab make sure Isolation mode is unchecked.

or using the command window type the following,

CSCRIPT %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/IIs5IsolationModeEnabled 0
NET STOP HttpFilter /y
NET START W3SVC

For more understanding of similar issues visit the following links
http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/12/14/HOWTO-Diagnose-one-cause-of-W3SVC-failing-to-start-with-Win32-Error-193-on-64bit-Windows.aspx

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=348106

Do let me know what you think about this post.

Preamble

To understand my predictions for WWDC 2008, you need to understand where I think Apple is going in the next 24 months. To view the iPhone as a stand-alone product is to miss the point. The point of the iPhone is to create a development ecosystem around Objective-C and Cocoa. This ecosystem will have spill-over benefits for the Mac, since more developers will be familiar with the platform’s development technologies, but the real point is to create a large population of developers already familiar with application development for Apple’s next device: a touch tablet. This is why Apple is suddenly pushing “OSX” instead of “Mac OSX” and “iPhone OS”—Apple wants to impress upon developers that the skills for developing on any OSX device carry over to the other Apple devices as well.

With that out of the way, on to my predictions!

Next-Generation iPhone

3G: Yes

This seems like a given.

GPS: Yes

With all of the concentration on 3G capabilities, discussion about GPS seems to have died down a bit. While GPS technology takes away space and power from other solutions apple could provide in the iPhone’s form factor (such as video conferencing), I think that improved positional capabilities will create many 3rd party developer opportunities.

Faster Processor: No

I think there are so many other bells and whistles going into this revision that Apple will be happy to use a processor with the same speed and power consumption as the current model.

Video Conferencing: No

With 3G network speeds, this becomes possible and it is an intriguing possibility. But supporting (1) video capture, (2) video encoding before sending, (3) bi-directional communication over 3G (or WiFi), (4) video decoding what you’re friend is sending you, and (5) continual screen updates to display the video—all at the same time—will simply kill the battery life.

Thicker (face-to-back): Yes

Since the current iPhone is a 1.0 product, I’m willing to believe that Apple learned a lot during its development and—knowing what they know now—could redesign the current iPhone to be smaller with lower power consumption. Starting from that assumption and adding 3G, GPS, and a larger battery to the mix, I believe that the new iPhone will have to be more voluminous. It can’t get much wider without becoming uncomfortable to hold, and it’s current height seems about right, so I believe that the phone will grow a little thicker.

iPhone mini: Yes

Take the current 8GB iPhone, make it a little smaller, and offer it in a variety of colors for $350. Offer a 4GB model for $250. Pesto! You have a device that may attract the interest of my wife. Since I didn’t understand the point of the iPod mini until I witnessed my wife’s reaction, I’ve come to trust her judgement over mine for products Apple targets at non-technophiles.

Higher pricing: Yes

Components: there are more of them and they are more expensive. With the addition of the iPhone mini at a lower price point, Apple will have a little breathing room on the high end. I expect the 8GB model to retain its current pricing and the addition of a 16GB model for $100 more.

SquirrelFish: Yes

Squirrelfish helps the iPhone in two ways. First, Squirrelfish is fast, provides users with an improved Web browsing experience. Second, it is more efficient—getting the same end result accomplished in fewer clock cycles, so it requires less power to run JavaScript.

iPhone widgets: No

In the latest episode of The Talk Show, Dan and John kick around the idea that iPhone widget applications may make a comeback: applications for the iPhone written entirely in HTML+JavaScript+CSS, facilitated by a DashCode development tool specific to the iPhone. There is a lot of sense to this from the perspective that it would invite everyone skilled in Web design to be an iPhone developer. However, as I stated in my preamble, I believe Apple can use the popularity of the iPhone as a means to push Objective-C and Cocoa, thus building a larger community of developers skilled in the technologies that underlie all of Apple’s “software-expandable” offerings.

Apple Software

OSX 10.6 Will Be Announced: Yes

Steve is quoted (somewhere—sorry, no link) as stating that he wanted to be releasing updates to Leopard on a more frequent schedule than was indicated by the delay between 10.4 and 10.5. Announcing 10.6 at WWDC with it’s release due at MacWorld seems about right to me.

