The golden build has been sent to replication (actually it was the end of last week, and if you really want to know, the build itself was done the first week or two of October). Soon, a good 64 bit development environment will be available to an MSDN...

What does __declspec(noinline) inline int foo(...) mean?...

Mark got me mucking with my doskey macros again, and between the two of us came up with a fairly elegant mechanism that keeps the title of a command line reflecting the current directory you're in: First, you need a little script turd that does...

I wouldn't describe myself as an 'Audiophile', but I do own a lot of music (over 400 CD's, at last count). As a collector of music, I have 2 primary problems: How to store it, and how to actually listen to it, while still trying to keep it organized....

Mike Wall, a very bright guy from AMD, just forwarded this to me. I figured it couldn't hurt to put it here: <snip> If anyone has an Athlon 64 Emachines M6805, M6809, M6811 notebook and you're running 64-bit Windows, here is how to get the ATI...

<rant> Why is it that everyone decides to create their own whiz-bang interface for drivers & whatnot? Why is it always so difficult to just say "Install my printer & use the Windows default interface for managing it". WiFi cards &...

Explains how to print to a Dell 1600n printer from Win64...

It's been a while - I'm now the proud father of 3 children, up from a mere 2, and I'm finally back at work, and resuming normal developer duties. In the mean time, check out my glamorous appearance on "the .Net Show" on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft...

I just had to write something. The x64 OS RTM'ed last night. I'm upgrading all my machines to it today. It's been a long haul, and I'm quite happy that it's finally out the door. Now I'm just trying to find an article that discusses it for more than 1...

This guy has a rather, uh, odd perspective on what the past & future Visual Studio products were about: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/23/13opcurve_1.html And what is up with the completely unrelated title? Let me spell out the facts: Visual...

Personal life & professional life all went crazy all at once - fun fun fun. I'm back, since my new house is mostly unpacked, and I've been getting my computer system(s) set back up. So, I finally got around to installing Win64 on my home system (Dual...

I'm a big C++ fan, despite the fact that the VC++ optimizer is written in C. I've been using Boost for a couple years now, and just picked up the initial tarball for 1.32.0. Someone's written a .jam file for VC8 on x64, but it just does the bare minimum...

Yes, I've had inside information about all of this for quite some time, but none of this info is confidential. It's all discoverable - for all I know, there are already websites out there that provide this detail. The trouble is that both companies seem...

Welcome to my stinkin' blog. I just wanted a place to dump interesting & useful blobs of information about what I've been doing for the past 4 or 5 years of my life @ work: x64. My name is Kevin Frei, and I've been a developer on the x64 (aka AMD64...