Tag: 64BIT

Back on April 24th, we happily installed a clean version of the 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy Heron release. For a few days, life was sweet. Hardy had Firefox, and we very easily installed Flash from the Hardy repositories. It all seemed to work fine, at first glance. The honeymoon ended really quickly. We started to notice that Firefox was doing exceedingly odd things when we tried to upload images to our ...

At Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney today, Senior Program Manager Steve Riley announced that Windows Vista users won't be able to watch next-generation HD video content unless they upgrade to a 64-bit processor. The reason has to do, of course, with DRM. "This is a decision that the Media Player folks made because there are just too many ways right now for unsigned kernel mode code [to ...