10.6 Named Snow Leopard: Yes

Sure, why not?

10.6 Will Specifically be for Atom Devices: No

This was posited by Josh Bancroft and I think he’s generally right that OSX is being pushed as its own brand to allow for OSX on a new device, but I don’t think it will be announced at WWDC.

OSX 10.6 Will Drop PPC Support: Yes

This completely sucks for PowerMac G5 owners. You’re the losers of an unexpectedly rapid and successful migration to Intel. As a life-long loser myself, I sympathize.

OSX 10.6 Will Drop Carbon Support: Yes

Apple wanted to drop Carbon support long ago, but the old-time Apple developers complained and—probably more importantly—Microsoft and Adobe were unable (and perhaps unwilling) to migrate off their Carbon code bases. Reading the tea leaves, Carbon’s now a goner. Apple used the Intel migration as leverage to push developers toward Cocoa, then Leopard didn’t include support for 64-bit Carbon. If the rumors that 10.6 will be 100% 64-bit are true, that rules out Carbon. Good bye.

New / Improved / Revamped .Mac Services: Yes

Please! I’ve had .Mac service since I purchased my first Mac and it was fine for a while—I didn’t mind the premium price at first because it “just worked” and that’s what I wanted. But each of the last three years I’ve been really close to canceling my membership and Apple would announce something that would make .Mac just barely worthwhile enough to continue holding onto. This year, though, if I’m not blown away, I’m canceling it. Or whatever they will call it.

.Mac Rebranding: Yes

It’s hard to sell something called ”.Mac” to a person whose only Apple product is an iPhone. Explaining that .Mac doesn’t require a Mac must be a nightmare.

Apple Hardware

New Apple Device: No

I believe that 2009 will be the year of the tablet, so no new devices this year.

New MBP Designs: Yes

I’m just guessing here.

New Displays: No

I think that the displays will be revamped when the Mac Pro is redesigned.

Pie-In-The-Sky Prediction

Every good WWDC prognosticator needs to go out on a limb and make an off-the-wall or out-of-left-field prediction.

OSX 10.6 Adds Resolution Independence

Despite the rumors that 10.6 will be focused on stability and performance instead of features, I think that this will be on the short list of enhancements.

1) First of all you should know that VS.NET 2005 is a 32 bit application. It will not work flawlessly on 64bit so be prepared that it will not behave. For example if you are running more than one instance of VS.NET in the same machine (even in different desktop sessions) sometimes it will just crash.

2) The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 don't have 64bit support at all, which means that you won't be able to use any of the SharePoint projects for VS.NET in 64bit environment.

3) If you are building "ASP.NET Web Site" or "ASP.NET Web Service" then you may get this error:

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Search, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies.

If you just copy the 64bit version of Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.dll assembly from the SharePoint 2007 hive to your application BIN folder this will make the things even worse and you will start getting random errors. Some of them may be:

Attempted to load a 64-bit assembly on a 32-bit platform. Use ReflectionOnlyLoad() instead if trying to load for reflection purposes.  

There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target "Build".

aspnet_compiler.exe" exited with code -2146233082.

Failed to create AppDomain.

Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

In order to solve the error you have to copy the 32bit version of the Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.dll (from a 32bit deployment of SharePoint) and copy it to your web site BIN folder as this is suggested in the following post.

A better solution could be to use an "ASP.NET Web Application" / "ASP.NET Web Service Application" projects instead of "ASP.NET Web Site" / "ASP.NET Web Service". These project are available from File -> New -> Project -> Visual C#/VB.NET -> Web.

I always had trouble installing flash and firefox on my 64bit distros, but this time it was really painless.

sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper flashplugin-nonfree lib32nss-mdns

That's it. I tried gnash but it would not work. Hopefully in some future release.

Thank's to Andy for providing a nice howto.

