Archive for November, 2009

Multiple partitions with Windows 7 and OS X side-by-side install

When installing Windows and OS X side by side using Apple’s recommended Boot Camp technique, you can only use one partition for Windows.  If, like me, you need multiple partitions for Windows, you have to do it another way.  The first thing to understand is that Boot Camp Assistant is not at all necessary for [...]


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DLL handling in Windows x64: The Big Gotcha

I had a nasty time trying to get the PHP module to run under Apache 2.2 in Windows 7 x64.  Specifically, I kept getting a “php_mysql.dll could not be loaded” error. After some sleuthing, decided to use Dependency Walker to help figure out what was wrong.  It turns out that I had installed the 64-bit [...]


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