Tag: 64-BIT

If you've been waiting for a native 64-bit version of uTorrent, your wait is over! The team has released its first alpha version for testing, and it's ready to download and install on your Windows x64 system. Just head on over to the uTorrent 3.0 alpha 64-bit forum post for the link. So what does the 64-bit version get you? Not a lot, as far as your torrent experience is concerned. Support for ...

Want to squeeze a little extra performance out of Firefox 4 on your Windows machine? Take a look at the builds from Binary Turf, which are optimized for Windows -- and now available in a glorious 64-bit version. I've been running their Firefox 4.0b7 remix all morning, and it definitely feels a bit faster than the current nightly from Mozilla. That could certainly be the placebo effect at work, ...

Demonstrating quite clearly why you should never jump straight on an update the moment it's released, and that good backups are imperative, the latest update to AVG's free antivirus offering prevents Windows 7 64-bit from booting after a forced post-installation reboot cycle. The 271.1.1/3292 (432/3292) definition update, which requires users to reboot their PC after installation, blocks Windows ...

If you're running a 64-bit Linux kernel, update it now. There's a new local root exploit, and it seems like Ksplice has yet again managed to get their advertisement fix onto the front page of Slashdot. Normally such an arcane bug wouldn't be an issue, but the example exploit leaves an open backdoor even after the bug has been patched -- lovely. It's an escalation exploit, so a user still ...

What better day for Adobe to finally make good with their promise of a 64-bit Flash player plug-in? I can't think of one -- well, apart from "a year ago," but still -- better now than never. With the arrival of Internet Explorer 9 today, I'm definitely pleased to see that Adobe has delivered a Flash player that will run in my 64-bit browser. At the moment, however, I'm also a little bummed -- ...

A happy, sweaty Friday to you all! This week we were meant to see the final release of 3.6.4, the minor release that 'crash proofs' Firefox. Instead, we have a release candidate -- the final release will probably come later in the month (along with the first beta of Firefox 4.0!) Early testing from Mozilla suggests that 3.6.4's Crash Protection may significantly reduce crashes, so even if you ...

Lee just stumbled across something big: the first 64-bit build of Firefox 3.7 (4.0) for Windows.... aaaand... it's slower than the 32-bit variant, at least when it comes to the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark. You'll need the Visual Studio 2010 redistributable for msvcr100.dll, but other than that, just grab the ZIP from Mozilla's latest nightly trunk and off you go! (Both of those are direct ...

Handbrake, the insanely great multi-platform video transcoder - or "dvd ripper," if you're really being honest - just got its first update in almost a year. The biggest new change is 64-bit support, which means a 10% jump in encoding speed. According to our sister site, TUAW, Mac users don't even need to be running Snow Leopard to get the 64-bit advantage: it also works on OS X 10.5 on 64-bit ...

Microsoft has unveiled some of the details of the company's Windows 7 Logo program. Basically the program governs those little stickers that are affixed to computers and other hardware that have been tested to play nicely with Windows 7. In the past the Windows logo program has been something of a mess. Some hardware that received the sticker barely worked with Vista, and there were separate ...

Without giving it a little thought, I don't recall when I got my first Athlon 64 mainboard and CPU. It's been a long time. AMD first released the chips in September, 2003. Here we are six years later, and we still haven't really begun to make use of the added processing power. Six years is a pretty long time in computer terms. My tower at work is now equipped with eight times as much memory, ...

A few months back, Adobe announced the availability of a 64-bit version of the Flash plugin on Labs - for Linux only. Now they've released a 64-bit alpha version of Air, and once again it's just for Linux users. If you're running a 64-bit Linux distribution on your system and can pitch in with bug reports and devote some serious time to testing you can email Adobe with your particulars. While I ...

According to Microsoft sources, over 25% of all Vista sales in Q4 2008 were 64-bit. Bargain basement prices on DDR2 memory modules played an important role. After all, getting the most out of the multiple gigs of dirt cheap ram in your system means running a 64-bit OS that knows how to handle it. Several OEMs quietly shipped laptop and desktop models during the holiday season running Vista x64, ...

First Adobe released its first alpha of a 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux, and now Sun has stepped up - providing a 64-bit Java plugin. This time, however, Windows users haven't been left out in the cold. Java SE 6 update 12 is now available through Sun's Early Access Program, and there are downloads for both Linux and Windows platforms. It's been a long time coming (as you can see in the ...

What exactly is Adobe trying to prove? First, they release a 64-bit version of CS4. Now they're showing 64-bit Linux users some love by releasing an alpha version of the Flash player for their OSes. It's been a long time coming. For ages, users have been forced to use nspluginwrapper to enable the 32-bit Flash player in their browser. With the official alpha release from Adobe, there's light at ...