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• Tip: Don't rely on environment variables for critical decisions

  I saw a mail this week asking how you can determine what bitness your process is running in, and one of the suggestions was to check for the PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 environment variable. If that variable exists, you know you're on 64 bit Windows in a 32 Read More... Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 6:35 PM by billwert | 0 Comments Filed under: General Stuff

• The best laid plans...

  I started this, as most do, with the best of intentions. A long list of topics to discuss, potentially interesting things to say, and so forth. Then, as is usual, life interrupted. So, I put forth the question to the proverbial teeming masses of the readership: Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:10 PM by billwert | 2 Comments Filed under: General Stuff