April 2006 - Posts

• X64 Article Questions & Clarifications

  Finally, a response to some comments and questions about my x64 article . Registry Fun Noah Harrison thinks I got it backwards when I said: "As you'd expect, the OS provides an escape hatch for 32-bit applications to read the actual 64-bit registry value Read More... Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:01 PM by Matt Pietrek | 2 Comments

• More on SoftIce, from one of its parents

  Frank Grossman, one of the original authors of SoftIce and owners of NuMega sent this around to some of us old-time NuMega folks. I figured some of my readers might get a kick out of it. It's filled with inside references which I won't try to describe, Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:48 PM by Matt Pietrek | 20 Comments

• x64 Article _is_ available online now

  In a nice twist, I recently learned that my x64 article for MSDN magazine is online now. In a previous post , I said that the article was in print, but was still a month from being online. Stephen Toub, Technical Editor of MSDN wrote to tell me that they Read More... Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 12:21 PM by Matt Pietrek | 4 Comments

• R.I.P. SoftICE

  A sad, sad day... As of April 3rd, 2006 the DriverStudio product family has retired. For customer support information please contact our FrontLine website. http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/default.htm Vast portions of my writing during the Read More... Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 12:48 PM by Matt Pietrek | 24 Comments

• My X64 Programming article for MSDN is finally out

  You can see a pretty picture of what the MSDN cover looks like here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/05/default.aspx Unfortunately, it's not the "Preview" article, so you'll need to wait another month or so till it appears online. However, Read More... Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:30 PM by Matt Pietrek | 6 Comments