Updating your hosts file in Vista 64-bit
by Neil Middleton 11:37 am Monday, 3 November 2008.
I came across an interesting issue this morning whereby my hosts file had simply vanished. For the unitiated amongst you, this file presents a kind of local DNS for Windows TCP/IP which essentially means you can make up a domain and point it at an IP address and have that apply to your machine only.
Now, normally this file is located in %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc where %systemroot% is C:\Windows. However, on 64-bit, System32 is replaced by SysWOW64. Not such a big issue, except when you go looking for your hosts file from inside a 32-bit application such as Flex Builder / Eclipse.
For some reason, in Vista 64-bit, 32-bit applications can’t see the 64-bit tree, meaning that the hosts file is essentially invisible. So, how the hell do we get round this?
Well, backdoor ahoy – there is a solution. In your C:\Windows folder (%systemroot%) create a “sysnative” folder and browse through that. Bingo! your good old 32-bit folder structure should now be present, and low and behold your hosts file.
Comments (22)The Queen visits Google HQ in London
by Niklas Richardson 2:03 pm Thursday, 16 October 2008.
So today Queen Elizabeth II visited Google HQ in London.
To tie in with this visit the Google logo on the Google UK homepage has been given the royal touch!
I’m pretty excited as my wife is in the events team and she has organised the Doodle for Google winners who have met the Queen today. I’m still waiting on the latest inside scoop from her and I’m going to see if I can steal some photos!
In the meantime you can check out a video of the Queen arriving at the London Google HQ on the BBC News website.
When and if I get any photos I’ll be sure to post them
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