VMware Workstation è un virtualizzatore molto potente. E' possibile emulare tantissimi sistemi operativi, anche i meno conosciuti, sia a 32 che a 64 bit. In questa ultima versione sono stati corretti bug e velocizzata l'esecuzione di macchine virtuali.

Download VMware Workstation 6.0.4 Build 93057

It seems strange but while most of us run 64bit computers we are using 32bit Operating Systems. Of course there are good reasons for this if you use Windows. Microsoft has not shown a great deal of support for 64 bit systems although it has provided them for some time. The level of driver support is reported to make Vista look good. However with Linux the situation is very different. Many distros offer a 64 bit option. While the level of support varies between distros they are mostly valid options.

So why would you use a 64bit version in preference to the standard 32 bit? The answer is as varied as why do you use Linux? There is a performance advantage but how much and whether it is discernible will depend on the applications you use. Those that manipulate large amounts of data will benefit the most but only if there are 64bit executables available. There is also the issue of addressable memory. 32 bit systems are limited to 4 gig of ram.
There is a good post of the Fedora forums with more information much of which is applicable to all Linux distros and not just to Fedora.

Having read that post and others I decided to give 64(x86_64) bit a try. I obtained a Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD and installed it on my Dell Inspiron 1520. I covered the 32bit(i386) installation earlier and so won't repeat that except to say I had to follow the same basic procedure. The setup went as well as last time but with a few differences.

What was Different?

To have Flash in Firefox it is necessary to use nspluginwrapper and the i386 Flash plugin. This is covered on the Fedora forums where there is an area especially for x86_64.

The other pleasant surprise was that PulseAudio worked for me. Once I found that Kmix didn't have Output enabled, the green light was off, I enabled it and I had audio. Note to self, when playing with Audio settings have the volume control on the desktop so if it suddenly works you don't deafen everyone and have to fumble around to turn it down. Occasionally it fails to load on bootup or resuming from Sleep but that is much rarer than with i386 and the sound quality is much better. A restart of X usually fixes the problem anyway.

There were no other issues I hadn't already faced with the original installation and so I am pleased with the change. There is a small performance improvement in things like image editing and I haven't found any disadvantages.

I did mention in the previous post that my multimedia controls on the front panel weren't working. Further investigation showed they were recognised but not assigned so I set up Amarok to use them and they all work fine.

Is It For You?

If you are using Windows, don't bother. Unless you switch to Linux of course. For Linux users, if your favourite distro has a x86_64 option and your hardware is compatible and most PCs sold in the last couple of years are, see the link to the Fedora forum for info on that, give it a go. If your favourite distro doesn't have a x86_64 option ask why or give Fedora a go.


Loading FrostWire:
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fa25489d755, pid=8123, tid=1082538320
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (10.0-b22 mixed mode linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libc.so.6+0x30755] catgets+0x15
#


Users from our FrostWire Forum came up with a solution:

by xbj9000 on Fri May 16, 2008 3:13 pm
I have a solution for those of us running 64 bit systems:

Code:

sudo apt-get install ia32-sun-java6-bin

Code:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

Then choose the ia32 version of Java 6.

Thanks a lot guys.

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- aggiornamento del 14/06/2008 -

Quelle elencate sopra erano le prime impressioni. Ora dopo 15 giorni di utilizzo raccomando ancor di più l'utilizzo dei 64 bit.

La macchina va benissimo. è anche più silenziosa. Non si blocca mai (MAI). I processori lavorano benissimo e poco tutti e due. I pacchetti sono quasi tutti supportati, tranne qualche difficoltà in più nell'installare JAVA, Flash, Skype (difficoltà risolte in 5 minuti cercando nel forum di Ubuntu). Con le precedenti versioni questa è un altro pianeta, e consiglio a tutti coloro che hanno un processore da 64 bit di installarlo, perchè ne vale veramente la pena. All'inizio anche io ero scettico e mi avevano consigliato di installare la 32 bit, perchè la 64 bit aveva ancora dei problemucci tra pacchetti ecc. Beh ora va tutto bene, anzi meglio. E non vedo l'ora di installare Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, ovviamente 64 bit.